New York By Night:Seneschal of New York
Name:Erik Evitt
Embrace: 1922
Apparent Age: Mid Thirties
Clan: Gangrel
Covenant: Invictus
Discription: Erik never looks at home in the suits he wears, the mans tanned face and rough hands seem to belong on a farm, working the fields. His eyes are the only hint at the mans quick intelligence and sharp wit. The lines of a hard life go neatly with Seneschal Evitt's salt and pepper hair, but the man has the energy of a much younger creature.
Background: Erik grew up on a farm in Kentucky, the seventh of eleven children, and one of six who reached adulthood. When he was a young man he left home with his brother to work for the railroad. It was hard work, but he got to see much of the country and met the girl he would marry. But fate was cruel to Evitt. After years trying for a child his wife would die in child birth along with his only son. When the Great War came to America Evitt and his younger brother left to fight. The man who returned was much sobered by what he had seen. What he had done.
Erik did not return to Kentucky after the war, or to the home he had made with is late wife in Texas. Instead he went to New York, a city where he could loose himself. He did hard labor in the day, and spoke against the injustice of the corporations and the government at night. His sire, a traveling nomad, never explained why he Embraced Evitt and for his part Erik was to afraid to ask.
The product of an illegal embrace, Evitt spent much of his early years among the kindred earning his right to exist. Eventually he joined the Invictus and served as a hound and latter as Herald. When Prince Seegar too the throne he asked Evitt to become his Seneschal and the Gangrel agreed. Few were surprised by his appointment.
Storytelling Hints: Erik is an excellent Seneschal. For his Gangrel blood and rough looks he is popular with the low clans. The Carthians see him as a symbol of how one can rise from the bottom and reach the top and believe him sympathetic to their cause, even if he is not. Other Invictus know him to be an excellent politician and master manipulator, able to get his hands dirty when needed or convince others to do it for him.
