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