Anargyros Ansel

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Sobriquet: Preacher Man (Sabbat slang)/ Reverend (Anargyros preferred title)

Appearance: Anargyros appears to be a aging black man in his fifties. His elegant features and aura of personal grace make him a figure of authority whether he is wearing sweats for game of street basketball or his formal robes. The Embrace has left him pale compared to his mortal coloration, unless he has fed recently, his skin is a chocolate-gray and his eyes are a kind of burnt gold. He stands six feet tall and probably weighs something like 170 pounds.

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History: Anargyros Ansel was born on a sugar plantation in the Parish of St.John the Baptist, some twenty-five miles outside of New Orleans in Louisiana in 1755. His parents, Christianized and educated slaves, were brought to Louisiana from the Haiti by their French masters in the 1720s. From an early age, Anargyros experienced fits that preceded visions and conversations with angels and saints, so much so that Catholics from nearby parishes and plantations would walk many miles to speak to him or watch him enter one of his divine fits. As such, over time, he became quite famous and something of a living saint to the slaves of the sugar plantations located all along the German Coast.

In January of 1811, Anargyros participated in the largest slave uprising in the history of North America. The uprising likely due to similar uprisings at the time in Haiti, led a band of rebels to burn several sugar plantations and march on New Orleans. Anargyros served these rebellious slaves as their spiritual advisor. Sadly, the uprising only lasted a few days after which the escaped slaves were captured, interrogated, tortured and then executed.

Like his fellows Anargyros would have met this same grisly fate, but for the appearance of a nocturnal apparition in the form of a pale priest named Lazarus. The nocturnal priest claimed that god had heard Anargyros' prayers and communicated to him in dreams that he must provide Anargyros with a escape from his bondage. Anargyros upon hearing of what was to become of him, refused, preferring to die rather than become one of the Children of Caine. His protests fell upon deaf ears as Lazarus saw this dark deed as God's will and Embraced Anargyros regardless.

For obvious reasons, relations between sire and childe remained rocky for decades. Despite this, Anargyros remained at his sire's side for nearly fourty years. But, the growth of the Abolitionist movement swept the American South, and at this time visions from God ignited in Anargyros the drive to split with his sire and make his way north along the Underground Railroad. That same year, 1849, Anargyros met Harriet Tubman, a black woman with whom he shared much. They shared a brief, bittersweet relationship which ended when she discovered Anargyros' Cainite nature. Despite this, they remained friends and allies up to Harriet's death in 1913. Anargyros' travels and adventures as a conductor of the railroad took as far north as Detroit where he finally settled with the permission of the then prince, Lamothe Bardigues. Second Baptist Church of Detroit became Anargyros' station and he conducted countless slaves to freedom across the border in Canada. His vampiric disciplines aided him in avoiding slave-catchers and at hiding his charges.

During the American Civil War he continued his efforts to lead slaves to freedom from the American south, but he also aided the northern forces of the Union. Although a pacifist in general, when riled to righteous anger, his wrath often took biblical proportions after which he would retreat into isolation to commune with God or the angels. After the war and the Emancipation Proclamation, Anargyros turned his efforts towards Negro suffrage. Compared to his previous battles he found this far more difficult than freeing slaves or battling the vampires of the American south.

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