Know Your Kindred – Teresita, Godmother of the Damned

Name:  Teresita, Godmother to the Damned
Clan:  Nosferatu antitribu
Generation:  8th
Embrace:  1672

Teresita is a female creep who never speaks about her mortal past.  She says her existence began when Gerhardt the Lizard took her from life.  He Embraced her only because he needed someone small to fit through the narrow pipes.  He warned her to succeed or he would destroy her.  Teresita worked hard and after a few decades she won his trust.  But Gerhardt learned his folly when Teresita led a Sabbat pack into his haven.

Teresita worked hard to prove herself to the Sabbat.  In time she earned a place in the Black Hand and she became a dominion.  She won great respect leading the Black Hand into Camarilla controlled cities.  She lobbies to be appointed as the new seraph, but there is a glass ceiling for female Cainites and Nosferatu and so it is a low priority.  Never the less, Teresita is rumored to be the leading candidate for the post, mainly because she spends more time in Mexico City than any of the older and putatively stronger dominions.

When no seraph is in Mexico City, Teresita is the city’s ranking member of the Black Hand.  She regularly meets with the prisci, archbishop and cardinals.  They entrust her with a great variety of secrets.

Teresita carefully hides that she has long-distance contact with the Nosferatu information network.  Online she accesses the SchrekNet and has created a fairly detailed online persona as a Nosferatu anarch in Los Angeles.  Through this persona she gathers information about the Sabbat and Camarilla.

Teresita acts like a cheerful nanny to her childer (to her most Sabbat are childer).  She reprimands them when they fail and rewards them when they succeed.  Although the Black Hand is non-political, Teresita supports the ultra-conservative faction, believing the Sabbat can never defeat the Camarilla without absolute unity, discipline and strong leadership.

Teresita stands 3 feet 8 inches tall, with a slender figure.  She dresses in petticoats with lots of lace.  A lace mobcap on her head hides her few tufts of soft, gray hair.  Her bluish skin is covered with scales and warts.

– Source:  Mexico City by Night, pg. 81-82