Helena (VTM)

Helena is one of the most powerful active Methuselahs in the Modern Nights and her feud with Menele has reached legendary proportions over the course of the centuries. She used lie in Torpor beneath the Succubus Club, until the War of Chicago destroyed both the club and her pawn Lodin.

The Achaean Princess
Even before her Embrace, Helena was regarded as the most beautiful woman who had ever lived. She lived in Argos, as the most beloved daughter of the king, until she met her future husband, Minos, who was withered and ugly. Desperate, Helena ran away from her home, taking only a single handmaiden with her. When she had collapsed from exhaution, she was found by a prince of Asia Minor, Prias, who matched her beauty and the two immediatly fell in love.

The Embrace and the Betrayal of Carthage
Ten years lasted their hapiness, until Minos found her, revealing himself to be not quite human when he raged through the palace, effortlessly defeated Prias and took Helena with him to Argos. There, he fed from her in a slow agonizing way to punish her for her and when he gave her the Embrace, her first meal was her own father. at first, she seemed to accepted her fate (fueled by both the Blood Bond and powerful Domination), but secretly plotted to destroy her hated sire and usurp his heartblood. Her chance came when, 13 years later, Prias came with an army to lay siege to Argos and pierced Minos heart with his spear. Eager for her revenge, Helena jumped forward and drained her sire of even the last drop of vitae. Together, the two ruled Argos, until Prias began to show sign of old age. Helena gave him her blood, making him into her Ghoul and the two ventured off to the splendid new city of Carthage in the south.

When the Punic Wars bega, Helena and Prias fought for Carthage, but soon realized that the struggle was futile. Helene traded her and Prias safety for important details about Carthages defenses and the two left the city before the fatal final siege that laid waste to the city, and settled near Pompeii. Unfortunatly for Helena, a survivor, the philosopher warrior Menele, found out about her treachery and swore vengeance for his slaughtered friends and the shattered dream of unity between Kindred and Kine. He traveled to Pompeji and used his knowledge of blood magic to conjure a great spirit of fire to destroy her city. Unfortunatly, he lost control over the spirit and had flee,as well as Prias and Helena, who went for Egypt, plotting their revenge. This would made up the majority of her unlife by now, as no side of both of them managed to gain the upper ahdn, until Helena seemingly managed to deal Menele a fatal blow in Spain. After that, all traces of the Brujah had vanished. Helena, however, was faced with a new problem; the Thirst of Ages had begun to take its toll on her, denying her substenance from mortal blood and forcing her to devour her own kind.

The New World
Helena noticed via her considerable Auspex power that traces of Meneles aura were foud on the other side of the ocean. Fascinated, she helped funding the expedition fo Hernan Cortez and followed him over the Atlantic, supporting him in his conquest of the mesoamerican cultures in her search for her nemesis. Menele continued to avoid facing her directly, until the two met in a terrible showdown by Ford Deabron, Helena supported by Prias while Menele had found an ally in the Indian chief Black Hawk. Both ended up in Torpor and were saved by their helper. But even in Torpor, the two battled on, using their incredible power of Auspex, Dominate and Presence to stir up people and cities against each other. After the American Civil war and the founding of Chicago, Helena focused on gainin footholds in the upper echelons of Kindred society.

Endgame
Helena rose again in 1990, calling on the blood of her descendants to nourish her back to strength. After the destruction of her haven in the War of Chicago and the death of her beloved Prias, Helena activly walks again under the night sky, assuming the identity of the neonate Portia. She activly seeks out Meneles resting place, hoping to finally destroy him and and their feud right now.