Name: Kie-Linque Callaiffe
(K-Eye-Lynn-Kay Kah-Lay-Fe)
Gender: Female
Age: 2604
Apparent Age: 17
Place of Birth: Present Day Iranian Plateau
Species: Vampire
Coven: Ishak (leader)
Appearance: Kie-Linque has tanned skin with a pale vampiric undertone. She stands 5'6" with nothing on her feet, but her wild eyes give one the feeling that she is looking down on them. Kie-Linque's eyes are of different colours, the right eye green and the left, blue. The colour of her eyes is accentuated by her lips which are an unnatural shade of red and formed into a constant, ever so slight pout. Framing her face, her ebony hair hair falls down to her waist with a curl throughout it. Her body is covered in smooth, soft, skin. She has no scars or blemishes from her mortal life but trailing down her spine is the shape of a winged desert cobra, shaded in the deepest black that has never faded over the centuries.
Abilities: -manipulation of metallic atoms
-survive in diffuse sunlight
-flight
-slight telekinetic abilities
-telepathic by touch
History:Excerpt From the Records of Menaar: Vampiric Neurology: Kie-Linque Callaife: Summary (as given to Marcus Felsen)
Marcus,
These are ALL of my notes regarding the vampiress Kie-Linque Callaife. I now include a brief summary and I pray this is useful to you.
As best as can be determined, the patient was born approximately 599 BC somewhere on the Iranian Plateau. She grew up as all women did giving the time, but later became a student of the teachings of the prophet Zoroaster. Not knowing Kie-Linque as a child and her family being nomadic, it is impossible to know how accepted these studies were, though they were likely fairly private, even with her father's permission. Religion has no true place with a woman. The patient's father also seemed to have trouble marrying her off due to her mismatched eyes...anything else that could be appealing was likely covered as was proper. In an effort to be rid of his daughter, he settled his choice on the son of a neighbouring clan chief. When the chief and his son came to inspect Kie-Linque, they were insulted by the father's attempt to push a "demon-woman" upon them and left immediately. It is amazing what silly superstitions can do...she'd have made a good wife as a mortal...property... She knew her place at the time. It can be assumed that out of either vengeance for the insult or perhaps fear and superstition, the clan chief was pushed to wipe out the insulting tribe. During a night raid, Kie-Linque was rescued by the vampire Callaiffe. She is the only known member of her bloodline.
By 582 BC, Kie-Linque was 17 and newly sired by Callaiffe, likely one of the only Persian vampires at the time. She stayed with Callaiffe until 559 BC. He taught her to survive, staying within cities that had eventually formed on the plateau. It is assumed that her best advantage in her territory was her ability to survive in diffuse sunlight. Callaiffe eventually grew bored and left her to her own devices and decided to travel north. From what I gather, Kie-Linque then began to watch her people carefully, eventually earning the title "Mother of Persia".
When the age of dynasties began, Kie-Linque was there. She isn't mentioned in their histories, few women at the time were, but I believe she played a crucial role in the developments of the Persian empire. No man would ever openly admit to receiving aid from a woman. She quickly gained favour with "Cyrus the Great" and it is not surprising that she soon became a trusted advisor. Mortals are attracted to power, vampires are attracted to power. Even if there was resisitance from Cyrus, how often have one of the vampiric kind been insulted by a filthy mortal with the assailant surviving to speak of it? Given her personality when I first met her and the historical records of people she became close to, she either influenced a respect of culture, religion and development or simply allowed him to have influence because these morals were his own. Kie-Linque had a will to create and develop in a way far beyond the mortals she resided with. It is almost a pity she doesn't remember it. Even when the empire expanded to Babylon, it was done with little bloodshed, mighty Babylon surrendered peacefully. I have reason to believe the Mother of Persia personally pushed for the freedom of the Jewish tribes in Babylon. As the years passed, Kie-Linque began to develop more plans which would not be completed for many years.
To insure these plans happened, Kie-Linque nigh raised "Darius the Great" and saw to his education. She groomed the mortal to uphold the principles of Cyrus and gradually, the Mother of Persia showed her pupil her great plans and ideas for projects though he was every bit a man by this time. Obviously, she was never given credit for the roads, ports, cities and banks that came from her influence. Her design for a canal from the Nile to the Red Sea also opened hundreds of possibilities for her people. To commemorate Kie-Linque secretly, Darius initiated the building of the Perseopolis Palace, constructed by artisans, from materials found in all parts of Kie-Linque's beloved land. She was such a sentimental creature.
Even after Darius' time, Kie-Linque stayed within Persia's government, enforcing diplomacy for years. In one of her more hallucinated states, I've heard the patient claim that it wasn't really King Artaxes who mediated between Sparta and Athens, but Kie-Linque herself, using illusions. This has, of course never, been proven.
The time of diplomacy ended when a rather commendable mortal, a rare and individual creature, invaded Persia. Alexander the Great attacked in 334 BC. His attacks were brutal, full of the usual rape and pillage bits. Alexander himself found Kie-Linque during the daylight hours and attempted to force himself on her. He nearly didn't survive the mistake. Though she never forgave him for allowing Perseopolis to burn, she believed that Alexander had changed when he took the Persian Roxana to wife, though this was at my direction. Also at my advice, he ordered a mass wedding between his generals and 10,000 soldiers to Persians for the same day...a peace offering if you will. He also tried to uphold Persian customs. This charade lasted about four years. The woman's abduction was neatly taken care of. Kie-Linque needs blood each day and she had become the capital punishment for law breakers in such a justice enforced land. One such evening, an hour after dusk, Kie-Linque was given a large, aggressive criminal, he had been induced with opium, supposedly to keep him tame while he was transported, though he was induced nearly to collapsing. After feeding, the Mother of Persia became quite pliant, the first time she had absorbed such drugs and of such quantity into her tiny body. Alexander had tied her in his bedchamber for the duration of the sunlit hours, using her for pleasure while she was groggy and weak from the daylight and recovering from the opium, being sure that she now understood her place. The next evening, she was handed into my custody, bound and snarling.
I kept her in the ruins of old Perseopolis and began my studies, discovering how far a mind, such as her own, had to be suppressed before something new could take over. As stated previously, you will find my notes on the matter included before this summary. Five hundred years of telepathic suppression, memory alteration, drugs, addictive aphrodisiac and becoming a pleasure slave finally broke her, then shattered her mind. She became more violent as the years wore on. The final snap between the two minds came when I allowed her to escape and she saw Persia through undrugged eyes, fallen and nearly destroyed by violence. Nearly everything that she had built and fought for, destroyed. So I, Menaar, watched her, keeping her close, while studying the new personality which had formed and begun to take over.
Between 630 and 730 AD, she avoided government positions and other higher powers, luring ordinary mortal men into dark rooms and bleeding them during climax. The body was usually rather grotesque come dawn. None of those men had the control of her they'd believed. I occasionally sent mortals laced with aphrodisiac her way to see the affects with her new personality. I soon discovered that this had little effect on her anymore...she'd been altered so much that lust was ingrained into her system, that aphrodisiac induced gleam never left her mismatched eyes. Interestingly, when her mind was shattered and regrown, so was her vampiric mind and abilities. She had to begin from scratch, like a newly sired vampire. Moving on, she disappeared on me for a period and I heard nothing of her until the year 1200 AD. I only found her then because she married the Abbasid Caliphate, likely because she could feed his more violent passions. The man liked to believe he was controlling power...she was raw power to him. She left him eventually, hearing whimpers of pain calling her name. She travelled for a while, eventually meeting up with the Mongols and aiding Genghis Khan to unite the clans, though for a different purpose than before. It is profound, is it not, what pillow talk can accomplish. Between 1220 and 1227, Kie-Linque Callaife led Genghis to attack her once loved Persia. I believe she controlled and manipulated this man by submitting to him. Odd, no? It worked. I am unsure of how long she stayed with the Mongols, but I know that she had murdered the Mother of Persia to become a Queen of Ishak.
Her arrival to Demaitre occurred only to become Ishak leader in this territory. I warn you Marcus, she is quite mad. Not very strong, but her eyes border on madness, you can still see that gleam of aphrodisiac in her mismatched eyes. If you need a way to control her, excuse me for being blunt, but she will submit completely in the bedchamber, though it's doubtful that she'll be so tame outside of it. Another note to consider, Lord Marcus, is that she has completely forgotten her role as the Mother of Persia. I hope you find this sufficient.
~Menaar
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