Qorach Pickler
Autarkis
Clan Samedi
Apostles of the Baron
Description
Mask of a Thousand Faces
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 158 lb.
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Short simple gray and brown
Clothing: Charcoal-gray business formal
Comportment/Cadence: Reserved
Distinctions: Older gentleman waning his 50s or early 60s, start of wrinkles etched into his face
Supernatural Qualities: The wrinkles, from the right (wrong) angle, seem to deepen past the skin and reveal subcutaneous tissue
Accoutrements: Light jewelry
Traits: Appearance 2 (sometimes 1 on a bad day)
True Form
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 158 lb.
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Eyes: Black
Hair: Wisps of gray
Clothing: Charcoal-gray business formal
Comportment/Cadence: Reserved
Distinctions: Self-assured despite his monstrous appearance
Supernatural Qualities: A walking corpse: horrific in appearance and smell and even sound--joints squish as he moves, lesions all over his body leak pus and ichor, his face cracks into rotten fragments, and his voice trembles with guttural liquid ooze; yet behind it all his eyes gleam darkly with malevolent and unnatural life; all of this denotes his clan and the respect he's earned within it
Accoutrements: Light jewelry
Traits: Appearance 0; Clan Prestige 2
"The morgue is built upon a bunker, the bunker is built into the hill, the hill rises from the earth, the earth includes a cemetery, the cemetery is part of the lot. The lot I own and control. Every brick and bone in it."
History
Date of Birth: December 25th, 1886
Home: Mid-City, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Family: Nestor and Constance Pickler (parents, expired), Mildred (wife, expired), Stuart (son, expired) and Meredith (daughter-in-law, expired), Braxton (grandson, expired) and Jennifer (granddaughter-in-law, expired), Brooklyn (great-granddaughter)
Embrace: External Supernatural Trigger (he enjoyed a long, quiet, traditional mortal life with friends, family, and profession as funeral director/mortician/undertaker, inheriting his father's old New Orleans cemetery called Peace Hill Memorials; his wife had an interest in Tarot and other common occult practices, and he himself got hooked as a distraction from WW2 and his wife's death, and while nosing about into voodoo shops, he attracted the attention of his sire, who fell upon him at the funeral home), 1944
Sire: Melrond the Vile
The Test: Trial by Knowledge (Melrond may have ambushed Qorach but was polite afterwards despite his name, offering the Embrace; he accepted and proved a mature and thoughtful childe, learning respect and the Traditions--as much as the Samedi honor them--easily and quietly; such that Melrond soon enough left him to his own devices, and he chose to stay and continue the family business while developing his inherent occult powers)
Comrades: Simon Newman, Brooklyn Pickler
Key Event #1: Awe & Wonder (for the first few decades, he stayed under the radar, silently haunting his funeral home, faking his identity documents; outliving his children, dabbling with thanatology and necromancy, always in a stern but fair way--he did not enslave ghosts, merely held them briefly to question them)
Key Event #2: Treachery (his existence was known to the Prince and generally ignored but eventually she "requested" his aid during some of the internal strife the Camarilla suffered against Anarchs; he agreed to help clean up bodies, the better to maintain the Masquerade)
Transition: Loss of Companions (then his grandchildren died in a car accident, so he adopted his great-granddaughter and ghouled her to help her stay alive, the last of his mortal family, with the promise not to Embrace her but let her inherit and run the funeral home when she came of age)
Significant Other
Name: Brooklyn Pickler, 2011
Nature: Companionship
Brooklyn
Weakness
Death Does Not Become
So many people romanticize death. Qorach knows the bitter, rotten truth of it. He lives with it nightly.
Likelihood of Corruption
Average.
He may look like a monster but he isn't one at heart. He's somewhat cruel--he takes what he wants when he wants it. But he doesn't go out of his way to be vile.
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