Updated: 15 March 1999
Thierry Rethers
Psychic D.S.T. Special Agent

	Domitor:	None
	Nature:	Caregiver
	Demeanor:	Conformist
	Humanity:	7
	Secrets:	**
	Status:
	Esprit:
	Elder Status:
	Clan Prestige:

Background:

                    Thierry was but another police detective who had, surprisingly, quite good stats in his investigation successes & failures. The D.S.T. was searching for such talents, and soon he was proposed to join the Territory Security.

What the D.S.T. chiefs didn't realize was that Thierry was a good investigator, yes, but not so good as it was seen in the results. Thierry was a psychic. He could feel emotions and memories in things he touched. Of course, it didn't work with anything, but almost always when an object was charged with emotion, like a knife which served to kill, he could see or hear something that would lead him to the murderer. Of course, his habit of always wearing gloves, as well as the fact that the scientific police almost always found his digital inprints on objects studied, bothered somewhat everyone.

But Thierry had yet to see the surprise of his life.

One night, he followed group of crazy religious extremists who, he knew, believed they were hunting monsters. They had caught up a girl who was suspected of being a witch. When the strange, catholic-like ceremony neared to an end, it became obvious they would kill the girl. The help would not come soon enough, so he decided to act.

This foolish action almost cost him is life. The guys were crazy enough to have automatic weapons, and while Thierry succeeded in killing one, he was wounded by a crossbow bolt!

Now he knew these guys had a real mental health problem. they looked at him, and then they decided to explain them: The girl was a witch, and she lived eternally by sucking the soul from the poor mortals she had sex with or she used her unholy magic against. She was a creature of Satan, and this ceremony would end her life on this earth. Thierry could only watch as his own bleeding was weakening him.

Just as the priest was about to stake the girl, a dark-red-haired teenager appeared in front of him. The priest was so surprised he almost let down the stake. As soon as he saw her chalk-white skin and her emotionless features, he seemed to recognize her, and ordered her killed as he dropped to the ground. The bullets never reached her or her protégée. They seemed to liquefy just before touching her. But the teenager didn't remain inactive. Tendril of shadows appeared from everywhere, and the men were soon fighting for their life.

As the priest saw the last of his men dying from lack of air, he stood up, and with all the courage and faith he could muster, he held his crucifix in front of her. Thierry was so surprised to actually see pure white light emanating from the Crucifix. But as soon as it grew, the light decreased to nothing.

                    ''I was born thousand years before your god was even conceived by human minds, and your puny faith in nothing can do nothing against a follower of Maat.''

                    ''You don't frighten me, creature of Darkness!''

The teenager almost smiled. Her eyes remained emotionless, still.

                    ''You have so much faith on one aspect of creation, you lack the vision that would unlock the secrets of this world. I have no illusions about your Ba, but perhaps I can save you... Meditate on the following...''

The remaining of the phrase was but whispered, and Thierry didn't hear it, but the effect on the priest was so devastating he didn't saw the teenager walk near him.

                    ''So simple... so true...'' He could hear the priest crying on the ground. ''How could I have been so blind...''

                    ''What did you do to him?'' Thierry asked, raising weakly his gun. The teenager smiled, this time. But her eyes remained vacant, as if she was dreaming about something.

                    ''This man was searching for the ultimate answer, behind everything in the universe. And he searched in religion, and his zeal led him to callous actions. So I told him the answer...''

                    ''You what?!?'' But then he felt something, like a caress in his mind. It was the first time he felt something like that, and he touched her in the same time she started to read his mind.

The effect was like a wave of emotions and memories. And he saw her wearing greek-like clothes and commanding the darkness, and in her he saw himself, at school, when he was alone because he feared to touch anyone, then he saw her, in a land where the moon lighted as much as the sun, with pyramids, sand and great temples, and he saw himself, as he cried at the death of his mother, and he saw her, and in her he saw himself and so on, and so on...

But in the end, he saw only one thing. Her soul, trapped in fear of what she had become, her humanity and her emotions trapped behind a wall that protected her from aggression, and all the while who chocked her emotions to death. He saw the soul, the poor soul crying, alone in the dark...

The teenager disappeared.

Since then, he was in the hospital for his wounds. He had all the time he needed to think about it. In but a touch, he had learnt more about himself than in a whole life of introspection. And in the same time he had seen a poor, 15 years-old girl crying, deeply hidden in walls of logic and reason. But who could be this teenager? He went back home without the lightest clue to this question.

She found him once more. He had found in his mailbox a letter with a strange calligraphy. ''I will come tonight'', it said. He knew who it could be. It could only be her. He was looking some TV-show about supernatural when she suddenly appeared in the room. Thierry almost dropped his glass of coke from the surprise.

They talked for hours. He had told no one about her. He somehow knew she would come back. She had told him part of her story, of how she was one of the minor godesses of Egypt, and how she had helped Maat for two thousant years. He told him of his own life. Of course, the two already knew almost everything they said, but to hear it seemed to gave them courage.

She came back the next night. She explained the girl was indeed a witch, or more precisely, she had some magical powers. It was similar to the power Thierry had. She told him it was the last time she would come back. It seemed to pain her. While her features remained as neutral as a doll's, he could, somehow feel it pained her. So he asked to follow her. Follow her in the darkness.

Thierry came back to the D.S.T. changed. He was soon changed to the Delta Division, and there he learnt he would work for Vampires. Of course, he already knew that. She had told him about Alexis

But he would have done everything for her. He knew she was hurt, deep inside her soul, and despite their powers, no one, not even the poweful Alexis, had understood that.

''Is this love?'' She had asked to him. The two somehow it was something like that. But also something even deeper. Something that transcended mortality.

He didn't believe he would fall in love for a seventeen years-old egyptian woman who appeared to be only 15, and who was in reality more than 5000 years old.

Destiny

                    Thierry Rethers is destined to become the 7th Childer of Set. Then, the crusade against the Antediluvian will start...

Appearance:

                    Thierry Rethers appears as a shy, but attracive man with short brown hair and large brown eyes. He is well built. He has a scar on his chest (a crossbow bolt went through his chest).

He wears normal clothes, as well as a dark gray coat. He always wear gloves, and will never let anyone touch him.

Role Playing:

                    Thierry Rethers appears as a conformist retainer, always doing what the Kindred ask of him, but with a subtle air of irony. He can be charming, not actively charming, but as he is truely caring, and polite without being snob or overcaring, others find him an agreable company.

Notes:

                    Thierry is a star character of the Chronicle. While he won't, perhaps participate in the events covered by this HTML work, he will, in the following Chronicle, join the Knights of Hecate in their fight against Set, and join them as one of the 4th Generation.

Anyone reading his aura with 3 successes or more, will find gold and silver veins similar in form to the veins of Diablerie. The difference in color, as well as the fact her is mortal, can be enough to make others wonder...

His psychic power have been developped and structured with the Vitae of Meryt-Neith. He is now considered to have, in addition to the Potence, the Discipline Auspex.

Thierry Rethers is the weak point of Meryt-Neith. By studying him, others can discover the presence in Paris of an unknown Kindred. And through him, they can hurt her a lot. The problem with this kind of reasonning is that angering a girl who can raise volcanoes and drop asteroids on earth can be quite dangerous...

Actual Aim:

                    To understand what hurt Meryt-Neith so deeply.

Rumours:

• You're a ghoul of Alexis (False).
• You're not a ghoul (False).
• You have some hidden influence over François Villon (False) and Alexis (True).

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