Isaac Brooke

**Isaac Brooke** is an Anarch Tzimisce who operates in the Bronx borough of New York. He and his coterie have domain over the neighborhood of Port Morris. He is a notable for being a Tzimisce where neither he nor his sire Václav have ever been a part of the Sabbat, though others often assume otherwise due to their clans reputation.

## Biography

Isaac by all accounts did not have an easy upbringing: he didn't even finish high school, and used to run with a street-racing crew known as the Midnighters before the Embrace. He does however maintain a very respectful relationship with his sire Václav, periodically visiting the ancilla at his haven on North Brother Island. It was Václav who granted Isaac a haven of his own - a run-down brownstone in Port Morris - unintentionally earning the ire of Richter, a Brujah Anarch and crime boss who claims the South Bronx as his territory.

As a consequence of this, Isaac was paired with several other fledglings in an ad-hoc coterie in order to prove their worth to Richter. Their first task was to collect "rent" from a Caitiff named Drexler, who as it turned out was also in serious debt with the Puttanesca crime family. During a fight against a group of Puttanesca ghouls at Drexler's taxi company, Isaac recovered a briefcase containing hard-copies of the now-defunct SchreckNet network. Drexler had apparently hired the Puttanesca to steal the drives for him, only to bilk them out of their agreed-upon payment. Isaac was also the one to personally collect on Drexler's debt to Richter, severing one of the Orphan's hands with his feral claws and delivering it back to the Brujah in a plastic bag.

After being formally granted their "turf" by Richter, Isaac and his coterie would encounter the Anarch revolutionary Annabelle Li while pursuing rumors of a strange van that had been loitering after dark in Port Morris. While in conversation with Annabelle, Isaac - in the throes of his clan compulsion - would steal a wooden stake from the Brujah's possession. A former piece of a larger wooden crucifix, this stake was actually a shard of the improvised weapon which had ended the life of the Leopoldite Inquisitor Adrian Clairmont.

While tracking down the whereabouts of a Wight preying on the homeless of the neighborhood, Isaac would meet and enter into an arrangement with the Hecata necromantrix Cat Costello. In return for deflecting the attentions of the Puttanesca (who his coterie had earned the attention of by rescuing Drexler), Isaac would help Cat retrieve the skull of a ship captain who perished centuries ago in the East River. Isaac would eventually track the whereabouts of the skull to a Camarilla-owned warehouse just off the riverfront, in the process injuring and intimidating one Nigel - a Ventrue whom had been sent to oversee the property by his clanmate James Rafferty.

Later on, the Port Morris coterie would finally corner the rampaging Wight, with Isaac using Annabelle's stake to paralyze the creature before cutting off it's head with a Vicissitude-crafted bone blade.

## Relationships

### Sire

Václav- Issac and his sire have a close relationship unlike many kindred in ether coterie, as Václav acts as a mentor while not being overbearing. He even trusts his sire enough to bring his coterie members to meet him to help with teaching them how to be a kindred. Issac is able to integrate into both kindred and kine society without much trouble despite being a many Tzimisce partly because Václav, and Václav sire have never been apart of the Sabbat so Issac seemingly did no inherent or learn any of the more unnerving aspects associated with Tzimisce Sabbat.

### Ghouls

**Angela**

**Micheal**

## Character Information

* **Predator Type:** Extortionist - This Kindred acquires blood in exchange for services rendered.
	+ Herd: Midnighters gang members
	+ Predator Pool: Strength or Manipulation + Intimidation
* **Specialties**: Sculpting (Note: as in the normal art kind, not talking about the Tzimisce kind)
* **Clan Bane**: Grounded- Each Tzimisce must choose a specific charge — a physical domain, a group of people, an organization, or even something more esoteric — but clearly defined and limited. The Kindred must spend their daysleep surrounded by their chosen charge. Historically this has often meant slumbering in the soil of their land, but it can also mean being surrounded by that which they tonight rule: a certain kind of people, a building deeply tied to their obsession, a local counterculture faction, or other, more outlandish elements. If they do not, they sustain aggravated Willpower damage equal to their Bane Severity upon waking the following night.

* **Clan Compulsion**: Covetousness- when a Tzimisce suffers a Compulsion, the Kindred becomes obsessed with possessing something in the scene, desiring to add it to their proverbial hoard. This can be anything from an object to a piece of property to an actual person. Any action not taken toward this purpose incurs a two-dice penalty. The Compulsion persists until ownership is established (the Storyteller decides what constitutes ownership in the case of a non-object) or the object of desire becomes unattainable.

* **Advantages and Flaws**
* Enemy Flaw: (••) from Predator Type

#### Disciplines

In the Fifth Edition of Vampire, Vicissitude and the abilities **Fleshcrafting** and **Horrid Form** return as part of the Protean discipline as Level 2, 3, and 4 Amalgam Powers with Dominate 2, respectively. **One with the Land** (aka **Meld with the Land**) becomes a Level 5 Amalgam Power with Animalism 2, but requires **Earth Meld**.

* **Protean** (••)
	+ Level 1: Eyes of the Beast
	+ Level 2: Feral Weapons, Vicissitude(Amalgam: requires **Dominate** 2)
* **Animalism** (•)
	+ Level 1:
* **Dominate** (••)
	+ Level 1: Compel
	+ Level 2:

#### Possessions

* A three story brown stone home, notably no one is allowed to enter the third floor, EVER.
* Fancy Muscle (?) car

## Trivia

* Isaac Brooke is the player character of actor Alexander Ward, a member of the main cast of the live-play chronicle *Vampire: The Masquerade: New York By Night*. Alexander previously portrayed Jasper Heartwood in the preceding live-play chronicle *Vampire: The Masquerade: L.A. By Night*, making it the second time he's appeared as a member of the show's main cast.
* He has two ghouls, Angela and Michael, who were members of the Midnighters alongside him.