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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.

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.