Gorchist

Gorchist was the Regent of the Sabbat during most of the 19th century. Regent Gorchist was the primary signatory of the Purchase Pact of 1803, which ended the First Sabbat Civil War and focused the sect's (and Gorchist's) attentions away from Europe and toward the Americas. He was later assassinated by Ravnos antitribu.

Note: According to Mexico City by Night, Gorchist was assassinated in the 1860s, during the American Civil War and the aftermath of the French invasion of Mexico; his assassination sparked the Second Sabbat Civil War. Caine's Chosen: The Black Hand supports this chronology, as it depicts Melinda Galbraith acting as Regent when the Code of Milan was revised in 1933 and the Second Sabbat Civil War drew to a close. However, the opening line of this revision of the Code of Milan, as seen in the Storytellers Handbook to the Sabbat and the Guide to the Sabbat, invokes Gorchist's authority in determining the Code's validity, though he is not listed as a signatory of the Code. In order to reconcile these apparently conflicting sources, this line in the Code must be referring to the late Gorchist's actions in maintaining the Code while he still existed.