Characters Now Retired

Katerina Katsuya is the daughter of Mikhail Katsuya and a woman named Veralina. Mikhail, a noble Explorer, discovered... or, it should be said, was discovered by the woman, Veralina while exploring an uncharted area of Ussura. The two fell madly in love, though Mikhail could never get Veralina to reveal her family history, other than that she was pure bred. Her animal form was a snow leopard.

Within the year, Katerina was born and Veralina had disappeared, leaving her daughter and a note to Mikhail, asking him to try to understand. He did look for her, to no avail. Raising his daughter was no easy task and with only the servant women to help, Katerina was treated more like Mikhail's son than daughter.

When Katerina was six, Mikhail took a wife, Natasha. Natasha and Katerina got along well enough but it was not a loving mother-daughter relationship. Soon, Natasha learned to just allow Katerina to be the tomboy that she was and to tend to her own new born son, Alexander.

Now, at nineteen, Katerina has grown into a beautiful, vivacious woman, who is well educated and a member of the Explorer's Society. She is also pure bred. Her animal form was a snow leopard. Her most recent endeavor, as part of the Ussuran Ambassadorial contingent to Montaigne Court, has brought her much more than anyone ever expected.

Quote: "Generally, I know a gentleman much better before I enter his bedchambers... but in this case, I will make an acception."(They were hiding out from the Emperor's guards at the time.)

(Picture created by Alex Baker.)

Talena Vesper has always known she was special. She has blood of the Rom running through her veins after all. When she was 16, she discovered she could manipulate Reality into doing her bidding. This opened up a whole new world for this young woman.

Now, she has been sent to Notre Via University. A prestigious University by all accounts but one that also caters to Supernatural students as well. In an experiment of learning, tolerance and cooperation, the Mages, Lupine and Fey share the campus, teaching one another to learn and accept the other. If this University endeavor succeeds the results will be world changing.

Talena has been assigned to a study group that includes other mages, lupine, fey and now, a ghost. She has a satyr boyfriend, tons of homework to fit in, tests to study for and rivals to outdance while trying to save the campus from the various bad guys who seek to claim the node as their own. Sometimes, it's a choice of beating up the bad guy, going clubbing or studying so she doesn't flunk out of school... what's a girl to do with a choice like that?

Quote: "There are these things called 'laws.' They don't apply to me, but I manipulate them where ever I can."

Since then, Duvessa has learned the hard way that one must take a stand for what you believe, that legends are real and sometimes, people really are more than they seem. She has discovered more about herself than she ever thought possible and has set herself on to a path of personal growth and greatness... if she does not fall into the hands of the Empire or succumb to the Dark side.

Taylor Christensen is the night supervisor at the Oakland Zoo. Her specialty is "Big Cats." She was VERY recently embraced in Redding, on her way back from a Zookeepers Conclave, after she was mugged and almost killed. She does not remember her embrace. All she remembers is lying on the ground, dying, then hearing someone curse and say, "I've watched you too long to have you die like this." When she came to, she was a vampire.

A week later, after she had returned to Alameda county, she was found by one of the Gangrels of that area, Pavel Radchech. He has taken Taylor under his wing (so to speak) and is teaching her what it means to be Kindred and a Gangrel. She has come to accept her fate with some soul searching and has finally decided that since Vampires, Werewolves and Sorcerors all exist, so must Angels, Unicorns and Griffons. If the bad exist, so does the good. It is something she firmly believes in.

Quote: "I'm not going to give up my life, just because I'm dead."

Shannon Braorian is the daughter of Meric Faerivin and Maire Braorian, former Rebellion operatives who gave their daughter the best of both worlds. She inheirited her mother's love of engineering and her father's love of space. She grew up with her two brothers in a happy, if eclectic, home.

She joined the Alliance military at the age of 17 as an engineer and researcher, furthering the technological advances of the military in the area of ship engine design and fuel consumption. Shannon retired from the military at age 22 with several awards and inventions under her belt.

Currently, she travels the galaxy in her ship, Marelda's Arrow, with her companions, dodging trouble as it invaribly comes their way.

Quote: ""Waun-waun-waun, hyperspace. Waun-waun-waun-Waun, fourth law of gravity. Waun-waun-waun-waun-waun-Waun, punch through a planet or destory a sun. Waun-Waun-Waun-waun-waun-waun, destory the universe. Waun-waun-waun!-waun-Waun. And that would be *very* bad."
-What her crewmates actually heard when Shannon tried to explain the quantum singularity system attached to the ship and the fact that the ship's hull was made out of collapsed star material.

Cathena grew up in the Hermetic Chantry, locate in the Hub, the located in the realm's capital city of Concordia. She grew up in a very strict enviroment of rules and study. Never having actually been to Earth, she lacks some of the more useful soceital skills of tact and curtsey. However, now that she has been assigned to this rather electic group of mages, such skills are necessary - a lesson Cathena has had to learn quickly.

Also, since she has been with this group, she has learned that there is more to life than just Tradition and study. It has been an eye opening experience that has allowed this young mage to grow and blossom in unexpected ways. Cathena has come to enjoy her new found freedom and the odd behaviors of her companions. We will see how this affects her preceptions of her previous life and her standing in the Chantry.

Quote: .... (Telepathic sending)

Her life at the orphanage was not particularly harsh but it was not particularly loving either. There were too many orphans and not enough caretakers. Unfortunately, this meant that Genna had no one to protect her from the other children who picked on her because of her strange looks. The children were especially cruel out of jealousy and fear of her strange looks and quiet manner.

When she was nine, the house mistress of the orphanage died, leaving the care of the children to her sister, a woman who had little interest and no patience for dealing with them. The sister immediately began to 'give the children hope by finding them apprenticeships.' In reality, she was selling them to the highest bidder.

Three days after what was marked as her 10th birthday (in truth, her foundling date - no one knows exactly how old she is), Genna was sold to the Light Skirts brothel. The madam, Sabetha, sought to capitalize on Genna's exotic looks. She could see that Genna would become a beautiful young woman soon. In the meantime, she had an exclusive clientele who liked their girls young.

Again, her time at the Light Skirts brothel was not particularly harsh. Though, she grew up very fast, learning to use her body to please her clients and her looks to get what she wanted. However, what she most wanted, was out of the brothel and not to forced to sleep with whomever had enough coin to pay her expensive price. Life at the orphanage and the brothel had harden this young woman, teaching her that to get what you wanted, you had to fend for yourself.

Genna had begun stealing from her clients by the time she was thirteen. She was careful to steal only the smallest things that would not be missed. She was determined to steal enough to buy her freedom.

That was four years ago.

Today, Genna is a beautiful and exotic looking young lady. With her long, flaxen white hair, slight stature and storm gray eyes, she turns heads everywhere she goes. She carries herself with a deliberate grace of a dancer - or a woman who knows how to use her body to get what she wants. Publicly, she is a courier. She has the knowledge and talent to deliver the most interesting of packages to the most dangerous of places. It is not unusual for her to take a job that requires her to sneak into a castle under siege to deliver a message to the commander and sneak back out again with his answer. Or a job to deliver a love letter to a young woman whose father has barred the suitor from the home.

More privately, those in her 'inner' circle, know that Genna is actually an excellent thief who uses the cover of a courier to get into some of the richest houses in the city. This is how her true money is made. They know her to be pragmatic and a bit chaotic at times. You never know when she is going to stop to help the old man across the street or steal his coin purse - or both.

However, Genna has more secrets than even she knows.

Quote: "And that is worth what to me?"

She is most interested in Celtic mythology, occult theory and gardening. When she is in the Chantry, she often spends her time researching magic and occult theory. Otherwise, she reads or spends time gardening. When she is not in the Chantry, she is often found at high society parties, art museums, libraries and wildlife preserves.

Generally, Kayley is fairly affable for a Tremere Mage. She enjoys good company, good art and good music. Her demeanor is that of a woman well self-possessed. Someone who is very sure of what she wants and where she is going.

Quote: "Everything has a place in the Cycle. Know that you are not as high up on the food chain as you think. There is always a bigger fish."