Phillipe Rigaud
- Chicago -ChiTown- Sabbat -ChiTown- City Gangrel
Sobriquet: Phillipe doesn't care for nicknames and is a little too serious, although Wendy has several not-so-nice ones for him. Most of the Sabbat in Chicago just call him by his last name, Rigaud.
Appearance: Rigaud is tall and slim, with pale emaciated features, straight black hair worn slicked back and a dapper pencil-thin mustache on his upper lip. Phillipe always dresses in black and gets a fair amount of lip from the other Sabbat of Chicago for dressing like an undertaker.
Behavior: Phillipe has survived a very long time as a vampire and a Sabbat, as such he is paranoid almost to the point of insanity. He knows every trick in the book for watching events from the shadows and influencing events from a distance. The only member of the Sabbat who interacts with him regularly is Wendy Wade, his apprentice scout and partner in crime. They are more than allies, but Phillipe won't even admit to himself the depth of his feelings for Wendy which he disguises as professional concern. He is especially cautious as he has come to learn that there are a pair of ancients in Chicago battling one another. The stakes in Chicago are deeper than Rigaud would like and he knows he plays a superbly dangerous game with such beings in the city, but the potential gain for the Sabbat should they take Chicago is quite literally immeasurable. Phillipe watches over his Sabbat charges like a hawk, aware of their quirks and appreciating their eccentricities without taking very much flak from them. If the Sabbat is to win Chicago over, he will need every member of the Sabbat available and as many Camarilla converts as he can get, and it still might not be enough. In for a penny, in for a pound.
History: When Louis the XIV, France's legendary Sun King, invaded Holland in 1672, Phillipe Rigaud was a soldier of the light cavalry units that scouted the area or, more commonly, raided the area. While these soldiers did not share their king's dislike of Calvinism, Republicanism and Dutch economic ascendancy, they did enjoy a good opportunity.
Phillipe's unit was better than most in seizing each village in its path, carrying away whatever was portable and destroying the rest. Its free reign over the countryside ended when the Dutch took the extreme step of opening the dikes. Most of Phillipe's unit died in the ensuing floods. Phillipe himself had actually been scouting; having climbed a windmill to get a better view of the area, he had the good fortune to escape the waters. Cursing the Dutch, Phillipe prepared to make his way back to France.
However, he and most other mortals did not know that the European wars of the Sun King were in fact only one part of the continent-spanning wars between the newly formed Camarilla and the Sabbat rebels. The invasion of Holland had been a cover by the Camarilla to try and wipe out that northern bastion of its enemy. Phillipe discovered this one night as he camped out in the desolate countryside. His sleep was rudely interrupted by two crazed Sabbat vampires seeking new blood and "recruits" to use as cannon-fodder against their foes.
Phillipe managed to empty his two pistols into the attackers before they were on him. The sight of the two creatures unaffected by bullets was enough to almost send his fatigued mind to the edge of madness, and when they sank their teeth into his flesh he went over the edge. While he was unconscious they looked into his mind, learned what he had been doing for the last few weeks and judged him fit for their purposes.
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