From July, 2018
Know Your Kindred – Piotr Andreikov
Name: Piotr “Peter” Andreikov
Clan: Tzimisce
Generation: 12th
Embraced: 1969
Codenamed “Winter” for his cool demeanor, white-blonde hair and pale blue eyes – Piotr serves both as a priest of the Druid Hill pack in Baltimore and as an intelligence analyst, investigator and strategist for the Black Hand. He spends his nights reading reports from Sabbat packs and interviewing spies sent into Camarilla territories, pinpointing targets for both the Sabbat and the Black Hand
Piotr grew up in Houston, Texas, a first generation American born to immigrant Ukrainian parents, including an abusive father. His unusual name and cool nature set him apart from the other boys at school, who bullied him, but soon learned it was best to leave him alone, as his frustrations at home exploded into violent rage when other kids pushed him.
He grew up fascinated by serial killers, psychopaths and ancient cults. His interest in the dark side of human nature lead him into psychology and police work. Piotr was an excellent detective – solving several high profile murders, which earned him the ire of the Toreador, who were trying to found a criminal empire.
The Toreador blood bound Piotr and the effects of the bond frightened him. Odd lapses of judgement, irrational compulsions troubled him deeply. His increasingly distracted mind and carelessness lead him to be kidnapped by a Tzimisce named Deloris, who at first delighted in playing with this Camarilla pawn, but she soon respected his cool courage when faced with her horrific pets. Intrigued, she embraced him into her clan.
Piotr adapted well to unlife. No stranger to violence, he grew to enjoy inflicting it on others. He tracked down his former slave master and wrecked the Toreador’s criminal business before trapping and destroying him in his own haven. However, Piotr was not cut out to be a morphosist like his sire and her pack mates. His keen intellectual curiosity forced him to sever his ties when the Black Hand dominion, Chang, who noted his abilities, invited him to join the Black Hand.
His labors have served the Sabbat well during its invasion up the East Coast. Piotr has self appointed himself as Baltimore’s Black Hand census taker, filling out his own knowledge of the sub-sect’s members, activities and aspirations.
Piotr’s pale hair and eyes and bone-white skin give him a washed out look. Due to his police training, his frame is muscular but short. He still tends to dress in suits.
Source: Caine’s Chosen: The Black Hand, pg 93-94.
Know Your Kindred – Tegyrius, Vizier
Name: Tegyrius
Clan: Assamite
Generation: 5th
Embraced: 330 B.C.
For the Children of Haqim, the Vizier caste (aka the “scholar caste”) studies range from theology to particle physics. ‘THE’ Vizier is elected every 63 years to the position.
The current Vizier of the clan is Tegyrius, an ancient legal expert, who has held the title three consecutive centuries.
In life, Tegyrius was a cavalry officer, who rode in Alexander the Great’s armies. Until one day his horse fell over on him and crushed his leg. It was here he was embraced by an unnamed child of Haquim, who told Tegyrius of his nights in the Second City and the role judges had played.
Tegyrius took on the judge role for himself, spending centuries traveling the world, serving as an anonymous neutral arbiter in countless Cainite and mortal disputes. Some Ventrue and Malkavians remember him in the court of Justinian, watching as the emperor codified Roman law. Others remember him at the bloody battles of Constantinople.
After serving one term as head Vizier, Tegyrius disappeared for several centuries. He resurfaced in the 17th century, where he went to Alamut to claim a seat on the Council of Scrolls and later elected again as leader of the Viziers in 1801. He remained at Alamut for the next two centuries, slipping into episodes of month-long torpor due to sheer lethargy.
But Ur-Shulgi’s awakening and subsequent assumption of power has galvanized Tegyrius into action. While reverence toward Haqim was acceptable, blind worship of him as a genocidal god went against everything Tegyrius saw as the legacy of the Second City. The clan wide schism created by Ur-Shulgi’s new policies have some viziers whispering Tegyrius aided al-Ashrad’s bid to join the Camarilla, with plans for Tegyirus to be appointed the first Assamite Justicar.
Tegyrius walks with a slight limp, from a broken hip that never fully healed. He was embraced near the end of his military career, so the grey in his beard and around his temples stands in stark contract with his pure black skin. Tegyrius is a master linguist, who can manipulate his accent.
Source: Clanbook: Assamite Revised pg. 34-36, 99-100