Harold Tanner
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| Character: Harold Tanner | Nature: [] | Clan: Nosferatu |
| Player: NPC | Demeanor: [] | Generation 9th |
| Chronicle: London - PB | Concept: [] | Sire: Richard de Worde |
| Allegiance: [] | Domain: [] | Coterie: Nosferatu of London - PB |
| Birth: | Weakness: [] | Embrace: |
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| ATTRIBUTES | ||
| Physical | Social | Mental |
| Strength ●○○○○ | Charisma ●○○○○ | Perception ●○○○○ |
| Dexterity ●○○○○ | Manipulation ●○○○○ | Intelligence ●○○○○ |
| Stamina ●○○○○ | Appearance ●○○○○ | Wits ●○○○○ |
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| ABILITIES | ||
| Talents | Skills | Knowledges |
| Alertness ○○○○○ () | Animal Ken ○○○○○ () | Academics ○○○○○ () |
| Athletics ○○○○○ () | Crafts ○○○○○ () | Enigmas ○○○○○ () |
| Awareness ○○○○○ () | Etiquette ○○○○○ () | Finance ○○○○○ () |
| Brawl ○○○○○ () | Firearms ○○○○○ () | Investigation ○○○○○ () |
| Empathy ○○○○○ () | Larceny ○○○○○ () | Law ○○○○○ () |
| Expression ○○○○○ () | Melee ○○○○○ () | Medicine ○○○○○ () |
| Intimidation ○○○○○ () | Performance ○○○○○ () | Occult ○○○○○ () |
| Leadership ○○○○○ () | Ride ○○○○○ () | Politics ○○○○○ () |
| Streetwise ○○○○○ () | Stealth ○○○○○ () | Science ○○○○○ () |
| Subterfuge ○○○○○ () | Survival ○○○○○ () | Theology ○○○○○ () |
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| Secondary Abilities | Backgrounds | Merits & Flaws |
| [[]] ○○○○○ () | Allies ○○○○○ () | --- |
| [[]] ○○○○○ () | Contacts ○○○○○ () | --- |
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| --- | Fame ○○○○○ () | --- |
| Disciplines | Generation ○○○○○ () | --- |
| Clan Discipline 1 ●○○○○ () | Herd ○○○○○ () | --- |
| Clan Discipline 2 ●○○○○ () | Influence ○○○○○ () | --- |
| Clan Discipline 3 ●○○○○ () | Mentor ○○○○○ () | --- |
| Extra Discipline ○○○○○ () | Resources ○○○○○ () | --- |
| Extra Discipline ○○○○○ () | Retainers ○○○○○ () | --- |
| --- | Status ○○○○○ () | --- |
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| Health Levels | Humanity | Virtues |
| Bruised (0) - { } | ○○○○○○○○○○ () | Conscience ●○○○○ |
| Hurt (-1) ---- { } | --- | Self-Control ●○○○○ |
| Injured (-1) - { } | Willpower | Courage ●○○○○ |
| Wounded (-2) - { } | ○○○○○○○○○○ () | --- |
| Mauled (-2) -- { } | --- | --- |
| Crippled (-5)- { } | Bloodpool | --- |
| Incapacitated- { } | ○○○○○○○○○○ | --- |
| Final Death | ○○○○○○○○○○○ | --- |
Sobriquet
Harold Tanner, “Holborn Harry”
Appearance
Harry is the archetypal Nosferatu — a horrible visage linked with an incisive and inquisitive mind. Harry has also inherited his sire’s more sophisticated tastes and is usually both charming and urbane, despite his ravaged visage and stooped body. When attending the prince or Lady Anne he wears fine clothes, tailored specially for him, but Harry’s usual dress is that of a resident of the rookery. For all his civility, however, he takes great pleasure in distressing some of the more snobbish Kindred with his appearance and odor; his Embrace left him with a hunched back, bloated body and perpetual scent of rot. Furthermore, while the Embrace saved Harry from the plague, it did not eliminate the disease from his body; many of those he feeds from suffer lesions and boils, though few die or suspect anything more than the unsanitary conditions of the rookery.
Behavior
You are a font of wisdom on the goings on in London, particularly the seedy underbelly of mortal life and Kindred unlife. You listen attentively and know just how to play people to get the information you desire while giving as little as possible in return. You never lie — telling a falsehood is completely against your morality as an information broker — but you are well versed in circumlocution, avoiding the issue at hand with clever wordplay.
History
Harry’s earliest memories are of the caves beneath Nottingham where his father worked as a tanner; the twisting sandstone passages seemed as much a home to him as the streets of Narrow Marsh and Drury Hill. By the standards of the town, his family was rich and influential and Harold received a top-notch education. He was a bright student and thirsty for knowledge, but as he grow older a dark side of his character began to emerge. He did not like to have information withheld from him — deliberately or by omission — and took to sneaking around, listening at doorways and snooping where he should not. In a young child, this was seen simply as mischievousness, but as Harold grew it took on a more sinister aspect. Discovered spying on his elder brother and his new wife, Harry was sent away to the abbey school at Westminster, where he was expected to learn discipline and restraint from the monks.
The privations of the school went some way to tem-pering Harold’s desires, structured learning replacing his insatiable quest for knowledge, and he surprised his family by deciding to take vows and become a monk. He studied in the Abbey’s libraries but also added to their knowledge, writing several treatises on life in the capital during the early years of what became the Hundred Years War. His keen observations and ability to discern the forces behind public goings on caught the attention of Richard de Worde, the Nosferatu spymaster for Prince Mithras. De Worde would frequently call upon Harold’s insights, while leading the scholar-monk to believe he was nothing more than a wealthy, albeit afflicted, patron. The terrible events of the mid-14th century would change that and unsettle the politics of the city for decades. In 1348, the Black Death swept into London from the continent, ravaging the population in waves for the next two decades. Westminster was not immune to the scourge and Harold fell victim to the plague. De Worde could not bear to lose someone he considered a superlative scholar, and with the permission of the prince, he revealed his true nature and Embraced the dying monk.
The transformation to the vampiric state saved Harold at the same time it cursed him, purging his body of foul humors. Ironically, his sire was less fortunate; in a quirk of fate, De Worde contracted the Black Death — one of the few mortal diseases capable of harming a vampire — after only seven years tutoring his protégé, succumbing to Final Death in the spring of 1356. Although unready to replace his sire, Harry had built up a network of contacts throughout London that he administered from the abbey, and over the next century he became a key member of the Nosferatu network in the city.
The dissolution of the monasteries in 1537 and the religious strife that followed destroyed Harry’s network and base of operations, and he spent a century traveling in Britain and Europe, returning to London shortly be-fore the civil war. Narrowly escaping death in the Great Fire, he found refuge among the common people he had studied in life, eking out an existence in the slums that bordered the Thames. Prominent Kindred sought him out for his insights, and Harold soon found himself peripherally attached to the prince’s cohort. Unlike his sire, who sought to integrate himself into the prince’s retinue, Harold prefers to keep his distance (though he is quite capable of adopting airs and graces when required). Indeed, he seems to seek out the roughest and most de-spicable parts of the city, currently residing in the slum district known as St. Giles’ Rookery.
Notes
Although he pretends to be pained by the holiness of Westminster Abbey and St. Paul’s Cathedral, Harry is in fact immune to the Faith effects associated with the churches, something he believes is a legacy of his Embrace within the abbey precincts.
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