Name: Viktor von Drache
Age; 819, appears 24
Species, Clan, Class: Kindred, Bruja, Elder
Appearance: (Preferably a picture, can have written description as well)
Personality:
- Viktor has been through each of the various personality types many vampires do (bloodlust, sadist, redemption seeker and everything in between), and has finally arrived at his current calm demeanor. He is slow to anger, but his wrath, once unleashed, has once been compared to the maelstrom. Still, he would far rather serve drinks at his nightclub, Black Mass. He has definite Anarch sympathies and does not obey edicts from the Camarilla, but has also remained decidedly apolitical, which is part of why the Camariila have not tried to move against him despite the fact that he operates out of his club in West LA (the other being that he is widely respected amongst the Brujah and Gangrel that have thus far remained loyal to the Camarilla). As with most Camarilla and Anarchs, he despises the Sabbat and the few times he has been known to take an active role in events in Los Angeles have been to oppose the Sabbat and destroy their strongholds.
- Born Viktor von Hofkirchen, the second of five sons of the last of four sons of the third of six sons of an Austrian baron. As the progeny of younger sons, he had little money to his name and was unable to rely on the largesse of his wealthier cousins. As such, he took to the road to seek his fortunes. He found some small amount of adulation and coin from participating in competitions of arms like the joust. Tales of his exploits in such games and some other small adventures were welcomed by his cousins who would willingly host him for short periods, especially when the stories could be used to entertain other guests who actually had influence in court of the Otto IV. During such times he indulged himself on fineries and prostitutes, habits he continued after leaving the hearths of his cousins which resulted in renewed times of light purses.
At the behest of an Aragonese cousin, Viktor made his way to Iberia to take up arms in the service of nobles loyal to James I of Aragon. He distinguished himself in a number of battle before being wounded while suppressing a rebellion in Barcelona. He retired to Zaragoza to heal from his wounds, where he came to the attention of Lady Maria Santos, the Prince of Zaragoza. Using her agents, she brought Viktor within her fold and eventually embraced him. For the next two hundred years, Viktor became high on the unlife. His hedonistic tendencies became amplified by his vampiric nature, and combined with a growing fetishization of the act of the kiss to form a sado-masochistic ritualization of drinking blood to make a Toreador blush. Together with his sire, their coven began working their own experiment to recreate the Second City. These efforts were eventually discovered by the Spanish Crown and Catholic Church. In 1478, under the guise of seeking out Crypto-Jews and Andalusian conversos, the Spanish Inquisition was commissioned as an army of witch hunters to ferret out the kindred. The witch hunters succeeded in driving the kindred from Zaragoza and continued to hunt them until a final conflict between Lady Maria Santos’s coven and the Inquisition in Santiago de Compostela in 1574. The events of the conflict remain shrouded in mystery, but the end result is known. The kindred in Spain were, for a time, successfully suppressed, Lady Maria Santos was destroyed, and what few members of the coven survived were shepherded by Viktor to his homeland in Austria.
In Austria, Viktor became very circumspect about the unlife and began seeking ways to restore his humanity after two centuries of hedonism and a century of bloody war. It was during this time he began his ill-fated romance with a human woman, Agnes. Viktor quietly stalked her for three years before eventually making himself known to her, driving away Catholic riders hostile to the Protestant village she lived in. He initially feared that she would reject him when she learned the monster he was, but she embraced him. Viktor believed he had finally found a path to redemption. Then two years later in 1595, Ferdinand II began his bloody suppression of Protestants. While Viktor was away, settling a dispute between some younger kindred, Agnes’s village came under attack. The woman he had loved for almost five years was dead before he could reach her, and he was unable to embrace her. In a rage, Viktor began a series of bloody reprisals against Ferdinand and Catholics. Though he could never gain access to the Emperor himself, he was successful in creating no shortage of headaches for Ferdinand.
Against the will of the Prince of Prague, on May 23rd, 1618, Viktor convinced the Bohemian Estates to revolt against Ferdinand II. He personally threw Vilem Slavata and Jaroslav Borzita from Hradčany Castle to ignite the Bohemian Revolt and the Thirty Years War.