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Know Your Kindred – Rafael de Corazon

Name: Rafael de Corazon
Clan: Toreador
Generation: 5th
Embraced: 1182

Many Toreador see Rafael as the symbolic heart of the clan. Though he is not the eldest, most poweful or most talented of the Toreador, he is the most influential. He won their hearts and minds during the Inquisition.

Rafael de Corazon is the author of the 5th Tradition – “Thou shall not reveal thy true nature to those not of the blood.” His passionate speech reached even the most closed minds and prevented the Kindred from launching an all-out-war with the mortals. Instead they covered their tracks and many believe it was Rafael who saved their kind from extinction.

Rafael is exceedingly vain, loathing anything that is more beautiful than himself. As such, he surrounds himself with people of lesser beauty.

He is also a mediocre artist and was not respected by the other Toreador. So he used his power to damage and embarrass them. Since he can not create great art himself, he uses his wealth to sponsor many talented artists.

Rafael hates the anarchs with a passion and wants to destroy them.

In life Rafael was a simple altar boy, resented by the other boys for his beauty. He used his favor with the bishop to lash back as his bullies. This was his first taste of power.

Rafael found little success as a priest, as he lacked the talent and knowledge needed for the job. Passed over again and again for important positions, he began to oversee the creation of mosaics and illustrated manuscripts. Rafael claimed credit for the finest pieces the monks created and threatened anyone who challenged him.

Rafael was embraced by Callisti y Castillo, a mysterious noblewoman the other clergy said was a pagan witch. She was taken by Rafael’s beauty and the illustrations he claimed to have made.

Callisti took him to her lair and embraced him. When she asked him to make more drawings, he tried, but they were mediocre at best and he admitted deceiving her earlier. She almost killed him in anger, but he begged for his unlife, arguing that his lies were a form of great art. This excuse amused Callisti and she spared him.

Eventually Callisti traveled to India and left Rafael to run her affairs while she was away. He wasted no time in exploiting her power, using her authority to propose treaties, form alliances, launch territorial wars and create numerous childer.

- Sources: Children of the Inquisition, pg 35

Know Your Kindred – The Ankou

Name:  The Ankou
Clan:  Malkavian
Generation:  Perhaps 5th?
Embraced:  Unknown

There are many tales about the being known as Ankou.  It is an ancient terror that stalks the night and appears in Malkavians’ dreams as a remorseless, lifeless monster that silently treads country roads with an ox-cart and scythe.

Most reliable visions hint that it is a Methuselah, grandchilde of Malkav and faithful servant of his 4th generation creator.

The Ankou can roam through Lupine territory untouched, through a busy downtown unseen, and even vanish from one place and appear miles away, visible to only it’s victims.

Malkavians vanish from their hunting grounds all the time, but sometimes after a disappearance, the Madness Network vibrates with whispers repeating “Ankou.”

- Source: Clanbook Malkavian (Revised), pg 100

Someone hasn’t posted in a while.. but I’m back!

Yeah, I haven’t posted in this blog in 6 months. I’m disappointed in myself. But too many other things have been taking up my free time and keeping up with this blog.

But fear not, I plan to get back into VTES in the new year. So expect more updates in the near future.

Know Your Kindred – Elizabeth Westcott

Name: Elizabeth Westcott
Clan: Tzimisce
Generation: 10th

The female vocalist and keyboard player for the band Persephone Seed is Elizabeth Westcott. Most Kindred presume the quiet, waifish Elizabeth to be Toreador or Caitiff, and she says and does nothing to dispel that misconception. In truth, Westcott is Tzimisce, and Sabbat at that.

Sent to infiltrate the Anarch population, Westcott instead found common ground with her Toreador band mate Glass. He knows she is Sabbat and cares little – though her depictions of unlife in the Black Hand provide him with ample fodder for morbid lyrics.

For her part, Elizabeth prefers being in the band to indulging in Fire Dances and War Parties and the like. When confronted about her loyalties by Sabbat leaders, Westcott gently reminds them that the Sabbat is first and foremost about freedom – and what better way to turn the anarchs than to be in their favorite band?

- Source World of Darkness (2nd Ed.)

Vampire Fonts

De Vita In Excessum has a page with downloadable fonts for all the various Vampire clans as well as fonts from other WoD games like Werewolf, Mage, Wraith and Hunter.

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