Charles Amour

Paris -P- The History of the Ventrue in Paris -P- Ventrue -PLBE- The Ventrue in Paris 1900

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Name: Charles	Nature: Director	Generation: 6
Player:	Demeanor: CareTaker	Haven: 'Apartment under Paris Bourse
Chronicle: Paris - La Belle Epoque	Clan: Ventrue
Concept: C.E.O. Director	Apparent Age: 40	Sire: Saviarre
Birth/RIP: 1223/1360
	Attributes
Physical	Social	Mental
Strength: ****	Charisma: ****	Perception: ***
Dexterity: ***	Manipulation:****	Intelligence: *****
Stamina: *****	Appearance: ****	Wits: ****
	Abilities
Talents	Skills	Knowledges
Alertness:**	Animal Ken:	Academics: ***
Athletics: *	Crafts:	Computer:
Brawl: ***	Drive: **	Finance:***** **
Dodge: **	Etiquette: ****	Investigation: **
Empathy: **	Firearms: ****	Law: ****
Expression: *	Melee: ****	Linguistics: ****
Intimidation: ***** *	Performance: ***	Medicine:
Leadership: ****	Security:	Occult: *
Streetwise: **	Stealth: *	Politics: ***
Subterfuge: ****	Survival: **	Science: *
Intrigue: **		Lore: Kindred *
Style: ****		[[Lore: Camarilla **
		Lore: Ventrue: ***
		Paris Knowl.: ***
		Secrets: ***
	Advantages
Disciplines	Backgrounds	Virtues
Dominate: *****	Status: ****	Conscience: **
Fortitude: ***** **	Elder Status: **	Self-Control: ****
Presence: *****	Ventrue Prestige: ***	Courage: ****
Auspex: ****	Esprit: **
Potence: ***	Allies: ***
	Army Forces: ****
	Contacts: ***** *
	Fame: *****
	Herd: ***
	Influence ***** *
	Resources: ***** *
	Retainers ***
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Other Traits	Humanity	Health Levels
Paranoia, limited 2 Merits	***	Bruised
Iron Will 3 Merits		Hurt -1
Calm Heart 3 Merits	Willpower	Injured -1
	***** ****	Wounded -2
		Mauled -2
	Blood Pool	Crippled -5
	ooooo ooooo	Incapacited

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Bio

Sobriquet: Charles

Appearance

While Charles was ghouled at the age of 30, his hair lost their dark color to became gray-white. He is a man of large build, and with perfect style and manners. Controlled, with an apparent gentleman's behavior, he appears to be the perfect type of husband for most women. He allies both the appearance of beautiful and young body and the mature side of some kind of caring father, commanding and just (Of course, he is neither!).

Charles’ self-control and pride always means he always wears expensive clothes, succeeding in appearing to be cool and rich in the same time. He normally wears grey suits, and his hair short worn backward (He has his shoulder-length hair and two-days beard cut and cared for each night).

Behavior

Self-control is the key word of Charles, and allied with his awing appearance, his style, his etiquette and his leadership of a very successful faction of the Clan Ventrue, Charles has more than enough reasons to be full of pride.

Still, he doesn't wear the contemptuous expression he sees in the eyes of the Legitimists (He believes they they are dead weight for the Clan) He is never disagreeable to other Kindred, even the Bâtards. After all, you never know who could serve as a willing pawn...

History

A Ghoul of Saviarre, Charles showed enough financial talent to her to ask Alexandre the right to Embrace him. Alexandre, already weakened (in a mental viewpoint), accepted, but soon became jealous of the Neonate. Soon, he gave him menial tasks, giving important matters to other Neonates, or even Ghouls. He even once openly mocked Charles' taste for prostitute's blood.

Charles didn't understand the King's reaction, and even less his own Sire's. She supported her husband even when it was obvious the mad king was wrong.At the same time, the fires of Anarch Revolt were starting to rage across Europe. Charles soon found he was Blood Bonded to Saviarre, but not to Alexandre, which allowed him some freedom of thought about killing the one he considered to have enslaved the Clan Ventrue within the borders of his own madness.

Soon, word reached about the violence of the Anarchs. The Lasombra Clan founder had been killed in 1405, soon followed in 1413 by the death of the Tzimisce Clan founder. All killed by Anarchs.

Charles was approached in 1471 by François Villon and the Cour des Miracles, a French coterie of Anarch Kindred hidden within the mortal Cour des Miracles. Villon, L'Homme de Peu de Foi, Ivan and the other Anarchs had little difficulty convincing him Alexandre was to be destroyed for the common good. Charles, frightened by such events, accepted on the condition Saviarre would be spared. Villon accepted (but secretly deciding that if Saviarre was to be destroyed in the attack, it would be better), and Charles conspired for the last nights of Alexandre, the Kindred King of France.

The attack occurred in 1481, and much to Charles delight (and Villon's anger), Saviarre wasn't in Alexander's palace. The Methuselah proved very hard to kill, and most of the Anarchs were destroyed, thus weakening the group.

Some believe it was tthis reason that made Villon join so fast (and so easily?) the new Camarilla after the Convention of Thorn signed in 1493. Charles searched for Saviarre, but never found her. As Paris had been the theater of conflagrations, the Anarchs thought more and more as time passed that Saviarre had been destroyed, too.

As Villon became the Chambellan of the new Toreador Prince, Beatrix, Charles wondered if it hadn't been a colossal intrigue to put Toreador in the throne while weakening the Clan Ventrue. He wondered if the rising of the Republican branch of the Clan wasn't too much of a coincidence.

Charles entered Torpor, and only awakened after the crowning of Napoleon, in the 19th Century. The Legitimists were declining, and the Republicans were heavily engaged in politics, still losing most battles against the Prince. Charles reaction at learning Villon was prince was a mix a irony and disgust.

He decided, then, to take the power of money, as the power of nobility seemed to be as volatile as the people's tolerance to its excesses. The Giovanni, defeated by Napoleon's army, had removed their interests from France, and the financial tide of Charles won over. He decided to forget all this nonsenses about principles and to get the power over money, no matter the sacrifices.

He learned the contemporaneous usages and etiquette, learned Esprit the hard way, and in the shadows, took over most industries, forgotten by the Toreador (money can be such a bore when you have to watch over your workers) and by the Republican Ventrue. He founded, then, the third sub-Clan Ventrue of Paris, nicknamed decades after the Bourgeois.

Charles has his haven under the Paris Bourse.

Since, Charles, with his instinct and his financial talent, since succeeded in obtaining and keeping partial control of most french great industries and C.E.O., and even Sired Leonard to take over the control of the Mafia which was installing in France (controlled by the Brujah Don Caravelli, and soon after his death, by his rebellious Childe Dona Vanessa).

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