Keshet

Keshet Katz

Creature Type	Ghoul
Domitor	Zalman-Rose Melamed
Zalman-Rose Melamed's Clan	House Tremere
Zalman-Rose Melamed's Sect	Camarilla
Zalman-Rose Melamed's Social Class	Pretender Elder
Lineage/tremere house	House Melamed
Kindred occult society	Library of the Sixth Worthy

Further Information

Description

Keshet appears to be a Jew in their late 30s, with a heavyset feminine body type but androgynous clothing. They are 5'5", very pale-skinned for a mortal, with dark, haunted eyes, and black hair in the sidesweep-and-undercut style so common among non-binary queers. While usually dressed in a high-quality but understated black suit over a black shirt, and hamsa earrings or pendant, they contrast this with a very punk leather choker - the kind with the bondage ring in front, and spikes or chains to the sides - and black lipstick.

Timeline

• 1936 - Born Warsaw, Poland; originally known as Nadzieja Zdeb.
• 1944 - Escapes the backlash to the Warsaw Uprising thanks to Members of House Melamed, and goes to live in Brooklyn.
• 1954-1958 - Attends college at the Washington Square campus of NYU.
• 1966 - Becomes a blood doll and formal student to Zalman-Rose Melamed. Legal birth year of their current identity.
• 1976 - Ghouled by Zalman-Rose.
• 1996 - Takes a new mundane identity, Keshet Katz, due to ghoul age issues, and comes out publicly as non-binary.

Bio

Keshet is known in mortal circles as a talented embroiderer who works on restoration for museums, and takes commissions from the fashion world as well as places of worship. Others know them as a member of the queer community. A very few know that they control substantial wealth, largely hidden behind corporations and trusts, and provide considerable support to a number of LGBTQ-focused organizations.

To kindred society, they are also the long-term ghoul and student of Zalman-Rose Melamed, slated for future embrace as a Tremere of House Melamed, though it's increasingly surprising they have yet to be embraced. They are known for flawless manners, and as one of the members of Project Bloodnet, for their expertise with both hacking and social engineering. Those who have interacted with them more directly may be aware that they are both a medium and a seer.

Rumors

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• If you do the math, Keshet would had to have had their first major appearance change done before Virgil and Evangeline were members of the Camarilla.
  • Pretty much everyone in NYC actually knows this... and says nothing out of a general liking for their Prince and/or support for trans rights.
• Keshet's sudden fallout with House Melamed was the result of Zalman-Rose keeping them a ghoul so long.
  • No, it was because "El" Bisset-Caesarea threatened to poach them.
  • No, it was because Nissim Melamed deemed them unsuitable for the Embrace.
  • No, it was all some sort of long-standing Malkavian prank.
• Keshet was mentally ill and shouldn't have been Embraced Malkavian, even if they're proving remarkably suited to it.
  • They were, but it was actually the effect of a curse, and cured by lifting it.
  • They were, and it wasn't a curse... it was possession by a spectre or some evil spirit - with similar results.
    • That's just what spirit sickness looks like - and now that they're initiated, they're fine.
      

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Quotes

~work in progress~
POST EMBRACE

• "Love is not always about holding onto someone as tight as you can, but also having the strength to know when it is time to let go." - Nissim Melamed
• "I am not the sort to say 'I told you so,' so we can just let it go unsaid, yes?" - Walter Merrick
• "Their destiny was either foretold or crafted by the Network. I am so glad I get to be a part of it." - Agatha Palmerstone

PRE EMBRACE

• "I shall have to get myself one of those." - Zoltan Vancura
• "Humble, hungry, and haunted, Keshet is the essence of what a ghoul ought to be, but also so much more" - Agatha Palmerstone
• "I'd have embraced them. They are worthy of being fully embraced. The Melameds are wasting an opportunity" - Kelly Cassidy
• "It's cool being a vam-Kindred and all, but they can still get a tan, kinda jealous." - Kenneth Bilge
• "Some day maybe they'll tell me what they're grumpy about that they keep chewing on that hard." - Finley Welles
• "Keshet has the artistry and beauty of a Toreador, more wisdom than some elders, and I'd rather have their company than that of most kindred." - Evangeline Isadora DiBari
• "Keshet is an ideal apprentice, a great talent, and always a delight to speak with. If they had not been Zalman-Rose's to train, they would be mine, and I would be honored." - Ari Melamed
• "You think they're good now, wait until they have been embraced a century or so. We will all pale in comparison." - Jerry Holiday
• "They have assisted me in more ways than I can count. I shall have to make it up to them." - Euphemenion
• "Keshet shielded me from a potentially bad situation and was hurt from it. And yet, in the end, they still smiled. It will be hard to repay that." Elizabeth
• "If one may tip the scales of balance, they would be one responsible." - Luken Le Lave Leland Lewin
• "They are the brightest and wisest kindred I have ever had the pleasure to call my friend. They have opened many doors for me. I hope to return the favor." - Calico
  

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OOC Information

Player	Dylan Maxwell
MES #	US2009054113
Domain	NY-004-D
Storyteller	Emily Lewis