Samuz

General Information

Birth Name: Samuz Nickname: Sam Clan: Tremere Age: 4,000+

Gender: Male Hair: Eyes: Skin: Height:

Background

The Time of Two Rivers

In the rough ballpark of 2300 BCE, the king known to history of Sargon conquered the cities of Mesopotamia and created what could be said to be the first empire in history. In the era of his rule, a young man of the upper classes grew up. His name was Samuz. As part of his birthright, secret rites and rituals of sorcerers and priests, magick itself. Samuz was a prodigy, with a voracious mind and proficiency that inspired jealousy and numerous rivals. But before they could move against him, something happened.

A lost Antediluvian? Gifts of demons? A working the likes of which the Council of Nine could only dream of? Only Samuz ever knew what and he's never told anyone. Suffice to say, he claimed immortality - in the aspect of a vampire - the first Tremere. He lurked now in shadow, mystery and rites, patient to ensure his survival first, knowledge acquisition second.

But centuries passed and as kingdoms turned to dust and rose, he started to encounter Kindred - and wanted offspring. His first childer was of great potential, like him once a young noble, now of Babylon. That youth's name was Gilgamesh. The clashes between the two and new opponents would be dimly and vaguely transformed into the Epic of Gilgamesh. The infamous 'plant of immortality', eaten by a snake: an assassination committed by the Followers of Set. It would mark the beginning of ages of enmity.

So it might just be a coincidence that within the following 16/17th centuries BCE the Hyksos peoples invaded Egypt, backed with revolutionary military techniques like the war chariot, composite bows and more. And that as quoted by the Jewish historian Josephus many centuries later: "having overpowered the rulers of the land, they hen burned our cities ruthlessly, razed to the ground the temples of gods..."

After a century they were repulsed, but Samuz considered it a sufficient warning. And much as before, Samuz traveled the Fertile Crescent. Phoenicia, Egypt, the Hittite lands, watching, learning, seeing the Assyrians and the Chaldeans, and developing that which would become known in millennia to come as the various paths of Thaumaturgy...

To the Mediterranean