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Tremere. Tobias, otherwise known as Toby, was the bastard childe of a Dorchester Tremere named Oswald, whose sire decreed that all Oswald's line be extinguished, assigning the task to a relentless Gargoyle. Toby fled the city and arrived in Maiden Newton in rather spectacular style, as the Gargoyle tore apart the train that was seving as Toby's passage to the Sabbat citadel. Shortly afterwards he made contact with Sir Daniel Fortesque, claiming to be a Caitiff who had left the Camarilla due to the choking Masquerade. Fortesque agreed to introduce him to the city's Sabbat Temple, in return for the renegade Caitiff passing to him the secrets of Thaumaturgy, to which the new arrival was privy.
Toby had as a mortal always been fascinated with the occult, and this interest became an obsession upon his undeath. Toby was not the only new arrival to the city; the demon Uriel, posing as an Angel, had also entered Maiden Newton, and Toby soon found himself, along with the rest of the city's Cainites, facing off against Uriel and the duped Society of Leopold. The revelations about Uriel's true nature piqued Toby's interest, and after witnessing the destruction of the demon's mortal host, Toby began to believe that infernal means could assist him in gaining power - power that could save his skin against the Gargoyle that still hunted him. And so it was that Toby fell into the dark ways, reading all he could on the infernal realms and those that inhabited them.
Whether due to this new interest, his lust for power or simply because he believed it would aid the Sabbat, Toby's treachery became apparent when he tricked Fortesque into a ritual, claiming it would allow the Tzimisce to learn Thaumaturgy. In fact, all it did was allow Toby to stake him and hand him over to the mummy, Cornelius, who had promised to cease attacks on the Sabbat once he was given Fortesque. However, the Sabbat were despatched to stop Cornelius' plans, Fortesque was released, and he killed the mummy. Realising that with Fortesque back in the picture, it would not be long before his treachery was discovered, Toby threw himself fully into the blackest of infernal arts, now with one clear goal in mind: the destruction of Grand Inquisitor Anthony Livingstone.
Calling upon the power of none other than Uriel, Toby learned a powerful ritual that he used against both Livingstone and Bishop Zy - |
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the Bishop he saw as being the most threat besides the acting Archbishop. The ritual severely weakoned them both, allowing for Toby and his co-conspirators, Iain McLeod and Points, to orchestrate an attack with the assistance of PACT, a small army of vampire hunters controlled by Livingstone's nemesis, Mr Pin. Points changed his mind however, and aided the Grand Inquisitor, and although the attack against the Temple was effective, Livingstone was not destroyed, although McLeod was. Toby's punishment was more fitting; he was used in an elaborate ritual to bring down the Tremere ward that had for over a month been confining supernatural movement in the city. However, before the ritual could be completed, both Uriel and the Gargoyle arrived at the Temple, seeking to take his soul and unlife respectively. The Gargoyle was eventually destroyed, and Uriel, in the body of the Malkavian antitribu thaumaturge Abigail, was staked. The ritual then went ahead, and Toby's sacrifice served to free the Sabbat of the city, at the cost of his own treacherous unlife.
Although gone now, Toby's treason was to have lasting consequences. The ritual's weakoning effects on Livingstone meant that the Grand Inquisitor was far more susceptible to further attacks, a weakness that proved his end just a week later, at the hands of London. |
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