Updated: 03 January 1999
Lazlo
6th Generation Toreador
Duc of the Clan Toreador

	Sire:	Raphael de Corazon (1801)
	Nature:	Architect
	Demeanor:	Conformist
	Humanity:	7
	Secrets:	****
	Status:	*****
	Esprit:	****
	Elder Status:	**
	Toreador Prestige:	****

Background:

                    Lazlo was Embraced in 1801 in Paris by Raphael the Corazon. He became immediately François Villon's chosen to lead the Toreador Clan as the second in command (and years after, as a Duc), the position being vacant since the departure of Alexis.

Lazlo remained Villon's ''apprentice'' for some time, and he was given full powers as a Duc when he succeeded to change the Second Republic (1848-1852) to the Second Empire by ''electing'' Louis Napoleon III (Bonaparte's nephew) Emperor (Villon is such a monarchist few things bother him more than ruling a democratic France!).

As asked by Villon, Lazlo continued to work to raise the cultural level of the France, attracting mortal and Kindred artists in Paris. His two greatests successes are the UNESCO (United Nations Aducational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation), installed in Paris, and the raising of the funds for the displacement of the Abou Simbel Ramses II and Nefertari temples which would have been under the waters of the Nasser artificial lake if the UNESCO had done nothing.

He is now managing most of the operations constituing the ''Projet Grand Louvre'', the renovation of François Villon's palais, which is reaching its final stage even now as these lines are written.

Destiny

                    As the Duc of the Toreador, Lazlo will be among the first target of the Assamite troubles.

Appearance:

Age:	223	Hair:	Honey-blonde	Height:	1m75
Apparent Age:	~25	Eyes:	Blue	Weight:	65 Kg
Date of Birth:	1774	Race:	Caucasian	Sex:	Male
RIP:	1801	Nationality:	French	Esprit:	****

                    Lazlo is a 1m75 tall man with honey-blond hair falling on his shoulders when not combed in a very 17th Century fashion. He has a delicate face, almost feminine, with but a trace of his slavic blood; and blue eyes. His silhouette is slender, as much androgyn as his face. He is simply charming, to men and women alike.

He is known to wear dark gray suits through more colored ones, varying with the occasion. In black, he is really stunning, as if it was someone else, darker self, who was wearing the clothes...

Role Playing:

                    Lazlo always express sincere sympathy to the one he's talking to. But if the subject of the discussion is unpleasant, he is known to simply smile in a very personnal way, or to simply bow discretly and go away.

If someone attacks him by a ''Trait d'Esprit'', he usually answers just enough to clean himself from the attack and to make the adversary think twice the next time he thinks about something so stupid as attacking the Duc of the Toreador on his own grounds.

Lazlo is also one of the few Kindred who is ''high'' enough to be able to answer by simple ignorance or contemptuous stare to some upstart too-much-rude ''Esprit'' provocation. And he likes to have some witnesses to spread the news about the ''naive'' newcomer...

Notes:

                    Lazlo's playground is the National Assembly where he direct the evolution of some discussion to put some important subject under scrutiny... And to make some others disappear...

He is in charge of controlling and managing the UNESCO. His power over this organisation is unmatched.

Lazlo is a melancholic man under a magnificient appearance. He feels the emptiness of his life as a physical pain. He loves serving Paris and see in Villon the only person in this city worthy of being obeyed.

Actual Aim:

                    Lazlo was perturbed by the death of his lover, the (saddly) Bâtard Daniel, and blames Ivan for it. He's still wondering if he should try to forget it in a most Toreador fashion (depression, spleen, etc.) or take on the road of vengeance, and start agressive intrigues against the master of the Masques

Rumours:

• Lazlo is pedophiliac (Partially True: He is attracted by young, androgyn Kindred, never by mortals).
• Lazlo is a simple pawn of Villon (False: Since more than one hundred years, Villon lets him full control of the powers his station gives him).
• Lazlo is Raphael de Corazon's spy in Paris (Partially True: Lazlo and Raphael still writes each other).
• Lazlo is corrupted by the Setite (False... Not yet...).
• Lazlo will kill Ivan soon (Er...)
• Lazlo intends to take the power from Villon, as soon as possible (False: He hope, one day, to become Prince of a new Toreador city oustide of France, copying Paris' hierarchy... In the USA?).

Auspex ***** * : Otherworldy Vision

                    Lazlo developped an Auspex 6 power that permit him to extend his color perception performances: Where the normal human see 3 colors (Blue, Green and Red; there is in reality an infinite number of ''colors'', but the human eye is sensible only to three, and build the others by mixing these three colors), Lazlo can see at will a fourth color between the Red and Green frequency (he calls it yellow, even if it is not the yellow the normal people see). He uses it to paint the world with four colors, with paint mixes that he see in four colors, and that appear greatly differents from their normal ''three colors'' color. So his paintings always have an otherworlfy, alien and in the same time so familiar touch, that, combined with his Creativity, makes him one of the most original painter ever alive (or un-alive) in the world. By using with Auspex **, he sees more easily the colors of the Auras.

                    System: 1 Blood Point, One scene.
This power needs one Blood Point (and a full turn, to ''add'' new conical sensitive cells in the eyes), and lasts for one scene.
In normal case, remove 1 to the difficulty of any perception roll in normal to soft-lighted scenes. Remove 1 to the difficulty of any Auspex ** Perception+Empathy roll to detect Auras in any condition, from sunlight to total darkness (Oops! Using Auspex while under sunlight!!!).

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