Magdalena Castellucci Borcellino was a childe of Narses, and carried out his will. Over the years she grew more and more confident in her own abilities. Rumor has it that she is now a Lasombra antitribu.
Biography[]
Magdalena is the only daughter of the marriage merger of two great Venetian shipping dynasties: the House of Castelucci and Borcellino and Sons. She was brought up as a proper daughter, spending her time learning to play simple musical instruments, producing fine needlework and learning languages sufficient to be a credit to her family. She also learned to follow the dinner conversations that involved overseas trade. These conversations introduced her to the new ideas and products brought by the traders. She learned — albeit unintentionally — about balance sheets, the changing politics of far-distant regions and the value of a shrewd bargain.
Stunningly lovely, magnetically engaging and well-endowed, Magdalena found that her suitability as a lady — as well as her discerning nature — soon became a topic of considerable speculation among Venetian nobility. She attracted the attention of Narses, who courted her with a series of simple and elegant candlelit meetings, each in a more exotic and remote location than the last. Magdalena was privately enchanted but frustrated with the Cainite’s refusals of her own invitations, and she eventually married another.
When fighting among merchant houses in Venice erupted in 933 CE, Magdalena was caught on the road and made a fine target for kidnap and ransom — or bloodletting. Her entourage was ambushed and slain by assassins in the employ of a rival house one evening near dusk, and Magdalena herself was captured. Riding away with their prize, the attackers were confronted that night by a vengeful specter. One assassin was smothered with darkness, while another’s skin smoldered to ashes. In the ensuing melee, Magdalena’s throat was cut, her blood running free even as her killer was torn limb from limb by beasts carved from inky blackness.
Magdalena awoke to find Narses by her side, and with her first feeding he explained the cost that must be paid for her return to being. God had created their brood with purpose, and they would bring the wealth and influence of their families to power to celebrate beauty and punish the weak, the deformed, the impure. She has loyally stayed within his retinue since that night, and lends her own insights and presence to his power at gatherings of his clan.
Narses sent Magdalena on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, where she was to watch over Paliuro and his childer and discover what influence she could garner. Magdalena came to the conclusion that Paliuro was losing his grip on reality even more quickly than Narses had assumed; his obsession being his undoing, with the wrenching of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher from Italian to Greek Orthodox hands by the Arabs.
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References[]
- VTM: Jerusalem By Night, p. 83-84