Elias

Elias was a sailor in the British Navy during the late 1700's. He had been a middle class merchant with a wife and three children, whom he loved dearly. In those eyes he had both of his eyes and long flowing chestnut hair and was quite handsome. He lived a happy life in London until the damned colonists revolted against the Motherland. He felt driven to help his nation end the civil war that plagued it and enlisted in the Navy to go and help squash the revolution.

As everyone knows, the British lost that war, and Elias returned to his home, feeling dejected and disillusioned. Unfortunately, things were not going to get much better. Returning to his home, he found his family had been corrupted, merged into a horrible monster that attacked him. After slaying the thing, he realized that it had been his family and turning around, met the eyes of a hideously sinister-looking creature. The monster spoke to him in a voice similar to bells chiming. She told him that she was impressed; rare is the mortal who can destroy a vohzid and that she would spare his life for now. Elias, who had lost his eye in the battle and was bleeding badly from it, stared into the eyes of the creature and swore to destroy her. She merely chuckled like breaking glass and welcomed him to try. He then passed out from blood loss and awoke days later in the care of one of his friends that happened to be a doctor, who had nursed him back to health. His only lasting wounds were the loss of his right eye, and his chestnut hair going straight white when he stared into the monster's eyes.

After three months of recovery, he was finally able to begin his search for the monster. Seeing the Navy as not liberal enough to allow for his hunt, he joined a band of pirates, and quickly rose through the ranks to become the captain of the ship. Following up on myths, legends, rumours, and tall tales, He found his way to what is today eastern Germany after about thirteen years of hunting. Finding the lair of the monster, he led his men to burn its viovode to the ground. The men killed all of the ghouls, but suffered heavy casualties. As night fell, the beast they had searched for rose from her slumber and rallied herself to capture the remaining seven men. Among them, she recognized Elias and was impressed by his audacity and persistance. She Embraced him and locked him in her laboratory for "experimentation". From the other six men, she fashioned a new vohzid to begin her work on replenishing her castle's defenses.

Nearly two centuries passed to Elias in that dungeon, surviving on only enough blood to keep him alive. He kept himself sane by swearing to himself to witness the Final Death of the monstrosity that tortured him on a weekly, sometimes nightly basis. Then in the middle of the 20th century, the common dreary silence of the castle was broken by the sounds of explosions. The castle was being bombed! The WWII bombers razed the castle to the ground. Freed from his bonds, Elias waited till nightfall and then clawed his way to the surface. He then feasted on a dying buck, who had been winged by a peice of shrapnel and had been dying slowly for days in the shelter of the ruined castle. Full of blood and anger, Elias then turned to wait and see his sire dig herself from beneath the rubble. He waited till dawn, and then found a dark place in the rubble. Three nights he waited for her to crawl from the ruins, and when on the third night she did not, he decided she must be dead, and started traveling back towards England.

Elias eventually encountered a member of the Camarilla, who explained what had happened to him and of the Masquerade. Elias spent nearly ten years with him learning about himself and the world around him before heaing to the United States.

In the late 1990's, Elias appeared again briefly in New Orleans, where he was involved (but not the cause of) in a huge screw up, that made New Orleans a bad place for Kindred. He was last seen leaving New Orleans behind and his present whereabouts are unknown