Edgar Drummond is an 8th generation Ventrue of Chicago, a childe of Prince Lodin.
Biography[]
Edgar Drummond was the son of an 1800s railroad tycoon who believed "the boy" was far too stupid to take over his enterprise. Edgar found this out only after the old man died, leaving him with a token amount of money and his two younger brothers with control of the railroad. Furious, Edgar started his own railroad, swearing that it would soon gobble up the one his father had built. But Edgar's father had been a good judge of character, and in no time, his railroad was in trouble, and Edgar was almost penniless.
As Edgar prepared to go cap-in-hand to his brothers, he was approached by two of the bankers who had originally helped finance his railroad. Astonishingly, they seemed unperturbed at the company's problems and offered him more than enough money to keep it operating in exchange for 51% of the stock and the right to name the vice-president.
In no time at all, the company was prospering just as Edgar had hoped. Even though the new vice-president did little for the business, the company was somehow making money hand-over-fist, and Edgar was able to indulge his passion for actually running the trains. The company's success attracted a good deal of notice in the business world and caught Lodin's eye.
As Chicago was becoming the nation's most important rail hub, the Prince was looking for someone to take charge of the railroads for him—and as the owner of the fastest-growing railroad company in history, Edgar seemed ideal. Edgar nearly fainted at the offer of total control of every train, every station, and every yard of rail in the city. The Ventrue rail baron started work the very next night.
Ironically, it was Edgar's disappearance that revealed the falsity of his company's success. The ensuing investigation turned up a labyrinth of corruption, illegal stock manipulation, and other abuses. Even under the lax market laws of the day, the company was shut down.
Edgar revels in his power. He runs Chicago's trains from command centers in the hearts of the city's train depots. Key employees are Dominated to the point where he can give them coded orders over loudspeakers at all the depots ("Operatives 9 and 24, respond to a 213 in quadrant 7"). His only greater pleasure is the exact scale model of the city's rail and subway networks, which he maintains in his Haven—a heavily guarded warehouse in the marshalling yards south of Union Station.
Edgar's once-substantial power has been eroded by the growth of air and road travel, but he still considers the railroads to be the backbone of Chicago's commerce. He has tired of hearing "this nonsense" about trucks and planes over and over again and may fly into a rage if characters insist on telling him that rail travel is obsolete.
He protects his empire with unmatched zeal and feeds solely on bums, hobos, and other "deadbeats" who dare trespass in his realm. Lodin often promises to allow Edgar to make a lieutenant one day to help with his "vast duties," but he has continued to put off thauntil t time when Drummond was destroyed in the War of Chicago.
Character Sheet[]
References[]
- VTM: Chicago by Night, p. 123-124
- VTM: The Succubus Club, p. 33-49 - Annabelle's Party
- VTM: Chicago by Night Second Edition, p. 60, 135
- VTM: Chicago by Night 5th Edition, p. 212
- VTM: Let the Streets Run Red, p. 220