So my life went on. I was after all the child of a minor noble so I was granted the ability to learn to read and write and minor other studies. As well as that I developed a love of the theater at an early age. The magic of the stage always held me in awe. It was unavoidable that it became my life's passion. ?I spent my years pretending that I was on the stage. Performing grandly for nobles or common folk alike. How was I to know that it would lead to the path that it did. But alas. I joined a troupe of nomadic actors when I was 13 years of age. Performing the latest plays of the writes of that age with as much gusto and flair as the impovisational stories we would tell. Across France and Spain and nearby countries we would travel over the whole of the year. Performing were ever we would be had. It was a splendid life, I will admit.
However all that was to change the night we recieved a missive late in the night by a courier that we were requested to perform in the house of her Ladyship Juliete Dulai. The enclosed pay was enough to astound most of our age. And we gratefully accepted and set about spinning one of our most impressive tales to that point in our career. For with success we would have made it to being able to own our own theatre. And that was our dream.
So the night of our performace came and we were decked out in our finest. Our make-ups were perfect our voices splended and our lines.... were no less than captivating. Inspiring. Or any such words you could come up with. And we were set. The stage was laid and we stole it. The performance was commanding. And we held the noble audience enraptured with our tale. We saw it in their eyes and heard it in their laughs, gasps, and cheers. The applause was, at the end of it, deafening, and our hearts filled our ears and our throats alike. And we were given audiences with her ladyship. Who was absolutely gratified for our presence and performance and gave to our troope leader such a sum! All the price she asked was to spend a night with myself. We spoke and agreed, for it was to our benefit afterall. So with her to her chambers I went. An inspired youth of 15, and she a regal woman. Beautiful in all her ways. And how easily she seduced me that night, aye me. It was. Blissfull that she was that to which my virginity had been lost. Little did I know that she was an undead.
As years went on we purchaed our theatre. And we performed, graced by all levels of society. And I was a regular lover to the ladyship, infact as it progressed and my loyalty grew she revealed herself unto me for what she was. And I became her retainer. Life went on from then and my family was supported and kept safe and so were those of my troope and their families in their homelands. Simply because I gave myself to this beautiful dead woman. However. When I was of the age of 20 she took me into her arms and made me her kind. Since then I have been such.
Very little of note happened between then and the time that I came to America. Infact. My years were spent close to her side learning all aspects of the life of the vampire as they were known to her. As much so as I defended her and her house on a few occasions from all manner of assault. Still on the occasion I was seen on the stage. However it was rare untill it ceased entirely and I took ownership of the theatre. Lording over it with my lady sire for long years as public owners and actors came and went. Eventually, however, it came to pass that my lady was destroyed. Caught unawares by one she chose to feed from that night. A simple err that cost her her existance. So I took her money sold her lands liquidated her possessions and left France for the young America. To a heart of thriving French culture. New Orleans.
Upon my arrival on the dirty banks of the Mississippi river I sought to rebuild my empire. To make a new theater. I found a man and his daughter whom I married and who's theater I purchased. Though that was to be my great "undoing" so it would have seemed. None questioned when I said my appearnces at night were due to a dreadful skin condition where-in my body would react violently to the sun, unto my own death if exposed for too long. A pigmentation disorder a doctor would call it. And they bought the lines and I lived my unlife building a theatre. Untill I was shot in the head by my wife's lover when I caught them in the throws of passion in our marital bed. So. When they dumped my bodies in the swamps I played dead. For long years. Watching and waiting. Untill the time came when an heir appearent presented himself. And I manipulated him from behind shadow and veil into another theatre which I controlled through him. And this theatre became a bastion for others of my kind. Shortly there after I regained the reigns of the legacy I built. And controlled now two theatres in the city of New Orleans. The Theatre Des Roses Muertes and The Theatre Du Saintes.
However. Misfortune was again to plague my steps so it would seem. And I was forced to flee New Orleans to another growing city during that time. The city of Chicago. The home of notorious mobsters and corrpution. And controlled all by vampires who played with the souls and bodies of the dead. This did not settle well with me. I had heard of them before and their ilk disgusted me. Throughouly. So after some years my retainer and I left the theatre we created there and went west to San Fran Sisco. Where we had fought hard to maintain our theatre there in the faces of raging vampires who reveled in their idiotic anarchy. Reveling in the simpleness of both their minds and their monstrosities. We stayed there for long years however having carved a harsh niche in the society there. Then when my retainer, and nearly myself, were destroyed in an uprising of Anarchs who realised the levels of control I had gained, I again packed up and left behind a theatre. Returning to New Orleans for a short while (comparitavely) to reaffirm the affairs of my booming buisnesses there. Then in the year of 2003 I came to the glorious anonimity of Necropolis New York. Here I shall try my hand again in furthering my own legacy. To what ends, I have yet to know. But I will make this as successful.