Toreador Antediluvian

Arikel, "The Sculptor", is a progeny of Enoch being the oldest antediluvian and a twin of Malkav who served Caine in the City of Enoch.

Traditionally, Arikel is acknowledged as the founder of the Toreador. She is generally held to be beautiful, fickle, vain and carrying on affairs with the other Antediluvians. She may be especially despised by Absimiliard who both lusted for her and seeks to destroy her. Some modern Toreador scholars claim that Arikel was killed in the time of Enoch, by plotting Nosferatu and Setite Antediluvians, who supposedly cut out and ate her heart. Yet their are records that indicate that she had not experienced final death, and had awaken from torpor around 260 BC being an advisor to Prince Alchias of Syracuse.

As Ishtar
There is some debate as to whether Arikel may have been represented by the Babylonians as the goddess, Ishtar/Astarte/Inanna. Katherine of Montpelier insists that Ishtar is the Toreador Antediluvian, a bull-figher who fought with the Gangrel Antediluvian, Ennoia, taking shelter with King Minos, siring his son, who fell to the beast and became the 'Minotaur' of mythology.

Whereabouts
Arikel is thought to be currently awakened, residing in Greece.