Peter Maderno
IC Details
- Character: Peter Maderno
- Alias: Malcolm Grigori
- Clan: Daeva
- Bloodline: Unknown
- Covenant: Unaligned
- Apparent Age: 28
- Embraced: 1965
- Sire: Belinda Howard
- Current Location: Armidale, NSW
OOC Details
- Player: Mac Thompson-Brown (AU2005110008)
- Armidale VST: vst.requiem@armidale.beyondthesunset.com
Peter Maderno's Biography
Peter was an aspiring artist in his mortal days, but also one of the rare few mortals who's talent actually matched his aspirations. Upon finishing his childhood schooling, at 18 years old he entered art school, coming out at the top of his class years later and becoming a freelance artist. During his years as a freelance artist, he even had the opportunity to travel to Europe and the United States to carry out artistic work he had been hired for, which presented the opportunity to see major places significant to art history, such as the Louvre in Paris and St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.
His nightmare began one night years later when he was lured back to the home of a beautiful woman in a red dress, where she Embraced him against his will. Forty years of torture and captivity followed, with his Sire Belinda using a combination of severely brutal beatings, torture, mind games, lovebombing and psychological manipulation to take out her sick pleasure upon him.
After that forty years, he escaped his Sire whom he left staked for the sun, but it had left him so broken that when he discovered the internet and the wonders of digital art, he strove to learn how to use various digital art and image manipulation software so that he could create his artworks without having to face the people he sold them to. He found that with his quality of work and the internet savvy of Veronica, the only person he trusted, he could make quite the handsome living off the sale of his various artworks through a variety of websites which featured various artworks of different genres he created.
Peter avoided the Kindred for the ten years between his escape and the end of 2015, however, for he did not trust them... especially not his fellow Daeva, whose proclivities for mental manipulation and psychological abuse through the Discipline of Majesty reminded him of his Sire. He would avoid other Daeva, and when they paid too much attention to him he would leave town instead of becoming a prisoner and a victim yet again. As a result of his avoidance of Clan and his attempts to conceal his blood from them, it has left a lot of Kindred wondering exactly who he is and why he was so anxious about others finding out what secret he wants to keep buried.
Personality and Appearance
Peter is a twitchy suspicious figure who regards everybody around him as a potential agent for his Sire, for he believes that somehow she survived the sunrise that he left her staked to meet. Thanks to his broken mind, he cannot deal with praise or affection, believing that anybody who shows these toward him is trying to manipulate him and exact some sort of cruelty upon him. The exception is when these are expressed through the internet, for the separation between himself and others and the safety that the internet and computers provide make him feel comfortable enough to accept praise and affection.
Peter is a medium-build caucasian with an unshaven face, blue eyes and brown hair. He dresses in long pants and a hooded jumper, clothing which allows him to get around without many people paying attention to him due to his unremarkable attire and the knowledge that people will subconsciously regard his appearance as impoverished and as a result turn their attention away from him (after all, almost nobody cares for the poor).
Associates Past and Present
- Belinda Howard: Peter's unwanted Sire, captor and torturer for four decades (now dead).
- Estaban Cortez: Former Prince of Armidale, now believed to have entered Eclipse (in torpor).
Peter's Websites ("The Grigori Network")
All websites listed in this section have their webmaster and owner listed as Malcolm Grigori. Some examples of artworks featured on the websites are listed below their descriptions.
- A Splash of Red: horror artworks featuring ghosts, vampires, shapeshifters, magic-users, Fae and other fictional monsters. Artworks of horror-themed locations are also found here.
- The Strigoi: a pale aristocrat with fangs and owl features lining her arms and growing from her black hair.
- Shifting Flesh: a muscular man with a wolf's head, canine fur, wolf legs and long claws extended from his fingertips.
- The Blackguard: a knight wearing dull grey knight's armour under a black hooded cloak, armed with a spear.
- King of Thorns: a man with wooden flesh, a king's robe made of leaves, and a crown made of vines and long thorns.
- The Sieverts Man: a hairless suited man with radiation burns carrying a briefcase, his free hand sheathed with a green glow.
- Lord of Roaches: a man sporting cockroach features proportionate to his size, including antennae, wings and an exoskeleton.
- The Blackfort: an ominous dark castle standing on a clifftop overlooking a village on a dark and stormy night.
- The Far Beyond: depictions of things that could be found in a galaxy far far away or a long time into the future, or occasionally simply depictions of modern science fiction.
- Vulture: a military spacecraft capable of operating in both earth's atmosphere and the planet's orbit.
- Elysium: a mega-colonist vessel arriving near a planet in a binary red/blue star system.
- Idolatry: metallic statues which look like cybernetic squid-like creatures, found in a dark cavern.
- Ghost Colony: a small colony on the desert moon of a ringed giant similar to Saturn, long devoid of residents.
- Black Death: a dreadful marshland on an alien world, with some sort of black ooze climbing from the murky waters.
- Stone and Steel: architectural artworks displaying depictions of man-made locations both real and fictional, including mansions, castles, historical sites and other importance places.
- Global Authority: the United Nations Headquarters building in New York City.
- Castle Neuschwanstein: a famous historical castle found in Germany.
- City of Angels: Downtown Los Angeles with the Hollywood Hills in the background.
- Blackgate Manor: a dark gothic mansion, its rooftop lined with gargoyles.
- Visage of Humanity: portraits that feature both real and fictional individuals. Only portraits of those real individuals who have given legal permission are features on this site.
- Marvels of Innovation: depictions of vehicles, aircraft, sea-going vessels and various machines and mechanical devices, both fictional and real, are featured on this site.
- Stealth: a Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 in glossy white.
- Warpig: an M1A2 Abrams battle tank in desert tan colour.
- Amphibious: a Canberra Class amphibious warfare ship.
- God's Eye: a surveillance satellite in the earth's orbit.
- Wasp: a dull grey helicopter gunship resembling a mechanical wasp.
- Keeping Time: the internal mechanisms of an analog watch.
- Showreel Grigori: features artworks that Malcolm has been commissioned to create for other projects, such as concept art for video games or books or for CD and DVD covers.