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New challenges
Having children surely is a
challenge in its own, something I was never aware off until then. They kept me going next to having to take care of the normal day things. Like being by my mans side and still keep things in check in the Keep. Especially after my Adoptive father left. Yes he
left and I never found out why. I just suddenly one night had a letter in the office
stating, that he was leaving and that he thinks I am strong enough to handle everything in his name. Even his holdings in France...
Surely I was in shock, especially due to the timing of it all. Like I did not already had my hands full. But in a way I understood him too. He was very old and perhaps seeked to rest in torpor for some time and to not disappoint him, I just went on like nothing happened. Ran everything, even became Prince for the region. Prince you ask? Yes Prince, it is only a term of a leader fitting to both female and male among the kindred.
Our children grew and of course became aware of the fact that we were different from how they were and started in their early ages to ask questions. I know the law
prohibited me to tell them the truth about me, but...why would I lie about it to my own children. They had the right to know. I just ensured that they also
knew, to never talk about it to anyone unless their Father or me gave permission. Children of course to any Family are their weaknesses and of course many tried to get their fingers on ours to use against us. Most of them ended up dead or vanished and were never seen again.
The only true problem I
encountered was that suddenly we had a visit from an Justicar and his Archon's. Which that is never good news. What I did not know at the time, which I found out over time is that they actually were after some books, which my Sire once gave me for safe keeping. Books which I also had started to
study, books which held more then most Tremere should truly know. Send by the Tremere Council of 7, that Justicar asked me to hand them over, or he would report back that he found me with the books, me...who was already considered a
renegade Tremere due to what my Sire did, for he stole those books. The reason which he
forfit his life and was killed.
Things I found out over time....
Though
I do not understand why this Justicar and his Archon's did not just hand
me in as my life surely was forgit too. Perhaps Lady Meerlinda, one of the Council members of the Tremere
had her fingers in that. For it is rumored that she has helped many renegade
Tremere like me. Perhaps for her own benefit of knowledge, which in a way
we bring into the Clan if she were not pushed out or on the run. But how
would she have known or how is she even aware of the things here in
Western Europe, when she over watches the North American continent?
Hmmm...Perhaps Etrius, another Council member has whispered some of his knowledge to her. I
probably will never find out.
Of
course, seeing how I swore an oath to my Sire back then to never hand over
those books, there was no way for me to break that and just give it to
this Justicar, even if he was of Tremere descent himself. You can imagine
that this was trouble and ment a fight. Though the man did not know, at
the time due to the fact that I was Prince, I made allot of allies. Some
Allies who I knew, stood with me and helped me.
Surprisingly even enemies of mine helped, silently... from the background.
Perhaps one to mention was a man called Red Pendragon of the Clan
Assamite. A man who should have never taken sides due to what clan he was.
A man for hire to kill. A man, where I never knew what he was up to, if he
was friend or foe...
There
also were men like Arowthorn who was a demon, Xian of the Clan Toreador, who later became the Prince of Southern France, making Paris,
a city of art belong to those who love art, while I reined still in Northern France. Or Grim who was
a Demon hunter of the worst sort, but a big help to me with the knowledge
he held. Next to several Arch-Demons named Shovanka and Brim. Then there
also was a Brujah named Jaraak of the Brujah with his woman Ophelia of the Toreador who
with their clans littely could raise hell and did so on several occasions.
Not to mention the man I was with, who was Khan and leader among the Garou
in the region. Or Jerran Vider aka Wolfe of the Clan Gangrel, who was a long term friend of the Family. You see, I had quite some powerful backup.
Much to the dislike of this Justicar and surely of the council of the Tremere and Camarilla. They truely dislike someone like me, getting as powerful as I
did and rising in power more and more by the day.
 
 
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