History

Life

Hezekiah was always good at preaching, but was never a good preacher. A former boxer before he took up the cloth, and an alcoholic even after he did, Hez once caught a teenager fucking with the sign outside his church. He broke two fingers on each of the little shit’s hands. Then he made him fix the sign. Hez also broke rapist’s collarbones and muggers’ teeth. He once turned a hit-and-runner’s face into a Picasso painting, and messed up his legs bad enough to confine him to a wheelchair. For all the violence of Hez’s means, though, the alcoholic preacher ultimately wanted to change his community for the better.

One night, Alexander Wright decided he would do that better as a monster.

Requiem

Hez struggled to reconcile his faith with what he’d become. But he’d had anger issues even before the Embrace, and it was an easy transition—too easy—to start taking out that anger on the sinners he couldn’t stand. Hypocrites. Abusive parents. Rapists. Serial harassers. The Lancea et Sanctum said these targets and more were all deserving of his wrath, and his clan’s inborn rage would’ve made it hard to resist the urge even if he’d wanted to.

Hez remains a preacher in death as well as life, theoretically on Vidal’s side but often in conflict with his superiors. He’s wrapped up in a lot of Anarch and mortal projects to influence Mid-City’s politics in a more democratic direction. The higher-ups don’t respect him, or care much for his association with the Anarchs, but they can’t deny his effectiveness as one of God’s wolves. His sire, though occasionally frustrated by his stubbornness, is proud of him.

Among his fellow neonates, Hez’s “whole thing” is straightforwardness. He doesn’t like playing games or beating around the bush. He doesn’t try to get people to relate to theological concepts that don’t resonate with him. He goes to church every Sunday. He feels clean.

Mortals and even some Kindred come to him for confession at night. He’s the Night Preacher. The one who makes problems go away. He takes it pretty seriously, the idea that people can be forgiven. That people have to be forgiven. Not because they’ll go to hell, not because they’re in danger. But because they deserve to be forgiven if they want to change. That’s the core of his belief and always has been.

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Genealogy

Lineage

Hez is the childe of Alexander Wright, a former gangster who serves as one of the hounds under Sheriff Donovan. Wright is childe to Doc Xola, a bokor and back-alley surgeon who serves as Baron Cimitière’s chief enforcer and is renowned for his cruelty. Doc Xola’s sire is unknown but believed to have belonged to one of the marauding Sabbat packs that menace the city during Mardi Gras.

Broodmates

He’z younger broodmate Furnie Jacobs is a former hoodlum turned U.S. Marine who was Embraced during the 2016 Battle of Mt. Carmel. He serves as a hound alongside his sire on the Guard de Ville.