Tacitus

Gangrel -SPQR- Rome -- medieval

Sobriquet: The Silent or The Mute

Appearance:

Behavior: Tacitus was a mute who communicated with his hands. He enjoyed inflicting all forms of pain, but preferred emotional pain most of all. His modus operandi consisted of stalking a mortal, finding out everything about them and discovering who and what they loved best. Then beginning with those things, pets or people the person loved least, he would destroy them one at a time, always leaving the remnants behind where they would be found by his chosen victim. Working his way through the loved ones of the victim, he would not stop until the chosen prey would beg for death, thus ending the cycle. Once one prey was killed he would begin the whole process all over again with someone new. This style of hunting could not serve his daily need for blood, it was a hobby and he mostly fed from beasts. Beloved by his comrades in Pupilli Nocturna, he was known for traveling outside the Aurelian walls and returning with beautiful, rare or unusual gifts for his coterie members.

History: On the night he died, Tacitus was over three hundred years old. This suggests that he was Embraced sometime in the 8th century.

Rest in Peace: In mid-June of 1094 A.D., Tacitus and four other members of the Pupilli Nocturna led an attack on Eadwulf of the Ventrue. Tacitus was slain and as he was over three hundred years old, his body crumbled into bones and dust. But in the near instantaneous decay of his body, a host of small black-birds were released from his eye sockets, mouth and chest cavity.