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\section{Frederika's Brood}

{\em God bless those pagans!} {\bf -- Homer Simpson}


\subsection{Frederika} 5th $\Rightarrow$ 4th, Tzimisce

Frederika is the center of it all.  XXX See individuals

\subsection{Uri} 5th, Tzimisce

Uri was a slave in his breathing days and has been loyal eversince.

\subsection{Toby} 5th, Tzimisce

Toby is the last of the "Mother's Children". He is the last of a
series of designed childen, built by
a Progentor who fell under Frederika's influence while they were in
Queensland.

\subsection{Julie} 5th, Tzimisce

Julie was embraced and sculpted into Frederika's double. She is the
'Frederika' who interfaces with people. She appears as a red headed
woman in her mid 30s.

She is in love with Mark, and is hoping that he will soon come to
terms with his new powers.



\subsection{Mark Teller} 6th, Tzimisce

Mark was an angst object for Julie, who she embraced. He was embraced
on the same day as Toby and is just starting to come to terms with his
Embrace, although the power has gone to his head.



\subsection{Dominique} 6th, Tzimisce

Dominique is one of most resently embraced followers.
She was embraced to become Frederika's compassion.



\subsection{Sir Barthomlugh L. Stonegate} 8th, Ventrue

Bart was always a civilised gentleman who fought nor for himself,
but for his country. This quality brought him to the attention of
Frederika.

Bart is one of the most efficent spys and information collectors know.
He uses his Vicissitude (which he got from guess where) to become a
Nosferautu and often visits them.

She had him embraced and has been manipulating the events in London
through him for a century or two. He is a strong Empire man, old
chap.



\subsection{Cat}


Cat is a ghouled puppet of Frederika, who is used as a blood store
and puppet to scare intruders in the Inner Temple. Cat appears as a
large cat, standing 4-5 feet tall, depending on how much blood she holds.
When drained near empty, Cat's skin hangs off her empty form like a
wrinkled bag.

As Ingrid suspects, Cat is totally controled by Frederika and is
thus capable of quite intelligent action. Cat's favorite question
to ask people who he encounters is: "What do you do, upon meeting
your enemy, after a journey of 1000 miles?". Their are three
answers/interperatations to the question: (1) it is your journey, (2)
it is your enemies journey or (3) to see the ambiguity. An example of
a wise answer is: "make sure it was my enemies journey."


\subsection{Cindy \& Bruce}

Cindy is an orphan mage who had real problems trying to make sense of
the world, but is now taken under Frederika's wing. Frederika knows
about the value of mages and will train Cindy and bring her rapidly up
to speed, giving her understanding for the frist time in her life.

Bruce, Cindy's husband, is an expert in computer security and after
his brush with the Technomancers, will happily work for Frederika.
He is not aware of supernatural things and their existance may cause
him to undergo a crisis if he finds out. He is happy that Cindy seems
to be happy.



\subsection{Avalon Lovelock}

Avalon is maybe one of the luckiest Verbina alive. He found Frederika
unconcious and after an initially shakey start, the two came to a
truce. Avalon now aids Frederika in exchange for her blood.



\subsection{The Family}

The Family represents a cult of people who follow Frederika and Uri.
It is made up of the most promising people and people related to the
group that Lahn took from Egypt in the begining.

The Family may seem like a cult upon first inspection, but if one
looks closly, it is not a normal cult. Everyone is free to leave and
infact they are encouraged to go out into the real world. Money (and
I mean lots of money) is freely given to the members, not taken from
them. Every member is cared for by all others in Frederika's brood,
including Frederika herself.

Their is a small subgroup of the Family, who are unaware of Frederika
and other supernatural things, they are the newest members of the
Relatives. Relatives are slowly introduced to the Family and thus the
newest of them is unaware of what it really is. Thus they do not share
all the powers listed below.

The Family have some special powers, granted by their strange
position. All of them know about Vampires and all other sorts of
supernatural nasties. Most are dominated by Frederika and Uri to make
them resistant to other Kindred's dominate. Every member is given a glass
scarab that when broken will attract Frederika's attention.

The groups (listed in their approxamite position within the Family)
are listed below.

\begin{description}

\item	[Observers] The smallest group, they are people resistant to
dominate. Once they are old enough and their loyalty assured, they
help make sure that Frederika and the others are not under any outside
influence by checking her actions.

\item [Grandchildred] These are the children that were sired
by Toby and the other Children while they were mortal. Frederika
considers them to be the next wave of human Pharaohs. They are all
stunningly educated, spoilt and manipulative like you wouldn't believe
(although they mostly only manipulate outsiders, mostly).

\item	[Gifted] The Gifted are children who have promise, but are not
in a position to fully utilise their gifts. Examples of them are
children from poor backgrounds who would not have education and training.

They are brought to the Family and educated (in what must be one of
the best environments in the world) for free. Then they go out into
the world and realise their potential (naturally they are usually
grateful).

\item [Old Family] A very small number of the Family Born are related
to the group that Lahn protected, they are called the Old Family and
often are (very) distantly related to Frederika or some of her
origional followers.

\item	[Family Born] The Family Born are the offsping of people who used to
be associated with the Family and never left. They were born into the
Family and raised in it.

\item	[Relatives] These are the relations of the groups above. They
are welcomed into the Family to provide stability. Some of the newer
Relatives are suspicious of the Family, but they soon are happy to join.

\end{description}

\subsection{Amber Wilson}

Amber was one of the Grandchildren but she has run off and joined up
with some bikers. She has also become involved in the drug scene as
a heroin addict.

She told Frederika to leave her alone, so Frederika will not look
bring her back. The Family are trying to find her, without Frederika's
help (as a birthday present :).

Amber can call on Frederika should she get in trouble, but will get a
lecture afterwards.