Alexus Simocatta

Alexus Simocatta was a Tzimisce and agent of the Dracon who acted mainly in Jerusalem.

Biography
Alexus Simocatta was a scholar in Constantinople who also acted as an illustrator and architect. Although his position weakened during the Iconoclastic controversity, he was an influential artist and ha many projects. During one of the works he supervised, a brick slipped and struck him in the face, resulting in the collapse of the scaffolding he stood on and a fall on hard stone floor nearly killed him. But Simocatta was saved through the blood of the Keeper of Faith, who saw him to useful than letting him simply die. He worked in the Library of the Forgotten, but he never felt at home in the underground crypts. As a result, he was retrained to act as an agent of both his sire and the Dracon. He was sendt into the Holy Land following the upheveal of the crusades in order to alert his sire of recent developments, cultivating a network of spies and informants that stretched over the whole Middle East. This saved him from the massacres of the Fourth Crusade and the sacking of Constantinople. He continued to correspondend with his sire for a long time, until he was assassinated by an unknown Assamite.