Sylum Clan

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Sylum Clan
Character Introduction / Vampire Council0

Sylum Inspiration: Hetshepsu

Vampire Council: Legal Advisor

Hetshepsu is the fraternal twin of Shepsit Hemet Amun-Ra.  A rare occurrence and considered a blessing to all.  They were removed from the home, and taken to the city and raised in the Temple of Ra.  Both equal in beauty, and admired by all.

Shepsit became a Priestess of Ra, while Hetshepsu was taken in by Ra’s Al Ghul and trained in the Courts.  He married Al Ghul’s oldest daughter Talia, and had four children.   He and his sister stayed extremely close, despite the fact she was isolated in the Temple.  When he discovered she was pregnant, he confronted her on her stupidity.  She assured him she was safe, and no one knew who the father was, and all assumed it was Ra.

Despite the fact he still didn’t like the situation he was devoted to his nephew Nekau, and was devastated when he was killed.

He watched in horror along with everyone else when Ra slit the young boy’s throat.  He knew at that moment the war had begun.  He made his way back to his home, to find his wife dying next to his children.  A warrior leveled his sword against the youngest when Hetshepsu attacked.  He disarmed and killed the guard, then scooped his child up and ran for his father-in-laws home.  Ra’s Al Ghul pulled him off the street and hid him away from passing guards.  They barely made it out of the city and towards the Medjai camp.

It was once they stopped he realized he had been wounded, collapsing into Ra’s Al Ghul’s arms, and he apologized for not saving Talia.  Ra’s Al Ghul Turned him, later telling him his penance was to wait with him until their family returned home.

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Character Introduction / Vampire Council0

Sylum Inspiration: Marcus Calidius Avitus

Vampire Council: Legal Advisor

 

Marcus was born to a small wealthy family. Tragedy struck when his mother died from an illness when he was ten.   His father remarried two years later, making sure his son had a mother.   Marcus and the new wife instantly didn’t get along.

When his half brother, Gaius Quintus Avitus, was born his relationship with his step mother deteriorated.  It wasn’t hard to figure out he was in the way of her son from inheriting their father’s lands and titles.

Marcus as a young teenager got himself aligned with another Senator by working for him while learning the trade, which kept him out of the house.

He learned how to make sure he was never alone with her, and never ate anything she placed before him.  To this day he comments he learned how to politic in those few years, then his whole career.

Tragedy struck the family again when he was sixteen, and Gaius was two.  Their parents were killed in a freak accident when the out wall of the house collapsed in the middle of renovations.

Marcus set out to raise his younger brother, though pressured to marry he had enough of scheming woman, and set out to make sure Gaius got good standing, and a good wife.

The Senator he was working for retired, and he took his position and ended up meeting Gracchus.

Gracchus took him under his wing, and taught him the laws of the Senate and Rome.  It didn’t take long before he ended up warming the Senator’s bed.  He was approached by other Senators telling him that Gracchus had a history of taking young lovers and dumping them to the wayside once he got what he wanted.  When he confronted Gracchus, the older man didn’t know how to respond.  Marcus, feeling once again used, fled the Senator’s house and went back home, only to find Gracchus waiting for him.  He told him the truth about Vampires and who Marcus was to him.

Later Marcus discovered that the Senator who had told him about Gracchus was none other than Commodus.

Not wanting to give Commodus another try, Marcus agreed to be Turned that night.

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Character Introduction / Oceania Clan0

Sylum Inspiration: Thomas Jefferson

Oceania: Legal Advisor

 

Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and the third President of the United States (1801–1809). He was an ardent proponent of democracy and embraced the principles of republicanism and the rights of the individual with worldwide influence. At the beginning of the American Revolution, he served in the Continental Congress, representing Virginia, and then served as a wartime Governor of Virginia (1779–1781). In May 1785, he became the United States Minister to France and later the first United States Secretary of State (1790–1793) serving under President George Washington. In opposition to Alexander Hamilton’s Federalism, Jefferson and his close friend, James Madison, organized the Democratic-Republican Party, and later resigned from Washington’s cabinet. Elected Vice President in 1796 in the administration of John Adams, Jefferson opposed Adams, and with Madison secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which attempted to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Elected president in what Jefferson called the “Revolution of 1800”, he oversaw acquisition of the vast Louisiana Territory from France (1803), and sent out the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806), and later three others, to explore the new west. Jefferson doubled the size of the United States during his presidency. His second term was beset with troubles at home, such as the failed treason trial of his former Vice President Aaron Burr. When Britain threatened American shipping challenging U.S. neutrality during its war with Napoleon, he tried economic warfare with his embargo laws, which only impeded American foreign trade. In 1803, President Jefferson initiated a process of Indian tribal removal to the Louisiana Territory west of the Mississippi River, having opened lands for eventual American settlers. In 1807 Jefferson drafted and signed into law a bill that banned slave importation into the United States.

A leader in the Enlightenment, Jefferson was a polymath in the arts, sciences, and politics. Considered an important architect in the classical tradition, he designed his home Monticello and other notable buildings. Jefferson was keenly interested in science, invention, architecture, religion, and philosophy; he was an active member and eventual president of the American Philosophical Society. He was conversant in French, Greek, Italian, and Latin, read Spanish, and studied other languages and linguistics, interests which led him to found the University of Virginia after his presidency. Although not a notable orator, Jefferson was a skilled writer and corresponded with many influential people in America and Europe throughout his adult life.

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During his time in the White House, Thomas Jefferson became good friends with Henry Sturges. The two would talk philosophy, history, politics for hours. When he discovered his friend was a Vampire, and was the one that helped Washington during the Revolutionary War, he requested to be Turned.

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