Grigori Anastos

**Aliases:** none recorded

**Clan:** Ventrue

**Sect:** Camarilla

**Status:** 5 (Prince): Chivalrous, Eminent, Exalted, Famous, Resourceful, Well-connected, Well-known, *Precarious,* *Unconventional*

**Merits/Flaws:** *Overextended*

### **Curriculum Vitae**

 Embraced in Europe, Anastos served the House of Hardestadt in relative obscurity, one of many competent but young Lords of the Ventrue. In fact, he came to basically no account until turning up one day in the 1930's, out of the blue, in the western United States, and making investments both public and covert into a rural farming area called Ashtown Station about halfway down the rail line between the ports at San Francisco and the oil in Los Angeles.

There he stayed, his unpredictable (he now calls it "maverick") strategies and ability to attract and recruit a wide range of socially unusual allies keeping his unlikely Domain afloat through the Second Anarch Revolt and the formation of the Free States; Ash Town is now the third largest city in Southern California and remains (at least nominally) a Camarilla bastion.

### **"We cannot control the evil tongues of others..."**

* Anastos has claimed to be of the line of Hardestadt, by Jürgen of Magdeburg, and no Ventrue has contradicted him.
	+ Certainly he was recorded among the entourage that served Hardestadt at the Convention of Thorns.
	+ But was it when Hardestadt was younger or elder?
* Grigori Anastos is stuck out there in the wild frontier of the New World because his diableries have had him driven from the civilised domains of Europe.
	+ Clan Tremere has testified to the contrary (though being fair, the witness was at the time *Anastos' own Seneschal*).
* Anastos does not seek to preserve his lost humanity; he bases his morals on the ancient Ventrue code *Via Regalis*.
* You want to know how the General keeps out from under this dusty old suit? When one of us opens his mouth a little *too* wide, the General gets a phone call, and sends out his enforcers.
	+ Seriously, keep that guy's name out your mouth. Last time The General got one of these calls we had to replace every piece of furniture in that big-ass office of his.

* Dude I don't even know where to start with the Herald thing:
	+ I heard Anastos is Adelaide's biological father.
	+ I also heard he's her Christian Grey S&M suit-daddy.
	+ I *also* heard he's actually her gimp-mask nipple-boi.
	+ And then there's people who think they're doing all three of those at once.
	+ A Torrie (no I'm not naming names) told me once he pimps her out to his cabal.
		- The last Ventrue Primogen told me though that "Anastos' Cabal" is really just Lehner's bitch-harem (but he might have been being metaphorical I guess).
	+ Dude I heard he bought her off her sire over a defaulted debt.
	+ This old Brujah I used to know who'd been here since like World War II told me once Anastos used to beat her every night until she stopped cringing away from him.
		- Yeah, that's why she has the amnesia bro.
	+ Anastos has tried a few times over the decades to court several (three that went public?) political matches, but Lehner contrives to destroy them every time.
	+ They're bonded to each other.
		- Nah, *she's* bonded to *him*. But she obviously regrets it now.
			* No dude, she regrets that *she* bound *him*.
				+ No fucking shit, he acts fucking goo-goo for her every time she's around.
* "Son"? "Make your father proud"? "And the bloodline...?" to the Herald and she nods yes? Five bucks says the new kid is their *actual kid*.
	+ And the weird fucking way he said his Traditions? What the fuck is going on here?