Isaac is rumored to be one of the oldest Kindred in Atlanta, an early immigrant to the English Colonies in the New World. They say he came to Atlanta in the first nights after the Civil War, when the city was being rebuilt and a vampire could entrench himself in the deepest layers of the new metropolis. Tonight, he sits in the thick of the Kindred court, delicately balancing his visible relationships with the Invictus, the Sanctified and the Carthians to maintain his personal treasure: regency over a small domain he inhabits entirely by himself.
With his wavy white hair and old-fashioned mutton chops, Isaac has some trouble going unnoticed in mortal society, so he mostly stays clear of it. How exactly he hunts, and where, is a minor mystery. For a vampire of his age, the answer may well be “where he likes.”
Isaac presents something of an eccentric’s demeanor, hinging on his old-man’s posture, handsy dialogue and a limp that is almost certainly habitual, not actual. In private, with those whom he can trust with some version of his real self, some of those affectations slip away.
In addition to his precarious neutrality, Isaac is said to be one of the founding members of a secret society within the secret culture of the Damned — a chapter of the occulted Order of the Dragon.
“If you’re looking for some evidence, some proof that not all things can be understood through science alone, you are it. You are your subject, doctor. And you have a hundred years to conduct your work. In two hundred years you had best be a hundred years smarter than any living man who’s come before you.”
In Play
Isaac was created to characterize Eric Torillo’s dots in the Merits, Mentor and Covenant Status: Ordo Dracul. Isaac uses his age and experience to give Eric an elder’s perspective on the city’s politics, in addition to being Eric’s contact within the secret society of the Ordo Dracul. Through play, and Eric’s own political machinations, Isaac has also spent some time teaching Dr. Walsh about the quasi-scientific methods of the Order of the Dragon. Whether Isaac knows that Dr. Walsh is now working (and getting blood) for Mr. Never, as well, is unclear.
