Player Characters
Rose
Illustration by @sirenauroranix
The Sisterhood
Rose lost everything in the Sabbat attack on Georgetown: but so much of her life was built on a pack of cards anyway. It just took a wind to blow and . . . poof. She rebuilt herself with the help of her Sisters and looks at unlife anew.
Zachary “DJ Zakz/DJ Prophet”
Illustration by Hannah Rivera
Clan Malkavian
In life, Zachary Sellz, known professionally as DJ Zakz - or more recently - DJ Prophet, worked at a radio station in Alexandria, Va. He was constantly wracked with nightmares and visions of death all around him causing a major sleep disorder. Things begin to change for him when he begins talking about his visions on air.
Ezekiel “Asa” Armstrong
Illustration by Game Master Virtuoso
Clan Salubri
Ezekiel Abraham Freeman Armstrong, or “Asa” was a palliative care nurse in life. He got some bad health news which put him into a downward spiral. He tried to reconcile with his abusive father, but to no avail. Things were looking grim for Asa when an old woman took an interest in him at a bus stop. Asa’s world was turned upside down as he was reborn into a tiny, ancient and HUNTED order of spirit-healing vampires.
Gwenevieve Rossellini
Illustration by Game Master Virtuoso
Clan Giovanni
Gwenevieve Rossellini was born as a rare revenant ghoul into the twisted “Family” of necromancers. The talented death worker is sent to the family’s holds in Boston following her embrace. There, she is one of the guardians of a great family secret. Following a decade of study, Gwen is visited by her Aunt Lucretia who has an interesting new assignment in the Camarilla’s Potomac Empire to give her.
Secondary Characters
Gideon Garrison
Illustration by @seekingsiren with background photo by SafakOguz/iStock.
Clan Brujah
Gideon Garrison worked long and hard to own the Chop Shop next to the Fairfax Industrial Park. One night in his neighborhood, he witnessed a man fighting what looked like his identical twin, but they were moving faster than Gideon could see. Gideon was brought into the World of Darkness as a Brujah and allowed to keep his beloved Chop Shop and its surroundings as his Domain: in exchange for service to the Imperial crown as a Ranger.
Sarah Strassenfeld
Illustration by @seekingsiren with background photo by traveler1116/iStock.
Clan Tremere
Sarah Strassenfeld is a blank slate: remembering nothing before she was in the trunk of a car, speeding down the roadway. She is thrown out of the car and is picked up by the Tremere. She has known only service sense, though her natural talents made her stand out among her competitors. She has been given a role in the Imperial Rangers and is trusted with special duties by the Seneschal himself. She even has a quiet role in erecting the great emergency Ward that protects the Kindred of the Camarilla from the ravages of the Sabbat.
Renata
Illustration by @seekingsiren with background photo by traveler1116/iStock.
Clan Toreador
Carmilla, a fiction writer, gains the interest of an obsessive patron. That patron becomes her Sire. These nights, she is known as Renata. She had been the Baroness of Bowie in the Potomac Empire of Georgetown, but now she is a refugee, having crossed the mystical barrier separating D.C. and Alexandria. Renata proves herself useful in her adopted home with her crafts of weaponry, but she holds a few dark secrets about not only her past, but her present, that could bring her a death sentence.
Arthur Glass
Illustration by @seekingsiren with background photo by SeanPavonePhoto/iStock.
Clan Ventrue
Arthur always tried to fit in among the upper class, and soon made himself indispensable to a child of privilege he met at school. Arthur made contacts of his own and made his own fortune, but that old friend from school turned out to come from a kind of privilege Arthur could not have fathomed. Arthur served as a neonate Ventrue’s prime ghoul for near a decade before a night at Georgetown Elysium turned into a horror show. Arthur died at the hands of the Sabbat, but was turned by his domitor Lance Polloch … by accident. They survived the encounter with the Sabbat as Sire and Childe and crossed the border into Alexandria. Arthur is of the 11th Generation, marking him as a “thinblood” to the Ventrue (though not to Camarilla society at large), and survives only because of a loophole in the 6th Tradition of the Camarilla and to the amusement of the Tremere.
Guest Player Character
H.B. Kershaw
Illustration by Game Master Virtuoso
Clan Nosferatu
Harold Benjamin Kershaw, byline H.B. Kershaw, was a writer for the Washington Post until his failing health forced him to take a leave of absence. But his spirit and inquisitive mind wouldn’t stop where his body would.
Former Player Characters
Desirée
Illustration by Game Master Virtuoso
Clan Toreador
In life, Adrianna Josephine Dior was an artist and Ball scene starlet who had made it big with a handsome man in the wealthy Virginia suburbs. She retuned to the Mill one night with her House to compete (and win) in the Ball only to catch the attention of a gaping twink with the ability to make others swarm around him. They later met in Adrianna’s studio, yet the young Toreador was overwhelmed with passion and murdered Adrianna with his ardor. In a panic above Adrianna’s dead body, he embraced her.
Thaïs
Illustration by Game Master Virtuoso
Clan Brujah
In life, Thaïs Wyche-Key was a mechanical engineer and occasional illegal chop-shop worker. She had a fun and loving group of friends and went with them to a rave on Friday the 13th to celebrate a friend’s new job. When the group retired to a squat for an afterparty, things turned bloody with an uninvited guest. Thaïs fought back, but was nearly killed in the struggle: saved only by the embrace of a Brujah warrior.
Henry Vasiliev
Illustration by Dorian
Clan Nosferatu
In life, Henry Vasiliev was a hard-working entomologist and professor at the University of Maryland. He was married to his friend Sally to help keep their secret truths from a hateful world. But his life turned upside down when a mysterious stalker began to take an interest in Henry’s otherwise quiet life. Once Henry was brought into the cavernous Undercity, he began to wonder if he would ever see the light of the city above ever again.
Vito “Vitus” Armandasanti
Clan Ventrue
In life, Vito Armandasanti was a successful “businessman,” in that he owned a bank, but his money is bloody as it comes. He maintains his Cosa Nostra family with an iron fist, but has a soft spot for the torch he carries for his lost love. The Russians are moving in on his territory. Can he let that stand? Vito’s comfortable life takes a turn when he learns he has a son who needs him to survive.
Illustration by Game Master Virtuoso
Illustration by Hannah Rivera
Clan Malkavian
In life, Jinx was known as Juniper Anne Garrow and was a child of the system. She honed her art to become a magnificent graffiti artist. Jinx spent a wild couple of days dodging police and living large in a hotel, but then she fell into the clutches of a very demanding “Mother.”
Illustration by Game Master Virtuoso
Number 7
Clan Tremere
In life, Alazar Makonnen was a CIA operative who lost his family in service to his adopted country’s secrets. While “fighting the spread of Communism” by killing agents and freedom fighters alike, Alazar witnessed something that would change his life forever.