Auspex: ●●●
Dominate: ●
Thaumaturgy: ●●●
- Movement of the Mind (Primary): ●●●
- Lure of the Flames: ●●
Celerity: ●
Rituals:
Level 1: Communicate with Kindred Sire, Sense the Mystical (Rites of the Blood)
Level 2: Burning Blade, Donning the Mask of Shadows
Level 3: Incorporeal Passage
Efficient Digestion (3pt): You are able to draw more than the usual amount of nourishment from blood. When feeding, you gain an additional point to your blood pool for every two points of blood you consume. This does not allow you to exceed your blood pool maximum.
Open Road (2pt): Unlike many Kindred, you like to travel. You have a solid knowledge of safe travel routes and methodologies, not to mention haven space available in any number of destinations. Unless someone out there knows your exact route and is specifically looking for you, you can move between cities unimpeded by random encounters with Lupines, overzealous state troopers, and the like.
Languages Known (+4 from Intelligence): English, Arabic, Egyptian (Hieroglyphics), Greek, Latin, Cantonese, Manchu, and Mandarin
Flaws:
Bound to the Clan (3 pt): You have done more than just drink from the blood of the elders. Whether as punishment or by choice, you have become fully blood bound to Clan Tremere. You cannot act against the Clan, and find everything you do works in the service of the Tremere. You might not like it, but you can’t help yourself doing it. Of course, now you are bound to the Clan, you cannot be bound to another individual. Many older Tremere have this Flaw, as it has been common in the past to completely blood bind new Tremere. Destroyed by the Viniculum
Special Responsibility (1 pt): Shortly after your Embrace, you volunteered for some task in order to gain respect and approval from the vampires around you. Now, you wish you had never opened your damn mouth! While you are not given any special credit for performing this duty, you would lose a lot of respect if you were to stop. The nature and the details of your duty should be worked out with the Storyteller in advance. Ideas can range from lending money to other Kindred to acting as a messenger or possibly gathering victims for ritae (such as Blood Feasts). - Gather Artifacts for the House and Clan
Rival Sires (2pt): The flip side of Escaped Target, two vampires wanted to gift you with the Embrace. One succeeded, one failed — and she’s not happy about that failure. You, your actual sire, or both of you have become the target of the failed suitor’s ire. Regardless, your persecutor is at +2 difficulty to refrain from frenzy in your presence. In addition, she may well be working actively to discredit or destroy you.
Description:
Age: 90
Apparent Age: 45
Hair: Salt and Pepper Gray
Eyes: Steel Blue
History:
Questions from the Book:
How old are you?
Marcus was 45 years old when he died, and has spent that same time in his new unlife.
What was unique about your childhood?
Marcus spent a large portion of his youth in libraries and museums, facinated with ancient cultures and myths.
What kind of person were you?
Intellectual and inquisitive in his youth. As he grew older, he added adventurousness to that mix, which has gotten him in trouble more than once.
What was your first brush with the supernatural
Many things throughout the years that had been written off as misunderstandings or myths of ancient or primitive peoples. Uncovering a tomb in Northern Italy, Marcus discovered Tiberius. Fortunately for Marcus, Tiberius had his tomb set up with "blood crystals" that would feed him, awaken him, and satiate the elder enough to keep Tiberius from ripping Marcus to shreds on the spot. In exchange for his life, Marcus would teach Tiberius about the modern world. Tiberius enjoyed Marcus's curiosity and the fact that the man had studied the past. These qualities along with his history of exploration, led Tiberius to embrace Marcus so that he could use those abilities to aid the House and Clan.
How did the Embrace change you?
Surprising little, beyond the whole no sun and drinking blood thing. The biggest change for Marcus was having to resign from his position at the University of Chicago.
How did you meet the others in your coterie?
Haven't Yet.
Where is your haven?
The same brownstone in North Chicago that he lived in in life when he is not out on a job.
Do you retain any connections to your mortal life?
A few remaining connections to the archaeology department at the University of Chicago - but even those are reached through intermediaries.
What are your habitual feeding grounds?
Whatever happens to be convenient when he is out on a job. Otherwise the campus of the University of Chicago.
What motivates you?
Discovering lost secrets/learning what has been lost to time.
