Elias Castillo - Nosferatu/Lancea et Sanctum

Player Name:
Chris W


Character Name:
Elias Castillo


Clan Status:
0


Covenant Status:
1

City Status: 0


Notable Merits:
N/A


Notable Conditions:
N/A




Description:
Elias wears glasses though he doesn't have any true need for them.  He tends to dress conservatively in suit and tie while conducting lectures or speaking to potential contacts; while not engaged in business he favors street clothes to better blend in among the crowd.  He has no physical deformities afforded to his kin but his prolonged presence causes discomfort in the form of incomprehensible whispers being heard almost outside of earshot becoming more distracting the longer he remains in one's presence.

Personality:

Elias usually seems to be distracted by something or perhaps lost in his own thought.  He affords others the civility due to them but he will usually find a reason to escape small talk unless there is a topic of conversation in which he wishes to exchange knowledge.


History:
Time spent in torpor does things to one's memory or at least their accounting of it. Elias’ past became fragments and only certain facts are true. It is known that during his time as a mortal that he held a position as a history professor at the University of Barcelona. It was his obsessive nature to pour himself into his work that became his downfall. Lovers, friends, and even family became distant memories in the man and his eventual detachment from most things are what caught the attention of a Nosferatu by the name of Christian during an excursion into Germany.

Christian had followed Elias’ trail and had determined the mortal to be found wanting. The man led a solitary existence by his own hand and had pushed aside all those that would have granted him the respite had he just put his own wants aside. This, alongside Christian needing a proper tool to assist in finding the answers buried somewhere in history as to how to perhaps handle the yellow-eyed demons that were plaguing his domain. It was in 1965, a date that Elias has not yet forgotten that he was embraced and brought into the fold.



Not to Christian’s surprise did Elias not display the Beast on his person but rather was able to keep the Beast besides him in the form of incomprehensible whispers that seem just out of reach or sight. Those who had spent time with him reckon those whispers are only understood by him and continuously taunt him for his personal failures and serve as constant reminder for his state of existence. Elias was embraced into the Lancea et Sanctum and put to use immediately for his knowledge. He felt the covenant a natural fit as it provided him a slight respite for all that he neglected during his mortal days and allowed him to make use of time during his Requiem. Together with his sire they would debate and assist in either cataloging artifacts found or in their removal. Elias would continue looking into the annals of history for the answers to the yellow-eyed demons that were known to appear randomly throughout the surrounding territories in Germany.



There are more memories that become lost to the Fog of Eternity but it is known that sometime in the mid 80’s did he reach torpor. Christian and he were ambushed in some half-forgotten catacombs in Germany researching the known history left behind by other Kindred when they became buried. He remained interned there until 1997 when a young Archaeologist by the name of Eva Keller and her team stumbled across him. The team did not survive Elias rising from torpor, but she did. She would remain alive and be his penance for what he had done to her team. Christian was nowhere to be found and presumed to have met his Final Death.


Eva proved quite useful as Elias was able to assimilate to the times and cultivate all he needed to proceed with his studies elsewhere. She would build and manage his estate along with his library moving from location to location. Germany, France, Spain, and then New York. His status remained the same and he only stayed long enough in one domain to verify his findings before moving to the next for further study.

The restructure of power in Chicago along with rumors of many oddities have led Elias and Eva to make the move into the domain. He had Eva ensure all the proper channels were secured to introduce himself to Prince Hermann along with requesting territory around the public library known as Harold Washington Library Center. Upon Eva establishing his estate and access to all necessary equipment he had established himself a herd by holding lectures on the topic of history and a small amount of occult. He developed a throwaway retainer in the form of a graduate student named Jason who regularly brings more people to the lectures. This is how Elias’ chronicle begins in Chicago.




Powers & Skills:

It is rumored that Elias has access to a vast wealth of academic knowledge.  When facts regarding history need to be checked he would be the one to approach.  It is also said that not many have been around his presence to verify what he is capable of but the Haunt must be resilient or resourceful to have survived as long without meeting the Final Death to the prey he's supposedly after.