Cyrus Giovanni Overview 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? Basics Basics Name Cyrus Giovanni Player Ze Major Chronicle Baltimore After Dark Nature Enigma Demeanor Capitalist Concept Coporate Occultist Clan Giovanni Generation 8th Sire Alois Giovanni Attributes Attributes Physical T Strength Specialization 11100 Dexterity 11000 Stamina 11000 Social s Charisma 11100 Manipulation Persuasive 11110 Appearance 11000 Mental P Perception 11100 Intelligence Problem Solver 11110 Wits Changes in Strategy 11110 Abilities Abilities Talents S Alertness Specialization 10000 Athletics 00000 Awareness Mystical Objects, S.I.M.H 11110 Brawl 00000 Empathy 11000 Expression 11000 Intimidation 00000 Leadership 00000 Streetwise 10000 Subterfuge 10000 00000 Skills T Animal Ken Specialization 00000 Crafts Appraisal 11110 Drive 00000 Etiquette 11000 Firearms 00000 Larceny 10000 Melee 00000 Performance 00000 Stealth 00000 Survival 00000 00000 Knowledge P Academics Specialization 00000 Computers 00000 Finance 11100 Investigation 11000 Law 11000 Medicine 00000 Occult Rituals, 11111 Politics 11000 Science 00000 Technology 11000 00000 Advantages Advantages Disciplines Necromancy 11111 Potence 11100 00000 00000 00000 00000 Backgrounds Generation 11111 Contacts 11110 Resources 11110 Memento de Morte 11111 Retainers Ghosts 11111 Haven 11100 Virtues Conscience 11000 Self-Control 11100 Courage 11111 Humanity/Path 11111 00000 Path Humanity Bearing Willpower 11111 11111 00000 00000 Blood Pool 11111 11111 11111 00000 Blood/Turn 3 Points Merits & Flaws Merits & Flaws Merit Type Cost Iron Will Mental 3 Natural Linguist Mental 2 Eidetic Memory Mental 2 Language: Latin, German, Ancient Greek, Russian Mental 2 Spectral Sepulcher Supernatural 5 Flaw Type Bonus 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 Rituals & Paths Rituals & Paths Ritual Level Insight 1 Path Sepulcher 11111 Vitreous 11100 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 Experience & Derangements Experience Total 163 Spent 160 Notes Backgrounds: Contacts: 15, Retainers 23, Resources 15, Haven 9 Total: 62Disciplines: Necromancy: Sepulchre Path 35, Vitreous Path: 19 Total: 54Potence: 15 Total: 15Abilities: Occult 14, Awareness 6, Crafts 6, Total: 26Specialties: Someone's in my head 3, Total: 3Sum Total: 160Freebie Points: 14 in Merits, 5 in willpower, 3 in backgrounds Derangements Expanded Backgrounds Expanded Backgrounds Allies Bertram Crowe Contacts Vik (City rat and informant), Dominik (Smuggler/Acquirer of Antiquities), Professor Zarovich (Western and Eastern Occult Expert), Norman Valiant (Private Investigator) Fame TBD by ST Herd None Influence TBD by ST Mentor Bertram Crowe Resources "Ageless" (Antiques and Occultism shop), Illegal fencing trade of strange and rare items, apartment buildings across the city, Sizeable Bank Account Retainers 1. Xui Yen: Recently Deceased Stat Block (Core book), attached to an ancient gong from the Feudal Japanese Era that was a family heirloom, honourable but wrathful.2. Falk: Recently Deceased Stat Block (Core book). A Broadsword from Scandenavia is his fetter, blood thirsty.3. Christoph: Old Soul Stat Block (Core Book), Cyrus pay the tuition of his descendants as an anonymous charity which keeps him in his service. Status TBD by ST Other Memento de Morte: A ceremonial dagger with a dead language inscription on the blade Rights & Possessions Rights & Possessions 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. Blood Bonds/Vinculi Blood Bonds/Vinculi Bound To Rating Bound To Rating Description Description Age 232 Apparent Age Late 40's to Early 50's D.O.B. 2nd June, 1790 R.I.P. 5th October, 1840 Hair Greying Dark Brown Eyes Green Race Caucasian Nationality American Italian Height 6'4" Build Ectomorph Gender Male Face Claim 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. History History 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?