Porfirio Diaz

Someone has to keep the cops in line. Although most of the Sabbat fun and games take place in the slums, now and then a pack commits an atrocity that the mortal authorities cannot easily ignore.. . but Isidro de Saldanha helps them. Isidro was a mortal captain among Porfirio Diaz’s federal police. He broke strikes by breaking strikers’ heads. He kept the poor from bothering the rich. He recognized that some laws do not apply to some people, and he received money in return for his discretion. He had a wife, a mistress and several stout children. Then his children died, one by one. His wife left him for a button-maker. His mistress gave him gonorrhea: She was the mistress of several other men as well. Captain Isidro’s scowl grew fiercer and prisoners in his precinct did not always survive his interrogations. His men trembled when he walked by. Mwco Cm BY Niw 56 At last the author of his misery revealed himself. Don Vicente had tested a dozen other policemen that year, and only Captain Isidro had not broken. As a reward, Isidro would receive anew assignment in service to Mexico’s true masters. Of course the captain tried to kill Don Vicente, but the Cainite knocked the gun from his hand, laughing, and held Isidro as helpless as a puppy while he drained the policeman’s blood. As compensation, Don Vicente let his new childe vent his frustration on his former wife and mistress, held ready for Isidro’s first meal. Isidro learned to obey his new masters. He mastered the arts of memory-manipulation, bureaucratic snafu and making evidence disappear. As Mexico City grew, Isidro recruited assistants tohelp with the worMoad.TheybecamehEmblemas the Badges. The consistory rewarded him with the title of ductus, and then bishop, but he still prefers “Captain.” The Sabbat’s policeman does not speak of the quandary that he has never resolved. Captain Isidro believes in order and protecting those in power from the rabble. His job demands that he protect rabble and he sees that the packs running wild through Mexico City are rabble from the mortal authorities. He has not lost his distaste for small-time mortal criminals, either. Whenever possible, Captain Isidro sets up mortal drug-pushers, muggers, pursesnatchers or gangsters to take the fall for the Sabbat’s depredations. He openly supports the Ultra-Conservative cause, in hopes that a centralized Sabbat would rein in the sect’s more brutal and crazed members.