I mean back in the V:tM heyday “Artistes” vs “Poseurs” was presented as the main internal conflict in the clan with clan members who were actually good at Performing rather than Fine arts always situated uncomfortably, and as pretentious as it was, it still plays, you know?

Something even bigger than news!

I mean Toreador indicates more “the relation to Art is significant” than “is an artist” in any real sense IMO, but you could do Malkavian though and there’s a logic in Austin being a town with a Malkavian Prince in both its real value and symbolic penumbra.

They never had strict continuity but the pre-Craigs were full of implications of continuity even across Bonds. Craig was presented originally as a harder reboot but by the end there were nods to the older pseudo-continuity