Emyr Mattick

 Emyr was born in Wales to a hunter and his wife from a young age Emyr would join his father to hunt food for their village his keen eyes and ears made finding prey a simple task and Emyr was a skillful hunter by the age of only 12 a fortune since his father soon passed away from a mysterious illness

When Emyr was 27 his village began being plagued by wolf attacks at first it was only livestock turning up dead.  Then one evening one of the farmers turned up dead, so Emyr took his bow and went out to hunt the she-wolf that plagued his village.

For days and weeks, Emyr tracked her and noted the beast was oddly cunning even for a wolf his travels took him miles from his home but he knew he couldn't give up as the wolf had been chased off in the past only to return for more bloodshed.  Despite the wolf's best efforts to evade him and even a few encounters where she attempted to drive him off he finally cornered her 

Emyr stood poised blade at the ready to slay the wolf only to nearly fall back in fear as this wolf became a beautiful woman who stood before him naked in the moonlight and, thinking her to be some demon, he charged to strike her down only for his blade to shatter like glass against her skin in moments the fight was over and she had not even raised a hand

Finally, the woman revealed her name "Morgann" Her beauty made Emyrs arms heavy he could not think to resist as she put her arms around him and told how she admired him for a mortal he was strong, cunning, and a masterful hunter to have pursued her for so long so she made him an offer: embrace her, and she would make him a strong and mighty hunter forever.

Emyrs response was only an attempt to stick his dagger into Morganns heart which only excited the vampire more and she took that as the final confirmation she needed and embraced Emyr to become a vampire

Emyr returned to his village "triumphant" with a slain wolf in tow his sire had left him to learn for himself and to watch from a distance.  His neighbors never questioned Emyrs absence during the day as he began to only hunt at night and knew better than to slay his quarry he would spend the next decade as his village's nightly guardian until whispers of his youthful appearance despite him being 37 and as these rumors surfaced he decided it was time to move on

Emyr traveled south across the sea into Bohemia where more kindred found him he never saw his sire again but part of him suspected she continued watching him for a few years longer before moving on Emyr would eventually all in with the knights of the black cross here his skills at tracking came into great use and met a nosferatu who claimed to have been a master blacksmith as the old rat put it his sire forged weapons for the antediluvians themselves but most wrote this off as boasting

It was eventually through this Nosferatu Emyr learned the secrets of blacksmithing blades meant for kindred use under the promise he'd never share these techniques with any other vampire

When the black cross failed in its crusade against the tzimisce and eventually disbanded, Emyr resumed traveling again, heading south where he found himself in Paris where he spent the next few centuries reflecting on his unlife and perfecting his craft as a smith.

Eventually, his blade and looks garnered him the favor of a toreador who became his patron for a time he would craft beautiful blades and armor for the man and receive shelter and money (among other things) for a time but these things eventually began to bore Emyr and it was sometime in the 1700s when he slipped into torpor

He slept longer than intended, and it wasn't until the modern nights when he woke up in a stupor not realizing archaeologists had brought him to America he fled the museum where he was displayed and disappeared into the night not knowing what the future held for him now