Katla Thranddottir

Ventrue -x- York -x- Talk:Lineage of Mithras

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Appearance: Katla is tall and muscular, with long black hair tied into a thick braid that trails down her back. Her face is cold and stern, with piercing blue eyes. She wears clothes that do not restrict her movement. Her fashion sense tends towards the masculine, as she rejects the weaknesses that society associates with femininity.

Behavior: Katla revels in the power gained through her Embrace and the prestige of her Ventrue birthright. She commands respect at all times and does not suffer fools lightly, she often challenges her rivals directly in the hope of intimidating them into making a fatal mistake. Those who spend enough time around her may sense that she is on the edge and likely to free her Beast at a moment's notice. She nurses her resentments quietly, most especially John's rise to authority in York, a position she feels she should have held had it not been for the weakness that drove her into torpor so long ago.

History: Born in Jorvik to prominent Viking jarl, Katla quickly drew the attention of the vampire prince's seneschal, Thrand. The einherjar saw in her a cunning intellect and a warrior's heart, as well as ties to one of the most important mortals in the city, Katla's father. Her Embrace was sudden and unwelcome, and she made vain attempts to resist. After a time, she grew accustomed to her newfound abilities and vowed she would never be overpowered again. Katla's Embrace gave Thrand increasing influence among the kine, and her keen mind provided him with a valuable political advisor. Shortly after her training was complete, Thrand moved against his sire Julian Cerialis and wrested control of the city from the elder. Katla became seneschal, and an ambition to one day become prince of Jorvik grew in her heart.

Julian did not give up so easily, however, and used his agents in the city to create civil disorder among mortals and Cainites. In 965, Jorvik fell to the Saxons and Thrand and Katla were forced out by an alliance of Brujah and Toreador insurgents. The subsequent decades saw fierce conflict between factions vying for the city, and Katla fell to torpor in 980.

More than two centuries later, she was shaken from her slumber by the mass suicide of the Jewish population in the city, and awoke in a shallow grave some distance to the south. Following the air of blood to the carnage, she made her way to York Castle to find an angry mob chanting in a language she did not understand. Her tattered Viking era clothing and axe caught the eye of Eyolf Ivarsson who was attempting to placate the crowd. He approached warily, recognizing Katla from the days when Danes ruled Jorvik.

Katla learned much had changed in her absence, and that John was now prince of the city. The Beast raged within Katla, and she pushed through the crowd towards the castle. The building was ablaze. She reached the door just as John and his servant Leland descended the staircase. Katla issued a challenge to John and intended to destroy the usurping prince, but Eyolf arrived just in time to ease the situation.

Learning that John was blood-brother to her sire, and that Mithras had effectively taken control of England, Katla agreed to cooperate to topple the Methuselah and win York's independence. Her anger tempered, she resolved to accept John's rule until she could regain the city by less direct means.

Rest in Peace: The fate of Katla remains a mystery, although stories handed down through the centuries among the Venture of Leeds suggest she was destroyed during the Anarch Revolt, the details remain sketchy surrounding the circumstances of her final death.