Blanca is an influential Toreador and the founder of the Butterflies cult. She is presumed to have reached Golconda.
Biography[]
A 19th-century Diva named Blanca believed that by observing and following the ways of humankind, she could rid herself of the curse of vampirism. Although she was aware that others believed the way to Golconda was through good works and saintly behavior, Blanca disagreed. She noted that few mortals are saintly; even those devoted to good works expect something, even if it was only admiration, in return.
In emulation of the women Blanca followed, she faithfully adopted their fashions, sitting up at night with her friends and followers poring over model books and discussing how best to replicate the dresses, skirts, and accessories they found within. She read all the popular newspapers and went out, clad in her latest creations, to attend shows in music halls. She delighted in trashy novels, crying blood tears over tales of women abandoned. She adopted large-eyed puppies and kittens and mourned their demise when she proved incapable of looking after them properly. She wanted to appear more human than human.
Blanca set out upon this course on July 13th, 1854. Together, Blanca and her ghoul Joseph assembled a family of followers: some Kindred, some mortals, and a handful of ghouls. They all loved and supported Blanca, who was, by all accounts, an exceptionally charismatic individual. Precisely 60 years from when she started her quest, she found the Rapture -- a state of being the Butterflies call "transcending undeath."
Joseph reported Blanca's Rapture to her friends and followers. He gave a detailed account of her walk into the sunrise. They wept when Joseph explained why, regretfully, Blanca could no longer visit them. To do so, he said, would risk her losing touch with her newfound mortality. Joseph conveyed Blanca's regrets; she was, of course, as devastated as they were about this separation, though she was also excited by her new life. Naturally, nobody knows if anything Joseph claimed was true, but the important thing was that they believed.
References[]
- VTM: Forbidden Religions, p. 37-40
