Dillon Abernathy

Dillon Abernathy is a Ventrue from Kenya.

Background

With a nose for adventure and opportunity, the seventh-generation Ventrue Dillon Abernathy first came to Kenya in 1888, when the British Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, created the Imperial British East Africa Company and appointed Sir William Mackinnon as its head. Abernathy joined Mackinnon's cause and together they began to build roads from Mombasa into Kenya's interior.

In 1895, the British Parliament ratified the Protectorate of British East Africa and dissolved the British East Africa Company. Mackinnon and Abernathy found themselves on the doorstep. The British government paid them 250,000 British pounds to go away quietly. Abernathy took his portion of the money and immediately began to invest in local trade business. By 1905, he had built an economic empire in the region. He constructed a mansion on the outskirts of Mombasa and hired natives at ridiculously low rates to serve him.

Abernathy continued untouched until 1963, when the government of Kenya reverted to native rule. His holdings were seized and a coalition of native Kindred ousted him from the country. Outraged, Abernathy vowed revenge. In 1970, once the hubbub had quieted down, he returned to Kenya, avoiding those Kindred who had given him the bum's rush. (They are aware of his return, but don't consider him enough of a threat to bother.) Since then, he has made it his mission to buy African-held companies with the intent of eventually hamstringing the Kenyan economy. Fanatical to the extreme, his business practices are rarely ethical and many companies have gone on the market because the sole owner "passed away" in the night. Several of Dillon's ghouls run his company, which he had dubbed the Western Trading Company, more commonly known as W.T.C. They report to him each night and he gives them orders.

When Abernathy returned to Mombasa, he purchased an old manor house located on Mbaraki Road overlooking the ocean. Built at the turn of the century, the manor had 20 rooms, but Abernathy lives with only three ghouls who serve him. Known only as "The Manor," it was once the sight of a gruesome murder and some believe the dead still roam the rooms and gardens. Abernathy bought it for that very reason. He knew it would keep away the curious and he loved the idea of making his servants work in a place that they considered thahu (cursed).

Appearance

Dillon Abernathy resembles a weasel. His thin brown hair sits back from his forehead in two half-circles. His skinny neck bends forward too far, as if he has spent too many hours hunched over a book. Close-set blue eyes peer out from half-closed, heavy lids. His pinched mouth puckers beneath a long, pointy nose. Abernathy prefers to wear typical British clothing; brushed trousers and long-sleeved shirts might seem inappropriate in the African heat, but Abernathy doesn't care.

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