The Gorgons are a Ventrue bloodline that claims descent from the Olympian gods through the mythological Medusa. They are closely affiliated with the Circle of the Crone. According to the Gorgons, Medusa was a vampire Embraced by the gods themselves, and when Perseus killed her, her handmaidens devoured her divine flesh and became the forerunners of the bloodlines. They wielded enormous power throughout the Mediterranean world until the Roman Ventrue displaced them; then the entire bloodline seems to disappear into torpor at once. After the fall of the Camarilla, they briefly re-emerged and formed a tight relationship with the Circle of the Crone, who revered them as demigods. By the start of the Renaissance the Gorgons had all vanished again.