![]() ![]() ![]() A keen researcher, you would have scoured records for any previous evidence of such a phenomenon as this, diving into Cainite histories rather than looking to the present. The Day of the Black Dawn would have been of huge importance to you, a great portent of shifting powers and even a disturbance in the veil between life and death. Tied to tradition and a certain stubbornness, you refused to leave Bulgaria despite your closeness to the broken Dream. From your modest cloistered haven in Reka, you watched scholars and luminaries travel west, fleeing toward the cultural Edens of Italy and Spain. The fall of Constantinople, however, has been an event that moved even the Lady of Reka to mourn, and mourn you did. Power and wealth are trappings that distract from seeking the truth of the Cainite condition, and the purity of existing outside of life and death. You were eventually given leave to settle within your home country to perform your new research alone, and modestly so for this simpler life was a pace you had long sought.Īs dictated by your clan’s philosophy, you seek knowledge above all else - but to the point that you might even come across as cold as the grave and even less compassionate. As simply Aksinia, you travelled for a time with your sire leaving behind your noble trappings. “To marry would be a waste of the woman's remarkable head for research and purity under her Devotion to the lord” - and so you were gifted the embrace. You were saved this fate by catching the eye of a travelling Cappadocian - an elder no less. Freedom (especially political freedom) lost you and your family power. ![]() Politics, father had said, were more important than freedoms. Once upon a time, long before this, you were due to enter into an arranged marriage despite your desire as a mortal to become a nun. The Giovanni came before you after all, you had no say in it, but ever since the banking and merchant’s trade has boomed in the recent couple centuries, you’ve seen them rise and rise and…. Now a staunch follower of Via Ossium (the ancient and secret philosophy of your clan, used to control the Beast), you have watched the growth of the Giovanni family and their rise to power with a critical eye, not daring to say a word against the judgement of your older peers. A woman of particular scholarly talent and devotion to the church, you were able to access a good education due to the virtues of your noble blood. ![]()
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