Due to the Chantry having more NPCs than PCs (and because it's under Kersten's control), let it be a NPC haven \o/
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The Regent Grand Hotel is divided in two sections. The actual hotel, its suits and reception rooms, available to humans, and the Chantry, which is unknown to mortals. The fine line resides in Le Foyer, a reception room considered Elyseum, which is where the Tremere receive visitors, since they obviously don't receive them in their havens.
Most Kindred now used to have the Tremere living in a simple, non-magical Hotel, will use the name of the Hotel to refer to where the Tremere live, practice and study. It's more likely older Kindred use the term Chantry to refer to the Saint Eloi Church, which was the Chantry before Lyle moved it as his first decision as a Regent. Lyle Kersten himself adapts his choice of words according to who he speaks to ; to other Tremere, he may say "home", to Elders he may use "the Regent" or "across the street", to younger Kindred he uses "the Chantry". For description purposes, "the Chantry" will be used in this post.
It's common knowledge all humans working in the Hotel and the very surroundings are directly under the Tremere's influence (certainly Kersten himself), and the financial health of the Hotel and its prestige gives a fairly good idea of the resources of the Tremere Clan as a whole.

Which follows is for Tremere eyes only since it describes in detail the Chantry and the apprentices' homes, so don't click as it might give you too much information :

Unlike regular Traditionalists Chantries of the Old World, Lyle Kersten's Chantry breaks many traditions and stereotypes. Most chantries are held in Roman or Gothic churches or administrative buildings. It was most likely his intent (and he probably finds it funny too), as nothing in the Codex says what a Chantry should look like. The Regent Grand Hotel is incredibly modern and well equipped, it's wide, the ceilings are high, with internal phone lines, various light sources (with dimmers), comfortable furniture, clear and well thought colors, and neither dusty nor creepy.. It looks like a small university Campus. If the Lord to whom Kersten answers has shown disapproval, it has never reached apprentices' ears, so maybe he agreed to this unorthodox way to rule on the city's Tremere (or maybe it's something else...). The Chantry is, indeed, protected by magical means, but the glyphs and wards are well hidden, and due to the fact the Regent Grand Hotel has not had gloomy bloody rituals practiced nightly over 400 years, the Chantry has not that usual fear and magical ambiance one can find in other chantries. The Chantry is divided in three levels ; -1, 0 and +1. The Ground floor is the most important and most used by the Tremere, since it contains the Apprentices' rooms and the Library, and it's where Le Foyer leads directly (bottom entrance). Seven being a mystical number loved by the Tremere (the Council of Seven, seven circles of mastery to each rank...), Lyle Kersten chose to have seven Apprentices' rooms built, although back when the Chantry was built, he had only two Apprentices (one of which had chosen to have her own haven long before). Better have too much rooms and not enough, certainly. The Library contains many Tremere specific tomes on Thaumaturgy, most of them being on the Path of Blood, the Lure of Flames, the Telekinesis and most common rituals, and occult books on various subjects (mostly Kindred history, clans, Camarilla laws and random knowledge on other surnatural creatures), but also "normal" literature to study or enjoy ; essays of many classical authors like Aristotle, Plato, Jean Bodin, Nostradamus, Copernicus, Racine, Lafontaine, Bauer, Zola, Voltaire, David Strauss, Freud, Nietzsche, Proust, Baudelaire, Franklin, Anne Frank, you name it, Corinna has it. There are also theater plays, first editions, rhetorical exercises, methods on learning languages, scientific methods, historically relevant books (there is a mein kampf* exemplary, the little red book, the green book, a Bible, a Koran, a Torah, a lot of books on people interpreting them in all ways, a few Canon texts that are not part of the Bible, Mormon texts, Jehova's Witnesses texts, Buddhist legends, Taoism, Shinto..), and more recent books like politician and philosophical essays, university students' mémoires, dissertations, as well as more recent fantasy novels (Tolkien, Anne Rice, and yes, Stephenie Meyer's books haunt the Tremere Library, as "it's great for the Masquerade and to mock the Hunters"). Under the direct and possessive authority of Corinna Ansons, the Library is well organized, but since Corinna is the newest in the city, she's the only one who actively studies. Lyle is more of the experimental avant-garde researcher (and gives her sometimes new books to sort), Jean-Pierre had never been truly interested (however he does enjoy reading classical and a bit more obscure books for his own pleasure), and Claudia quit as long as she had reached a circle of mastery high enough so the clan would leave her alone. The TV has cable and has also many foreign channels available. There is also a good collection of documentaries and tv-series on the hard-drive attached to the box that receives the numerical tv signal. The "dinning" table which is used for everything but dinning usually has the latest newspapers and Tremere and Camarilla correspondence on them. There is a white board right next to the entrance door where the Tremere puts in notes to their fellow clan mates, as well as planning or random messages. Right next to it, there is a pin board where an exemplary of the Tremere Oath printed has been put up, with a hand written note by Kersten saying "What is not forbidden is allowed". There are also a list of phone numbers ; the Prince's, the Primogen's, and each of the Tremere, as well as how to reach internal lines in the Chantry. *I want to make very clear that that book should burn in hell as well as other nazi ideals, but due to Tremere history and because I believe "never again", I'm naming it, as it's part of our history, therefore it's part of the World of Darkness. If you guys have a chance to read Charnel Houses of Europe, the Shoah, which is a complement for Wraith the Oblivion -the WoD game where one plays ghosts-, go for it. The laboratory, which is the -1 level and was certainly a part of the wine caves for the Hotel, looks nothing like a medieval alchemist' laboratory. Lyle refers to it as his "collaborative open-space" with a smile. Too much Silicon Valley style management got certainly into his old bored brain. The drawers and different closets hold a good amount of beakers and laboratory flasks, both full and empty of many well ordered chimical solutions, as well as the most random props for thaumaturgical rituals or training (bat wings, herbs, snake venom, silk ribbons, stakes, ritual daggers, cristal glasses, a few gems...). The fridges hold a good amount of spare blood (kindred vitae samples but mostly human bloodpacks) and a certain number of components for thaumaturgical rituals that have to be conserved. The stove, as "to get rid of evidence", is also the source of warmth and regulates the humidity of the room. There is a specific zone with a raw stone floor for Tremere to perform rituals, especially the Purity of Flesh. The first floor (+1 level) are regular hotel rooms of the Regent, except they are never rented to kine. They are accessible to the staff of the hotel (who think they are rented permanently to , but they do not come often, except for dusting once in a while. One of them is certainly used by Lyle, but the others are either for guests or other purposes. They all have a view over the Comedy Plaza, and they are the only part of the Chantry with windows.