Jezebel Locke
| “ | Are you a believer, little morsel? Oh, you cannot escape me, little morsel. One way or another, you and I will intertwine our beings on the way into the Ninth Circle, and I will send you forth, full of the sweet sickness I carry. | ” |
| — Jezebel Locke | ||
Jezebel Locke is a minor character in VTM: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines . She was a vampire living in Downtown Los Angeles. Jezebel was a member of Brotherhood of the Ninth Circle, a dangerous vampire blood cult in Los Angeles.
Biography
It is unknown when Jezebel was sired, or how she became a member of the Brotherhood. But while she was in Los Angeles, Jezebel made use of escorts often while she was living in the classy Empire Hotel in a luxurious suite. She used these women to infect with illness, most likely through feeding off them, so they in turn would infect their clients. One such client was a young escort named Hannah, who later died from Jezebel's illness.
Jezebel's actions finally caught up with her, after the fledgling began investigating the circle. When they found Hannah Glazer, one of the escorts that Jezebel hired dying in her apartment, she revealed Jezebel as one of her clients, which led the fledgling to the Empire Arms Hotel. Jezebel attempted to persuade the fledgling to join the Brotherhood, through subtle offers of sex and pleasure, coupled with her own perverse fetish for disease. The fledgling refuses, resulting in a fight. Jezebel met her Final Death at their hands.
Jezebel was a particularly sick individual, combined with the fact that she was also a particularly sexual person too. For her, sex and the spread of disease went hand in hand, but her madness went so far that she incorporated sickness into her seductions too, making promises of pleasure and illness at the same time.
She was also a particularly devoted and faithful member of the Brotherhood of the Ninth Circle, putting all her effort into bringing about its goals. While she is a seductive and beautiful Kindred, she is also a very powerful vampire who uses Presence to cripple her opponent's ability to fight.
Quests
- Fun With Pestilence
- A Plague for the Angels
Background Information
- Although her clan isn't mentioned in-game, game files (npctemplate001.txt) confirm she's set as a Toreador. Due to her use of Presence, because of her choice for a luxurious suite in the best hotel in town, her obsession with pleasures, and her red colour palette, all reinforce this clan.
- Her first name is a reference to Jezebel, the Biblical Queen of Israel, prejudiced described as a scheming, manipulative whore. A Malkavian PC will refer to her as "Queen Jezebel," a reference to the Biblical figure.
- Guest logs on the Empire Arms Hotel computer say Jezebel is staying in the Brooklyn Suite and she is booked up 'till next month'. This suggests she, and possibly by extension the Brotherhood, are a traveling pack.
- VTM: Cults of the Blood Gods revealed that Locke was a descendant of Michael, and is of the 10th generation - or at least was in 1982, at the time she Embraced her childe Bruno.
Gallery
Jezebel concept art