Sarrasine

Sarrasine is a degenerate vampire who currently presides as the Prince of Sydney, Australia. Under his rule, Sydney is an independent city, where vampires of any clan or sect can come together. Although Sarrasine presents himself as a Toreador, many believe that he is actually a Caitiff; if true, he would be only the second Caitiff prince in Kindred history, after Mukhtar Bey of Cairo.

However, this is also a lie on his part; Sarrasine is actually an elder Follower of Set, and has served his clan's interests (secondary to his own, of course) since he resided in Constantinople alongside his sire, Khay'tall. During the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, Sarrasine attempted diablerie on his sire, but failed thanks to his sire's mastery of Serpentis. In the 15th century, Sarrasine was sent from the Grand Temple of Set in Uganda to interfere with Ventrue interests in England.

For some unknown reason, when the English sent the Second Fleet to Australia in 1789, Sarrasine abandoned his ongoing schemes in favor of traveling with the fleet. Shortly after Sarrasine arrived in Australia, the Ventrue Abram declared himself Prince of Sydney. Sarrasine became the Ventrue's advisor and seneschal, and took over so many of the prince's affairs that much of the domain's temporal power was held not by the prince but by Sarrasine himself. In 1839, Abram left for Melbourne, leaving Sarrasine as his regent in Sydney. When Abram was driven out of Melbourne in 1879, Sarrasine remained in power in Sydney, but did not declare himself prince until the turn of the century. In the mid-1950s, Sarrasine declared Sydney a free city, independent of the rule of Camarilla and Sabbat alike.