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"The Minotaur" is a 4th Generation Toreador Methuselah. His real name lost to history to only be remembered as the bull-headed monster of fabled mythology.

Biography[]

Known of his life prior, he was the prince of Crete with his father, King Minos.

Later between his late teens to adulthood, a stranger came to the island, Ishtar came who taught the Cretens how to tame bulls. As his father was becoming old and frail, also hear about Ishtar having gifts of greater power.

Minos demands her to give him the "gift". She refused to give him her gift due to his wicked nature through her Auspex. However, both would eventually later in a compromise to let his son to take her "gift". The gift was the Embrace, as she drained his blood to give her vitae to him.

It was a mistake as he was unworthy after being embraced. He quickly succumbed to the Beast, engulfing the Prince of Crete in its control. In his sudden violent behavior led where his own father to placed trapped in the famed Labyrinth built by Daedalus and Icarus.

During those years afterward, his father gave his son to be fed in the use of "Tributes" to be sacrificed. Most noticable, virgin Maidens, being sent to their deaths to the Minotaur. This would evolved into a reputation of him being called the Minotaur, Minos' Bull, with some interpretations and additions by rumors.

Many years later, he would given a "mercy" when he was slayed by Theseus, a mortal of Greek legend.

Speculation[]

The Minotaur may have been the earliest record account of a Cainite in an extreme path of Wassail to become a Wight after an embrace. Even in a rare case of a Methuselah, other than Kemintiri.

This is kind of similar to the Malkavian's Gnawed.

Trivia[]

See the Greek mythological creature, Minotaur

Reference[]

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