Parmenides (VTM)

Parmenides, was the pseudonym of a Greek Assamite assassin of unknown generation.

Biography
The Assamite known as "Parmenides" was a greek assassin in life, turned into one of the Assamites. Fatima al-Faqadi recounted he had been arrogant, proud and insolent, and she opposed his becoming - but Thetmes had been caliph at the time and had championed the Greek, and Parmenides was accepted. According to Fatime, despite his excellent performance over the years, the arrogance had remained and perhaps increased, lurking never far below the surface.

In the Final Nights Parmenides was one of the Rafiq, with a curriculum of at least a few centuries, as he was trained in several scenarios, which included a mission Venice during the renaissance. In the late 1990's the Greek received from caliph Elijah Ahmed the unsavory task of serving as a delegate of Alamut to the Sabbat in general and Sascha Vykos in particular. There he fell under Vykos’s cruel sway and became masochistically enraptured to the Tzimisce. "Parmenides" was a pseudonym that he assigned to himself at his first meeting with his Tzimisce patron, although other Assamite also knew him as such. He was hired by the Sabbat priscus to conduct a series of assassinations of Camarilla Tremere during a major Sabbat offensive in North America, and met Vykos in order to deliver the head of his first victim, Hannah, the Tremere Regent of the Atlanta chantry, who had been taken out right before the 1999 siege of that city. In that same opportunity he slaughtered Ravenna, one of Vykos's servant ghouls, who had been 'uncouth' to him.

After the incident with Ravenna, Parmenides would be subdued, blood bounded and fleshcrafted by Vykos into an exact copy of that same ghoul. He followed Vykos's commands and took part in the siege of Tremere chantries, and has been responsible for taking out Maria Chin in Baltimore as well, decapitating her with a garrote - as witnessed by Victoria Ash.

Vykos intent in fleshcrafting her Assamite pet assassin was not merely sadistic entertainment or revenge, but an elaborate ruse to allow the Assamite to pose as ghoul in order to get close enough to take on a larger prey: Marcus Vitel, the powerful Prince of Washington, D.C. while the monarch grieved over his childe's Final Death. The plan proved to be unsuccessful, however, because the prince managed to knock aside the blow aimed at his heart and thrown himself from his attackers, shattering one of the large picture windows to make his escape.

Following these developments, Fatima al-Faqadi was ordered by Al-Ashrad himself to reclaim Parmenides from Vykos's grasp. If possible, Parmenides was to destroy Vykos, thus securing justice for the ignominy shown the children of Haqim. If such seemed unlikely, Fatima was to order his return to Alamut. But if the Greek was, in her judgment, “damaged beyond salvage”, Fatima was to take his blood for the clan.

As it turned out, Parmenides could not bring himself to destroy Vykos, instead fully assuming his Ravenna persona and sacrificing himself to give his mistress a chance to escape an altercation with Cardinal Polonia and his minions. The "ghoul" smiled as he was hacked to pieces by an enraged Polonia.