Updated: 25 October 1998
Elle
6th Generation Toreador
L'Infante

	Sire:	François Villon (1701)
	Nature:	Maniplator
	Demeanor:	Don Juan
	Humanity	6
	Secrets:	****
	Status:	****
	Esprit:	*****
	Elder Status:
	Toreador Prestige:	****

Background:

                    François Villon is known for his feminine conquests since the first night of his Embrace. He had been the lover of Helena of Troy, Violetta, ex-Toreador Justicar, among others. Elle was discovered just before the beginning of the 18th Century, while Louis ''SunKing'' XIV ruled France, and while Beatrix was still Prince of Paris, and Villon her lawful councillor.

She was still twelve when he saw her, but he immedialty fell in love, charmed by her blue eyes and white-blond hair. Fearing such a beauty would be wasted if not protected, he raised her as he would have a rose: He took her from her Bourgeois milieu, gave her the best teachers, in history, phisolophy (it was the ''Century of Light''!), music and even painting. So Elle grew in a very protected milieu, and in the same time, too near of the Kindred society to not be affected.

She was ghouled her first night with her beautiful protector and soon after, was Embraced with the mild benediction of Beatrix: Elle was beautiful, more than any living woman in her century, she was intelligent, and new the basis of drawing, painting and music, but she had no real artistic talent. Villon was said he would regret it soon.

And in some way, he did regret: She was a Poseuse, and some Toreador, among them Villon's enemies, jealous of his position, started to whisper about Villon's foolishness.

If Elle wasn't an artist, she had an acute mind, and had grown among the Kindred society. So she learned as natural most the things the Kindred take years to accept...

Villon, and the others were mistaken: She was an artist. At first, it was simple things, words in the end of some ''soirées'', but with time, she grew more confident in her own abilities, and she finally made an art of Intrigue. In the 19th century, her secret control over the mortal institutions of Paris surprised Villon: What was believed to be a poseuse made a point to intrigue against Villon's enemies in the most artful way, and even if her love affair will the Prince of Paris had cooled somewhat, she became his secret fourth lieutenant (the first being Lazlo, the Duc of the Toreador, the second being Ivan, Master of the Masques, and the third being Alexis, Master of the Veilleurs.

Officially, she was given the responsibility to ensure the well-being of the french museums, but her powers grew with time, and extends now to the protection of french artworks, or the buying of artworks from all the world and their installation in french museums (becoming so, in Villon's eyes, french artworks!).

While she have not the power of Alexis, Ivan of Lazlo, and works officially under Lazlo's juridiction, she was seen using their resources (Masques, Veilleurs, Louvre's employees) to succeed in her missions. Officially, she must protect the First Edict of Villon: The Art.

Destiny

                    Lately, she has been fascinated by a young child, who had some supernatural Numina. Fearing Villon could, out of jealousy, ask for the death of the child (because of the Masquerade), she asked Neonates to protect it from the growing interest of a catholic priest and inquisitor. Among them, Carlo, Gérald Nathaniel and Catherine.

Appearance:

Age:	315	Hair:	white-blonde	Height:	1m72
Apparent Age:	16~30	Eyes:	Blue	Weight:	58Kg
Date of Birth:	1682	Race:	Caucasian	Sex:	Female
RIP:	1701	Nationality:	French	Esprit:	*****

                    Elle is probably the most elegant Kindred female of Paris. Always choosing her clothing with style, she can even make herself appear younger or older than her real apparent age only by choice of the clothes, make-up, jewelry and hair combing.

She favors black, or blood-red roses, and is rarely seen without one of them (she loves their perfume...).

She's always dressed for the situation, and most of the time, all male stares converge to her. She is gracious, moves in fluid motions that would be mistakenly called ''feline'' grace. The truth is that Elle is working on her appearance and style since (and even before) her Embrace. Her grace is simply Feminine, with a capital F.

Role Playing:

                    Seeing Elle is like looking a movie in slow motion. Every movement is graceful, and every epression of her lovely feature is worthy of a photography, painting or sculpting. She works on this illusion, and enhance its effects with her soft voice. If a Parisian Kindred must be called ''siren'', then Elle is this ''Siren''.

She always talk without contempt to others, even when using ''Esprit'' and ridiculizing him. She is seen as a poseur, and as it is part of her chosen art, she accepts it and likes to appear as such. But she knows she is deadly.

She likes to act as a careless young when with Neonates and Ancillae, but most Elders knows it is a façade and still wonders the amount of influence she has over Villon...

And she likes it...

Notes:

                    ''Elle'' is the french word for ''She'', and this name, chosen by Villon for her is really adapted, as she is for most (Toreador) Kindred the incarnation of desire. She knows how to use and combine her Dementation and Mytherceria Disciplines to enhance her already high seduction power...

Her ''Blasée'' Merit (see Clanbook: Toreador) immunizes her to Presence powers. The Blood Bond she felt for Villon is now weakened by the centuries (She is now considered Bonded at 1/3). She still have a phobia of water, like lakes, rivers, swimming pools (i.e.: anything greater than a bath tub) from the time she was alive and risked drowning in Versailles' lake. She still doesn't know how to swim (and will probably never learn).

She is believed to have been Arnaud's lover before the 1789 Revolution, and is the secret muse of more than one Kindred, most of them, Toreador. But she is still single. Villon's interest for her changed from pure love to the affection a proud father can feel for his beloved daughter.

She has no Elder Status because no one knows the game she's really playing, but should she be discovered, it would raise up to 1 or 2.

She has been the second Elder (the first being Arnaud) to feel the effects of the new appearance of Catherine. While she is feels attracted to her in a physical sense, she keeps the control of herself. Still, Cath's curious mentality fascinates the Toreador...

Actual Aim:

                    Elle discovered foreign influence within parisian mortal institutions. She is working hard to find to remove the corrupted administratives. Her suspicions leads her to think St Just is perhaps the one behind it, but she has still difficulties to believe it. Labienus is another possibility as he is known to have some contacts within the french army, despite Villon's interdiction of such powerbase building.

Nonetheless, she was behind the changes within the SDECE which became soon after the DGSE

Rumours:

• Elle is a Poseur (False: Her Art is very particular, indeed).
• Elle had violent and passionnate love affair with most of the Parisian Elders (False: While she had some love affairs, she select carefully her lovers).
• Elle had a short and very passinate affair with Arnaud.
• Elle is Sabbat, and has Villon Blood Bonded to her (False!).
• Elle is the true power behind the three official lieutenants: Alexis, Ivan and Lazlo (Partially True: She is the secret Fourth Lieutenant...)
• Elle's intrigues killed indirectly more than three Elders (True! She is the one who repeat that the Ridicule can kill!).
• She only need to speak a word, and half the Clan would side with her and make her their Duchesse (True: Most of The Beautés and Poseurs would, if someone talked to them about it, support Elle's claim to a title of Duchesse

Auspex ***** * : Spirit Bond

                    The Kindred is able to establish a bond with a person or an object, thus being able to know at any moment where aproximatively is the subject.

                    System: See Dark Ages Companion, p78

Presence ***** * : Love

                    This power duplicate the effects of the Blond Bond for a limited time.

                    System: See The Vampire Player Guide, 2nd Edition, p78

Presence ***** ** : Siren's Guardians

                    Elle is able to use her Presence to make others take care of her, and even protect her if she is in danger. Because of the high level of this power, non-Awakened or semi-Awakened (Sorcerers, Kinfolks Ghouls(!), etc.) mortals can't resist the lure of this power. Others can use their Willpower to resist, through, unless they were Frenzying (or hate Elle beyond reason!).

                    System: Manipulation+Subterfuge, Diff:6
Each successes raise the number of persons affected. This power can't be directed, but non-Awakened persons will be affected first, then semi-Awakened persons, then Awakened creatures.

Fully Awakened Creatures can use 1 Willpower point per success to resist the power. They are, then, unaffected by this power for the story.
The effects depends greatly on the type of person affected. Thus, the successes needed to attain such or such effect can be decreased (never increased): Bullies probably will attack Elle's defender at 4 or 3 successes only! While a bodyguard would keep cool and still need 5 successes to lose his temper and attack the offender, one success would be enough to sand up in defense, whatever the situation (This situation already happened: The drunken star movie was surprised to see his own bodyguards turn against him when he threatened to strike Elle because she refused his compagny!)

Note: This power was inspired by a power of Deirdre Brooks' Ekstasis Discipline for the Hetaerae Bloodline that can be consulted in the BJ Zanzibar's WoD.




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