Updated: 15 March 1999
Frère Thomas
6th Generation Brujah
Duc of the Brujah

	Sire:	Hugues (1216)
	Nature:	Visionnary
	Demeanor:	Caretaker
	Road of Heaven:	9
	Secrets:	***
	Status:	*****
	Esprit:	****
	Elder Status:	*
	Brujah Prestige:	**

Background:

                    Frere (Brother) Thomas was a Fransiscan monk living in an old monastery in the 13th century, while the Inquisition. He raised his voice to critic some pratices of the Inquisition. The Church didn't like it and he had to hide and try to continue his research. He had discovered some information which proved that the world was spherical! If someone knew it, he would have been burnt on the pyre!

But someone learned it. This pale man, with an extraordinary presence, but with even greater humility, talked a lot to him, night after night, of the marvels of the world. Of the time when Greeks radiated of knowledge before the christians destroyed it with their intolerant obscurantism.
Brother Thomas answered that the message of God was a message of peace and love. The man answered that the Holy Bible wasn't so true to history than some inquisitors would like to others to believe.

For proof, he talked him about Moses and the Egyptians. Thomas, who didn't know the Ancient Egypt, was awed by the marvels told by the mysterious man.

Distrustful, he succeeded to make the man say that Cain was his Great Great Father.

Thomas was a researcher and an historian. His curiosity made him study the informations from this man who pretended to be a Childe of the Third Mortal.

After three days, he was sure that the real evil of the civilizations was to not remember the errors of the past. But even as he was sure, too, of the message of the Christ, he accepted the bargain of the strange man.

Since this time, he lives in the fringes of the vampiric society, never interfering, but always answering to questions from young generations, puting his knowledge of history in the service of love and peace.

While the Great Hunt, he couldn't make Villon forgive the young Brujah.
He kept alone in the Catacombs of Notre Dame, tears of blood falling from his eyes as the massacre was coming over his head.

Destiny

                    Unknown.

Appearance:

Age:	822	Hair:	Brown	Height:	1m66
Apparent Age:	40	Eyes:	Brown	Weight:	57Kg
Date of Birth:	1175	Race:	Caucasian	Sex:	Male
RIP:	1216	Nationality:	None	Esprit:	****

                    Brother Thomas is a 40 year-old man, with a common face, but with an calm smile. He is little, and is always wearing fransiscan monk's robes. He is always wearing his wooden cross around his neck. His brown eyes and hair (with a monastic cut) add to the aura of wisdom and calmness created by his Majesty.

Role Playing:

                    Always calm, taking all his time, Brother Thomas is a very strange Brujah, who surprises even those of his Clan who know him. Always against violence, he know hos to find the right words and the right story as a proof to his "point of vue".
This sage is considered as a feeble man by the Individualists. He is, anyway the most accessible sage of Paris, even if his True Faith scares more than one Vampire in the capital.

Notes:

                    The Presence ***** ** power of Brother Thomas creates an aura of calmness around him, helping his monk followers continue doing their copy work without suffering from interruption. No one knows about it Sixth Level Power. Brother Thomas is a real follower of God. Fascinated by Golconda, he only made the first step toward it (Enlightened **, see Elysium), even if his christian beliefs interfere with the learning of the peace with the Beast, having too little time to share between his historical studies and personnal philosophic enlightment. He have a True Faith ****, which make him immune to Obfuscate, Dominate, Presence and other Disciplines of powers affecting the mind. His cross is a vulgar one, but with his Faith, can become a deadly weapon:
Brother Thomas can terrorize a Kindred by succeeding Faith roll against the Kindred's Willpower, seriously hurt her by touching her with it (Faith's rating aggravated Damage, R�tshreck Roll for the hurt Kindred), etc.

Thomas sleeps under the Cathedral of Notre Dame, spying over the Inquisition. The them of his research is to discover the real message of God from the information from all the Bibles from all the religions of the world. Impressed by the Bouddhism, he still believe than the "Bible" where the message of God is the less altered is the Gospel.

He is the Duc of the Brujah of Paris, more because no one wanted the position after 1871, and because no other Brujah dared to defy this strange Kindred after 1968. But the night will eventually come...

He lives in a little monastery in the "Ile de la Cité", near Notre Dame de Paris. His Herd are the monks living there and tending for the catholic private school, and five among them are his Ghouls.

His relation with the Iconoclasts are inexistants, as they don't recognize him as their Clan leader. The Individualists consider him like a fool, or a coward, or the two in the same time. But as no one can be perfect, they still agree to aknowledge Frère Thomas is a wise and learned Kindred. The Idealists are the only ones showing some respect for him, but behind the polite ''façade'', each Idealist sees himself as a better Duc than Thomas. But none had the courage to make the first step (and give the Iconoclast some reason to start the infighting in the Clan again).

Actual Aim:

                    None but study history. He is the character that could be a source of knowledge to sincere people, of any Clan (even, perhaps, the Tremere).

Rumours:

• Thomas has True Faith (True).
• Thomas is betraying the Kindred to the Inquisition (False).
• Thomas is influenced by Delphine (False: The two constantly argue about what should be the Clan's next move, but never reach any agreement).
• Thomas knows a lot about the Kindred history (True).

Presence ***** * : Unkown Power

                    Texte

                    System: ?
Texte

Presence ***** ** : Mind Numb

                    This power removes the emotions from those around him

                    System: See the Vampire Player Guide, p78

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