Valentina della Passaglia

Ghosts

Valentinism

During one of the last great maelstroms, between the two World Wars, a loyal ghoul named Valentina della Passaglia died protecting her mistress, according to the few Giovanni who privately believe in Valentinist ideas. Publicly, like the rest of the clan, they call her a traitor. They say she was driven insane by the Malkavians or owed favors to the Setites or was misled by the Lasombra or simply fucked in the head by whatever mind-smashing beings crawl the ghettos of the Underworld. Traditionally, any discussion of Valentina della Passaglia ends with threats, boasts of what a Kindred would do to her: "I'd bind her to her own femur and ass-fuck the Pope with it," et cetera, et cetera.

This is because Valentina della Passaglia returned as a Spirito and desperately warned her family that if they succeeded in calling the Endless Night, their power over spirits would be lost, not completed. Valentina insisted that destroying the sudario would leave the Giovanni at the mercy of the very spirits they'd been using and tormenting for centuries.

This idea was not popular, and it still isn't. However, more than one Giovanni vampire privately believes (or fears) that she's right. No-one's about to openly defy the anziani, but then again, the Giovanni have never been known for operating openly.

Valentina's ghost hasn't been seen around for decades. Maybe someone caught her and dealt with her. Maybe she was destroyed in a maelstrom or by one of the Underworld's other perils. Or maybe she simply knows what her fate will be if she has contact with her family.