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History

Life

Gui was born to a French immigrant mother and an Hispanic-American father on Chicago’s South Side. As a teenager, Gui had gotten mixed up with the fringes of his neighborhood’s criminal element, and after his father was killed by an over-zealous police officer, Gui turned to his street contacts for help. Once they’d helped him exact bloody revenge on the policeman responsible, Gui had little choice but to turn to a life of crime in earnest.

Embrace

After a few years and more than a few pieces of work, Gui drew the attention of a local Ventrue who had his hands in the Mafia (Gui claims it was no less a personage than Al Capone himself) and was made the blue blood’s ghoul. Only one-quarter Italian on his father’s side, he recognized his future in the mortal Mafia could only go so far, and faithfully served his domitor for years afterward. He considers his Embrace less of a “reward” for services rendered, and more of a simple evolution or promotion—not entirely unlike a young mafioso finally becoming “made.”

Requiem

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Gui’s sire sent him to serve his interests in New Orleans, at the side of a well-known Kindred named Antoine Savoy. Although the criminal “pipeline” between New Orleans and Chicago is not what it was during the gangland era of the 1920s and 1930s, it is still a valuable corridor for drugs, weapons, stolen parts and other smuggled cargo. Gui and his sire both have substantial interest in expanding their domain beyond the Windy City. Thus, Gui intends to sink his fingers deep into the Mafia of New Orleans, making room for himself and his sire, and displacing any who would get in his way.

Recent Events

Genealogy

Lineage

Gui claims to be the childe of Alphonse Capone, a respected member of his native city’s Gerousia and Prima Invicta who rules the Chicago Outfit crime syndicate with an absolute grip. Most Kindred regard this claim with skepticism, as famous figures are normally considered poor candidates for the Embrace. Gui claims his alleged sire is childe to Lodin, the slain prince of Chicago who held praxis from the 1871 Great Chicago Fire until the brutal 1993 war with the region’s Lupines. For many years, Lodin was one of the most influential princes in the New World, due to Chicago’s status as the largest American city under Camarilla control until the 1999 reconquest of New York. Most Kindred find it believable that Gui is a grandchilde of Lodin’s, as the former prince refused to grant permanent residence in Chicago to members of his clan who were not also his progeny (or their own descendants). Lodin was childe to Datura, an elder many centuries old of whom little is known. Rumors variously place her as prince of Veracrauz, an advisor to the Directorate, or even a member of that august body. Datura is childe to Arika, an equally obscure methuselah whom rumor places in either Scandinavia, the British Isles, or the Middle East. Her name has been floated by some theorists as a member of the Directorate or the Camarilla’s Inner Circle, but this remains impossible to verify. Arika is believed to be childe to Medon, a methuselah who set himself up as god-king of an island in the Aegean during Greece’s Mycenaean period. He tyrannized his kine subjects and gave nothing back, prompting them to eventually rise up and burn his palace while he lay sleeping during the day. The story of his destruction is widely retold among Ventrue as a cautionary tale against ruling the kine with too heavy a hand. Medon was childe to Ventrue. The Kingship Clan holds their founder perished millennia ago, making the only clan free of an Antediluvian’s machinations.

Broodmates

Gui claims that his sire was one of Lodin’s most successful progeny and Embraced three other childer, two of whom were destroyed during Chicago’s 1993 war with the area’s Lupines. All of Gui’s broodmates have been involved in various sectors of organized crime (some related to the Mafia, others not) to support their sire’s rule over the Chicago underworld.