Lucinde

Lucinde remembers nothing of her life before her Embrace at the fangs of Severus, then the Ventrue justicar. He chose her as his archon; she rapidly absorbed his lessons and quickly honed her intuition to razor sharpness. Lucinde has served nearly every Ventrue justicar since — often at their request, sometimes at her petition. She enforces the Traditions with a frightening dedication. Lucinde arose from torpor in the 1930s to find that Michaelis, a former lover, was justicar for the Ventrue. She sought him out — only to be enslaved by blood bond to the Setite Kemintiri. When the Tremere discovered this calamity, they brought her before a conclave in Munich. The conclave declared global Lextalionis against Kemintiri and created the Red List, the Camarilla’s Most Wanted. Lucinde, named as first alastor (an agent who hunts those Kindred on the Red List), set out to find anathema — all except the Setite Methuselah, whom she was expressly forbidden to stalk. Nevertheless, Lucinde hunted Kemintiri unsuccessfully for many years with the secret intent of offering her devotion. She caught and destroyed many enemies of the Camarilla — but the Setite continued to elude her. She gradually realized that Kemintiri saw her as nothing more than a convenient tool, and that she’d been tossed aside once there was no further use for her. The insight only strengthened her resolve. She developed a burning hatred to match her former love for the snake. Even so, it took years and much of her energy to break the bond, and may have kept her from finding Kemintiri. When she was finally free, the investment left her too weary to continue. Lucinde fell into torpor for several years. In the autumn of 1994, Lucinde rose from torpor to find the first sign of Kemintiri she had seen since being blood bound: a letter to an anathema. It named several other anathema and described an attempt to form an alliance composed of Red List targets. Disturbed by the implications but loath to relinquish this trace of her quarry, Lucinde decided not to give the letter to CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT 50 the justicars or the Inner Circle. She chose instead to follow the leads herself. Unfortunately, each path had gone cold, leaving behind nothing but rapidly abandoned havens, destroyed contacts and impressively violent distractions. At last, tired and frustrated, she presented her findings to the Inner Circle at the Venice Conclave. They questioned her at length about her conclusions regarding the missive: Might it be possibly a hoax, laid as a false trail for the alastors, or some deeper conspiracy linking the anathema to the Sabbat leadership? The elders dismissed her to discuss the matter privately after her testimony Nobody was more surprised than Lucinde when the conclave went on to name her justicar for the Ventrue. Her sense of duty led her to accept this opportunity despite initial misgivings. Even so, Lucinde has concerns about the reasons for her appointment — she believes she was chosen for some special purpose, perhaps to hunt vampires on the Red List. Certainly, she knew more about these criminals than any other elder did. She also believed that her investigations might have touched upon something deeper than she’d considered before — signs of the Antediluvians waking or hints to the final nights. Whatever it may be, Lucinde strongly desires further answers. Lucinde appointed several archons before the conclave’s end. She and they vanished immediately afterward. The first rumors began only a few months later. Whispered from elder to elder in the salons of North America, they told of spies in the justicar’s service sent to watch the princes for disloyalty to the Camarilla. The first and only tangible sign of Lucinde’s activities was a vicious battle at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, amongst three Kindred and some kind of monstrous creature. Lucinde and her archons had tracked the child-Samedi Genina to this mist-enshrouded place. This anathema was a dangerous serial killer who endangered the Masquerade through poems she left at the scene of her crimes. The battle waged for the better part of an hour before the archons staked and subdued Genina. Lucinde presented Genina to the Inner Circle a month later, only to vanish on some other search.

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