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Vince Clortho (Clan Malkavian)
Keymaster of GOZER

Description:
Clortho is a man in his own little world. He dresses nondescriptly in utilitarian clothing. Faded denim jeans, a short-sleeved shirt, usually of a dark color, and a dead black trench coat. This garb suits his pale complexion and long black hair perfectly.

Very few people ever see that however.

Clortho routinely uses his skills of obfuscation to move about unseen. When he must have dealings with people, he adopts a nondescript visage. Those he considers trustworthy, he favors in a different fashion, adopting their own image and voice as he speaks to them. Most find this practice to be unnerving at first, but soon learn to accept speaking to their mirror image. Those who have crossed him can never be entirely sure what face he will wear when they next meet, as he wears both male and female images with consistency, discarding one as soon as it is well known.

Background:
Evin Schandor was born in New York just before World War One. His father, an Englishman who had left his wife to serve his motherland, was killed on the front lines just before Evin's thirteenth birthday. The experience, to say the least, scarred him for life. The night of his father's death, Evin relived his father's last moments through a surprisingly realistic dream. The dream depicted the horrors of modern war, from mustard gas, to machineguns, to the realities of the trench.

The dream proved to be recurring.

By EvanÆs fourteenth year, he had reached a silent decision. Mankind was evil to the core, and did not deserve to live on. He poured his efforts into researching the occult, ranging from hedge magic, to the doomsday theories of every major religion that had ever presided, uncovering information ranging from Gehenna, to the Garou apocalypse. By his eighteenth year, he had found his True Faith. Not in the loving trinity that allowed his father to die, but in the hard-bitten Sumerian god GOZER.

When he graduated college at twenty-two, he had accumulated a cult of GOZERITES ranging in the hundreds. He used his knowledge of architecture to construct buildings that, he believed, focused spiritual energy. It was on these sites that he led his followers in obscure Sumerian rituals designed to summon the spirit of GOZER. When he became twenty-seven his followers begin to mysteriously disappear. All of their belongings had been willed to him, and he soon became quite rich.

Before his twenty-eighth year, he had been embraced by a Malkavian Antitribue, and buried in the Sabbat creation rites. Beneath the soil his fractured mind worked desperately to reassemble itself. It was there that he claims he first heard the WORD of GOZER, and became the vessel for GOZER's harbinger, VINCE CLORTHO, keymaster of GOZER. Driven upward by his faith, he emerged, and was consecrated as a Sabbat.

Two months later, his followers were found atop the hotel that had served as their primary place of worship, participants in a mass suicide ritual. All of their belongings had been left to Schandor's open bank account, which has not been closed to this day. Schandor was not among those accounted for. The hotel was condemned, as it could no longer attract business.

Clortho has not been seen since.

Character Perceptions:
Clortho alternately looks through the eye of a demon and the eye of a zealot when he looks at the world. Through one, the world exists as a thing to be destroyed, sullied, used, and discarded. Through the other, the world can be saved if it devotes itself to the WILL of GOZER, and he is more than willing to facilitate that, and rebuild his order of GOZERITES. His acute paranoia, the legacy of his Malkavian sire, manifests itself in the belief that he is being hunted by a woman known only as the æGatekeeper', and thus he instinctively distrusts all women he is not familiar with.

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