Jürgen

Lord Jürgen von Verden, also known as Prince Jürgen of Magdeburg and Jürgen the Sword-Bearer, was a sixth-generation Ventrue Scion in the Dark Ages. His sire, the Ventrue lord Hardestadt, appointed Jürgen as his vassal prince in Magdeburg.

During the Dark Medieval era, Jürgen acted as his sire's right hand throughout the Holy Roman Empire and eastern Europe. Jürgen maintained a shadow order of knights within the mortal Swordbrethren: the Knights of the Black Cross, a knightly order of Cainites and ghouls led by Jürgen's loyal retainer, Lucretia von Hardtz. His circle of advisors, the Primogeniture Assembly, inspired what would become the primogen in modern Kindred cities.

As the War of Princes broke out, Jürgen represented his sire's interests in Hungary and Livonia, where he came into conflict with the Tzimisce voivode Vladimir Rustovich and the Gangrel warlord Qarakh, respectively. After he negotiated a tentative peace accord with Qarakh against Rustovitch, Jürgen was allowed to marry his beloved, the Toreador Prodigal Rosamund of Islington. In the end, Jürgen was destroyed for his failures by his sire Hardestadt in 1271, though it is unclear whether this was for his political failures, for his lapses from the Road of Kings, or for some other reason.