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riginally from the United Kingdom, with a background in academia and politics, Balthazar Coventry served as a ghoul under the dominion of an Invictus kindred for a considerable time before being Embraced by a Kindred of the Ordo Dracul.
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s a long-time resident of Chicago's undercity, it is usually relatively rare to spot Balthazar loitering above ground. In recent nights, however, the vaunted Twilight Judge of the Ordo Dracul has been seen stalking the city's streets more and more frequently.
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indred changing their patterns is rare, especially when it involves the Haunts and the Order. Is this a sign of something sinister?
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his man is rather tall, clearing six feet easily, and thin as a rake. At a guess, one might say he's in his late sixties or thereabouts, though rather than carrying himself like an old man, his usual demeanour is one of quiet self-confidence. Predatory. He doesn't walk so much as he stalks with a long almost exaggerated gait.
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is eyes are an entrancing pale ice blue, unnaturally ethereal in their beauty which runs counter to everything else about his appearance. This man appears gaunt, as if his paper-thin skin were stretched over a skeleton-shaped frame with sinew instead of muscle. His lips are thin and rarely venture to smile, or express much of anything. It is as if his face has forgotten how to form emotional expressions, despite all the lines around his features demonstrating he was once capable of such feats.
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here is an overwhelming feeling of rising dread in anyone spending too much time in his presence. It begins as simple disquiet, but rises slowly over the time to become more and more palpable. As if one were slowly sinking into ice water.
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