For the record, one of the reasons the Architects came about was because I sat down and thought about what scares me about Vampires, and how V:tR Vampires differ from those in traditional Vamp lore.

I'd just finished reading “The Sphinx in the City” a book about the development of cities, gender theory, and the control of personal space in the urban environment, and it occurred to me that many of the issues with repression detailed in that book were perfect Vampire fodder. It was all about trapping and being trapped, the parasitic consumption of energy with no returns, and conspiracies of fear – things which seemed ripe for exploitation in a game about becoming a living horror that drains the life of prey in order to sustain an eternal existence.

Vampires control through indirect channels, they fear and use that fear to control more, they build elaborate games to protect themselves, and they drain the life from others in order to live. Thus the Architects, who don't use normal sacred geometry, they use a perversion of it that is designed to give them control, trap and tap the life force of the masses, and combine the image of the traditionally rural lord vampire with the secret master of the urban scape.

They're something of my fears made manifest, a collection of mad things that want to suck my blood, money, and spirit, hiding behind the faceless machinations of urban existence. If it doesn't work for you, all good – but there was method to my madness.

このコンセプトを見ていると、建築家というよりは気の流れを民衆の支配に都合良いようねじ曲げる逆風水師という風情だが、Quarterly掲載の抜粋記事を読むかぎりではむしろThe Architectsはフリーメイソンを思わせる連中に仕上がっている。