Aimery Methuin

In the 900years since his Embrace, Aimery has sought to extend his power but has met repeated setbacks. The denial of his ambition has lead to a darkening of his demeanor, and to anger at others who have "cost him what is his by right." Spite and vindictiveness now temper his drive and competitiveness, and he's likely to undertake endeavors simply to spoil the plans of rivals.

After his failures to advance his position in York, he sought to gain power elsewhere, at first joining the coalition that fought Prince Mithras in the mid-13th century and then playing an active (but ultimately unrewarding) role in the War of the Roses in the 15th century.

The last straw was the English Civil War, which pitted Ventrue against Toreador, further solidifying power in the hands of those who already had it. Realizing that he would have little hope of success in Europe, Aimery opted to take a great risk and hid himself away among mortals voyaging to the New World.

At first, he settled in Boston building up his power base, but when the Ventrue's hold over the city collapsed in 1783, he escaped the bloody purges that followed and moved south, residing in Hartford for a decade, then Philadelphia, and finally New York.

His old acquaintance Katla Thrandottir Catherine Trandor as she now called herself offered him refuge in "her" city, at first using him as a pawn and later as a guinea pig for her own plans. Aimery thus found himself under the authority of Ventrue who were not only his social inferiors, but hundreds of years younger.

In particular, he resented the young warlord Joseph Wellesley, whose position Aimery felt should be his. After all, had he not been fighting Christ's enemies before the end of the first millennium?