Velya the Vivisectionist and Elaine Cassidy

Velya is an elder of the Sabbat and a Tzimisce of exceptional power and enlightenment in the Path of Metamorphosis. His mastery of Vicissitude is so strong that he was able to take his Childe Elaine Cassidy and merge himself with the girl, so that her leg-stumps are bound to his back. Velya looks like a forty year old, silver haired, Russian man with a 10 year old, silver haired, Bostonian girl emerging from his back.

Velya met Elaine in Boston around the turn of the century, where she had systematically destroyed her family. Enthralled by both her appearance and evil, Velya Embraced her, then Blood Bound her, then "married" her by attaching her body to his. Since that time, Velya and Elaine have been bound in a mutual blood bond.

Velya had made a slight boo-boo.

While a master of the inhuman discipline of the Path of Metamorphosis, Velya had forgotten just how fragile the human psyche is. Elaine rapidly fell to the Beast and is now a Wight. Velya, bound to her as he is, cannot bear the thought of separation and spends a vast amount of his mental resources keeping Elaine sedated. This has caused him to fall from the Path of Metamorphosis as he fends off constant psychic assault from Elaine's howling beast. It is only a matter of time before he also succumbs.

Appears In

 * Clanbook: Tzimisce (1st Edition) (Description)
 * Children Of The Night (Stats, Updated Description)