Jean-Louis Visigny-Winthrope/Introduction

Our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

That's why I hold with all I have; and I will die alone.

Few men are sufficiently discerning to appreciate all the evil they do. -François de la Rochefoucauld Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. -Eric Hoffer

Dark, sordid, vile and brutal.

Justice is the armor of Liberty.

Visigny came to Vienna alongside Player Juliette Rinaldi as her manservant and ghoul. His involvement in the affairs of the local damned was limited to service within the Elysium at the Elektric. He kept primarily to himself and led what could best be termed a private life. After over sixty years of loyal service he finally sought, and was granted, the embrace by Prince Moritz von Starhemberg.

His departure from Vienna was as sudden as his arrival. A tour of Europe that began in France, moved to Italy, and finally ended abruptly in Paris where he and Juliette settled in for a brief stay. It wasn't until a trip to New York that Visigny was actually embraced-- legally, it must be noted --by a Daeva of that city. He returned to Vienna weeks before the fall of Moritz and the rise of the Consulate.

Shortly upon his return to the Vienna Praxis, Visigny joined with the Carthian movement and formed a coterie alongside Artje Berenyi-Winthrope and another Carthian. In less than a year he had risen in both covenant and city status to stand as a respected member of both institutions. Sheriff Fischer appointed him Detective, a position he resigned from thereafter. The Carthian Movement elected him Primogen, a position upheld to good account until his torpor during a duel in a matter of honor with a Circle of the Crone named Tyrone.

Upon waking, he resumed his mantle of loyal opposition to the government, oversaw the dissolution of the Consulate, and became Minister of Justice within the new Nachtreich. In time his disappointment in what had become of the grand experiment and his desire for new challenges sent him to New York once more to spend over a year in service to Dame Eleanor, his mentor; Artje went with him, as they do in all things. In New York, he was reunited with Annikah von Steiger and formed a new coterie with her and Artje; the trio has come to Philadelphia for reasons of their own.