Talk:Benesj Cherno
So who killed him? Why? Or was that never explained? Keith 3/31/2016,10:49 AM MST
Now that is an interesting question. But before it can be answered correctly, it must placed in chronological order.
To begin with, Benesj Cherno was the Bulgarian alias of my Old Clan Tzimisce character. Like the rest of the coterie, he traveled back in time in service to the Tal'meh'Ra to help save the world from Augustus Giovanni's ritual of the Long Night. Numerius the ancient Roman True Brujah sent the group back in time by combining the level 7 Dur'an'ki ritual with his own high levels of Temporis, thereby changing the course of history.
After the group returned in time, they were mortal again and sought out the true Black Hand so that they could join the ancient cult and have some say in who embraced them. In Morgan and Bruce were embraced by a very ancient Old Clan Tzimice called: Svarozic of the Getae, Childe of Zalmoxis of Kogaionon. Bruce was renamed Benesj and Morgan became Marius. They emigrated to Bulgaria and lived in Gabrovo Grad. Marius became the official prince and Benesj his seneschal, but in reality, Benesj held all the power.
When it was discovered that the Councilor Meerlinda of Clan Tremere was sending dreams backwards in time to herself, presumably trying to change history for her own reasons, Numerius detected her temporal meddling and sent the coterie to stop it. Again with Turn back the Skies, but this time without augmenting it with Temporus. One of the group was meant to assassinate Meerlinda, dying the final death. But the group arrived centuries too early, the early 3rd century instead of the early 11th century. The group played out a previously unknown mission carried out by one Kateb Zeke, an Assamite sorcerer enslaved by Numerius to acquire some of the ancient Ventrue Mithras' blood so that Numerius could raise his own generation to 4th. In many ways the plan worked, but there were numerous side effects and unintended events. One such occurred when time traveling coterie finally arrived in the 11th century and one of them had to be chosen to kill Meerlinda. The coterie drew straws and Benesj had the shortest straw. With an artifact of ancient power: Fang of the Ouroboros (Item 1) acquired while the group was in the 3rd century, he succeeded in diablerizing Meerlina in the 11th.
Of course, one of the other unintended circumstances was that in becoming Meerlinda with the Fang, Benesj's 11th century host Blagoy Zhivkov's soul had nowhere to go, except forwards into the future with the rest of the coterie when the ritual ended. Paradox it seems was not without a sense of humor and Blagoy's soul merged with Benesj's modern body. When the rest of the coterie woke up from the ritual, Blagoy had entered the 21st century. Its important to read about Blagoy and his history, but he was ultimately killed by one of Benesj's doppelgangers Blake, a young Lasombra antitribu seeking a name for himself and working for the Tremere as an undercover archon.
From their first meeting, Blagoy and Blake clashed violently, only the Marius (Morgan's character) could keep them in line and one night he failed as Blagoy tried to kill Blake and was killed in turn. Of course the story doesn't end there, as Blagoy was a skilled necromancer who triggered a ritual even as he died, thus becoming a wraith.
I think its important to understand that Blagoy was never really a true doppelganger, at least not in my opinion, but he death at the hands of Blake might have given the young Lasombra the idea that he was a true doppelganger and that destiny had dictated the outcome of their battle.
In anycase, I hope I have answered your question. Please let me know if you need to know more. -- "The Magister 19:33, 31 March 2016 (MDT)"
