Gottfried is an influential child vampire in Aachen (Aix-la-Chappelle).
History[]
Gottfried was a foundling and never learned anything of his parents. Until he was seven, he was raised in a small abbey; when the priest there died of pneumonia, however, Gottfried and the other children found themselves on the street. They begged and stole to survive, and when Gottfried was nine he was beaten nearly to death for pick-pocketing.
He was discovered by the Abomination Rutold Bloodfist, who Embraced him despite his broken bones. Bloodfist even taught Gottfried to ghoul his beloved dog, Johann. Gottfried became an unparalleled spy for Bloodfist and Ikkenai, as no one ever regarded a limping, filthy urchin with a similarly scruffy mongrel dog at his side. Even other vampires often suspected he was a Caitiff rather than a Gangrel loyal to the Forest Faction.
Gottfried's intelligence-gathering abilities eventually earned him the title of Gangrel primogen in Aachen. He was briefly forced to leave when he became the target of a cabal of mages (likely from the Order of Reason) circa 1762, but returned once their attention went elsewhere.
Fate[]
Reichsgold: Aachen bei Nacht describes Gottfried eventually replacing Aachen's ruling Triumvirate (Notulf, Wolfram von Stolberg and Nikolai von Tresckow) in 1875, but this is inconsistent with other material in the same book indicating that von Tresckow and von Stolberg were already dead by then. This is retconned in Encyclopedia Vampirica, where in 1875 Cocceius, as Prince of Aachen, made Gottfried his seneschal.
Gottfried and his faithful dog died in 1941 during the first Allied bombing of World War II.
Trivia[]
His sire, Rutold Bloodfist, being an Abomination would be impossible to embraced someone with his sterile vitae.
References[]
- VTDA: Reichsgold: Aachen bei Nacht, p. 52-53
- VTM: Encyclopedia Vampirica, p. 14