Auclair Lovett

Regent of the Chantry of the Broken Circle

Childe to both **Matthew St. John** and **Delilah**, former apprentice of the Kori's Chantry. Auclair is a shady and generally a very introverted person, believed to have warm relationships only with her ghoul, the crow Clay.

### Mortal life

Auclair Lovett earned a living as a stage medium and a fortune-teller. “Miss Lovett,'' the posters said, “finds the path; Miss Lovett knows the way.”

Those were main events, but of course, there were also many side jobs. Some needed to contact their dead spouse; there were always enough customers who refused to acknowledge that the dead are dead. Some needed the help of a psychic to remove a curse from themselves, or to redirect it to someone. She had a certain knack for that; gathering enough gossip to stitch together something reasonably persuasive, improvising callings of spirits, preparing different responses for different situations so that she always looked as if she expected it.

But eventually, misfortune (or, perhaps, fortune) found her; a case of one client turned out to be real. Auclair always has done everything to a fault. If she begins something, she’ll always finish it. If she is a charlatan, everyone must believe her. If she is the real deal, she steps up her game accordingly. Folios were granted as a payment for a job well done, practical knowledge, the advice of those who knew more than her, but who still used Auclair’s help, mistakenly taking her for an expert until she became one.

Burying herself within the occult research, she abandoned public performance in favour of more private contracts, she was spending her time either with shady cults and mysterious figures, bringing the lands of Flesh and Shadow closer, or trying to find where she could sleep at night - most of the money she earned had to be spend on the research and most of the payment she received was that in information and arcane mysteries, instead of money. As such, she spend several month within the weathered shack, freezing to death, eating once a day or two. It was a madness of paper. She pasted diagrams to every surface: the anatomies of the spirit, the dissection of an act of decay. In that time she met Clay - and as they saved each other lives in a particularly nasty job from Towers of the Dove, they stayed together for the many years to come.

Spending most of her time talking with spirits, ghosts and people soon to become ghosts, Auclair developed a peculiar world-view. She believes that the transcendence of the physical form is a necessary and inevitable part of the life of the soul. Death will come, and while one shouldn't forget to enjoy the fleeting joys of the flesh, one also must prepare for their departure to the spiritual word. As such, she didn't believe in talks about immortality or ascension or something else that she heard from her employers - there is no point in clinging to mortal life, as one should care for the preservation of their soul instead of body.

One night she dabbled with matters too dangerous for her and uncovered what's better left unknown. Her knowledge, impudence, and reputation saved her and she was recognized as worthy.

### Blood: the Cascade

After many years of studying within the Chantry, Auclair finally was ready for the attendance to the Elysium and presentation to the Prince. That first even was quite eventful for her basically non-existent social life - she talked around with present Kindred, making acquaintances with most of them, agreed to do Gordon a favour and established herself as firmly on the Prince's side by helping to apprehend Morgan, who was trying to flee form the Elysium. After proving her loyalty, she was given an important task - she was to approach two main suspects in the case of disappearing Kindred, those being the werewolf and Tzimisce hiding under the city. First part of this task didn't cause any problems, but the second one ended in failure - tricked by Stanislav and Nosferatu whose name she didn't learn, she didn't reach Tzimisce and, finding herself outnumbered, she was forced to give them Aiden.

On the next night, despite the Kori's warnings that it would be safer to stay within the Chantry, she went to Gordon. Auclair gave him valuable information that she found within Junius Library and invited to the Chantry on the behest of her Regent. Coming back she found the building where Chantry was located destroyed by the flame. Under the orders from Delilah, she retrieved the unharmed door to the Chantry from the ruins and carried it to her apartment.

On May 14th, she (with all other members of the Camarilla) was called to the Strife Investments, on the meeting called by Carter under disguise of the Prince - he claimed to be acting on his orders. During the Damian Frank's attempt to proclaim himself a Prince (under the guidance of Cadhla), she once again proclaimed her loyalty to Bihan (and accused Frank's party in opportunism). She didn't participate in the following battle between Camarilla, Dissidents and Sabbat forces - after jumping from the building with the help of a make-shift parachute, she escaped to the Shadowlands with her Sire. After arriving in the Chantry, she learns from Delilah about the new problem - Wilhelmina, old Childe of Kori and infernalist arrived in the city with her posse for unknown reasons. After researching rituals in the library, Auclair founds Wilhelmina's old notes, drawings and a letter calling for all the dissatisfied with Kori to meet with her at the cemetery, upon her false grave and discuss true power. Auclair decides to investigate this during the next night.

Before going to the cemetery, she decides to enlist support of the hunters in case something goes wrong. She goes to the Temple of Fermentation, pamphlet of which was earlier found by Clay. There she found Harden and Will. After discussing the infernalists and the prophecy, they agreed to meet with her at the cemetery in two hours. Pleased with her accomplishment, Auclair decides to transport the Chantry to the safe place, fearing for what may happen in the city - as such a place she chose Point Lookout, a haunted lighthouse. Accompanied by Noah, they fight off a wild werewolf and successfully deliver the door to the lighthouse. Having managed to convince the local ghosts to take it for storage, she goes to the cemetery with Noah imposed on her, but before that, she learns a few disturbing things. Not only he spied on her, for some crazy reason Noah went through a dangerous ritual, and not for something useful, no - he did it to come back to life. He began to raving about the most ridiculous things - that he actually believes to naive superstitions of the were-breeds and that the world must end to "clean out impurities" and "continue the Cycle" and that the people not supposed to die, but to "evolve" and "reach their potential". And his new plan - is to reach that "potential".

If Auclair were to describe in one word the plan that Noah told her about and the current revelation, it would be 'cowardice'. They already died and in time, they will die once more, changing their mode of existence yet again. All paths lead to that and if they already started that journey, why not go even further? Why not prepare yourself for it? Why not get accustomed to what awaits you? To flee from that, to walk back this road, to delay the inevitable not for preparation, but to indulge yourself in what was already lost? Nothing but cowardice.

After arriving at the cemetery, Auclair found there Wilhelmina, waiting next to her own grave. She seeks to confront infernalist and after a discussion of their plans attacks her, but Noah, whose plans aligned with those of infernalists, betrayed Auclair and knocked her out.

She regained consciousness in the Chantry, next to Kori. After discussing with him Noah's and Wilhelmina's plans, they came to an agreement that they must be stopped. Just because something is natural doesn't means that this is right - if the inhabitants of the world doesn't want it to end, then they must prevent whatever Cycle is commanding it to do so. Kori asked Auclair to not kill them - but Auclair, knowing that Wilhelmina is fated to die in the earthquake and holding a grudge again Noah, didn't give him that promise.

Finding the Prince's whereabouts through the ritual, she went to the District Court to find out where she could find the mages - the Regent advised her to get their support. There she persuaded Bihan to arrange a meeting with them and stopped in one of the vacant rooms to wait out the day. In the start of the next night she found there Gordon - returned to life due to Antediluvian's curse - and Wallace, discussing the upcoming meeting dedicated to Gehena. With then she found an infernalist, pretending to be Delilah and seeking information about Noah's whereabouts. Auclair saw through his disguise, but before she could act on it, infernalist killed Gordon and escaped. Thankfully, she managed to sew his soul back to his once again dead body.

At the meeting, she found that vampires of all sects (including infernalists), werewolves and mages were conducting a ritual to send a group of people back in time, so that they could do something about the end of the world. Extremely distrustful of the infernalists and Noah (who now proclaimed that he met God and completely changed his mind about everything), she tried unsuccessfully to interfere with the ritual. After being stopped, she had no choice but to agree to help this alliance in the present.