In the Still of the Night
NAME GIVEN AT BIRTH: Solvena Bridget Nuallain
BORN: 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH: Belfast, Ireland
DATE OF BIRTH: October 13, 1898
LANGUAGES: Gaelic, Spanish, English
PARENTS: Muiris Mícheál Nuallain, Erin Muir Nuallain
EMBRACE: 1922
History: Solvena was born in Belfast, to Irish Nationalist parents. Her family was killed by Irish Unionists, and she was sold on the black market to Spanish aristocracy, taken as an indentured servant, a child of six. Solvena was raised by servants, and used to entertain the children of the rich Spanish family she lived with. While in church she was taught to sing by the nuns, and found to have a stunning voice. At the age of twenty she ran away from her captors, hiding in the streets, using her voice to earn money to survive.
Making her way to Barcelona, she started her singing career in the dockside taverns which is where Ligeia X found her, and after talking with her offered her the embrace. After becoming Kindred Solvena and her sire toured the European capitols until settling in Berlin during the height of the decadent Weimar Republic. It was there among the glamorous film palaces that Solvena made the acquaintance Karen Anatos a silver screen starlet Embraced by an unknown Gangrel in Germany's Black Forest in 1923.
The two neonates formed a fast friendship while partying through the Roaring Twenties in Europe's most decadent and licentious city - Berlin. During those wild years they went everywhere together and were inseparable regardless of locale: from gritty bars and brothels, to underground clubs and casinos, the mansions of the filthy rich and the Art-Deco movie theaters where art was exalted above both religion and science. But nothing mortal lasts forever and the Crash of 1929 brought the festivities to an end and ushered in the Third Reich. Ligeia X orchestrated their escape, but they were separated until accidentally bumping into each other in a dusty little cabaret in Casablanca, Morocco in 1941.
The two friends have stayed in touch since then even as they moved in differing circles across the continents and the long decades of the Twentieth Century.
