Antipater of the Hoof is a Lasombra elder and the sire of the Nabatean. By the Dark Ages, he refused to affiliate himself with the warring Christianity and Islam religions, which angered the larger clan.
Biography[]
In the 8th century, he was a wanderer who took interest on the Nabatean people of Petra, Jordan. He embraced one of the Nabateans to preserve their culture. Three hundred years later, during the time of the Shadow Reconquista, the Antipater and his childe were guests by a fellow Lasombra Sultan of the Ashirra in Malaga. Antipater was challenged to a contest by the sultan in order to force his conversion and lost. When he still declined any attempt to convert, the matter was brought before the Amici Noctis, who put him between the choice of honoring his word and converting or facing Final Death.
Knowing his sire would never convert to a faith he did not love, the Nabataean, who had stayed silent through the matter, made a bold and decisive move. He offered his own unlife in exchange. To his surprise, neither his sire nor the sultan objected, nor even reacted with especial dismay. The sultan accepted at once, and sent word to the tribunal that the sire's verdict was to be voided, provided his Nabataean childe remained true to his word. After centuries years together, sire and childe parted ways with nothing more than a lone knowing nod and a somber valediction. The Nabatean, however, was sentenced not to death, but to an eternal slumber, staked inside a coffin for a thousand years.