Velya The Vivisectionist

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Velya is an elder of the Sabbat and a Tzimisce of exceptional power and enlightenment in the Path of Metamorphosis. His mastery of Vicissitude is so strong that he was able to take his childe Elaine Cassidy and merge himself with the girl, so that her leg-stumps are bound to his back. Velya looks like a forty year old, silver haired, Russian man with a 10 year old, silver haired, Bostonian girl emerging from his back.

Velya met Elaine in Boston around the turn of the century, where she had systematically destroyed her family. Enthralled by both her appearance and evil, Velya Embraced her, delighted with his new childe. While his new "bride" had managed to finish off her family with ease, the horrors of the Sabbat were too much for her childish intellect to cope with, and Elaine was lost to the Beast. Elaine had become a Wight. In desperation, he used Vicissitude to fuse her body with his, in an attempt to "fix" her. But no Cainite, even as one as clever as Velya, can rescue another from the throes of the Beast.

Velya, bound to her as he is, cannot bear the thought of separation and spends a vast amount of his mental resources keeping Elaine sedated. This has caused him to fall from the Path of Metamorphosis as he fends off constant psychic assault from Elaine's howling beast. It is only a matter of time before he also succumbs.

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• Clanbook: Tzimisce (1st Edition) (Description)
• Children Of The Night (Stats, Updated Description)