Jurgis Rudkus was a Nosferatu from Chicago, he was destroyed during the events of 1993.
Biography[]
Jurgis (pronounced Yoorghis) was one of the many Lithuanian and Eastern European immigrants who had flooded into Chicago by the turn of the century. His life, like that of most of the new immigrants, proved to be an incredibly backbreaking existence. Within a few years of arriving in the promised land, Jurgis' once mighty frame was a shadow of what it had once been. Out of work and destitute, his wife dead, Jurgis encountered the radicals of the union movement as well as Tommy Hinds. This movement gave his life purpose again.However, by 1910, even the slow-thinking Jurgis could see the writing on the wall. He had been beaten numerous times by the police and the industrialists' hired thugs, but unionism seemed to be going nowhere. Dejected and again losing faith in life, especially since the disappearance of Hinds, his mentor, he decided to end it all. However, as he prepared to put his head in the gas stove, Khalid appeared next to him.
The old Nosferatu had been watching Jurgis ever since the Prince had turned the socialist leader Hinds into a Ventrue. Khalid was becoming more and more interested in the doings of the city's vampires, but even he could not monitor everything alone. He offered eternal life and supernatural power if Jurgis would help him find out what Lodin and Hinds were doing with the unions—a role the immigrant found highly attractive.
Jurgis was a highly effective spy, for he knew where the union radicals would meet, and with his Obfuscate, he found it easy to hide while he listened to their plots. Moreover, his total ignorance of Lodin's power or his likely reaction to Jurgis' spying meant that the Lithuanian took greater risks than any other Cainite in the city would have dared and gave his sire more information than he could have gained by any other means.
However, Khalid had not counted on the friendship and respect Jurgis and Hinds had for one another. Once Modius' threat to Lodin was broken, Jurgis and Hinds renewed their friendship and have maintained it ever since. Even though Jurgis is still an important member of the Nosferatu, he numbers himself among the city's Anarchs and would do nearly anything Hinds could ask of him.
Though he respects Khalid and is very proud of being Nosferatu, he could go either way if his loyalties were tested.
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Image: A tall, gaunt Nosferatu.
Roleplaying Hints: You are slow and deliberate in your thinking, but when you speak, it is with great conviction. You have a thick European accent.
Haven: A ramshackle old house in what was once the Ukrainian section of town, now mostly a slum.
Secrets: B+
Influence: Jurgis has some control over certain radical unions, but for the most part, he does not control any mortal power structure.
References[]
- VTM: Chicago by Night, p. 97-98