Fitzwilliam Hargrave

**Fitzwilliam Hargrave**, born *Henry Varden Hargrave*, is a Ventrue Elder and former Prince of Cork, Ireland. He is the sire of Siobhan Hargrave, and the childer of Louise d'Amboise. He is currently hunting down his childe in order to bring her back into the fold of the UK Camarilla.

## Biography

Henry Varden Hargrave is a name often lost to history. The bastard son of Charles II of England, Henry grew up with a cuckolded father and a guilty mother. His supposed father, the Marquess Thomas Henry Hargrave and mother Marchioness Mary Elizabeth Hargrave raised him with as much love as they were wont to give the boy. His mother doted on him, the product of a night of love with the king, and his ‘father’, the man who raised him, gave him the stern stiff upper lip he still wears in his unlife.

He grew up in a most tumultuous time in England, forced to declare alliances with one king or the other, eventually settling on the right side as one of the lords who supported the absolute monarchy of William de Orange. Not long after he gave his support, he was sent to war alongside his countrymen to fight in the Nine Years’ War which gained its name due to a rounding up of its duration. However, Henry only fought for six under his king.

Hardened by his time at war, he came back to his father’s lands and titles in Suffolk, only to find that the elder Hargrave had passed of consumption sometime during the war. He took over for his father as Marquess of Suffolk, but he never married. Not until he met Louise d'Amboise, a French lady-in-waiting that had come to court one night and dazzled the crowd. She was more beautiful than any woman he had ever seen, skin of bone white and eyes of an almost luminescent blue. Her golden red hair was like the sunrise she never seemed to be found in, and Henry found himself enraptured.

He married her on May 14, 1699 after a long courtship, and they stayed that way for fourteen happy years. Yet, while Henry grew older, Louise stayed the same beautiful and haunting woman he had met all those years ago. Henry began to forget most evenings, his only memories regarding their nights being a sharp pain in his neck followed by absolute bliss. Eventually, he became a night time recluse just as his wife was, and it was only then that she shared her secret with her husband.

Henry Hargrave was embraced on his 15th wedding anniversary, leaving his mortal life behind and embracing his new life as a fledgling. Most of his early unlife was spent reveling in his newfound powers. He used his powerful domination to influence English history. He led some of the forces to beat down the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 and 16 with a fierceness he had not had during the Nine Years’ War, and with that passion, he took his wife and sire with him to the top of the Camarilla presence in the United Kingdom. He was no longer a Marquess of Suffolk. He was a god.

However this would be the beginning of the end for him, as Louise would soon leave his company for another of burgeoning power, a human by the name of Baptist Noel who was the 4th Earl of Gainsborough. Under her malicious hand, the next two Earls of Gainsborough would die childless. After 1798, her whereabouts are unknown. Though, it is believed that she succumbed to the Beckoning.

Henry, on the other hand, eventually changed his name to Fitzwilliam around the 1780s, in order to leave the naïve, lovesick puppy he’d once been behind. By 1800, he had reestablished himself within society, climbing up the ranks of vampiric society just as he had climbed up the ranks of human society. By the late 1800s, Fitzwilliam had garnered himself a Princedom, albeit a small one in Cork, Ireland.

This was where he met Maud Torrence. The woman was of low birth and quite plain, but Fitzwilliam took a vested interest in her as she began to work for him. It didn't hurt that he found her quite beautiful in her youth. He hired her, and he kept her on as one of his servants for some time, feeding off of her and forcing her to forget.

In 1920, Siobhan was born, and Fitzwilliam grew quite frustrated with the presence of a child in his home. At least at first. It was only then that he ghouled Maud and invited her into his unlife where she would serve him for the rest of her life. As time went on, he started to care more and more for Maud and, in turn, Siobhan, likening her to his adoptive daughter from time to time in between bouts of coldness.

Fitzwilliam, for the most part, stayed clear of human wars after World War I, opting to stick with his Princedom and the country it resided in and choosing neutrality during World War II. For this inaction, the vampires vying for power in Fitz’s domain saw their opportunity to strike. One such vampire attempted to send Fitzwilliam to his Final Death, but Maud, in her late fifties but looking more like mid 30s, gave her life to fend off the vampire as long as she could while Fitz dispatched the upstart.

Mortally wounded, Maud would soon die if Fitzwilliam did not Embrace her. Surprisingly with her dying breath, she begged Fitzwilliam to take care of and protect her daughter and let her die. Against his desires, he did as she asked and regained a breath of humanity when he took Siobhan under his wing. He Embraced the girl a few years later and helped her navigate her unlife, much like Louise had done for him centuries ago.

However, his tactics as sire were far different from Louise’s. Where Louise slowly separated from Fitzwilliam, he chose to keep Siobhan almost suffocatingly close. He gave her private tutors, friends, status, and much more. He gave her ghouls, gowns, and gravitas. She wanted for nothing, and yet, he noticed her wilting in front of him.

Fitzwilliam knew he was losing her. So, he suffocated her further, restricting her access and preventing her from leaving his estate. As his grip grew tighter on Siobhan, his grip on his own humanity slipped even further away. Eventually, he gave up his Princedom in order to keep a better eye on the girl, choosing to spend most of his time hovering and demanding more from her.

By this time, Siobhan had wanted to leave for a while, and she made a means to do so, convincing Marion, her ghoul and friend, to stake Fitzwilliam while he was in his daysleep. When Siobhan woke, she and Marion escaped into the next night, ferrying Siobhan away to America with whatever funds she could grab.

After he was freed by one of his ghouls, Síofra Finnan who had become desperate for vitae, Fitzwilliam flew into a rage, losing whatever sliver of humanity he had left and swearing to find Siobhan and imprison her properly when he found her.

## Appearance

Hargrave, in his youth, was quite the handsome man, a bit gaunt but sturdy and strong. His hair was usually long and to his shoulders, but he would often cut it short when he was warring or outside of the leisure of his estate. His eyes are a deep blue, the sockets deeply set in his face, giving him an even more corpse like appearance in his unlife.

In the present day, Fitzwilliam is a shadow of his former self. His hair seems almost scraggly, and his face looks as though it's slowly sinking in. He is almost a walking Masquerade violation with his corpse like presence. Though he looks weak and frail, he is anything but. Through lack of humane hygiene, he is almost *filthy*.

## Trivia

* Fitzwilliam has heard the call of the Beckoning, but he has resisted it due to his drive to capture Siobhan.

## Character Sheet

Fitzwilliam Hargrave

**Sire**: Louise d'Amboise

**Embraced**: 1713 (Born 1669)

**Generation**: Elder

**Blood Potency**: 5

**Ambition**: "Unite" his Family

**Convictions**: Women must be kept "safe" and "protected"

**Touchstones**: "Maud" Síofra Finnan

**Attributes**: Strength #, Dexterity #, Stamina #; Charisma #, Manipulation #, Composure #; Intelligence #, Wits #, Resolve #;

**Skills**: tbd

**Disciplines**: tbd

**Health**: tbd

**Morality**: Humanity 2

**Willpower**: tbd