Updated: 15 March 1999
Tatiana
9th Generation Malkavian
''The Mad Mother''

	Sire:	(1674)
	Nature:	Deviant
	Demeanor:	Caregiver
	Humanity:	2
	Secrets:	***
	Status:	***
	Esprit:	***
	Elder Status:
	Malkavian Prestige:	***
	Verve:

Background:

                    Tatiana was in truth called Madeline, and lived an happy life in the court of Louis XIV. In the court, love affairs, treasons and every other petty motives for intrigues were the very air she breathed. The problem is that sometimes, ugly things had to be done to further one's own ends. And that Madeline soon found she liked it...

Her name in the court was soon associated with dark affairs of aborption and satanic gospels. It was even darker, as she had become the Ghoul of a Malkavian Kindred.

Guilherme, her master, had some real problems with women, as he couldn't hide his shyness, and needed someone to cure him from this little quirck. Madeline would help him, he knew. So he let her more or less free to act as wanted. The problem is that Guilherme couldn't be cured. At the time, Beatrix was Prince, and Guilherme was too shy to ask her the right to Embrace her Ghoul.

Madeline started to wonder why her Sire was waiting to make her join him in immortality. She didn't ask it long, as Witch-Hunters entered her Sire's palace. Guilherme, afraid for his Ghoul, Embraced her, and then hid her changing body in the earth of the underground chambers of his palace. When he tried to flee, he was betrayed by one of his own retainers, and the Witch-Hunters staked him. To be sure no one escaped, every mortal in the palace was ''questioned''. In he end, the casted burned, with the pyres still smoking with the charred wood and bodies who had once, worked in the palace.

Madeline awakened some hours after her Embrace, but she took many days to free herself from the earth. But when she got out, it was to see all the evil made by the so-called servants of God. While not a saint herself, she knew she had quite twisted pleasures. But she had never called herself normal. She had just discovered madness was common among humanity, but hid itself behind false justice.

Madeline came back to the Louvre. Beatrix was sad for the poor Guilherme. The shy scholar always found sympathy in the eyes of the Toreador Prince. While the Embrace of Madeline was illegal, Beatrix accepted it as the legacy of the murdered Kindred. She asked Madeline to not seek revenge against the Inquisition, as it would threaten the Masquerade. Madeline accepted, telling that she would change her name to Tatiana, in honor of the little princess Guilherme had been fond of, and who had been killed by the Witch-Hunters.

Tatiana didn't want revenge. After all, she had commited sins whose cruelty could rival quality (if not in numbers) with the Inquisition's. But she lost any remaining illusion about the innate goodness of humanity.

Destiny

                    Unknown.

Appearance:

Age:	367	Hair:	Brown	Height:	1m61
Apparent Age:	30	Eyes:	Black	Weight:	50Kg
Date of Birth:	1629	Race:	Caucasian	Sex:	Female
RIP:	1674	Nationality:	French	Esprit:	***

                    Tatiana is a beautiful woman in her thirties, with brown long hair and black eyes. She has a very thin waist, and always wears clothing that enhance this particular curve of her silhouette. Her clothing can vary, but normally, she has long black dresses, and everything else that would make her appear as a recent widow. This, allied with the fact she is a Malkavian, is enough to give the creeps to most Ancillae.

Role Playing:

                    She is like a mother to all who talk to her. She cares for their pain and needs, and readily tells them that they can count on her if they want to talk about it. She appears as a saddened widow who lost her sire to the Inquisition. this can lead Kindred to think her Malkavian derangement to be melancholy.

When doing her little experiments, she has a crazy look in her eyes, feeling pleasure from the pain she gives, and fromt the tears and cries of her victim. Still, she keeps her motherly behaviour, explaining her victim she had been bad all along, and that he needs to learn it the hard way...

Notes:

                    If a Duchess would have to be chosen for the Malkavian Clan, she would be Duchesse, as she really cares for her clanmates. But the Malkavian have no real power in Paris, and so, are not considered Noble.

Still, she is a very important person among the Courtisanes, and her Esprit, tinged with motherly contempt, can be really deadly. The problem is that she never pushes it too far, enabling the victim to get up without being too much ridicule.

She is the Sire of Christelle, Gregory and Xavier/Xavière.

Recently, she discovered she could learn Dementation, as she is now pondering the new height of torture she could test on other and herself...

Actual Aim:

                    To Protect her children (The Malkavians). To continue to teach her patients (i.e.: Continue her tortures on those poor mortal or supernatural victims in her dungeons).

Rumours:

• In truth, she is searching for the Kindred who will replace Guilherme in her heart (False).
• She is the founder of the parisian Malkavian Bloodline, as every other Kindred is her Childe, or her Childe's Childe (False).
• She can be cruel beyong understanding (True) when the moon is full (False).

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