Ishtar Zirrat
True Brujah
Amity of Equanimity
Assayer of the Inconnu
Description
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 126 lb.
Ethnicity: Middle Eastern
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Long simple black
Clothing: Black business casual
Comportment/Cadence: Reserved
Distinctions: Ancient and timeless beauty so striking as to seem alien and divine
Supernatural Qualities: Disturbingly, nothing stands out besides her incomparable and exotic beauty and a cold gaze that fixates whoever she looks upon as a goddess upon one of her guilt-ridden worshipers
Accoutrements: Light jewelry
Traits: Appearance 9 (ageless)
"The line of Caine will fall. It's only a matter of time."
History
Date of Birth: July 29th, 2356 BCE
Home: Babylon, Sumeria, Akkadian Empire
Family: Haleh and Jinaa (parents), Calumyi (older brother), Esse (younger sister), Opah (younger sister)
The Embrace: External Supernatural Trigger (chosen by Inanna, the Brujah Antediluvian, after demonstrating innate combat skills and sheer bravery in a village skirmish defending her home; she was chosen along with a crop of other promising young warriors, including Troile), 2342 BCE
Mentor: Inanna
The Test: Trial by Combat (after learning the basics of being a Cainite, she had to prove her value to the clan in fierce sparring matches with her fellow fledglings)
Comrades: Troile
Key Event #1: War (Ishtar helped her clan conquer and unite all of Mesopotamia's civilization)
Key Event #2: War (as the years of strife continued, Ishtar proved her battle-lust and uncanny knack for war as she helped Inanna drive the power-hungry yet unstudious Ventrue out of Mesopotamia entirely)
Key Event #3: Personal Tragedy (assigned to assist with the guardianship of Babylon, Ishtar wasn't even present when the infamously unstable Troile assassinated and diablerized their sire in Nineveh)
Key Event #4: War (Ishtar participated in, and gradually came to lead, numerous battles to destroy Troile and her loyal compadres and childer, but the Babylonian forces were defeated, and Ishtar barely escaped back to southern Mesopotamia with her unlife)
Key Event #5: War (a stalemate Jyhad waged for many more years between the False and True Brujah clans, but Ishtar agreed to side with Troile to repel the Assamites moving in from the northeast behind the banner of the Kassites)
Key Event #6: War (Ishtar's long life became consumed with the bloody Jyhad, becoming the general of the True Brujah clan, fighting both Troile and Hakim's forces for centuries)
Key Event #7: Awe & Wonder (this endless conflict threatened her humanity despite, or because of, her bloodline's inherent detachment, so she turned to poetry and the arts as an outlet)
Key Event #8: Personal Tragedy (as Kindred clans and human tribes coalesced and began to co-exist, her clan's rebellions that she so often led became increasingly ineffectual)
Key Event #9: Awe & Wonder (Ishtar's clan convened and decided to focus on scholarship, becoming the fathers of the Inconnu sect and fading into the background of Kindred society, more reclusive than even the Nosferatu)
Key Event #10: Awe & Wonder (Ishtar disappeared behind the scenes of the Chaldean and then Persian Empires as a silent scholar of mysteries and the arcane in compliment to her pedigree as a warrior-goddess nonpareil)
Key Event #11: Awe & Wonder (for the first time in her long life, a mortal impressed her and tempted her to Embrace him, but she refused: Alexander the Great, and she saw the future in his eastward push, and she went into the shadows of Athens to study)
Key Event #12: Awe & Wonder (from the Seleucid Empire to the Romans, Ishtar stayed quiet behind the scenes, collecting knowledge and cataloguing what she might share with her clan and sect)
Key Event #13: Awe & Wonder (Ishtar wandered up to Ctesiphon eventually, settling there for several centuries, regardless of which empire ruled the world or how the Great Jyhad raged, her powers always keeping her untouchable and unnoticed, and from that Central Asian city, she studied the four corners of the world)
Key Event #14: Awe & Wonder (Manicheans, Muslims, and Buddhists all fascinated and informed her, helping her keep soul as she helped develop the Path of Enlightenment known now as Self-Focus)
Key Event #15: Awe & Wonder (as the Dark Ages fell, she remained in Samarkand, studying as long as she could stay hidden, though beginning to feel her age and the inability to gain sustenance from mortal blood, forcing her to stalk and hunt fellow Kindred cautiously; all the while, she avoided [really, she barely even noticed here in Uzbekistan] the Anarch Revolt and its consequential aftermath)
Key Event #16: Awe & Wonder (a rare world-wide Inconnu convention secretly met save for Monitors after the first omens of the Endtimes were observed, and the gathered all reaffirming the sect's purpose to guard against the worst elements of their own kind, and each ancient given a specific task ahead of the slowly approaching Gehenna doomsday)
Key Event #17: Treachery (Ishtar's task, which she suggested and was agreed to, involved the mapping out of all bloodlines of Caine, and she began to develop a process through Thaumaturgy; she also considered riding the conquests of great mortals, and so urged Genghis Khan's forces on when he charged through Central Asia)
Key Event #18: War (another mortal caught her interest as much as Alexander once did: Tamerlane, and so she secretly mused for him, encouraging his will-to-power whim to make war for the glory of it, and she bathed in the old joy she once held)
Key Event #19: Treachery (her manipulations of Tamerlane exposed her to other Kindred, and she had to move on; she traveled throughout the Old World, seducing and cataloguing all the Cainites she could)
Transition: Victory (her task met continual and relatively uninterrupted success, and the world wars of the modern era made her task all the easier -- fewer Kindred to examine -- and she finally moved onto the New World to finish her task before Gehenna rose)
Significant Others
As an ancient Cainite nearly as powerful as her Antediluvian forebears, she can have anyone or anything she wants if she really wants it (and is willing to expose herself to take it).
Deep Breath Before the Plunge
Significant Other
Name: Elizabeth Winters; Ceto Peridis; 2012
Nature: Romantic; Companionship
Elizabeth
Ceto
Weakness
War Goddess
Ishtar is the goddess of her namesake. Though she has her affections for the arts, and her sect-driven task to occupy her, in the end she craves war. She will likely perish in the Final Nights at the hands of her treacherous sister in a final spectacular battle.
Likelihood of Corruption
Very low.
Though the millennia have taken their toll on her soul and whatever shred of human conscience remains, she remains inviolably in self-control. Like most True Brujah, she is eerily resistant to the blood-red madness of frenzy (or emotions in general), and she is convicted to a strange (if, of course, entirely inhuman) crusade.
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