Inyanga
Mental characteristics
Personal history
As a mortal, she was a shaman who lived among the African nation that would later become the Zulus. Her exact sorcerous powers are uncertain, but she was capable of shapeshifting and was well-versed in knowledge of the ways of the spirits. In the 5th century, a vampire called "The Egyptian" began feeding on her people. She attacked the creature with her sorcery, and the two fought to the point where each was nearly finished by the other. The struggle finally ended when her foe, barely stronger than her, Embraced her as she was near death. Over the next week, Inyanga and the Egyptian taught one another their respective secrets; at the end of the week, when her sire sought to return to her people and make them his herd, Inyanga impaled him through the heart with a spear, and watched him burn in the sunrise.
In a battle with a rogue Malkavian in 1537, Inyanga was forced into torpor. She had her loyal retainer ship her torpid form to the Americas, where she lay in the care of her retainer's mortal descendants for two centuries. Upon awakening in Baltimore, her hunger caused her to slay her last remaining caretaker in a Frenzy, and she fled the city in shame. Inyanga thus traveled to Chicago, seemingly out of curiosity towards the rise of Prince Maxwell, the first black Prince of any American city. She arrived in 1852, and soon joined the city's primogen. Inyanga retained her seat in the primogen after Maxwell was ousted by Lodin in 1871, and became a recurring thorn in Lodin's side.
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