Marcellus Rufus

Marcellus Rufus is a Lasombra Methuselah residing in Las Medulas. He remained unaffiliated with every group that tried to rule over Spain, defending his territory against anarchs, sabbatti and innocent miners.

Biography
Born as the son of a roman merchant family, Marcellus grew bored with the urban lifestyle and decided to join the roman military. Inexperienced in the basic three areas -gambling, drinking and whoring- he soon found himself indebted, addicted to wine and with many rivals for the favor of a particular courtisane. With the arrogant assumtion that his family anme would protect him, Rufus was caught by surprise when his enemies decided to consolidate their power and caught him. He was sold into slavery to the mines of Las Medulas, everyone believing that he had been slain by a barbarian raid. Although most slaves succumbed to the heavy tasks and the cruel taskmasters, Rufus thrived, holding himself against the mythical tales of conduct of his family, refusing to die like a slave. This mindset prove dto be his salvation, as the powerful Lasombra Boukephos visited the mines and was impressed by his noble bearing and his concentrated mind. Marcellus followed his sire in his travels, but something draw him always back to the mines and when Boukephos released him, he returnd there, after visting Rome and finding his family in poverty and their mansion in the ownership of a fat and virtue-less merchant.

Although he rarely took part in the Courts of Blood and other Clan affairs, Marcellus Rufus was always ready to trial a childe he deemed not worthy to belong to the clan. During the Shadow Reconquista, he, as a dutiful worshipper of Jupiter, refused to take sides, instead granting everyone sanctuary who would forsook the conflict. More than a hundred years later, in the middle of the twentieth century, he grew so disgusted with the modern world and its petty conflicts that he willfully entered Torpor, awaiting the coming of an more honorable world.