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;[[The Gangrel of 1900]]
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;[[The Gangrel of 1900]] -PLBE- [[Paris - La Belle Époque]] '''-LPB-''' [[London - Pax Britannica]] ~◇~ [[Keepers of Harpocratis]]
 
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|[Sire's Image|center]||[Character Image|300px]||[clan logo|center]
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|[[File:Gangrel clan logo.png|center|200px]]||[[File:Gangrel Malken Fitzroy 2.jpg|400px]]||[[File:Gangrel clan logo.png|center|200px]]
 
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|'''Character:''' ''Malken Fitzroy'' ||'''Nature:''' ''[[Capitalist]]''||'''Clan:''' ''[[Gangrel]]''
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|'''Character:''' ''Malken Fitzroy'' ||'''Nature:''' ''[[Fanatic]]''||'''Clan:''' ''[[Gangrel]]''
 
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|'''Player:''' ''Bruce''||'''Demeanor:''' ''[[Bravo]]''||'''Generation''' ''9th''
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|'''Player:''' ''Bruce''||'''Demeanor:''' ''[[Curmudgeon]]''||'''Generation''' ''9th''
 
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|'''Chronicle:''' ''[[Paris - La Belle Époque|Paris - LBE]]''||'''Concept:''' ''Smuggler Captain''||'''Sire:''' ''[[Niels Frank]]''
 
|'''Chronicle:''' ''[[Paris - La Belle Époque|Paris - LBE]]''||'''Concept:''' ''Smuggler Captain''||'''Sire:''' ''[[Niels Frank]]''
 
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| '''Allegiance:''' ''[]'' || '''Reservation:''' ''[]'' || '''Coterie:''' ''[]''  
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| '''Allegiance:''' ''[]'' || '''Ship:''' ''[[The Demeter]]'' || '''Coterie:''' ''[]''  
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| '''Born:''' 1760 || '''Weakness:''' ''Cat Features'' || '''Embraced:''' 1830
 
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| --- || '''Cameo:''' [[Shore Leave]] || ---   
 
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| --- || '''Cameo:''' [] || ---   
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| --- || '''[[Demeter Logbook]]''' || --- 
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| --- || '''London:''' [[41 Harleyford Rd]] || --- 
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| --- || '''Paris:'''  || ---   
 
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|'''Physical'''||'''Social'''||'''Mental'''
 
|'''Physical'''||'''Social'''||'''Mental'''
 
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|Strength <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span>||Charisma <span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span>||Perception <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span>
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|Strength <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○()</span>||Charisma <span style="font-size:large">●●●●○</span>||Perception <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span>
 
|-
 
|-
|Dexterity <span style="font-size:large">●●●●○</span>||Manipulation <span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span>||Intelligence <span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span>
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|Dexterity <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○()</span>||Manipulation <span style="font-size:large">●●●●○</span>||Intelligence <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span>
 
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|Stamina <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span>||Appearance <span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span>||Wits <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span>
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|Stamina <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○()</span>||Appearance <span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span>||Wits <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span>
 
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| ||'''ABILITIES'''||  
 
| ||'''ABILITIES'''||  
 
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|'''Talents'''||'''Skills'''||'''Knowledges'''
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|'''Talents''' ([[M.F.- T.S.]]) ||'''Skills''' ([[M.F.- S.S.]]) ||'''Knowledges''' ([[M.F.- K.S.]])
 
|-
 
|-
|[[Alertness]] <span style="font-size:large">●○○○○</span> ()||[[Animal Ken]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()||[[Academics]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()
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|[[Alertness]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> ()||[[Animal Ken]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> ()||[[Academics]] <span style="font-size:large">●○○○○</span> ()
 
|-
 
|-
|[[Athletics]] <span style="font-size:large">●○○○○</span> ()||[[Commerce]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()||[[Enigmas]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()
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|[[Athletics]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> ()||[[Artillery]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> ()||[[Bureaucracy]] <span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span> ()
 
|-
 
|-
|[[Awareness]] <span style="font-size:large">●○○○○</span> ()||[[Crafts]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()||[[Hearth Wisdom]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()  
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|[[Awareness]] <span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span> ()||[[Boat Handling]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●●○</span> ()||[[Cryptography]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> ()  
 
|-
 
|-
|[[Brawl]] <span style="font-size:large">●○○○○</span> ()||[[Etiquette]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()||[[Investigation]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()
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|[[Brawl]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> ()||[[Commerce]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●●○</span> ()||[[Investigation]] <span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span> ()
 
|-
 
|-
|[[Empathy]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()||[[Firearms]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()|| [[Law]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()
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|[[Empathy]] <span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span> ()||[[Etiquette]] <span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span> ()|| [[Law]] <span style="font-size:large">●○○○○</span> ()
 
|-
 
|-
|[[Expression]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()||[[Melee]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()||[[Medicine]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()
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|[[Expression]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> ()||[[Firearms]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> ()||[[Linguistics]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> ()
 
|-
 
|-
|[[Intimidation]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()||[[Performance]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()||[[Occult]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()
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|[[Intimidation]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> ()||[[Larceny]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> ()||[[Medicine]] <span style="font-size:large">●○○○○</span> ()
 
|-
 
|-
|[[Leadership]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()||[[Ride]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()||[[Politics]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()
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|[[Intuition]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> ()||[[Melee]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> ()||[[Military Science]] <span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span> ()
 
|-
 
|-
|[[Legerdemain]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●●○</span> ()||[[Stealth]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()||[[Science]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()
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|[[Leadership]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●●○</span> ()||[[Pilot]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●●○</span> ()||[[Occult]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> ()
 
|-
 
|-
|[[Subterfuge]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()||[[Survival]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()||[[Theology]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()
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|[[Sense Deception]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> ()||[[Ride]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> ()||[[Politics]] <span style="font-size:large">●○○○○</span> ()
 
|-
 
|-
| --- || --- || ---  
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|[[Streetwise]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> ()||[[Stealth]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> ()||[[Science]] <span style="font-size:large">●○○○○</span> ()
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|-
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|[[Subterfuge]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> ()|| [[Survival]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●●●</span> () || ---  
 
|-
 
|-
| --- || --- || ---  
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| --- ||Geography <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span>  || ---  
 
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|'''Disciplines'''|| '''Backgrounds''' || '''Merits & Flaws'''
 
|'''Disciplines'''|| '''Backgrounds''' || '''Merits & Flaws'''
 
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|[[Animalism]] <span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span> ()||[[Allies]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()|| [[Ambidextrous]] - 1pt (m)
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|[[Animalism]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> ()||[[Allies]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●●●</span> ([[Cult of Mithras|CoM]])|| [[Animal Affinity]] - 2pt (m) [cats]
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|[[Fortitude]] <span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span> ()||[[Contacts]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()|| [[Bruiser]] - 1pt (m)
 
 
|-
 
|-
|[[Protean]] <span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span> ()||[[Domain]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()|| [[Catlike Balance]] - 1pt (m)
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|[[Fortitude]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> ()||[[Contacts]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●●●</span> ()|| [[Catlike Balance]] - 1pt (m)
 
|-
 
|-
|[[Obfuscate]] <span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span> ()||[[Fame]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()|| [[Animal Affinity]] -- 2pts (cats)
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|[[Protean]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> ()||[[Generation]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●●○</span> ()|| [[Gift of Proteus]] - 4pts (m)
 
|-
 
|-
|[[Potence]] <span style="font-size:large">●○○○○</span> ()||[[Generation]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()|| ---
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|[[Potence]] <span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span> ()||[[Mentor]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●●○</span> ([[Eadric Asgerr]])|| ---  
 
|-
 
|-
|[[Celerity]] <span style="font-size:large">●○○○○</span> ()||[[Influence]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()|| ---
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|[[Celerity]] <span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span> ()||[[Resources]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●●○</span> ()|| [[Beast in the Mirror]] - 1pt (f)
 
|-
 
|-
|[[]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()||[[Mentor]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()|| ---
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| --- ||[[Retainers]] <span style="font-size:large">●●●●●</span> ()|| [[Beast's Reflection]] - 2pt (f)
 
|-
 
|-
|[[]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()||[[Military Force]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()|| ---
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| --- ||[[Secrets: London]] <span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span> ()|| [[Vulnerability to Silver]] - 2pts (f)
 
|-
 
|-
|[[]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()||[[Resources]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()|| ---  
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| --- ||[[Secrets: Paris]] <span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span> ()|| ---  
 
|-
 
|-
|[[]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()||[[Retainers]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()|| ---  
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| --- ||[[Status]] <span style="font-size:large">●○○○○</span> ()|| ---  
 
|-
 
|-
| --- ||[[Status]] <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> ()|| ---
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| --- ||[[Domain]] <span style="font-size:large">●○○○○</span> ()|| ---  
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|'''Health Levels'''|| '''Humanity''' || '''Virtues'''   
 
|'''Health Levels'''|| '''Humanity''' || '''Virtues'''   
 
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|'''Bruised (0)''' - { }|| <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○○○○○○</span> () || Conscience <span style="font-size:large">●○○○○</span>   
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|'''Bruised (0)''' - { }|| <span style="font-size:large">●●●●●○○○○○</span> () || Conscience <span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span>   
 
|-
 
|-
|'''Hurt (-1)''' ---- { }|| --- || Self-Control <span style="font-size:large">●○○○○</span>
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|'''Hurt (-1)''' ---- { }|| --- || Self-Control <span style="font-size:large">●●●●○</span>
 
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|-
|'''Injured (-1)''' - { }|| '''Willpower''' || Courage <span style="font-size:large">●○○○○</span>  
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|'''Injured (-1)''' - { }|| '''Willpower''' || Courage <span style="font-size:large">●●●●○</span>  
 
|-
 
|-
|'''Wounded (-2)''' - { }|| <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○○○○○○</span> () || ---  
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|'''Wounded (-2)''' - { }|| <span style="font-size:large">●●●●●●○○○○</span> () || ---  
 
|-
 
|-
|'''Mauled (-2)''' -- { }|| --- || --- 
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|'''Mauled (-2)''' -- { }|| <span style="font-size:large">●●○○○○○○○○</span> () || [[Current Story Notes]]
 
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|'''Crippled (-5)'''- { }|| '''Bloodpool''' || --- 
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|'''Crippled (-5)'''- { }|| '''Bloodpool''' || [[Malken's Boons]]
 
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|-
|'''Incapacitated'''- { }|| <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○○○○○○</span> || --- 
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|'''Incapacitated'''- { }|| <span style="font-size:large">●●●●●●●●●●●●●●</span> (14)|| [[Malken XP]]   
 
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|-
|'''Final Death'''|| <span style="font-size:large">○○○○○○○○○○○</span> || --- 
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|'''Final Death'''|| <span style="font-size:large">●●●●●●●●●●●●●●</span> || [[18th Century Lingo]]
 
|}
 
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=Bio=
 
=Bio=
 
==Sobriquet==
 
==Sobriquet==
 
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Captain / Malken
 
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==Appearance==
 
==Appearance==
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Malken's Embrace came late in life and his seventy odd years are reflected in his mane of white hair and silvery beard. His angular hawk-like face reveal a life lived hard with thick crows-feet around his eyes which are sunken into the sockets of his skull.
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==History==
 
==History==
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Malken served with Henry Stern in the Navy.  Malken has established himself as a privateer of some renown.  Skillful and crafty, he has learned to walk the fine line between pirate and honest merchant captain.
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Malken and Niels have a strained relationship, with Malken bristling under Niels blunt and abrasive leadership style. A good upstanding member of his clan, Malken attends most ''Allthings'' in Paris.
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Malken was born in London upon the Isle of Dogs in the year 1760. The bastard son of a local whore and an itinerate sailor, Malken was the eldest child of his mother's brood of eleven brats. The boy grew up fast in a age when life could be both brutal and short. His mother, a habitual drunkard, introduced him to a life of crime when she involved him in her avocation of prostitution. Initially just a lookout Malken graduated to pimp when he learned the fine art of haggling. The boy excelled in this ugly business to the benefit of his younger siblings who would have starved while his mother drank away the profits.
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When Malken was still quite young his mother contracted siphilus and she was dead before he turned ten. It was at this point that Malken made a life altering decision when he joined the British Royal Navy. The decision itself was far from heroic, but then again Malken set aside half his pay to ensure his brothers and sisters grew up in the care of an elderly widow in need of coin. Perhaps it was simply a pragmatic decision that permitted him to escape a sordid life of poverty and starvation. Regardless of Malken's moral ambiguity he did succeed in escaping his old life for one of both danger and opportunity as a warship's powder-monkey.
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Life aboard the H.M.S. Nightshade, a thirty-six gun frigate, was anything but easy. Malken's role as powder-monkey was dangerous work fetching casks of black-powder from the lower stores and bringing it to the gun deck for use in the twenty-four inch guns during battle both mock and real.
 
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== Known Kindred ==
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=== London ===
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* [[Paul Bedwell]] -- Agent Provocateur<br>
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* [[Halim Bey]] -- Alexandrian Merchant
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* [[General Sir Arthur Halesworth]] -- Sheriff of South London<br>
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* [[Rathe Haversham]] -- East End Fagin
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* [[Stephen Lenoir]] -- Guide to London's Lost
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* [[Juliet Parr]] -- Sheriff of North London
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* [[Nathaniel Simmons]] -- Scourge of London
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* [[Henry Stern]] -- Toreador (London)<br>
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* [[Remington Stark]] -- Brujah (London)
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=== Paris ===
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* [[Leviathan]] -- Gangrel (Paris) ''Anarch''
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* [[Collissa Montpellier]] Daughter (Paris)
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* [[Domonkos Csilla]] -- Giovanni (Paris)
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* [[Fra'Raymond]] -- Dealer of Catholic Antiquities
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Latest revision as of 22:04, 3 November 2024

The Gangrel of 1900 -PLBE- Paris - La Belle Époque -LPB- London - Pax Britannica ~◇~ Keepers of Harpocratis
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Character: Malken Fitzroy Nature: Fanatic Clan: Gangrel
Player: Bruce Demeanor: Curmudgeon Generation 9th
Chronicle: Paris - LBE Concept: Smuggler Captain Sire: Niels Frank
Allegiance: [] Ship: The Demeter Coterie: []
Born: 1760 Weakness: Cat Features Embraced: 1830
--- Cameo: Shore Leave ---
--- Demeter Logbook ---
--- London: 41 Harleyford Rd ---
--- Paris: ---
--- --- ---
--- --- ---
ATTRIBUTES
Physical Social Mental
Strength ●●●○○() Charisma ●●●●○ Perception ●●●○○
Dexterity ●●●○○() Manipulation ●●●●○ Intelligence ●●●○○
Stamina ●●●○○() Appearance ●●○○○ Wits ●●●○○
--- --- ---
--- --- ---
ABILITIES
Talents (M.F.- T.S.) Skills (M.F.- S.S.) Knowledges (M.F.- K.S.)
Alertness ●●●○○ () Animal Ken ●●●○○ () Academics ●○○○○ ()
Athletics ●●●○○ () Artillery ●●●○○ () Bureaucracy ●●○○○ ()
Awareness ●●○○○ () Boat Handling ●●●●○ () Cryptography ●●●○○ ()
Brawl ●●●○○ () Commerce ●●●●○ () Investigation ●●○○○ ()
Empathy ●●○○○ () Etiquette ●●○○○ () Law ●○○○○ ()
Expression ●●●○○ () Firearms ●●●○○ () Linguistics ●●●○○ ()
Intimidation ●●●○○ () Larceny ●●●○○ () Medicine ●○○○○ ()
Intuition ●●●○○ () Melee ●●●○○ () Military Science ●●○○○ ()
Leadership ●●●●○ () Pilot ●●●●○ () Occult ●●●○○ ()
Sense Deception ●●●○○ () Ride ●●●○○ () Politics ●○○○○ ()
Streetwise ●●●○○ () Stealth ●●●○○ () Science ●○○○○ ()
Subterfuge ●●●○○ () Survival ●●●●● () ---
--- Geography ●●●○○ ---
--- --- ---
--- ADVANTAGES ---
Disciplines Backgrounds Merits & Flaws
Animalism ●●●○○ () Allies ●●●●● (CoM) Animal Affinity - 2pt (m) [cats]
Fortitude ●●●○○ () Contacts ●●●●● () Catlike Balance - 1pt (m)
Protean ●●●○○ () Generation ●●●●○ () Gift of Proteus - 4pts (m)
Potence ●●○○○ () Mentor ●●●●○ (Eadric Asgerr) ---
Celerity ●●○○○ () Resources ●●●●○ () Beast in the Mirror - 1pt (f)
--- Retainers ●●●●● () Beast's Reflection - 2pt (f)
--- Secrets: London ●●○○○ () Vulnerability to Silver - 2pts (f)
--- Secrets: Paris ●●○○○ () ---
--- Status ●○○○○ () ---
--- Domain ●○○○○ () ---
--- --- ---
--- --- ---
Health Levels Humanity Virtues
Bruised (0) - { } ●●●●●○○○○○ () Conscience ●●○○○
Hurt (-1) ---- { } --- Self-Control ●●●●○
Injured (-1) - { } Willpower Courage ●●●●○
Wounded (-2) - { } ●●●●●●○○○○ () ---
Mauled (-2) -- { } ●●○○○○○○○○ () Current Story Notes
Crippled (-5)- { } Bloodpool Malken's Boons
Incapacitated- { } ●●●●●●●●●●●●●● (14) Malken XP
Final Death ●●●●●●●●●●●●●● 18th Century Lingo

Bio

Sobriquet

Captain / Malken


Appearance

Malken's Embrace came late in life and his seventy odd years are reflected in his mane of white hair and silvery beard. His angular hawk-like face reveal a life lived hard with thick crows-feet around his eyes which are sunken into the sockets of his skull.




Behavior



History

Malken served with Henry Stern in the Navy. Malken has established himself as a privateer of some renown. Skillful and crafty, he has learned to walk the fine line between pirate and honest merchant captain. Malken and Niels have a strained relationship, with Malken bristling under Niels blunt and abrasive leadership style. A good upstanding member of his clan, Malken attends most Allthings in Paris.


Malken was born in London upon the Isle of Dogs in the year 1760. The bastard son of a local whore and an itinerate sailor, Malken was the eldest child of his mother's brood of eleven brats. The boy grew up fast in a age when life could be both brutal and short. His mother, a habitual drunkard, introduced him to a life of crime when she involved him in her avocation of prostitution. Initially just a lookout Malken graduated to pimp when he learned the fine art of haggling. The boy excelled in this ugly business to the benefit of his younger siblings who would have starved while his mother drank away the profits.


When Malken was still quite young his mother contracted siphilus and she was dead before he turned ten. It was at this point that Malken made a life altering decision when he joined the British Royal Navy. The decision itself was far from heroic, but then again Malken set aside half his pay to ensure his brothers and sisters grew up in the care of an elderly widow in need of coin. Perhaps it was simply a pragmatic decision that permitted him to escape a sordid life of poverty and starvation. Regardless of Malken's moral ambiguity he did succeed in escaping his old life for one of both danger and opportunity as a warship's powder-monkey.


Life aboard the H.M.S. Nightshade, a thirty-six gun frigate, was anything but easy. Malken's role as powder-monkey was dangerous work fetching casks of black-powder from the lower stores and bringing it to the gun deck for use in the twenty-four inch guns during battle both mock and real.


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Known Kindred

London



Paris