Kiếm

**Kiếm** is a Toreador active in New York. She is a former hunter, trained to kill vampires long before she ever became one herself. She was sent to kill her sire Amadeus but failed and he embraced her instead. With slightly dubious intentions, Kiem has been searching for her sire as she has had almost no contact with him sence her embrace.

## Biography

Originally from Las Vegas, Kiếm was trained from a very early age by her father to be a hunter, quite possibly on behalf of a larger organization. However, when she was sent to New York to destroy a Toreador named Amadeus, she was instead overpowered and Embraced. Kiếm reveled in her new undead state and the freedoms it brought her, and was endlessly thankful towards her sire as a result. Thus, when Amadeus suddenly disappeared, Kiếm sought out his associate James Rafferty in order to track down his whereabouts.

By working alongside the other Fledgelings which Rafferty had assembled into a coterie, Kiếm eventually discovered that the Ventrue has murdered Amadeus after he threatened to disclose Rafferty's dealings with the Sabbat. However, while confronting Rafferty in his private suite in the *Sterling Hotel*, she quickly found herself outnumbered and was forced to flee (off of a balcony, into a pool several stories below). Her current whereabouts are unknown.

## Character Information

* **Predator Type:** Scene Queen - The Kindred is an active member of a subculture, maintaining status and respect that assists them in finding willing victims.
	+ Predator Pool: Manipulation + Persuasion
* **Specialties**:
	+ Hunting Kindred (raised from childhood as a hunter)
	+ extremely violent performance art incorporating human remains
	+ From her predator type she would choose one specialty of ether **Etiquette** (specific scene), **Leadership** (specific scene), or **Streetwise** (specific scene).
* **Clan Bane**: Aesthetic Fixation- The Toreador exemplify the old saying that art in the blood takes strange forms. They desire beauty so intensely that they suffer in its absence. While your character finds themselves in less than beautiful surroundings, lose the equivalent of their Bane Severity in dice from dice pools to use Disciplines.
* **Clan Compulsion:** Obsession -enraptured by beauty, the vampire becomes temporarily obsessed with a singular gorgeous thing, able to think of nothing else. Pick one feature, such as a person, a song, an artwork, blood spatter, or even a sunrise. Enraptured, the vampire can hardly take their attention from it, and if spoken to, they only talk about that subject. Any other actions receive a two-dice penalty. This Compulsion lasts until they can no longer perceive the beloved object or the scene ends.
* **Advantages and Flaws**
	+ From her predator type she would has to have ether the Influence Flaw (•) (From predator type) - Disliked (outside your subculture) or Feeding Flaw(•) -prey Exclusion (a different subculture than yours)
	+ Fame Advantage(•) (From predator type)
	+ Contact Advantage(•) (From predator type)

#### Disciplines

* Auspex (•)
	+ Level 1: Heightened Senses
* Celerity(•)
	+ Level 1: Cat's Grace, Rapid Reflexes
* Presence(•)
	+ Level 1: Awe, Daunt

## Trivia

* Kiếm is the player character of actress Michelle Nguyen Bradley, a member of the main cast of the live-play chronicle *Vampire: The Masquerade: New York By Night*.
* The word "kiếm" is Vietnamese for 'sword', which also happens to be her preferred type of weapon.