# Cyrus Giovanni
### Overview
Cyrus Giovanni is a facilitator and provider of the occult and morbid but expresses outwardly as a halfway house between conman and antiquities collector.
While the goods he sells are the furthest thing from fakes, at least the ones he sells to his fellow kindred, he keeps hidden a secret fascination and desire to learn as much about the dark arts that the various clans practice, something he keeps to himself lest his fellow kindred rip him apart, even his own clan.
Outwardly Cyrus is a true and loyal member of the Giovanni while a little oddity due to his expertise in all things occult, which both makes him useful and...strange. But hey! His shops got some good stuff in it so whats the harm?
Intelligence
Problem Solver
11110
Awareness
Mystical Objects, S.I.M.H
11110
Willpower
11111 11111
00000 00000
Blood Pool
11111 11111
11111 00000
Natural Linguist
Mental
2
Language: Latin, German, Ancient Greek, Russian
Mental
2
Spectral Sepulcher
Supernatural
5
Kiss of Death
Supernatural
2
Beacon of the Unholy
Supernatural
2
Touch of Frost
Supernatural
1
Prey Exclusion (No Kids)
Mental
1
Dark Secret (Ghost's Vessel)
Social
1
Backgrounds: Contacts: 15, Retainers 23, Resources 15, Haven 9 Total: 62
Disciplines: Necromancy: Sepulchre Path 35, Vitreous Path: 19 Total: 54
Potence: 15 Total: 15
Abilities: Occult 14, Awareness 6, Crafts 6, Total: 26
Specialties: Someone's in my head 3, Total: 3
Sum Total: 160
Freebie Points: 14 in Merits, 5 in willpower, 3 in backgrounds
Gear (Carried)
Car Keys, Lockpick kit, Research Journal, 2x Cell Phone (Burner and Normal), Wallet, Keys to his shop and buildings
Feeding Grounds
Little Italy
Havens
Ageless, his antiquities shop and the building that houses it, four stories, two of which are the main shop with the top two floors acting as his main residence and research center, the basement acts as a secondary ritual space.
The Haven is watched by a group of men trusted by Cyrus either through money or through the Giovanni family however they are only mortals, not ghouls they effectively act as watchmen.
The interior of the haven is gaurded by his three Spirit Slaves unless he takes them elsewhere.
The Haven has two entrances at the front and back and a secret entrance in the basement through a hidden door accesseed by a false brick in the wall that acts as a switch, one firm press and the door opens leading to a tunnel to an abandoned apartment building that Cyrus owns "scheduled for demolition". The top two floors are locked behind a combination pad reinforced door.
His main study lies behind a hidden door in his home library accessed by turning small floral pattern on the bookcase which has been specially seperated. The basement contains ritualistic material, altars and candles, all the basics required for his occult hobbies.
Equipment (Owned)
Memento de Morte, various antique weapons, research materials/books, Various occult and antique items.
Vehicles
Mercedes 600 Grosser (Black out tint windows)
Other
Bertram Crowe: A former dark ages Charlatan who inadvertantly became attached to Cyrus, in effect becoming the ghosts fetter. This means that they are inexorably linked and must work together though they do sometimes come to odds.
Robert Carlysle (Mr. Gold, Once Upon A Time)
A tall and lithe man with a slightly gaunt yet determined expression. He often wears dark suits to present himself as a business man most of the time but also to fit into the higher societies of Kindred.
Cyrus Giovanni was born in 1790 to the Giovanni clan in the city of Venice. He was raised by two mortal members of the giovanni clan, neither of which were considered worthy of the oh-so-desired embrace of their family. Cyrus however displayed a certain fascination and talent with the trademark discipline of the Clan at a young age and seemed to have an intense hunger for the knowledge of the ancient and the esoteric.
Over the decades he proved his dedication to the clan and the "family business" acting as a fixer, fence and world class researcher, operating as an apprentice for Alois Giovanni who would later become his Sire, Alois is a masterful Necromancer who took a shine to Cyrus and when he had arranged a very profitable transfer of an ancient coffin to the ownership of Alois, he made the young Cyrus into his Childe.
A century passed with Cyrus working dutifully for his clan but slowly devouring more and more knowledge and becoming more and more obsessed with other magic, especially the tremere's vaunted Blood Sorcery. Eventually Cyrus struck out on his own with the contacts and resources he had acquired under Alois traveling to the US to join his bretheren there. Soon he established his shop "Ageless" in 1950, he accounted for the lack of change in store managers through the use of technology to alter old photo's and long periods of absence at times so people wouldn't necessarily remember how he looked exactly.
Now in the modern day he operates out of this same shop slowly growing his knowledge and influence in Baltimore and the surrounding area, acting as an advisor and expert on all things occult for the kindred of Baltimore, not for free of course...He is a businessman after all.
Who knows what this strange Occultist wants, maybe he's just an academic or maybe he has a greater design for his growing mastery of these dark magics...Care to find out?