Dr. Almeda Reynaldo
| Pronouns | she/her |
|---|---|
| Clan | House Tremere |
| Sect | Camarilla |
| Social Class | Neonate |
| Morality | Humanity |
| Local society | Library of the Sixth Worthy |
| Position(s) | Talon, Whip, Keeper of Elysium, Speaker of the Library of the Sixth Worthy |
Further Information
Dr. Reynaldo is a woman who appears to be in her late 20s. She has light olive skin and dark hair with a white streak, which she wears in a bun. She wears glasses, often slightly tinted, and has been known to over-accessorize with celestial themed jewelry. Due to her extensive travels, her accent can be hard to place.
She is a historian and scholar of religious studies, who specializes in Western European Renaissance Occultism. She has written multiple volumes about authorship and authenticity of various historical grimoires, often analyzing them (and their true authorship) from a feminist perspective. She is eager to please and even more eager to learn, often doing whatever she can to quench her curiosity.
- Born: September 13, 1987, Santiago, Chile
- Earned PhD in European History from the University of Hamburg: May 2013
- Embrace date: The Winter Solstice of 2015, outside of Munich
- Sire: Celia Nichols, antiquarian from London, Ancillae
- Released from Accounting: Summer 2018
- Moved to NYC: January 2021. Was teaching/studying in Providence, RI for several years prior.
Almeda was born in Santiago Chile to a family of investment bankers. Her childhood was generally mundane, but she grew enamored with the local brujeria, and started to study the history of her local folk magic. When she went to college at the University of Santiago, she started to study Medieval and Renaissance history, and decided that for graduate school, she would merge her two main academic interests. She earned a PhD in History in 2013 from the University of Hamburg, with a controversial publication asserting that some grimoires attributed to Johannes Faust were secretly authored by women. She spent several years hopping from university to university, due to the rigorous fieldwork of her degrees and postdocroral research, and while investigating the authorship of some notable astrological treatises, she was noticed and marked as a potential recruit for the Tremere, who recently faced the collapse of The Pyramid. Eager to Embrace new recruits and rebuild their numbers, Almeda was Embraced in a group ritual Embrace during the 2015 winter solstice.
She spent several years apprenticing under her sire, Celia Nichols, an Ancillae kindred antiquarian who she had been in correspondence with previously during her course of studies. Ms. Nichols helped deploy Dr. Reynaldo to her previous position at Brown University, and helped oversee her amicable transfer to the New York City Chantry.
She currently has two havens- one in The Bronx, and one near Columbia University in Spanish Harlem.
Trivia
- Dr. Reynaldo's Vitae Infusions are disguised as spare ink cartridges.
- She is a Virgo with a Gemini moon.
- She is a skilled astrologer and oracle.
- She has a tattoo of a funky cat churning butter from a 12th century German manuscript on her ankle.
- Dr. Reynaldo has the largest collection of tailcoats in the Bronx.
- Dr. Reynaldo has multiple books written in blood and bound in human flesh.
- She has a tattoo of the sheet music from Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights in an artistically accurate location.
"This ring has the power to turn anyone into a Toreador for a minute."
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| Player | Jacqui Albin |
|---|---|
| Pronouns | she/her |
| MES # | US2018050053 |
| Domain | NY-004-D |
| Storyteller | Emily L |
