Frederick

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Frederick
Sect: Sabbat --
Clan: Lasombra (Masquerade) --
City: Brisbane --
Pack/Coterie: Bone Breakers
Title: Bishop
Sire: Unknown
Lineage: Unknown
Embraced: 2001
Generation: Unknown
Player: Zac D
Storyteller: Brisbane VST
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Personal Information

Appearance

Although the exact specifics tend to shift due to the workings of the city's Tzimisce chirurgeons, Frederick prefers to adopt the classically handsome features that can be found amongst the works of the great European masters of yore. So far as clothing is concerned,Frederick generally has his Thralls select ensembles of various shades of black for him to wear while attending the esbats and monthly pack meetings, but of late he seems to be experimenting with splashes of crimson and scarlet. The surest way to identify him is by his distinctive jewelry and equipment, and the clarion call of a shared Vinculum.

Personality

Frederick is an dangerously unhinged religiously-motivated zealot, whose warm amicable nature helps to disarm others and conceal the monstrous inhuman beast that lurks beneath the surface of his human fascade. While he is a relatively young vampire the years spent serving in the Sabbat have succeeded in utterly annihilated his grasp on humanity.

Mortal World

Something dark and malignant casts a long shadow over the Centenary Suburbs in Brisbane. The echo of church bells rings from the spires of the Churches of Saint John, calling the faithful to services that preach brimstone and hellfire warning against enduring the temptations of Satan before the coming of the day of judgement.

Information Known by Kindred Society

Timeline

  • Embraced in 2001.
  • Arrives in Australia in 2014.

Frederick claims to have been born in Brisbane, but to have been shanghaied into the Sabbat while doing missionary work in Singapore by a seagoing pack of Lasombra pirates who were on their way to participate in the Australian Crusade. According to Frederick his first pack was lost at sea off the coast of Queensland due to enemy action, and he believes himself to be the sole survivor of the ill-fated venture. After scrambling out of the Sunshine Coast surf sometime around midnight in early January 2015, Frederick fell upon the first suitable vessel with a ravenous appetite before slipping away into the night.

When Frederick first arrived in Brisbane he could be best described as mad, bad and incredibly dangerous to know or take advice from. However the implementation of martial law and the imposition of a nightly curfew has seen him gradually clean up his act. It would seem to a casual observer that when times get tough, Frederick gets going. If this trend continues he might actually graduate into a fully fledged asset to the Brisbane Crusade and the wider Sabbat movement.

Recent History

  • January 2014

Frederick is first sighted in Australia by Sabbat operating in the Gold Coast area. He passes through and heads to Brisbane.

Frederick arrives in Brisbane and readily accepts an invitation to join Insanctis Peribat. Immensely charismatic and dangerously erratic, by the end of the night Frederick has convinced both his new Ductus Azazael and his Pack Priest Sebastian to commandeer a river ferry an enact one of the first open massacres of the Kine by the Sabbat in Brisbane. While his new pack tosses dead and wounded kine into the Brisbane river, Frederick cuts open his hand and pours his blood into the waters. The combination of blood, gore and thrashing bodies soon attract the attention of local sharks, and an enormously massive mutant albino crocodile. The pack manages to evade the crocodile when Frederick successfully manages to Dominate it back into the river. The arrival and pursuit by the police culminates in another massacre on a nearby bridge.

Insanctis Peribat loses a valuable ground to Trashed Lost Strung-Out after they cheat at a game of instinct, the use of which was suggested by Frederick himself as a means to peacefully resolve the ownership of the disputed territory. The pack is forced to relocate to the front lines in Indooroopilly by Bishop Nancy of the Black Kiss. He also meets a young, impressionable Tzimisce by the name of Phillip. Frederick takes Phillip under his wing, but only after trying to palm him off on every other pack in Brisbane. The evening ends with Frederick being lucky enough to be standing outside of the warehouse as a massive police strike force rolls in and surrounds the building. From afar he watches the entire See stand down and flee in a humiliating rout.

  • April 2014

Insanctis Peribat dissolves in the temporary absence of Ductus Azazael. Most of Frederick's pack mates abandon the Brisbane Crusade completely. The Pack Priest of Insanctis Peribat joins Black Kiss.

  • May 2014

Frederick staggers into the May pack gathering after a feeding leaves him both drunk and stoned, as a consequence he gets very little done and remembers even less of what occurred. Under the auspices of Bishop Nancy of the Black Kiss a Vaulderie is undertaken between all those attend in order to promote unity amongst the various packs that make up the Brisbane Crusade. Frederick meets a fresh young Tzimisce named Phillip, and accepts him as a Packmate, but only after trying to palm him off on nearly every pack in town.

  • June 2014

Frederick forms up a new pack and grants himself the title of Ductus. He calls his new pack The Bone Breakers after the etymological meaning of the name of Brisbane. The only other member is the Tzimisce Phillip, who takes on the role of Pack Priest. Later in the evening, Frederick pulls together a handful of Cainites from across the packs of Brisbane and leads them on a rumbustious and chaotic assault on the household of a militant group of vigilantes who call themselves the Nightswatch. The targeted assault quickly spills out into open conflict as more vigilantes arrive, but the children of Caine are ultimately victorious over the children of Seth. During this engagement

Frederick meets the Pander Jonesy for the first time, and they fight back-to-back in pitch black darkness brought forth with Obtenebration. Afterwards he joins The Bone Breakers as a founding member.

  • July 2014

Using Ben's family as collateral, Frederick blackmails him into joining The Bone Breakers. Ben is a former member of the Nightswatch, and the newly embraced childe of his former Ductus Azazael.

  • August 2014

After Heinrich fails to properly seize and secure the Greek Orthodox Cathedral on Browning Street as a safe meeting place for the Sabbat, the building is assaulted by the Nightswatch. Frederick helps escort the Toreador Antitribu who was acting as the Cardinal's representative from the building. Frederick captures two of the Nightswatch agents using Obtenebration, while the Toreador Antitribu chases down and consumes the third. The surviving hunters are bundled off into the night by Lasombra Ancilla, Tye Jarlsson of Black Kiss. Frederick's adherence to the path of humanity begins to falter and buckle under the strain of serving so actively and for so long in the Sabbat.

The assembled Pack Priests elect Hyena, formerly of Black Kiss but now of Crimson Steel to be the new Archbishop of Brisbane by default. All other candidates managed to disqualify themselves from contention, one way or the other. Bishop Nancy challenges Hyena to Monomancy through her proxy, Jared Jackson. While Hyena chooses his new Ductus Heinrich to represent him. Heinrich quickly and efficiently destroys Jared in a notably unfair, one-sided Monomancy. Frederick meets another Tzimisce who introduces himself as Alphonso, who after bonding with Frederick over a shared background in the Catholic clergy joins The Bone Breakers. Displacing Phillip as their new Pack Priest due to his superior knowledge of Sabbat spirituality.

A Palle Grande is held, and an entire apartment worth of Kine are rounded up and slaughtered to provide enough vessels for a decadently wasteful Blood Feast. Hyena is officially anointed Archbishop in a blood bath. By the end of the evening Frederick is left holding onto his humanity by his very finger tips, and faces the choice of either embracing one of the Sabbat's paths of enlightenment or facing the very real possibility of descending into Wassail. The assembled Ducti are told that the Nightswatch is led by someone who calls herself the Oracle, and that she poses a grave risk to the Crusade's continued survival.

Replete with all the trappings of a Catholic Mass, Alphonso holds a reading of the Book of Nod and invites the Sabbat of the Brisbane See to attend. Frederick is instructed by his Pack Priest to guard the entrance, and anoint each of the attendees with water from a sacramental cup. Two members of the Nightswatch manage to sneak past him with listening devices by masquerading as nomadic Sabbat, but are ultimately caught and killed. One is murdered by the Sabbat, while the last is taken out through a window by a waiting Nightwatch sniper.

Mordecai of the Black Hand announces to The Bone Breakers that he will be joining them. The mass disappearances of police, security and governmental personnel during the G20 summit is finally enough to tip the city of Brisbane into outright declaring martial law and instituting a nightly curfew in the southern portion of the city. The Bone Breakers turn up to the meeting with a large number of strange, unfriendly Cainites, before Alphonso reveals himself to be Knight Inquisitor Ezekiel Alphonso Iona. He declares Archbishop Hyena to be an infernalist, and the entire See closes in to ensure his destruction after Hyena confesses his guilt and admits to the presence of Baali within the city. Mordecai attempts to stake him with arrows, but things go awry when Hyena summons a literal demon in response. The red-skinned horror seizes Hyena and claws it's way through the roof in an effort to escape with the Archbishop by taking to the skies. Dragging a good number of Cainites along with it. But ultimately the demon turns upon Hyena, casting him down. Hyena smashes through a ceiling, through a floor before finally smashing into the concrete floor of the basement. There he faces final death at the hands of a victorious Ezekiel, who has turned himself to lava using unknown blood magic. Frederick loses half his shovel-heads as they succumb to hungry frenzy and crawl into the fiery hell that consumes Hyena, and later loses half again to action by the Camarilla.

  • January 2015

Frederick keeps mainly to himself, meeting only his pack mates and a selected few allies from amongst the Sabbat. He foolishly attempts to open diplomatic relations with the Rokea on behalf of his sect, but his attempts at parley are rebuffed and the Rokea attempt to murder him. He manages to escape pursuit by open flight through the suburb of Wynnum.

Frederick calls the packs together on behalf of the Cardinal with the intention discussing the problems that confront the Brisbane See, including the election of a new Archbishop. While the problems are discussed, the process of organizing an election is derailed when most of the local Pack Priests either fail to turn up, or leave the meeting early. Later in the evening Frederick leads some of the members of Medvet' Blok on a successful operation on behalf of Mordecai of the Black Hand to recover both the bodies of Azazael and Thorne from the police and return them to their pack.

Voices are raised and tempers fray when Frederick clashes with Aaron of Trashed Lost Strung-Out, before the intervention of his pack mates convinces Frederick to stand down. Mordecai seizes the position of Archbishop through displaying superior leadership according to a representative of the Cardinal. It is revealed that the Sabbat of the Gold Coast are having some trouble with some members going rogue, but the Brisbane See has so many problems of it's own that nobody seems to care. While Frederick is again caught flat-footed by Aaron when he nominates Frederick to contest the position of Bishop of War. He seems to accept Aaron's nomination somewhat reluctantly.

  • April 2015

Mordecai of the Black Hand is officially anointed as Archbishop with a Blood Bath.

The newly reforged blade of Caine proves to be far too much for the Nightswatch who had built themselves a stronghold at 40 Lang Street, Sunnybank Hills. The Sabbat assault the building from all directions, before the Hunters realise that they're hopelessly outclassed and choose to sacrifice themselves in a massive explosion. Although there is significant collateral damage to the local civilian population in the vicinity, Sabbat loses are limited to a handful of aggravated wounds that were inflicted by enchanted silver bullets, and a single war ghoul. The victorious Sabbat return home to find further good news waiting for them, as Mordecai presents the See with evidence that he has tracked down and assassinated the Oracle herself. For his role in planning and executing the operation Frederick proves himself worthy of becoming a Bishop of Brisbane. Though he has started trouble with Trashed Lost Strung Out when he potently kicked Vulpe for disrespecting both Archbishop Mordecai and himself by disrupting the planning phase of the assault.

  • May 2015

Frederick keeps the home fires burning while almost all of the Brisbane See leaves to stage an assault upon the Southern Court of the Camarilla. To prove no good deed ever goes unpunished, an Elder Assamite in traditional Arabian garb shows up to parley with Mordecai and the rest of the Assamite Antitribu. It gets into a verbal sparring match with Maelstrom, who loses when he fails to maintain his composure and attacks the stranger in an anger frenzy. After Maelstrom loses both his hands, Frederick intervenes and talks his acquaintance out of his frenzy. The wily Assamite later proves to be a match for the Brisbane See, managing to escape not only once, but twice thanks to his superior mastery of celerity.

  • June 2015

With a simple Vaulderie ceremony, Frederick is recognized as a Bishop of the Brisbane crusade. Several members of the Brisbane See including Frederick himself are recognized as Enriched. A small matter set in motion by Frederick goes awry, which ultimately leads to the unfortunate death of the curator of the Queensland Art Gallery. Frederick's first act as Bishop is to make Carbon his Templar. Having almost utterly eradicated the Southern Court over the May-June period, fresh new plans are made to take the fight north against the remainder of the Camarilla and the Setites.

  • July 2015

The church that had served as Frederick's basis of operations is befouled by the ritualised murder of Sarah Monts and Andrew Dilworth, in what what would revealed to be the work of a coven of renegade Koldunic sorcerers engaged in a blood-feud with Knight Inquisitor Ezekiel. The first battle between the forces of the Brisbane Crusade and these Tzimisce renegades takes place, which leads to the the capture of one of the renegades and the partial destruction of a cathedral. Frederick manages to vanquish a fire elemental that was summoned by the leader of the renegade sorcerers by using a fire extinguisher. For the first time wererats are sighted in the sewers underneath the city of Brisbane, concentrating in the subterranean areas underneath Logan. Members of the Sabbat encounter what are presumed to be Camarilla kindred on their nightly patrols, and while these vampires are easily beaten into torpor any attempt at waking them for interrogation ends in abject failure.

  • August 2015

Attempts to engage the wererats in combat within the Warrens underneath Brisbane proves to be a pointless, futile and maddeningly infuriating exercise. Knight Inquisitor Ezekiel is unsuccessfully ambushed by a gang of kindred, who escape north into Camarilla territory. The Brisbane Crusade mobilises, tracks the culprits down and even manages to successfully capture one of them alive. After being loaded into the back of a van to be taken back south for interrogation, the Nosferatu prisoner freezes as if staked, before spontaneously igniting from within. A close examination of other captured specimens reveals that they have had their hearts replaced with vicissitude, before further examinations can take place the torpored remains spontaneously ignite.

  • September 2015

Bishop Frederick solidifies his control over the mortal religious infrastructure of the Centenary Suburbs by crushing all meaningful opposition, henceforth unifying the disparate Christian faiths of that portion of Brisbane under the auspices of the Church Of Saint John. In a pitched battle among the charred and broken rubble of a suburban church the renegade Koldunic sorcerers are completely annihilated.

  • Conclave 2015

When Szlachta are uncovered underneath the Cardinal's residence, Bishop Frederick leads the counter assault after warning both Archbishop Mordecai and Knight Inquisitor Ezekiel that it is probably a diversion. As nearly everything in the last three to four months he has fought has managed to explode at the conclusion of the combat, Frederick managed to uncover the fact that the Tzimisce war ghouls have been fitted with explosive devices before the Sabbat properly engaged with the enemy. Miraculously, nobody was slain. After the last Szlachta was hunted down, killed and exploded, the victorious Cainites returned to find that the Cardinal had been attacked and devoured by a Serpent Of The Light. The wretched snake was captured and imprisoned for the crime of the destruction and diablerie of a member of the Sabbat outside of what is permitted by the code of Milan. The position of Cardinal was soon claimed by a Lasombra from Canberra of the name of El Salvador. Knight Inquisitor Ezekiel discovered that El Salvador had subjected both Archbishop Mordecai and Bishop Frederick to a partial blood oath, a fact that had been presumably covered up through the use of Dominate. For this treasonous behaviour the Grand Inquisitor Maria Sandoza ordered that El Salvador be arrested to stand trial for his crimes against his fellow Sabbat. Near the end of the gathering the Cardinal's residence was wracked by a series of explosions that tore the structure apart, before the surviving members of the Sabbat came under assault by waves of newly embraced mercenaries and a few hardier specimens. Although caught unawares by the explosion and the subsequent attack, the Sabbat fought back and destroyed their attackers.

Lineage

Known Sire

  • Unknown.

Known Childer

  • Alice Trageser - A former Queensland Police Officer.
  • Sarah Monts - A former secret service agent. Deceased.
  • Andrew Dilworth - A former Australian soldier. Deceased.
  • Alex Faulkner - A former secret service agent.

Quotes

Quotes By

  • "It is time to offer up burnt sacrifices to an uncaring blood god.."


  • "When all is said and done, my fall from grace did not hurt me nearly as much as surviving the impact did."


  • "I love how now that you're the center of attention you speak with such fluency and eloquence, Vulpe. Nobody is taken in by your child-like facade. Nobody with two brain cells to rub together at any rate. I don't care what you do, but stop disrupting my mission briefing!" - After potently kicking her Frederick struggles to maintain control over his beast whilst he exchanges terse words with Vulpe over her perceived disrespect to not only himself but also Archbishop Mordecai by her disruptive behaviour.

Quotes About

  • "Frederick? He seems to be the most competent cat herder the city has." - Report from Lionel Crabb.
  • "Hold up, ya mong, don't jump in yet. Let's watch the big, savvy fucker, an' see what he does. Then we move." - Razor, to Pinky in Manila, October, 2015.

Conversations

  • ''"Then we can assume it will be a united sword of Caine that shatters the Camarilla blockade? Not the twelve pronged caltrop of Brisbane past exploding in different directions?" "Don't assume things Sasha.." -Conversation between Fredrick and Sasha on the cohesion of the February Brisbane See

Known Associates

  • Knight Inquisitor Ezekiel:- Frederick seems to genuinely like, admire and respect Brisbane's resident Inquisitor. The same cannot be said for Ezekiel's immediate superior. As Ductus of the Bone Breakers, it was Frederick's duty to award Ezekiel with the status of Demon-Slayer for unmasking Hyena as an infernalist then ultimately destroying him.
  • Mr. Jarlsson:- While he might only be the Pack Priest of Black Kiss, Frederick knows all too well that those who ignores Mr. Jarlsson do so at their own peril.
  • Archbishop Mordecai:- Frederick believes Mordecai to be a stone-cold killer of just about everything that has walked or crawled at one time or another and his excellency has done nothing so far to jeopardize that opinion. As Ductus of the Bone Breakers, it was Frederick's duty to award Mordecai with the status Tempered for resolving a duel without bloodshed in a room full of starving Cainites, and Prescient, for tracking down and eliminating the Oracle.
  • Jonesy:- A refreshingly straightforward Pander with post-apocalyptic fashion sense.
  • Carbon:- You simply do not make an enemy of someone who manufactures such exquisite armaments no matter how repulsive they look.
  • Phillip:- Phillip might not make it to as many gatherings as he once did, Frederick still counts him as a loyal ally.
  • Sasha D'Sabbat:- While Frederick seems to like all the members of Medved Blok, Frederick has taken a particular shine to Sasha D'Sabbat.

Rumours

  • Both his former Ductus Azazael and his former Pack Priest Sebastian will only refer to Frederick as, “trouble”.
  • Frederick was suspected at one point to be an Infernalist or Baali infiltrator by his former Pack Priest Sebastian.
  • No one in the Sabbat has ever seen Frederick take a human life while he has been living in Brisbane.


Inspirations and Soundtrack

Frederick on high humanity.

“And I And I dare any man here to call me a liar (Liar!), but I swear I've seen Ezekial, I swear I've seen Isiah, toasting marshmellows in Beelzebub's fire”

“Any dolt with half a brain, can see that humankind has gone insane. To the point where I don't know if I'll upset the status quo, if I throw poison in the water main.”

“ And there's a blackness inside me, that's breaking through. But deep down I know I'll be Forever blue.”

  • Doctor Horrible from Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (White Coat).


Frederick on low humanity.

“Now the nightmare's real! Now Dr. Horrible is here! To make you quake with fear, to make the whole world kneel! And I won't feel. A thing.”

“A long, long time ago, I fell to this place. From another dimension, and thrust amongst the beasts. And the way they behave, it borders on dementia. Now through all these years I can barely take it.”

“I fear who I am becoming, I feel that I am losing the struggle within. I can no longer restrain it, my strength, it is fading. I have to give in.”

  • Doctor Horrible from Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (Red Coat).


Frederick on the Path Of Power & The Inner Voice.

“Become the beast, we don't have to hide. Do I terrify you? Or do you feel alive? Splinters of my soul, cut through your skin and burrow within. Burrow within.”

“There is no love untouched by hate,no unity without discord. There is no courage without fear, there is no peace without a war. There is no wisdom without regret, no admiration without scorn. There is strife within the tempest, but there is calm in the eye of the storm. The pages of our history, are written by the hand, with eyes and ears and prejudice, too far removed to understand. And so the heroes of the ages, are stripped of honesty and love. To make them seem less noble, and hide what we can become. This is the moment of truth, at the point of no return. Place faith in your convictions,as the boundaries start to blur.”

“Heavy! You want it heavy! Welcome to my world, feel the weight of it grinding down, and.. Heavy! I want it heavy! Welcome to my world, feel the weight of it grinding down again”'

“I was looking for a breath of a life, for a little touch of heavenly light, but all the choirs in my head sang no oh oh oh”

  • Father Alexander Anderson from Hellsing.

Status

  • Battle Scarred, by word of Archbishop Mordecai
  • Enriched, by word of Archbishop Mordecai
  • Proven, as Bishop of Brisbane
  • Feared, as Bishop of Brisbane
  • Lasombra, as a member of Clan Lasombra
  • Initiated, as a member of the Sabbat

Boons

OOC Information

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Member Information
Player: Zac D
Number: 2014010007
Domain: Brisbane


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