Anargyros Ansel
- Detroit -D- Sabbat -D- Malkavian Antitribu
Sobriquet: Preacher Man / Bishop
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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 fifty 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.
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