Etrius
Methuselah
Overview
Etrius was born 850 CE near what is now the city of Gothenburg in what is now Sweden. His father served Ansgar, the German bishop who made the first Christian mission to the area. Young and very pious, although not humble or otherwise well-versed in Christian virtues, Etrius was sent on a pilgrimage to Rome, but his party was attacked and Etrius was taken as a slave.
In Constantinople, he was sold to someone who sensed his special talents for magic, a man called Tremere. Despite Etrius' sermons about God and the Church, Tremere began to tutor the young man in the Hermetic arts. The young man's arrogance grew as he magically outlived his peers, blustering himself into a state of divine absolution and of Tremere's favorite apprentice.
His only rival for the favor of his master was Goratrix, a man he immediately despised after meeting him. Etrius was responsible for establishing the Vienna Chantry and was nominally the head of it, although he seldom remained there. He was also present when Goratrix consecrated Ceoris, criticizing him for the construction and spending too much time at the Chantry. When the arcane arts of the Order of Hermes began to fail them and endangered their immortality (a fact that Etrius proved, much to Goratrix's dismay), the mages of House Tremere began to search desperately for means of averting the decline of magic and maintaining their immortality.
Etrius even dabbled in infernalism, something that backfired horribly and set loose a demon that cost him much favor in Tremere's eyes. When Goratrix surpassed him by discovering the potion that would turn him and the others into vampires, Etrius objected at first, although this sentiment would not last
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