Know Your Kindred – Victoria Ash

Name:  Victoria Ash
Clan:  Toreador
Generation: 8th
Embraced:  1650

Victoria Ash is a singer, dancer and one-woman spectacle.   She had a number-one pop hit on the charts for one week in 1997.  The song entitled “The Unique Technique,” was played everywhere – on radio stations, in supermarkets, even on late night TV.  But the song vanished as quickly as it appeared.  Nonetheless, Victoria had everyone in the world listening to her.   It only took her three centuries to get that far.

In life she was the bastard daughter of an alewife.  When she was 13, she ran away with a solider who later abandoned her.   She then became a prostitute, selling sex to soldiers.  But she separated herself from the other women with her beauty, singing voice and the fact she was very good at her work.

Her singing attracted the attention of a vampire and known pimp named Maximilian.   He made her his ghoul to preserve her beauty.  Within five years she was the campaign concubine for Louis II, Prince de Conde.   War and conflict between England and France continued and Maximillian was nearly killed by a rival Toreador guild.  Victoria managed to save her sire’s life and they fled to the Netherlands.   Once Maximilian recovered from his injuries, thanks to Victoria’s blood, he repaid her by embracing her in 1650.

After returning to England in 1660, Maximillian was killed by his former rivals.  Victoria barely managed to escape by stowing away in a ship heading to the New World.  She was one of the first Kindred on the continent.  She’s spent the last three centuries getting to know America.  She enjoys its wealth, selfishness, hypocrisy and honesty in equal measures.

Victoria is extraordinarily beautiful and she knows it.  Even male Kindred who have long forgotten the passions of the flesh turn their heads when she enters a room.  Victoria has one flaw on her body, a small mark branded on her neck by a Tzimisce named Elford.  Victoria tries to avoid looking at it in the mirror and wears hairstyles that cover it from view.

Sadly Victoria’s life came to an end during the nights of Gehenna when a Nosferatu named “Samuel” slit her throat and carved her to pieces in an attempt to frame his mortal enemy, the Gangrel Beckett, for her murder.

Sources:  Clanbook: Toreador, pg 93-94.  The Final Night, pg 69, 172