Know Your Kindred – Khalid

Name:  Khalid
Clan:  Nosferatu
Generation:  6th
Embrace:  1191

During the Crusades Khalid lived up to the reputation of the hideous Muslim warrior the Christian Knights so feared.  He freely performed cruel deeds in service of his god.   A Byzantine Nosferatu named Alexius arrived in the Holy Land and believed embracing the Islamic leaders was the best way to corrupt and weaken the enemy.  She was fascinated by Khalid’s extreme cruelty, so he was the first to be Embraced.

Khalid was horrified by his curse and in a rage killed his own men before fleeing into the desert.  Starving to death in the wilderness, Khalid was discovered by a reclusive Jewish hermit who pulled the neonate out of the sun’s deadly rays and nursed him back to health.  The hermit taught Khalid about the occult and other forms of mysticism.  When Khalid left the hermit, he was a new person on a path for peace.

For 600 years Khalid wandered the world and met others like him.  He learned about Golconda and the quest to achieve it became his purpose.   Over the centuries, Khalid saw the best and worst examples of the Camarilla’s meddling in human affairs.  By the end of the 19th century he arrived in Chicago, where rumors said an Inconnu slumbered beneath the city.  Allegedly this creature would whisper secrets of Golconda to visitors.  Khalid searched in vain for this ancient creature.

Chicago was still rebuilding after the Great Fire of 1871 and Khalid felt compelled to help rebuild the city.  He got involved in Kindred politics and became the city’s Primogen.   He has a lot of subtle influence among the city’s Kindred.  He knows almost everything that goes on in the city.  But now Khalid is ready to leave Chicago and continue searching for the deepest of Kindred mysteries.

Khalid has an expert mastery of Obfuscate.  He can conceal objects that are important to him (like his haven) even when he’s not present.   Unlike most Nosferatu, Khalid does not have their normal horrific appearance, but he still bears the scars from the sun he received his first day as a vampire.

Note:  Khalid embraced two Chicago children after seeing the painful lives they lived. Tammy and Peter Walenski

– Source: Clanbook Nosferatu (Revised), pg 98-99.  Chicago By Night, pg 95-96.