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.