Talley

Talley, the Hound, is a Lasombra of the Sabbat. He was educated by his great-grand sire]]], the methuselah Boukephos - and is described as powerful, determined and efficient.

Biography
Talley was bony and angular, with a face like a hound that has just seen the fox vanish once and for all. His hair was white, though his features made him seem no older than thirty. His hands were his most remarkable feature: They were long and slender, and the fourth finger on each was longer than the middle one. In his living days in England, Talley had once been accused of being a werewolf because of those remarkable hands; having dealt with any number of lupines in his time, he now found the recollection amusing.

He used to be a Templar under the orders of the Cardinal Monçada, who commanded him in several assignments. Lucita recalls having met him in 1920 in New York, when Monçada sent him to rid the city of a troublesome vampire named Karl who’d been noisily disrupting certain of the archbishop’s long-range plans. Unfortunately, Karl was also the Kindred responsible for much of Lucita’s amusement at the time, and she took exception to the attempt to remove him before she was finished.

The duel had been long and bloody, sparking a brawl in the tenements and speakeasies to rival the infamous Dead Rabbit Riots. At the heart of it, the two ancient children of shadow had torn at each other with unimaginable fury, cloaking an entire city block in impenetrable darkness. The newspaper reports talked of broken power lines as an explanation, but in truth, it had been Lucita and Talley hunting each other in the dark, fueling themselves with the lives of the hundreds trapped within their battlefield.

Lucita had won, barely. Karl had been wounded but slipped away during the fury of her counterattack. She’d later learned that he’d fled the country, and had been destroyed by Talley in Vancouver, in 1934. By that time, of course, she’d long since ceased to care. Talley himself had left the scene exhausted but relatively unscathed, leaving her with a mocking bow and an expression of regards for her sire. And she had stumbled out of the tenements, weary but more or less triumphant, and thoroughly convinced that Talley was, if not her equal, then at least one of the more frightening opponents she’d ever faced.

In 1999 the Cardinal once again commanded Talley to protect Sascha Vykos, Borges and Francisco Domingo de Polonia from themselves in the siege of the East Coast of America - however, he wasnt there to safeguard their unlives, but to search for the traitor who was pulling these strings.

After the death of Monçada, Talley became Bishop.

Trivia

 * Talley is older than Francisco Domingo de Polonia, former Archbishop of New York.
 * The Hound likes to hunt Lupines in the Black Forest during his vacations.
 * It is said that even Fatima al-Faqadi respects Talley's abilities, and Fatima had little respect for any Franj (as Crusaders were known in Arabia).