Fylakas of Crete

## Personal Information

#### Personality

Fylakas seems lofty and ethereal until you speak to him, it is then that the mans intelligence becomes quickly apparent. Incredibly knowledgeable of the world around him and it's history. He is an ancient who is not afraid to speak of his experiences and takes great joy from teaching and watching Kindred grow and learn. He claims to have the full memories of his entire unlife and a fair chunk of quite a few other kindreds unlives.

#### Mortal World

Nicodemus was born in a small coastal village on Crete in the year 161 CE, he was a citizen of the Roman Empire. His father was murdered in 185 CE and the Quesator sent to look into it also missing. Quickly losing faith in the system, Nicodemus took it into his own hands and investigated his father's murder. He ended up tracking the man down and handing him over to the authorities. This caused Nicodemus to be elected into office.

He served the Empire by looking into local murders and crimes. One day he went to investigate several dead bodies in a building bought to him by the fisherman. He arrived and found several bodies that did not bleed. Including the body of a boy no older than 18. Taking time to organise the bodies and ponder upon the crime, as night fell the body of the young boy woke up and spoke to Nicodemus, calling him by his name. Speaking of Nicodemus' life and achievements. His highs and his lows. The boy congratulated him on his finding his father's killer, praising him for his career, then suddenly the boy was upon him and Nicodemus' was killed.

#### Embrace

When he awoke the next night he was in a temple with the boy standing over him chanting. The boy explained that he was a vampire and that now Nicodemus' was also a vampire. The boy introduced himself as Eurydamos and that it was time for Nicodemus to leave Crete, and that in 3 moons he would be sent to Egypt to protect a great library.

Nicodemus' began learning under Eurydamos who taught him of the gods and his new role amongst them as well as the ins and outs of the society of Vampires. True enough, despite his intial reservations he did indeed end up on the boat to Egypt. When he arrived he joined the Court of Alexandria and leant his support to the Cult of Augurs and taught them of his gods, he also served within the Senex. He fought to protect the Library of Alexandria but eventually, as is known, it fell. He then travelled back to Crete to tell his sire of the unfortunate events. His sire fell into a dark rage and cursed Nicodemus and threatened to sacrifice him. So Nicodemus left and travelled to the heart of the Camarilla, to Rome itself.

He spent the next several hundred years there, perfecting his blood and coming to worship the Tapestry of Fate, he became quite a proficient user of Venficia and gained much renown amongst the Camarilla of Rome. He foresaw the fall of the Camarilla but no-one would listen, so he fled. He ran once more back to Crete, to try and reconcile with his sire, to tell him of the wonder of the Camarilla, and of it's impending fall. Interested, but still disappointed, Eurydamos allows Nicodemus to stay, during his stay Eurydamos inducted Nicodemus into the Moirai fully after realising that his childe had come to worship the Tapestry on his own. However it was still an icy relationship and it isn't long before Fylakas' once more headed abroad.

He arrived in China shortly after the beginning of Emperor Gaozu's reign. This is where Nicodemus started to find his groove. He arrived, learnt of the gods, chronicled the history of both the kine and kindred nearby and then moved on. Tensions were high in Kindred Society but the Kine flourished, Nicodemus stayed in China for most of the Tang Dynasty, before entering voluntary torpor due to the oncoming chaos that the fates had warned him of. He had amassed enough power he was able to stave off the effects of the Fog of Ages and slept soundly. He awoke in the year 1079, memories intact but definitely weakened.

He travelled then to Scandinavia after hearing rumours of the growing power of Christianity, by the time he had arrived Christianity was once again weakened in these parts of Europe. Again, he learned of the gods, learnt the history, recorded the history and jumped into the politics of the Danse Macabre. It is also here that Nicodemus embraced for the first time, embracing a Seer of the Gods, Rowyn who taught him of the Norse Gods. Nicodemus taught the seer what he knew and then moved on again, returning back to Crete once more to find his Sire had recently left, tracking him through the blood they shared he tracked him to the city of Naples.

His sire, settling into the new city was once again, very cold and uncaring and Nicodemus once more headed off, returning to the rest of Europe and taking the name Fylakas, that was going through a vastly different time. He arrived in Europe near the end of the High Middle Ages in the year 1469 and watched as they transitioned and the Renaissance began. Now firmly in the Holy Roman Empire, Fylakas' was much more secretive then he had been in the past, knowing that he would be hunted as a pagan and a kindred. He spent time learning of the history of the Holy Roman Empire and how it had come to be so powerful, learning of the exact strands of fate that had led Rome from the heights of the Camarilla, to the fall now to the Kindred Society of today.

Over time, several Lancea Sanctum Crusaders became keenly aware of the Ancient Pagan stalking the nights and wishing to test their mettle they hunted him, Fylakas' was at the height of his power here and he destroyed them, but decided it was time to leave, not before siring several people of note, a knight, a scholar and a noble. Teaching them of their blood and inducting them into the bloodline, having infused their blood with a portion of his, he once again entered voluntary torpor in France, fearing the revolution to come, that which was fated in blood. He awoke in 1870 and his estate had received word of his Sire's torpor, seizing the opportunity, Fylakas' started hunting for a childe to take back to Naples,

it took some time but in the early 1900s he came across one Chiara Belmont-Rosseau, sharing a love for classical greek, music, art and the occult they got along splendidly. It was not long until he embraced her and they headed to Naples.

## Information Known by Kindred Society

Fylakas arrived in Naples in 1911 and setting up shop. Fylakas' was named Keeper of Elysium in 1933 and Primogen in 1942. In 1944 Eurydamos awoke, upon his first court appearance he noticed his childe in attendance. Fylakas' walked over and informed Eurydamos that Chiara was his grandchilde.

Eurydamos sought to shoo Fylakas away once more before realising Fylakas had set up a reasonable power base and had bought a childe. For the time, Eurydamos conceded victory to Fylakas and the two have existed in an uneasy peace since. It was also at this time that Fylakas announced his leaving of the Circle and joining of the Ordo Dracul. It was not long before Fylakas' learnt his first coil and became more efficient with awakening each night. He swore to the Mystery of the Dying Light and began construction of the Chapter House shortly after. Fylakas remained Master of Elysium until 1974 when he decided to focus more on his studies. In 1999 Fylakas' submitted his Master's paper on the properties of blood and the storage of such.

In late 2017 he succumbed to the Sleep of Ages, and remains in such to this day.

## Family Line

```
        Dracos Eustachys ✝
          Chrysanthos
                │
                │
                │
        Callidora Aeneou ✝
           Demopoulos
                │
                │
                │
        Eurydamos Haideou
            Florakis
                │
                │
                │
           ┌────┴────┐
           │         │
       Nicodemus    Angelina ✝
        of Crete   Cisterninio
           │
        ┌──┴────────────┬─────────┬─────────────┬────────────┐
        │               │         │             │            │
      Chiara         Rowyn ✝   Patrick         Ilse ✝      Odalis
 Belmonte-Rousseu      │        Hodges         Hahn        Parody
                       │
                       │
                    Eurolwyn
                     Thomas

```

## Quotes

"Blood is not just blood. Blood is power. Blood is memory. Blood is our existence. Study it, and you study our very being. Master it and you master yourself" - **the final line of Fylakas' Thesis that got him granted the rank of Master.**

"The potential he had. The potential he *has*. Young as he is he holds this world in his hands, so easily crushed. He *could* have been truly something. He could have been Great. Instead he is but fine." - **Eurydamos Florakis.**