Basic Information
Birth Name: Alexander Hadrian Westmoreland
Aliases: Alex West
Gender: Male
Place of Birth: Calcutta, India
Date of Birth: November 5, 1763
Date of Turning: August, 1799
Real Age: 243
Apparent Age: mid 30s
Current Occupation: Private language tutor and fencing instructor (more out of avoiding boredom than necessity).
Past Occupation: Career officer in the British Army, India.
Appearance
Hair Color: Black
Length and Style: Short back and sides, fringe on front.
Eye Color: Light Blue
Skin Color: Looks like he has been on vacation in the tropics, tanned
Height: 6ft 3in
Weight: 180lbs
Nationality: Current citizen of the United States with no criminal record. Former citizen of the United Kingdom with no criminal record, presumed deceased.
Race: Vampire
Body Type: Athletic. Build similar to that of a trained middleweight boxer.
Personal Questions
1) Describe your characters personality:
Alexander is polite, courteous and a well-spoken. For someone of his age and privileged background, he is highly tolerant, open minded and agreeable. But Alexander can be as equally ruthless as he is discrete. He does not flinch from confrontation and will not hesitate to fight and even kill if the situation demands it. After all, he was and still considers himself to be an officer and a gentleman.
2) Describe how your character would appear to a stranger:
Alexander tends to wears tastefully tailored suits of the latest style. It is easy to assume his bearing and stride for that of someone who has served in the armed forces.
3) Character Likes:
Alexander is an avid reader and filmgoer of varying tastes, and in recent years has developed an interest in computer military strategy games. He also enjoys gambling, economics and playing the stock market.
4) Character Dislikes:
Alexander doesn’t understand the point of most modern art, and doesn’t listen to most contemporary music. He has utter contempt for men who mistreat women and children, or whom drink, swear and gamble to excess.
6) Character Fears?
Anachronism: Alexander fears becoming an anachronism and that one night he will awaken to find he is in a world he doesn’t comprehend and worse that he doesn’t want to continue living in.
Internment: Alexander dreads being staked and buried, or otherwise interned and unable to escape. He has terrible memories of his time alone at sea and has no wish to suffer the same ordeal.
Phobia: Alexander is secretly afraid of snakes. He was bitten by a cobra as a child and was nearly killed. He spent almost two years as a sickly youth because of the experience and the irrational fear has lasted through his adult and vampiric unlife.
7)
Character's strengths?
Combatant: Alexander knows how to hold his own in a fight and is highly skilled with a blade or musket pistol. In the last century he has trained in the usage of small handguns and the art of boxing.
Disciplined: Alexander is highly disciplined and keeps a tight reign on his emotions. He is slow to anger, is not easily shaken, and even when provoked maintains a steely resolve in the face of conflict and adversity. This is as much a result of his training from the days when military officers were expected to lead men calmly into battle through cannon and musket fire, as it is the expected behaviour of a proper gentleman.
Economics: Throughout the centuries Alexander has managed to profit due to his continuing interest in economics. He is an exceptionally skilled stock trader and investment opportunist who has prospered over the centuries through an almost uncanny ability to predict the economic winds of fortune.
Character Weaknesses?
Aloofness: While Alexander is generally a pleasant vampire to be around, he does maintain aloofness towards those of a lower social standing. Alexander strongly believes in Calvinism and though he does not openly display disdain or contempt for the lower classes, his aloof attitude is often mistaken as patronizing and arrogant. Alexander is more inclined to be respectful of women irrespective of social status, than he is of men.
Gambling: Whether it is craps, baccarat, horse racing or a simple wager between friends, Alexander has a weakness for gambling. He’s not a compulsive gambler as such, but enjoys making wagers as it was an accepted gentleman’s pastime during his lifetime.
Honourable: There are certain drawbacks to being an officer and a gentleman. Alexander feels obligated to protect his own honour if he is personally challenged. He will also not hesitate to stand up for friends and women who have been wronged in public. In the past, such behaviour has led to confrontations with duelling pistols and swords. In modern nights it has included bare fist fighting and the highly dangerous practise of duelling another vampire with stakes.
Hobbies & Skills
Alexander was always academically inclined and benefited from the best tutors his father could afford during the 1700s. He is fluent in English and at least four other European languages including Latin, as well as the Indian dialects of Hindi, Punjabi and Sanskrit. He is also an accomplished rider, pugilist and swordsman and has managed to adjust relatively well to the culture, technology and fashion over the passing centuries.
Abilities:
Command
Coat of Arms
Gliding
Flaws:
Heavy sleeper - Alexander truly believes he is a dead being and as such he ‘returns to death’s embrace’ with each new day. This belief makes it exceedingly difficult to wake him during daylight hours.
Won’t feed on children - Alexander considers such behaviour reprehensible and repulsive.
Cosmetic Traits:
Old and faded battle scars caused by musket shot, spear thrusts and sword cuts. On chest, back and left thigh.
Quirks and Habits worthy of mention:
Alexander can be prone to falling back on rules of etiquette and honour that are woefully outdated in the modern world. Such behaviour ranks from quaint to irritating depending on the situation.
Personal History:
Alexander Hadrian Westmoreland was born and raised in India. His father was an influential diplomat in the powerful and prosperous British East India Company. His mother died of fever soon after giving birth to him. Alexander was an only child.
At the age of 18 Alexander entered the British Army as a newly commissioned Lieutenant, and would later go on to eventually obtain the rank of Major. Alexander would see action in India when the British Army fought against the Kingdom of Mysore during the Second, Third and Fourth Anglo-Mysore Wars during the 1780s and 1790s.
It was during the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War that Alexander, serving under Colonel Arthur Wellesley’s (the future Duke of Wellington) command, was badly wounded as he led the Forlorn Hope charge to breach the walls of the fortress city of Srirangapatnam.
Alexander eventually recovered from his injuries but he was severely weakened. The decision was made to send him to Calcutta to recuperate at his father’s estate. For unknown reasons, Alexander’s health continued to deteriorate rapidly. In August of 1799 Alexander Hadrain Westmoreland died and his body was sent back to England on a cargo ship to be buried.
The ship and its crew never made it to England. The wreckage of the ship would turn up six months later off the coast of California, with no clue as to what had happened to the crew and the ships contents of precious jewels, exotic spices, and gold and silver.
Creator:
Name: Chiun
Age: Unknown
Last known Location: United States
India was not Chiun’s choice for a diplomatic posting. Calcutta was not home. And the blustery English with their talk of being a beacon of modern civilization was as much a headache to Chiun as the blistering Indian sun that made moving around during the day almost intolerable.
But it was the will of the Triad that Chiun come to this land and keep watch on what the Empire building British were doing. Chiun cursed softly. The Chinese had a truly worthy culture and civilization when the English were little more than filthy barbarians hunting wild boar with makeshift spears and rutting like animals in the forests of their tiny, insignificant isle.
But no matter how much he resented being in Calcutta, Chiun would never go against the will of the Triad. Loyalty, honour, and obedience beyond death.
At least the son of Westmoreland Senior was interesting. For an uncouth barbarian in a red uniform, the young man could be surprisingly civilized. He never failed to pay his proper respects to his father, gave Chiun and the other non-European dignitaries and diplomats the respect they deserved, treated the local Indian population like people instead of subjects. A rarity amongst Englishmen.
It was all thanks to Westmoreland Senior of course. Chiun and the English diplomat had known each other almost twenty years, and in that time Chiun had come to think of Westmoreland Senior as acceptably civilized. That his son would turn out the same wasn’t so surprising after all.
Chiun had carefully watched the son grow into a young man while he plied the father for trade secrets and other pieces of useful information.
And now the son was dying. By all accounts the young Westmoreland had acquitted himself well on the field of battle, and taken as many wounds as he delivered. That he did not die was a testament to his strength of will. And that he refused to succumb to fever back at his father’s estate impressed Chiun even more.
Perhaps there was a future for young Westmoreland after all. Chiun thought on the matter for some weeks, and his dispatch met with favourable approval from his superiors. He would have six months to instruct young Westmoreland. Chiun smiled slightly, it had been a while since he had found a worthy potential.
No one really knows who created Chiun, and he refuses to answer any questions on his origin. His response is always the same. If the Triad wishes you to know, you will know. Chiun's first loyalty is to the Clan. Anything else is just a minor inconvenience. What is known about Chiun is that he comes from the China and has alternately followed the tenants of the Order of the Rose and the Order of the Hunt, depending on which role the Triad has assigned to him through the centuries.
Sporadic sightings over the centuries have placed Chiun in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Many Elders have never heard of him, and the Triad has preferred it remain that way. Chiun’s progeny almost inevitably join the Order of the Hunt. He has a history of providing the Clan with its most loyal defenders and enforcers.
Chiun has not been seen in public for almost a hundred years, and there is speculation amongst those few Elders that know of Chiun that he is either dead, in self-imposed isolation, or secretly working the will of the Triad. No-one really knows for sure, save the members of Triad themselves. And they aren’t talking.
Alexander doesn't know the true identity of his creator. All he knows is that the strange little Asian man tormented him with painful lessons and an unending barrage of tasks across the Pacific Ocean and for fifty years on the North American continent. Chiun introduced Alexander to the Clan when he felt the young vampire was fit enough for the Initiation Rites, and then promptly exited Alexander's vampiric life.
Alexander hasn't seen Mr. Chao (as Chiun called himself) since though he has never forgotten what he was taught. Honour, loyalty, and obidience to the Clan beyond death.
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