Walter Nash
Biography
An Irish immigrant who grew up in Atlantic City, the young Nash made his mark in the criminal underworld as a gun runner and scam artist, eventually coming into contact with Al Capone during his later years as a mortal and moving to Chicago to work for him.
Anticipating Lodin's siring of Capone however, Edgar Drummond preemptively Embraced Nash to deprive the mobster of a useful retainer. Frustrated but not dissuaded, Nash made the Chicago Fire Department the cornerstone of his criminal enterprise, using them as the enforcers of a protection racket against both Kindred and kine under the threat of refusing to protect their havens and property.
For almost anyone else, this might have been an avenue of power to become the next Prince after Lodin, but Nash's sloppy methods and boundary-pushing behaviors would alienate him from the Kindred of Chicago, and especially so after his attempted murder of Kevin Jackson. These nights he is on a clear downward spiral, constantly alternating between Masquerade-risking behavior and sobering up and trying to compensate for his indiscretions.
Trivia
- Nash was originally the Prince of Chicago in Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, but this was retconned in his introduction to Vampire: The Masquerade, probably as any period in which he could have held praxis between Lodin and Kevin Jackson would have been redundant to Joseph Peterson's own failed attempt to become Prince.
- Nash also infiltrated the Night's Cross Chicago branch several times due to poor security management.
Gallery
"Sir" Walter Nash, illustrated by Dan Frazier.
References
- VTM: Let the Streets Run Red, p. 220-222
- VTES: Vampire: The Eternal Struggle