Updated: 03 January 1999
Katya Illyana
11th Generation Toreador

	Sire:	Richard (1980)
	Nature:	Manipulator
	Demeanor:	Gallant
	Path of Ecstasy:	5
	Secrets:	*
	Status:	*
	Esprit:	**
	Elder Status:
	Toreador Prestige:	**

Background:

                    Katya was what would be called in The U.S.A. a Call-Girl, working whithin the Communist Party of U.S.S.R.. She was beautiful an she knew her job, and how to adapt, by instincts, to her partner(s)'s secret wishes.

Of course, she made use of the incredible influence within the ''Intelligencia'' to live a luxuous life, in the best hotels, with the best food, and the best drugs...

One diplomat was so fond of her, through, that he intrigued to take her with him in Paris. She came, of course, making profit of Paris' greatests luxuries. Unkown to her, the K.G.B. wanted to use her as a lure, but didn't trust her enough to ask her cooperation. The diplomat was removed, but she stayed, seemingly pleasing most U.S.S.R. ambassy diplomats.

One night, through, she meet someone whose needs were rare indeed, she could feel it, even if he didn't talk. She had ensnared in her web of seduction a Toreador named Richard. Patron of arts, and Courtisan of great influence, he succeeded in having the right to Embrace her.

When he asked her what she would do, once her beauty and seductive power over others would wane, she shrugged inconfortably. But when he asked her if she wanted to remain young and beautiful forever, she was really surprised. Without having time to answer, she was Embraced by the lustful Toreador.

Katya disappeared from the Ambassy, and the K.G.B. was really annoyed by this. She was researched, and was soon found while enjoying a Soirée in the U.S. embassy. She was contacted by the K.G.B., and threatened. They gave her the choice between being killed, or serving them as a spy. Not wanting to be hunted all her unlife, or serving mortals while she could enjoy the luxuries of immmortality, she decided to ask the help of the only Kindred that would help her.

Ivan entered her luxuous penthouse with the Masques just after the K.G.B. entered to ask her her answer. Incapacited and Dominated beyond reason, the K.G.B. special agents went back to the Ambassy, and forgot about her, dismissing any other questions from the official diplomats about her occurence.

Believing the Beauté would be of use later, Ivan let her alone, never mentionning the accident again. But Katya had been shocked. She was a woman, and the other Kindred believed her to be a failure (she was Poseur...). Then, Theti-Sheri appeared. Apparently, the two Kindred got well together, and Theti-Sheri taught her her way of life, slowly converting Katya to her own viewpoint.

Welcome within the Followers of Set of Paris, and shuned by the Toreador Artiste, she knew how to get her revenge: She would make herself necessary to the passionate Toreador Clan, as she was necessary as a mortal to the lustful Communist Diplomats. Again, her unique capacity of profiling others (See the Merit: Profiler) helped her: She soon felt the Elders were having difficulties to feel emotions, and that one that could give them new emotions that moved their old stagnant blood would have a real power over them.

While officially retaining her status as a Call-Girl among the mortals, and thus increasing her Influence among the political, financial and industrial area, she worked to attract Neonates, and then Ancillaes to her parties, organizing birthdays (or Embracenights, as would be more proper...), soirées, slowly making herself known for her right choices and pleasurable attractions. Influenced by Theti-Sheri, she went even farther in the cruelty, abandonning her Humanity for more the more pleasurable Path of Ecstasy.

Katya is becoming an influencial Kindred, known for her beauty but even more for her unforgetable Soirées. Theti once told her Setite clanmates that Katya was elevating corruption into an art form... Something some Thyphonists are not liking at all: Katya was seen at the Temple of Set, indulging in bloody orgies with the other Setite Courtisans and their Kindred and mortal followers...

Destiny

                    Unknown.

Appearance:

Age:	43	Hair:	Dark Red	Height:	1m75
Apparent Age:	24	Eyes:	Cyan Blue	Weight:	58 Kg
Date of Birth:	1954	Race:	Caucasian	Sex:	Female
RIP:	1980	Nationality:	Russian	Esprit:	**

                    Katya is a very beautiful 1m75 woman, with a gorgeous silhouette, and angelic innocent features, with magnificient cyan-blue eyes, full blood-red lips and long dark red hair falling in soft waves down her back.

Always dressed with style, she has the manners of an aristocrat top-model, and a smile that can cause trouble among mortals, as well as Kindred.

When she is hypped (Esctasy), her eyes shines so much they seem like blue jewels, and her smile is so lust-inducing few can resist her seduction attempts. Of course, her provocant, yet styled clothing help much.

While in the Temple of Set, she wears an egyptian fourreau (Straight and close-fitting dress) of semi-transparent silk and linen, with few jewelry, to enhance the effects of her white soft skin and her silhouette. Her hair is then dressed in an egyptian-like style, but with a complexity that makes even Theti-Sheri jealous.

Role Playing:

                    Katya talks french in an almost perfect accent (in truth, she founds her russian accent was a bonus to her seductive attempts and so, she tries to keep it).

Its a woman talking with words and sentences full of double or triple meanings, but who knows when to stop talking to let the other the time to admire her magnificient body. She always walks, talk, smile and do everything with seduction in mind. While some like to compare her with a whore trying to hook someone, most find her delicate manners charming...

In a soirée, she keeps her innate majesty, but with a lustful touch (Ecstasy stimulated), looking, hearing and tasting in Connaisseur the different pleasures she offers to herself and to others. Her passion shows enough to indugle a mild frenzy-like state among Kindred who remains too much in the soirée.

Notes:

                    Strangely, this Beauté Poseur has the possibily to become an artist: By creating art from the emotions she is able to feel within others, she could well join the Createurs Toreador in their selective group...

Katya reads and talk russian, french and egyptian hieroglyphs. Her contacts and Influence are within the luxury prostitution (She is, in truth, one of the most successful procuress of Paris!), as well as drugs and influencal people off politician and industrial background. She even succeeded in going back to the Russian Ambassy and gather there some muscle to help her.

The Dark Kiss is famous in the Parisian night world for the apparent respectability and tranquility that can change to reach debauchery rarely seen elsewhere. The members are selected, and even Kindred are not autorized to enter without being invited first: Among the regular patrons, some Daughters of Cacophony, Malkavian, Setite, Toreador and Ventrue Courtisans.

Her Herd is constituted by the most beautiful of the Call-Girls she ''owns'', and they are all Blood Bound to her.

Note: Theti-Sheri uses Katya to promulgate the philosophy of the Path of Ecstasy among the Kindred of Paris. Ivan still owns a boon from Katya, and could well use it to spy over the Setite...

Actual Aim:

                    Increase her Influence, among the Kindred and among the influencal mortals. She will go very far to do it, including being 'temporarily' attracted to (or to become the friends of) Neonates who show promising talents...

Rumours:

• She is, in truth, Follower of Set (False: If she is, in her soul, a Follower of the Path of Ecstasy, she is, in Blood, a true Toreador).
• Her lust has no limits, and she will go very far to feed it (True: She is a slave of her passions!).
• She uses her soirées to gather information (True, but who, among the ''civilized'' Kindred, does not?)

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