AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST. Part 3 of my Loading Screen/Banner post for our VtM LA Chronicle set in 2023. Featuring the oldest (American) Character I've made so far within VtM who'll be playing a role in Act 3 of our Chronicle..
Our Scholar. Ina.
Also known as Sokanon. A Tremere Elder of Algonquin descent who was embraced in the 1770s after being taken in by an Irish Witch named Fiadh Malone who basically raised her in her teenaged years as an Apprentice starting from the mid 1740's before she was old enough to be embraced. Has been around for 275 years as of current in our Chronicle, basically been a nomadic Autrakis since, especially after her sire just, disappeared on her.
And now she works as a Scholar and Anthropologist whose main purpose in life is to try and make sense of the world that she is now a part of, studying not just the nature of Kindred but of the supernatural realm in general, on top of partaking in her ever prevailing curiosity of humanity as well from time to time.
Has since become the Sire/Grandsire of a very minor "House" per say off the coast of Minnesota known as The Miskwi Nishime. Translates to the Blood Sisters. Though they also refer to themselves as the Daughters of Yarrow due to the Yarrow flowers that'd grow around the "Witch House" as the locals call her sire's old estate. Though she isn't a leader of theirs, that honour goes to her two childer she's picked up since. She just comes and goes from the Witch House as a respute or workshop from her studies. Decided to fully focus on her nature as a Scholar here but also the fact that she is ancient by current day standards, on top of a woman who, despite going through immense hardship, never lost sight of her identity. But on the other hand carries her own indifference that comes with the Elder status. She is still a Kindred at the heart of it, and her table is the most bloodied of them all in stark reminder that she has been around a lot longer than what even some Ancillae can comprehend.
So I started pulling out old illustrations and postcards depicting vampires, fae and angels intertwined with letters and old historical photographs. As if they were momentos of her travels over the past 2 nearly 3 centuries, kept for reference as she'd further her studies. Ofcourse, all dispersed between her leatherbound notebook that stands in stark contrast to Silas' and Mal's, and sketched up diagrams of garou she'd study from a safe distance and a bloodied rendition of The Book of Nod she essentially stole off the corpse of a Tzimisce she killed to study their philosophy to better understand their philosophy. She still has the ivory letter opener that was gifted to her by a scholar of the Gilded Age, and owns paraphinalia from her tribe that she's had for centuries at this stage. Her knife is actually one in a pair, her main weapons she carries around everywhere. Not to mention, the yarrow. Ever present on her work desk. A connection to her "daughters". A call back to her home, or at least her place at the Witch House.
So far all I got for now, hope you guys like them!