Eshmunamash is an ancient Brujah Methuselah of the 5th generation and one of the members of the Council of Twelve. He currently resides in Hunedoara Castle.
Biography[]
Eshmunamash was born in ancient Tyre and became a skilled doctor. After being embraced by the Brujah Gersakkun of Tyre, Eshmunamash found it much harder to accept the blood-thirst and the Brujah curse.
He was still fighting this struggle eight centuries later when an old colleague in the clan, Shalmat, told him about the Brujah experiment in Carthage, and invited him to the city. For a time Eshmunamash was happy in Carthage, or as close to it as he could remember being. He established a temple and brought ancient Egyptian and Phoenician learning back into mortal prominence. Greek and even Roman doctors made the hazardous sea-journey to come study at his knee.
Then came the infamous rites of Baal-Hammon, and with them the human sacrifices, which troubled the old Brujah.
He went before Troile to protest, and Troile promised to investigate, but nothing ever came of it.
Furious about the debauchery and the violence of the Baali infested Carthage. Eshmunamash left the city and went directly to Rome, giving vital information about the city defenses to the Roman prince Camilla.
After the fall of Carthage, the Methuselah was full of doubts and spiritual malaise, and started searching for Golconda and enlightenment. His initial suspicions of the promise of Golconda melted away after a handful of face-to-face meetings with Saulot himself. When Saulot was murdered, however, he had to pin his hopes instead on what little had been taken down of the master’s sayings and on the keepers of that remnant: Mokur and his self-appointed biographer Cret.
Character Sheet[]
References[]
- VTM: Lair of the Hidden, p. 62-65