Know Your Kindred – Lucian, the Perfect

Name:  Lucian, the Perfect
Generation:  3rd
Clan:  Unknown (maybe Nosferatu or Guruhi)
Embraced:  Unknown

Lucian is a very (very) ancient vampire who turned away from Caine and the other Antediluvians to seek out something grander for himself.  In the final nights of Gehenna, Lucian is one of Lilith’s “Apostates” –  a group of seven unknown or forgotten Antediluvians who each lived a quiet existence.  They either stumbled upon or sought out Lilith and are now serving the Dark Mother in her feud against Caine.

Lucian is intelligent, confident, charismatic and preternaturally attractive.  Lucian has a special ability he is unable to control, which has caused him untold difficulty over the years. His physical form is so perfect and radiant that anyone looking at him in his natural form is automatically entranced and can do nothing else but stare.

There is a connection between Lucian and the Nosferatu clan, but no one knows how the two fit exactly.  There are theories that Lucian and the Nosferatu Antediluvian, Absimiliard, were broodmates or maybe brothers in life.  Perhaps he is secretly the progenitor of the Nictuku or African Guruhi legacy.

It may be possible that Lucian is the Nosferatu Antediluvian himself and that his perfect appearance is an illusion.  Maybe all Nosferatu descend from him, but he cursed his own bloodline with ugliness because his childer Embraced without his permission.

– Source:  Time of Judgement: Gehenna, pg 98-99.