Alchias

In ancient times, Alchias was the prince of Syracuse. He is noted for having the Toreador Antediluvian as advisor in a period of his reign and cementing the alliance with the Ventrue of Rome by accepting to guard the torpid body of the Methuselah Artemis.

When the carthaginians attacked his city, a Brujah envoy from Carthage visited him and demanded that he should bow to carthaginian sovereignity. Alchias flew into a rage and decapitated the messenger. After advising with both Arikel and Artemis, he pleaded to his roman allies to marshal soldiers, helping to initiate the First Punic War. During the following battles and other Punic Wars, Alchias fought personally on the battlefield to protect his city and brought many other Clans into the fold fo Rome. During the final siege that destroyed Carthage, however, Alchias was hurt so badly that he succumbed into a Torpor from which he hasn't awakened ever since.