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The Law « Result #3 on Mar 26, 2007, 11:06pm »
Law
English law is a chaotic Amalgam of Anglo-Saxon, Danish, Norman and Angevin traditions. Until the Magna Carta, there was no centralized or written form of law, so numerous regional variations existed, particularly at the manorial and hundred courts. Despite the efforts of the Barons, it will be another 30 years until the Provision of Westminster (1259) and the Baron’s War (1263-1267) that the issue will be settled, with the reign of Edwards I (1272-1307) seeing major constitutional advances.
The issuance of various town charters during the reigns of Richard and John has further complicated matters granting individual towns specific rights or exemptions. The following three strands of law currently exist in England; Common law, deals with a wide range of secular matters: Cannon law, relates to the Church; the blood laws, Mithras’s codified system of laws and courts, are intended to uphold the traditions.
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Re: Politics « Result #4 on Mar 26, 2007, 9:12pm »
International Relations
King Henry came to power during a French invasion of England, and he saw the loss of Poitou and the ravaging of his holdings in Aquitaine before his majority. He has made recovering these lost lands a high priority. Diplomatic pressures on King Louis have come to naught, and against the advice of former regent Hubert de Burgh, King Henry is preparing an expedition to France (which lands in Brittany and recovers the Isle of Oleron, but is otherwise a failure.)
Unlike his mortal counterpart, Mithras has generally good relations with his neighbors on the European mainland. Despite the expansionist activities of the Parisian Great Court, the Methuselah maintains close ties with Paris. Although Mithras and Alexander clashed over the effects of French expansionism into Angevin lands, the two Cainties respected each other. The new prince, Geoffrey, is an unknown quantity, and Mithras recognizes the hand of Salianna, the Matriarch of the Court of Love, in recent events. On top of the mortal events, the hitherto good relationships between the two courts has grown sour, although Mithras remains in regular contact with the Matriarch of France.
Mithras’s relationship with the Fiefs of the Black Cross is less cordial, though he maintains close ties with individual Ventrue in the Holy Roman Empire. The prince’s main problem lies with Hardestadt, who dislikes Mithras’s unofficial alliance with the Tzimisce. Even though this “alliance” is little more than sharing information about their mutual enemy – the Tremere – it is at odds with the Black Cross’s plans in Eastern Europe. Likewise, and despite his “England First” policy, Mithras regards Hadestadt’s growing ties to France an infringement on his interests. Currently, neither of the rulers is prepared to compromise.
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Re: Chimersrty « Result #5 on Mar 26, 2007, 7:16pm »
**** Permanency
Like Apparition, Permanency stacks with other, simpler Chimerstry powers. It eternally extends the duration of illusions created by those abilities, allowing them to persist even when the character who created them is no longer nearby. It will remain for all time – even past the character’s Final Death, unless the character chooses to dismiss it as described previously. If he uses this ability on an illusion given movement by Apparition, the character must guide the illusion through its normal pattern of movement once before he can make it permanent. Despite the illusion’s permanency, however, it is no more real than an illusion created by any of the abilities listed already. It can still neither harm a character nor bear weight.
System: After creating the illusion, spend as additional turn and one blood point to make permanent. Note that Permanency does not work on any Discipline other than Chimerstry, nor does it work on other sources of illusion that might wield, be they hedge magic, Thaumaturgy or a shackled fairy.
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Anatole « Result #6 on Mar 25, 2007, 8:30pm »
Anatole
(Malkavian - 10th generation)
The lord works in mysterious ways, and this is particularly true concerning the Malkavian Anatole. Recently Embraced in France, Anatole was chosen for his ability to see the movements of God on Earth; or at least, his sire thought so.
In any event, Anatole is devoutly Christian, and spends much of his time in contemplation of the Cainite's place in God's world. His Derangement, a tendency for random hallucination, often causes him to see symbols, people and objects that do not exist, though to Anatole's mind, these hallucinations are quite real and reveal God's presence. Exactly what powers the Malkavian neonate possesses is unknown, but he has been known to repel Cainites with powers resembling True Faith by calling out to angels whom he sees in his fractured mind. A former guardsman on his city watch, Anatole has also picked up appreciable skill with sword and shield, which, when combined with his impressive array of Disciplines, make him quite physically adept. Those Cainite elders who observe his actions are concerned that a disproportionate number of his Disciplines are not within the province of the Malkavian clan. As to where he learns them, Anatole isn't telling.
Anatole typically keeps the company of the Lasombra Lucita, and acts as a strong right arm to her as they move through Dark Medieval Europe. He has also been seen with an entourage of monklike pilgrims, who are commonly believed to be either ghouls in his service or his herd.
Destiny: Anatole undergoes a period of religious fervor wherein he believes God has instructed him to find and diablerize vampires. He entertains this behavior for almost a century, which has many European princes up in arms, and he makes numerous foes among them. By the end of the eighteenth century, Anatole gets involved with the French Revolution and the lay mysticism it engendered, and changes the focus of his zealotry from Christianity to the Jyhad. With his newfound spiritual motivation, Anatole finds himself in the New World, where he spreads the word of Gehenna's approach.
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Lucita « Result #7 on Mar 25, 2007, 8:27pm »
Lucita
(Lasombra - 7th generation)
The daughter of Alfonse I of Aragon, Lucita grew up in privilege but chafed under her responsibility to her father and family. She thought of patricide many times and often ran away, only to be caught by the Aragonese guards and returned to her father's custody. Rather than bother with discipline himself (as king, he had better things to do), Alfonse shuffled her off to confession each time, trusting that God and Church would engender penitence in his daughter. The fact that her confessor was Ambrosio Luis Moncada made this patently untrue.
Moncada recognized an indomitability of will in young Lucita, and a fierce independence. These, combined with his unholy lust for her, conspired to convince the bishop that her Embrace was warranted. After talking with others of his clan, Moncada decided that the Lasombra could greatly benefit from this individual of high birth.
After her Embrace, though, Lucita's relationship with her clan was hardly idyllic. She struggled with Moncada just as she had struggled with her mortal father, craving autonomy and freedom. Though she serves her clan dutifully as a diplomat and a noble (she is rumored to be the power behind the throne of the current king of Aragon, Peter II), she is more at home on the road with her traveling companion Anatole, who inspires in Lucita more faith in God than the degenerate Moncada ever could.
Lucita has recently undertaken a new training regimen, which she studies to gain skill in the noble arts of war. Her speed and natural grace aid her in her quest, and she can masterfully whittle down stronger foes before they manage to land a single powerful blow upon her. When she combines her martial prowess with her trademark Lasombra control of darkness, she becomes a terrible enemy indeed.
Destiny: Lucita becomes the consummate shadow warrior, rivaling the Eastern Assamites in ferocity and reputation. As the Anarch Revolt ensues and the Sabbat forms from it's ashes, Lucita abstains from the sect, becoming one of the most feared Lasombra antitribu active in the modern World of Darkness.
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Lord Jurgen von Verden « Result #8 on Mar 25, 2007, 8:25pm »
Lord Jurgen von Verden
Lord Jurgen von Verden
(Ventrue - 6th generation)
Jurgen is the standard by which aspiring Ventrue are judged. The son of a lesser noble in his mortal life, Jurgen's thirst for wealth and land led him into numerous conflicts with neighboring Teutonic lords. His cunning mind and keen predatory senses led him to victory time after time, until he met the Cainite who would become his sire.
Since then, Jurgen has been a tremendous asset to Clan Ventrue, as his presence is a bulwark against the rapacious Tremere, Tzimisce and Gangrel who occupy lands east of his holdings. His incessant schemes lead these other vampires into constant conflict with the indigenous Shadow Lord Garou and Eastern European fae, thus keeping them too busy to successfully occupy any significant holdings in the Holy Roman Empire. Von Verden maintains an impressive network of contacts, informants and agents all throughout the main body of Europe. He is a master at masking his own involvement in less-than-noble affairs, and often directs his minions through innumerable go-betweens and complex webs of intrigue.
Ironically, Jurgen finds himself more at odds with fellow members of Clan Ventrue than his hated foes eastward. Ubiquitous in the lands of Germany, Burgundy, Bohemia and Austria, the Ventrue have recently suffered a bout of infighting among themselves. Though Von Verden has crushed numerous small rebellions and pretenders, the neverending struggle nonetheless takes its toll, and he finds himself frequently fighting a never-ending war on multiple fronts.
Destiny: In the end, Jurgen von Verden falls under the sword amid the chaos of the German Interregnum. Though his own subjects had grown so sorely opposed to him by the middle 13th century, they continued to fight for him. Nonetheless, their aid fails him, and he is destroyed by one-time ally Hardestadt in 1271.
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Constancia « Result #9 on Mar 25, 2007, 8:18pm »
Constancia
(Cappadocian - 5th generation)
A renowned scholar and thanatologist, Constancia is the matron of the Cappadocians' Erciyes temple. Numerous accounts attribute her as the first childe of Japheth, Cappadocius' own favored son. Though not an adventurer like many Cainites in the Dark Medieval world, she has nevertheless traveled all across Europe and even into the dark continent of Africa and the foreign lands of Asia. Constancia has taken it upon herself to make and cultivate contacts in every land she has visited, and rare is the night when at least one letter from a far-flung friend does not show up in the hands of a messenger.
Her great age and grim studies cause her to suspect everyone she does not already know of malice, however. As a protector of the doomed secret of the Cappadocians, she sees threats in every shadow and assassins in each alcove. Her enmity with the Tzimisce Myca Vykos and the upstart Lasombra Lucita are the talk of the Erciyes monks, and news of their exploits commonly brings Constancia into fits of rage and paranoid seclusion. She does, however, hold a special place in her unbeating heart for the Malkavian Anatole, whose divine madness often inspires her and gives her new insight.
Constancia is an ardent follower of the Road of the Bones, and has recently taken her studies of death in frightening new directions. If what she says is to be believed, she has discovered a ritual that allows her to utterly destroy the soul of a still-living mortal, leaving the body a mindless husk. Whether or not this works on vampires is unknown (as the condition of Cainite souls is a matter of much debate), but her enemies have universally expressed concern over the wanton abandon with which she exercises her experiments over Cainites and kine alike.
Destiny: Constancia vanishes from sight in 1443, exactly one year before the Giovanni purge of Clan Cappadocian gets underway. A team of Egyptologists uncover a desiccated corpse in an unmarked tomb a few miles west of Giza in 1936, which many Giovanni and other vampires believe to be Constancia's, but no incontrovertible proof has been forthcoming.
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Myca Vykos « Result #10 on Mar 25, 2007, 8:15pm »
Myca Vykos
(Tzimisce - 7th generation)
In his mortal days, Myca Vykos was a student of the Tremere house of the Order of Hermes, a loose-knit group of magicians and thaumaturgists. He and his rival, Goratrix, belonged to a covenant of studious magi nestled in the Carpathian mountains. His Embrace came violently and painfully one night as he returned from a journey to a nearby village. A group of marauding Tzimisce vampires led by Symeon descended upon the entire group, killing some and Embracing others to round out their ranks.
Myca returned to Byzantium with Symeon, where he makes his home to this night. Not long after he had received his own Embrace, Myca learned that his former Hermetic house had managed to become vampires as well. Only they had done it with the aid of Goratrix by destroying a Tzimisce vampire and infusing themselves with his blood.
Myca was livid - would Goratrix constantly haunt him? Was there nothing that he could achieve that his rival could not? Myca swore himself the eternal enemy of his former house, and suffers no Tremere who cross him to leave with their unlives intact. He constantly wars with his past deeds, as several of the Tremere who have inroads into Eastern Europe have established those with his assistance during his days as a mortal magus.
But Myca has not taken an overt, warlike stance against the Usurpers. Instead, he quietly gathers information and observes as history unfurls from his haven in Constantinople. He knows that he has eternity to destroy the damnable Tremere, and his patience is only matched by the viciousness that seethes in his betrayed soul.
Destiny: Myca Vykos becomes Sascha Vykos in the turbulence of the Anarch Revolt, reinventing himself so that he may best serve the sect known as the Sabbat. His assistance is critical in the early nights of the Sabbat's emergence, and Sascha becomes a priscus, advising the Regent and the cardinals.
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