The Sheriff was LaCroix's personal bodyguard and enforcer. The Sheriff's towering size, monstrous visage and perpetual muteness (as well as his slavish devotion to his Prince) make him one of the most feared Kindred in Los Angeles.
Biography[]
No one's sure about the Sheriff's background and history, but reportedly LaCroix picked him up in Africa over a hundred years ago.[1]
He led the team that captured and publicly executed suckhead's sire, after being judged guilty by the Prince LaCroix for violating the Third Tradition. After the Sabbat attacked the assembly, he easily dispatched three of them using Animalism.
He spends most of his time at LaCroix's side, at the prince's penthouse office at the Venture Tower. Once the Sabbat attack the Tower directly, the Sheriff dispatches several of them before they can get much higher than the 10th floor.
When the prince's champion attacked the tower, the Sheriff transformed into a Chiropteran Maurauder, a giant bat-form, but was ultimately destroyed.
Clan[]
Due to Bertram Tung telling the player that LaCroix "picked [the Sheriff] up in Africa", his demonstrated mastery of the unique Chiropteran Marauder form of Vicissitude, and his monstrously inhuman appearance, his clan is often assumed to be Nagloper, a legacy of the Tzimisce from Africa.
However, the Sheriff himself never utters a single word and his true clan is never explicitly stated in the game, nor is the powerful and mysterious nature of his bond to LaCroix ever explored. The extreme unlikeliness of any Childer of Tzimisce willingly submitting to decades of mute, slavish bodyguard work for a Ventrue Prince of the Camarilla (given their natural intellectualism and disdain for the Jyhad), suggests that the Sheriff may be enthralled to LaCroix's personal will via advanced Dominate and/or some form of blood bond. Given his willingness to blatantly violate the Masquerade to protect LaCroix, his affiliation with the Camarilla appears to be purely incidental.
Quests[]
- Royal Flush
Background Information[]
- Smiling Jack refers to the Sheriff as "Magilla Gorilla." Magilla Gorilla is a classic Hanna-Barbera character, and the star of The Magilla Gorilla Show from 1964-1965.
- The name of the form the Sheriff shape shifts into, the Chiropteran Behemoth (or Chiropteran Marauder in the plus patch), is derived from the word Chiroptera, which is an order of bats.[2][3][4] This ability is granted by the Discipline Vicissitude.
- If the player acquires the Sheriff's Sword via console commands, the description reads: "You're not supposed to have this, now you do."
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ VTM: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines - He's LaCroix's iron fist. No one "knows" the sheriff, really, except LaCroix. No one even knows the guy's name. There's lots of rumors about him though. I heard LaCroix picked him up in Africa over a hundred years ago. Obviously, they work well together. -- Bertram Tung
- ↑ Wikipedia
- ↑ TheFreeDictionary
- ↑ Merriam-Webster