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Contents 1 The Standard Lineage 2 Invictus Lineage 3 1926 4 1930 5 1934 6 1941 7 1952 8 1964 9 1970 10 1972 11 1989 12 2000 13 2007 14 2010

1926

The road traveled was long and harsh, with more than a few extra hours spent on their trek due to the color of Nathaniel's skin. It's where the trouble first started between Nathaniel and Clifton Whitfield, the Primus and Secondus of their traveling coterie respectively. Clifton tried to convince the other three of their group that it would be easier if they simply kept Nathaniel as a tag along or even kept out of sight all together. Nathaniel was not okay with this sentiment; there were things said in the recent past that picked Nathaniel's suspicions about Clifton's desires once they landed in a city that was ripe for the expanding within.

Upon landing in Las Vegas, his suspicions were realized. After weeks and months scouting for potential targets to ghoul in the local criminal element, Nathaniel watches Clifton snatch a retainer right from underneath him. The Daeva, Nathaniel, does not take kindly to the infringement on his first major catch within Las Vegas. After speaking to Jorge Ortiz, his clanmate in the cosmopolitan coterie, he purposefully feigned interest in a particularly low-ranking member of the groups. The mortal had no real upward mobility, but Nathaniel and Jorge both suggested otherwise in their group meetings. Not a month later, Jorge's retainers reported in seeing Clifton privately with that very same mortal. Nathaniel considered it an act of insurrection.

He spoke first with Conrad Monroe, who immediately resisted the implication of insurrection within the ranks, and instead suggested in a very Ventrue fashion, that he should simply make it so the retainer is his, through applicable force of Daeva's charm. And then he spoke with James Stuart. Stuart made the case against possible insurrection as a matter of solidarity, rather than denying that the man could have been a mutinous element. Stuart knew that he left the meeting with Nathaniel with Nathaniel unconvinced.

Deciding against the wishes of both Stuart and Monroe, Nathaniel invites Clifton to a sit-down to discuss the situation. Predictably, as most vampires do when confronted with being found out, Clifton lies. When the lie is pointed out, Clifton lies again. Rather than let the Kindred leave, and formulate an act of war against him, Nathaniel attacks him on the spot. As none of the other coterie were present (purposely so), Nathaniel kills his secondus, the Mekhet Clifton Whitfield through brute strength. When the others of the coterie find out, they are outraged (or really, fake outraged, they wanted to be compensated). Nathaniel claims Praxis only through agreeing to terms with the rest of the coterie, granting them benefits.

1930

The idea for gambling and women was his. It was always his and it didn't matter what anyone said to the contrary (though they didn't say it outloud he'd been around the block long enough to know when people were thinking it). The idea of women coming to a Daeva isn't exactly unheard of in any Kindred circles, so it wasn't a great surprise when Nathaniel started to notice the evident lack of women (in both mortals and Kindred-kind alike). In general, the presence of entirely too many male environment leads to a much more hostile atmosphere. For Kindred it was and is no different.

In a desire to preserve the strengthening ties he was forming through ghouls to the city (it was difficult for him personally to expand those ties, but through an intermediary? No problem.) he began to suggest heavily that places for mortals to spend their hard earned cash would benefit those of the criminal element, and provide them with a steady supply of things to direct their more rough-stock membership at. When that idea began to catch on, he approached the Kindred. He suggested that it would not be weak or terrible to begin expanding the ranks of the Kindred, with the expansion of mortals, and even went so far as to suggest a female element be brought into the stock of undead. The idea of women Kindred was initially met with Are you insane? Women? but he insisted upon it.

Naturally, when the Kindred began embracing, for the most part they were male. Sometimes it was hard to break the idea that women were inferior creatures, but Nathaniel knew that women needed to be embraced into the ranks, if only to bring an aspect of their generally less aggressive emotional state into the growing Kindred city (unsurprisingly, Nathaniel was sexist as well, but he calculated it, rather than simply being sexist to be sexist).

1934

Nathaniel, still settling out his new city and in the process of laying down roots in Las Vegas, comes to find out that his near-friend Jorge Ortiz, from the coterie he came to Las Vegas with and who aided him in his troubles, has been utilizing his new childe, Cha to bend the Masquerade. It's the sort of press and situation that could make any Prince crazy. Nathaniel handles it coolly, though, perhaps even too coolly. Against the wishes of James Stuart, Nathaniel elects to have Jorge set out to the sun for his trespass. Some exclaim it was entirely too harsh of a punishment, but others exclaim their surprise that Nathaniel, who many considered to be thick as thieves with Jorge, would actually have sentenced the man - both clan and covenant kin to Nathaniel - to the Final Death. The childe, Cha, he requested Veles Lazarak teach and raise, sparing her life. This move did not make him friends within the Invictus.

1941

With the outlawing of prostitution, Nathaniel is livid. In forcing prostitutes (and their Johns) outside of his jurisdiction, it paved the possible way for an enterprising Kindred to evade his claim and start to have a stock of vitae to use and parcel out. The idea of this was not at all acceptable. Nathaniel immediately sought out an enforcer. While he wasn't particularly taken with violence, he surely wouldn't allow himself to be considered a pacifist either. He immediately looked for information concerning any new arrivals who sought to set up shop at or near the cathouses which were being build outside of the city limits.

1952

It was enough to make a living person vomit, and if he didn't originally owe James Stuart an ear, he wouldn't have ever gone along with a plan to ghoul the police force. But Nathaniel had a plan, he thought it might be possible to have Stuart's experiment work for him. As occasional Kindred came to the city and tried to make claims to cathouses (and vitae) that did not necessarily belong to them, he fed information to the proper parties and watched it go from there. He didn't have a real vested interest in the affair, but ever the opportunist, Nathaniel wasn't going to let the opportunity to continue to solidify his grounds slip through his fingertips.

Secretly, Nathaniel was pleased that Kindred were starting to embrace women. He monitored what he could on the interest of the embraces, and when two women childer were destroyed after Stuart's experiment gone wrong, Nathaniel looked for a way to take it out of his hide for blame.

Perhaps it was coincidence, but shortly thereafter, Alexei Lazarak brought up to court the debt that James Stuart had claimed over him for some time. Surprisingly (or perhaps not so much), Nathaniel immediately voids the debt in open court. The Circle of the Crone is pleased with the justice meted out by the Prince, while Stuart himself is livid.

1964

Annoyed with the continued reliance on intermediaries (ie. Ghouls) to handle his work within the city, he begins to focus some of his personal profits into funding politicians and office holders who would work towards desegregation on all levels. When the majority of his funds are put into the under-the-table deals and greasing of palms, he starts to casually tithe local Kindread. For the first time in Las Vegas history, Kindred begin receiving requests of tithe.

1970

Nathaniel knew it would come, and come it did. He couldn't encourage the Kindred to embrace within city forever, and with the burgeoning population of mortals, he couldn't maintain a firm control on what Kindred were in his city ranks. But Nathaniel wasn't an oak, he could bend and adapt to the winds like the willow. He requested the Invictus to make it their first priority to pressure the Acolytes to embrace to offset, as much as they could, the arrival of the Carthian Movement to his shores.

1972

Nathaniel wasn't too pleased but when he found out through his contacts about the Carthian boot squad. He considers making things difficult at length for the entirety of the Carthian Movement, but decides against it after a time. His change of opinion of the matter he didn't particularly comment on, but most weren't sure as to the why. For some of the Carthians, though, they were fine with this, even if they thought his actions-to-be were oppressive. They all agreed they could have been much, much worse (in private). Still, something needed to be done prior to there being any sort of trouble from the rabble. Nathaniel utilizes a second Hound, a fresh appointment of Cha (which is immediately questioned by some of the Invictus - really, who sends a Carthian to investigate the Carthians?), to see what sorts the three are when they arrive. Harassment comments (Nathaniel calls it teenage whining) seem to roll off of his back concerning it, and when questioned directly, he would state that his first priority is the city's protection and that is blind to covenant affiliation.

1989

Plying his trade of a Daeva for years, Nathaniel forgot about the experiment-gone-wrong from thirty years prior, so it wasn't until Kindred who didn't know the lay of the land were staked for the sun that he truly considered a Sheriff. After a laundry list of Kindred who designated their interest in Sheriff, Nathaniel chose Michelle Costillo. Were it not for the clear and present danger that the police-hunters posed, it might have been a contested decision. But as it were, Nathaniel focused the efforts of the Invictus' influence on finding the offending hunters, and having them thrown into the limelight of media and judicial relations. When that happens, the hammer almost always falls, and fall it did.

Nathaniel doesn't particularly comment publicly on the Carthians' movement to track down other hunters because of the bitterness of the Invictus' triumph, but he is rumored to be have overheard saying he thought it to be a fabricated attempt to play one-upmanship, or "See, we can do it too!" Nathaniel doesn't comment on the rumors and they dwindle away.

2000

Nathaniel institutes a ban on embracing other Kindred in the city.

It was simple economics, after a boom comes the fall. Nathaniel suffered through the (whining) commentary on his ban on the embrace while trying to explain simple business sense and apply it to mortals for the Carthians. Of course, the majority of the Carthian Movement was viewed as nothing more than street-savvy thugs half of the time, so Nathaniel could see why they didn't get it. Still, he kept the ban on the embrace purposefully. Where he'd bent on other things in the past, like a willow, this is one thing he remainder extraordinarily firm on, a fact that did not go unnoticed.

Rumors crop up around this time, suggesting that he only stopped embraces from occurring because he was in love with a mortal that was being targeted to be embraced. Nathaniel said that was the stupidest thing he'd ever heard. But being a Daeva, Nathaniel still suffered the predilections of his clan, so went the rumors. They weren't very harmful, so he tolerated them, and even laughed if they came up in "casual" Elysium conversation. The Prince's personal interests become a topic of conversation for a time, but he never denies or confirms any suggestions of relations with other Kindred.

2007

With the numbers in Elysium dwindling and the tempers flaring from hungry Kindred reaching it's peak, Nathaniel suddenly finds himself with a lot of offers to take territory officially, where there had been absolutely no interest in it before. As if the city went from some sort of uneasy hegemony to starving and restless in the span of a week, Nathaniel organizes a court solely where he hears petitions for territory and the rights to blood. It gets ugly. Three Kindred have to be escorted out by the Hound, Cha alone before the remaining Kindred return to a measure of civility.

There are whispers that some of the Kindred who were most angry and outspoken against the starvation (as if Nathaniel could do anything) didn't actually leave Las Vegas when they disappeared like so many others. Nathaniel remained mum on the issue in particular, except for once when he said if he were going to dole out justice of any sort, he would make it known.

Almost lost in the anger of territory appointments and hunger is the fact that Violet Townsend's childe, Damien Reece, illegally embraces the (idiot, by Nathaniel's comments) thug Deangelo Bell, shortly after murdering Henry Little, the sire of Ephemeral Deville. While murdering another Kindred isn't against the law (and some were even thankful for one less mouth to hunt in the city), Little owes debts. In a very public moment of the epitome Daeva-fueled temper tantrum, even if he was Prince, Nathaniel Sanders hisses at Violet Townsend, throws the pool table of their Elysium sanctum and threatens that if her sire weren't who he was, he would drop the number of Kindred in the city by two more by the end of the night. If people were concerned about the blood and their next meal moments before the temper tantrum, the hurling of a pool table makes them temporarily forget about their hunger.

Vasily Petrovich makes a joke about a piano falling on someone's head to try and break the tension and is promptly banned from Elysium for a whole month by Nathaniel.

The night after his temper tantrum it was as if it didn't even occur as far as Nathaniel's temperament went, but the Kindred who were there to see the feat of strength in his moment of uncontrolled rage (the Invictus elect to not call him a breather, publicly at least) don't forget it.

2010

With the outburst, yet again, of the bastard childe of Violet Townsend's line, Deangelo Bell, Nathaniel was about done of letting the fledgling run wild. His walking into the Elysium and dominating whomever he saw was simply across the invisible line of things to not be crossed. He sent missive to Violet Townsend and her childe, Addison Whitfield, informing them to bring the errant street thug turned vagrant into line. Race, as it seems, does not play as much a part to him as some suggested it might when Bell was illegally embraced and allowed to survive in the city already starving from lack of good and viable blood sources.