Generation: 6th

Nature/Demeanor: Confident/Survivor

Sire: Ducharmes

Hair Color: Black

Eye Color: Violet

Height: 5'8

Homeland: Venezia/Venice

Pollitical Affliation: Camarilla

Haven: Paris Chantry & Parc Royal

Weapon of Choice: Whip

Current Position: Keeper of the Elysium

Our stories always begin with our birth and end with our death, mine truly begins with my death.....

It began or ended for me in the year 1702, as a young woman of only 26, I journeyed to Paris with my father Lorenzo Di Cosima, we were evading my husband and his family. However, that is all in the past and so long ago, these memories are fading, so I write them down now for you.

My father was a wealthy merchant in the city of Veneto (Venice to you), a widower to his beloved wife who had died in childbirth. I survived and became my father�s solace and the center of his world, nothing was ever denied me. My father gave me an education which women even of my station were rarely given. I studied art, history, architecture, literature, languages, herbalism, medicine and toxins.My father�s greatest wish was to see me wed and happy, a husband was found from an equally wealthy Venetian family. I was wed to Antonio Rossini, in all outward appearances he was a gentleman, but in private no woman was safe. Not long after our marriage I became with child, I feared for my child and my own safety. I went to my father and beg him to help me escape, he agreed, my father arranged it all, under the pretense that my aunt was ill and dying, she had requested to see me before her passing.

With the ruse under way we set sail on one of my father�s ship heading for Amsterdam. In Amsterdam I gave birth to my son Luciano (Ward), but our stay was interrupted by Antonio who had been searching for us. We traveled to London and remained there for a year before he found us again. From London we went to Paris, the place I now call home.

My father always had a passion for playing cards, one evening he joined a game in progress, the stakes were high, this did not bother my father in the least, they were the kind of stakes he enjoyed, all the more for him to win you see. But on this night, the stakes were not of money, they were a man�s most precious possessions. My father believed he had the best hand and couldn�t lose, therefore I was added to the winnings. To his dismay he lost to a gentleman named Ducharme. My father was wrought with such shame that he committed suicide, even before the gentleman could decline.

I was left in this man�s care, he was kind and very gentle, he took great pains to reassure me that he had no malicious intentions. He introduced himself as Ducharme, he had long fair hair tied at the nape of his neck, and worn the latest fashion but always in black. His passion was cards like my father, yet he preferred the night to the day and he remained a mystery to me. Truth be told he charmed me and I was quite taken with him. He took me to live with him at the University.

I left the house my father and I had occupied, leaving the nanny to take care of Luciano who was two years. While at the University with my days free, I spent them at the house with my son. I never told Ducharme about him, nor did he ask me how I had spent my days.

Then one night he took me to meet a Professor, a man named Clemens, who had a laboratory deep in the University. It was the most unusual encounter I had ever had up until that point. Professor Clemens, was and still is an elderly man with white hair, he wore a long black robe which even then was a century old. He admired me for my beauty, I though of him as a lecherous old man, I�ve come to know different since then. My life continued in this way until one night, the University�s calm was shattered by a piercing scream. I left my quarters and ran outside, when I realized the scream came from the building in which Clemens laboratory was held. I raced in that direction as I crossed the green, I stopped to face a man all dressed in black with a long curved sword dripping in blood, he stopped to stare at me, and was then gone in the next second. I continued on to the Laboratory but when I reached the building Ducharme was waiting for me, he told me to pack all my belongings for we were leaving that night for Vienna. The coach that drove us to Vienna was laden with all our things and a coffin, Ducharme refused to discuss the whole affair and the coffin. The carriage itself had dark heavy drapery, we traveled day and night but I could not tell the difference.

We finally arrived in Vienna, we did not go to a hotel or an inn, we went to a place Ducharme called the Chantry. It was a church, many people walked about the halls, and the coffin was removed from the carriage and brought into the Chantry. Ducharme lead me to the altar, once there a figure emerged from the wall, a gargoyle, at the sight I fainted.

Awoke, sometime later to a dark room alight with red candles, my neck was sore and I was extremely weak. Ducharme appeared above me and told me that it was time to make a choice, and did I understand what it meant, I had no clue but anything was better than it had been of late, so I nodded my head.

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That�s when I realized there were others in this room, they all wore black cloaks with their heads covered. Ducharme slit his wrist and dropped blood into a brass chalice, he passed it around and the others added to it. The chalice was then place at my lips and I was made to drink the liquid it was hot and burned as it went down my throat. Once I had finished Ducharme told me to repeat the Oath, and word for word I repeated, the significance was lost on me at the time, it eludes me no more....

After all this I was untied and introduced to the cloaked figures, who I was then told were my sires, however I was Ducharme�s childer and thus his responsibility, the names of my sires meant little to me for I did not fully comprehend what had happen. However, for any tremere lineage is important is all part of the great pyramid, my sires were Ducharme, Xavier de Cacao, Elaine de Calinot, Merlinda, Jonathan, David and Genevieve. My lineage includes no less than three inner council members and a Lord Regent and well as my sire who was Regent of Paris. It thus explained to me I was Tremere and now served the clan in which I belonged.

A new world was opened to me, my stay in Vienna at the High Chantry which I later came to learn lasted a couple of months, enough time for me and a young girl of nine named Maria also Ducharme�s childer to learn the way of the clan and that of the Kindred. We were to return to Paris and re-establish the Paris Chantry. Although I knew this and that we were to help our sire in reaching the clan�s goals, it was made all the more clear when we returned to Paris.

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Since my becoming, I have been on many adventures and involved in kindred affairs, within my clan my position was one of utility I was because of my beauty and pursuits to be used to gain in roads with the Toreador clan so that the Tremere may anchor themselves in Paris. It has worked for my clan well, however they have learnt not to underestimate me, I am a Magus Prime, a librarian or keeper of the knowledge of sorts. I was for a period Regent of the Paris Chantry which I established, my latest position however is not part of the clan structure, I have been given the responsibility of being the Keeper of the Elysium at Versailles, a position my sire Ducharme once held, it is now mine.

Like every kindred I hold my secrets and guard them well, they begin with my son Luciano, who has been adopted my a man named Maximillian, a kindred-Inconnu. I possess and continue to add to a Genealogy of Vampires from the ancient to those they sire and the following generations. MY Occult library and resources are quite extensive, and have helped me to learn Sabbat rituals and lore. My darkest secret although not much one anymore, I diablerized a Sabbat while defending Paris, I lowered my generation and gained many other disciplines from this act.

Disciplines

Auspex 4, Dominate 2, Thaumaturgy 6, Celerity 3, Fortitude 3, Necormancy 1, Vicissitude 2, Potence , Presence, Obfuscate 2, Protean 3, Dementation 1

Started playing: April 1996.

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