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<div style="text-align: center; border: 1px dotted gray;">[[File:HelenaTaylor.png|x600px]]<br>'''HelenaTaylor'''<br>'''Clan:''' [[Tremereh]]<br>'''Age:''' Ancilla<br>'''Sire:''' [[Jack Weston]]<br>'''Childer:''' [[Cohn Rose]], [[James van Dorn]]<br>'''Status:''' [[Camarilla#Status|Acknowledged, Honorable]]<br>'''Position:''' [[Camarilla#City Offices|Keeper of Elysium]], Primogen of [[Tremere|Clan Tremere]], Regent of [[Tremere|Clan Tremere]]</div>
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<th colspan="2" style="background:#001a33; border-bottom:1px solid #999; font-size:larger; padding:4px; text-align:center;">Helena Taylor</th></tr>
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<td style="padding:4px;"><b>Title</b></td>
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<td style="padding:4px;">[[Regent]] of Washington, DC<br>Tremere [[Primogen]] of Washington, DC</td>
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<tr><th colspan="2" style="background:#001a33; border-top:1px solid #999; border-bottom:1px solid #999; padding:4px; text-align:center;">Character Information</th></tr>
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<td style="padding:4px;"><b>Birth Name</b></td>
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<td style="padding:4px;">Helena Cohen</td>
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<td style="padding:4px;"><b>Other Names</b></td>
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<td style="padding:4px;">Barkai; H-Tizzle; Missy T</td>
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<td style="padding:4px;"><b>Species</b></td>
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<td style="padding:4px;">[[Vampires | Vampire]]</td>
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<td style="padding:4px;"><b>Clan</b></td>
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<td style="padding:4px;">[[Tremere]]</td>
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<td style="padding:4px;"><b>Age</b></td>
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<td style="padding:4px;">[[Elder]]</td>
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<td style="padding:4px;"><b>Gender</b></td>
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<td style="padding:4px;">Female</td>
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<td style="padding:4px;"><b>Orientation</b></td>
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<td style="padding:4px;">Bisexual</td>
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<td style="padding:4px;"><b>Ethnicity</b></td>
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<td style="padding:4px;">Jewish</td>
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<td style="padding:4px;"><b>Birth</b></td>
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<td style="padding:4px;">March 25, 1816<br>London, England</td>
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<td style="padding:4px;"><b>Embrace</b></td>
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<td style="padding:4px;">February 1, 1932<br>London, England</td>
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<td style="padding:4px;"><b>Occupation</b></td>
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<td style="padding:4px;">Chantry Leader</td>
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<td style="padding:4px;"><b>Languages</b></td>
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<td style="padding:4px;">Akkadian, Aramaic, Assyrian, English, German, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Mandarin Chinese, Sumerian, Yiddish</td>
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<td style="padding:4px;"><b>Powers and abilities</b></td>
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<td style="padding:4px;">[[Auspex]]<br>[[Dominate]]<br>[[Thaumaturgy]]<br> &nbsp; &nbsp; <i>[[Biothaumaturgy]]<br> &nbsp; &nbsp; [[Focused Mind]]<br> &nbsp; &nbsp; [[Path of Blood]]<br> &nbsp; &nbsp; [[Technomancy]]</i></td>
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<tr><th colspan="2" style="background:#001a33; border-top:1px solid #999; border-bottom:1px solid #999; padding:4px; text-align:center;">Connection Information</th></tr>
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<td style="padding:4px;"><b>Sect</b></td>
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<td style="padding:4px;">[[Camarilla]]</td>
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<td style="padding:4px;"><b>House</b></td>
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<td style="padding:4px;">type here</td>
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<td style="padding:4px;"><b>Relatives</b></td>
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<td style="padding:4px;">[[Cohn Rose]] (childe)<br>[[Hans Schmidt]] (childe)<br>[[Jack Weston]] (sire)<br>[[James van Dorn]] (childe)</td>
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<td style="padding:4px;"><b>Retainers</b></td>
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<td style="padding:4px;">[[Victor Carewe]]</td>
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<tr style="border-bottom:1px solid #999;">
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<td style="padding:4px;"><b>Character Sheet</b></td>
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<td style="padding:4px;">[http://www.gothambynight.com/DC/charactersheets/HelenaTaylor.html DC Sheet]</td>
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<tr><th colspan="2" style="background:#001a33; border-bottom:1px solid #999; border-top:1px solid #999; padding:4px; text-align:center;">Background Information</th></tr>
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<td style="padding:4px;"><b>Player</b></td>
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<td style="padding:4px;">Anne Myers</td>
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<td style="padding:4px;"><b>Chronicles</b></td>
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<td style="padding:4px;">[[DC Chronicle]]</td>
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<td style="padding:4px;"><b>Archetypes</b></td>
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<td style="padding:4px;">[[Archetypes#Artisan|Artisan]] & [[Archetypes#Scholar|Scholar]]</td>
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<td style="padding:4px;"><b>Astrological Sign</b></td>
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<td style="padding:4px;">Aries</td>
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<tr style="border-bottom:1px solid #999;">
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<td style="padding:4px;"><b>MBTI Personality</b></td>
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<td style="padding:4px;">ENFJ</td>
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</tr>
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</table></div>
 
Being confronted with Helena is a little bit like being suddenly confronted by the brightest, most happily smiling administrator ever to ask for pertinent details before telling someone to have a nice day.  Helena is beautiful, true, but most people notice her overflowingly energetic personality first, which causes her to be in constant motion, talking to everyone and anyone who might be useful to her at the moment and doing her best to maintain a wide web of connections for future interactions as well.  She is and always has been as committed to Clan Tremere's goals as it is possible to be, and those who meet her tend to come away dazed, aware only that she spoke a mile a minute and that they may or may not have given something important away in the general chaos.
 
Being confronted with Helena is a little bit like being suddenly confronted by the brightest, most happily smiling administrator ever to ask for pertinent details before telling someone to have a nice day.  Helena is beautiful, true, but most people notice her overflowingly energetic personality first, which causes her to be in constant motion, talking to everyone and anyone who might be useful to her at the moment and doing her best to maintain a wide web of connections for future interactions as well.  She is and always has been as committed to Clan Tremere's goals as it is possible to be, and those who meet her tend to come away dazed, aware only that she spoke a mile a minute and that they may or may not have given something important away in the general chaos.
  
== Mortal Life ==
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== Biography ==
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=== Mortal Life ===
 
From an unremarkable middle-class family in an unremarkable London slum, Helena became a magician's assistant in the mid-nineteenth century, working as a bird-catcher and scantily-clad trick subject for The Fantastic Fanzini, in fact a working-class man from Kent who bilked audiences for as much as he could get away with.  Helena was somewhat dazzled by the promise of a life in show business, but soon learned that it was mostly faded recycled clothing, cleaning bird droppings off of tools, and slapping her boss out of a drunk in time to get on stage every night.
 
From an unremarkable middle-class family in an unremarkable London slum, Helena became a magician's assistant in the mid-nineteenth century, working as a bird-catcher and scantily-clad trick subject for The Fantastic Fanzini, in fact a working-class man from Kent who bilked audiences for as much as he could get away with.  Helena was somewhat dazzled by the promise of a life in show business, but soon learned that it was mostly faded recycled clothing, cleaning bird droppings off of tools, and slapping her boss out of a drunk in time to get on stage every night.
[[File:HelenaHappy.jpg|400px|right|Helena doing what she does best]]
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Life became more interesting, however, when her boss sent her on a mission to investigate the operations of a rival magician, Marvo the Marvellous, who was siphoning off crowds and considerably cutting into their already strained finances.  Helena went undercover as a magician's assistant-for-hire for Marvo, but discovered to her surprise and joy that he was in fact an actual magician with real powers.  She promptly quit her job, leaving Fanzini to find a new assistant, and begged Marvo to take her on as an assistant until she wore him down and he reluctantly agreed.
 
Life became more interesting, however, when her boss sent her on a mission to investigate the operations of a rival magician, Marvo the Marvellous, who was siphoning off crowds and considerably cutting into their already strained finances.  Helena went undercover as a magician's assistant-for-hire for Marvo, but discovered to her surprise and joy that he was in fact an actual magician with real powers.  She promptly quit her job, leaving Fanzini to find a new assistant, and begged Marvo to take her on as an assistant until she wore him down and he reluctantly agreed.
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[[File:HelenaHappy.jpg|300px|left|Helena doing what she does best]]
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=== Embrace ===
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Under Marvo's tutelage, Helena studied night and day, performed constant spells she designed herself as well as experiments that constantly backfired, and made her boss's life a living hell as she refused to let go of her determination to learn magic.  Much to her delight and his surprise, she eventually accidentally succeeded, becoming a full-blown [[Mages|Mage]] almost overnight.
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Unfortunately, this led to Marvo, whose name was actually Jack Weston and who was a Tremere vampire and former member of the [[Mages|Order of Hermes]], to spring into action to prevent her from accidentally doing anything that would endanger the Masquerade.  Rather than risk her recognizing him as a vampire and possibly destroying him, he immediately Embraced her in order to stifle her latent powers and [[Blood Bond]] her into obeying him; this successfully prevented her from developing into a threatening magical presence, but left him with a new vampire with an incredibly excited outlook on the world and a lot of energy to put toward acquiring new blood magics.  He passed her off to the London Chantry rather than trying to train her himself, where she spent fifty years studying and proposing an endless stream of rituals.
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=== The Grand Guignol ===
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=== Death ===
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== Personal Life ==
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== Abilities ==
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== Embrace ==
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=== Skills ===
Under Marvo's tutelage, Helena studied night and day, performed constant spells she designed herself as well as experiments that constantly backfired, and made her boss's life a living hell as she refused to let go of her determination to learn magic. Much to her delight and his surprise, she eventually accidentally succeeded, becoming a Mage almost overnight.
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Unfortunately, this led to Marvo, whose name was actually Jack Weston and who was a Tremere vampire and former member of the [[Mages|Order of Hermes]], to spring into action to prevent her from accidentally doing anything that would endanger the Masquerade. Rather than risk her recognizing him as a vampire and possibly destroying him, he immediately Embraced her in order to stifle her latent powers and [[Blood Bond]] her into obeying him; this successfully prevented her from developing into a threatening magical presence, but left him with a new vampire with an incredibly excited outlook on the world and a lot of energy to put toward acquiring new blood magics. He passed her off to the London Chantry rather than trying to train her himself, where she spent fifty years studying and proposing an endless stream of rituals.
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=== Powers ===
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== Activity in Washington, DC ==
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== Alternative Versions ==
Having thoroughly learned from all her London mentors and designed several new paths of ritual that her superiors dutifully promised to follow up on, Helena was transferred to the New World, where it was hoped that her boundless energy would be well-spent in consolidating Tremere power on the frontier. Helena surpassed their expectations, successfully building up relations with other clans, performing favors for important Kindred in order to gain boons for the chantry, and supporting [[Marissa]] into a successful bid for the Princeship, and eventually the clan was forced to install her as Regent somewhat by default.
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To date, Helena does not seem to have any direct connections to the Mage orders in Washington, DC, but as a former one of their ranks, she is always on the lookout for any magical activity that she might be able to turn to the clan's advantage.
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==== See Also ====
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''[[Helena Taylor Scenes | Scenes with Helena Taylor]]''
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Latest revision as of 11:12, 23 September 2021

Helena Taylor


Helena Taylor
HelenaTaylor.png
Title Regent of Washington, DC
Tremere Primogen of Washington, DC
Character Information
Birth Name Helena Cohen
Other Names Barkai; H-Tizzle; Missy T
Species Vampire
Clan Tremere
Age Elder
Gender Female
Orientation Bisexual
Ethnicity Jewish
Birth March 25, 1816
London, England
Embrace February 1, 1932
London, England
Occupation Chantry Leader
Languages Akkadian, Aramaic, Assyrian, English, German, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Mandarin Chinese, Sumerian, Yiddish
Powers and abilities Auspex
Dominate
Thaumaturgy
    Biothaumaturgy
    Focused Mind
    Path of Blood
    Technomancy
Connection Information
Sect Camarilla
House type here
Relatives Cohn Rose (childe)
Hans Schmidt (childe)
Jack Weston (sire)
James van Dorn (childe)
Retainers Victor Carewe
Character Sheet DC Sheet
Background Information
Player Anne Myers
Chronicles DC Chronicle
Archetypes Artisan & Scholar
Astrological Sign Aries
MBTI Personality ENFJ

Being confronted with Helena is a little bit like being suddenly confronted by the brightest, most happily smiling administrator ever to ask for pertinent details before telling someone to have a nice day. Helena is beautiful, true, but most people notice her overflowingly energetic personality first, which causes her to be in constant motion, talking to everyone and anyone who might be useful to her at the moment and doing her best to maintain a wide web of connections for future interactions as well. She is and always has been as committed to Clan Tremere's goals as it is possible to be, and those who meet her tend to come away dazed, aware only that she spoke a mile a minute and that they may or may not have given something important away in the general chaos.

Biography

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Mortal Life

From an unremarkable middle-class family in an unremarkable London slum, Helena became a magician's assistant in the mid-nineteenth century, working as a bird-catcher and scantily-clad trick subject for The Fantastic Fanzini, in fact a working-class man from Kent who bilked audiences for as much as he could get away with. Helena was somewhat dazzled by the promise of a life in show business, but soon learned that it was mostly faded recycled clothing, cleaning bird droppings off of tools, and slapping her boss out of a drunk in time to get on stage every night.

Life became more interesting, however, when her boss sent her on a mission to investigate the operations of a rival magician, Marvo the Marvellous, who was siphoning off crowds and considerably cutting into their already strained finances. Helena went undercover as a magician's assistant-for-hire for Marvo, but discovered to her surprise and joy that he was in fact an actual magician with real powers. She promptly quit her job, leaving Fanzini to find a new assistant, and begged Marvo to take her on as an assistant until she wore him down and he reluctantly agreed.

Helena doing what she does best

Embrace

Under Marvo's tutelage, Helena studied night and day, performed constant spells she designed herself as well as experiments that constantly backfired, and made her boss's life a living hell as she refused to let go of her determination to learn magic. Much to her delight and his surprise, she eventually accidentally succeeded, becoming a full-blown Mage almost overnight.

Unfortunately, this led to Marvo, whose name was actually Jack Weston and who was a Tremere vampire and former member of the Order of Hermes, to spring into action to prevent her from accidentally doing anything that would endanger the Masquerade. Rather than risk her recognizing him as a vampire and possibly destroying him, he immediately Embraced her in order to stifle her latent powers and Blood Bond her into obeying him; this successfully prevented her from developing into a threatening magical presence, but left him with a new vampire with an incredibly excited outlook on the world and a lot of energy to put toward acquiring new blood magics. He passed her off to the London Chantry rather than trying to train her himself, where she spent fifty years studying and proposing an endless stream of rituals.

The Grand Guignol

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Death

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Personal Life

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Abilities

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Skills

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Powers

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See Also

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DC Player Vampires Angelique StravinskyAstrid IvarsdottirCasper IverssonChas VoyagerColin ThomasDamien CampbellDanny WheytonEvelyn SummerfieldGideon TychaeusHelena TaylorHope GutierrezIan KrossJack WilsonJacque BeaumontJean Claude DanutJessica HoevenJimmy FrancettiLily TrevelyanMaeve GlaistigMarcus AureliusNorman HaynesOlivia RothPhilippos de GreciaPieter Van ReiseQuincy MonroeRaven DanteRosalina de LeonTatsuya YukimuraVanessa KeasleyXander Savage
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