Faith Corrigan
Faith Corrigan is a Banu Haqim, living in Chicago.
Biography
Mortal Years
Faith was born in Gary, Indiana, the only daughter of a Pentecostal minister. All her life, she struggled with her parents’ adherence to their religion. She reasoned if there really was a benevolent God, why was there so much suffering in the world? Why were her friends and their families abandoning Gary by the dozens? Her father’s explanations rang hollow to her, but she believed there was some truth to the idea, if not its conveyance. She rebelled against her father’s rules and values, setting out to find her own way in the big city of Chicago, beginning a computer science course at university as her parents despaired.
Through this course, Faith became involved with a group of tech-savvy kids who shared her taste in music and cyber-goth style. Not willing to simply be a traditional AV club, these young people branched out into all manners of cybercrime and earned a fortune through credit card fraud. They were so successful they attracted the interest of federal agencies. Despite her criminal enterprises, it was theology, however, that captivated her. Her grades suffered as her mind was caught in flights of fancy relating to God and religion.
When several of her friends went missing after a club night, Faith feared the authorities had found them. She followed their online footprint and came across what she thought was just a group of criminals with a vampire fetish. She had in fact discovered the Red Question — a faction of Anarchs well-versed in the use of technology for furthering their movement’s aims. They debated killing Faith for discovering their location, but decided her skills in modern computers were too useful to waste. They made her their ghoul.
Discovering the existence of vampires rocked Faith to the core. Suddenly, all her father’s sermons about good and evil and the existence of literal angels and demons rang true. However, despite her intention to reconcile with her parents, her new bosses closed off such avenues to her.
Chicago’s Sheriff and his Hounds slaughtered her masters one night, with Faith never clued into the reason. Faith tried her best to defend them, as the vitae within her demanded, but the assault easily broke her. She would have died, if not for a vampire picking through the wreckage on the following night. This Banu Haqim scavenger named Jessica discovered Faith and took pity on the injured ghoul, half-buried beneath the collapsed haven. Her life leaving her, Faith begged for sustenance, but the vampire responded to tell her it was against the Traditions to Embrace without permission. Her dying reply was simple:
“God has a plan for me. I have to go on.”
Enamored by her claim, Jessica brought Faith over into undeath.
Kindred Nights
While the Embrace gave Faith clarity from her burning issues of belief, she felt many of the answers to the Kindred puzzle eluded her. Her sire turned out to be a scholar of sorts, pursuing research into the history of Kindred existence. She was seeking lore surrounding a cult known as the Church of Caine, who were said to possess texts and teachings on the curse of undeath. It was Jessica’s search for these texts that led to her picking through the ruins of the Red Question safehouse.
Faith was enthralled, both with the nature of the information and the way her sire’s devotion to this mission reminded her of her father. Faith drank up any information she could find, attaching herself at the hip to her wandering sire as they moved from domain to domain. Jessica was however a mere outlier to a cult that promised much deeper mysteries. Faith abandoned her sire and left in search of the cult itself, eventually discovering a conclave of Gnostics who quickly indoctrinated her in Cainite religion. No mere interested amateurs, these vampires were committed to Cainite teachings and the belief that all vampires were angels working to ascend.
Faith found this cult sated her desire for understanding of doctrine and mysteries. She felt the voice of Caine calling her from across time and across the world, and though she adored her coterie of Gnostics, with whom she’d shared four good years of companionship, their need to hoard information, their sedentary habits, and the Camarilla’s technology ban stifled her own research. She needed to travel to discover greater truths.
Faith Corrigan became the vampire equivalent of a wandering preacher, disseminating her prophecies and propaganda as she traveled, sharing wisdom in exchange for a secure haven and the right to feed. She would drive herself to a different domain every week, planning journeys meticulously to ensure she’d always reach her destination before sunrise, and insulated the trunk of her car just in case she had to make an emergency rest stop. She became a familiar face across the Midwest and later, the South East, as she scoured every library she could gain access to, interviewed every priest and theologian, and all the while spread her Gospel of Caine in Elysia, offering vampires the hope of something more than eternal damnation.
Faith’s quirky charm and modern language appealed to fledglings, while her common sense with the internet, more than any expertise, allowed her to advertise upcoming proclamations through sites like Craigslist and Facebook, advertising them as free-to-attend night-time evangelical sermons. Mortals attend along with Kindred, but her message is often so nebulous and filled with double-speak that attendees either go away feeling confused or enlightened, with little room in between.
Faith’s message is simple to all who attend her sermons: Caine was the original Anarch, but the Movement is a lay followers’ avenue, while the Church of Caine is the true rebellion. As she preaches it, the Traditions are to be damned where they go against Caine’s actions. If Caine could flip off God and blaze his own trail, so should the Gnostics. This rebellious attitude is incredibly attractive to young Kindred, put off by the stuffy ways of the Camarilla and the restrictive ways of their sires.
Despite her cult celebrity status among many fledglings, Faith sits alone in her eaten-up car most nights, terrified of going outside since she doesn’t know who may have picked up on her trail, when the Camarilla are going to silence her, or if the Second Inquisition will investigate her preaching. Yet, every time she thinks of stopping, she swears she hears a voice in her head, begging her to continue spreading the word. Every time she hears that voice she repeats her mantra: “Caine is back. Those who find him will ascend with him. I must continue. Caine awaits me.”
Character Sheet
Faith Corrigan
Sire: Jessica Tate-Duncan
Embraced: 2012 (Born 1990)
Ambition: Find the Dark Father
Convictions: Avoid being manipulated at all cost
Touchstones: Theodore Corrigan — Faith’s father, who instilled in her this need for belief
Humanity: 6
Generation: 13th
Blood Potency: 1
Attributes: Strength 2, Dexterity 2, Stamina 2; Charisma 4, Manipulation 3, Composure 3; Intelligence 4, Wits 2, Resolve 3
Secondary Attributes: Health 5, Willpower 6
Skills: Drive 3, Larceny (Cyber Crime) 2, Melee 1, Stealth 2; Leadership 2, Performance (Preaching) 3, Persuasion 3, Streetwise 2, Subterfuge 3; Academics 2, Awareness 1, Investigation 2, Occult (Gnosticism) 3, Politics 1, Technology (Computers) 2
Disciplines: Auspex 1, Celerity 1, Obfuscate 3
References
- VTM: Children of the Blood, p. 26-29
