Hardestadt the Elder

Hardestadt the Elder was a renowned Ventrue elder who was already an established figure of power in the Holy Roman Empire during the Dark Ages. During the Dark Ages, his childe Jurgen served as his right-hand man in the Crusader States and in Livonia. In later centuries, he was a member of the coterie dubbed the Founders, who shepherded the foundation of the Camarilla; as a result, Hardestadt himself is often thought of as the founder of the sect. At the start of the anarch Revolt, he was killed by the Brujah Anarch Tyler, who committed diablerie on him. Subsequently, his eldest childe, Hardestadt the Younger, secretly took his identity, leading the charade that Tyler's attack on Hardestadt had failed.