𓋹 era :: human
1893 - 1916
Ruairí Cian Byrne was born into a modest family of tradesmen in 1893, and lived a relatively uneventful life up until the Great World War. Ruairí was taken into the –th Regiment of the Royal Armed Forces, where he quickly rose in the ranks due to his efficient kill count and leadership of his unit.
He was fatally wounded during a battle in Belgium when he was ordered over the line of active battle set by his regiment. As he lay dying, the man who would become his sire approached him, offering him the Embrace. Ruairí accepted the offer, and joined the Kindred in unlife. His embrace was difficult, and left him with infertile vitae and a blush of health.
𓋹 era :: neonate
1917 - 1930’s
During the first 15 years of his unlife, Ruairí was under the thumb of his sire, Sir William Harris. He was dragged to parties as some sort of bauble, for reasons he didn’t quite understand. Upon being invited to a party by Prince Mithras of London, he discovered from a private conversation that he was a rarity.
Known as a dampyr, Ruairí was born from a woman impregnated by a vampire, an extremely rare case. His biological father was of the clan Brujah, and Mithras had denied the clan a powerful kindred by having him turned to a Ventrue, instead. Mithras was impressed by his natural resistance to mental domination, and recommended he graduate from his neonatehood, much to the dismay of his sire. He was tested by the primogen council and found worthy of the title ancilla.
𓋹 era :: archon
1940’s - 1970’s
Less than a decade after his graduation into Kindred society, Mithras fell into torpor, and vanished, leaving a power vacuum in London, filled by "Queen Anne" Bowesley. Ruairi, distant from the politicking of his superiors, spent the first twenty years of his freedom feeding, gaining influence and power, working in the shadows, and keeping his frenzies at bay. His life continued uneventfully until the 1960's.
Due to his natural resistances to Dominance, Ruairí was made a temporary archon by a Ventrue justicar visiting from Europe, who was hunting down a cult of Mithriac vampires and ghouls. During this investigation, which took years of work, Ruairí went undercover in the cult. During one of their rituals, he was nearly bloodpacted to and diablerized by the cult leader through drinking a drop of her blood. He was, however, able to resist the pull of the blood long enough to tell the justicar the location of the powerful vampire. She was then destroyed, and Ruairi released from the fresh bloodbond.
For his help and his capabilities, Ruairí was then taken under the wing of Prince Turner of Bristol, and made a Sheriff.
𓋹 era :: sheriff
1980’s - 2010’s
Ruairí spent twenty of his years as sheriff dreading his work, which was often dirty and cruel, and rarely rewarding. He felt as though he had never been free from his leash, only watching as it was handed between different power players in the grand Kindred game. His urge for rebellion pushed him to an interest in the Kine, a transgressive interest to have as a Cainite.
His interest in humans brought him to a relationship with a human woman named Miranda, who turned out to be a vampire hunter. She was able to track him to a meeting with his coterie, and with her team was able to capture and torture Ruairi and kill his cotorie in front of him. After managing to escape, Ruairí investigated with the help of a 14th generation thin-blood and discovered that Miranda had been sent by his sire, Sir WIlliam Harris, to try and have a bloodhunt called on him for breaking the masquerade with a human, all in a ploy to kill Ruairí himself and claim the praise.
Ruairí presented the evidence, and was relieved of all charges. However, he was ordered to then kill the thin-blood, and couldn’t bring himself to. He faked her death, but knew that it was only a matter of time before his lie was uncovered. He fled to the US, followed by Miranda’s fellow hunters.
𓋹 era :: runaway
2019 - now
Ruairí now hops between states, borders, and coasts to avoid the hunters coming after him. No longer under the protection of the Prince of Bristol, he has to rely on favors and reputation to stay safe and find havens. He has made several powerful allies on his own; crimelords, Kuei Jin, Strigoi, Kindred and Kine alike. He is known as the “New Blood Whig”, a young-minded vampire with too much interest in the world outside the Kindred.
