Lasombra Ghouls
Mortals unfortunate enough to be ghouled by a Lasombra vampire are in for serious abuse. The leaders of the Sabbat tolerate ghouls only because their fellow Sabbat members in Clan Tzimisce find them to be interesting diversions. and so they make their ghouls work brutally hard for every drop of blood. Even so, few survive for long; the only diversion the Lasombra really enjoy is chess, and ghouls serve as disposable pawns. Few Lasombra ghouls are given a choice about whether to accept the domitor-to-be's gift. A Lasombra will ghoul anyone or anything, so long as the creature has a skill or talent sufficiently useful to be worth the bother, yet sufficiently menial that the vampire would never consider the ghoul for Embrace. Squadrons of suicide shock troops and staffs of personal grooming assistants are most common among the Keeper; it is difficult to say which job is the more dangerous one.

Longtime Lasombra ghouls are rare. What few exist tend to be timid, nervous creatures. They've become so used to taking the blame for wrong they have not committed, they just wince and bear the pain, for they are dependent on dominators who casually withhold vitae. Most Lasombra ghouls are not allowed to associate with any other vampires, ghouls or mortals. Those who dare to disobey this stricture are mercilessly and inventively slain. Then too, many Lasombra ghouls are rendered physically incapable of such interaction; while the Lasombra do not equal the Tzimisce in the fine art of disfigurement, they do an admirable job for beings not blessed with Vicissitude. The psychological side effects of the Lasombra clan weakness often manifest themselves in this process, as squadrons of ghouls are all forced to wear the same featureless masks or have their faces reduced to identical spider webs of scar tissue.

Tzimisce Ghouls
And you thought Lasombra ghouls had it rough... Tzimisce ghouls often understand quite literally the meaning of the words "spineless toady." Mercifully, many of these ghouls don't realize how miserable they actually are, having been toyed with to such an extent that they aren't even conscious of their own existence. By far the most wretched Tzimisce ghouls are those whose brains and psyches are left intact. About the only things Tzimisce ghouls have going for them is sheer power. Antitribu who actually give a damn warn their servitors to stay clear of the brutal Tzimisce ghouls. Mortals blood bound to the Fiends seldom use their power for self-advancement, though. Tzimisce ghouls live, eat, breath, fight and kill for their dominators only.

For a clan so dependent on ghouls, Tzimisce are surpassingly indiscriminate in whom they choose to ghoul; on the other hand, Tzimisce reason that their choice of subjects is little more consequential than the choice between red or blue Play Doh. Ghouls are useful for war and menial tasks, anything requiring skill or intellect can be delegated to a power-hungry, sycophantic revenant. Those few ghouls left in an approximation of human shape live in constant fear -- not only that the master will use them for spare parts, but also that a bored, hungry szlachta will attack them without any provocation while the master looks on and titters. Ironically enough, it is this very paranoia that often leads them to make that one self-defeating and painfully fatal mistake.