Toreador: Inmortui de Rosis
Toreador: Inmortui de Rosis (The Dark Path of Roses)
De cognatione Rose libro sermonum dierum (Histories of the Toreador Clan)
The influence of the Toreador was important, always, in France. But the control of Paris and the rest of the country was always divided between most of the Clans of the Kindred. Until Alexandre and Saviarre succeeded in becoming King and Queen of France, slowly extending their control over all France.
But Paris had been regularly ignored as a common city among others, either by the commercial or courtly world. But, since the execution of the Templar Jacques de Molay, on a pyre, Alexander slowly lost his mind, Saviarre taking the tentative control of France under the name of her Sire. But then, in its paranoia, Alexander ordered a massacre that decimed the Clan Toreador.
Paris had, then, an stealthy visitor in the person of Helena of Troy. She had come here investigating about the possible discovery of Menele's presence in France. Her childe, Beatrix, had little information to give her, but she had the time to tell her about Alexander's action.
Helena had little time to investigate, and was little inclined to lose her time when she could try to find her arch-enemy. Her gift to Paris was a poor, somewhat cynical, violent and most of all, genius poet: François Villon. Soon, Villon sided with the Anarchs, fighting the Ventrue Masters of France along with his friend, the Toreador who would be called Ivan.
Filii Helenam
The progeny of Helena, Filii Helenam, have been banished from Rome for life as a result of the crimes of one of their number, Mercuzio Tiberus. This fledgling Toreador dared along with his coterie of allies to invade the Vatican Necropolis for the purposes of plunder to steal a relic like no other. Captured by the White Monks, he was imprisoned in Carceri Piranesi, the dreaded wizard's gaol. His sentence is for life, but only months after his arrival, he contrives with several other prisoners and outside forces to escape and now the western church has made his capture and return to the wizard's gaol their goal. The other childer of Helena have made their way to Paris to begin new lives and start over, if that is possible.
- Eletria of Sparta -- Lady Aesthete of Sparta.
