Leopold (Clan Novel Saga)

Leopold was an allegedly "Toreador" sculptor from Atlanta before the Sabbat attack in 1999, he is one of the main protagonist in the Clan Novel: Toreador and later the main antagonist for the rest of the Saga.

Background
Leopold was a lonely sculptor who had no interest in the politics of the city and his only desires was to know who was his sire and perfect his art. The sculptor had suspicion that the Toreador Victoria Ash was her sire, but he couldn't prove it. He went to the Tremere Regent Hannah to find out the answers about his past, Hannah told him that she would give him the answers in the Summer Solstice party in the Elysium, organized by Victoria.

Hannah didn't make it to the party and the Sabbat attacked the building, killing several Camarilla vampires, Leopold was thrown out through a window and let unconscious. Later that night, Leopold woke up starving and feed from a naked vampire near him, the vampire was Vegel who had chatted with the artist moment before the attack, Vagel had a monstrous, deformed eye, Leopold became obsesed by it and took it from his head, believing the Eye would become his Muse.

Eye of Hazimel
The deformed eye was the Eye of Hazimel, a long lost relic believed to be part of a powerful Ravnos Methuselah, it granted Leopold great power over Chimerstry and Vicissitude.

Leopold went crazy with power and started a path of destruction trying to find his Muse, he destroyed an entire group of Gangrel on the outsides of New York summoning mini-volcanoes, the only survivors to that massascre were the Justicar Xaviar, who had previously called a "Gather", and Ramona. He later collected the bodies of the defeated Gangrel and made a giant sculpture made of rock, flesh and dead Gangrel, it was his master piece, after that, the sculptor enter in a semi-torpor state for weeks.

Meanwhile, the famous setite Hesha Ruhadze, who was searching for the Eye for quite a while, arrive to the cave in which Leopold rested, the setite took the Eye and left. Leopold woke up finding out his "Vision" was gone and started looking for it, he retained some of the powers of the relic and went to New York. By the guidence of his "Muse", he found the setite thief and fought him using his powers, nearly destroying Hesha, he then proced to take the Eye and put it in his head, countinuing his search of his beloved Muse.

Final Death
Leopold came into contact with Nickolai, a survivor of the Tremere antitribu, who is revelead to be his sire and the killer of the Justicar Petrodon in 1997. Nickolai manipulated Leopold to do his objectives but the sculptor was growing weak, he knew deep in his heart that Nickolai, his master, was in fact his sire and not Victoria.

In a last attempt to destroy his enemies, Nickolai let loose the sculptor in the streets of New York, only to be found by Ramona, Hesha and the Archon (VTM) Theo Bell, the three vampire began to fight Leopold but he impaled them with his own bones. Victoria arrived at the fight and softly talko to him, telling that she was his sire. Leopold knew it this was false but was happy to see his Muse for the last time. Ramona, using a special knife gave by Hesha, cut the Eye from Leopold, who became ashes.