[b]appearance[/b]
A shallow faced man, long beard, and heavy mustache. His eyes: dim an unassuming, a heavy brow. His cheeks full and the structure of his bones pronounced and impressive. A bulbous nose, almost flat like a pig's, mouth and lips curled down in a frown.

[b]name[/b]
Semiane Munch Strige Vrykolas

[b]age[/b]
346

[b]bio[/b]
A vampire of old birth, Semiane Vrykolas hails from a distant kingdom. His age having long nurtured a careful aptitude, Semiane abandoned the outward manifestation of being a vampire long ago, going underground; as vampires go. While once he was a count for some time, a claimed royal presiding over some distant and rude country he fled when the peasants were incited against him by some hunters and he fled into the world, leaving behind a doppelganger to take the brunt of the peasant's anger. Turning away from royal life, he used what wealth he had and entered into commerce. There for a time he managed a small but capable trading outfit until his clients became suspicious as they grew older but the man they came to know for so long remained inconspicuously young, compared to them.

An inquiry forced Semiane into hiding again, and he fled. But through loopholes and confidants he managed to sell his initial trading company over to them, who manage it for him in their name. Re-establishing in another privileged port he began again, only for the same narrative to be repeated. As his clients grew old, and he did not age, suspicions mounted and he was forced to migrate before the blade of a hunter could stake his heart. The second company was later acquired at auction by his first enterprise.

By this second foible he had learned. While taking a laundered salary from his old company he took to travel, and visited ancient lands. There he learned new magics and skills. In high deserts he discovered the art of altering the face and the body, means to make one appear younger, which could  be reversed to appear older; or even pulled to the extreme to transform him into entirely different people. In this time, he took on many new names as he did faces as he resigned himself to practitioners of the art of reconstruction and made his first new employees since abandoning his first trading adventures: a surgeon and his apprentices, kept on a high pay for their services as he returned to more recognized lands.

Under their knife and powers, and the knife and powers of their successors, Semiane routinely transformed himself to avoid the suspicions of his peers. Becoming in effect his own sons as time went on. And through this time, in the realm of merchant capital acquired a substantial wealth and a large network.

But Semiane was still at heart a vampire. And vampires had needs. Whether through courting the wives or young daughters of the wrong people or being tied to a murder he was forced to flee or even pretending his own death.

As the years, decades, and centuries went on so too did the depths of his financial empire and the capabilities of his surgeons to transform. While he kept to himself a very small direct staff, he had in reality under his an immense network of thousands. The enormous wealth and capital he came to possess through the domination of virgin foreign trade made him and every persona and biography he invented leading influential figures in the respective realms he found himself in. And with that power and influence came the social life. Not one to by shy, he and every persona became known for the extravagant parties. He was a boon to the arts as he played patron to a many number of artists. All of which was to hide himself and is activities.

On hearing the call from the empire. A vampire elder, who had ruled for five-thousand years was to abdicate, and his sons would someday take the throne. But the succession wasn't clear, conditions were made. Conflict was rife. Financial and political gain could be made, a swift and sure break into the strongest vampire realm in the entire world. While he could not possibly live there to announce his true self to the world and perhaps endanger his entire empire, perhaps playing the cards would implant him into friendly political circles, and he may have lasting protection at the least.

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