Deceased, Banished, and Retired NPCs

Type: Wolf-Blooded.
Virtue: Fortitude. If you don’t have your principles, you don’t have anything.
Vice: Pride. Everyone has their ego; but some are larger (and more fragile) than others.

Background: Grantham Holloway was born with the proverbial silver spoon. Wealthy, high society family surrounded him. The Holloways have always been high achievers – whether in business or politics, the name Holloway and the city of London are virtually synonymous.

A private school kid, Grantham had the best education money could buy – the highest rated school in the city and additional tutelage for everything he studied. His parents gave him every advantage they could. They cared for their son in the way that many of the rich do; absently, fondly, but without much real depth or warmth. Grantham was raised by a nanny, and grew up trying to please his parents and live up to the family name.

Obtaining impressive qualifications in Law, Grantham was hired by a private law firm. He worked hard at this job, winning more than his fair share of cases. But private law wasn’t really what he wanted to do – when he was offered a position with the Crown Prosecution Service, he took it.

Eventually, Grantham’s path collided with that of Olivia Reid, a professor of archaeology. Initially only seeming interested in a case, Olivia saw great value in Grantham – and not just as a contact, or even for his blood. Their association soon sparked into a full-blown romance… not that many people even know they have met. Grantham is one of the few people who knows about the wider supernatural world, and that he himself has supernatural blood.

Together they investigated his heritage; none of the other Holloways had wolf-blood, so why did he? Their research suggested his mother had an affair with a werewolf. Attempts to track him down proved futile, but Grantham was not too concerned – if not for the affair, he wouldn’t exist.

Now Grantham works with Olivia and the Temple Guard. He knows that he won’t, in all likelihood, become a werewolf himself. But he is a valuable asset and friend in more ways than one – and maybe, just maybe, there will someday be the pitter-patter of little werewolf feet.

Personality: On the battlefield (read: the courtroom), Grantham is ruthless. Merciless. He brings the full force of his intelligence and resourcefulness to bear on his opponents. He is always prepared and thoroughly researched. This isn’t to say he always wins – who does? But he isn’t the Chief Crown Prosecutor of his area for nothing.

Otherwise, he is considerably more liberal than one might imagine for a high class lawyer. He gives generously to charity and supports various causes. Grantham’s opinions are often noted in London news, making him a minorly important figure – but unmistakeable to those who follow law and politics.

Age: Forty-one.
Eye Color: Brown.
Hair Color: Black. With perhaps one or two greys beginning to creep in.
Skin Tone/Complexion: Fair.
Hair Style: Short, simple and neat – very easy maintenance.

Figure Notes: Grant leads a fairly sedentary life, and it shows. Still, he could be in worse shape.

Clothing Notes: Suits, in general. He tends towards plain black with white shirts and single-colour ties. They are often expensive designer names – which makes it a shame that they are usually hidden beneath his court robes.

Accessories: --

Other: --.

Attributes

Mental - Intelligence •••, Wits •••, Resolve ••••
Physical - Strength ••, Dexterity •, Stamina •••
Social - Presence •••, Manipulation •••, Composure ••••

Skills

Mental – Academics •••• (Law, Research), Computer ••, Investigation ••, Occult •, Politics ••, Science •
Physical – Athletics ••, Firearms ••
Social – Animal Ken (Wolves) •, Empathy ••• (Lies, Motives), Expression (Speeches) ••••, Intimidation •••, Persuasion •••, Socialize ••, Subterfuge ••

Morality 7

Merits - Wolf-Blooded ••••, Resources •••, Fame •, Reason (Debate Style) •••, Contacts (Lawyers, Politicians, Police, Finance) ••••, Allies (Temple Guard) ••, Status (Lawyer) ••••, Trained Memory •, Emotional Detachment •

Advantages

Defence - 1
Health - 8
Initiative - 5
Speed - 8
Willpower - 8

Type: Ghoul
Regnant's Covenant: Cult of Augurs/Ordo Dracul
Regnant's Clan: Mekhet
Enthralled: 1726



Virtue:
Vice:

Background:

Personality:

TMental Attributes: Intelligence 3, Wits 4, Resolve 4
PPhysical Attributes: Strength 5, Dexterity 4, Stamina 4
SSocial Attributes: Presence 2, Manipulation 3, Composure 4

TMental Skills: Academics 2, Investigation 4, Medicine 1, Occult 3
PPhysical Skills: Athletics 3, Brawl 2, Larceny 1, Stealth 4, Weaponry (Gladius, Pilum) 5
SSocial Skills: Empathy 3, Expression 2, Intimidation (Nightmarish Shout) 4, Persuasion (Leadership, Seduction) 3, Socialize 2, Subterfuge 3

Merits: Armored Fighting 2, Languages (Arabic, English, Latin; Native is Italian) 3, Fast Reflexes 2, Fighting Style (

• Testudinem Formate Move at only half speed and cannot attack, but grants a bonus to defense against ranged weapons for each ally in the formation, to a max of +5 •• Ciringite Frontem Forgo Defense this turn, but can make a special knockback attack with a bonus for each ally in the formation (max +5) ••• Cuneum Formate Can make penalized attacks, but any counterattack is at a penalty proportional to the number of allies in the formation (max +5) •••• Orbem Formate Can form a defensive formation around a person or thing, granting a bonus to defense for each ally in the formation (max +5) ••••• Contendite Vestra Sponte Costs a willpower point to use, but launches an attack that if successful causes an automatic point of lethal damage for each ally in the formation (max +5).

Formation Tactics) 5, Fighting Style (

• Warding Stance Attack first against foes with smaller-Size melee weapons in front •• Thrust Gain 9-Again with spear or bayonet ••• Block and Strike Take -2 to attack to receive +2 to Defense

Spear/Bayonet) 3, Quick-Draw 1, Shieldbearer 1, Small Unit Tactics 3, Striking Looks 2

Willpower: 8
Initiative: 10 (11 w/Celerity)
Defense: 7/1 (4 base, +2/1 shield, +1 Pilum) , +2 with Block and Strike
Armor: 2/3B (Bulletproof Vests)
Health: 9
Speed: 14 (28 w/ Celerity)

Disciplines: Celerity ●, Majesty ●, Nightmare ●, Obfuscate ●●●, Veneficia ●●●
Veneficia Rituals: 1st:

Drops of Destiny, Prophetic vision to answer a question, gain +2 to all rolls to investigate the image (research, say)

Appolonian Sight,

Tapas to Durga, gain +2 to Weaponry rolls involving traditional Roman weaponry (gladius, pilum), as well as +2 to Athletics rolls to throw the same

Call to Mars,

Balancing the Four Humors, until the next sunrise, suffer no penalties due to climactic conditions of extremes

Promethean Endurance; 2nd:

Dance of Doom, invert wound penalties for (successes) hours.

Strength of the Centimani ,

Gora Mukhi, gain a fearsome visage and make a frightful cry, lose the ability to use Socialize or Persuasion for the rest of the night, but gain +3 to Intimidation, and all enemies take a -3 to initiative. For a further 1 vitae, grow 1L hooves and horns.

Shout of Pan; 3rd:

receive a +3 bonus on all Stealth, perception, and Athletics (movement related only) rolls for one hour.

Diana's Blessing,

Caress of Torment, shifts wound penalties over by (successes). So with two successes, wound penalties begin in the 5th box from the right, and go up to -5.

Ministrations of the Kindly Ones
Vitae: 4/1

Attacks...........................Damage.....Dice Pool.....Special
Gladius................................. 2(L).......... 11/13.....
Pilum................................. 3(L).......... 13/15........+1 Defense, 9-Again
Thrown Pilum....................... 3(L)...........10/12........Aerodynamic

Note: The above includes penalties for shield (-1)

Type: Vampire
Covenant: Ex-Carthian
Clan: Gangrel
Bloodline: Les Gens Libres
Embrace: 1937
Apparent Age: Late 30s



Virtue: Fortitude He’s a fraud, but at the end of the day, Burton can be genuinely brave and determined in pursuit of his goals.
Vice: Sloth Burton believes in very little, so it’s unnervingly easy for him to just raise his hands and give up, content to just live another day.

Background: There is a fine line between scum-of-the-earth, loveable rascal, and ideological hero. Burton’s spent most of his life (and all of his unlife), hopping around these lines and trying not to be dissected by them.

He was born at the turn of the century, to a family of Welsh coal miners. His name wasn’t George Burton then, but Gregory Beddoes. He was destined to be consumed by the mines, ground up and spat out deep underground, far from light and life – to this day, Burton has a horror of enclosed spaces. But then opportunity came knocking, in the form of the largest war Europe had ever seen.

Burton lied about his age, changed his name, and enlisted in the British Expeditionary Force in 1917. In many ways, the trenches were like the mines. Cold, dark, with death at every corner. And yet… Burton loved them. They gave him a chance at glory, at excitement. They gave him a chance to reinvent himself as something else, other than the Welsh coal miner’s son. Burton proved to be an exemplary soldier – he was calm under fire and he had a killer instinct, and he also had a sixth sense for keeping himself in one piece. He ended the war as a sergeant, and he still keeps half a dozen medals from the war in a little box.

Then the war ended, and David Lloyd George’s “A Land Fit for Heroes” proved to look an awful lot like the mines. But Burton had other plans. During the interwar years, a man who was good with a gun and had flexible morals could always find a job. So Burton became a soldier of fortune. He served in the Russian Civil War on the side of the Whites, and later in the Mexican Revolution, in the Chinese Civil War, in the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay, in Nicaragua and in the Balkans.

By the late 1930s, George Burton had fought in a dozen armies over the course of nearly twenty years. He could speak in five languages and curse fluently in a dozen more, knew how to take apart and put back together cars, boats, and small aircraft, and could operate all three. He looked every inch the soldier of fortune – grizzled, vigorous, though he’d always be short (a product of malnutrition in his childhood) – and he acted the part as well. He fought for money and for the romantic aura that surrounded the mercenary, and though he never really believed any of it, Burton got to be very good at faking ideological idealism, a kind of grand adoration for justice and truth. He had a tidy little nest egg, and he figured a few more wars would set him up for life – perhaps with some lovely slip of a girl grateful to flee a warzone. The Spanish Civil War would be his grand finale.

It didn’t quite work out. The problem was that Burton was too good at his idealistic act. One night in 1937, a Spanish Carthian swept through the Republican militia that Burton was serving in, seeking soldiers for the Movement. He embraced four Republicans that night, looking for skilled soldiers who would be dedicated to the cause. Burton’s act earned him immortality, entirely by accident.

But Burton had a way of landing on his feet, and undeath was no different. He kept his mouth shut and his eyes open, and polished his romantic legend till it positively shone. Fighting stayed just as profitable as before, and Burton blooded himself in scores of little scuffles on behalf of the Movement, and on behalf of Kindred society at large. He was pretty well set up, really. He had money, he had a bit of influence, and he wasn’t hurting for feminine companionship either (or masculine, on occasion). But something was missing.

Covenant: Carthian
Clan: Gangrel
Bloodline: Les Gens Libres

SMental Attributes: Intelligence 2, Wits 4, Resolve 3
PPhysical Attributes: Strength 3, Dexterity 4, Stamina 4
TSocial Attributes: Presence 3, Manipulation 4, Composure 3

TMental Skills: Academics 1, Crafts (Vehicles) 4, Investigation (Surveillance) 2, Medicine 1, Politics (Left-Wing) 2
PPhysical Skills: Athletics 3, Brawl 2, Drive (Fixed-Wing Aircraft) 3, Larceny 1, Firearms (Pistol, Rifle) 4, Stealth 4, Survival 3, Weaponry 3
SSocial Skills: Empathy 1, Intimidation 2, Persuasion 3, Socialize 2, Subterfuge (Viva la Revolucion!) 4

Merits: Allies (International Leftist Groups) 4, Allies (International Mercenaries) 3, Carthian Pull 3, Fast Reflexes, Fighting Finesse (Knife) 2, Herd (Politically Active Students) 3, Interest Group (Debate Club, Current Events Circle) 2, Languages (Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, French, Russian, Serbian; Native is English) 5, Quick-Draw (Firearms) 1, Resources 3, Status (Carthian; Soldier of the Cause) 3,
Lair: Old, Disused warehouse; Size 4, Security 2, Secrecy 3

Willpower: 6
Humanity: 4
Derangements: Phobia (Enclosed Spaces) (Mild)
Banes:

Initiative: 9 (11 w/ EotB, 13 w/ Celerity, 15 w/ Both)
Defense: 4
Health: 9 (13 w/ Resilience)
Speed: 12 (13 w/ Vigor, 60 w/ Celerity, 65 w/ both)

Blood Potency: 4
Disciplines: Auspex ●●, Celerity ●●●●, Obfuscate ●●●, Resilience ●●●●, Vigor ●
Devotions: Hair Trigger, Quicken Sight, Eye of the Beast
Vitae: 13/2

Attacks...........................Damage............................Dice Pool.....Special
Mauser Model 1898........... 4L (9-again)...................... 13/17..........Hair Trigger
Colt Anaconda………........... 3L (9-again)...................... 12/16..........Hair Trigger
Bowie Knife………............. …2L…………..…...................... 9/13..........Hair Trigger