Shade Rains

Shade Rains

Pronouns	He/Him
Clan	Corsair
Sect	Anarch
Sect Faction	Constructionist
Social Class	Ancilla
Morality	Humanity
Gang	Tribe Eternal
Position(s)	Herald/Ambassador

Further Information

Description

An unnaturally beautiful man in a $3,000 pitch-black suit, wearing designer sunglasses to hide his Void-Black eyes. There's something about how the shadows play around him, only making him more captivating. He has short black hair, is impeccably groomed, and smells pleasantly of roses.

Timeline

• 1685 - born Jean Bernard Thurot in a Saint Croix, a small Colonial outpost in what is now the US Virgin Islands.
• 1699 - Despite being the son of a French Naval officer, growing up in relative comfort and safety, at 14 he left to be a cabin boy on a French Merchant Vessel.
• 1699 - Not two months aboard, the ship is sacked and boarded by pirates as the ship was en route to supply a New France outpost in Louisiana. The ships officers are put to the sword, while the rest of the meager crew was gang-pressed into piracy.
• 1700-1710 - As the Golden Age of Piracy ravages the Colonies, his crew saw wild success after success, much of it attributed to strategies suggested by the young addition to the crew that directly countered colonial naval tactics. From among the Pirate crew, he is given the name “Shade”, and his meager education and ability to read led to rapid advancement, and at age 20 he became one of the youngest and cleverest Quartermasters in the Bahamas. He Unknowingly drew the attention of a powerful entity, who carefully watched Shade's continued success and popularity with the crew due to his knack for mathematics and a cunning ability to keep the ship supplied even in the direst of times.
• 1711 - Shade is embraced while ashore the so-called Pirate's Republic of New Providence.
• 1712-1716 - Shade and his Sire become well known for their night raids and successful capture of English, French, and Spanish Merchant and Naval Vessels. Working alongside his Sire and a small team of incredibly deadly ghouls, Shade and his team pillage both the unsuspecting and dangerously well prepared ships, including Pirate vessels returning to New Providence, heavy with loot to unload. Despite not following a traditional model of Caribbean piracy, their tactics and targets began to yield far more wealth than even some of the most notorious pirate crews and captains.
• 1717/1718 - As the Golden Age of Piracy continues to roar across the seas, Shade's Sire begins to grow more and more skeptical of the disorganized and infighting-prone egos of well-known crews and captains who failed to see the growing threat of the Royal Navy's influx of Pirate Hunters and the commitment by the British Crown to capture and hang every man, woman, and child found guilty of Piracy. Shade and his Sire begin to make preparations to leave the Bahamas and settle in the small port town of New Orleans.
• 1719 - Shade is introduced to the Camarilla, as it tries to stake a claim to the growing City of New Orleans. More importantly, Shade is introduced to Edgar Rains, a powerful elder Gangrel that has long been a member of the Anarch Movement, and long-time friend and ally to Shade’s Sire. They become quick friends, and Shade’s financial prowess begins to bankroll the coterie’s lifestyle as they continue to grow their stake in certain business and real estate ventures throughout the French Colony.
• 1720, December - word reaches New Orleans that on November 18th, 1720, Calico Jack Rackham, having been captured by English Naval pirate hunter Johnathan Barnet, is hanged from the neck until dead, having been found guilty of piracy by the Governor of Jamaica. His sire, mad with grief, instructs Shade to stay in New Orleans to work. Support, and learn everything possible from Edgar. Several weeks after departure, whispers in the Abyss confirm his suspicions - somehow his sire was captured, and naught remains but ash.
• 1720-1758 He worked in the shadows to support the efforts of Edgar Rains and the Anarch Movement. Given his knack with mathematics, manipulation, and charm, he is able to further enrich himself through savvy land-use deals with the growing government of what he knows will be one of the most important ports in the New World.
• 1758-1776 - Shade bankroll’s Edgar’s trip to France, and seeing the growing possibility of a revolution of the American Colonies, he works with Edgar to deliver welcome bribes to members of the french government as well as the Admiralty, to help continue to garner support for the Colonial Revolutionaries.
• 1788-1799 Shade travels to France and helps Edgar and many others fight in the French Revolution.
• 1800-1850 travels with Edgar Rain’s across Europe. He is offered the opportunity to take the last name “Rains,” and does so without hesitation the moment it is offered.
• 1850-1870 - Shade travels back to New Orleans, and begins to use his fortune to help create, support, and sponsor the Underground Railroad. He also uses what is, by now, obscene wealth to hinder the Confederacy whenever and wherever possible, going so far as to to hire teams of fake “slave catchers” - that instead of capturing slaves, they help escort fleeing slaves through the Underground Railroad network to Freedom in the North. He also invests heavily in munitions businesses, and sells faulty ammunition and powder to the Confederate forces.
• 1871-1932 - While Edgar travels, reconnecting with childer and other allies, Shade purchases land that will become Havens for The Tribe Eternal & the Rains family.
• 1932 - Shade welcomes the influx of Kindred from Edgar's travels, throwing a modest "welcome home party" that includes a tour of the family's assets and holdings throughout the City of New Orleans.
• 2012 - Shade pulls no punches, calling in hard-earned boons and offering others, to ensure Edgar's smooth transition as the city's Authority, as Consul (Baron) of the Free State of New Orleans. Shade is recognized as Herald to Consul Edgar Rains facing within the Sect, and Ambassador facing without.

Rumors

Quotes

• "A Lasombra who favors black, and his name is Shade. What, was there a writers' strike?" - Zoltan Vancura

• "I'm rather fond of Mr. Shade. He's kept an eye on me since that... rather unfortunate night in New Orleans. Maybe one day I can repay his kindness." - Alice Vermeer
  

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OOC Information

Player	Michael Indest, Jr.
Pronouns	He/Him
MES #	US2002127042
Domain	LA-005-D
Storyteller	Andrew Herman