Isouda de Blaise was the Cainite Queen of Anjou, Chartres, and Blois during the Dark Ages in the Courts of Love. She later joined the Sabbat and became an Archbishop.
Biography[]
| “ | We are like works of art, each unique and eternal, capturing fleeting feelings of beauty, passion, ugliness or pain. Moments frozen forever in time. | ” |
| — Isouda de Blaise[citation needed] | ||
The Court of Love presided over by Isouda was smaller than those of Aquitaine and Flanders, but by its workings the participants have come to have far more influence than many would suspect. Young Ventrue would pay not only in gold but in his master's good will for a place at Isouda's court.
Isouda herself was described as elegant in manner and wise in the ways of the Cainite heart and mind. She was also fascinated by stained glass and architecture in general, and sponsored the construction of the Cathedral of Chartres from its early days. Cainites with skills in sculpture, painting and metallurgy had an easier time finding favor in her courts.
Isouda exiled her childe Fulco de Outremer to wander the world as her representative knight-errant and spread her influence. In Ireland, Fulco found the young and promising prince Lorcan and sent him to Isouda as a gift. She quickly had him mentored and fitted to face a challenge presented by a Brujah rival named Alphonse.
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References[]
- DAV: Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook, p. 56
- DAV: Dark Ages Europe, p. 32, 38
- VTDA: Libellus Sanguinis 2: Keepers of the Word, p. 11, 25
- VTDA: Under the Black Cross, p. 91
- VTDA: Dark Ages Clan Novel 8: Brujah, p. 6-7
- VTDA: Dark Ages Clan Novel 9: Toreador, p. 12, 214, 228, 287
- DAV: France by Night, p. 220
- VTDA: The Cainite Conspiracies Anthology, p. 38-40,46-48
