Dominique Rodriguez is an autarkis ancilla (based on her Disciplines and general disposition, most likely a Hecata of Cappadocian descent) inhabiting Bellium University.
Biography[]
Before she was a vampire, Dominique was one of the Sisters of Saint Hildegard von Bingen. After her death and rebirth, she was horrified to learn that her creator intended to throw her fledgling self directly out of the nest, claiming the convent and school couldn’t support additional vampires. Dominique’s grudge against the first vampires of Bellium wasn’t ideological or territorial. It was personal: she’d been wooed and abandoned, and when it came time for the quartet to gather and overthrow their elders she took great joy in draining her creator of every last drop of cold, dead blood.
She says the Blood cooled her rage and turned it into guilt. It’s a poetic, figurative turn of phrase, but it’s absolutely true that she’s regretted her actions every night since. She spends her time gathering a treasure trove of books and resources about necromancy, which she stores in a private collection beneath the library. Dominique intends to raise her creator’s ghost and beg forgiveness. She’s never succeeded — she’s not even sure whether vampires can leave ghosts — but she’s stirred up any number of other angry, vengeful spirits, most of whom died at the fangs of a Bellium vampire.
Dominique largely ignores the student body of Bellium, but more of the teaching staff knows her than any other member of the quartet. She spends a great deal of time in the library, and when she’s not in her own private basement, she’s on nodding terms with many of the academic staff conducting their own research. She’s a diminutive, habitually polite woman and most of the staff who encounter her find her entirely non-threatening.
Dominique’s feeding stock come from Bellium’s hardworking postgraduates. She preys on them as mist, entirely unseen, taking carefully measured sips as her victims carry out their already exhausting research.
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- HTR: Alma Maters, p. 102