Magdalena Blanchard
Appearance: Magdalena is a shortish woman with ample curves, who projects a force of personality that can overwhelm her physical appearance. It is easy to overlook the pock marks and crow's feet on her face, and not only because her make-up tends toward the heavy side. She is always impeccably dressed in the latest Paris fashions, though she demonstrates little flair for accessorizing beyond what she can get from reading the latest magazines and fashion blogs. Likewise, though her hair changes from night to night, it is always possible to find her style of the night on the cover of a glossy magazine.
Background: Magdalena was groomed at an early age to be a socialite. Inspired by the ideals of the Revolution, her mother believed that such training would attract the perfect husband, and give her daughter the fairy-tale life she could never have. Thus, by the time she was 10, the farmer's daughter was more at home organizing a soiree than milking a cow (a task at which she was absolutely hopeless). Alas, a bout with the pox marred her face, and, despairing of ever marrying a useless daughter off, her father sold 13-year-old Magdalena to a brothel.
Ten years later, Magdalena had graduated from servicing customers to ensuring that the establishment attracted a better sort of customer. Her obsession with ensuring that every customer got exactly what he wanted, no matter the difficulty, eventually attracted the eye of one of the brothel's more difficult clients. Thus began a relationship that culminated, some decades later, in the Madame's embrace.
But sire and childe were to part ways a short time later: Magdalena was not content with her place in society, given her new powers and perspective. She fled to Paris, where she spent three decades under the reluctant protection of the city's Malkavian Primogen. However, the city's harpies were merciless, digging up embarrassing details about her rural past, and endlessly mocking her as a phony Toreador. Eventually, Magdalena fled, and drifted from city to city, before finally finding a place in Glasgow, as the keeper of Elysium. She is known to prefer the company of the most erudite and cultured. In Glasgow, this is her fellow Parisian exile, Frédéric le Parisien.
Personality: If you are not satisfied, if you are not having a good time, Magdalena will find a way to fix it. In truth, the ardor with which she approaches this quest can be intimidating, and some resort to plastering on false smiles and engaging in insincere small-talk whenever she draws near just to avoid an increasingly desperate series of attempts to placate her party-goers. Those who she perceives as having ruined her parties have been known to be the butt of Elysium gossip for months.
