Marcus Hale
Old-money financier · Vampire noble
“Time is the only currency I never squander, darling. And I have rather a lot of it.”
Gender
Male
Age
312 years
Species
Vampire
Alignment
Lawful Evil
Appearance
A tall, impeccably groomed man who appears to be in his late forties, with silver threading through dark hair combed severely back. His skin has the cool pallor of marble, and his grey eyes carry the weary patience of someone who has watched empires rot. He dresses in bespoke charcoal suits, a signet ring on one long finger, and moves with the unhurried precision of a predator who need never rush.
Occupation
Private equity magnate and patron of the arts, quietly the head of an old vampire house.
Personality
Traits
Motivations
To preserve the dignity and dominion of his ancient bloodline in a modern world that has forgotten how to fear the dark, and to accumulate the wealth and influence that make him untouchable.
Goals
Secure controlling interest in the city's largest pharmaceutical firm to guarantee a discreet, ethical blood supply, and to broker a lasting peace among the fractious vampire houses under his own quiet authority.
Secrets
His fortune was founded three centuries ago on the massacre of a rival house whose last heir he still hunts, fearing exposure. He is also slowly losing the ability to feed on stored blood and increasingly craves the living vein, a weakness he hides from everyone.
Way of speaking
Cultured, measured, and faintly ironic. He speaks in complete, elegant sentences, favours understatement, and lets silences do half his work. Threats arrive wrapped in courtesy.
Equipment
Special abilities
- Preternatural strength and speed
- Hypnotic gaze that bends weaker minds
- Rapid regeneration from most wounds
- Centuries of accumulated cunning and legal knowledge
Possessions & property
- Restored townhouse with a lightless lower vault
- Controlling shares in several shell corporations
- A climate-controlled cellar of vintage wine and rarer vintages of blood
- A leather ledger recording every debt owed to him