Charlotte Craimer
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Lineage
- Dmytro Czajkowski
- Nadezhda Vrablic
- Gregory Krailo, Grand Wyrm; Philosopher of the Wild Curse; Journeyman of the Sworn of the Dying Light.
- Charlotte Craimer, Scholar of the Bloody Terror
- Marissa Carisle, Hierophant of the Circle of the Crone
- Anna Shearing, Sanguine Scholar of the Terror; Dragon Knight of the Sworn of the Axe; Gaurdian
- Araseli Luna, Member of the Circle of the Crone
- Madam Catherine Jung, Marquise of Atlanta, Councilor
- Gregory Krailo, Grand Wyrm; Philosopher of the Wild Curse; Journeyman of the Sworn of the Dying Light.
- Nadezhda Vrablic
Life
Charlotte Craimer was born Charlotte Coulier in 1805 to the son of a french fir trapper and a Cherokee indian. Jean and Amadahy would have four children but only see their two daughters Charlotte and Marie reach adulthood. Charlotte and Marie were well educated, her father trading pelts and meat for the travelors to share their wisdom. He was hoping his young son, Jean Luc, would be well learned and be more than the trapper he and his father had been. But Jean Luc would die of fever at the age of 13. Living in a bustling village that so many trappers and traders as well as settlers passed through gave the Coulier children exposure to new people and ideas. Charlotte may have only been a bystander to her brother's lessons, but she took to heart the sciences that he was supposed to be learning. Charlotte was at the time most interested in alchemy and medicine, often wondering if her mother's indian remedies could be mixed with alchemic ones to create better cures and medicines. She would go to the village with her mother daily to sell the berries and roots that they gathered and often would sneak away from her mother and sister to listen to the men talking at the tavern. Charlotte was to her parents a wild child, turning away her suiters every time they came around. Not that many men of quality wanted a half Cherokee half French woman for a wife. Charlotte watched as her little sister Marie was married off at 16. Charlotte would be 19 and still living in her father's house, going to town for her ailing mother to sell the herbs and roots and indian medicines that she made.
The Embrace
In 1824, Charlotte managed to catch the eye of Gregory Krailo. He lured her to the embrace with the promise that she would be able to learn and practice the sciences she was so curious about. Sneaking out of her home one spring night, she met Krailo, and her death. Changing her name to Craimer, Charlotte slipped out of sight from her family without a word. She settled in with her sire and began learning to survive as a vampire. Her natural curiosity and interest in science, alchemy and medicine flourished from a hobby to a passion. She filled her time with what ever books or papers she could get her hands on from the travelers and settlers passing through. In 1825, Krailo had Hakan sire a child for him, Marissa Carisle was an experiment for Krailo, though Charlotte would not know that till years later. In 1826 Krailo sired Catherine Jung. Charlotte was glad to have 'sisters' and had hopes that they could be as close as she had been to Marie. In 1838, shortly after being released, Catherine would join the Invictus. Charlotte was present for Krailo's frenzy upon finding out one of his childer had gone astray, but her reaction was less anger, and more disapointment. Charlotte would join the Ordo as a slave that same year and started her coil work immediatly, putting her curiosity in Indian medicines to the side for "greater" work. In 1847, Marissa would leave the Ordo and join the Crone, leaving Charlotte dissapointed again. Charlotte would maintain good relations with her 'siblings' despite their differences. That same year Charlotte became a Supplicant of the Terror. 1862 brough Charlotte's 'neice' Anna Shearing to the covenant. While glad to see the childe come back to the Ordo, Charlotte didn't have a strong bond with her as she had once had with Catherine and Marissa. Charlotte tried to make Anna feel as welcome as she could, but never did acheive a strong attatchment to her. 1904 found Charlotte watching the mortal population in wonder, as Gregory’s failed rituals spark controversy at one of the white churches who blamed the African American’s for the killings. Charlotte started studying sociology as the race riots emerge. In 1946 Charlotte desides to slip into torpor, feeling the strain of the previous year's events and the loss of several covenant mates. Charlotte decided that she needed to recharge before she could continue on her great work. Krailo takes her to a small room in his basement at the Ordo Chapter house and lets her slip into sleep there.
The Awakening
Waking up over sixty years later in the same stuffy room of her sire's basement that she fell into torpor in, Charlotte woke to a different world. Everyone has advanced, as she assumed they would, but farther than she had assumed they would. There is new technology and cars and computers to contend with, and all Charlotte really wants to do is start work on her next coil and do some mentoring, but she has to acclimate herself to the society she is now a part of. Charlotte, egger to resume her work has started her next coil, which in turn is forcing her to get out of the chapter house and observe the kindred around her. Her relations with her siblings are strained, but not any more than they were before her long sleep. In a time of Werewolf trouble, Charlotte has found herself once again immersed in the Cherokee lore that dominated her childhood. With the threat of werewolf retaliation and a U`tlun'ta running around Decantur, Charlotte finds herself once again drawn to the stories and medicine that she used to know.