Bella Dravnzie

Bella Dravnzie is a Ventrue in Chicago.

Overview

Bella looks 17 and thinks 74. She's been dead three times longer than she was alive, and she's spent most of that time studying the art of helping people misjudge, underestimate and (best and rarest of all) trust her. A Crone at heart, she truly believes that suffering and difficulty are the seeds from which new spiritual strength grows - and what's more difficult than a betrayal from a friend?

Philosophically, treachery to trusting students is her duty.

Fortunately for her coterie, half of them are old enough to know better, another third are just too busy to get personally involved and the remainder - well, there's a tacit agreement among the leaders of the group that some followers are pretty much fungible.

Biography

Embraced at the tender age of 17, Bella missed out on a lot of growing up. She went right from the bickering and politics of a private boarding school to the bickering and politics of the Invictus. Seventy years of Requiem still haven't done much to help her develop a sense of proportion.

She was a junior member of the Invictus for years, until she really spent some time in the presence of Acolytes to the Crone. They seemed to possess a quality - be it tranquility or resignation - that allowed them to rise above the petty squabbles of so many other covenants. She knew then that she wanted what they had, and she joined.

The irony is that one of the elders who so impressed her is Rowen, currently Chicago's most experienced Crone worshipper. Bella herself was sickened by politics but, like a car crash, she's never been able too look away. That was fine in neighborhoods where the Circle was dominant, but she cannot stand to see the Invictus and the Carthians - to her mind, groups of inferior putzes who don't understand what really matters - elbowing people away from the Circle, which provides real guidance. Even worse, though, are the concessions to Solomon and his kook brigade. No Embrace? No competition to the death? Hell, why doesn't he just try and teach wolves to live on whole-grain muffins while he's at it?

Bella can't stay out of it any more, She has to fight for her beliefs, she has to fight the madness of the Lancea Sanctum and if that means she has to fight her respected elder for control of the Circle first - so be it.

Bella's a little on the short side of average height, skinny and lithe with small breasts, dishwater-blonde hair and deep-set brown eyes. She's plain as a stick figure when she does not exercise her Disciplines, and she's a glamorous apparition of unattainable beauty when she does. Bella uses both looks to great effect and is always careful to dress appropriately.

She's been the Maiden and she's become the Crone without ever going through the Mother stage. She believes in opportunity and she believes in finality, but nurturing only has one meaning for her - nurturing can only be a prelude to betrayal. She respects those stronger than herself, as long as they earned their strength through righteous trial. But she understands that to the weak, it is her duty to be a righteous trial.

Bella enjoys clubbing and partying and hitting the scene, but it's a distant enjoyment. That's fine. Otherwise, she might be distracted from her business. Not only is she plugged in, of her entire Chicago covenant she's the one who cares the most. Her displays empathy, sympathy and kindness often seem more impulsive and maternal than the real thing because they're so studiedly deliberate.

Goal: Awaken the Circle

The Malcontents know that their philosophy is the One True Way and they're tired of the Sanctified and their One False Way suggesting legal policy to the Prince. The Circle should be giving the Prince advice. The Circle must start giving the Prince advice, and the Prince must listen. That means the Circle needs clout and, unfortunately, its rivals aren't big on sharing.

Stats

Clan: Ventrue
Covenant: Circle of the Crone
Embrace: 1948
Apparent Age: 20s
Mental Attributes: Intelligence 2, Wits 3, Resolve 3
Physical Attributes: Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 2
Social Attributes: Presence 3, Manipulation 3, Composure 3
Mental Skills: Academics (History) 2, Investigation 2, Occult (The Crone) 3, Politics (Kindred) 3
Physical Skills: Athletics 2, Drive 1, Larceny 2, Stealth (Get Away) 3
Social Skills: Animal Ken 1, Empathy (Sense Weakness) 3, Intimidation 2, Persuasion (Seduce) 4, Socialize (Carousing) 4, Streetwise (Clubs) 3, Subterfuge (Lie) 4
Merits: Allies (New Age Religion) 2, Barfly, City Status 1, Contacts (Clubs, Contractors, Event Planners, Nomads), Covenant Status: Circle of the Crone 3, Covenant Status: Invictus 1, Haven: Security 1, Haven: Size 1, Meditative Mind, Resources 1
Willpower: 6
Humanity: 4 (Narcissism, mild: 5)
Virtue: Faith
Vice: Pride
Health: 7
Initiative: 6
Defense: 3
Speed: 10
Blood Potency: 2 (Vitae/Turn: 11/1)
Disciplines: Crúac 2, Dominate 3, Majesty 1, Resilience 2
Crúac Rituals: Pangs of Proserpina (1), Hydra's Vitae (2)

References

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