Titus Petronius

Titus Petronius, referred to as the Arbiter, was a childe of the Toreador Methuselah Mi-Ka-Il and his steward in the Trinity of Constantinople.

Biography
Petronius was born in Rome during the reign of Emperor Nero. A satirist known for his extravagant lifestyle, Petronius found himself favoured by the Emperor for a short time, a time period in which he penned the Satyricon, a collection of short stories that included the story of a werewolf and a vampire, which fetched the interest of his future sire. When Petronius tried to committ suicide to avoid the grisly death Nero had in mind for him, Mi-Ka-Il approached him and offered him eternal life.

In undeath, Petronius abandoned his hedonistic tendencies and became a loyal subordinate of his sire, leaving Rome for Constantinople at his behest. He became the longest serving member of the Quaesitor Tribunal, and worked well with the late Septima Dominica of the Antonians and Symeon of the Obertus to keep order in the city. For more than five hundred years, despite adversity, infighting and the treacherous nature of the Childer of Caine, the Dream prospered. It was when the Iconoclast Movement had been beaten down and Antonius killed that things grew out of control.

When his sire became more and more unstable, Petronius became his Majordomus, trying to retain control of the city. Although he was fully conviced of the divinity of his sire, he believed that the adulations of the archangel had to be reigned in if the Michaelites should remain in power. To this end, he relied more and more on the Lasombra under Magnus, delegating more and more power to them.

His fate following the sacking of Constantinople in 1204 and the end of the Dream is not recorded.