Schuyler grow up.
Cordelia was attacked by a powerful young Silver Blood during the New York slayings of 2006, but fortunately did not suffer from Full Consumption. Before her “death,” she pressed upon Schuyler to find her grandfather, Lawrence Van Alen, whom Cordelia guessed was still living in Venice.
Current Status: Expired in this cycle. Will return in the next Expression.
LAWRENCE VAN ALEN
Metraton, Heavenly Scribe
Birth Name: Lawrence Theodore Winslow Van Alen (also called “Teddy”)
Origin: Enmortal. Does not adhere to the cycle of Expression and Expiration.
Known Past Lives: John Carver (Plymouth), Ludivivo Arosto
(Florence), Gnaeus Magnus Pompey (Rome)
Bondmate: Cordelia Van Alen
Assigned Human Conduit: Christopher Anderson
List of Human Familiars: Unknown
Physical Characteristics:
Hair: White (blond in his younger years)
Eyes: Blue
Height: 6’0”
Until recent events cleared his name and reputation, Lawrence
Van Alen was considered by many in the Coven to be an agitator, a traitor, and a troublemaker. Upon the founding of the
New World, as John Carver, he lost his prominent position in the Conclave after losing the White Vote. The council had voted to follow Myles Standish (Michael), as they have always done, regardless of the suspected return of the Silver Bloods.
Lawrence was a prodigious reader and writer of historical books, and was the founding director of the Repository of
History. Many of the books in our library are from his personal collection. During his tenure as Committee Warden (1710
-1790), he made the secondary and collegiate education of young Blue Bloods a necessary provision to their progression, regardless of their ability to remember the knowledge gleaned from past cycles. According to his speech before the Conclave, “Blue Bloods must understand our place in the world before we can attempt to change it. You may be able to call up an entire encyclopedia, but nothing is more meaningless than a brain with no heart and no reasoning.”
An Enmortal, he bonded to Cordelia Benjamin in 1859 and disappeared from the Coven’s records after his self-imposed exile around 1873 (dates still unconfirmed). According to
Cordelia’s diaries, they had decided to separate, believing that
Lawrence would be safer conducting his research on his own.
For as long as he lived, he believed that the Silver Bloods had infiltrated the highest echelons of the Conclave.
According to Conduit Hazard-Perry’s notes, Lawrence was hiding in plain sight as a professor of linguistics and history at the University of Venice. Upon his return to the New York Coven after the attack at the Repository, Lawrence immediately called for the White Vote and won the title of Regis. During his brief tenure as head of the Coven, he opened up the Repository
Files on the Croatan/Silver Bloods and was instrumental in allowing the Venator teams to re-form and return to their full power in order to meet the growing threat of the Silver Bloods’ return.
During his investigation into troubling events in Rio de
Janeiro, Lawrence was slain, allegedly by Leviathan himself.
Eyewitnesses at the scene are not credible: Bliss Llewellyn does not remember anything, Oliver Hazard-Perry is human
(Red Blood testimony is inadmissible), and Schuyler Van Alen is a person of interest in the investigation and has yet to be brought in front of a full tribunal to ascertain the truths of the events on the night in question.
Lawrence’s prodigious research notes, labeled only Van
Alen, Legacy—Paths, have been missing since his Conduit retired from service. It is the Repository’s belief that these documents are now in the hands of Schuyler Van Alen.
Current Status. Finished. (If the Conclave is to believe Schuyler’s account, the Enmortal has been extinguished forever from the Light.)
STEPHEN CHASE
Human Familiar
Birth Name: Stephen Bendix Chase
Origin: September 1, 1967, San Francisco, California
Bondmate: Allegra Van Alen Chase
Physical Characteristics: (according to high school records)
Hair: Blond
Eyes: Blue
Height: 6’3”
Not much is known about Stephen Chase, Schuyler Van Alen’s
Red Blood father. In fact, according to the official records, his name is misspelled with a “V” (“Steven Chase” according to the
Van Alen family tree in Masquerade [Repository Record #202]).
This could be a result of Allegra Van Alen’s hope to keep the identity of her human familiar a secret, or a result of a common clerical error. Allegra always maintained that she met Stephen, an artist in San Francisco, at his gallery opening in 1990.
However, new documents unearthed by a research team led by