Oliver Thrace

Oliver Thrace was the leading expert on Kuei-jin among the Tremere. The former Regent of Hong Kong is by now an apostate hiding among the Kuei-jin.

Background
When Thomas Wyncham of the Inner Council searched for participants for a Chantry in Hong Kong, his own apprentice Thrace, who operated in London during this time, gladly volunteered. His emnity to the Sabbat, the Assamites and Setites was legendary and so he seemed to be a perfect figurehead of the Clan amidst the hostile shen in Asia. In reality, Thrace had his own secrets. The most important among them was that he was a deliberate practicioner of Dark Thaumathurgy and Necromancy. Exspecially skilled in binding and controling spirits, he attempted to learn about the differences of Kindred and Cathayans. In the meantime, he established a strong hold over various criminal gangs, that fell apart when most vampires abandoned Hong Kong after the Chinese reaqisition. To stubborn to leave, Thrace endured, left by his Clan as an irrational loner, forcing a stalemate between the various supernatural factions in Hong Kong that ended when the Week of Nightmares began. Terrified by the thought of rising Antediluvians and almost abandoned by his Clan, Thrace threw his lot with the Kuei-jin, giving them vital informations that enabled the Great Leap Outward. Meanwhile, he stays as a "honored guest", giving him access to the lore of the Kuei-jin.

In one of the scenarios of the Sixth Age, Thrace (with the aid of various Yama Kings) developes a ritual that separates the Kuei-Jin from tghe Material World, banishing them back into Yomi Wan. When he shares the ritual with his Clan, the Tremere usher the Sixth Age when they banish enough Kuei-jin back that the Yama Kings can finally ascend and Yomi collapses into the Material World due the massive amounts of Tainted Chi the ritual produces.