VINCENT DAY, PALADIN AND PARAGON

The third son of an English lord, Vincent Day seemed destined for service to the Church. Upon Vincent’s coming of age, his father sent him to Canterbury Cathedral to join the clergy. Having no interest in the priesthood, Vincent ran away and went to France. He used his title to gain entrance into the Templars, and was soon on his way to the Levant. Vincent’s disillusionment grew as he discovered that the Christians were losing ground. The Crusades were a stalemate, seemingly fought for nothing. The bloodshed and atrocities shattered his idealism, and he returned to Europe as the Templars retreated. Upon returning to France, Vincent undertook a pilgrimage to Rome to restore his lost faith. Italy invigorated his faith, but not in the Church. With its impressive architecture and emphasis on learning and culture, Italy seemed a far cry from rural England. While Vincent was in Italy, King Philip IV of France, in the name of the Inquisition, tried the Templars for heresy. On hearing the news, Vincent vowed to return to England and make a life for himself there, abandoning the order. Vincent returned as the prodigal son and was welcomed back into his father’s manor. His newfound idealism didn’t last long. Although England had formed a parliament, nothing had really changed. He fell into a depression and fueled it with liquor. Leander Phipps changed all that with a vicious Embrace. Leander opened Vincent’s eyes to who really held the reigns of power: Cainites. As a vampire, Vincent thought he possessed the power to change the world, and he soon found out how wrong he was. Vampiric society was even more autocratic than mortal society. A few moldering elders held all the power, and treated their childer as nothing more than tools or cannon fodder. Leander proved to be no different than any of the other elders. Vincent suffered in silence, biding his time until he could rise against his sire. Vampiric society finally reached a boiling point. Working with like-minded others, Vincent fought in the Anarch Revolt to throw off the yoke of the elders. With a single swing of his sword, Vincent removed both his sire’s head and the CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT 34 “shackles of slavery” Leander had imposed on him. Vincent took the news of the Convention of Thorns and the founding of the Camarilla as a personal insult. After all he’d fought for, nothing had changed. The elders still lorded over younger vampires. The Sabbat finally gave Vincent the focus and goals of which he’d always dreamed. Eventually, he left England for the New World as a member of the fledgling Sabbat. He incorporated his beliefs from his Templar days into the ideals of the sect and helped found the Path of Honorable Accord. He worked his way up the ranks, and again became a templar, but for a more unwholesome patron this time. His exemplary performance gained the attention of the Inquisitor General, who retained his services. He now serves as bodyguard, emissary and enforcer to the Inquisition, though he refuses to become a full-fledged member, seeing it as a conflict of interests to put a faction before his duty to the sect. When Vincent Day shows up in a city, the normally unruly Sabbat not only listen but obey, for his reputation precedes him.

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