Benoîte Glaisyer

New Orleans

Sobriquet: Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

Appearance: Benoîte appears to be an elderly Afro-American woman in her late eighties or early nineties. Her eyes are dark and sunken into her head, but they still shine with the inner fire of her intellect. Benoîte's skin has the consistency of dark parchment; time has not been kind to Benoîte, as she can now easily pass for a walking mummy. She always wears a headscarf of purple silk wrapped around her head. Her ears are pierced, once only, as tradition dictates. Other than her pearl earrings, her only other jewelry is an amethyst pendant that she wears around her neck on a necklace of ivory beads brought from the heart of Africa. She wears simple white blouses of homespun cotton and knitted skirts of violet linen. Most of the year, she wears simple sandals, but, in the wet winters of Louisiana, stout shoes of leather are a necessity. As a Voodoo Queen, Benoîte has never wed and wears no rings on her fingers, as they are simbolic of submission to another's will, regardless of whether that is a man, a spirit or a god. She sometimes wears a straw hat on sunny days and she always carries a stout stick of old Louisiana oak as her cane.

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Recent Events: In the last few nights, Benoîte has been contacted by a small group of vampires foreign to New Orleans and asked to aid them in an internal matter. They have requested that she and the other coven-leaders of the Quadroon Legacy aid them in invading the local Tremere Chantry by taking down the wards that ban other vampires from entering the shrines of the Warlocks. While she despises the Tremere vampires for what they represent, she hold no personal enmity towards them and questions the wisdom of the Quadroon Legacy becoming involved this vampiric matter; yet, there is profitable motive to pursue at least a short-term alliance: the recovery of Yannic Voclain's long lost map, which in turn could reveal the resting place of the Box of Maman Brigitte.