<table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td>(http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu284/Asherah_photos/Ravnos-C1.jpg?t=1266219615)</td><td><strong>Name:</strong>  Gwendoline Armore<br/><br/><strong>Type:</strong>  Vampire<br/><br/><strong>Character Sheet:</strong>  Link (http://sheetgen.dalines.net/sheet/4100?message=true)<br/><br/><strong>Age:</strong>  Mid to late twenties in appearance.<br/><br/><strong>DoB:</strong>  July 2, 1744<br/><br/><strong>DoE:</strong>  June 16, 1769<br/><br/><strong>Description:</strong>  Gwendoline is a five foot four inch, one hundred and thirty six pound beauty.  With long blond hair and dark blue eyes.  Through her beauty is not solely due to the endowment of her curves.   A noble bearing, along with being captivating is what sets her apart.   Which signals a woman of refine breeding and culture.   As she moves through  the eternal night.   </td></tr></tbody></table><br/><div align="center"><sup><strong><span class="bbc_u">Biography</span></strong><br/><br/>Mortal History</sup></div><br/><br/>Gwendoline Armore born in 1744,  July 2nd.    Beckrow, Suffix county   east Anglia,  England.   The second child of William and Mary Dunnery.   The first, her brother was five years her senior William Dunnery Jr.    Gwendoline would develop into a mild dove like personality.  One that would endure pretty much anything to avoid conflict.   Perfectly content to take second fiddle.<br/><br/>Gwendoline is married to  Robert Armore in 1763  February 4th.     A lieutenant in the British royal navy  Who served aboard HMS Thames,  a 32 gun  3rd rate ship of the line frigate.   With her settling in living in Dover, England.  This would open the door into the world  of navel.  But also into the world of merchant marines for Gwendoline.  As she lived and socialized with likewise other wives.<br/><br/>However, a happy ever after is not in store for Gwendoline.   For in a two year period from 1764 to 1765.   With first being the deaths of her parents.  Who succumb to a influenza outbreak.   Followed by the death of her husband Robert the next year.  Who is killed in action in the Mediterranean, in the line of duty.  During an engagement with French in the Mediterranean.  With the death of Robert.  Gwendoline would move to London.   Where she finds work in a art gallery.  In which she would make a modest living of 2 shillings a day.   This is would foster a life long love of the art.<br/><br/>Her time in London is short.  For her brother concern for his beloved sister and her future.  Would insist and win out in her coming to live with him and his wife in Bombay India.    For William who has made it a career in the army is now a major.     The reason, William is in hopes of finding a husband for Gwendoline.     For it was scandalous her living alone in London.    Arriving in Bombay where she would live with her brother and sister in law for the next three years.   Gwendoline through is not so quick to want to remarry.    Through she does endure suitors brought in by her brother and sister in law.  In her polite way, as she abhorred conflict.    Would fall in love with Indian art.   Which would open the door to her meeting   Maytek  Jinin,  a dashing man of the noble caste of India.   Who was full of questions.    In which he seemed so generously interested in her.   Where she came from.  What the customs were like.  The social status of top to bottom.   While at the same time he open a doors into the world of  fabulous Indian art.<br/><br/><div align="center"><sup>Embrace; early years</sup></div><br/>In June of the year 1769,   Lieutenant  colonel William Dunnery is transferred to New York, of the British colonies of America.  It is at this time on the 16th of June.  That Maytek Jinin, decides to embrace Gwendoline.   For he is a 9th generation Ravnos ancillae of the Brahman jati    Who had his sudras (ghouls)  integrated into her brother's servant staff.   While he had used Gwendoline to gain a better understanding of the mindset of the English occupiers of his country.   Facing with that he would lose the asset of Gwendoline.  He would decide to embrace her.   Making her his progeny.  .<br/><br/>The embracing of a Gwendoline is met with hard line old views.  That have repercussions as she was considered out of caste and thus not worthy.    Fearing for his own life a as well as his new childer.   Maytek would flee India.   Through a plot hatched.   He would have Gwendoline stage her own death.    Which would break her away from the mortal ties of her family.   Already having  a couple of sudras that were going  with the Dunnerys.   It allowed him to be stowed away in a second coffin.    In which gave them their freedom.<br/><br/>For the next fifty years,  in  London did the two survive.   In which Gwendoline is taught the ways.   Learning of  the older Mayaparisatya the true path, practice by eastern Ravnos.<br/><br/><div align="center"><sup>Intermediate years to present.</sup></div><br/>Through not of the Camarilla,  surviving in the shadows,  Gwendoline and her sire.   She would be drawn to other kindred.   It is something that could not be helped.   Her love of art would endear her into a coterie of Toreadors and a Brujah.      It is this association that keeps her from following down the path of paradox.   An which  has her follow on the path of humanity.   While it would also open her decades affair with the Camarilla.   She took in everything, intrigued by how the monolith society worked.   So in the year of 1819,  she would finally break way from her sire.  As she went with her coterie to Paris.     Where her reputation as purveyor of fine art. Would gain her good stead.    During this time she gain a reputation of being able to find and get fine valuable work of arts.   Through the ability of an ear to the streets.  Ingraining herself into criminal organizations.   While being a visible patronage of the fine arts.<br/><br/>The years would take her to various places.  From  London,  Paris, Vienna and Rome. .With even by the turn of the  20th century.  A return to the African and Asia minor continents   During the rise of the industrial age.  The great archaeological finds in Egypt.  Through out this time from her initial first coterie.   Gwendoline would continue to engage with the kindred of the Camarilla and their clans.   Further learning of the working.  To such a point she has become a savvy capable insider trader of the political mechanizations of the Camarilla.<br/><br/><br/>During the second great war  known as World War two.  With the rise of the axis powers.  At the start Gwendoline finds herself in London.   With many other peers would find refuge across the Atlantic.   As she would come to New York in the early forties.   This first trip to New York would help establish her ties to organized crime families.  A ear in the streets.   Which would bear fruit for her  in the future.     For after the war,   Gwendoline would return to London.   Until recently returning to New York for a semi permanent move.   Her years of carefully cultivated associations has earned her status within the Camarilla.   Political stock in the bank.    For only those close know her truly to be a Ravnos.   All others it is mere speculation as to what clan she is from.<br/><br/><div align="center"><sup><strong><span class="bbc_u">Notes</span></strong><br/><br/>The Ravnos Curse</sup></div><br/>Through it might easily be easily picked her vice is theft of art.  It is not,  it  is only a means and a love of art is all.   A useful tool nothing more.   For Gwen's vice is the creating of drama.   Getting in the ear of a primogen, seneschal or even the prince's ears.  As a trusted advisor.   Through one that cunningly sows the seeds of intrigue and drama.   So where most of her peers,  believe her curse of embrace is the stealing of fine art.   The measure of control in how she has never stolen from one of the clans.  Hiding her true calling of vice.<br/><br/><div align="center"><sup>Languages</sup></div><br/>Gwendoline native language is English,  she is also fluent in French and Indian(Hindi).<br/><br/><div align="center"><sup>Finishing notes</sup></div><br/>Gwen despite her sire,  but due to circumstances of her auspices  beginnings as a kindred.   Is a follower of the path of humanity.   Through she also knows the tenets of path of Paradox through not the bastardization during Rome.  The older Mayaparisatya the true path, practice by eastern Ravnos.<br/><br/>Embraced  into the line of Ravnos Brahman jati.    Gwen has the usual clan disciplines of animalism  chimerstry.  However auspex instead of fortitude as her jati clan discipline.<br/><br/>Finally her flaw of prey exclusion in which she abhors feeding from another woman or child.  Along with her noble bearing that she eludes.  Can on first impression give rise to thinking she is a blue blood of the Ventrue.    Just as her keen love of art could be misconstrued her as one of the Toreadors.   For playing on scotoma,   the mind sees what it wants.