Fantasy WoD: L.A. by Night (Characters)

[ValinoreanDawn]

Name: Bellatrix "Bella" Arpadi
Age: 225 (born in 1798)
Clan: Toreador, 10th Generation
Abilities:
Auspex: 4
Celerity: 5
Presence 4
Skills:
Sailor: In a time when ships traveled by sail the young and freshly embraced Bellatrix had sailed to the New World and lived among a crew dominated by Cainites that operated out of the Bahamas and Nassau island for the first half of the Victorian Era.

Auto-Mechanic: She knows her way around a car. After all, she remembers when they were 1-stroke machines on wooden wheels.

Sculpture: Her favored form of art is sculpture, and she has spent many years practicing the art herself.

Personality: Bubbly, playful, fashionista, Bellatrix is very much the Toreador when it comes to appearance and aesthetic pursuits with an obsession over baroque art.

Biography: Bellatrix Maria Felicita Arpadi-Ermolli was born in 1798 in the Austrian Empire in Lombardy near Lake Como. The youngest of six children. Though her family is of Carpathian origin and had migrated to Italy during the course of their generational service of providing soldiers and bureaucrats to the Holy Roman and then Austrian Emperor. The Arpadi-Ermolli family over generations of service having acquired enough financial power to purchase a small estate near the town of Bellagio and there the young Bellatrix would spend her youth. Even as the Napoleonic Wars periodically swept through the region, a conflict which inevitably took the lives of two of her three brothers and divided the family over loyalties to Austria or to the ideals of Revolutionary France.

In 1815 when the final defeat of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte became evident, and the death of her eldest brother Karl Ludwig at Waterloo during the attack of the Old Guard, the family was implicated for supporting the French by Austrian authorities and thus they fled first to Switzerland. Settling in the area of Lucerne and then Neuchatel. Here, her father died in 1820 and her mother followed in the Winter of 1821. The young Bellatrix was however unwed still and her surviving older brother Friedrich Arpadi-Ermolli arranged for her to meet suitors at the family home. There, she met a man who arrived late in the evening as darkness fell, calling himself Maximilien de Carcassone, Bellatrix was smitten by his beauty and in an act that was terribly unscrupulous for a lady she met him in the middle of the night at his request at a park on the outskirts of Neuchatel. There, she was seduced and embraced by the Cainite masquerading as potential husband. Beginning her unlife in the Clan Toreador.

From this moment onwards Bellatrix vanished. Her surviving siblings believing she had run off with a man. In reality she traveled as de Carcassone's childer as he returned to his estate near the Pyrenees. Until his nature was revealed to the townsfolk during a botched hunt in 1828 which necessitated she flee. Traveling with other Cainites aboard the brig Polara to the New World. Arriving in the Caribbean and for a time settling in Havana before joining the crew of the piratical Jonathan Creedy as at first his lover. Smuggling and robbing across the Caribbean until the Royal Navy tracked them down to a lagoon in the Bahamas and captured or killed all the brigands. But Bellatrix, slowly learning her powers from other Toreadors and those early lessons from de Carcassone, managed to 'talk' her way into the care of the Royal Marines. Safely depositing her in Miami as they made to bring their captives back to England for sentencing.

From then on Bellatrix would bump around the United States until eventually settling in Los Angeles during the 1950s. Gradually earning a position as one of the Sheriff enforcers in the employ of the Prince and Primogen of the city, until Bloody New Years and the chaotic years since, were now she finds herself dealing with maintaining the Masquerade.

Assets: Over the decades of her unlife she has amassed a sizable fortune at 22.4 Million Dollars, namely in stashed gold and art, and acquired a home near Calabasas on the outskirts of Los Angeles.
Territory: None
NPCs: None currently

 

[Psychie]

Work in Progress, but I couldn't let Sherwood have all the fun!

• Attributes and Abilities
• Backgrounds
• Spheres
• Background
• Experience

• 
  Name: Rachel Weiss
  Age: 18
  Sect: Virtual Adept
  Nature:
  Spoiler: Crusader

  People need a hero, and you’re there to fill that role. Driven by a higher purpose – religious conviction, moral ethics, a philosophical ideal – you strive for a better world. The sword you wield might be more symbolic than literal: a scientist or teacher can be a Crusader too. The struggle, though, is what defines you. A better future must be built upon the foundations of our flawed world, and your duty compels you to demolish the obstacles so that reconstruction can begin. Your admirable Zeal propels you through every challenge you face. Lesser souls might falter, but you will not.
  Fanaticism, though, is the mark of a Crusader. Your convictions leave little room for compromise. When everything looks like a nail, it’s hard to stop hammering. Until and unless you learn to temper your enthusiasm and question your own assumptions, you’re just chasing shadows of your own extremism.
  – Regain Willpower when you accomplish some great deed in the name of your higher goal. As a player, you need to define what that higher goal is, and then follow it even when it hurts you. A true Crusader’s beliefs are not governed by convenience.
  Demeanor:
  Spoiler: Activist

  The world is broken. Help fix it. Speak truth to power, dig up secrets, call people out on their shit, and reveal your plans for a better world to anyone who will listen. While apathetic cowards sit back and tune out, you step up and do whatever needs doing. Sure, folks might consider you a pain in the ass, but at least you’re making a difference!
  Action is your greatest strength. You’re not one to sit things out. There’s no time to waste on mindless self-indulgence and no room to stay scared of what might happen. The wolf’s already
  halfway through the door, and you refuse to let that bastard win. Even so, your constant Outrage wears thin. There’s never room to sit back and enjoy life. As far as you’re concerned, complacency is a sin. Your fury’s justified, of course, but it gets old all the same. Before you can truly Ascend, you’ve got to balance righteous pyrotechnics with calm acceptance. Life never
  has been – and never will be – perfect. Finding a place of serenity within your storm is an essential part of your transcendence.
  – Regain Willpower when you successfully confront abuse, right wrongs, or reveal an actual conspiracy and, by doing so, bring it down.
  Essence:
  Spoiler: Dynamic

  The Dynamic Essence embodies Change itself. Manifesting as a mercurial temperament, passionate emotions, restless drive, and fickle spirits, Dynamic Avatars compel their mages toward
  daring experiences. Such people are never boring company! A Dynamic mage might drag you out for a night on the town that includes hijacking a taxi, skateboarding down a railroad track,
  and slumping into bed just after dawn with a huge grin (or a terrified grimace) on your face, just to wake up a few hours later and see what trouble you can get into next.
  In more subtle forms, this Essence inspires curiosity, impatience, and sudden flashes of brilliance. Appearing in the form of shadows, whispers, and poor impulse control, it goads a mage to treat every day like an adventure. At higher levels, a Dynamic Avatar can nag a person mercilessly, leaving half-finished projects and shattered relationships in the wake of a mage who rarely sits still for long.
  Affinity Sphere: Correspondence
  
  Attributes
  Str: 2
  Dex: 4
  Sta: 2
  
  Cha: 2
  Man: 1
  App: 3
  
  Per: 2
  Int: 5
  Wits: 3
  
  Talents
  Alertness: 2
  Awareness: 2
  Streetwise: 1
  
  Skills
  Drive: 1
  Firearms: 3
  Research: 1
  Stealth: 1
  Technology: 3
  
  Knowledges
  Academics: 3
  Computer: 5
  Enigmas: 3
  Investigation: 2
  Occult: 1
  Science: 1
  
  
• 
  Arcane: 2
  Avatar: 2
  Contacts: 2
  Familiar - Pixel, the Computer: 2
  Library (shared Background): 3
  Node (shared Background): 1
  Resources: 1
  
  Flaws
  Echoes: 2
  Enemy: 3
  Construct: 2
  
  Spheres
  Correspondence: 3
  Matter: 2
  Mind: 1
  Prime: 1
  
  Arete: 3
  Willpower: 6
  Quintessence: 2
  
  Health Levels
  Health Levels
  Bruised -0 [ ]
  Hurt -1 [ ]
  Injured -1 [ ]
  Wounded -2 [ ]
  Mauled -2 [ ]
  Crippled -5 [ ]
  Incapacitated [ ]
  
  
• 
  Correspondence: 3
  By manipulating the ties between places, objects, and people, the Correspondence Sphere allows a mage to sidestep distances, sense things that would normally be out of range, pull objects out of thin air, levitate or fly, or connect an Effect to some other place or character. Some mages proclaim this Sphere is proof that distance is an illusion, whereas others view it as the Art of pulling strings between different places and people.
  Because this Sphere deals with space and relationships, its Effects use a special Correspondence Sphere Ranges chart, found on (p. 504). Most Effects require touch or close contact, but Correspondence lets the mage reach across distances and affect hidden or faraway targets. When adding Correspondence to an Effect, use that Correspondence Sphere Ranges chart to find the connection and then exploit it. Tenuous connections require several successes, but spanning close connections is easy for a mage who understands this Art.
  On its own, Correspondence allows the mage to reach across distances, even to places she cannot see or touch. At Rank 2 or higher, she can grasp items and work with them from a distance. To manipulate other objects or beings in ways other than physical contact, however, that mage must combine Correspondence with another Sphere – typically a Pattern Sphere (Forces, Life, or Matter). When combining Correspondence with other Spheres, however, the Effect is limited – in game terms – to the mage’s Rank in the Correspondence Sphere, not to the Rank of the other Spheres involved. A mage, for instance, who has only Correspondence 2 tries to use a Forces 3/ Correspondence 2/ Prime 2 Effect to try to start fires at a distance… except that she is limited to Forces 2, a Rank that’s too low to conjure fire. In order to boost that effect, she’d need to raise her Correspondence to at least 3.
  Despite its ability to warp space and distance, Correspondence deals only with whole Patterns, unless a target has been altered by another Pattern Sphere; Correspondence alone, for example, cannot teleport someone’s head off – the mage would need to use Life magick to separate the head from its body. A gun, on the other hand, could be snatched away by Correspondence alone.
  Mages who specialize in Correspondence tend to have a faraway look. To them, the separations of space and form are meaningless illusions that disappear when you understand how the universe truly fits together.
  
  Spoiler: Immediate Spatial Perceptions/Landscape of the Mind - 1

  Basic spatial understanding allows a mage to sense things in her immediate vicinity even if she can’t perceive them with her normal senses. Using that perception, she can estimate the distances between objects; intuitively find a direction (North, South, East, West); notice hidden objects or characters; and spot spatial instabilities – warps, anomalies, wormholes, etc. – especially the ones caused by other Correspondence Effects.
  Spoiler: Sense, Touch, Thicken & Reach Through Space/ Correspondence Sensing - 2

  That mage can now extend her senses across intervening space, sensing things in other locations. Such extensions, however, leave minor ripples in space… the kind noticed by Rank 1 Correspondence. Fortunately, she can also thicken space to cover her tracks; each success used in doing so deducts one success from the roll of a character who’s trying to spy on her or notice her sensory Effects.
  By adding Life or Matter to Rank 2 Correspondence, the mage can grasp small items or organisms (housecat-sized or smaller) and then pull them through tiny holes in space. This lets her snatch business cards, guns, rabbits, and such from another location, apparently pulling them out of nowhere.
  Spoiler: Pierce Space/ Open or Close Gates/Co-locality Perceptions - 3

  Now the mage can tear holes in space, large enough for her to step through. These minor gates are small and temporary, but they allow that character to step from one place to another, so long as she’s alone and lightly encumbered. (Teleporting large items, or while carrying heavy loads, demands Correspondence 4.) Scoping out the new location is a good idea, of course. A close, familiar destination requires fewer successes than a distant, unfamiliar one.
  Using the Co-locality Perceptions Effect, the mage can also perceive several places at once. Those locations all appear as ghosts overlapping each other, as if they’d been layered on top of the closest location.
  Also, by combining Correspondence 3 with Forces, Life, or Matter, the mage can move things around from a distance, levitating, manipulating or teleporting them without physical contact.
  
  Matter: 2
  To a mystic, nothing is truly inert. Still, the Sphere of Matter deals with substances that possess no active agency of their own – materials, not life-forms or energies. The third aspect of the Pattern Trinity, Matter works best when combined with other Spheres. Prime and Matter create solid forms from energy; Correspondence and Matter connect objects across space; Entropy erodes or reinforces Matter; Forces transmutes inert elements into active ones. Life plus Matter bridges the gap between living and dead materials – an essential combination when dealing with vampires – and Spirit plus Matter renders ephemera into matter or matter into ephemera. Time alters the temporal state of Matter, and high-Rank Mind Effects (Rank 5) imbue inanimate materials with consciousness. Although Forces, Prime, and Spirit reflect primal energies and Life addresses organic animation, Matter represents the base of the physical world.
  Matter-wise mages tend to share a literally hands-on approach to their Art. Solid workers of their practice, they favor practical results with even the most theoretical applications. Sometimes regarded as dull and simple by more esoteric peers, these artisans merge quality and integrity with surprising levels of ingenuity.
  
  Spoiler: Matter Perceptions - 1

  A Primary understanding of Matter allows the initiate to perceive the intrinsic properties of base materials – their underlying structure, innate properties, and integral stability or lack thereof. With that knowledge, she can view the material composition of an object, note its less-obvious structures, find its hidden layers or – when combining this perception with Entropy – spot its weak points. Combined with Life, this Sphere detects implants, enhancements, and other integrations of living tissue and inert materials.
  Spoiler: Basic Transmutation - 2

  With advanced knowledge, the mage can transmute one substance into another, so long as she doesn’t alter its essential shape, temperature, or basic state (gas, liquid, solid). Depending upon that mage’s practice, she might reshape lead into gold through alchemy, wood into stone through a hyperpetrification process, or water into wine (and, with Life 3, wine into blood) through a sacred miracle. Rare and/ or complex materials are more difficult to fabricate than simple ones; it’s easier to turn stone into iron, for example, than into gold. To reflect that challenge, such refinement requires a greater number of successes than a transmutation into a common material.
  (On a related note, the mage cannot yet fabricate radioactive materials. Such elements merge their essence into the Sphere of Forces, and thus demand a greater level of expertise.)
  When combined with other Spheres, this basic level of understanding allows a mage to conjure base materials from energy or dissolve them into Quintessence (Prime 2), transmute matter into living tissue (Life 4 or higher), move an object through space (Correspondence 2 or higher) or time (Time 3 or higher), change ephemera into matter and matter into ephemera, or awaken the slumbering spirit within material objects (Spirit 3 or higher). In all cases, Matter 2 allows the mage to work with simple, homogenous, non-living substances. Complex mixtures of various elements usually require Rank 3 or higher, although simple combinations (like those found in bread, milk, paper, or gunpowder) are possible if the player rolls plenty of successes.
  
  Mind - 1
  Human beings perceive reality through complex interplays of consciousness. The Mind-mage, therefore, alters the realities of his fellow beings. Skillfully applied, such Arts can make a sane man mad, soothe demented minds, or even shuck the boundaries of flesh. Though limited in its physical capacities (Mind Sphere attacks inflict bashing damage unless otherwise noted), Mind
  is the ultimate coincidental Art. Its Effects remain essentially invisible unless they’re combined with other Spheres. And although Mind Adepts can leave their physical bodies behind, such abilities remain unseen by mortal eyes.
  In many cases, offensive Mind effects – that is, ones that read or influence another character’s mental state – base their difficulties on the target’s Willpower Trait rather than against the usual coincidental/ vulgar spectrum. (If the target’s Willpower is less than 4, the base difficulty is 4.) Drastic acts of mind control (suicide, for instance) go against the Willpower +3, as do Mind-based attacks against Night-Folk and other mages. An unwilling character can also try to oppose such Effects with a resisted Willpower roll, using her successes like a mental dodge maneuver. And so, though weak-willed people may be influenced easily, determined folks can shrug aside the influence of all but the most dedicated Will-workers.
  (For details, see Resisting Psychic Assaults, pp. 544-545.)
  For attacks against multiple targets, the difficulty for a Mind-based Effect depends upon the usual coincidental, vulgar, or vulgar with witnesses situations. Such Mind-based Effects are
  generally coincidental, although especially flamboyant feats might be vulgar instead.
  Literally “thought-full,” Mind-savvy mages possess mental clarity and unnerving perceptiveness. Some appear to drift in a sea of distractions, but the majority of them view the world with laser-focus intensity that penetrates illusions to reach their deeper truth.
  
  Spoiler: Sense Thoughts & Emotions/Mind Shield/ Empower Self - 1

  With basic mental magick, the mage learns to sense the emotions and surface impulses of other people. Although he cannot read specific thoughts, he’s able to perceive psychic impressions about a person or (with Matter 1) a place or object. Through this perception, he can guess at the nature of weak Resonance signatures and read the stronger ones outright. Even without Resonance, that mage can scan auras, note mood shifts, discern truth from lies, or grasp someone’s overall state of mind by way of a successful Arete roll.
  Meanwhile, the mage also learns to shield his own mind from the thoughts and emotions of other people, constructing mental barriers around his aura, emotions, and consciousness. Each success on a coincidental Arete roll removes one success from any other character’s attempt to read those psychic elements.
  On a related note, he also learns how to multitask and absorb data with startling acuity. Each success he rolls allows him to either consider an additional subject or speed the processing time that a normal person might require. For a scene or two, he can even raise one of his Mental Traits by one dot per success, thanks to a Mind Empowerment Effect that concentrates his mental faculties.
  
  Prime - 1
  By studying the raw energy of Creation, a student of the Prime Sphere learns to understand, manipulate, and absorb the Fifth Essence within all things. Also known as Odyllic Force, Primal Energy, and Quintessence, this baseline energy fuels the Patterns of other forms – Forces, Life, Matter – and flows through the sublime essence of Spirit. A Prime-skilled mage, therefore, can create and destroy things at their essential level, power items of enchanted or Enlightened creation, and sustain her own life essence through her understanding of Primal Force.
  Ripe with such energies, a Prime Sphere specialist pulsates with Primal Force. Unless she’s working to suppress it (or has wiped her aura clean with high-Rank magicks), her Resonance bears strong signatures from her deeds. (See Resonance and Synergy, (pp. 560-561). For better and worse, such a person embodies the primal Otherness that most mages possess – the sense of being something more than most people ever dream of being.
  
  Spoiler: Etheric Senses/ Consecration/Infuse Personal Quintessence - 1

  A beginning study of Prime allows the mage to perceive and channel Quintessence from Nodes, Tass, Wonders, and magickal Effects. She may spot energetic ebbs and flows, can sense and at least try to read Resonance and Synergy signatures, and could also absorb Quintessence into her personal Pattern. Mages without at least one dot in Prime cannot absorb Quintessence
  beyond their Avatar Background rating. A Prime-skilled mage, however, may do so.
  When infusing her Quintessence into an object, that mage may also consecrate the object with her personal energy. When she shapeshifts, steps sideways, or otherwise alters her Pattern’s metaphysical nature, that consecrated object will then change with her. In the process, it also picks up her personal Resonance… which, because it both identifies her and becomes essentially connected to her, is not always a good thing.
  
  
• 
  Rachel Weiss was not born to a pair of good, loving patents like most people. As a matter of fact, she was not born at all, but instead, she was bioengineered by assorted DNA inside a Progenitors laboratory hidden away in London, England.
  
  When Rachel was twelve, she discovered to her horror that there was a flaw in her design that was starting to manifest, and that her creator was considering disposing of the ruined material and starting over. It was then that she decided that she was not going to allow that, and she took steps to escape her imminent destruction.
  
  Living on the streets for the next several years, Rachel was eventually taken in by a fellow hacker, a man capable of working true magic with his computer. He showed her the world as seen by the Virtual Adept cabal, and helped to show the blossoming young woman her true potential.
  
  Things were good for a while, but her creator was one to hold a grudge, and he was able to hunt down her hiding place in Liverpool and killed her teacher while she was away, and she was just barely able to escape again with her life.
  
  Still on the run, she decided to try her hand at life in Los Angeles where she ran across a curious little bookstore run by a nice woman named Susan that had a serious need to upgrade her computer and her store's website. The two women became friends to the point that Rachel started renting a spare room and living there together. They make an unusual team, but they get along well and have a lot in common.
  
  Now older and wiser, Rachel works with Susan to gather information that their clientele requests, using her formidable hacking skill and magic to get the job done.
  
  
• 
  Experience Costs
  Trait - Cost
  New Ability - 3
  New Sphere - 10
  Affinity Sphere - current rating x 7
  Other Sphere - current rating x 8
  Arete - current rating x 8
  Attribute - current rating x 4
  Ability - current rating x 2
  Background - current rating x 3
  Willpower - current rating x 1
  
  

 

[Sherwood]

• Attributes and Abilities
• Backgrounds
• Spheres
• History
• Experience

• 
  Name: Susan Dorset
  Gender: Female
  Age: 29
  Nature:
  Spoiler: Traditionalist

  Devoted to tradition, you preserve the legacy of bygone wisdom. New ideas are shaky, untested by time, and thus flawed. The Old Ways often are best. They were good enough for our ancestors, and they’ll be good enough for future generations too. Your Consistency is a virtue. Especially in an age like ours, in which novelty defines mainstream culture, it’s good to have someone as authentic and dependable as you.
  Rigidity, though, can destroy you. Stasis tends to lead to Entropy, especially where mages are concerned. Though your dedication to tradition is admirable enough, you’ll need to learn some flexibility if you want to adapt in this age and eventually transcend it.
  – Regain Willpower when your efforts prove the value of old-fashioned ways.
  Demeanor:
  Spoiler: Crusader

  People need a hero, and you’re there to fill that role. Driven by a higher purpose – religious conviction, moral ethics, a philosophical ideal – you strive for a better world. The sword
  you wield might be more symbolic than literal: a scientist or teacher can be a Crusader too. The struggle, though, is what defines you. A better future must be built upon the foundations of our flawed world, and your duty compels you to demolish the obstacles so that reconstruction can begin. Your admirable Zeal propels you through every challenge
  you face. Lesser souls might falter, but you will not.
  Fanaticism, though, is the mark of a Crusader. Your convictions leave little room for compromise. When everything looks like a nail, it’s hard to stop hammering. Until and unless you learn to temper your enthusiasm and question your own assumptions, you’re just chasing shadows of your own extremism.
  – Regain Willpower when you accomplish some great deed in the name of your higher goal. As a player, you need to define what that higher goal is, and then follow it even when it hurts you. A true Crusader’s beliefs are not governed by convenience.
  Essence:
  Spoiler: Pattern

  The very opposite of Dynamism, the Pattern Essence provides stability and order. If Dynamism is fire, then Pattern is stone. Pattern mages approach things with deliberate intent, speaking slowly and taking time to consider the potential risks and benefits of a task. Manifesting as calm temperament, sound logic, stable emotions, and authority figures (often in dreams, perhaps as people only the mage herself can see), Pattern Avatars settle the capricious whims of reality into solid, dependable forms. Because every war needs fortifications and dependable souls, the Pattern Essence is a valued asset. Such Avatars inspire their mages to be prudent, constructive, and trustworthy – real bricks, to use the British slang. Honor, stability, and good judgment are hallmarks of such people. If they seem stodgy or uninspired, it’s simply because other people are too shortsighted to recognize a true friend when they have one.
  Sect: Order of Hermes
  Affinity Sphere: Forces
  
  Attributes
  Str: 3
  Dex: 5
  Sta: 2
  
  Cha: 2
  Man: 2
  App: 2
  
  Per: 2
  Int: 3
  Wits: 3
  
  Talents
  Alertness: 1
  Athletics: 1
  Awareness: 1
  Empathy: 1
  Streetwise: 1
  
  Skills
  Drive: 1
  Firearms: 1
  Martial Arts: 1
  Melee: 3
  Research: 1
  Stealth: 1
  Technology: 1
  
  Knowledges
  Academics: 2
  Computer: 1
  Enigmas: 3
  Investigation: 2
  Occult: 3
  Politics: 1
  Science: 1
  
  
• 
  Avatar: 3
  Chantry: 2
  Contacts: 2
  Familiar - Riku the Cat: 1
  Library (shared Background): 3 [6]
  Node (shared Background): 2 [3]
  Resources: 3
  
  Enemy: 2
  Echoes: 2
  Derangement - OCD: 3
  
  Arete: 3
  Willpower: 5
  
  Spheres
  Forces: 3
  Matter: 2
  Prime: 2
  
  
  Health Levels
  Bruised -0 [ ]
  Hurt -1 [ ]
  Injured -1 [ ]
  Wounded -2 [ ]
  Mauled -2 [ ]
  Crippled -5 [ ]
  Incapacitated [ ]
  
  
• 
  Forces: 3
  Although modern physics disputes the old lines between matter and energy, the venerable study of Forces transcends human politics. This Sphere commands the energies of Creation, and its specialists are among the most powerful mages alive. On a metaphysical level, the Forces Sphere commands energetic Patterns: fire, air, momentum, gravity, radiation, light, sound, and radio waves… the kinetic elements that shape and channel Earthly forces. Quintessence flows within such Patterns, so a mage can conjure new forces simply by adding some Quintessence to “empty space.” Different practices view such powers differently. Are they elemental spirits? Gods? Particles? Waves? Every Master has his or her own pet theory.
  In practical terms, however, this Sphere controls the Patterns of such forces – directing, transmuting, enhancing, or banishing their effects upon this world.
  In game terms, Forces-based attacks inflict an additional success of damage. The nature of that damage depends upon the energies in question – see the Magickal Damage or Duration chart. Simple manifestations and manipulations are limited to the lower Sphere Ranks, whereas large-scale Effects demand higher levels of expertise. Most large Effects also demand plenty of successes and can become Paradox magnets for careless mages. Masters of Forces tend to carry a palpable aura of energetic command, with a Resonance that often alters their environments in uncanny, elemental ways.
  
  Spoiler: Perceive Forces - 1

  Unlocking basic perceptions of the elements, a Force savvy mage can sense the flow of forces in her environment. She can boost her perceptions into the infrared or ultraviolet spectrums, notice electrons, see in the dark, view X-rays, discern the flow of sound or radio waves, spot kinetic energies, and hear frequencies beyond the normal human range.
  Spoiler: Manipulate Forces/Elemental Touch - 2

  Although she cannot conjure energies just yet, the mage may now alter the flow of existing forces. Sound can be muted or amplified; shadows can be gathered, shaped, or dispelled. The mage can warp light to make things invisible, change their colors by altering the spectrum of localized light, or render them silent by bending sound waves in their vicinity. With a wave of her hand, she can disrupt electrical currents; flare flames; or direct the course of winds, momentum, or gravity. Combining this Rank with other Spheres, that mage could also make an object (Matter) or organism (Life) attract or repel forces. Thus, she could weave minor protection spells or force-fields… or, conversely, turn that target into a magnet (perhaps literally) for the forces in question.
  Despite its powers, this Rank is limited in scale. Assume that the mage can command energies around a single human-sized character or within a small area (20’ or less). To affect a larger area, you need a higher Rank in Forces.
  Spoiler: Transmute Minor Forces/Telekinetics/The Dragon’s Touch - 3

  Now the mage can alter and invoke the energies she could only touch before. By adding Prime 2, she may conjure winds, fire, electricity, gravitational wells, and so forth. Combining this Rank with Life or Matter, she can transform people into electricity (Life 5/ Forces 3); change water into air (Forces 3/ Matter 3), or attach elemental force to material forms – making them fly, pinning them to the ground, and having other, similar effects (generally with Life or Matter 3). And by adding an ephemeral Sphere to this Rank, she might erode or enhance energies (Entropy 3); manifest thoughts into energies (Mind 3); transmute spirit-stuff into physical energies (Spirit 3); or set triggers for energy fluctuations at some later interval (Time 4).
  At this Rank, the scale of effect grows larger, now encompassing several dozen yards or a handful of characters.
  
  Matter: 2
  To a mystic, nothing is truly inert. Still, the Sphere of Matter deals with substances that possess no active agency of their own – materials, not life-forms or energies. The third aspect of the Pattern Trinity, Matter works best when combined with other Spheres. Prime and Matter create solid forms from energy; Correspondence and Matter connect objects across space; Entropy erodes or reinforces Matter; Forces transmutes inert elements into active ones. Life plus Matter bridges the gap between living and dead materials – an essential combination when dealing with vampires – and Spirit plus Matter renders ephemera into matter or matter into ephemera. Time alters the temporal state of Matter, and high-Rank Mind Effects (Rank 5) imbue inanimate materials with consciousness. Although Forces, Prime, and Spirit reflect primal energies and Life addresses organic animation, Matter represents the base of the physical world.
  Matter-wise mages tend to share a literally hands-on approach to their Art. Solid workers of their practice, they favor practical results with even the most theoretical applications. Sometimes regarded as dull and simple by more esoteric peers, these artisans merge quality and integrity with surprising levels of ingenuity.
  
  Spoiler: Matter Perceptions - 1

  A Primary understanding of Matter allows the initiate to perceive the intrinsic properties of base materials – their underlying structure, innate properties, and integral stability or lack thereof. With that knowledge, she can view the material composition of an object, note its less-obvious structures, find its hidden layers or – when combining this perception with Entropy – spot its weak points. Combined with Life, this Sphere detects implants, enhancements, and other integrations of living tissue and inert materials.
  Spoiler: Basic Transmutation - 2

  With advanced knowledge, the mage can transmute one substance into another, so long as she doesn’t alter its essential shape, temperature, or basic state (gas, liquid, solid).
  Depending upon that mage’s practice, she might reshape lead into gold through alchemy, wood into stone through a hyperpetrification process, or water into wine (and, with Life
  3, wine into blood) through a sacred miracle. Rare and/ or complex materials are more difficult to fabricate than simple ones; it’s easier to turn stone into iron, for example, than
  into gold. To reflect that challenge, such refinement requires a greater number of successes than a transmutation into a common material.
  (On a related note, the mage cannot yet fabricate radioactive materials. Such elements merge their essence into the Sphere of Forces, and thus demand a greater level of expertise.)
  When combined with other Spheres, this basic level of understanding allows a mage to conjure base materials from energy or dissolve them into Quintessence (Prime 2), transmute matter into living tissue (Life 4 or higher), move an object through space (Correspondence 2 or higher) or time (Time 3 or higher), change ephemera into matter and
  matter into ephemera, or awaken the slumbering spirit within material objects (Spirit 3 or higher). In all cases, Matter 2 allows the mage to work with simple, homogenous, non-living substances. Complex mixtures of various elements usually require Rank 3 or higher, although simple combinations (like those found in bread, milk, paper, or gunpowder) are possible if the player rolls plenty of successes.
  
  Prime: 2
  By studying the raw energy of Creation, a student of the Prime Sphere learns to understand, manipulate, and absorb the Fifth Essence within all things. Also known as Odyllic Force, Primal Energy, and Quintessence, this baseline energy fuels the Patterns of other forms – Forces, Life, Matter – and flows through the sublime essence of Spirit. A Prime-skilled mage, therefore, can create and destroy things at their essential level, power items of enchanted or Enlightened creation, and sustain her own life essence through her understanding of Primal Force.
  Ripe with such energies, a Prime Sphere specialist pulsates with Primal Force. Unless she’s working to suppress it (or has wiped her aura clean with high-Rank magicks), her Resonance bears strong signatures from her deeds. (See Resonance and Synergy, (pp. 560-561). For better and worse, such a person embodies the primal Otherness that most mages possess – the sense of being something more than most people ever dream of being.
  
  Spoiler: Etheric Senses/Consecration/Infuse Personal Quintessence - 1

  A beginning study of Prime allows the mage to perceive and channel Quintessence from Nodes, Tass, Wonders, and magickal Effects. She may spot energetic ebbs and flows, can sense and at least try to read Resonance and Synergy signatures, and could also absorb Quintessence into her personal Pattern. Mages without at least one dot in Prime cannot absorb Quintessence beyond their Avatar Background rating. A Prime-skilled mage, however, may do so.
  When infusing her Quintessence into an object, that mage may also consecrate the object with her personal energy. When she shapeshifts, steps sideways, or otherwise alters her Pattern’s metaphysical nature, that consecrated object will then change with her. In the process, it also picks up her personal Resonance… which, because it both identifies her and becomes essentially connected to her, is not always a good thing.
  Spoiler: Fuel Pattern/ Construct Patterns/Enchant Patterns/Body of Light - 2

  Attaining a degree of control over Prime energies, the mage may divert Quintessence into new or existing forms. Combined with other Spheres, this allows that mage to create new Forces, Life, or Matter Patterns (conjuring them from thin air), and to infuse existing items with Primal Force to strengthen them or enhance their protective or destructive power.
  Weapons or attacks infused with Quintessence through Prime 2 Effects may hurt spirits or inflict aggravated damage, and substances infused the same way may protect against such harm. (See Chapter Nine’s Combat section for details.) On a related note, she may also – with Life 2 for simple organisms, or Life 3 for complex ones – consecrate a living thing at this Rank, as if that life-form were an object described above.
  Through similar applications of energy, the mage can also conjure a simple Body of Light: an idealized self projected from ephemeral energy. Although this Body of Light has no substance or special properties (unlike the astral form described in Chapter Nine, p. 477), it presents a glowing holograph of the mage herself.
  
  
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  Susan Dorset was a fanciful youngster, living far off in her imagination and leaving the mundane world far behind her. It was at the age of eight that she accidentally performed a spell for the first time. Good fortune smiled on her that day, and not only did she survive the experience, but she came under the watchful eye of the Order of Hermes, and a scholarship offer was then sent to Susan's parents, offering their daughter a chance to attend a very exclusive private school where her special talents can be nurtured and protected.
  
  She then spent the next several years being taught the truth about magic (at least, the truth according to the Order of Hermes), and the youngster developed as a true prodigy in the Sphere of Forces, and Susan became one of the youngest mages in her Chantry.
  
  Susan currently owns and operates a small used bookstore called the Bell, Book and Candle that both caters to the more eclectic mortal clientele, but her main line of work is to buy and sell information, along with the occasional book to a very select 'special' customers, namely, mages, vampires and other creatures that go bump in the night. She has worked very hard to make her shop a safe neutral location for anyone to be able to come to and has the chops to help defend her turf with her magic.
  
  Working alongside the younger Rachel, the two mages have made themselves a safe location in the basement that they use as their workshop and casting location where the effects of Paradox are less likely to strike. Susan currently has a loft apartment above the bookstore that she shares with Rachel, where she rents out a bedroom to the other Mage that the two have enchanted up to make it a protected location.
  
  Susan is quite the neat freak, and it does not take her long to start straightening up or cleaning any space that she finds herself in for any length of time. It is a subject of some friction between her and her friends, where she argues that she does not have OCD, even as she is busy cleaning a counter with a Clorox wipe.
  
  
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  Experience Costs
  Trait - Cost
  New Ability - 3
  New Sphere - 10
  Affinity Sphere - current rating x 7
  Other Sphere - current rating x 8
  Arete - current rating x 8
  Attribute - current rating x 4
  Ability - current rating x 2
  Background - current rating x 3
  Willpower - current rating x 1
  
  

 

[One of Hearts]

ok, I'm officially stupid, but I'm not that stupid because I finally figured out this tabs thing! I think.

Anyways, Here's Violet.

General:
Name: Mary Knox was her previous name, she now goes by Violet Pander

Gender: Female

Apparent age: 14

Actual age: 92

Clan: Caitiff

Generation: 13

Sect: Pander (Sabbat/ Anarch)

Nature: Survivor

Demeanor: Visionary

• skills and attributes
• Disciplines, advantages, and flaws

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  Attributes:
  
  Str: 2
  
  Dex: 3
  
  Stam: 2
  
  Cha: 3
  
  Man: 2
  
  App: 5
  
  Per: 3
  
  Int: 2
  
  Wits: 2
  
  
  
  Talents:
  Alertness- 2
  Awareness-3
  Subterfuge-3
  Expression-1
  
  
  Skills:
  Larceny-3
  Melee-3
  Stealth-3
  Survival-2
  
  
  Knowledges:
  Investigation-1
  
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  Background: Violet was a sweet girl whose parents divorced when she was young. Violet (or rather Mary) would have visions and make claims that frightened both parents. These were probably more along the lines of a child's wild imagination and constantly doctors would visit the two houses she stayed at. One of these doctors, however, was a Malkavian in disguise and decided to take his shot at embracing Violet. He claimed Violet had visions of Grandeur. It was reason enough to admit her into the nearest insane asylum. It was there that she slowly grew mad. Often she was mistreated and injected with insulin to have her body constantly enter states of shock. Her clothes were ragged and she rarely had the chance to bathe. She was greatly malnourished and often begged for anything from anyone. She attempted to leave multiple times but was always caught and sedated. Violet (who went by Mary at the time) sought to take her own life, wishing nothing more than to escape the constant screaming of the next-door “clients”. The Malkavian had what he wanted. Preventing Violet from taking her own life, the Malkavian offered another solution. Violet was embraced, but to her horror, her sire despised her for being a caitiff. He would often call her a mistake. He quickly abandoned her, and she sought refuge but quickly found none in the Camarilla. It wasn’t until Crimson Pander had found her while on a vital mission for the Sabbat. Crimson took her under his wing and welcomed her into the Pander family, a family of Caitiff who mostly do grunt work for the Sabbat. She was never a fan of the Sabbat or their viewpoints, and convinced Crimson and the rest of their family to leave to Los Angeles to start a small sect there, hoping that the dynamic might change in a new city.
  
  Advantages:
  
  Favored blood: The caitiff can learn any and all abilities without the taste of a kindred vitae (4)
  
  Mask: Zeroed (the kindred has no files in any database(2)
  
  Haven: (shared background) 4
  
  Resources: (shared background) 4
  
  The Pander family owns a run-down manor just outside the city. They often do grunt work and tasks for the Anarchs despite technically being Sabbat since the sabbat presence is small.
  
  
  
  Flaws:
  
  -Suspect
  -Sires bane: the caitiff suffers from the sire's clan bane. (unnatural manifestations/ fractured perspective
  
  Humanity: 7
  
  Disciplines:
  
  Fortitude: 2
  -resilience: the kindred can withstand heavier hits, adding fortitude to health.
  -unswayable mind: the kindred can add their fortitude to resist supernatural skills to sway their mind.
  
  Auspex: 2
  
  -heightened senses: the kindred can heighten one of the six senses.
  -Panacea: can lick the wounds of the supernatural to heal them. After the first time healing (per night), they take on the extra damage they heal.
  
  Obfuscate: 1
  
  -Cloak of shadows: if the kindred stays still they are invisible
  
  
  
  Members of the Pander family:
  
  Head: Crimson Pander (130 years of age) He acts like a caregiver to the family, he’s very gentlemanly and thoughtful at first. It’s difficult to read what he’s thinking when you first meet him but when you open him up and be a bit playful and charming. Of course, being the leader, Crimson has killed and been forced to be ruthless. He deems his family the only thing that truly keeps him sane and will do anything to keep them safe. Crimson struggles in the modern nights, refusing to use the internet or a phone because he finds it makes people lazy. Sterling often attempts to teach him though.
  
  
  
  Second in command: Cream pander (113 years old) Cream is beautiful and she knows it. She uses it to her advantage, attempting to get others to want to like her. She’s very much like a toreador.
  
  
  Indy (Indigo) Pander (78): Is often cranky and he loves a good fight. He can be a troublemaker but he always gets the job done.
  
  
  Sterling (34): is gentle and still. He enjoys the modern nights and wishes to try to help Crimson with technology. He promises Violet to help teach her how to drive as well. He just wants to help where he can.
  
  
  Violet Pander (93): rarely speaks or makes any form of emotion (unless it’s with Sterling when he talks about teaching her how to drive). Violet is cautious and often simply does what she’s told. It appears the madness from the asylum still haunts her as she refuses to talk about her past in any capacity. She’s unhappy that currently, she lives in an abandoned manor. It is strikingly similar to the asylum she used to live in. However, she wishes to get away from the Sabbat with her family and often she and the family will do the grunt work for the Anarchs to pay their “rent”.
  

 

[0stinato]

My art - WIP of course. Sketchy bs.

Name: Yağmur Fahri (ya-MOOR FA-ri)

Alias(es): [wip]

Gender: Male (he/him)

Age: Mid-40s

• The Man
• The Monster
• More

• 
  Appearance Description:
  
  Yağmur’s homid appearance is best described by the word ‘large.’ He is large of body, waistline, personality, temper and power. He sports well-kept long dark hair and a much less well-kept sprout of facial hair. He tends not to wear shirts, earning him a more tribal appearance as a result of the Crow tattoo across his chest, which dictates his loyalty to the Crow totem. His habit of being shirtless is partly due to him finding it easier to adopt his beastly form with fewer outer restrictions. The types of clothes he does wear regularly include loose-fitting, comfortable trousers (of a tremendous size to cope with his weight of course), and a longcoat worn over the shoulders. He might wear jewellery on his wrists or around his neck, but this is infrequent - he forgets about it sometimes. His eyes twinkle in even the most minimal light and are of a chilling blue. Even in his regular form, a trace of his potential remains: he possesses thick hair from the base of his neck partially down his spine. Due to his long head hair though, this is often difficult to see.
  
  
  Personality:
  Upon first meeting Yağmur, you may consider him intimidating but jolly. He is well-spoken, often using analogy, and can speak very persuasively with his unusual brand of charisma. He can even come across as short-sighted and foolish, often leading adversaries to believe he will be easy to out-think. Those who know Yağmur know he possesses an intense cold streak, more frigid than the blue of his eyes.
  
  Biography:
  
  A Turk in the battleground of Los Angeles, Yağmur had to find unusual methods to survive. He used to be much more conservative about the use of his Ajaba form, aiming to fit in with the general public while he built up a small empire of his own in the background. Through methods of varying degrees of legality, Yağmur began to find his feet, and took steps from the light of his human forme to the darkness and strength the Ajaba form lent him. [Specific events to be added. Maybe you character has met Yağmur in one of these events?]
  
  
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  Clan/Tribe/Class: Shapeshifter: Ajaba (Hyena)
  
  Glabro Appearance:
  A form he is particularly prone to slip into while feasting, intimidating someone or just because it might give him sharper senses, Yağmur’s teeth change, he develops spotted fur on his arms, back and encroaching onto his torso. He can still talk in this form.
  
  Crinos Appearance:
  The ‘war-form.’ The true definition of were-hyena.
  
  Hispo Appearance:
  He resembles an extinct giant hyena with not inconsiderable bulk. He is athletic, fast and powerful. Larger than modern-day hyenae, and standing at a metre tall at the shoulder, the giant hyena with massive hunting potential.
  
  Hyenae Appearance:
  Indistinguishable from a spotted hyena.
  
  Abilities: (Disciplines, Traditions, Totem powers, etc) - The totem of the Crow…
  
  Skills: (Non-supernatural skillsets)
  cooking (gotta know a thing or two if you own a buffet restaurant, right? He doesn’t do the cooking himself, but appreciates good cuisine. Or, at the very least, abundant cuisine); intimidation; tracking; people skills (you might be surprised); juggernaut-style fighting while in human forme (I don’t know enough about hand-to-hand combat to declare he has a particular style or discipline, so I’ll describe it like this: he take take a lot of hits and, while maybe not the fastest fighter, can hit like a truck because he knows how to use his weight);
  
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  Assets: (Do you own property? Have a store as a front for your more than mundane activities? Some illicit enterprise?) A popular buffet-style restaurant - named BackAgain! - with fairly large square-footage. It is, of course, a front, but it’s pretty good value. The logo is a happy little crab wearing a chef’s hat. Try it sometime!
  
  Territory: (Got a stake somewhere in LA that is your "home turf,”?) bruh idk LA. Will add this later.
  
  NPCs: (if running a coterie/gang/band)
  Commands a small pack that follows the Crow totem. Loyalty is second only to cunning. The aliases, species and personalities of the members are:
  
  • Zaran - male (he/him) - a complete human who yearned for something 'more' to life, Zaran was brought into the pack to act as the 'face' when dealing with other humans. Away from Yağmur, Zaran is charismatic and calculating; around Yağmur, he is more meek.
  • Capo - male (he/him) - an ajaba shapeshifter, Capo is highly devoted to the Crow totem. He is multitalented, a jack-of-all-trades type. He comes across as immature in some ways, but gets serious when the chips are down.
  • Dolly - female (she/her) - Dolly is also an ajaba shapeshifter. Yağmur offered her a place to go upon finding out what she was. Although Dolly was not in dire need of a pack, Yağmur was persuasive enough that her talents could find a home with him, and so she accepted. Dolly trains in the darker things, and knows where a man's vital spots are.
  • Parakeet - female (she/her) - unlike the others, Parakeet is a corax shapeshifter. She is an over-the-top punk type, on the surface seeming to revel in the chaos of Los Angeles. Get to know her, though, and you find she has insecurities about her own power. However, her stealth and lead-finding cannot be beat. If big news occurs in LA, Parakeet will know it before it hits the press.

 

[ValinoreanDawn]

Name: John Korvinus
Age: 37 (Chronologically 71 years old)
Species: Changeling
Class: Elemental
Appearance: Pale, raven haired with matching dark eyes, 6'1 and athletic build.

Personality: Amiable, quiet, if a touch forlorn. John was born in 1953 to a Brooklyn, New York, household and would have had a decent life working in his father's mechanics shop had it not been for a fateful run in with a mysterious man, garbed in antiquarian clothing, adorned with Thistle-Down Hair. Slowly paddling a gondola along low ground fog as if upon water. John remembers looking about, yet not another soul insight, and he remembers the man extending a hand to John. Only now realizing other children were aboard, starry eyed, and full of wonder. Thus, just ten years old, John took the hand and unknowingly found himself on a trip to another world. Faerie, Arcadia, the Dreaming.

But that was where the dreams ended, and the nightmare began. For the Gentry, as John soon learned, were as fickle and whim sickle as the dreams which gave them existence. The wishes of his cruel and uncaring master as they played out tales and stories again and again. There he learned the name of the Man with the Thistle-Down Hair, The Master, and his powers stemmed from dreams and nightmares of power, domination, mastery, and blind ambition.

It did not take long for John to wish to return to his parents, his family, but that was the crux of the problem. Arriving in Arcadia was one thing but leaving another entirely. Thus, John took his time and prepared himself for the trials ahead. Learning that he must survive The Hedge which formed the mystical boundary between Earth and Arcadia. Gathering what scraps of resources, he could, and the alliance of some likeminded captives, they escaped the castle like fortress of their manor by abseiling the walls themselves as best they could. Descending into the dark forests below and thence into the Hedge. There, things went wrong, and the dangers of the Dreaming became apparent as one by one John's companions fell to the Thorns and creatures therein. Hobgoblin tribes, bestial monsters, living nightmares, and siren-song spirits. John would have surely perished had he not accidentally stumbled through an arch of thorns that brought him to an abandoned Los Angeles subway tunnel. Rising from the darkness John had returned to the world of Man but changed. He was an adult now and though he looked only in his early thirties a span of seven decades had passed.

John first tried to find his parents but found out that they had passed in the 2010s and he had been missing for seventy years. A search and exhaustive investigation for missing children had gone on for several days until he was found. Found? John could only stare in horror as a boy looking just like him stared back at him in the pages. A fetch, a doppelganger placed there by the Gentry, had taken his place. Taken the life he would have had, should have had, and it was here that he took the path that brought him into the underbelly of Los Angeles. His old life was gone and thus he took the name Korvinus after earning a reputation as a reliable enforcer and hitman for the Camarilla and Changeling Courts.

Assets: Rents a small apartment in Sunland. Owns a vintage 1960 Chrysler 300F convertible. Variety of Firearms and knives for his contracts.

 

[Londo_Mollari94]

Name: Christian Jared Defoe

Age: 63 (Looks 27 years old)

Clan: Malkavian (12th Generation)

Abilities:

Auspex: 4

Obfuscate: 5

Dominate: 4

Skills:

Finance: Christian many years as an investment banker had given him a lot of knowledge about money and financing. Using this knowledge to gain a massive amount of money and wealth.

Stealth: Christian’s preferred discipline being Obfuscate allows Christian to go undetected. As well as using the many years of staying undetected when he goes out hunting.

Athletics/Brawl: Christian likes to keep himself in top physical shape. This leads to Christian being quick on his feet and relatively strong.

Intimidation: Over the years Christian has built an intimidating aura, especially when he is angry.

Personality: Christian is very self-centred and vain, thinking only of himself and how he looks to others. Being obsessed with his wealthy lifestyle like clothes, drinking/drugs, and buying expensive objects to show off to everyone. Despite his calming exterior he is plagued with anxiety and low self-esteem. Suffering from sociopathy and extreme anti-social behaviour. Acting like a vapid frat boy so he could bond with his yuppie friends. Although he hates them and anyone like them with all of his soul. He has a constant battle of trying to keep his sanity. Stuffing from auditory and visual hallucinations which have gotten worse after he was embraced. At times he shows extreme moments of rage, panic, and grief when he is put into stressful situations. Hiding his anxiety and insecurities through his vanity and rigid personal grooming.

Having a sadistic side to him liking to toy with yuppies and his victims. Only kills and tortures women and men whom he considers undeserving of life. Although he does not kill or hurt children or animals. He has a soft spot for animals. Because of his embrace, he thinks he is not Malkavian but a Ventrue. So he acts like most Ventures and will only drink the vitae of blue blooded humans.

Biography: Christian’s father and mother were both rich so Christian had a privileged childhood. As a child, he would constantly wet the bed, start fires, and torture his younger brother. His parents seemed to ignore Christian’s deprived behaviour. As a child and teenager, his behaviour would escalate with him breaking and stealing from homes. Peeping on women before moving on to sexually assaulting women. As an adult, he went to Columbia Business School and after graduating joined his father’s investment baking company.

During this time he would hire prostitutes having sex with them before murdering them. His MO was strangling them before cutting them up and eating pieces of them. His other victims included homeless people and yuppies. While he was with a potential prey he was embraced by this woman. Being abandoned by his sire leaving him to be mentored by another Malkvain vampire named Roger Edwards. Being taught the world of vampire society and used this knowledge to further his status on the social ladder.


Assets: A studio apartment in downtown Los Angeles. Filled with the state of the art technology and expensive art. He also drives a 1987 Chevrolet Cavalier. Living a lavish lifestyle that he only uses to show that he is normal.

Territory: None.

NPCs: None at the moment.

 

[Fox of Fate]

Hopefully these two are good!

Spoiler: Akari the Kitsune hacker, anarchist, part time spy

Name: Akari
Species: Changing Breed, kitsune (werefox)
Age: 28
Gender: Non-binary/intersex, appears female. She/Her or They/Them pronouns
Appearance: As a human Akari looks like a half Asian, half Russian woman (pale skin, black hair, almond-shaped green eyes). She is average height, and slightly chubby. Her clothes could be described as "punk" and "nerdy/geeky". When she is in her partial or full shape-changed forms, she has 1 tail, pure white fur and, in her full fox form, she is indistinguishable from an arctic fox. She has piercings on her lips, ears, nose, belly button and eyebrows, or at least those are what she will show publicly.
History: Akari is fairly young for a kitsune, as most have their eyes opened around 16 human/mortal years of age. She was quickly picked up by a powerful, and old, kitsune named Hikari, who taught her about this new world she had awoken into. She finished high school and went to college, taking an interest in computer science, and is also part of a grey-hat hacker club in college. Wanting to make some money, and to help her mentor, she also started working at the club Hikaru runs, as a dancer.
Abilities: Semi-expert hacking (nothing to crazy, she tries to keep on the right side of the law)
Dancing
Some hand-to-hand and unarmed combat
Seduction (slightly supernatural due to being a kitsune)
Weaknesses: Silver (kitsune are slightly suseptable to silver)
No regeneration (kitsune are slow healers and don't regenerate like other changing breeds)

Spoiler: Isabella, True Bruja revolutionary

Name: Isabella (Bella for short)
Species: Bruja (True Bruja due to her sire claiming to be one)
Age: 107
Gender: Female
Appearence: Isabella is what you would think of if someone described a cute Spanish girl. She is very fashion foward, to an extent, although her outfits still have a flair of Spanish Civil War anarchist circa the 1930's.
History: She was turned by a Catalonian vampire named Dominique, who had been around since the mid 1200's, close to the end of the Spanish Civil War, just before thier beloved Catalonia fell. After traveling back to the US, Bella was introduced to a kitsune named Hikaru, who had been working alongside Dominique. She quickly established herself with her two new friends, despite the inherent distrust between the Kindred and Changing Breeds. She quickly learned her abilities, she was especially taken by temporis and potence. She also learned the history of the Kindred, she would have very strong opinions about both the Camarilla and Sabbat, and would be happy to learn she wasn't under them but part of the Anarchs, and in the Anarch Free State. Unfortunately some of her first feedings weren't as subtle as most would've liked, and was chastised by her sire, who had to clean up a couple of messes that nearly threatened the Masqurade. In recent years she has taken to becoming an EMT in the LAFD, mostly to help people, but the access to blood bags helps.
Abilties: Charisma (natural, you don't get to be a revolutionary without being able to talk and convince people)
Firearms, melee and unarmed fighting (not the best with firearms, well modern ones at least)
Explosives (again, revolutionary, she faught in a civil war, you learn some shit)
Medical skills (AEMT, she hasn't taken the plunge into paramedicine yet)
Vampire abilities: Temporis, Potence & Presence

 

[ThaDruid]

Name:
Cole & Calcutta

Age:
28 (Cole)
22 [turned at 20] (Calcutta)

Species:
Ghoul (Cole)
Vampire [Gangrel] (Calcutta)

Abilities:
A Kindred's disciplines, diluted, pass on to her Ghoul companion...
Animalism [The Gangrel's feral blood allows them to come into contact with nature's critters much more easily than the usual Kindred, whom animals avoid and are usually frightened by. Calcutta is able to communicate with and command most animals to her will. Cole has found that the neighbor's dog stopped growling at him.]
Fortitude [A vampire with Fortitude is granted unearthly toughness, dead flesh becoming resilient as stone. Calcutta has grown used to relying on her unnatural resilience to carry her through violent confrontations, becoming a bit of a daredevil. Cole has had his nose busted too many times to notice, but he doesn't bruise as easily anymore.]
Protean [The discipline of shape-changers, allowing Kindred to turn into beasts and living weapons. Calcutta can see in total darkness, grow wicked claws, and is slowly working her way towards stranger forms. Cole has not felt any outward biological changes from his condition... Yet.]

Skills:
The couple is bound by a shared aptitude for survival, considering themselves "outsiders" who trawled at the edges of society, unwanted by others and uninterested in earning their approval, even before meeting eachother.

Cole has gained a number of useful skills throughout his life, having often rubbed shoulders with lowlives and night folk. He is decently athletic and has experience with going hand-to-hand, having trained and worked as a night club bouncer before settling with his current occupation as a night-shift security guard.
He's developed some good wits about him, having a nose for danger and enough streetwise knowledge to know when a situation looks sketchy. Despite his build, he knows how to step softly and stick to the shadows. He has a cursory knowledge of security systems from his job, and has learned the art of stone-walling assertiveness to make up for his lack of charisma.
Regular doses of Kindred blood make him a ghoul, and give him the physical edge when dealing with normal folk.

Calcutta has always been a wild child, outdoorsy and adventurous by necessity. She has a good sense of direction in urban or natural environments, and generally knows how to fend for herself. She's jumpy and quick on her feet, acting on split-second decisions that are surprisingly hot-blooded for a dead thing. She was good with animals even before her embrace, and now finds them specially receptive. When the need arises, she has practiced playing the part of the frightened damsel in distress to get out of danger, only to show her fangs at a moment's notice.
Being a vampire makes her resilient, and a natural predator to humans.

Personality:
The two of them are a perfect pair, and perfectly opposed.
Cole's cold-blooded, almost reptilian outlook clashes and completes Calcutta as she grasps for her lost life, still clinging to the remnants of her humanity in strong passions and old emotions.

Cole is often deadpan, uncaring and giving himself a slight air of superiority. He interacts with others only as long as he needs to, before returning to his serene misantrophy. Calcutta is the sole exception. He prefers the comfort of his own mind, zoning out often and going to god knows what dark place Cole thinks his thoughts in.

Calcutta is fiery and vital to an obsessive degree, constantly chasing the high, frightened by the slow loss of her all-too-present humanity. She still doesn't consider herself "dead" dead, being barely a fledgling vampire, and forces herself into awkward socialization with kine despite an introverted nature. Prone to outbursts, fits of rage and anxiety when she realizes she's not feeling her heartbeat, or has stopped breathing. Only Cole's glacial, firm presence brings her a modicum of reassurance.

Biography:
The circumstances of Calcutta's embrace are still mysterious, with her own hazy recollection giving scant clues on why she had been chosen to become kindred. Her sire drained her, turned her and left her to fend for herself in some sick kind of initiation ritual, typical to the Gangrel. Confused, afraid and with what felt like a burning fever fueled by a thirst for blood, the girl snuck to the nearest hospital... Looking for the morgue.

Cole was doing his rounds, his mind in a faraway place when he found the disheveled, wild, pale thing biting on a corpse, her front soaked in dark-red, congealed blood. Curious, interested and then enamored by the strange sight, he took his hand off of the handheld radio, stepped closer, and in doing so saved both of their lives.

Strange acquaintances, friends, partners, lovers. In two years the two of them tied themselves in a twisted, symbiotic relationship of mutual nurturing: growing stronger off eachother, feeding off eachother, living off eachother. Passion, Affection, Addiction and intoxication, the lines of their romance are blurry and it is unclear if what keeps them together is the blood-bond or a genuine connection. Nonetheless, they are a pair of unlikely survivors who found eachother, and have scraped a corner of their own in the World of Darkness.

Assets:
A run-down apartment
Access to blood-bags (Cole's job)
An old beat-up Toyota

Territory: None (Calcutta has never been formally introduced to Kindred society)

NPCs: None currently​