Kaalia

Kaalia Raine
Sect:	The Camarilla ••••
Clan:	Toreador (Masquerade) •
City:	Canberra ••••• •
Pack/Coterie:
Title:	Prince
Sire:	Voce
Lineage:	Toreador
Embraced:	1894
Generation:	10
Player:	[mailto: Kristine Hertel]
Storyteller:	Canberra VST

Information Known by Kindred Society

Embrace: 1894
Apparent Age: mid 20’s
Status:
1 Acknowledged as a Member of the Camarilla
2 Ancilla by Age
3 Devoted by word of Elder Vashti
4 Loyal by word of Elder La Belle Dame d'Lumiere
5 Sharp by word of Elsa
6 xxx by word of Prince Mick Diamond
7 Exalted as Prince
8 Well-Known as Prince
9 Famous as Prince

Castellan of Elder Vashti
Master of the Guild of Mars

Kaalia is a skilled writer, and spends much of her time writing her next novel as a "ghost writer". She spent much time under the care and tutelage of the Toreador Elder Vashti.

Appearance

Kaalia prefers to dress in designer clothes, corsets and armoured platform heels. She wears a pendant on a golden chain around her neck. Her perfume is a delicate subtle sweet wild berry-like fragrance that tells you all you need to know of her should you recognise it.

Personality

Kaalia is friendly to everyone, but will not hesitate to reprimand those who who need it.

Get on her bad side and you'll rue it as she cuts you to pieces with her dainty little heels.

Mortal World

Personal Information - Before Embrace

FOR OOC PURPOSES ONLY

Her mother was an Irish immigrant who was able to marry above her station into a rich and influential family. The marriage was short but filled with love. Was born to an influential rich family and was taught the language and heritage of Eire. She was married at 18 to and gave birth to her daughter Aislinn. Was divorced in 1893 on the false charges of adultery and was denied rights to see her daughter. Starts writing her first murder mystery novels. 1894 meets and is Embraced by her Sire.

Timeline

• 1871 - 1893 - Mortal Life

• 1894 - Embraced in Trieste by Voce.

• 1910 - 2013 Place under the tutelage of Toreador Elder Vashti

• 1917 - Embraces her childer Larissa

• 1932 - Embraces her childer Gretchen Di Val

• 2013 - Embraces her childer Mairwen

• 2013 - Comes to Canberra as a messenger for Vashti, stays and becomes Sheriff

• 2014 - Leads the Canberra Court to victory against the Gestalt Entity Slug and a Dragon Spirit intent on destroying Canberra

• 2016 - Claims Praxis without contest

• 2016 Sep - All the Court rallies to defend her

• 2017 - Embraces her childer Serena Buonarroti

Quotes

From

- "Ná logh, Ná déan dearmad"

- Kaalia

- "You know, things like this used to surprise me..."

- Kaalia talking about all the spiritual forces she's seen and fought in Canberra

- "Do you know what it is like to be possessed by demon from the deepest darkest pits of hell? No? Well I do."

- "There are things that I have seen and done. Sins I have committed. I would not see my daughters follow my path."

- "How strange it is, that who we are can slip away so easily, and yet to reclaim it is the more harder task."

- "I placed a géas upon my Liege. A cruel promise to extract from and bind her with."

- "This is Sir Samuel. I suggest you starting running, he has a tendency to bite."

- "Respect? Respect is something to be earned, not demanded."

- "My art? I used to be a writer. Now I am a dancer."

- "I always listen to the advice of the Elders."

- "It's not black, it's jet. It's never just black!" a somewhat upset Toreador trying to explain her stance on colours to Elder Hathus

- "I saw what I could be, should the darkness take hold of my soul. I was a queen, beautiful and terrible. All loved me and despaired. I sat on a throne of skulls, an army of ghouls at my back, the world was mine, but it wasn't enough. No. I sought to serve not the emaciated Galilean God but to stand alongside the great winged Lucifer as he reconquered Heaven's bloody throne."

- "The sands of time are running out faster than we think."

- "I have learnt so much... yet feel more lost than ever. I am torn between two, my heart breaking as they both speak truth, yet fight about it. Is it... Is what I want, so hard a thing to achieve?"

About

- "Okay, two things. First of all, roleplaying games are cool as fuck now, and vampires are even more in vogue. And secondly, Kaalia is not a character I made for wish-fulfillment. She might be a BIT like a Daeva, but unlike me, she's super classy, and old, and she's a Prince, so it's fine."

- Lucky, arguing about her Vampire: the Masquerade character with Holly Grant.

- "Hello Precious"

- Vashti

- "A Toreador Sheriff... Well, at least she is a kindred of culture and refinement, if likely to be distracted by shiny baubles."

- Gladius von Lichtenstein

- "Well of COURSE she's obscuring her face, she just had a dragon pulled out of her eyes!"

- Derek Scantlebury, after she had just had a dragon pulled out of her eyes.

-"So you risked you life to gain information vital to the Court and the Harpy called you Unfocused? What a terrible thing to say about you."

- Meg St.John

-"She seems far to competent to be allowed to blossom... until, at-least, she is indebted to Clan Tremere."

- Heinrich Schnieder

-"So Kaalia of Clan Toreador was the host of this event and it was able to be attacked like that? ...Ooooooh that's awkward."

- John Graham 5th October 2015

-“By all accounts thus far, a polite young morsel. I hear tell she’s one of Vashti’s… which makes her of interest to me. She, however, appears “oddly” keen to escape my audience.”

- Gunderic the Vandal, on Kaalia’s frequently polite attempts at escape

-"My best friend. How I've missed her, these long decades. But now that we're together again, and she's Prince, well...what could possibly stand in her way?"

- Gretchen Di Val in Canberra, April, 2016.

-"I will admit a certain... Favour for those who remind me of my daughter."

- Hathus Eiriks Chindavinth

- "An apt combatant and seemingly quite influential in the court. It is to bad her Liege does not treat her better, perhaps one can offer a better alternative..."

- Hathus Eiriks Chindavinth

- "She is all spice... and nothing nice."

- Octavian Webb

- "There she is. ...There I see not just a Prince, but a Queen."

- Vashti

- "I would never speak ill of the Toreador who currently stands as Prince over Canberra's domain. To ask me to do so is to also ask me to find a beautiful vase, which I would fill with your ashes and present to her as a way of apology on your behalf."

- Alice-Rose Hopwood, warning troublemakers.

Conversations

-Larissa: Yes, Sir Samuel II, Emu of Quirm has settled in well to his lovely new home and looks adorable in the fluffy bondage collar of "intense pleasure"

-Kaalia: That fluffy bondage collar is coming off right now young lady! No buts! It's torture!

-Larissa: It's called "intense pleasure!" How is that be a bad thing? Besides, what if he runs away? - On the settling in of Sir Samuel II, Emu of Quirm into the Toreador Haven - October 2015

-Kaalia: The current Clan Head of the Toreador is my Lady's childe Elder La Belle Dame d'Lumiere.

-Izzy: Oh yeah! I've heard about that guy, he's great!

-Kaalia: *discreet cough* Elder d'Lumiere is female...

-Elsa: We can be besties now!

-Kaalia: Totes!

-Kaalia: (...) Just remember the promise you made to me. Should I fall further into the darkness, should I be unable to wrest control of the demon who calls to me, let it end. With your love, with a kiss.

-Vashti: (...) I will not let you fall to the Darkness. I remember my promise well.

-The Twins: "Cousin!"

-Kaalia: "Both my mortal and Kindred bloodlines are not tainted by yours."

-The Twins: "Pardon?"

-Kaalia: "We are not related to each other."

-The Twins: "Oh but that's what royalty calls each other!"

- Kaalia: "Ah, but you are... Bishops no? Not Prince or King or Queen. No claim to true rule. Isn't that why the Sabbat left in the past, they didn't want to be ruled?"

- Kaalia: "My liege, you gave me permission!"

- Vashti: "You're not doing it right! You're not following the script!"

- Vashti: "Yes we encouraged you to develop this relationship, but you have fallen too deeply and lost yourself. I do not blame you. Adoration is an aphrodisiac for our blood, and it is clear he adores you."

Rumours

• Is under the Princes thrall...
  • Or, rather, he is under hers.
    • And now she's the Prince
      • Is the new Prince under her thrall?
        • Hah. Totally. Let her think whatever she needs to her her sleep at day.
• Is having an affair with Gladius
  • Which is hard to do now that he's dead
• Is fiercely protective of her childer
• Something happened to her the month before she claimed Praxis, she seems less nice than she used to be
  • Something really bad happened
• Is totes interested in play time with Grand-daddy G... ;)
  • Is most def not interested in play time with Grand-daddy G.
    • Daddy H is waaay better than Grand-daddy G. Takes her shopping and lets her decorate as she likes
• Is currently undergoing a mental breakdown

Inspirations and Soundtrack

• Penny Dreadful - Vanessa Ives meets Dr. Seward You're unhappy. You think you're the cause of this unhappiness and are unworthy of affection so you've few friends. Recently you lost something you think very important. Your lover, your faith, your family, or all three. You blame yourself for this, so it makes you neurotic, and you don't sleep and don't eat anything healthy anyway. You're not a woman of convention or you wouldn't be here, but you like to pretend you are so people don't notice you. But you sometimes like that as well, and can dress to draw the eye. But then you think the men who look at you are fools, or worse, to be taken in by such an obvious outward show. So, instead you're drawn to dark, complicated, impossible men, assuring your own unhappiness and isolation because, after all, you're happiest alone. But not even then because you can't stop thinking about what you've lost, again, for which you blame yourself. So the cycle goes on, the snake eating its own tail. Dr Seward from Penny Dreadful

• Batman: The Killing Joke scene - The Abyss I saw that abyss you spoke about. Very scary, but so tempting. I don't know how you resist it. I don't think it's humanly possible after a while. Batgirl from The Killing Joke (2016 film)

• But you were in my head. You wouldn't let me. You, Talia, Ra's, you're all in here. But where am I? How can I ever be the son you need me to be... when I don't even know who I am? Damien from Batman vs Robin (2015 film)

• God doesn't want you to be happy. He wants you to be strong. Clementine, Hemlock Grove S1

Inspirations

• Vanessa Ives from Penny Dreadful
• Richard Castle from Castle
• [1] Freya from Huntsman Winter's War
• Javert from Les Mis
• Artemisia from 300: Rise of an Empire

Soundtrack

• Arwen's Vigil by The Piano Guys

• Angels Are Weeping by Michelle Belanger and Nox Arcana: "Gaze into depths of emerald absinthe, and plunge through the twists of the labyrinth."

• Revenge is Sweeter (Than You Ever Were) by The Veronicas "Are you even listening when I talk to you? Do you even care what I'm going through? Your eyes stare and they're staring right through me. You're right there but it's like you never knew me."

• In Another Life by The Veronicas "I have known you my whole life. When you were ten you said you'd make me your wife. Eight years later you won me over, just as I took the world on my shoulders. I got used to living without you. Endless phone calls and dreaming about you. Always said that you were my man to be, but I guess I was in love with your memory."

• I Don't Like You by Alan Menken and Glenn Slater (Madalena's part) - Relationship with Elsa

• Wildest Dreams by Taylor Swift - Kaalia's relationship with Voce "He's so tall, and handsome as hell. He's so bad, but he does it so well. I can see the end, as it begins, my one condition is: Say you'll remember me, standing in a nice dress, staring at the sunset, babe. Red lips and rosy cheeks, say you'll see me again, even if it's just in your wildest dreams."

• If Only by Dove Cameron - "A million thoughts in my head, should I let my heart keep listening? Cause up til now, I've walked the line, nothing lost, but something missing. I can't decide what's wrong, what's right, which way should I go?"

• Children's Lullaby by Tim Kitt - "When I was young and scared of the world, my mother would sing me a song. A tune that I keep in a sacred place, cause I know that my life won't be long. It tells of the place where you go, when your time here on earth is through. A beautiful place we call heaven, is it true? Please God I pray that it's true."

• It Doesn't Matter by Alison Kraus - "It doesn't matter what I want. It doesn't matter what I need. It doesn't matter if I cry. Don't matter if I bleed."

• For Good by Stephen Schwartz - Kaalia's relationship with Hathus "I've heard it said. That people come into our lives for a reason. Bringing something we must learn. And we are led to those who help us most to grow. If we let them. And we help them in return. Well I don't know if I believe that's true, but I know I'm who I am today, because I knew you... Like a comet pulled from orbit, as it passes the sun. Like a stream that meets a boulder, halfway through the wood. Who can say if I've been changed for the better? But... because I knew you. I have been changed... for good. "

• No Good Deed by Stephen Schwartz - "One question haunts and hurts. Too much, too much to mention. Was I really seeking good? Or just seeking attention? Is that all good deeds are when looked at with an ice cold eye? If that's all good deeds are, maybe that's the reason why..."

• Ideal White by Mashiro Ayano - (Translated from Japanese) "This bright, bright white future is our one and only hope. Someday I'll grant both our wishes with my own hands."

OOC Information

Boons

See Canberra Masquerade: Prestation

OOC Information

Very happy to form OOC ties, childer, enemies, etc

Member Information
Player:	[mailto: Kristine]
Number:	2013090002
Domain:	Canberra