Court of Blood |Vampire/Historical/OOC| [Reboot]

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

So exactly when, for a vampire, is "older"?

Also, are vampires here the classic "turn into dust when hit with sunlight" type?

That isn't classic, depending on the tradition. In Dracula the Count walks around in broad daylight.

Eh

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

So exactly when, for a vampire, is "older"?

Well, it's all relative of course. A vampire is typically considered to be an experienced member of the society when they near their 150th year as a Vampire, however how far that experience goes depends on the location. In Western Europe and the Middle East where the ruling vampires can be well on their way towards their second millennium, an experienced vampire is not going to necessarily be an older one. Where as in America and the Far East, places which have been more recently introduced to Vampirism, a vampire in their second century can be considered an elder.

Edit: and yes, Sunlight is one of the best ways to dispose of Vampires in this setting. If they are out in the day, they burn, plain and simple.

So if my guy is a Central European 263 year old, could he have the basics+1 advanced ability?

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

Also how much territory does a governor operate over? Because I'm thinking of making my "mentor" be the governor of Prussia (the region, not the entire nation).

[Nea Videssos]

How quickly would they burn? Would it be instant death, or would there be enough time to run for cover if there is some reasonably near by? Also, would clothes that cover all their skin, a hat/hood and whatnot allow them to avoid a serious case of sunburn?

[The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune]

Well, it's all relative of course. A vampire is typically considered to be an experienced member of the society when they near their 150th year as a Vampire, however how far that experience goes depends on the location. In Western Europe and the Middle East where the ruling vampires can be well on their way towards their second millennium, an experienced vampire is not going to necessarily be an older one. Where as in America and the Far East, places which have been more recently introduced to Vampirism, a vampire in their second century can be considered an elder.

Edit: and yes, Sunlight is one of the best ways to dispose of Vampires in this setting. If they are out in the day, they burn, plain and simple.

So if my guy is a Central European 263 year old, could he have the basics+1 advanced ability?

Yes, that's about right. A vampire will usually have one advanced ability practiced to the point where it's useful by the 150 year mark.

Governor's typically reside over what can be considered more cultural regions than over smaller states like that. For example, the Governor of London rules over all of the British Isles, the Governor of Paris rules over all of cultural france, including parts of the Benelux and Savoy. For the greater german area, the Governor rules from Vienna. Brit has asked to design this character at the moment, so if you want your character to be their spawn, you should consult with her. Else Prussia the region likely falls under the jurisdiction of Riga or Warsaw.

[The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune]

How quickly would they burn? Would it be instant death, or would there be enough time to run for cover if there is some reasonably near by? Also, would clothes that cover all their skin, a hat/hood and whatnot allow them to avoid a serious case of sunburn?

Clothes would slow the burn down, but they'd still start to smoke right when they got outside. And death would come rather quickly, as any directly exposed flesh would almost explode into flame.

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

So if my guy is a Central European 263 year old, could he have the basics+1 advanced ability?

Yes, that's about right. A vampire will usually have one advanced ability practiced to the point where it's useful by the 150 year mark.

Governor's typically reside over what can be considered more cultural regions than over smaller states like that. For example, the Governor of London rules over all of the British Isles, the Governor of Paris rules over all of cultural france, including parts of the Benelux and Savoy. For the greater german area, the Governor rules from Vienna. Brit has asked to design this character at the moment, so if you want your character to be their spawn, you should consult with her. Else Prussia the region likely falls under the jurisdiction of Riga or Warsaw.

So by Vampiric standards, Prussia is still Polish? Ironic

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

Right, so Britanania, as you can see I was initially planning to make my mentor character Governor of Prussia, but with the news that the position of Governor covers a cultural area rather than smaller regions, is there somewhere I can fit my character's mentor in? Perhaps Quaestor of Königsburg or something?

[Miekzhemy]

NS Name: Miekzhemy

Character Name: Sun Zhihao
Appearance: Towers at an imposing six feet; clean shaven with long, flowing jet black hair; prefers traditional dress, but often dons European garb when abroad
Age: 391 (born 1372)
Maker: Unnamed Chinese vampire
City of Origin: Guangzhou, Guangdong Province
Abilities: Basic abilities; Hypnosis
Religion: Confucian
Languages Spoken: Chinese, English, Latin
Biography:

Sun was born in Guangdong Province only a few years after the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty in China. His family were largely insignificant farmers making a meager living to get by, and would stay that way if it weren't for one thing. What set young Zhihao apart from his four elder brothers was his shrewd mind and cunning wit. While traveling to the city to sell their harvest, villagers would often bring scrolls and other works of literature home for him to read. Whether it was poetry, Confucianism, or mathematics, young Zhihao absorbed any and all knowledge like water to a sponge. When his peers found the boy to be gifted with such towering intellect, many encouraged him to become a candidate for the state bureaucracy by undertaking the grueling civil service examinations. While such exams were renowned to push even the brightest scholars to their absolute limit, succeeding would mean not only prestige for oneself, but for one's entire family. With a burning passion to further his academic career, Sun underwent the examination at the young age of nineteen. He passed on his first attempt.

While his career opportunities expanded immensely as a result of his passing, Sun resigned himself to a local governmental position overseeing the prosperous trade ports of Guangzhou. This position commanded a great deal of respect from not only local merchants, but foreign ones as well. This career, however, came with tests of conscience for the young official. In a world of sly businessmen and bureaucrats, bribes and corruption ran rampant when left unchecked. The mere thought that men would ruin others livelihoods for little more than a sack of coin was enough to make Sun's blood run hot. And when the rumors came to life that a particularly powerful company of foreign traders were undermining the empire's policies to escape tariffs, he was more than willing to bring them to justice.

One night, Sun and several policemen promptly entered the home of one of these infamous kingpins and gave him an offer: turn yourself in, and his family may be spared. But in a daring act that shocked all of them, the merchant violently lashed out at the official. Even with several men at Sun's aid, it was nearly impossible to pull the man away before he sunk his teeth into Sun's neck, and tore the skin from his flesh. In seconds, one of the policemen reached to his belt, drew a jian from its scabbard, and lopped off the madman's head in one fell swoop. Sun supposedly succumbed to his wounds...

But days later, under the moonlight in a rural cemetery, Sun instead awoke to a robed figure standing over him. With the cracking and popping of stiff joints, Sun sat up from his sleep of the dead to hear what the figure had to say. He was told the true nature of the man that had "killed" him, and what he had become. The kingpin he had slain was no ordinary vampire, but the Quaestor of Guangzhou himself. While Sun believed himself to be punished with death, the next chapter of his life, however, was only to begin.

With seemingly endless years ahead of him, Sun dove headfirst into his studies once more. He honed his own abilities, while passing days upon days of his time in silence within Guangzhou's libraries. In such lust for knowledge, Sun often disappeared even from the Society's records for decades at a time. And as the centuries passed, the era of the Great Ming eventually came to its violent end. It wasn't until Sun returned home from one of his many journeys that he had realized what became of the glorious empire he had once served. Everywhere he looked, his people were ruthlessly subjugated by the Manchu invaders. Corruption was yet again rampant, and the exploitation of the many by the few became common practice. This hatred of the new system instilled a bitterness in the aging vampire that would dominate him for several years.

Vowing never to serve the government of the Qing, Sun resigned to his studies yet again. But rather than journey inward, he did the opposite. The new age of exploration brought ever more foreigners to China's shores. In time, Sun found himself accompanying a merchant ship back to its home port in Britain. After studying English and building more contacts in the Society to discuss reason and politics, he took a second trip some years later. But it wasn't until after he returned to Guangzhou that a letter reached his study.

Something interesting was about to happen in Boston...

#CoB1764

[The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune]

NS Name: Miekzhemy

(Image)

Character Name: Sun Zhihao
Appearance: Towers at an imposing six feet; clean shaven with long, flowing jet black hair; prefers traditional dress, but often dons European garb when abroad
Age: 391 (born 1372)
Maker: Unnamed Chinese vampire
City of Origin: Guangzhou, Guangdong Province
Abilities: Basic abilities; Hypnosis; Can shapeshift into a black dire wolf
Religion: Confucian
Languages Spoken: Chinese, English, Latin
Biography:

Sun was born in Guangdong Province only a few years after the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty in China. His family were largely insignificant farmers making a meager living to get by, and would stay that way if it weren't for one thing. What set young Zhihao apart from his four elder brothers was his shrewd mind and cunning wit. While traveling to the city to sell their harvest, villagers would often bring scrolls and other works of literature home for him to read. Whether it was poetry, Confucianism, or mathematics, young Zhihao absorbed any and all knowledge like water to a sponge. When his peers found the boy to be gifted with such towering intellect, many encouraged him to become a candidate for the state bureaucracy by undertaking the grueling civil service examinations. While such exams were renowned to push even the brightest scholars to their absolute limit, succeeding would mean not only prestige for oneself, but for one's entire family. With a burning passion to further his academic career, Sun underwent the examination at the young age of nineteen. He passed on his first attempt.

While his career opportunities expanded immensely as a result of his passing, Sun resigned himself to a local governmental position overseeing the prosperous trade ports of Guangzhou. This position commanded a great deal of respect from not only local merchants, but foreign ones as well. This career, however, came with tests of conscience for the young official. In a world of sly businessmen and bureaucrats, bribes and corruption ran rampant when left unchecked. The mere thought that men would ruin others livelihoods for little more than a sack of coin was enough to make Sun's blood run hot. And when the rumors came to life that a particularly powerful company of foreign traders were undermining the empire's policies to escape tariffs, he was more than willing to bring them to justice.

One night, Sun and several policemen promptly entered the home of one of these infamous kingpins and gave him an offer: turn yourself in, and his family may be spared. But in a daring act that shocked all of them, the merchant violently lashed out at the official. Even with several men at Sun's aid, it was nearly impossible to pull the man away before he sunk his teeth into Sun's neck, and tore the skin from his flesh. In seconds, one of the policemen reached to his belt, drew a jian from its scabbard, and lopped off the madman's head in one fell swoop. Sun supposedly succumbed to his wounds...

But days later, under the moonlight in a rural cemetery, Sun instead awoke to a robed figure standing over him. With the cracking and popping of stiff joints, Sun sat up from his sleep of the dead to hear what the figure had to say. He was told the true nature of the man that had "killed" him, and what he had become. The kingpin he had slain was no ordinary vampire, but the Quaestor of Guangzhou himself. While Sun believed himself to be punished with death, the next chapter of his life, however, was only to begin.

With seemingly endless years ahead of him, Sun dove headfirst into his studies once more. He honed his own abilities, while passing days upon days of his time in silence within Guangzhou's libraries. In such lust for knowledge, Sun often disappeared even from the Society's records for decades at a time. And as the centuries passed, the era of the Great Ming eventually came to its violent end. It wasn't until Sun returned home from one of his many journeys that he had realized what became of the glorious empire he had once served. Everywhere he looked, his people were ruthlessly subjugated by the Manchu invaders. Corruption was yet again rampant, and the exploitation of the many by the few became common practice. This hatred of the new system instilled a bitterness in the aging vampire that would dominate him for several years.

Vowing never to serve the government of the Qing, Sun resigned to his studies yet again. But rather than journey inward, he did the opposite. The new age of exploration brought ever more foreigners to China's shores. In time, Sun found himself accompanying a merchant ship back to its home port in Britain. After studying English and building more contacts in the Society to discuss reason and politics, he took a second trip some years later. But it wasn't until after he returned to Guangzhou that a letter reached his study.

Something interesting was about to happen in Boston...

#CoB1764

App looks good Miek, I'm just going to have to ask you to pick either hypnosis or shapeshifting.

[Of the Quendi]

Is familiarity with Choice of Vampires a requirement for partaking in this RP?

[The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune]

Is familiarity with Choice of Vampires a requirement for partaking in this RP?

It is not

[Of the Quendi]

It is not

Great, then I will post an application tomorrow.

[Endem]

NS Name: Endem
Character Name: Joseph Titus ( formerly Fairground )
Appearance:

although he probably does posses better clothing, this one is what I imagine him in
Age:45 ( 22 as a vampire )
Maker: Sir Albert Titus - to mortals, especially near Hull he was a noble known for his eccentric behavior and frequent sea travels, known to the vampiric society as the former Quaestor of Hull, he was murdered in his estate few miles from Hull a year ago.
City of Origin: Hull ( or Kingston upon Hull if you want to be precise )

Abilities: basically basics
Religion: doesn't practice any religion, but you probably could considered him a Anglican
Languages Spoken: English

Biography:
Born in 1718 to a sailor and unemployed mother in Hull Joseph lived most of his life in Hull, in 1734 he started to work, in the docks of Hull to be exact where he repaired and constructed ships as well as helped in unloading cargo from ships that sailed into the port. In 1742 he married a young woman ( younger by about 2 years ) and in two years, in 1744, they had a son which was named after his father, Alexander. In 1745 when Joseph was 27 the ship of a local nobleman known for his passion for sea voyages and he ordered it to be repaired. After about a day of working the nobleman started to send invites to those working on his ship to come to his private quarter, from which they came not remembering a thing, and weakened. Eventually it also came the time for Joseph from which he walked out like all the others, but soon enough after the repairs where finished memories of what happened in cabin poured back with which he was deeply disturbed.

He eventually managed to track down where the nobleman's estate where, and he headed there to ask for an audience with the noble, to his deep surprise he was not only granted one, but was also nearly thrown into the room where the audience was supposed to talk with the lord when he showed hesitation to enter it. Eventually the noble came and acted as nearly Joseph was his son, Joseph then said his accusations and demanded a explanation, thus the noble explained, but at the end he added that he was also impressed with Joseph being able to fight him off enough for the noble to not be able to properly hypnotize Joseph. After this was done Joseph was left speechless, which the noble used as he ordered Joseph to be restrained, as he proceeded to turn Joseph.

After being turned Joseph found himself in a much better position not only becoming immortal but also being elevated to basically nobility ( not officially of course ) as what many would consider adoptive son of the noble, soon enough his wife joined him in the noble's estate ( their son wasn't turned as they wanted him to grow up I doubt they would want to deal with a 1 year old vampire ), eventually as time passed Joseph learned the basics of vampirism and his son grew to an age of 20 when he was turned. Unfortunately good things can only last so long as one night in 1762 Joseph found the noble's estate devoid of life, he soon learned their fate after finding corpses in the backyard, those that were human sucked dry, meanwhile the three out of four vampire inhabitants of the estate killed by other means.

Joseph after seeing this took a horse and disappeared into the night with no care in the world needed to be broken, human or vampire, just that he knew he needed to kill whoever was responsible for this. After a year of searching he found a scent of the murders ( not literally ) in the city of Boston.

#CoB1764 [APP CODE, DO NOT DELETE]

[The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune]

NS Name: Endem
Character Name: Joseph Titus ( formerly Fairground )
Appearance:

(Image)

although he probably does posses better clothing, this one is what I imagine him in
Age:45 ( 22 as a vampire )
Maker: Sir Albert Titus - to mortals, especially near Hull he was a noble known for his eccentric behavior and frequent sea travels, known to the vampiric society as the former Quaestor of Hull, he was murdered in his estate few miles from Hull a year ago.
City of Origin: Hull ( or Kingston upon Hull if you want to be precise )

Abilities: basically basics
Religion: doesn't practice any religion, but you probably could considered him a Anglican
Languages Spoken: English

Biography:
Born in 1718 to a sailor and unemployed mother in Hull Joseph lived most of his life in Hull, in 1734 he started to work, in the docks of Hull to be exact where he repaired and constructed ships as well as helped in unloading cargo from ships that sailed into the port. In 1742 he married a young woman ( younger by about 2 years ) and in two years, in 1744, they had a son which was named after his father, Alexander. In 1745 when Joseph was 27 the ship of a local nobleman known for his passion for sea voyages and he ordered it to be repaired. After about a day of working the nobleman started to send invites to those working on his ship to come to his private quarter, from which they came not remembering a thing, and weakened. Eventually it also came the time for Joseph from which he walked out like all the others, but soon enough after the repairs where finished memories of what happened in cabin poured back with which he was deeply disturbed.

He eventually managed to track down where the nobleman's estate where, and he headed there to ask for an audience with the noble, to his deep surprise he was not only granted one, but was also nearly thrown into the room where the audience was supposed to talk with the lord when he showed hesitation to enter it. Eventually the noble came and acted as nearly Joseph was his son, Joseph then said his accusations and demanded a explanation, thus the noble explained, but at the end he added that he was also impressed with Joseph being able to fight him off enough for the noble to not be able to properly hypnotize Joseph. After this was done Joseph was left speechless, which the noble used as he ordered Joseph to be restrained, as he proceeded to turn Joseph.

After being turned Joseph found himself in a much better position not only becoming immortal but also being elevated to basically nobility ( not officially of course ) as what many would consider adoptive son of the noble, soon enough his wife joined him in the noble's estate ( their son wasn't turned as they wanted him to grow up I doubt they would want to deal with a 1 year old vampire ), eventually as time passed Joseph learned the basics of vampirism and his son grew to an age of 20 when he was turned. Unfortunately good things can only last so long as one night in 1762 Joseph found the noble's estate devoid of life, he soon learned their fate after finding corpses in the backyard, those that were human sucked dry, meanwhile the three out of four vampire inhabitants of the estate killed by other means.

Joseph after seeing this took a horse and disappeared into the night with no care in the world needed to be broken, human or vampire, just that he knew he needed to kill whoever was responsible for this. After a year of searching he found a scent of the murders ( not literally ) in the city of Boston.

#CoB1764 [APP CODE, DO NOT DELETE]

Considering the Quaestor of Hull wouldn't leave all that often, he wouldn't really be known for sea travels. Otherwise ACCEPTED

[Endem]

NS Name: Endem
Character Name: Joseph Titus ( formerly Fairground )
Appearance:

(Image)

although he probably does posses better clothing, this one is what I imagine him in
Age:45 ( 22 as a vampire )
Maker: Sir Albert Titus - to mortals, especially near Hull he was a noble known for his eccentric behavior and frequent sea travels, known to the vampiric society as the former Quaestor of Hull, he was murdered in his estate few miles from Hull a year ago.
City of Origin: Hull ( or Kingston upon Hull if you want to be precise )

Abilities: basically basics
Religion: doesn't practice any religion, but you probably could considered him a Anglican
Languages Spoken: English

Biography:
Born in 1718 to a sailor and unemployed mother in Hull Joseph lived most of his life in Hull, in 1734 he started to work, in the docks of Hull to be exact where he repaired and constructed ships as well as helped in unloading cargo from ships that sailed into the port. In 1742 he married a young woman ( younger by about 2 years ) and in two years, in 1744, they had a son which was named after his father, Alexander. In 1745 when Joseph was 27 the ship of a local nobleman known for his passion for sea voyages and he ordered it to be repaired. After about a day of working the nobleman started to send invites to those working on his ship to come to his private quarter, from which they came not remembering a thing, and weakened. Eventually it also came the time for Joseph from which he walked out like all the others, but soon enough after the repairs where finished memories of what happened in cabin poured back with which he was deeply disturbed.

He eventually managed to track down where the nobleman's estate where, and he headed there to ask for an audience with the noble, to his deep surprise he was not only granted one, but was also nearly thrown into the room where the audience was supposed to talk with the lord when he showed hesitation to enter it. Eventually the noble came and acted as nearly Joseph was his son, Joseph then said his accusations and demanded a explanation, thus the noble explained, but at the end he added that he was also impressed with Joseph being able to fight him off enough for the noble to not be able to properly hypnotize Joseph. After this was done Joseph was left speechless, which the noble used as he ordered Joseph to be restrained, as he proceeded to turn Joseph.

After being turned Joseph found himself in a much better position not only becoming immortal but also being elevated to basically nobility ( not officially of course ) as what many would consider adoptive son of the noble, soon enough his wife joined him in the noble's estate ( their son wasn't turned as they wanted him to grow up I doubt they would want to deal with a 1 year old vampire ), eventually as time passed Joseph learned the basics of vampirism and his son grew to an age of 20 when he was turned. Unfortunately good things can only last so long as one night in 1762 Joseph found the noble's estate devoid of life, he soon learned their fate after finding corpses in the backyard, those that were human sucked dry, meanwhile the three out of four vampire inhabitants of the estate killed by other means.

Joseph after seeing this took a horse and disappeared into the night with no care in the world needed to be broken, human or vampire, just that he knew he needed to kill whoever was responsible for this. After a year of searching he found a scent of the murders ( not literally ) in the city of Boston.

#CoB1764 [APP CODE, DO NOT DELETE]

Considering the Quaestor of Hull wouldn't leave all that often, he wouldn't really be known for sea travels. Otherwise ACCEPTED

Can't a Quaestor have hobbies?

[Miekzhemy]

-snip-

App looks good Miek, I'm just going to have to ask you to pick either hypnosis or shapeshifting.

I took out the shapeshifting part then

[The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune]

Considering the Quaestor of Hull wouldn't leave all that often, he wouldn't really be known for sea travels. Otherwise ACCEPTED

Can't a Quaestor have hobbies?

Considering that a Quaestor is pretty much required to be in a city full time to fulfill their duties and that random sea travel would be rather dull for someone who would have to remain below deck during the times when things typically happen aboard a boat, it would be a rather odd hobby.

[Endem]

Can't a Quaestor have hobbies?

Considering that a Quaestor is pretty much required to be in a city full time to fulfill their duties and that random sea travel would be rather dull for someone who would have to remain below deck during the times when things typically happen aboard a boat, it would be a rather odd hobby.

Understood, I'll try to find another reason why normal people would know him for sea travel

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

Hey, so if a vampire’s neck was sliced, going through almost the entire neck (including the throat, veins and etc) but the spine remained intact and relatively undamaged, could the vampire still live?

Actually, to what extent can a vampire be damaged and still live/manage to recover?

[Of the Quendi]

NS Name: of the Quendi
Character Name: Geneviève Sandrine Marianne D'Agneau de Morangias Richecour, Comtesse de Lozère et de Saint-Malo
Appearance: Geneviève's appearance is not easily described. Perhaps as a result of some vampiric power or maybe as a result of a life spend in disguise Geneviève can to no small extent appear in different forms. An androgynous teenage girl when she was made a vampire she is able to appear as both a tomboyish young woman and as an effeminate young man.
Age: 347 (born 1416)
Maker: Gilles de Rais
City of Origin: Champtocé-sur-Loire

Abilities: Though partially autodidact the Countess of Lozère and Saint-Malo is a highly skilled vampire. Beyond blood spittle she has perfected the art of stealth over years of meticulous practice having achieved the ability of becoming completely invisible to the sight of humans, most animals and even a great many fellow vampires. She is also a highly competent shapeshifter. Rather unusually the Countess had managed to shapeshifter into a non-corporeal ethereal form as a mist of a fog. More recently, after a visit to the province of Gévaudan Genevieve has left for America possessing the ability to take the form of a strange unusually large and vicious canine creature of a wolf-like appearance. While she has thrown herself at the study of both hypnosis and blood magic (the later of which she is rather more knowledgeable of than the Society knows or would approve of) she remains very much a novice in both disciplines.
Religion: Roman Catholic
Languages Spoken: French, Latin, Middle English (not early modern English), Italian, Hungarian, Greek, Albanian, Turkish, Romanian, Arabic, Mozarabic, Castilian, Portuguese, German, SVS (Secret Vampire Script), Russian, Polish, Czech, Yiddish, Hebrew.

Biography: Geneviève Sandrine Marianne Dagneau was born in the year 1416 in the Duchy of Brittany near Saint-Malo to a minor impoverished Breton French noble family that lost most its wealth and land during the War of the Breton Succession when they backed the French candidate Charles de Blois against his successful English rival John de Montfort. Geneviève's father provided for his family as a doctor while her older brothers farmed what little land the family retained.

By the time of Geneviève's birth the Hundred Year's War that had ravaged France for decades seemed poised to end. Following the disastrous defeat of the French at Agincourt months before Geneviève's birth the end of the Valois dynasty and the establishment of a new Angevin Empire on French soil seemed imminent to all. Devoted Armagnacs and Blesevins Geneviève's family observed with consternation as the wavering Duke John VI first re-annexed Saint-Malo to Brittany and then pursued a policy of fluidly changing allegiances. Dismayed at the duke the Dagneau family turned to Arthur de Richemont, the pro-French brother of the duke, after he was released from English captivity in 1420 when Geneviève was four, becoming supporters of this prominent nobleman and commander.

When in 1424 de Richemont pledged allegiance to the Dauphin, the future Charles VII, Geneviève's eldest brother Jean, twenty three at the time, joined the retinue of Arthur de Richemont with a handful of men-at-arms. When de Richemont was named Constable of France the year thereafter Jean, an able soldier, became one of his lieutenants.

The departure of her eldest brother to fight for the Armagnacs hit the young Geneviève hard. Having had a fairly uneventful childhood she was increasingly showing signs of nonconformity with the societal mores of her time. Disinterested in the feminine pursuits and virtues of a noblewoman she was an avid reader and an enthusiastic, somewhat skilled, student of martial pursuits. Jean her oldest brother had been tolerant and even supportive of his wild little sister's interest and with his departure Geneviève lost her closest friend and confidante, and began to find her life increasingly stifling.

Still life went on and regular letters from Jean giving detailed descriptions of his life in the service of the Constable captivated Geneviève's imagination, further encouraging her in her martial inclinations. As her second brother Philip in 1426 decided to join Jean the ten year old Geneviève shocked her family by declaring that she too would fight for France. In 1429 she did just that.

Early that year Geneviève's last brother Jacques departed for Chinon, the Royal Court to enter service in the French army. Disguising herself as a boy Geneviève decided to do so as well. Unlike an almost contemporary young woman making the journey from her home village to the court of Chinon to fight for France Geneviève's travel was uneventful. Without revealing her identity she entered service as a valet de guerre with the company of her brother Jean, who had risen to the rank of captain, just in time to partake in the Loire campaign under the command of Jeanne d'Arc, Pucelle de Lorraine, and the last best hope of the Armagnacs, and of France.

As a girl breaking with social mores herself by fighting, in disguise, in the war Geneviève naturally gravitated towards the Maiden and shortly before the arrival of the army at Orléans Geneviève became valet de guerre for Jeanne d'Arc herself who perceived the sex of the feminine looking valet. This appointment would however facilitate a disastrous encounter for Geneviève. Serving on the staff of Jeanne d'Arc Geneviève attracted the attention of Gilles de Rais. De Rais, a supporter of the Montfort dukes of Brittany, was naturally opposed to Blesevin elements in the contingents of Brittany, thus also to Geneviève's brothers Philip, Jacques and above all Jean who remained, at least nominally, supportive of the Blesevin cause.

As a ranking officer de Rais took advantage of the injury sustained by Jeanne d'Arc during the assault on Augustines to arrange for Jean's company of largely Blesevin Bretons to be used as canon fodder for the assault on Tourelles. Learning of this Geneviève petitioned Jeanne d'Arc to intervene and when the assault on Tourelles began on May 7 La Pucelle lead the troops to victory herself, having undone the arrangements of de Rais, taking Orléans for the French.

Infuriated and surprised at the thwarting of his scheme de Rais surmised that only someone on Jeanne d'Arc's staff would have had the opportunity to know both the battle plans and appeal directly to the Maiden. Spying on the people associated with Jeanne d'Arc he soon realized that Jeanne's valet de guerre was Breton and had served in the company of Jean Dagneau. Later he also began to suspect Geneviève's sex.

The Loire Campaign went on. The once precarious situation of the French monarchy was reversed in a series of stunning victories culminating in the final Battle of Patay where Geneviève's brother Jean personally captured the famed English commander John Talbot while the French routed the English army. For his deed Jean was later ennobled by Charles VII.

The fortune of both Jeanne and Geneviève however proved short. At the siege of Compiègne La Pucelle d'Orléans, was taken captive by the forces of Burgundy. She was later sold to the English, tried for heresy and burned on the stake. Disillusioned and in shock Geneviève decided to return to her home. She never made it.

In the aftermath of the execution of Jeanne d'Arc de Rais sought revenge for being thwarted. Having become a vampire sometime before he abducted and turned Geneviève in 1432 stealing her away to his castle at Champtocé-sur-Loire. De Rais, upon his retirement from the military, picked up a hobby of murdering children and eating them, usually sodomizing them beforehand, some times afterwards. Geneviève, his first victim, was to be his slave and assistant in this and he kept her capture at his castle in Brittany.

For eight years Geneviève was a prisoner of de Rais and endured the constant abuses and unspeakable monstrosities of the dark knight, while trying to cope with her newfound vampiric situation. Eventually de Rais was, by no small amount of scheming from Geneviève, brought to justice as his crimes was exposed by an ecclesiastic investigation which framed the crimes of de Rais as being merely that of a sociopathic human, for which he was executed. Geneviève was not found.

After de Rais' execution she fled to the Saint-Malo region. It was there that she learned that her brother Jean's bravery at the battle of Patay had not gone unrewarded, and that he had been ennobled and given the name Dagneau de Richecour, Geneviève adopted that name as well. She did however not rejoin her family. Always something of a black sheep of the family Geneviève, now a vampire, thought it best not to contact her family. After years of abuse by de Rais and still struggling to understand what her condition meant having learned little from de Rais, she found her freedom from de Rais as scary as it was exhilarating to begin to learn to live with her condition and avoid capture or death at the hands of the enemies of her kin. A devout catholic Geneviève determined to go on a pilgrimage to Rome, hoping to find answers and meaning to her strange new existence. Traveling by night, feeding on vagrants, brigands or weary travellers when she could find some or animals when she could not, and resting during the day in makeshift pits in the ground, she reached Rome in 1441, a tumultaric period for the eternal city. Preoccupied with the struggle between Pope Eugene IV and Antipope Felix V and their councils of Ferrara and Florence, the city was hardly a holy place, Geneviève nevertheless learned a lot during her brief stay in Italy. For there she learned for the first time of the existence of an underground 'Society of the Night'. The revelation stunned her. If de Rais had known of others like him and her he had not revealed so too Geneviève. Yet in Rome she learned of a powerful hierarchical government. It both startled and excited her. Getting into contact with the vampiric leadership she quickly surmised that while the idea of vampiric governance might be admirable the people in charge, a bunch of deranged heathens worshipping their leader as a god while professing a desire to overthrow human society, were not. Though de Rais had certainly never had any ties to this Society it nevertheless seemed to Geneviève that they were much like her despised maker. To avoid having to submit to this Society Geneviève decided to leave Rome. But before she left she came into contact with vampire hunters associated with the Catholic Church. Contemptible of Adonis and his inept and unsavory regime, Geneviève made some very discreet recommendations to the Holy Inquisition for which she was inducted into the Order of the Dragon on the recommendation of Hunyadi János, Voivode of Transylvania before leaving Rome.

Unable to settle permanently anywhere without coming under the yoke of the society Geneviéve determined to live a life of travel and adventure. Still a devout catholic and cross-dressing as a man she determined to take part in the crusade called against the Turks, traveling with the Hungarian contingent under the command of her benefactor the Voivode of Transylvania. The so-called crusade of Varna was an abject disaster, but during it Geneviève nevertheless learned how to exploit her vampiric condition during times of war. Employing a vampire's capacity for stealth she hunted enemy soldiers during the night, supplying her commanders with information on enemy positions. She would put these talents to use many times in the centuries to come.

Following Varna Geneviève briefly remained in Hunyadi's service but in 1445 she decided to go east. Her pilgrimage to Rome had been spiritually disappointing, but perhaps Constantinople and, above all, Jerusalem, would be more to her liking. She settled in Constantinople, suffering the rule of the local quaestor, for about a decade, the last of that city's independence from the rising power of the Turkish state. She found Constantinople much to her liking. She learned Greek and became an avid reader, finding in the capital city of the Greek Empire a place that could offer her inquisitive and keen mind knowledge and learning like nowhere else she had ever been. It was during her stay in Constantinople that the foundations of Geneviève's love of knowledge was laid. Being present at the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 Geneviève watched in absolute horror as the Turks utterly destroyed the city she had come to love. Despite her participation in the Varna Crusade and the campaigns of Jeanne d'Arc the slaughter and destruction wrought by the Turks was on a scale that she could have scarcely imagined. She did not stay to watch Constantinople be rebuilt as a great Ottoman capital but left the city a few days after its fall with a burning hate against Mohammedans in general and Turks in particular.

She went north determined to stop further Ottoman invasions of Christendom. She became an associate of Skanderbeg, a fellow member of the Order of the Dragon, and rejoined with Hunyadi and the Hungarians under his command, while providing written evidence for the retail of Jeanne d'Arc of 1455. But in Geneviève's early struggles against the Turks she is chiefly remembered for her association with Vlad III the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia. As a tutor, confidante and later royal mistress of the Impaler, she played a key role in organizing the famous Night Attack at Târgoviste, using her vampiric skills to orchestrate the attack. She came within twenty feet of sinking her fangs into the neck of Mehmed the Destroyer, the conqueror of Constantinople himself and thus changing the history of the world. But in the end she failed as onrushing Janissaries saved the Sultan's life, and Târgoviste was to become the highpoint of Vlad the Impaler's career. Shortly thereafter he was deposed by Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary and replaced as Voivode of Wallachia by his brother Radu.

Though she lost faith in Vlad III the Impaler's ability to stay the Ottoman advance into Europe Geneviève quickly discovered a new potential leader of Christendom in the man who had captured Vlad. Matthias Corvinus, son of Hunyadi János, and one of the most dynamic and powerful rulers of Europe at the time. Rich, powerful and in command of terrifying Black Army of Hungary, perhaps the finest fighting force in Europe at the time, Geneviève saw in this Hungarian prince a ruler worthy of her services. She was however to be sorely disappointed. Though Corvinus proved in every way an extraordinary ruler and Geneviève were to thrive at his enlightened renaissance court the king was more concerned with warring with Bohemia and the Habsburg's than with driving the Turks back. Thus when Vlad the Impaler was released by Corvinus Geneviève went with him when he left for Transylvania, still determined to fight the destroyers of Constantinople and defend Christendom from what she perceived as a Turkish scourge.

The Impaler was absolutely determined to return to his throne, but receiving no help from Corvinus he was poorly placed to retake his principality. Aware that Geneviève was a vampire, a fact she had revealed to him in direct violation of the laws of the Society of the Night he convinced her to enlist the vampiric community of the Carpathians, a tribe of outcasts living outside the Society, to help him and had himself turned into a vampire, promising wealth, respectability and as much blood as they could drink to the Carpathian vampires. Geneviève, though she aided her former lover in this regard was growing disillusioned with Vlad's plan and his cruelty which seemed to mirror far too much that of de Rais or the Turks at Constantinople. Unconvinced that Vlad could hold on to the Wallachian throne, yet alone stop the Turks Geneviève distanced herself from her former lover and his newfound Carpathian allies. So, as Vlad prepared to enter Wallachia with Stephen of Moldavia's help, Geneviève decided to leave and extracted a promise from her former lover that he would not betray to the Society of the Night her various crimes against their laws. Vlad indulged the request and they parted on good terms. The Impaler would reclaim his throne for a grand total of two months before being 'killed' by an Ottoman backed rival. Thereafter he settled in a castle on the borders of Transylvania and Moldavia becoming something of a chieftain amongst the Carpathian vampire community, a degenerate and itinerant group of destitute vampires living on the edges of the Society of Night.

After abandoning the Impaler Geneviève decided to bid farewell to the Balkans and return home to France. At home she found her brother Jean on his deathbed in the family chateaux. She considered turning him into a vampire but decided against it. Between running from vampire hunters and evading the control of the Society of the Night Geneviève could see no reason to deny her favorite brother a quiet dead in god's grace. She spent a few years traveling through France. Becoming acquainted with the exiled Margaret of Anjou Geneviève considered to throw herself into the War of the Roses on the side of the Lancaster to check Yorkist aggression against France, but eventually decided against such a course of action.

Instead, hearing a rumor of a crusade against Granada launched by the so-called 'Catholic Monarchs' Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon who, having won a civil war, had managed to unite their kingdoms. In 1482 Geneviève went to Granada to spy on the Mohammedans there in preparation for what she assumed was an imminent invasion. Instead she would spend ten years before the attack finally came. In this decade much of Geneviève's antipathy for Mohammedans would be challenged by the sophisticated, tolerant and enlightened country she found herself in. Granada, she concluded, was an altogether different state from Turkey. Exposed to the tolerance of Andalusia towards sodomy Geneviève began to question her own carnal appetites and even began to wonder if her admiration for 'La Pucelle' had been entirely platonic. Such questions was seemingly answered when she met Miriam, Granadan Jewish woman recently turned vampire by the surprising liberal quaestor of the city. Geneviève and Miriam became lovers and by extension Geneviève became quite involved with the Society of the Night in Granada. Though she retained a deep skepticism of the Society in general her attitude would soften quite a bit during her stay in Granada where the more oppressive policies of the Society was not very harshly enforced. In 1491 the Castilian invasion of Granada began. By then Geneviève had become so conflicted about the whole affair that she ended up double-crossing the Castilians and working secretly with Miriam to establish peace between the two sides. This effort failed spectacularly as the Catholic Monarchs had no interest in peace and so, in 1491, Granada capitulated and was annexed to Castile. But under the terms of the capitulation the Mohammedans and Jews of the Granada was offered religious freedom in the now unified kingdom of Spain. This arrangement, spearheaded by Geneviève and her allies, assured her that what she had come to love about Granada would survive as the kingdom became a province of the Castilian Crown. The subsequent Alhambra Decree therefore stunned Geneviève, who regarded it as a dishonorable betrayal of the peace treaty. Geneviève's objections was so vocal and forceful that she attracted the ire of Tomás de Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor of All Spain and the pre-eminent vampire hunter in Western Europe at the time. Concurrently with the consolidation of Spanish control over Granda the Society governor of Castile began to impose greater uniformity and compliance on the vampires of Granada. To this Geneviève also objected, though rather more quietly. Torquemada was a fearsome foe to have won, but the governor of Castile Geneviève dared not defy, and so when Christopher Columbus returned from his voyage to India already planning a second Geneviève determined that it was time for a change of scenery and decided to join the explorer's second journey to India.

This presented an obvious problem for Geneviève as a vampire. While she could easily feign being a man, and had in fact learned to be so inconspicuous as to be invisible, staying hidden in the confined quarters of a ship during the day for months while having no source of feed but the crew, presented quite a challenge. Yet she managed to arrange herself in such a manner as to avoid detection and in 1493 she became probably the first European vampire to set foot on American soil.

Unlike Columbus Geneviève quite quickly suspected that she was in fact not in India (later in life she has occasionally remarked that she, not Amerigo Vespuccio, was the first person to conclude the existence of a new world and that perhaps the new world should be named after her instead of Vespuccio). The place seemed rather large and not entirely as Geneviève, who had read Polo in Constantinople, thought India should look like. During the night, when the crew of the armada slept, she snuck inland and visited the interior of the islands discovered on the second voyage. Noticing an absence of vampires and the Society of the Night among the natives of the Caribbean islands, something she knew, from her infrequent contacts with agents of the Society, existed in India and the rest of Asia, Geneviève was thus quite confident of the fact that Columbus had stumbled upon a new virgin land free of vampires and the Society (in the 90s Geneviève would learn of Leif Erikson's discoveries of Vinland, and would, on reading Cleomedes's summation of Eratosthenes's On the Measurements of the Earth, conclude that the islands discovered by Columbus was probably closer to Spain than they were to India, further strengthening her conviction of the discovery of a new continent).

Upon the return of Columbus's second expedition Geneviève was shocked to find that Miriam had been burned by Torquemada and her maker the quaestor of Granada had been removed by the governor of Castile. Angry at the Society and at Torquemada's witch hunters (and ashamed of her prior collaboration with the Holy Inquisition) and fascinated by the existence of a New World where there was no Society, no vampires, no hunters and no Torquemada, Geneviève would spent much of the next four decades traveling extensively across the New World, only occasionally returning to Spain or Portugal before departing one again.

She partook in the third voyage of Columbus, not as an explorer but as a migrant. She settled on the island of Hispaniola in a settlement established by Bartholomew Columbus called Santo Domingo. Her living conditions were primitive to say the least but traveling the island kept her occupied. In 1511 she had seen what she cared too of the island and curious for more she joined the expedition of Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar to Cuba. Later she partook in Cortes's invasion of Mexico, finding the Aztec religion, though not the Aztec civilization, barbaric and cruel, and eagerly participating in christianization efforts of the Aztecs. Nevertheless she was stunned by the scale of the destruction visited upon the Aztecs, whose capital city dwarfed Constantinople and was no less thoroughly destroyed by Cortes and his native allies. After a few years traveling Mesoamerica on her own Geneviève somewhat reluctantly joined another conquistador, Francisco Pizarro for another expedition. Geneviève's prior involvements with human military expeditions in the Americas had all been done in secret. Due to the necessity of closed quarter sea travel it was impossible for Geneviève, even if she could credibly pass for an effeminate looking man, to justify being absent during the day, and so she had had no formal participation in the expeditions. With Pizarro this changed. Geneviève joined the expedition after it had landed on the continent joining Pizarro as one of the Famous Thirteen. Disguised as a man she offer Pizarro the deal she had offered to all commanders she had served since La Pucelle and to all commander she would in the future serve. She would act as a scout and spy. During the day she would travel ahead of the army, then during the night she would return and offer her reports. Using nascent hypnotic powers and exploiting Pizarro's rather desperate need for her services it was not difficult to sell the offer.

So as the expedition to Peru began Geneviève travelled with it. During the day she slept. During the night she would approach Pizarro shortly after sundown and report the "day's" findings, which was actually the findings of the previous nights. Then she would return to her tent and pretend to sleep, only to slip out and go compile the report for the next night while exploring the surroundings. Being highly efficient her reports, despite always being a day old, was extremely accurate and detailed. Soon she was granted permission to travel far ahead of the army to explore the Inca state.

What she found pleased her greatly. The Inca seemed to Geneviève to be little like the savage warlike Aztecs and much more like the sophisticated and civilized Maya (whose subjugation Geneviève had not partaken in). Their civilization seemed to possess all that was admirable and good about the indigenous New World civilizations (Geneviève never used the term "Indian" as she did was certain she was nowhere near India) and nothing that was bad. So when Pizarro's expedition reached Peru and helped by Geneviève's detailed reports on her findings began the conquest, Geneviève soon turned against Pizarro. Though she partook in the Battle of Cajamarca on Spanish side this would be her last collaboration with Pizarro. She faked her own death and defected. At the Battle of Cusco she tried to support the Inca but their distrust of the mysterious sun-averse Spanish made this difficult and after the end of that battle she saw clearly that the Inca was lost. She abandoned Peru and travelled back to Mesoamerica. There she was saddened to witness the Spanish imposing the same religious and political oppression on the indigenous peoples as they had on the Granadans years ago. She was outright horrified however to witness the massive depopulation of areas of Mesoamerica that just two decades ago she had found densely populated brought by disease. Not wishing to witness what she surmised to be the imminent destruction of all non-European civilizations and peoples of the New World Geneviève decided to return to Spain to face the Inquisition and the Society.

Arriving in Seville at 1536 after nearly forty year's absence she was stunned, and pleased, to learn that one of Torquemada's successors, Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros had burned the vampire governor of Castile at the stake in 1517. The death of a governor of the Society at human hands was a once in a century occurrence at least and had stunned the vampire community not just on the Iberian peninsula but across Europe and even beyond. An investigation had been launched but the death of Cisneros a few months after the governor was burned had both made the investigation difficult and aroused the suspicion of the Society which had sent a Praetor to look into the matter. In 1524 the quaestor of Granada, Miriam's maker, had committed suicide when she was summoned by the Praetor for questioning. This had not been well received by the Praetor at all and a he had imposed harsh measures on the Spanish vampires in general and the Granada ones in particular.

Geneviève was called in for questioning. More than suspecting that she could very well be implicated in whatever had prompted the Quaestor of Granada to take her own life Geneviève was terrified and knowing that she would not be able to keep anything hidden from a thousand year old Praetor and she would have taken her own life if not for the fact that the Praetor's servants, having learned from the rather unfortunate suicide of the Quaestor apprehended her before she had the chance.

Yet Geneviève would learn that a critical flaw existed in the secret police of the consul. Praetor were so universally feared by all vampires that even the most innocent would look guilty in the eyes of a Praetor. And so Geneviève's terror at being brought before the Praetor struck him as just an ordinary reaction. Geneviève, for the first time since de Rais genuinely fearful on her own behalf, trembled before the Praetor and eagerly promised to cooperate fully with his investigation. The Praetor regarded this as just what any person brought before him would say. It soon turned out however that Geneviève's words actually carried meaning. The Praetor, while a formidable vampire, gifted at hypnosis, able to discern any lie even in very powerful vampires and able to wield blood magic at a high level, had not been involved in human affairs since before the Fall of the West Roman Empire. He knew little about Castile, which he insisted calling the united Spanish Kingdom and its inquisition and his attempts to make sense of the human trial that had resulted in the Governor of Castile's execution was rather limited. Geneviève by contrast, though she had not been in Spain, which she called the country she had only ever known as Castile, had a profound understanding of the inner workings of the Spanish kingdoms and offered it willingly to the Praetor.

Soon Geneviève was working under the Praetor retracing the Cisneros trial against the governor of Castile. She displayed a deep understanding of the nature of inquisitorial trials in Castile that stood in marked contrast to the rudimentary understanding of the Praetor. It was then that Geneviève came to a fascinating conclusions about vampires. For all the obvious intellectual capacity of her species, observing the Praetor, undoubtably the most intelligent being she had ever met, Geneviève came to understand that her species was not a particularly imaginative, innovative or philosophical one. The Praetor's knowledge of blood magic, of shapeshifting, of hypnosis or any of the other talents of vampires, or the history of vampires and the general practice and political doctrines of the Society of Night, or even of the intricacies of the constitutional arrangements of the Roman Empire under the Principate was staggering, but his understanding of anything beyond these vampiric concerns was not. Unable to understand the basics of Christian doctrine and what the Spanish Inqusition regarded as heterodox thinking and disinterested in the discoveries of Columbus (the Praetor did inform Geneviève that no message had been received by governors or senators in India about any encounter with Columbus) he clearly confined his intelligence to a rather narrow vampiric world. Over the coming centuries Geneviève would observe that humans possessing not a fraction of the intelligence or knowledge of the intellectual leaders of the Society would invent, innovate and reform human society in profound ways while the vampire community was able to do nothing but imitation. No great works of art would be produced, no discoveries of new worlds would be undertaken, no technological advances of any real consequence would ever be made by vampires outside the realm of vampiric and magical knowledge.

This understanding, fascinating as she found it, was however not foremost on Geneviève's mind in the late 1530s and the early 40s. In her work retracing the Cisneros trial she soon discovered something very disturbing that personally incriminated her in the execution of the governor of Castile. In the final verdict of the court the governor had been sentenced to death by burning at the stake for being: "possessed by a bloodthirsty demon whose presence is marked by its hatred of the sun" as the verdict read. Retracing the documents, and even tracking down human witnesses and interrogating them through hypnotic means which she learned from the Praetor who was increasingly impressed with his able and "streetwise" detective she discovered that a rather essential document in reaching this verdict, and in fact a document that was increasingly employed by the Holy Inquisition in Catholic Europe to identify and burn "individuals possessed by bloodthirsty demons", was a treatise on such beings produced in the Vatican in 1498 (while Geneviève was in the Americas). This treatise in turn was based on two accounts of an event that occurred in Rome some fifty years before in which respectively a "Fallen Angel" and a "Succubus" had appeared to a Dominican monk, confessor and one time secretary for Vlad II of Wallachia and provided information about "bloodthirsty demons" and offered some helpful insights on their nature. With a forbidding sense of doom Geneviève traced down the two accounts fearing what she would find. Reading them it became quite clear to Geneviève that she was the "Fallen Angel/Succubus" of the two accounts and that the Dominican monk was the confessor and Order of the Dragon employee to whom she had, during her stay in Rome in 1442 been rather more open about her species than the Society rules permitted. Clearly the governor of Castile had been executed because of information provided, albeit by accident, by Geneviève.

Fortunately it was equally clear that opaque references in obscure texts referencing a succubus or a fallen angel visiting a monk half a century after the fact and filled with factual errors, would never allow anyone, least of all a Praetor who lacked understanding of human society, to point an accusatory finger at Geneviève. Geneviève concluded her investigation and was able to summarize the Cisneros trial for the Praetor in such a way as to both satisfy his desire to understand how humans could burn a vampire governor (by pointing to the Spanish Inquisition's increasingly capable vampire hunter capabilities) and deflect blame away from the Spanish vampire community in general and the Granadan one in particular (which upon the suicide of their Quaestor had become suspects of wrongdoing). Geneviève's conclusions thus saved the Spanish vampires from the ire of the Praetor while alerting the Society to the rising power of the Spanish Inquisition.

The Praetor was very pleased. Recognizant of his own inadequacies at making sense of a material human world that interested him little he saw in the hard working and perceptive young vampires a useful subordinate if the Society was to take a more aggressive line against the witch hunters of the Spanish Inquisition and the Catholic Church. Having already taught her about hypnosis to allow her to interrogate human witnesses and persons of interests in her investigation, he offered her something of an internship to the Society of the Night under his own patronage. It was an offer Geneviève dared not refuse.

In the late 1540s she thus became formally affiliated with the Society serving as an agent of the Praetor. She relocated at first to Italy, where she was in a private capacity involved in the Italian Wars, usually for the French and against the Spanish. Much of her time was however spent practicing the more advanced vampiric arts under the Praetor's supervision. Something of a lapsed Catholic at the time she kept her antipathy towards the Society quiet and over time developed some sympathy for at least parts of its work. She served the Society in much the same function as she had served the Praetor in Spain, as a "human translator". Most of the higher-ups of the Society seemed to share the Praetor's ignorance of contemporary human society and many in fact was downright contemptuous of paying much heed to the affairs of the humans. Those who did not, however came to share the Praetor's appreciation for Geneviève and as the trusted protege and student of one of the most prominent vampires in the world Geneviève lead a life of privilege and power, protected by her benefactor and to some extent exempt from the laws governing less well connected vampires. The Praetor tasked Geneviève with finding ways to better regulate relations between vampires and humans to maintain the secrecy of vampiric existence and to develop responses to the increasing efficacy of Catholic vampire hunters. Geneviève excelled in both respects, in part because those where two tasks of the Society she actually supported. Soon she was traveling across much of the Old World as an envoy of the Senate with the rank of Propraetor, to supervise the implementation of Senatorial degrees by governors of Quaestors. On one such assignment she was sent to the Carpathian to ensure that the rogue vampire community there complied with at least the basic ordinances of the Senate. There she came into contact with her former lover Vlad III the Impaler. Following the death of Miriam, whom Geneviève had confided in, and the Quaestor of Granada (whom Geneviève suspected Miriam had confided in) Vlad III was the only living being who knew that Geneviève had ever revealed the existence of vampires to the outside world. Geneviève however did not think he knew that the death of the governor of Castile had resulted from her indiscretion. Geneviève met her former lover at Borgo Pass. She was disgusted by the lifestyle of him and his acolytes, savage brutes little better than animals in Geneviève's estimation. This she did speak out loud of course and the meeting went very well as Vlad III pledged his allegiance to the Consul and promised to obey all Senatorial decrees. Geneviève thus returned to meet the Praetor and the Senate where she was much (perhaps unduly) praised for bringing Vlad III into the fold.

Increasingly trusted by the Society of the Night Geneviève while she continued to study hard at all vampiric arts under the Praetor who began to confide rather too much, including knowledge of blood magic, in his young protege, she also found time to involve herself in human affairs. She continued taking part in the Italian Wars while involving herself also in the reformation and counter-reformation. She met, corresponded with, and read the works, of most of the prominent thinkers, protestant or catholic of the time. Privately she identified with the thinkings of Catholic humanists and reformers like Erasmus, rejecting protestantism as a schismatic movement sowing dissent and discord at a time when the Turks, her old enemy, was approaching the gates of Vienna. Publicly however she paid lip service to the Consuline worship, a requirement for advancement in the Society, even though the Praetor privately confided in his protege that his makers the Consul was certainly not a god and was neither the first vampire having simply managed to kill those older than him. This knowledge stunned Geneviève but at the time the Praetor was increasingly opening up to Geneviève about the secrets of the Society. Increasingly disillusioned by what she learned about the Society Geneviève met very discreetly with an disgruntled inquisitor and once again provided information about her own species to the church, in particular on the doings of Vlad III in the Carpathians. The information, which could be justified by the fact that Vlad III was not entirely discreet in Transylvania and Moldavia, lead to a crackdown. Rather than face sanctions Geneviève, an increasingly capable politician and manipulator, managed to win plaudits for the suppression of the Carpathian vampires (though of course her conversations with the church was not revealed).

Still her antipathy towards the more unsavory aspects (as she sees it) of the Society of the Night made her increasingly weary of working under it. Learning of the extinction of her family Geneviève received permission to leave her primary area of residence, Italy, and travel to France, her homeland which but for brief interludes she had not spent any real time in for over a century. Impersonating a descendant of her younger brother Philip Geneviève laid claim to her family title. Possessing the manners and appearance of a consummate French aristocrat, a nearly limitless amount of knowledge of her family history, an an amble fortune, she secured from Henry II of France recognition of her title as Countess of Lozère and Saint-Malo. She established herself in her family chateaux (the mere mention of the Praetor's name was enough to wave away any Quaestor or governor protesting her right to do so) which was her primary residence for much of the next century. She involved herself in French politics, siding with Catherine de Médici and her politique faction in the French Wars of Religion. She began work on her estates while accumulating a sizable fortune (a century spent as an adventurer had left Geneviève with the knowledge of where quite a few treasures where buried). She visited the Americas a couple of times, this time with the French explorers that followed Cartier, a fellow Breton. She also continued to work for the Senate and, by correspondence, received instructions from the Praetor on how to continue her education. During this time Geneviève, still involved in keeping the vampire community secret, developed SVS (Secret Vampire Script) a written code language for use in correspondence between vampires that if accessed by a human would not provide dangerous written evidence of the existence of the Society. She however also became increasingly involved with vampire hunters, assisting them in the hunting of vampires that was out of line with Society policies. While suppressing renegade vampires was very much part of her job description at the Society talking to the Church was very much not. Geneviève did it anyway.

Her past was however about to catch up to her. A few years after the end of The French Wars of Religion and the accession of a protestant convert to catholicism, Henry IV as king of France, Geneviève learned of a Hungarian noblewoman, Elizabeth Báthory who had been turned into a vampire and married Vlad III. The couple was believed responsible for a number of highly questionable acts in Hungary. Geneviève convinced the Praetor to send her to investigate. What she found horrified her. Báthory had seemingly become a female de Rais, murdering children on her estates and eating them, while not being particularly discreet about it. More problematically she and Vlad III seemed to be plotting a takeover of the Kingdom of Hungary against the wishes of the Senate and to the detriments of the Habsburg monarchy and the Catholic Church. Most problematically of all Vlad III had informed Elizabeth Báthory of Geneviève's past betrayals of the Society and when Geneviève attempted to confront the pair about their activities they threatened to notify the Society.

Thus faced with her own destruction Geneviève did the unthinkable. She reached out to the Holy Inquisition. Her first revelations about vampires to the inquisition had been largely accidental. Her prior contacts had all furthered the aims of the Society and had not involved giving any important information away. This time however she introduced herself as a vampire to the inquisition and suggested cooperation to take down Báthory (and Vlad III) while revealing the existence of the Society and a great deal of extremely proprietary information that even the vast majority of vampires was not privy to. The inquisition was skeptical at first, but when Geneviève revealed herself to be the Fallen Angel/Succubus of the ancient, and by now all but holy document for vampire hunters, a cooperation was agreed. In 1610 Geneviève, in disguise, went with the Hungarian Palatine and representatives of the inquisition to place Báthory under house arrest. Concurrently Vlad III was set upon by Society forces on the orders of Geneviève and killed. In 1614 Geneviève had Elizabeth Báthory assassinated.

Both the Church and the Society applauded the resolute action of Geneviève to bring down a threat, neither realizing her involvement with the other. The Church agreed to grant Geneviève immunity from persecution by vampire hunters (though on the condition that she continue to work with the inquisition) while the Senate heaped honors upon her. Neither group realized that Geneviève's primary motives for acting had been self-preservation. With Vlad III dead and Báthory soon to be dead her secret was safe. Yet now Geneviève found herself in the unenviable position to have to balance working for the Society and the premier vampire hunting organization of the world. This would not prove simple. For the time being however Geneviève was offered the position of Quaestor of any city she could possibly want as a reward for her services. Paris was proposed and with it a fast track to the appointment of governor of France. Geneviève rejected the offer and requested to return to the office of Propraetor. The Inquisition insisted she would be more useful in this function. Already they where demanding information under threat of excommunication and, more daunting, revelation to the Society. Geneviève, while not entirely adverse to undermining the Society found balancing the demands of the inquisition with the work of the Society and her own conscience difficult to say the least.

The decades that followed the Báthory affair proved some of the darkest for the Society in Christendom. The Inquisition grew formidably effective in fighting vampires. Quaestors, even governors, was burned with impunity while ordinary vampires was rounded up and disposed up by the score. For a time the Senate seemed ready to abandon the policy of secrecy and launch the war for supremacy implicitly called for in the Consuline faith. Working under the Praetor Geneviève was tasked with fighting the inquisition. Not an ideal appointment and not a role she would excel in. Increasingly under pressure to deliver and incapable of doing so since she was effectively a double-agent Geneviève's star began to decline with the Senate. No one talked of plum Queastorships anymore. Yet as much as she supplied the inquisition with information Geneviève also held much back which brought the wrath of this powerful body down upon her. In 1638 she was excommunicated, and sensing that it was only a matter of time before the Society turned on her for her "incompetence" or the inquisition broke its promises and revealed her to the Society (if they did not simply do the deed themselves) she decided to act. She offered the Inquisition a deal they could not refuse. An extremely high ranking member of the Society in exchange for Geneviève's freedom. In 1641 Geneviève approached one of her last allies among the Praetors, Marcus Valerius Maximus, claiming that her investigation into the inquisition had revealed a high level traitor supplying information to the inquisition. Geneviève's boss the Praetor.

Initially skeptical Marcus Valerius Maximus became convinced when he investigated the matter himself and found evidence that the inquisition knew extremely secret information involving details of blood magic and even the fact that the consul was not the first vampire. Such information could have only come from a Praetor or the Consul, and in fact much of the information seemed to relate to areas of interest of the Praetor. Valerius went straight to the Consul, who with accusations against a Praetor came out of seclusion. A trial was convened. The Praetor protested his innocence before his boss and peers and said that he was being set up by his underling but this was disbelieved. The information the inquisition possessed was far too confidential to have come from a lowly functionary like D'Agneau de Richecourt. The Praetor protested that he had given the information to Geneviève, but this too was disbelieves as an attempt to take down a subordinate that had betrayed the Praetor's scheme. While it was perhaps believable that the Praetor had supplied information to the inquisition in an attempt to undermine his rivals and strengthen his own position, maybe even plot against the consul, it was not considered believable that he would have imparted such information to an underling. The Consul had the Praetor executed.

That left the question of what to do with the underling. Propraetor D'Agneau de Richecourt, even if she was not complicit in her master's scheme and had acted admirably, clearly knew too much. When she was summoned before the Consul she however arrived soaked in human blood. While the trial took place, she said, she had ambushed a large contingent of heavily armed inquisitors that had arrived at the Praetor's estate, no doubt to receive instruction to move against his enemies. Geneviève had attacked and killed them with her troops. While some Praetor considered that perhaps life inquisitors who could have been questioned would have been preferable to dead ones who could not, most considered Geneviève's rash action a touching, if transparent attempt to prove her loyalty. The Consul looked at the Propraetor, contemplating whether to eat or reward her. In the end he did neither. He thanked Geneviève for her service and offered her a Queastorship far from him and the Senate, a small one and with no fast track to anything. A halfway solution. Geneviève, having killed the inquisitors who knew about her as they prepared to arrest the Praetor on Geneviève's information, was now free to accept such an offer. She thanked the Consul, but asked for permission to serve one more year as Propraetor tasked with fighting the inquisition. Pleased with her answer the Consul consented.

During the next year Geneviève attacked the inquisition forcefully, destroying any proof and witnesses that she, not the Praetor, had been supplying the inquisition with information. That done, she elected to assume the Quaestorship of Rennes in her native Brittany. Rennes was not an important quaestorship, it was not even the second most important quaestorship in Brittany. Apart from Geneviève the city was home to a half dozen vampires. This did not, at first, concern Geneviève. Rennes was near her estate in Saint-Malo and in her native Brittany. Her subjects was few but they where very impressed by their prominent new quaestor, and her last year as Propraetor had earned her much confidence from the Senate. Valerius Maximus, who after the execution of the Praetor had become one of the most prominent leaders of the Praetura, had been thoroughly impressed with her and privately assured her that her career in the Society would soon be back on track.

Yet Geneviève was in doubt. Free of inquisition she had begun to desire freedom also from the Society who she still found it impossible to wholeheartedly support. Yet she had also grown accustomed to be a person of consequence and power. Where could she find that outside the Society? Only among the mortals. Around 1630 Geneviève began to take long trips away from Saint-Malo and Rennes and to Paris. Officially she went to liaise with the governor and she did have the blessing of the Senate, on the prompting of Maximus, still her real reason to be there was to involve herself in the life of the French court. In disguise she became an associate first of François Leclerc du Tremblay and then of his master Cardinal Richelieu, the formidable first minister of the French king Louis XIII. Involving herself in the Thirty Year's War, the Huguenot Rebellions and other important issues high on the agenda of the Grey and Red Eminences provided an excitement that running Rennes did not. As something of a French nationalist Geneviève, though no friend of protestantism, welcomed the French intervention in the Thirty Year's War in 1635 and went with the French armies, officially to supervise vampires feeding on the fallen.

She was with the Grand Condé at Rocroi and Lens when the Spanish dominance of Europe was broken and later attended the peace negotiations that resulted in the Peace of Westphalia. A skilled observer of human society she could not help but notice that the Westphalian Peace seemed to promise a degree of authority and sovereignty to the princes of Europe that no vampire governor of quaestor enjoyed. After the Thirty Year's War Geneviève went home to France, taking intermittently part in the Fronde and the still ongoing Franco-Spanish War while doing the bare minimum to govern her small quaestorship.

Though Geneviève had found these forays into human political life exhilarating she couldn't help but feel that it wasn't quite the same as vampire politics. In human politics Geneviève always had to pretend to be something very different from what she was. In vampire politics ... Well there too she had to do quite a bit of pretending but at least she could own up to being a vampire and not have to fake her death on a regular basis to reappear as a different person. On the other hand she had no illusions about the fact that the Senate, the Praetura and the Consul ever agreeing to the reforms of the Society of Night she desired. In fact if she ever was to voice just a fraction of her displeasure she would surely be executed. Traveling Europe she was adrift and unsure of what to do. Go all in on living as a human or taking her Rennes quaestorship more seriously and use it as a stepping stone towards ever higher office, knowing of course that she could never truly reach the highest echelons of the Society which was reserved for far older vampires? After the death of Cardinal Mazarin Geneviève decided to travel to Versailles where the young French king Louis XIV was about to establish his court now that he was personally in command of France. While she pondered her future a stay at the French court would prove an excellent distraction.

Geneviève was very impressed with the young French king. Determined to curtail the power of the nobles who had betrayed him during the Fronde Louis XIV was transforming Versailles into the most splendid court the world had ever know. Geneviève was captivated. Thoughts of returning to Rennes on anything resembling a permanent basis dispelled from her mind. She became a courtier at Versailles, not the only vampire to do so. One of these vampires eventually turned Louis XIV into a vampire. This shocked and excited Geneviève. While young an inept as a vampire Louis XIV commanded the most powerful state in the world (Geneviève held neither the Mughal rulers of India or the new Qing emperors of China in particularly high regard). The power of France wedded to the knowledge and power Geneviève possessed about the Society could perhaps achieve what Geneviève could otherwise never have hoped to do, overthrow the Consul and reform the Society. Perhaps. Or Perhaps not.

Geneviève pondered it carefully but in the end she decided that the prospect of having a freshly turned vampire rule the leading power of Europe and attempt to induce him to assume, by force, control of the Society was not a viable option, especially as Geneviève had no relationship with Louis XIV's Anglo-Norman maker, a certain Anthony of Essex, or his allies who desired to rule France through Louis XIV, a notion that offended the French nationalist. The decision of Louis XIV to fail to support the Austrians when the Ottomans approached Vienna further infuriated the nominally catholic Geneviève. She personally partook in the Battle of Vienna and cheered as the Polish cavalry broke the Turkish offensive. Then she returned to France, determined to take action against the court of Louis XIV. Using her old tricks of playing both the church and the Society at the same time she decided to put a stop to Louis XIV's reign. She turned first to Maximus strongly advocating through correspondence for the discontinuation of Anthony's schemes as clear violation of the vampiric secrecy requirements. Then she started providing information to the church. With tacit support from Maximus and the full throttled support of the church Geneviève then, discreetly, orchestrated the elimination of Louis XIV. The destruction of Louis XIV prompted the largest anti-vampire pogrom since the end of the Praetor Affair. It was unsurprising then that the Senate turned to the person responsible for putting the Praetor and his Inquisitorial allies down. Just a few weeks after Louis XIV's destruction Geneviève was translated from her quaestorship of Rennes to a quaestorship of Versailles. This was a new quaestorship as Versailles, perhaps one of the most vampire inhabited settlements in the world, had previously been under Paris. Geneviève's appointment was thus a rebuke of the governor of Paris, an ally of Essex by name of Henri d'Arras. If Arras objected it didn't matter. During the ensuing vampire pogrom he died. In the chaos that ravaged regency era French vampire society no replacement was named. Instead Geneviève assumed the responsibilities of an acting governor of France. With the church indebted to her she set about to establish order in France. She rallied many of the vampires of France who was displeased with Louis XIV, Antony, d'Arras, and Louis XIV's whelp, a certain Nadia-Marie d’Maryvonne, and blamed them and their ambitious scheme for the misfortune of the French vampire community. Geneviève, not interested in making any enemies, did not do so, yet she relied on the support of those opposed to Louis XIV and the support she received from Maximus to serve as acting governor of France. taking advantage of her reestablished relationship with the Church she helped shelter several vampires fleeing persecution from the church and became a celebrated leader as a result. She became the mistress of the principal regent for Louis XV, Philippe II, Duke of Orleans and through him worked to reestablish the French vampire community. Many expected that Geneviève would become the new governor of France once a such was too be appointed by the Senate. Her result spoke for themselves and she was much liked by the community. Nevertheless she was passed over and another governor was chosen. Geneviève however remained as quaestor of Versailles, and while the end of Louis XIV's vampire court had reduced the number of vampires in the city it remained second only to Paris in all of France and among the settlements in Europe with the largest vampire population. At Versailles Geneviève was also closer to the government of the kingdom of France and she expressed no displeasure with being passed over for governor.

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Character Name: Geneviève Sandrine Marianne D'Agneau de Morangias Richecour, Comtesse de Lozère et de Saint-Malo
Appearance: Geneviève's appearance is not easily described. Perhaps as a result of some vampiric power or maybe as a result of a life spend in disguise Geneviève can to no small extent appear in different forms. An androgynous teenage girl when she was made a vampire she is able to appear as both a tomboyish young woman and as an effeminate young man.
Age: 347 (born 1416)
Maker: Gilles de Rais
City of Origin: Champtocé-sur-Loire

Abilities: Though effectively autodidact the Countess of Lozère and Saint-Malo is a highly skilled vampire. Beyond blood spittle she has perfected the art of stealth over years of meticulous practice having achieved the ability of becoming completely invisible to the sight of humans, most animals and even a great many fellow vampires. She is also a highly competent shapeshifter. Rather unusually the Countess had managed to shapeshifter into a non-corporeal ethereal form as a mist of a fog. More recently, after a visit to the province of Gévaudan Genevieve has left for America possessing the ability to take the form of a strange unusually large and vicious canine creature of a wolf-like appearance. While she has thrown herself at the study of both hypnosis and blood magic (the later of which she is rather more knowledgeable of than the Society knows or would approve of) she remains very much a novice in both disciplines.
Religion: Roman Catholic
Languages Spoken: French, Latin, Middle English (not early modern English), Italian, Hungarian, Greek, Albanian, Turkish, Romanian, Arabic, Mozarabic, Castilian


Biography: Geneviève Sandrine Marianne Dagneau was born in the year 1416 in the Duchy of Brittany near Saint-Malo to a minor impoverished Breton French noble family that lost most its wealth and land during the War of the Breton Succession when they backed the French candidate Charles de Blois against his successful English rival John de Montfort. Geneviève's father provided for his family as a doctor while her older brothers farmed what little land the family retained.

By the time of Geneviève's birth the Hundred Year's War that had ravaged France for decades seemed poised to end. Following the disastrous defeat of the French at Agincourt months before Geneviève's birth the end of the Valois dynasty and the establishment of a new Angevin Empire on French soil seemed imminent to all. Devoted Armagnacs and Blesevins Geneviève's family observed with consternation as the wavering Duke John VI first re-annexed Saint-Malo to Brittany and then pursued a policy of fluidly changing allegiances. Dismayed at the duke the Dagneau family turned to Arthur de Richemont, the pro-French brother of the duke, after he was released from English captivity in 1420 when Geneviève was four, becoming supporters of this prominent nobleman and commander.

When in 1424 de Richemont pledged allegiance to the Dauphin, the future Charles VII, Geneviève's eldest brother Jean, twenty three at the time, joined the retinue of Arthur de Richemont with a handful of men-at-arms. When de Richemont was named Constable of France the year thereafter Jean, an able soldier, became one of his lieutenants.

The departure of her eldest brother to fight for the Armagnacs hit the young Geneviève hard. Having had a fairly uneventful childhood she was increasingly showing signs of nonconformity with the societal mores of her time. Disinterested in the feminine pursuits and virtues of a noblewoman she was an avid reader and an enthusiastic, somewhat skilled, student of martial pursuits. Jean her oldest brother had been tolerant and even supportive of his wild little sister's interest and with his departure Geneviève lost her closest friend and confidante, and began to find her life increasingly stifling.

Still life went on and regular letters from Jean giving detailed descriptions of his life in the service of the Constable captivated Geneviève's imagination, further encouraging her in her martial inclinations. As her second brother Philip in 1426 decided to join Jean the ten year old Geneviève shocked her family by declaring that she too would fight for France. In 1429 she did just that.

Early that year Geneviève's last brother Jacques departed for Chinon, the Royal Court to enter service in the French army. Disguising herself as a boy Geneviève decided to do so as well. Unlike an almost contemporary young woman making the journey from her home village to the court of Chinon to fight for France Geneviève's travel was uneventful. Without revealing her identity she entered service as a valet de guerre with the company of her brother Jean, who had risen to the rank of captain, just in time to partake in the Loire campaign under the command of Jeanne d'Arc, Pucelle de Lorraine, and the last best hope of the Armagnacs, and of France.

As a girl breaking with social mores herself by fighting, in disguise, in the war Geneviève naturally gravitated towards the Maiden and shortly before the arrival of the army at Orléans Geneviève became valet de guerre for Jeanne d'Arc herself who perceived the sex of the feminine looking valet. This appointment would however facilitate a disastrous encounter for Geneviève. Serving on the staff of Jeanne d'Arc Geneviève attracted the attention of Gilles de Rais. De Rais, a supporter of the Montfort dukes of Brittany, was naturally opposed to Blesevin elements in the contingents of Brittany, thus also to Geneviève's brothers Philip, Jacques and above all Jean who remained, at least nominally, supportive of the Blesevin cause.

As a ranking officer de Rais took advantage of the injury sustained by Jeanne d'Arc during the assault on Augustines to arrange for Jean's company of largely Blesevin Bretons to be used as canon fodder for the assault on Tourelles. Learning of this Geneviève petitioned Jeanne d'Arc to intervene and when the assault on Tourelles began on May 7 La Pucelle lead the troops to victory herself, having undone the arrangements of de Rais, taking Orléans for the French.

Infuriated and surprised at the thwarting of his scheme de Rais surmised that only someone on Jeanne d'Arc's staff would have had the opportunity to know both the battle plans and appeal directly to the Maiden. Spying on the people associated with Jeanne d'Arc he soon realized that Jeanne's valet de guerre was Breton and had served in the company of Jean Dagneau. Later he also began to suspect Geneviève's sex.

The Loire Campaign went on. The once precarious situation of the French monarchy was reversed in a series of stunning victories culminating in the final Battle of Patay where Geneviève's brother Jean personally captured the famed English commander John Talbot while the French routed the English army. For his deed Jean was later ennobled by Charles VII.

The fortune of both Jeanne and Geneviève however proved short. At the siege of Compiègne La Pucelle d'Orléans, was taken captive by the forces of Burgundy. She was later sold to the English, tried for heresy and burned on the stake. Disillusioned and in shock Geneviève decided to return to her home. She never made it.

In the aftermath of the execution of Jeanne d'Arc de Rais sought revenge for being thwarted. Having become a vampire sometime before he abducted and turned Geneviève in 1432 stealing her away to his castle at Champtocé-sur-Loire. De Rais, upon his retirement from the military, picked up a hobby of murdering children and eating them, usually sodomizing them beforehand, some times afterwards. Geneviève, his first victim, was to be his slave and assistant in this and he kept her capture at his castle in Brittany.

For eight years Geneviève was a prisoner of de Rais and endured the constant abuses and unspeakable monstrosities of the dark knight, while trying to cope with her newfound vampiric situation. Eventually de Rais was, by no small amount of scheming from Geneviève, brought to justice as his crimes was exposed by an ecclesiastic investigation which framed the crimes of de Rais as being merely that of a sociopathic human, for which he was executed. Geneviève was not found.

After de Rais' execution she fled to the Saint-Malo region. It was there that she learned that her brother Jean's bravery at the battle of Patay had not gone unrewarded, and that he had been ennobled and given the name Dagneau de Richecour, Geneviève adopted that name as well. She did however not rejoin her family. Always something of a black sheep of the family Geneviève, now a vampire, thought it best not to contact her family. After years of abuse by de Rais and still struggling to understand what her condition meant having learned little from de Rais, she found her freedom from de Rais as scary as it was exhilarating to begin to learn to live with her condition and avoid capture or death at the hands of the enemies of her kin. A devout catholic Geneviève determined to go on a pilgrimage to Rome, hoping to find answers and meaning to her strange new existence. Traveling by night, feeding on vagrants, brigands or weary travellers when she could find some or animals when she could not, and resting during the day in makeshift pits in the ground, she reached Rome in 1441, a tumultaric period for the eternal city. Preoccupied with the struggle between Pope Eugene IV and Antipope Felix V and their councils of Ferrara and Florence, the city was hardly a holy place, Geneviève nevertheless learned a lot during her brief stay in Italy. For there she learned for the first time of the existence of an underground 'Society of the Night'. The revelation stunned her. If de Rais had known of others like him and her he had not revealed so too Geneviève. Yet in Rome she learned of a powerful hierarchical government. It both startled and excited her. Getting into contact with the vampiric leadership she quickly surmised that while the idea of vampiric governance might be admirable the people in charge, a bunch of deranged heathens worshipping their leader as a god while professing a desire to overthrow human society, were not. Though de Rais had certainly never had any ties to this Society it nevertheless seemed to Geneviève that they were much like her despised maker. To avoid having to submit to this Society Geneviève decided to leave Rome. But before she left she came into contact with vampire hunters associated with the Catholic Church. Contemptible of Adonis and his inept and unsavory regime, Geneviève made some very discreet recommendations to the Holy Inquisition for which she was inducted into the Order of the Dragon on the recommendation of Hunyadi János, Voivode of Transylvania before leaving Rome.

Unable to settle permanently anywhere without coming under the yoke of the society Geneviéve determined to live a life of travel and adventure. Still a devout catholic and cross-dressing as a man she determined to take part in the crusade called against the Turks, traveling with the Hungarian contingent under the command of her benefactor the Voivode of Transylvania. The so-called crusade of Varna was an abject disaster, but during it Geneviève nevertheless learned how to exploit her vampiric condition during times of war. Employing a vampire's capacity for stealth she hunted enemy soldiers during the night, supplying her commanders with information on enemy positions. She would put these talents to use many times in the centuries to come.

Following Varna Geneviève briefly remained in Hunyadi's service but in 1445 she decided to go east. Her pilgrimage to Rome had been spiritually disappointing, but perhaps Constantinople and, above all, Jerusalem, would be more to her liking. She settled in Constantinople, suffering the rule of the local quaestor, for about a decade, the last of that city's independence from the rising power of the Turkish state. She found Constantinople much to her liking, learning Greek, she found a place that could offer her inquisitive and keen mind knowledge and learning like nowhere else she had ever been. She was present at the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 and watched in absolute horror as the Turks utterly destroyed the city. She did not stay to watch it be rebuilt as an even greater Ottoman capital but left after the battle with a burning hate against Mohammedans in general and Turks in particular.

She went north determined to stop further Ottoman invasions of Christendom. She became an associate of Skanderbeg, a fellow member of the Order of the Dragon, and rejoined with Hunyadi and the Hungarians under his command. But in Geneviève's early struggles against the Turks she is chiefly remembered for her association with Vlad III the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia. As a tutor, confidante and later royal mistress of the Impaler, she played a key role in organizing the famous Night Attack at Târgoviste, using her vampiric skills to orchestrate the attack. She came within twenty feet of sinking her fangs into the neck of the Sultan himself and changing the history of the world. But in the end she failed, and Târgoviste was to become the highpoint of Vlad the Impaler's career. Shortly thereafter he was deposed by Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary and replaced as Voivode of Wallachia by his brother Radu.

Though she lost faith in Vlad III the Impaler's ability to stay the Ottoman advance into Europe Geneviève quickly discovered a new potential leader of Christendom in the man who had captured Vlad. Matthias Corvinus, son of Hunyadi János, and one of the most dynamic and powerful rulers of Europe at the time. Rich, powerful and in command of terrifying Black Army of Hungary, perhaps the finest fighting force in Europe at the time, Geneviève saw in this Hungarian prince a ruler worthy of her services. She was however too be sorely disappointed. Though Corvinus proved in every way an extraordinary ruler and Geneviève were to thrive at his court the king was more concerned with warring with Bohemia and the Habsburg's than with driving the Turks back. Thus when Vlad the Impaler was released by Corvinus Geneviève went with him when he left for Transylvania.

The Impaler was absolutely determined to return to his throne, but receiving no help from Corvinus he was poorly placed to retake his principality. Aware that Geneviève was a vampire he convinced her to enlist the vampiric community of the Carpathians, a tribe of outcasts living outside the Society, to help him and had himself turned into a vampire, promising wealth, respectability and as much blood as they could drink to the Carpathian vampires. Geneviève, though she aided her former lover in this regard was growing disillusioned with Vlad's plan and his increasing cruelty. He reminded her far too much of Gilles de Rais and she no longer believed he could stop the Turks, or even hold on to the Wallachian throne. As Vlad prepared to enter Wallachia with Stephen of Moldavia's help, Geneviève decided to leave and extracted a promise from her former lover that he would not betray to the Society of the Night her various crimes against their laws. Vlad indulged the request and they parted as friends. The Impaler would reclaim his throne for a grand total of two months before being 'killed' by an Ottoman backed rival. Thereafter he settled in a castle on the borders of Transylvania and Moldavia becoming something of a chieftain amongst the Carpathian vampire community, a degenerate and itinerant group of destitute vampires living on the edges of the Society of Night.

After abandoning the Impaler Geneviève decided to bid farewell to the Balkans and return home to France. At home she found her brother Jean on his deathbed in the family chateaux. She considered turning him into a vampire but decided against it. Between running from vampire hunters and evading the control of the Society of the Night Geneviève could see no reason to deny her favorite brother a quiet dead in god's grace. She spent a few years traveling through France. Becoming acquainted with the exiled Margaret of Anjou Geneviève considered to throw herself into the War of the Roses on the side of the Lancaster to check Yorkist aggression against France, but eventually decided against such a course of action.

Instead, hearing a rumor of a crusade against Granada launched by the so-called 'Catholic Monarchs' Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon who, having won a civil war, had managed to unite their kingdoms. In 1482 Geneviève went to Granada to spy on the Mohammedans there in preparation for what she assumed was an imminent invasion. Instead she would spend ten years before the attack finally came. In this decade much of Geneviève's antipathy for Mohammedans would be challenged by the sophisticated, tolerant and enlightened country she found herself in. Granada, she concluded, was an altogether different state from Turkey. Exposed to the tolerance of Andalusia towards sodomy Geneviève began to question her own carnal appetites and even began to wonder if her admiration for 'La Pucelle' had been entirely platonic. Before the invasion came Geneviève had become so conflicted about the whole thing that she ended up double-crossing the Castilians attempting to broker peace. It failed and in 1491 Granada capitulated but the Mohammedans and Jews of the state was offered religious freedom in the now unified kingdom of Spain. The subsequent Alhambra Decree therefore stunned Geneviève, who regarded it as a dishonorable betrayal of the peace treaty. Geneviève's objections was so vocal and forceful that she attracted the ire of Tomás de Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor of All Spain and the pre-eminent vampire hunter in Western Europe at the time. Torquemada was a fearsome foe to have won and so when Christopher Columbus returned from India Geneviève determined that it was time for a change of scenery and decided to join the explorer's second journey to India.

This presented an obvious problem for Geneviève. While she could easily feign being a man, and had in fact learned to be so inconspicuous as to be invisible staying hidden in the confined quarters of a ship during the day for months while having no source of feed but the crew, presented an obvious challenge. Yet she managed to arrange herself in such a manner as to avoid detection and in 1493 she became probably the first European vampire to set foot on American soil.

Unlike Columbus Geneviève quite quickly suspected that she was in fact not in India (later in life she has occasionally remarked that she, not Amerigo Vespuccio, was the first person to conclude the existence of a new world and that perhaps the new world should be named after her instead of Vespuccio). The place seemed rather large and not entirely as Geneviève, who had read Polo in Constantinople, thought India should look like. During the night, when the crew of the armada slept, she snuck inland and visited the interior of the islands discovered on the second voyage.

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NS Name: of the Quendi
Character Name: Geneviève Sandrine Marianne D'Agneau de Morangias Richecour, Comtesse de Lozère et de Saint-Malo
Appearance: Geneviève's appearance is not easily described. Perhaps as a result of some vampiric power or maybe as a result of a life spend in disguise Geneviève can to no small extent appear in different forms. An androgynous teenage girl when she was made a vampire she is able to appear as both a tomboyish young woman and as an effeminate young man.
Age: 347 (born 1416)
Maker: Gilles de Rais
City of Origin: Champtocé-sur-Loire

Abilities: Though effectively autodidact the Countess of Lozère and Saint-Malo is a highly skilled vampire. Beyond blood spittle she has perfected the art of stealth over years of meticulous practice having achieved the ability of becoming completely invisible to the sight of humans, most animals and even a great many fellow vampires. She is also a highly competent shapeshifter. Rather unusually the Countess had managed to shapeshifter into a non-corporeal ethereal form as a mist of a fog. More recently, after a visit to the province of Gévaudan Genevieve has left for America possessing the ability to take the form of a strange unusually large and vicious canine creature of a wolf-like appearance. While she has thrown herself at the study of both hypnosis and blood magic (the later of which she is rather more knowledgeable of than the Society knows or would approve of) she remains very much a novice in both disciplines.
Religion: Roman Catholic
Languages Spoken: French, Latin, Middle English (not early modern English), Italian, Hungarian, Greek, Albanian, Turkish, Romanian, Arabic, Mozarabic, Castilian


Biography: Geneviève Sandrine Marianne Dagneau was born in the year 1416 in the Duchy of Brittany near Saint-Malo to a minor impoverished Breton French noble family that lost most its wealth and land during the War of the Breton Succession when they backed the French candidate Charles de Blois against his successful English rival John de Montfort. Geneviève's father provided for his family as a doctor while her older brothers farmed what little land the family retained.

By the time of Geneviève's birth the Hundred Year's War that had ravaged France for decades seemed poised to end. Following the disastrous defeat of the French at Agincourt months before Geneviève's birth the end of the Valois dynasty and the establishment of a new Angevin Empire on French soil seemed imminent to all. Devoted Armagnacs and Blesevins Geneviève's family observed with consternation as the wavering Duke John VI first re-annexed Saint-Malo to Brittany and then pursued a policy of fluidly changing allegiances. Dismayed at the duke the Dagneau family turned to Arthur de Richemont, the pro-French brother of the duke, after he was released from English captivity in 1420 when Geneviève was four, becoming supporters of this prominent nobleman and commander.

When in 1424 de Richemont pledged allegiance to the Dauphin, the future Charles VII, Geneviève's eldest brother Jean, twenty three at the time, joined the retinue of Arthur de Richemont with a handful of men-at-arms. When de Richemont was named Constable of France the year thereafter Jean, an able soldier, became one of his lieutenants.

The departure of her eldest brother to fight for the Armagnacs hit the young Geneviève hard. Having had a fairly uneventful childhood she was increasingly showing signs of nonconformity with the societal mores of her time. Disinterested in the feminine pursuits and virtues of a noblewoman she was an avid reader and an enthusiastic, somewhat skilled, student of martial pursuits. Jean her oldest brother had been tolerant and even supportive of his wild little sister's interest and with his departure Geneviève lost her closest friend and confidante, and began to find her life increasingly stifling.

Still life went on and regular letters from Jean giving detailed descriptions of his life in the service of the Constable captivated Geneviève's imagination, further encouraging her in her martial inclinations. As her second brother Philip in 1426 decided to join Jean the ten year old Geneviève shocked her family by declaring that she too would fight for France. In 1429 she did just that.

Early that year Geneviève's last brother Jacques departed for Chinon, the Royal Court to enter service in the French army. Disguising herself as a boy Geneviève decided to do so as well. Unlike an almost contemporary young woman making the journey from her home village to the court of Chinon to fight for France Geneviève's travel was uneventful. Without revealing her identity she entered service as a valet de guerre with the company of her brother Jean, who had risen to the rank of captain, just in time to partake in the Loire campaign under the command of Jeanne d'Arc, Pucelle de Lorraine, and the last best hope of the Armagnacs, and of France.

As a girl breaking with social mores herself by fighting, in disguise, in the war Geneviève naturally gravitated towards the Maiden and shortly before the arrival of the army at Orléans Geneviève became valet de guerre for Jeanne d'Arc herself who perceived the sex of the feminine looking valet. This appointment would however facilitate a disastrous encounter for Geneviève. Serving on the staff of Jeanne d'Arc Geneviève attracted the attention of Gilles de Rais. De Rais, a supporter of the Montfort dukes of Brittany, was naturally opposed to Blesevin elements in the contingents of Brittany, thus also to Geneviève's brothers Philip, Jacques and above all Jean who remained, at least nominally, supportive of the Blesevin cause.

As a ranking officer de Rais took advantage of the injury sustained by Jeanne d'Arc during the assault on Augustines to arrange for Jean's company of largely Blesevin Bretons to be used as canon fodder for the assault on Tourelles. Learning of this Geneviève petitioned Jeanne d'Arc to intervene and when the assault on Tourelles began on May 7 La Pucelle lead the troops to victory herself, having undone the arrangements of de Rais, taking Orléans for the French.

Infuriated and surprised at the thwarting of his scheme de Rais surmised that only someone on Jeanne d'Arc's staff would have had the opportunity to know both the battle plans and appeal directly to the Maiden. Spying on the people associated with Jeanne d'Arc he soon realized that Jeanne's valet de guerre was Breton and had served in the company of Jean Dagneau. Later he also began to suspect Geneviève's sex.

The Loire Campaign went on. The once precarious situation of the French monarchy was reversed in a series of stunning victories culminating in the final Battle of Patay where Geneviève's brother Jean personally captured the famed English commander John Talbot while the French routed the English army. For his deed Jean was later ennobled by Charles VII.

The fortune of both Jeanne and Geneviève however proved short. At the siege of Compiègne La Pucelle d'Orléans, was taken captive by the forces of Burgundy. She was later sold to the English, tried for heresy and burned on the stake. Disillusioned and in shock Geneviève decided to return to her home. She never made it.

In the aftermath of the execution of Jeanne d'Arc de Rais sought revenge for being thwarted. Having become a vampire sometime before he abducted and turned Geneviève in 1432 stealing her away to his castle at Champtocé-sur-Loire. De Rais, upon his retirement from the military, picked up a hobby of murdering children and eating them, usually sodomizing them beforehand, some times afterwards. Geneviève, his first victim, was to be his slave and assistant in this and he kept her capture at his castle in Brittany.

For eight years Geneviève was a prisoner of de Rais and endured the constant abuses and unspeakable monstrosities of the dark knight, while trying to cope with her newfound vampiric situation. Eventually de Rais was, by no small amount of scheming from Geneviève, brought to justice as his crimes was exposed by an ecclesiastic investigation which framed the crimes of de Rais as being merely that of a sociopathic human, for which he was executed. Geneviève was not found.

After de Rais' execution she fled to the Saint-Malo region. It was there that she learned that her brother Jean's bravery at the battle of Patay had not gone unrewarded, and that he had been ennobled and given the name Dagneau de Richecour, Geneviève adopted that name as well. She did however not rejoin her family. Always something of a black sheep of the family Geneviève, now a vampire, thought it best not to contact her family. After years of abuse by de Rais and still struggling to understand what her condition meant having learned little from de Rais, she found her freedom from de Rais as scary as it was exhilarating to begin to learn to live with her condition and avoid capture or death at the hands of the enemies of her kin. A devout catholic Geneviève determined to go on a pilgrimage to Rome, hoping to find answers and meaning to her strange new existence. Traveling by night, feeding on vagrants, brigands or weary travellers when she could find some or animals when she could not, and resting during the day in makeshift pits in the ground, she reached Rome in 1441, a tumultaric period for the eternal city. Preoccupied with the struggle between Pope Eugene IV and Antipope Felix V and their councils of Ferrara and Florence, the city was hardly a holy place, Geneviève nevertheless learned a lot during her brief stay in Italy. For there she learned for the first time of the existence of an underground 'Society of the Night'. The revelation stunned her. If de Rais had known of others like him and her he had not revealed so too Geneviève. Yet in Rome she learned of a powerful hierarchical government. It both startled and excited her. Getting into contact with the vampiric leadership she quickly surmised that while the idea of vampiric governance might be admirable the people in charge, a bunch of deranged heathens worshipping their leader as a god while professing a desire to overthrow human society, were not. Though de Rais had certainly never had any ties to this Society it nevertheless seemed to Geneviève that they were much like her despised maker. To avoid having to submit to this Society Geneviève decided to leave Rome. But before she left she came into contact with vampire hunters associated with the Catholic Church. Contemptible of Adonis and his inept and unsavory regime, Geneviève made some very discreet recommendations to the Holy Inquisition for which she was inducted into the Order of the Dragon on the recommendation of Hunyadi János, Voivode of Transylvania before leaving Rome.

Unable to settle permanently anywhere without coming under the yoke of the society Geneviéve determined to live a life of travel and adventure. Still a devout catholic and cross-dressing as a man she determined to take part in the crusade called against the Turks, traveling with the Hungarian contingent under the command of her benefactor the Voivode of Transylvania. The so-called crusade of Varna was an abject disaster, but during it Geneviève nevertheless learned how to exploit her vampiric condition during times of war. Employing a vampire's capacity for stealth she hunted enemy soldiers during the night, supplying her commanders with information on enemy positions. She would put these talents to use many times in the centuries to come.

Following Varna Geneviève briefly remained in Hunyadi's service but in 1445 she decided to go east. Her pilgrimage to Rome had been spiritually disappointing, but perhaps Constantinople and, above all, Jerusalem, would be more to her liking. She settled in Constantinople, suffering the rule of the local quaestor, for about a decade, the last of that city's independence from the rising power of the Turkish state. She found Constantinople much to her liking, learning Greek, she found a place that could offer her inquisitive and keen mind knowledge and learning like nowhere else she had ever been. She was present at the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 and watched in absolute horror as the Turks utterly destroyed the city. She did not stay to watch it be rebuilt as an even greater Ottoman capital but left after the battle with a burning hate against Mohammedans in general and Turks in particular.

She went north determined to stop further Ottoman invasions of Christendom. She became an associate of Skanderbeg, a fellow member of the Order of the Dragon, and rejoined with Hunyadi and the Hungarians under his command. But in Geneviève's early struggles against the Turks she is chiefly remembered for her association with Vlad III the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia. As a tutor, confidante and later royal mistress of the Impaler, she played a key role in organizing the famous Night Attack at Târgoviste, using her vampiric skills to orchestrate the attack. She came within twenty feet of sinking her fangs into the neck of the Sultan himself and changing the history of the world. But in the end she failed, and Târgoviste was to become the highpoint of Vlad the Impaler's career. Shortly thereafter he was deposed by Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary and replaced as Voivode of Wallachia by his brother Radu.

Though she lost faith in Vlad III the Impaler's ability to stay the Ottoman advance into Europe Geneviève quickly discovered a new potential leader of Christendom in the man who had captured Vlad. Matthias Corvinus, son of Hunyadi János, and one of the most dynamic and powerful rulers of Europe at the time. Rich, powerful and in command of terrifying Black Army of Hungary, perhaps the finest fighting force in Europe at the time, Geneviève saw in this Hungarian prince a ruler worthy of her services. She was however too be sorely disappointed. Though Corvinus proved in every way an extraordinary ruler and Geneviève were to thrive at his court the king was more concerned with warring with Bohemia and the Habsburg's than with driving the Turks back. Thus when Vlad the Impaler was released by Corvinus Geneviève went with him when he left for Transylvania.

The Impaler was absolutely determined to return to his throne, but receiving no help from Corvinus he was poorly placed to retake his principality. Aware that Geneviève was a vampire he convinced her to enlist the vampiric community of the Carpathians, a tribe of outcasts living outside the Society, to help him and had himself turned into a vampire, promising wealth, respectability and as much blood as they could drink to the Carpathian vampires. Geneviève, though she aided her former lover in this regard was growing disillusioned with Vlad's plan and his increasing cruelty. He reminded her far too much of Gilles de Rais and she no longer believed he could stop the Turks, or even hold on to the Wallachian throne. As Vlad prepared to enter Wallachia with Stephen of Moldavia's help, Geneviève decided to leave and extracted a promise from her former lover that he would not betray to the Society of the Night her various crimes against their laws. Vlad indulged the request and they parted as friends. The Impaler would reclaim his throne for a grand total of two months before being 'killed' by an Ottoman backed rival. Thereafter he settled in a castle on the borders of Transylvania and Moldavia becoming something of a chieftain amongst the Carpathian vampire community, a degenerate and itinerant group of destitute vampires living on the edges of the Society of Night.

After abandoning the Impaler Geneviève decided to bid farewell to the Balkans and return home to France. At home she found her brother Jean on his deathbed in the family chateaux. She considered turning him into a vampire but decided against it. Between running from vampire hunters and evading the control of the Society of the Night Geneviève could see no reason to deny her favorite brother a quiet dead in god's grace. She spent a few years traveling through France. Becoming acquainted with the exiled Margaret of Anjou Geneviève considered to throw herself into the War of the Roses on the side of the Lancaster to check Yorkist aggression against France, but eventually decided against such a course of action.

Instead, hearing a rumor of a crusade against Granada launched by the so-called 'Catholic Monarchs' Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon who, having won a civil war, had managed to unite their kingdoms. In 1482 Geneviève went to Granada to spy on the Mohammedans there in preparation for what she assumed was an imminent invasion. Instead she would spend ten years before the attack finally came. In this decade much of Geneviève's antipathy for Mohammedans would be challenged by the sophisticated, tolerant and enlightened country she found herself in. Granada, she concluded, was an altogether different state from Turkey. Exposed to the tolerance of Andalusia towards sodomy Geneviève began to question her own carnal appetites and even began to wonder if her admiration for 'La Pucelle' had been entirely platonic. Before the invasion came Geneviève had become so conflicted about the whole thing that she ended up double-crossing the Castilians attempting to broker peace. It failed and in 1491 Granada capitulated but the Mohammedans and Jews of the state was offered religious freedom in the now unified kingdom of Spain. The subsequent Alhambra Decree therefore stunned Geneviève, who regarded it as a dishonorable betrayal of the peace treaty. Geneviève's objections was so vocal and forceful that she attracted the ire of Tomás de Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor of All Spain and the pre-eminent vampire hunter in Western Europe at the time. Torquemada was a fearsome foe to have won and so when Christopher Columbus returned from India Geneviève determined that it was time for a change of scenery and decided to join the explorer's second journey to India.

This presented an obvious problem for Geneviève. While she could easily feign being a man, and had in fact learned to be so inconspicuous as to be invisible staying hidden in the confined quarters of a ship during the day for months while having no source of feed but the crew, presented an obvious challenge. Yet she managed to arrange herself in such a manner as to avoid detection and in 1493 she became probably the first European vampire to set foot on American soil.

Unlike Columbus Geneviève quite quickly suspected that she was in fact not in India (later in life she has occasionally remarked that she, not Amerigo Vespuccio, was the first person to conclude the existence of a new world and that perhaps the new world should be named after her instead of Vespuccio). The place seemed rather large and not entirely as Geneviève, who had read Polo in Constantinople, thought India should look like. During the night, when the crew of the armada slept, she snuck inland and visited the interior of the islands discovered on the second voyage.

WIP.
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I have a feeling our characters will be connected

Also a clear role model for Nadia-Marie; I expect there'll be some French, anti-society, vampire fan-girling on my part!

[Nea Videssos]

NS Name: of the Quendi
Character Name: Geneviève Sandrine Marianne D'Agneau de Morangias Richecour, Comtesse de Lozère et de Saint-Malo
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Seems like a familiar character.

[Of the Quendi]

I have a feeling our characters will be connected

They probably will, Geneviève will in time (like quite a few people I guess) become a courtier at Louis XIV's court so they will probably meet.

Also a clear role model for Nadia-Marie; I expect there'll be some French, anti-society, vampire fan-girling on my part!

Glad to hear it.

Seems like a familiar character.

Yes, I am recycling quite a bit from Imperialisium's Masquerade RP, I am assuming that's what you are thinking about? I do plan to change and develop the character rather a bit more though.