Diego, all he ever wanted was to have a small farm, a wife, and children. Which he finally got in his later years.
Only to lose it all when a rival Land Owner wanted his property to expand his farm and assets. His wife and child were killed, and his name destroyed. Leaving his home, he ran into El Cid. He gave him the opportunity for revenge.
He took it.
To finish the month off – we’ve been working through Integridad for images!
Azeem’s family were Chosen Ones for as long as he could remember. He grew up in Trujillo, working on Maximus’ land. He learned a lot from Maximus and Quintus and when the time was right he went to them asking to be Turned.
Most of Harry’s life has sucked. He was always told he kinda looked like Stark, but more messy and pathetic.
When trying to escape a burglary gone wrong he ended up in a casting session, winning over the producers who wanted to screen test him for a role.
At a Hollywood party he met Perry.
The rest of the story is a sad Hollywood plot that even he couldn’t get his head around. By the end of it, he discovered the role went to Kirk Lazarus. The bastard.
Perry showed up, kidnapped him, and took him to Spain to explain about past lives and Vampires. Harry wished he had told him before he lost his fingers! He agreed to be Turned and the two Mated soon after.
Madmartigan was the son of a noble family of Galladoorn. He was given impeccable schooling, so that someday would ascend to administrative duties of the kingdom.
However, he was far too restless, reckless and truant as a child. He would escape his lessons in the palace to visit the bazaars and became friends with a group of Eastern horsemen who taught him horseback riding and archery. At age ten, he was able to save his friends from bloodthirsty bandits by slaying them. The famed swordsman Roniro noticed his raw talent and took the boy as an apprentice and taught the lost art of sushin, but died shortly after Madmartigan reached knighthood. Madmartigan befriended Airk Thaughbaer, but never spent time with his fellow knights, preferring the company of caravan drivers.
When he fell in love with a princess and was forced to choose between breaking the knight’s code or his own heart. Not happy with a mere Knight courting his daughter, her father convinced her that Madmartigan had been cheating on her, the princess accused him for revealing court secrets to her. Thus Madmartigan lost all honor along with the armor and stature of knighthood.
As a punishment Madmartigan was led to the crow’s cage at the Crossroads where he was left to die. He was freed by Willow Ufgood, who was seeking someone to watch over baby Elora, the heir to the throne.
Madmartigan took the infant to one of his many women acquaintances but the baby was kidnapped. Willow found the baby and Madmartigan, only for the two to barely escape the tavern with their lives and the baby.
Those looking for the infant, to secure the throne for themselves. Captured the small group, while again escaping Madmartigan kidnapped Sorsha, the daughter of the reigning Queen. Through the events, the two fell in love. She turned against her mother to help him in the final battle, only to loose her life defending him.
The battle against the Queen was defeated, giving the kingdom to those worth, and in time Elora would take the thrown.
Pedro and Nasir were traveling in the small area, hearing of the small war. When they arrived in the kingdom, they found Madmartigan, head of the new Knights protecting Elora. Pedro picked up the cough that wracked his body despite the fact he hid it well.
When he confronted him, he admitted the battle would be his death, just taking a lot longer. After he got the whole story from him, Pedro gave him a new opportunity.
Máximo barely knew his father, and though his mother loved him dearly had a hard time taking care of him. He ended up on the streets trying to survive, when was taken in by Aguilar. It didn’t take him long to see Aguilar as a father figure.
Aguilar made sure he was educated, and had him work in Nerha Silks to learn a trade. As a young boy Máximo had a crush on Aguilar’s oldest, Josephine, and was devastated to learn she loved another. During that situation, Máximo learned that his father had a twin brother, Callum, and a hidden identity as an Assassin.
He trained with two of the for a year, taking the pressure off Aguilar during that time.
Maximo ended up going to Maysaf where he trained for ten years, and became a Master Assassin. He returned home with Aguilar, and started to take over the business. Knowing that Aguilar would soon have to ‘die/disappear’ he asked to be Turned.
Aguilar and his twin brother Callum were born October 21st in the year of our lord 1460 AD and was in Masyaf.
They’re parents were Assassins, the little they knew of them, was that their father, Sebastiano was from Spain and their mother, Brigit, who was from Ireland. Their father was trained at Masyaf, who on a mission, fell in love with Brigit, brought her back and trained her. The two had been killed during the Spanish Inquisition, a year after the boys had been born. They ended up raised by the Assassin Order, and trained to follow in their parents footsteps.
When they set out on their own missions, Aguilar went to Spain, while Callum went to Ireland.
Aguilar took over the missions their parents had been killed. Hunting down Templars that were using the Spanish Inquisition for their own goals.
He ended up meeting Maria, saving her from a local ‘Inquisitor’. She had made it clear that she wouldn’t bow to the the false church, and become their whore. Aguilar fell for her instantly, the two ended up married six months later – solidify his cover as a Silk Merchant.
She knew about his Assassin work, and patched him up when he would return home. Over the years she bore him three daughters – but refused to let him train any of them.
While working on a mission with Maximus, Aguilar was mortally wounded. There was no doubt in his mind, he would be Turned.
(Note: Here are some of the characters mentioned in stories during Advent!)
Constanza was the only child, and loved dearly by her parents. She lost her mother to illness when she was a young child, her father though devastated from the loss of his wife, made sure his girl was loved and raised well.
He encouraged her to try new things, let her be what she wanted to be.
Constanza loved the outdoors, testing her limits, and soon found her running parkour around the city.
She met Ysabel one of her more trickier runs, that ended up bring the police into the situation. The two ended up becoming friends, and it upset her greatly when Ysabel disappeared for a few years. During that time she lost her father, and with the money he left, she was able to open her own Parkour School.
Her life changed when Ysabel came back into her life.
Integridad: Hunter
Ysabel was the third daughter of a Merchant family. She was nothing like her sisters, had no interest in being a wife or mother. She spoke her mind, drank with the boys, and had no problem finding a solution to her problems.
Which was what led her to Nerha Silks looking for Máximo, trying to make a deal with him to marry her, as she wasn’t happy her father promised her hand in marriage to an Don, whose granddaughter was five years younger than Ysabel. Instead Aguilar offered her the title of widow.
She instantly forced her way into the small family. It didn’t take her long to learn about Assassins, which she demanded to be trained, and when she learned about Vampires she just gave Máximo a look. He sighed and Turned her.
Máximo barely knew his father, and though his mother loved him dearly had a hard time taking care of him. He ended up on the streets trying to survive, when was taken in by Aguilar. It didn’t take him long to see Aguilar as a father figure.
Aguilar made sure he was educated, and had him work in Nerha Silks to learn a trade. As a young boy Máximo had a crush on Aguilar’s oldest, Josephine, and was devastated to learn she loved another. During that situation, Máximo learned that his father had a twin brother, Callum, and a hidden identity as an Assassin.
He trained with two of the for a year, taking the pressure off Aguilar during that time.
Maximo ended up going to Maysaf where he trained for ten years, and became a Master Assassin. He returned home with Aguilar, and started to take over the business. Knowing that Aguilar would soon have to ‘die/disappear’ he asked to be Turned.
(Figured would introduce the new guys!)
Mateo grew up in a small village outside Murcia. His family had always supported the Assassins, by providing a safe place, food, healing or anything else they needed. When he was six years old an Assassin had come into the village, wounded looking for a place to rest and hide. The neighbor family had taken him in, Mateo had watched from his own home fascinated by the man.
Days later the Templars rode into the town searching for the Assassin. When they couldn’t find him, they destroyed the village, killing everyone. Mateo survived because his mother covered him with her own body. Aguilar and Máximo found him, and took him back to Madrid.
He attached himself to Aguilar pretty fast, hiding behind the imposing man. As a kid he hadn’t understood why Máximo had disappeared, it wasn’t until after he trained to be a Master Assassin, and learned about Vampires he understood.
Mateo took a vow of silence after everything he had experienced. The only time he speaks is when he renews his vow of the Creed. One of the other time he spoke was when he requested to be Turned.
In 1328, Peter’s father, Afonso IV arranged for the marriage of his eldest daughter, Maria, to Alfonso XI of Castile. In 1334, she bore him a son, who ultimately became Peter of Castile. However, Maria returned home to her father in Portugal in 1335 because her royal husband soon after their marriage had begun a long affair with the beautiful and newly widowed Leonor de Guzman, which the Castilian king refused to end. Alfonso’s cousin, Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena, had been rebuffed by the Castilian king in 1327 when the two-year child marriage between his daughter Constanza (granddaughter of James II of Aragon) and Alfonso had been annulled to clear the way for the marriage to Maria. For two years Juan Manuel had waged war against the Castilians, who had kept Constanza hostage, until Bishop John del Campo of Oviedo mediated a peace in 1329.
Enraged by Alfonso’s infidelity and mistreatment of his lawful wife, her father made a new alliance with the powerful Castilian aristocrat. Afonso married his son and heir, Peter, to Constanza, thereby allying himself with Juan Manuel. When Constanza arrived in Portugal in 1340, Inês de Castro, the beautiful and aristocratic daughter of a prominent Galicianfamily (with links albeit through illegitimacy, to the Portuguese and Castilian royal families), accompanied her as her lady-in-waiting.
Peter soon fell in love with Inês, and the two conducted a long love affair that lasted until Inês’s murder in 1355. Constanza died in 1345, weeks after giving birth to Fernando, who eventually became the first of Peter’s sons to succeed him as king of Portugal. The scandal of Peter’s affair with Inês, and its political ramifications, caused Afonso to banish Inês from court after Constanza died. Peter refused to marry any of the princesses his father suggested as a second wife; and the king refused to allow his son to marry Inês as Peter wanted. The two aristocratic lovers began living together in secret. According to the chronicle of Fernão Lopes, during this period, Peter began giving Inês’s brothers, exiles from the Castilian court, important positions in Portugal and they became the heir-apparent’s closest advisors. This alarmed Afonso. He worried that upon his death, civil war could tear the country apart, or the Portuguese throne would fall into Castilian hands, either as Juan Manuel fought to avenge his daughter’s honor, or the de Castro brothers supported their sister. Peter claimed that he had married Inês against his father’s orders. In any event, in 1355, Afonso sent three men to find Inês at the Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Velha in Coimbra, where she was detained, and they decapitated her in front of one of her young children. Enraged, Peter revolted against his father. Afonso defeated his son within a year, but died shortly thereafter, and Peter succeeded to the throne in 1357. The love affair and father-son conflict inspired more than twenty operas and many writers, including: the Portuguese national epic Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões, the Spanish “Nise lastimosa” and “Nise laureada” (1577) by Jerónimo Bermúdez and ‘Reinar despues de morir’ by Luís Vélez de Guevara, as well as “Inez de Castro” by Mary Russell Mitford and Henry de Montherlant’s French drama La Reine morte.
It was after after the loss Inês he was approached by his grandmother Elizabeth, who told him about Vampires, and told him she was sure Inês was Peter’s Mate.
He agreed to be Turned.
Born in 1271 into the royal house of Aragon, Elizabeth was the daughter of Infante Peter (later King King Peter III) and his wife Constance of Sicily and the sister of three kings: Alfonso II and James II of Aragon and Frederick III of Sicily.
Elizabeth showed an early enthusiasm for her faith. She said the full Divine Office daily, fasted and did other penance, as well as attended twice-daily choral Masses. Religious fervor was common in her family, as she could count several members of her family who were already venerated as saints. The most notable example is her great-aunt, St. Elizabeth of Hungary, after whom she was named.
Her marriage to King Denis of Portugal was arranged in 1281 when she was 10 years old, receiving the towns of Óbidos, Abrantes and Porto de Mós as part of her dowry. It was only in 1288 that the wedding was celebrated, when Denis was 26 years old, while Elizabeth was 17. Denis, a poet and statesman, was known as the Rei Lavrador (English: Farmer King), because he planted a large pine forest near Leiria to prevent the soil degradation that threatened the region.
Elizabeth quietly pursued the regular religious practices of her youth and was devoted to the poor and sick. Naturally, such a life was a reproach to many around her and caused ill will in some quarters. Eventually, her prayer and patience succeeded in converting her husband, who had been leading a sinful life.
Elizabeth took an active interest in Portuguese politics and was a decisive conciliator during the negotiations concerning the Treaty of Alcañices, signed by Denis and Sancho IV of Castile in 1297 (which fixed the borders between the two countries). In 1304, the Queen and Denis returned to Spain to arbitrate between Fernando IV of Castile and James II of Aragon, brother of Elizabeth.[4]
She had two children: Constance, who married King Ferdinand IV of Castile and Afonso, who became King Alfoso IV of Portugal.
Elizabeth would serve as intermediary between her husband and Afonso, during the Civil War between 1322 and 1324. The Infante greatly resented the king, whom he accused of favoring the king’s illegitimate son, Afonso Sanches. Repulsed to Alenquer, which supported the Infante, Denis was prevented from killing his son through the intervention of the Queen. As legend holds, in 1323, Elizabeth, mounted on a mule, positioned herself between both opposing armies on the field of Alvalade in order to prevent the combat. Peace returned in 1324, once the illegitimate son was sent into exile, and the Infante swore loyalty to the king.
It was after her husband’s death, she discovered Wenceslaus’ secret, who had come to pay his respects. They had met a few times over the years, both enjoying their discussion on faith and devotion.
He told her about Vampires and what it was like to live the life of a ‘Saint’. She thought about his story, and adored his Mate Cinderella. She prayed and soon knew her answer.
Aguilar and his twin brother Callum were born October 21st in the year of our lord 1460 AD and was in Masyaf.
They’re parents were Assassins, the little they knew of them, was that their father, Sebastiano was from Spain and their mother, Brigit, who was from Ireland. Their father was trained at Masyaf, who on a mission, fell in love with Brigit, brought her back and trained her. The two had been killed during the Spanish Inquisition, a year after the boys had been born. They ended up raised by the Assassin Order, and trained to follow in their parents footsteps.
When they set out on their own missions, Aguilar went to Spain, while Callum went to Ireland.
Aguilar took over the missions their parents had been killed. Hunting down Templars that were using the Spanish Inquisition for their own goals.
He ended up meeting Maria, saving her from a local ‘Inquisitor’. She had made it clear that she wouldn’t bow to the the false church, and become their whore. Aguilar fell for her instantly, the two ended up married six months later – solidify his cover as a Silk Merchant.
She knew about his Assassin work, and patched him up when he would return home. Over the years she bore him three daughters – but refused to let him train any of them.
While working on a mission with Maximus, Aguilar was mortally wounded. There was no doubt in his mind, he would be Turned.
(Continuing our theme of ‘Saved from the Brink’)
Alejandro stood on his own, and sent Diego back to Integridad Kin Clan where he was needed, and he continued his role as Zorro, taking the name Don Diego de la Vega Sánchez, a mix of his adopted father, along with his mother’s sir name, the only thing he remembered of her.
Always a man of passion, he fell for the Governor’s daughter Elena Montero, soon stealing her away from him. The Governor and Elena’s future husband set out to bring her back and destroy Diego. In the ensuing fight, Elena was mortally wounded and Diego’s Hacienda was destroyed, but he was able to save Elena by taking her down into the basement where he trained. After seeking her permission to save her, she gave her consent and Diego Turned her.
Elena stayed with him for a while, before heading to Spain to train with the Diego senior.
A few years later he met Timothy Quinn. The friendship between the two developed into a decades-long love affair that lasted until Timothy’s Childe Bryon Hanson was killed in New York. The two remained close friends.
Diego settled into New Orleans, taking the position as Head of Security for Nicolaus Valerius Meridius. He enjoyed living in New Orleans and serving on the City Council.
While traveling to meet up with Hunters James Hickok and Noah Dixon, he found himself resting in a small town. It wasn’t hard for him to figure out the citizens were scared of something. His old instincts kicked in, and he found himself in the middle of a Range War. While Hunting down one group he came upon the Doctor’s house, finding Gregory House laying on the floor bleeding out. The irony was he was cursing Diego’s old lover. He gave the doctor a new opportunity, which he took. Diego wasn’t sure if he regretted that decision or not.
He always made sure his two kids were safe and secure, and when House telegraphed him about finding his Mate on the front lines, Diego telegraphed back to Claim them. He never wanted to see his Childe go through what he witnessed with Bryon and Riddick. OrTimothy during the Civil War.
He was happy for Timothy when he came to the Manor with his new Mate Horatio Caine, and did everything in his power to protect his Family, his friends, and his Clan. He really wasn’t too surprised that one of Speed’s co-workers was his Mate; fate seemed to love or hate him, he was never sure which.
During the battle with Richelieu, Diego was severely wounded.
He requested from Nico that he take time off and travel back to Spain to recoup, handing over his job as Head of Security to Horatio Caine. Nico granted his request and made sure he knew his family and home would be waiting for him.
When he had heard about Nick’s kidnapping he sent word to him, sending his condolences over Aubrey and to apologize for not being there. Nico told him to watch over Brigid Maturin, as she had lost her father.
Diego felt his failure deeply when Brigid was killed in a crowded street. He stayed in Spain, constantly being told he was hiding. It wasn’t until after the Colosseum Incident that he was ready to contact Nico about returning as a Hunter. He was surprised when Calleigh showed up at his door, wearing nothing but a smile and high heels – giving him one last time to take what was his.
He wasn’t that stupid.
Diego has been training Calleigh to be a Hunter, and she excels at it.
Inigo was raised on a farm, had every intention to follow his father’s footsteps, marry a good woman, have kids and be a farmer.
It was destroyed when his father and family was killed. He set out for revenge, learning along the way how to fight and ended up becoming a mercenary in many ways.
He finally found the man who killed his father, and when confronted him ended up working with a Frenchman. Afterwards the man was dead, Turned to dust in front of him, but he didn’t care. As he fell to the floor bleeding, the Frenchman asked him to live.