Alexander of Vienna's Statistics
Circa: 2013 C.E.
History: Alexander isn't your real name, not that you remember your real name. Originally, a childe of Polish tenant farmers, you ran away at the age of 12 with the carnival that came to town and you never looked back, not once. For the better part of the next decade you wandered Europe with the carnival, at first just selling tickets, doing acrobatics with the dwarves, picking pockets and just about every menial task you were given. When you started to grow, you were apprenticed to the Strong Man and filled out considerably, but the muscle act didn't suit you and you pleaded with the carnival master to let you play in the acting troupe and seeing a hansom young man, he agreed. It wasn't long before you had the lead and every night was spent in another bed with a bottle in your hand, but this wasn't to last.
In 1773, the carnival came to Vienna to play along its side streets and at its many fairs, it is here that you met your destiny; during the day, you and your carnival friends would ply the streets with the many and varied con-games and at night you would play the lead in the impromptu plays of the carnival. One day, your games went badly when a mark was a little too quick and you ended up in a Vienna prison cell; the mark turned out to be a member of the Austro-Hungarian Secret Service and he was impressed with your skills. You were given a choice, join the service of the emperor or hang from the noose as a thief, you didn't like the choice, but life is like that sometimes and your captor became your mentor.
Your years spent picking pockets and playing out con-games turned out to be an asset and your natural flair for acting made you an ideal spy; you served the empire admirably for thirty-four years and would have liked to rise in the service, but without the pedigree of aristocracy you were relegated to the position of field agent for life. You made the best of it and more impressively managed to survive, even flourish, in a position that usually kills its members if they don't get promoted and thirty-four years is an impressive stint in the field, as any spy will tell you. Still you had survived and you were planning on retiring, you had even picked out a nice house in southern Spain in which to live out your remaining years.
You should have known better, it was in Vienna where you had begun your adventures so many years before that you were betrayed and left for dead; you were moments from death when your master arrived and you were given the choice between death and another form of service. Nostalgically and ironically, you made another tough choice, but life is like that and you quickly adjusted to the life of a ghoul, for your master wanted another of his kind watched. Your first year was a harrowing one, but you have served your master well and it wasn't long before you were embraced.
Two centuries have passed, from Vienna to London and then to Sofia you have remained undercover and watched as a master plot has unfolded and now you begin to understand at least some of your master’s plots and you are afraid, for you have lived three hundred years and you don't want to die. You realize only now, that you are in way over your head, but this is the only life you have ever known. You sit and ponder, while playing out the hand that has been dealt you, trying to turn everything to your advantage. Who knows, maybe you will survive even this...
Haven: Sofia City Sewers
Clan: Nosferatu
Generation: 7th
Born: 1752
Embrace: 1812
Sire: Vaclav Petalengro (Thaddeus)
Nature: Conniver
Demeanor: Enigma
Apparent Age: No one ever sees your face, who can say?
Physical: Strength 4, Dexterity 6 (moving silently), Stamina 4
Social: Charisma 2, Manipulation 5, Appearance 0
Mental: Perception 5 (eavesdropping), Intelligence 4, Wits 5
Talents: Alertness 4 (ambushes), Athletics 3, Brawl 4 (claws), Dodge 5 (bullets, close quarters), Empathy 3, Expression 3, Intimidation 3, Leadership 3, Streetwise 5 (finding people, finding elicite services), Subterfuge 5 (half-truths)
Skills: Animal Ken 5 (commands, summoning), Crafts 3, Drive 3, Etiquette 3, Firearms 4 (pistols), Melee 4 (knives), Performance 5 (acting, pantomime), Security 5 (locks, booby-traps), Stealth 6 (Shadowing, getting lost in a crowd, leave no trace), Survival 4 (Central Europe)
Knowledges: Academics 3, Finance 3, Investigation 5 (physical, records), Law 4 (European), Linguistics 4 (accents), Medicine 2, Occult 3, Politics 4 (prestation), Science 2
Disciplines: Animalism 5, Auspex 4, Celerity 4, Dominate 3, Fortitude 3, Obfuscate 6 (conceal), Obtenebration 6 (shadow slumber), Potence 5
Discipline Techniques: A couple based on Obfuscate and a couple based on Obtenebration.
Sorcerous Paths: None.
Rituals: None.
Backgrounds: Allies (Austrian Intelligence), Contacts 5, Generation 6, Influence 1, Mentor 6 (his sire), Resources 5 (secret accounts), Retainers 5 (agents), Status 2
Virtues: Conscience 1, Self-Control 3, Courage 4
Path of Enlightenment: Humanity 4
Willpower: 8
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