Information about the Tremere Brooch item in Vampire the Masquerade: Swansong, including where to find the Tremere Brooch, how to use it, and what effects it has if you equip it.
Secret Tremere rituals allow the Warlocks to enchant inconspicuous items to enhance the wearer’s abilities.
The Tremere Brooch can be equipped, whereupon it’ll give Emem various boons albeit at the cost of increasing Suspicion.
What is the Tremere Brooch?¶
The Tremere Brooch is a piece of gear in Vampire the Masquerade: Swansong, a rare equippable item that you can choose to wear for various effects. When equipped it’ll reduce the chance of an enemy using Focus by a whopping 25%, meaning it’s very likely that you can avoid this complication during dialog checks, preventing unwanted RNG and allowing Emem to control conversations better. It also will reduce Hunger by 3 points every time Emem successfully uses Disciplines in dialog, which probably won’t pay for the Discipline use, but it’ll mitigate Hunger buildup somewhat. On the downside, every time you succeed at a Discipline use in dialog you’ll generate one point of Suspicion, which is fairly trivial, all things considered.
(1 of 3) To get past the gates you’ll need to use Fleetness.
How to Find the Tremere Brooch¶
Progress through Emem’s second scene (Scene 04) until you perform your second Blink jump, after recovering your first missing memory (while looking at the Jefferson Library sign). You should find yourself on a ledge with a well-furnished study across from some sundered stairs that lead to a tower.
Enter the study and turn right to spot three levers on the wall. The middle one is inoperable, but the right and left levers will lower portcullises blocking the cell-laden hallways just outside the study. The right lever (facing the levers on the wall) will lower the portcullis blocking the left hallway (facing away from the study) while the left lever will lower the right portcullis. Lowering the portcullises will block the hallways, but remove the seals on the cells within allowing you access provided you can get past the portcullises fast enough. The cells collectively hide three of Emem’s memories, not to mention numerous vessels and rats she can feast on, should she need to lower her Hunger. You can also find the Tremere Brooch in one of the cells, so it’s well worth your while to get past those portcullises.
You’ll need Celerity Rank II to get past the gates, as this unlocks the Fleetness ability, allowing you to functionally slow down time (or act quickly enough to simulate the same, as the case may be). If you invested in this discipline on your own, you’ll be prompted to use it when you approach the levers, assuming you have Celerity active, anyways. If not, no such prompt will occur, making this another fairly obtuse little puzzle, under the wrong circumstances.
Fortunately, even if you don’t have Celerity Rank II you can still solve this puzzle. Search the desks in the study and you’ll find a Tremere Potion, which you can consume to temporarily obtain the Tremere Concoction trait. This trait will, in turn boost your Celerity by +1. You don’t need to worry about this running out, it’ll persist for the rest of the scene.
Search inside a cell with an injured vampire. The Tremere Brooch is on the floor near said wounded undead.
However you manage it, once you have access to Celerity - Fleetness, activate Celerity and face the levers in the study. Activate Fleetness, press the right-most lever, then run out of the study and turn left, passing below the portcullis ahead before it closes. Once done, head down the hallway and go through the third (and final) door to your right. Inside you’ll find a vampire who has been tortured to the point of entering torpor. On the floor near this brutalized vampire you’ll find the Tremere Brooch.
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