Holland by Night

A Vampire who has decided to stay in the Netherlands, after the successful completion of his assignment. It has been a long time since he has had any contact with other clans, and he knows nothing about the rules of the Camarilla. This presents some problems.

Aalvar is terrible rich, due to an accident by his sire: he had chosen the wrong mortal to embrace. His looks are almost identical to the intended victim for the embrace.

He enjoys his life in Haarlem, and tries to get the most of his regained freedom.

Some history
When Aalvar was born his mother died in labor, so his father sort of took care of him. His father worked very hard since in Finland it is hard for a man to get a well paid job. He left Aalvar to fend for himself most of the time.

When Aalvar was only fifteen his father died in a carcrash and he inherited his posessions. Now he finally had the chance to help the needy in the world, what he always wanted. He was most inclined to help those in South-Afrika who had to live under the yoke of white dictatorship. He made contacts with a Zulu organisation that protested by peaceful resistence. This group was helped by Anton von Oberwesel, a count from Germany. This Anton looked exactly like Aalvar.

The Zulu organisation was not the peaceful organisation that Aalvar believed it to be. They wanted to kill him! Anton would then take his place so they could finance their campaign and weapons with his money.

Anton comes from a bloodline where everyone is either a Vampire or a Werewolf. If they haven't changed into a Werewolf after their first child was born they would be embraced by the progenitor of the line or one of his children.

Grégoir Martin was sent to embrace Anton to bring him into the fold of the clan. He himself had been embraced somewhere in the 14th century by Asa Berholm (child of Evardt von Oberwesel - child of Isgerd Ironclaw - child of The All High - child of Ennoia - child of the child of Odin and the perverter child of Caine). When he came to South Africa, he heard sound of battle. He raced towards the encampment sparing no effort. The child he was to create was after all a Von Oberwesel: he had to be brought into the clan even if it would cost Grégoir his life.

When he arrived at the battle site he found Aalvar bleeding to death and mistakenly took him for Anton. Grégoir was low on blood but he had to act quickly. He cut his wrist and started to give his blood to Aalvar. Aalvar was still in shock and this chance to remain alive was his last hope. He put all his power into the blood being given to him. He diablerized his sire then and there.

With his last efforts Grégoir made them sink into the ground and there ensued a battle of will to see what spirit would control this new vessel. It lasted several years, but by then they had joined their spirits into one. This new vessel had all the knowledge about the Cainites of old, combined with the knowledge of the modern world of Aalvar. It returned to the clan of the Von Oberwesels in the Black forest.

There they heard that in the meantime Anton had been embraced by Irina von Lotharingen, a life-long enemy of the Von Oberwesel bloodline. Irina and Evardt had been lovers for a century or so but things went wrong. Since that day they have been at odds with one another.

Anton had to be destroyed. I was sent to Berlin where he lived. There I saw firsthand the horrors that Irina had used him for. He had joined an unsuspecting Coterie from Haarlem, and I followed him to Holland. I followed him to a meeting with some foul looking vampires to whom he was selling heavy weapons. He was bragging about how he was going to kill the Prince of Amsterdam.

After the buyers had left I killed Anton. I tore out his spine and ripped out his lungs and lay him wide armed and with his lungs next to his body like wings. This way, I commited the greatest insult to Irina: I bloodangeled Anton. After this I was mistaken for Anton and had to help save the Prince of Amsterdam. I liked what I learned of these two cities. And when the affair was settled I decided to stay in Haarlem.

You can read up on the deeds of Aalvar by reading the timeline of the Coterie of Lucius, of which he used to be a part. He was appointed archon to Madamme Guil in the course of the Hungarian moves.