Matilda "Mattie" Maria Antonia de Callosa
Brujah Primogen of San Francisco
Idealist of the Shadow of Time Salon
Description
Height: 5'3"
Weight: 118 lb.
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Long simple dark-brown
Clothing: Black or midnight-blue promenade formal
Comportment/Cadence: Confident
Distinctions: Slender yet shapely noblewoman of Spanish Mediterranean-Moorish descent (rather than Hapsburg or Bourbon ancestry)
Supernatural Qualities: Fantastically, jaw-droppingly beautiful young-looking woman with voluminous sea-blue eyes; her richly accented voice is angelic and her presence inspires calm rather than anger; no wonder the more pragmatic Kindred like her so much
Accoutrements: Moderate jewelry, often a veil
Traits: Appearance 6 (immaculate); Style 3; Clan Prestige 4, Elder Status 3; Clan Friendship (Ventrue), Soothing Voice
"Savagery benefits no one, the savage least of all."
History
Date of Birth: December 21st, 1705
Home: Torrent, Valencia Province, Spain
Family: Guillermo and Carolina (parents), Marco (older brother)
The Embrace: External Supernatural Trigger (a young Spanish noble on the Mediterranean Coast in the era of the Bourbon Rule of Spain, she was always reverent and respectful of her parents, church, and society, but she seemed too thoughtful for most potential suitors, and began to go joy-riding at night rebelliously, which was when a Brujah Idealist who had been watching her chose her for the Embrace, and seduced her over a short period of time), 1722
Sire: Jose Miguel Lérida y Ramos
The Test: Trial by Knowledge (her Becoming turned out more like going to university, which Matilda clearly liked, as she began to learn all the academic facts and truths she had long been denied due to her sex; she stayed loyal to her sire and clan, and clearly was an Idealist at heart despite youth)
Comrades: Jose Miguel Lérida y Ramos, Eric Dane, Daphne Perrin, Daedelus Chor, Mishka Lazar, Celia Hoffman
Key Event #1: War (Bourbon Spain was not friendly to modern thinkers, and the Sabbat controlled the majority of the peninsula, though her clan held out against the Anarchs as long as possible, the Napoleonic Wars shattered this effort over the course of Mattie's early decades, and so abandoned by what little support the Camarilla offered the Spanish Brujah holdouts, and her sire slain by Sabbat murderers in the course of it, Matilda fled by sailing ship for the New World, bound for far-away but isolated and reputedly beautiful California)
Key Event #2: War (the lone Cainite on that vessel, La Caña, she escaped the Mediterranean Sea only to be beset by Lasombra pirates no sooner than did she pass the Strait of Gibraltar; however, she rallied the mortal crew to their own defense, and the arrogant Magister pirates were destroyed in fire)
Key Event #3: Awe & Wonder (she reached the West Coast of the Americas and enjoyed life in Northern California, and the independence she and a very small group of Kindred held, weathering the shift of control of the region from mortal nation to nation during the 19th-century)
Key Event #4: Treachery (when California's rule turned toward the United States, she read the writing on the wall and sided with her fellow Kindred to keep San Francisco at least against the Sabbat and Anarchs)
Key Event #5: Awe & Wonder (over the next few decades, she became a surprising voice of reason in the city, befriending the Ventrue Prince, Erik, and supporting peace, encouraging virtue, and demonstrating loyalty, which earned her the Brujah Primogenship)
Key Event #6: War (throughout the 20th-century, she dealt with Anarch attempts to take San Francisco, mostly through her clansmen; Mattie won over some of her clan, but had to "sell out" to other local clans and the Prince for help against the Iconoclasts)
Transition: Victory (going into the 21st-century, she was considered anathema to the most rebellious Brujah, but others of the clan admired her tenacity and grace, and Camarilla elders in general noted her as an exemplar of Brujah sagacity)
Significant Others
Names: Celia Hoffman, 1972; Zahra Safiyya bint Auwaker, 2012
Nature: Companionship; Romantic
Celia
Zahra
Weakness
Change Never Changes
Matilda hopes against hope that the world won't sweep away those too stubborn to change and better themselves for it. But the essence of the Great Jyhad is the cycle of calcification and violent shattering. She, too, may break -- or be broken.
Likelihood of Corruption
Average.
She may not be actively seeking Golconda (finding serenity in clarity of thought and purity of passion), but she's still undead. Corruption is second nature.
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