Overview:
There are more characters than those of the Clans or groupings listed. Here is a place for those Non-Player Characters met by the Player Characters who do not fit into those other boxes. From ancient demons, to Kindred of exotic bloodlines to other Night Creatures like the Garou, these are the characters who do not quite fit into the categories already created. There are also a few characters listed here whose identity is not yet fully known.
I have included, for now, the secretive members of the Moravignian Bloodline. The blood sorceresses spend their time deep within the Undercity, relying on hallucinogenic mushrooms farmed deep in the Nosferatu caverns for their alchemical sight-beyond-sight. The Moravignians have their eyes ritualistically cut from their head nightly, for they rely only upon Auspex for sight. They are fierce guardians of the Lord Caius of the Undercity and are considered of the inner circle in the Court of Darkness below. Members of the coven rarely, if ever, venture out of the Court of Darkness and their attached covenhouse in the Deep Undercity. Their needs are attended to by the whole of the Nosferatu commune. Though, their needs are quite simple: blood and fungus.
I have also included individuals of the Daughters of Cacophany, the Followers of Set, the Samedi, the Salubri, the Mekhetim (True Brujah), the Caitiff, Gargoyles, as well as Fallen and Garou.
Named Characters
Arland, Diane
Salubri. Diane began watching Asa Freeman and saw something in him that would fit the Salubri ethos. She first appeared to Asa at a bus stop on Halloween of 1994. Diane scared Asa in his apartment later that night, but apologized later. She offered him the embrace after explaining the Salubri and the stakes at the end of the world. Asa agreed and the two began and sire/childe relationship with their haven in a condemned YMCA building in Fairfax. Diane went with her childe on November 2 to track down his best friend Lily so that she can use Dominate on Lily to help “sell” Asa’s sort-of fake death. Afterwards, the two return to the YMCA and begin their training. Diane and Asa spend the next few weeks together where she teaches Asa the ways of the Salubri and their place in the universe. She teaches Asa of the ways of Golconda and of the Salubri unlife-cylce. On Friday, December 9, Asa’s training is interrupted by Agent 4 of the Tremere. He battles and incapacitates Diane, but Asa is able to get away. Asa later uses telepathy and dream states to determine that Diane is still alive, but is being tortured and studied at a Tremere facility underground in a military base. Asa had a dream in which he could sense Diane at the military base on December 19, 1994.
Beth Ann
Caitiff. Daughter of Mercy thinblood. Beth Ann was taken in by Desirée as a sponsor, even though she was a lowly Caitiff. Her clan of origin is a mystery and her sire is useless or finally dead (unknown at this time). Beth Ann was at Club Euphonia at its opening on May 7, 1988 alongside her other Daughters of Mercy coterie. Desirée gave them permission to discretely feed from the guests. Desirée went to meet with her “Daughters” in Burke, Va. on December 9, 1994. She found them arguing (and starving) in their shared haven in the middle of suburbia. Desirée had Beth Ann and the other thinbloods move in with her in her Del Ray Tower when the city was rocked with riots and the raising of the Tremere Wall. Beth Ann’s house in Fairfax was used for Desirée’s diablerie of Barnaby Wilcox on Monday, December 12, 1994, but Beth Ann was safely inside a boarded-up Del Ray Tower Apartments.
Boxcar
Demon. “Boxcar” has been living in Thaïs’ head since she was a little girl. He’s gotten her out of some scrapes, and put her into a few in turn. Now, he wants her help to find love for the Lady of the Lake. Boxcar spoke to Thaïs on December 3, 1994 in the bathroom of Desirée’s art gallery. Boxcar was surprisingly quiet in OTCAL when Thaïs read the ancient texts the following evening. He congratulated Thaïs later once she was alone for her great service. Satisfied for the moment, Boxcar retreated in Thaïs’ mind to continue his plotting. During the day of December 5, 1994, Thaïs had a dream of a demon creature below the earth who sunk down there holding the ancient Cainite known only as “the heretic” following a battle. It called to her in the dream, pleading for her to find them and rescue them from the desert ruins. Boxcar echoed this sentiment in Thaïs’ dream, possibly speaking as the demon itself. Thaïs called upon Boxcar to help her when she was faced with the panic of the city late at night on December 7, 1994. Boxcar told Thaïs that he could help her get through the wall if she would find a chicken or a small animal to sacrifice and the use of her arm for a moment. She put a pin in that idea, thinking to possibly circle back later to take the demon up on that. When Thaïs got to H&H Ranch later (in the morning of December 8, 1994), she communed with the demon and followed her advice on a ritual. She didn’t do the ritual calling for small animal sacrifice (but had a cat secured, just for good measure), but did a ritual stopping the Tremere from being able to track her blood. All the ritual took was her stabbing her own hand and then willingly giving Boxcar her arm to use. Boxcar seemed happy by this arrangement. On Saturday, December 10, 1994, he coaxed Thaïs to give him full control of her upper body so that he could enact a demonic blood ritual and supposedly send Zachary, Benjamin and Asa through the Tremere Bubble, but actually sent them a week into the future and across miles to the atrium of the Temple in a cornfield in Manassas. Thaïs never heard from Boxcar again in this world: he got whatever it was he wanted from her.
Chris
Caitiff/thinblood. Chris was among the thinblood sacrifices for Hirut upon Theodore Roosevelt Island on December 18-19 when the Player Characters intervened. He was understandably upset when taken out of a trance, but was calmed and led to the Spirit of the Potomac, where he boarded and rode to the causeway near the Giovanni Embassy. Chris was led into the Embassy. The next night when he rose, he had apparently made too much noise or perhaps that was only a pretext, but he had been staked by the Giovanni ghouls at Carlo’s order. That evening (December 20, 1994), Rose unstaked Chris and used her newfound Discipline of Presence to entice Chris to remain in torpor (but at least not in pain) for one month’s time. If his body has not been destroyed and there is vitae in his system, Chris will arise of his own volition on the night of January 20, 1995. His body is currently in the basement of the Giovanni Embassy in Congressional Cemetery.
Hirut
Methuselah of Unknown Clan (leads have left Brujah or Toreador hints, but they are conflicting). The “Lady of the Lake.” The powerful entity rests somewhere in the vicinity of the Potomac Empire: and Jinx believes that it is in the proximity of Theodore Roosevelt Island. Damien Luther Adams is seen on March 5, 1989 playing her a lullaby with his oboe, naming the entity Hirut, telling Jinx that it is important that she stays asleep. Hirut has called out to the minds of Malkavian seers for help. Her identity, or indeed what she is, has yet to be determined. Immanuel and Samal have told Zachary that the Lady of the Lake is an ancient who will help to destroy the world by waking her lover, meeting (or embracing) herself. Boxcar, the demon inside Thaïs’ head, tells her that Hirut’s lover is a demon like him. On December 18, 1994, Zachary used the Cobweb to speak to Cedric and found that Cedric was tracking a rising Hirut with a cult led by Damien, Montbatton and Jinx. Hirut rose, eating a thinblood on the way, but shortly thereafter was attacked by Rose. Hirut used her demon-lovers arm to get through the Tremere Bubble and escape into the night. She was last seen tearing through Alexandria, having nabbed Elizabeta Giovanni and Giuseppe Rossellini on her way.
Jaconda
Moravignian. One of the Seers with Maud and Morag who scrutinized Henry in the Court of Darkness in 1985 and again in 1990. Joaconda was among the Moravignians gathered in the Court of Darkness when H.B. Kershaw was presented to Caius on October 21, 1993. Jaconda was in the line of Moravignians in the procession of Darius in the Undercity’s Chamber of Horrors for an emergency meeting of the commune on December 6, 1994.
Jamila
Caitiff. Possibly a Brujah? Daughter of Mercy. Jamila is in a coterie of “thinblooded” Kindred in a city that barely tolerates them, and that was before the Wall. Desirée, her patron, allowed her to hunt alongside her friends in Club Euphonia at its opening on May 7, 1988. Desirée went to meet with her “Daughters” in Burke, Va. on December 9, 1994. She found them arguing (and starving) in their shared haven in the middle of suburbia. Desirée had Jamilla and the other thinbloods move in with her in her Del Ray Tower when the city was rocked with riots and the raising of the Tremere Wall. Jamilla was safely inside a boarded-up Del Ray Tower Apartments on December 11, 1994.
Jamille
Caitiff thinblood. Jamille was a sacrifice for Hirut prepared by the cultists. On the night of December 18, 1994, the ancient Hirut was risen just before midnight (December 19) on Theodore Roosevelt Island. She slaked her thirst upon Jamille who was left as little more than a husk on the ground.
Jefferson, Carla
Caitiff wight. Carla was slain by Thaïs with help from Cameron in 1988. Thaïs was paid by the Nosferatu for her work.
Lysandra
Moravignian. One of the Seers with Maud and Morag who scrutinized Henry in the Court of Darkness in 1985 and again in 1990. Lysandra was among the Moravignians gathered in the Court of Darkness when H.B. Kershaw was presented to Caius on October 21, 1993. Lysandra was a part of the Moravignian procession ahead of Darius in the Chamber of Horrors for the emergency commune meeting to discuss the Creature from the Depths and the reports of danger topside on December 6, 1994.
Malcolm
Caitiff/thinblood. Malcolm was among the thinblood sacrifices for Hirut upon Theodore Roosevelt Island on December 18-19 when the Player Characters intervened. He went into Frenzy when roused and had to be subdued. He was led to the Spirit of the Potomac, where he boarded and rode to the causeway near the Giovanni Embassy. Malcolm was led into the Embassy. The next night when he rose, he had apparently made too much noise or perhaps that was only a pretext, but he had been staked by the Giovanni ghouls at Carlo’s order. That evening (December 20, 1994), Rose unstaked Malcolm and used her newfound Discipline of Presence to entice Malcolm to remain in torpor (but at least not in pain) for one month’s time. If his body has not been destroyed and there is vitae in his system, Malcolm will arise of his own volition on the night of January 20, 1995. His body is currently in the basement of the Giovanni Embassy in Congressional Cemetery.
Marcel
Setite. Marcel went to Club Euphonia for a night of drugs and sex but was staked by Thaïs after a seductive deception by Desirée on August 5, 1984. His bones were broken and he was given to the Nosferatu who supposedly took him back to the Church of Light in Anacostia. He appeared to be no worse for the wear a decade later at the Georgetown Elysium at the Smithsonian National Zoo. He attended alongside his sire, Nebasha. They greeted Henry and Vitus in a pleasant exchange. Marcel gave Vitus his number and invited him to the Church of Light in Anacostia (after giving them sufficient warning of their arrival, of course). Marcel and Nebasha made their exit before anything major went down at Elysium.
Maud the Wise
Moravignian. The progenitor of the Moravignian Bloodline, First Seer to the One Below. Maud was seen in 1985 in the Court of Darkness and calmed her witch childer, saying that “they should not be walking the earth for another decade,” when another Moravignian, Morag, saw something strange about Henry’s stride. Maud used the sight-beyond-sight of the Morivignians to trace the “present” that Henry received from Bottleneck sent to Vitus’ manor. She found that the human heart was plucked from Sabbat-infested Baltimore. She fears that Bottleneck has defected, and has shared state secrets of the Nosferatu commune. Maud was among the Moravignians gathered in the Court of Darkness when H.B. Kershaw was presented to Caius on October 21, 1993. Maud was at the head of the procession of Moravignians which led in Darius at the emergency commune meeting in the Chamber of Horrors on December 6, 1994.
Mi’chell
Daughter of Cacophony. Mi’chell and her broodmate Nerys are artists-in-residence brought in by the Toreador-controlled Arts Council to entertain at Elysia for the Domain of Georgetown. The pair were entertaining at the Smithsonian National Zoo Elysium on December 7, 1994 when the Ventrue held a coup and the Sabbat subsequently attacked. They attempted to calm down the crowd with their siren songs, but their pleas fell on “deaf ears,” as it were, as ultimately they were unsuccessful. Mi’chell fled during the chaos with Nerys and their fate is unknown at this time.
Morag
Moravignian. The seer saw something strange in her vision of Henry in the Court of Darkness in 1985. She pointed out to her coven that there was something about his stride. Morag was among the Moravignians gathered in the Court of Darkness when H.B. Kershaw was presented to Caius on October 21, 1993. Morag was in the procession of Moravignians ahead of Darius during the commune emergency meeting on December 6, 1994 to discuss the dangers facing the Undercity from above and below.
Nebasha
Setite. High Priestess of the Church of Light, Domitor of Anacostia. Nebasha has long been tolerated with her brood in Anacostia by Prince George. She attended the Georgetown Elysium at the Smithsonian National Zoo on December 7, 1994 alongside her childe, Marcel. The Settites had a friendly conversation with Vitus and Henry and invited them to meet up some time at the Church of Light in Anacostia. Nebasha and Marcel made their excuses and left Elysium early, perhaps sensing that things were about to get messy.
Nerys
Daughter of Cacophony. Nerys and her broodmate Mi’chell are artists-in-residence brought in by the Toreador-controlled Arts Council to entertain at Elysia for the Domain of Georgetown. The pair were entertaining at the Smithsonian National Zoo Elysium on December 7, 1994 when the Ventrue held a coup and the Sabbat subsequently attacked. They attempted to calm down the crowd with their siren songs, but their pleas fell on “deaf ears,” as it were, as ultimately they were unsuccessful. Nerys fled during the chaos with Mi’chell and their fate is unknown at this time.
Pam
Caitiff/thinblood. Pam was among the thinblood sacrifices for Hirut upon Theodore Roosevelt Island on December 18-19 when the Player Characters intervened. She was understandably upset when taken out of a trance, but was calmed and led to the Spirit of the Potomac, where she boarded and rode to the causeway near the Giovanni Embassy. Pam was led into the Embassy. The next night when she rose, she had apparently made too much noise or perhaps that was only a pretext, but she had been staked by the Giovanni ghouls at Carlo’s order. That evening (December 20, 1994), Rose unstaked Pam and used her newfound Discipline of Presence to entice Pam to remain in torpor (but at least not in pain) for one week’s time. If his body has not been destroyed and there is vitae in his system, Pam will arise of her own volition on the night of December 27, 1994. Her body is currently in the basement of the Giovanni Embassy in Congressional Cemetery.
Phelan
Cainite. Clan unknown. Sabbat leader of some sort. Phelan’s Clan and exact position unknown at this time, Rose overheard Phelan make orders and the others follow when he took Vitus into his SUV following the Battle of Chain Bridge on December 8, 1994.
Prodigy
Caitiff. Possibly Gangrel? Daughter of Mercy. The thinblood Caitiff is barely tolerated in Alexandria, if only because she had flown under the radar. Prodigy met with Desirée at Club Euphonia for its grand opening on May 7, 1988. She was given permission to feed at the club by her patron, Desirée. Desirée went to meet with her “Daughters” in Burke, Va. on December 9, 1994. She found them arguing (and starving) in their shared haven in the middle of suburbia. Desirée had Prodigy and the other thinbloods move in with her in her Del Ray Tower when the city was rocked with riots and the raising of the Tremere Wall. Prodigy was safely inside a boarded-up Del Ray Tower Apartments on December 11, 1994.
Shadaal
Mekhetim. This person, similar to the Grey Man though not him, was wearing anachronistic robes and led a force of well-armed (and armored) troops of futuristically-clad soldiers. He had the barn Immanuel was in on fire and surrounded by his forces on December 3, 1994 in Loudoun County, Virginia. He called for Immanuel to give himself up and step outside, but Immanuel elected to martyr himself instead, jumping into the flames. Immanuel had warned his childe that Shadaal was of the Black Hand or the Tal’mahe’ra: a force which controlled at least three other Mekhetim Temples, and that which would never stop until they had found the Prophet and dealt with him.
Townsend, Samantha
Caitiff. Samantha attended a meeting of the Brujah and other malcontents at Franklin’s Pub in Old Town Fairfax on December 8, 1994. The Kindred gathered there were upset by the Prince’s potestas edictum and debated what to do in response. Samantha seemed to be agreeing with the sentiment that something must be done.
Unnamed Characters
Attractive Graying Man
Mekhetim? Zachary used Spirit Touch inside the atrium of the Temple to see the man with an attractive face, yet graying of the hands and up his neck from his back leaving the Temple months before. He sighed and said (in Enochian), “Here we go again.” The man took a golden orb out of a socket in the seam of the door to the inner Temple. That was the extent of Zachary’s vision on December 18, 1994.
Boy with daggers for eyes
Unknown. Zachary saw this disturbing boy in a dream on December 4, 1994. The child held something in his hands as though in prayer. He opened his hands and revealed true darkness as he smiled at Zachary. Darkness was unleashed onto the world from a neighborhood in D.C. and the sun was blotted out.
Caine?
Blood God? Zachary saw a dark-skinned man crying blood on a blasted rock in the desert in his vision when he was in OTCAL on December 4, 1994. Could it have been the mythical founder of the Cainites?
Cainite Scientist (Mekhet?)
Antediluvian? This ancient being was seen in a vision by Thaïs on December 4, 1994 in OTCAL. The being was in Enoch and was calling its childe a heretic. The childe used Celerity and it caused great pain to the assembled Mekhetim.
Chicago Agent
Unknown. An agent of the Inner Council met #7 at Chicago O’Hare Airport on November 30, 1994 and snuck him into a waiting area for the day and then placed him upon a flight back to Washington National Airport the following night.
Cult of Hirut
Cainites and Kindred. This grouping of individuals were involved in the raising ceremony for Hirut on Roosevelt Island on December 18-19, 1994. They were successful in the ceremony, but were then attacked by the Player Characters coterie. Several perished at Rose’s fangs and fist (her Beast had ingested the blood of a Methuselah), but some escaped using Obfuscation or managed to flee in the confusion.
Fat Man, The
Ålixir Demon. The Fat Man was first seen by George and Zachary (though not by Benjamin) at Freddy’s Station in Fairfax on December 6, 1994 as George was getting gas. The man was pushing a cart filled with used Barbie dolls. George and Zachary followed it to its fiendish lair where they found a grizzly scene with human remains and photographs of frightened little girls on the walls. Zachary stole the creature’s keys and unlocked the basement where it was keeping four future victims in cages. Zachary tricked the demon into thinking that he was some other supernatural force capable of destroying it. The demon fled into the night as Zachary and George extricated the victims.
Flesh ancient (The Eldest?)
Antediluvian? A slab of ancient flesh rests in OTCAL. That shard of consciousness called out to Number 7 on December 4, 1994.
Gargoyles
Gargoyles. The two servitors are menacing creatures who protect and watch over Tremere Councilor Meerlinda at #7’s binding rite on May 10, 1983.
Grey Man, The
Mekhetim? The grey-faced man appeared at Zachary’s station on Thursday, November 30, 1994 as the power and phones were cut following the Prophet’s on-air announcements. He asked Zachary “when” the Temple was and seemed frustrated by his answers. He left the shivering mortals alone after Dominating one of them.
Heretic Childe (Troile?)
Antediluvian? Thaïs saw this Cainite in a vision in OTCAL on December 3, 1994. He had used Celerity and his sire called him a heretic. The other assembled Mekhetim reacted in horror. Thaïs saw him again in a dream on December 5, 1994. In the dream, the Heretic was seen bloodied and dying, sinking into the earth wrapped in the arms of his lover: a demon. The earth swallowed them and a horde of Cainites performed some sort of salting ritual, sealing them in their fate. The voices of the Heretic and the demon called to her, begging for her help and rescue. Boxcar, Thaïs demon, seemed to either sympathize with the demon buried below or perhaps is the demon buried with the Heretic: it isn’t entirely clear in the dream.
Lupine northern scouts
Lupines. Two Lupines bayed for Rose’s blood on December 28, 1985. They turned tail when Rose entered Gaithersburg.
Nice woman
Unknown. This woman stood over Harold and comforted him as the ambulance arrived on October 12, 1993. It is assumed now that this was, indeed, Mary Pine using Obfuscate.
Old man / Saulot?
Unknown. This man appeared in one of Asa’s dreams after being made into a Salubri. The man wore simple robes and seemed kindly. He was unimpressed with the giant menacing creature with three eyes staring at the two of them in the dream. Whether he is connected to Saulot in any way is not known at this time.
Sabbat Templars
Cainites. On November 27, 1994, Ambassador Carlo Giovanni paid off two Sabbat Templars at BWI Airport in Baltimore to grant temporary passage for his charge, Gwenevieve (or at least for them to look the other way for money to go the Archbishop’s fund for widows and orphans as the two independents made a speedy jaunt through Sabbat territory).
Shovelhead
Cainite. The poor creature was being kept in a shed at the Bowie Skate-O-Rama by the local Sabbat. Jinx shot it with her Camarilla phosphorus gun. Karl Raeger punched a hole into the creature’s chest, putting it into torpor. While it’s fate is not known, it was likely either put through the resanguination-exsanguination process for the celebration feast at the Camarilla’s Elysium on January 6, 1986, or it was taken for experimentation by the Tremere. Either way, it likely met a very grizzly end.
Unknown shaking Kindred
Kindred. This unidentified Camarilla neonate (or at least unidentified to Vitus who witnessed this) was marked for death by Prince George for masquerade infractions, but the Malkavian Primogen Joan interceded, spending a boon to spare the young vampire’s life. Her motivations and the Kindred’s worth to her are unknown at this time.