Mercy

Malkavian Antitribu -x- Sabbat -x- Montreal -x- El Tribunal

Sobriquet: Knight Inquisitor

Appearance: Mercy is as far from pretty as she is from the quality of her namesake. Her facial features are compact and squat, though she has a proportionate build for her height. Her mannerisms are brutish and she wears revealing clothing, despite her lack of a beautiful body. Some wonder why the Toreador ever Embraced her to begin with, not realizing South American Toreador are heavily involved in the region's legitimate religions.

Background: Despite her name, Mercy exhibits no such trait. She earned her moniker -- her birth name is Allisandra -- from the pleas of her victims, and she represents a new breed of vicious, young Sabbat coming to power. As Inquisitor, her authority is unquestioned within her sect. A native of Rio de Janeiro, Mercy currently resides in Montreal, where she investigates ongoing rumors of infernalism. Were it merely a matter of righting the situation regardless of the consequences, Mercy would be a perfect candidate for the job. Unfortunately, Mercy's solutions are invariably destructive; fellow Inquisitors refer to her tactics as carpet-bombing.

Before her Embrace, Allisandra was a mortal acolyte of La Regla Lucumi, a religion of strong ethics and responsibility stemming from the Yoruba of Africa. Following her Embrace into the Sabbat, however, she had difficulty reconciling her religion with her new status as eggun, a member of the dead. Her worship degraded along with her humanity, forcing her to seek religious fulfillment from Santeria fringe cults. With each slip, her compassion and kindness fell away as well, eventually leaving behind a woman capable of unthinkable atrocities.

In Rio, Camarilla Toreador shared influence with Sabbat Lasombra in an uneasy and unlikely truce that stemmed from a mutual interest in Rio's mineral wealth. Allisandra, however, displayed a knack for destruction and mayhem that continually threatened to upset the precarious peace between the two sects. She relished her freedom and pursued her blood-lust with little care for conventions. Street children vanished in increasing numbers, and the authorities regularly found body parts floating in Guanabara Bay. In one incident, police discovered eleven members of a Santeria church who had been tortured and strung up like sides of beef in a slaughterhouse. Although the public never heard the story, both the local Sabbat and Camarilla knew of the reports and suspected Allisandra of the deed. The murdered Santeria worshipers had been Allisandra's friends during her mortal years.

Strangely enough, it was the Lasombra who reacted to the situation and "encouraged" Allisandra to go to Mexico City. The Lasombra did not want to censure their Toreador antitribu sister, but they worried that her continued activities might threaten the tenuous peace. Allisandra finally left after she found mortal members of her blood cult murdered and drained as a warning to her.

In Mexico City, Allisandra became Mercy, a nickname she earned while hosting torture parties. However, her religious practices and the ritualistic manner in which she killed attracted the attention of the then Knight Inquisitor Alfred Benezri, a member of the Shepherds coven of Montreal. The Knight Inquisitor found Mercy innocent of any infernal dealings, and the two quickly formed a bizarre alliance. Alfred was curious about Santeria, and Mercy, in turn, was interested in the Inquisition. With Benezri's help, she eventually joined the faction.

For the last twenty-five years, Mercy has served the Sabbat Inquisition as a Knight Inquisitor. Despite this responsibility, she remains brutal. Her fellow Inquisitors have even accused her of destroying innocent Sabbat (if there ever was such a thing) and being sloppy. Her saving grace, however, is her efficiency in tracking and uncovering infernalists as well as her knowledge of La Regla Lucumi and Mesa Blanca, two religions practiced throughout the Americas. These skills have led her to Montreal, domain of the current Bishop Alfred Benezri, her ally, and home to a whirlpool of heresy. Due to the strength of the region's Sabbat and the recurring problems of infernalism, the Inquisition keeps Mercy and her pack in the area to prevent future heresies. Mercy however, sees corruption everywhere. She watches everyone from afar, allowing her presence to do her work for her, and regularly interrogating local Cainites.

In 1998, Mercy found evidence that were used against Sangris and later, when Sangris proved to have switched his body with that of an Inquisitor, she executed a brutal purge against her own faction. After Alfred Benezri's ascension to Archbishop, Mercy stayed behind, continually watching for heresy. While Mercy entered the Sabbat Inquisition because of Alfred Benezri, that once strong mentor-ship has soured. Mercy's presence in Montreal taxes the archbishop's patience, and her current agenda to uncover heresy in the Librarians is the final straw.

Mercy suspects her informer Marie-Ange Gagnon to be double-dealing, but ignores her as a lesser concearn. Through her spy, Mercy knows of the presence of a D'habi ghoul in the city, but not who sent her. Mercy is aware that the D'habi brought the Shroud of Kaymakli to Montreal, presenting a fragment of the Book of Nod written in "questionable" Latin texts spreading tales about the Gehenna, but she cares little to such Noddist matters.

Mercy plans to discover the truth behind the Librarians and already thinks them guilty. Perhaps not all of them are infernalists, but in her opinion at the very least Christanius Lionel and the D'habi Rhania are tainted. If Mercy cannot capture Rhania or Christanius for a trial, she will use Marie-Ange instead, even though the Librarian's Judas wanted to remain anonymous.

Personality: First and foremost, Mercy is a Cainite, and she revels in the power that her cursed condition provides. Secondly, Mercy is a Inquisitor, for there is no thrill quite equal to being a hunter among predators. Above all other things, Mercy is a malicious being, interchanging the role of hunter and tormentor easily. Whether its making people squirm in her presence or cutting them to hear them scream for... Mercy... she likes having influence over others.

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