Alfred Benezri

A poet of the night, Alfred Benezri is 4 the most prominent of the Shepherds and the coven’s candidate for the archdiocese. Benezri was Embraced in Damascus in the 1760s by Moraye, an enigmatic figure who claimed to be the childe of a Shepherd missionary. Fleeing the dark masters of the Syrian night after they destroyed his sire, Alfred made his way to Montreal. Ignace accepted him as a student despite his “alien” Sunni Muslim heritage. A political pragmatist, Alfred was the first to suggest a system of rotating leadership after Ignace’s Sainting. H also helped to hammer out the format of the moden Inquisition with Black Hand Dominion Julian. Their ef forts led to the sacrifice of Soeur Jeanne, the Shepherd who ’ led the first Inquisition, but allowed the coven to weather the closing days of the Sabbat Civil War. A poet and a statesman, Alfred seeks to understand the Almighty through the melody of words. During his dark tides, he tortures mortals to record their dying utterances, but he most often composes based on his own dreams. The Arab and Iranian populations that have grown in Montreal since the 1960s provide him with an audience, and he feeds predominantly from these people. A judge inquisitor from 1964 to 1981 and a knight inquisitor until 1993 (see Appendix), Alfred has escaped much of the backlash against the Shepherds due to their support of the infernalist Sangris. He hoped to continue his pursuit of enlightenment, but has found himself the only viable candidate to take control of the city. He is already one of Montreal’s bishops.