Anna Comnena is a 7th generation Ventrue who has ruled the Middle Eastern city of Nicea since the Middle Ages.
Biography[]
Originally the eldest child of Constantinople's emperor Alexios I Komnenos, she was betrothed to an imperial candidate at an early age and prepared for life as empress of Constantinople. An avid student and brilliant thinker, she absorbed political, theological, scientific and philosophical teachings with a passion that stunned her tutors and made her parents proud. But her brother succeeded her father on the throne and exiled her to a convent. There she wrote her famous Alexiad, an account of her father's reign. She was finished her work and vented her ire, she was Embraced into the Antonian Ventrue, by the Ventrue Ducas. Mentored by the great general Belisarius, she became the Quaesitor and Chamberlain of Constantinople before the Bitter Crusade gutted the city and ended the Dream.
She survived the scourging of the greatest city of the medieval world and in time became Prince of Nicea. She has since developed a severe rivalry with Alfonzo, the new Prince of Constantinople, mainly because he and the Latins took the city from her father's legacy.
Description[]
While Anna Komnene died in her seventies, as a vampire she has the appearance of being in her mid-20s. This is due to her asking the Tzimisce Symeon to reshape her form "into a woman of inhuman and predatory beauty."
Trivia[]
- For the real life historical figure, see Anna Komnene.
- Anna is most likely related to another Ventrue, Sophia Komnenou, who hails from the same dynasty.
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References[]
- VTDA: Constantinople by Night, p. 113
- DAV: Dark Ages Europe, p. 160-172
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Heritage