Know your Kindred – Jacob the Glitch

Name:  Jacob the Glitch
Clan:  Tremere antitribu
Generation: 7th
Embraced:  1880

Jacob is a pawn under the control of the demon Metathiax; being used as a sensory conduit to spy on the vampires of Montreal.  Wiping Jacob’s memory to prevent him from learning about his past, Metathiax released him into the city and cursed him with monthly episodes of complete amnesia, preventing him from ever advancing to a point where he could break free from the demon’s control.

Unknown to Metathiax is that the connection works in reverse; Jacob became aware of the subconscious fears of his demon master.

Jacob retains his memories for a single month before they vanish and he awakens the next night rambling in English, Greek, Russian, Latin and a multitude of other languages known to Metathiax.

For the most part Jacob is unintelligible, but there are moments of divine lucidity when he spouts off riddles, fragments of information and knowledge about Metathiax’s fears.  The only thing Jacob can remember are potent Thaumaturgical rituals that no one can account for.

In 1998, Jacob, known for his amnesia and incoherent ramblings, became strangely lucid.  He spent most of his time conferring with Noddist scholars and rumors said that he even offered to tech Thaumaturgy to anyone willing to listen to his incessant babbling.  Then early one morning he met with his clanmate Yasmin, the Black and simply said “And so it is” and walked into the dawn sunlight.  Some took this as a sign that Gehenna was coming and the Tremere antitribu of Montreal packed up and left.

Jacob was a small mousy Afro-Caribbean in disheveled clothes.  He always looked confused and befuddled.

– Sources:  Montreal By Night, pg. 91-92.  Nights of Prophecy, pg. 136.