Pleased with their success on the Blood Angel Experiment, The Giovanni decided to create a second line. With this in mind they searched out and secured members of three clans, One Tremere, a Salubri and a Lasombra who were taken to the catacombs beneath the Giovanni’s lair in Venice. Their search now focused on finding a mortal to participate in the experiment. Nestled away in a small town they came upon a man of almost angelic appearance. Tall, strong, and with fine features, this man was remarkably intelligent and possessed of a fiery will. His name was Gabriel, named after the Arch Angel himself.

                 Well, the Giovanni considered him a perfect specimen for their experiment. Capturing Gabriel, they brought him to Venice and presented him to Augustus for approval. Pleased, he and his followers retired to their workrooms below. Secured to tables the three vampires captured earlier still lay below. Gabriel was strapped down onto a 4th and all 4 were then murdered and their bloods mixed with a small amount of the Giovanni’s own. With their Necromantic rituals they bonded Gabriel’s soul to the blood and reanimated his body, feeding him the vitae and transforming him into a vampire that night.

                 In the following months they observed their creation with growing pleasure. Like the Blood Angel Bedevere before him, Gabriel amazed the Giovanni with his new powers. Disciplines inherent to the sacrificed clans began to emerge, some stronger and more natural than others. From the Tremere he took Thaumaturgy, and Auspex. From the Giovanni Dominate and Necromancy. From the Salubri, Obeah and Fortitude and from the Lasombra Obtenebration. His Thaumaturgy skills manifested mostly in the Elemental aspects, again a disappointment to the Giovanni but he also showed some promise in a smattering of other Thaumaturgy paths. Though the Salubri’s third eye didn’t manifest in Gabriel, he did appear to grow a set of ebony wings edged with a deep blue.

                 The Giovanni, though still disappointed in the lack of expediency in the Thaumaturgy discipline, were well pleased with the picture Gabriel presented. Gabriel, himself however, had problems adapting to his new life. Morose, he turned to his books and his studies for a while, but his yearning for freedom from those who kept him grew each day.

                One evening, when he could take no more of the Giovanni’s study of him, Gabriel used his newly acquired powers and his previously honed fighting skills to escape the Giovanni. Many of the clan were slain in the attempt and Augustus found it too much trouble to recover the new Dark Angel. The next years of Gabriel’s life were filled with running and denial of his new life. Increasingly he turned to his books and his studies to escape the incessant clamoring of his hungers and his conscience.

 

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