Konrad Roth

Appearance

Konrad stands 5'10" weighing 158lbs (72kg), with dark blue eyes and sandy brown hair. His chin sports trimmed facial hair and his expression is often relaxed with a heavy brow that gives him a narrow analyzing gaze. He often wears a heavy leather overcoat for concealing items on his person and protecting him from possible dangers, and sneakers to tread lightly.

History

Konrad began his mortal life in Casper, Wyoming in the 1940's. His father, a WWII veteran, worked the coal mines, though the experiences of the war kept him guarded and cold to the man's family. Breaking the illusion of normalcy, Konrad's father would suffer from fits of rage and confusion. Yet despite the domestic anxiety, Konrad experienced a happy childhood, making friends and exploring the Wyoming wilderness.

However, Konrad's father died in a mining accident. His mother, unprepared, tried her best to provide for Konrad. But she developed a drinking problem and often Konrad found himself taking care of her more than often. But it was her smoking habit that led to her to be diagnosed with cancer. By the time Konrad had reached adulthood he was already burying his mother.

Since it was the 60's Konrad found himself caught up in the surge of youth culture. Political protests, narcotics, racial tensions, the war draft, it left him feeling a little directionless, uncertain of his goals. He followed a girl he had met out to Las Vegas, Nevada, which was already the entertainment capital of the world. Surviving off his inheritance, Konrad found his funds drying up quickly.

Everything changed when Konrad found himself called in the draft for the Vietnam War. Having seen the effect war had on his father, he was terrified by the prospect. Either way, Konrad's mortal life came to an end that year.

Konrad's sire had ties with the Las Vegas mafia that ran the casinos. With the population surge, the city came to harbor a large Kindred population. The Embrace brought his world into focus. The uncertainties of mortal life were replaced with the powerful hunger of the Beast. The city was a perfect hunting ground with tourists and unchecked crime. Sin City now had its newest monster stalking its shadows.

A decade passed. As the government began to crack down on the element of organized crime, the risk to the masquerade grew. The unwanted attention caused the Kindred to distance themselves from the mafia. Konrad was one of the Kindred who moved on to what seemed like brighter pastures, Los Angeles. The gang and street violence seemed like a good cover for the Savage to make his home.

In the years that followed, Konrad met a young photographer who, unbeknownst to him, had discovered his true nature. The distortions in his film caused the photographer to become curious about Konrad and followed him around. It wasn't long before Konrad discovered the Kine's folly. Rather than killing the man, however, he offered instead to share the curse, making the man, by the name Cody Marlow, into his Ghoul.

This granted Konrad an unexpected convenience, allowing him options he had never had before. It allowed the Kindred an additional perspective of the world, one that Konrad had grown detached and distant from in his time unliving.

It was then a decade after the turn of the century that Konrad followed his Ghoul, after Cody accepted a new job in Sacramento, California. It would be a new experience for them both.

Since Arrival

Night Lightning

While hunting through a dive bar, Konrad encountered Chris Wooding and Richard Black on the prowl. While greeting one another they overheard a drunk conversation regarding scientific research into the theoretical topic of immortality. Curious, the three approached only to find an argument break out between two Kine. They helped to break up the fight in order to have a word with the researcher/student named Tom. They introduced themselves as curious investors and Tom arranged for them to meet with Professor Aurora Hitwick at Sacramento University.

When the Kindred arrived at the lab the Professor seemed to doubt their claim to be investors. Instead the Professor made a request of them, offering them a cash payment if they were able to recover a valuable book she is after. They Kindred agree, if only to get their own hands on the book. They are told the book resides at the Saunders family estate within the city.

They arrive at the residence and Konrad approaches with Richard to try and talk their way through the front gate, posing as members of a local charity while Chris slips through the shadows unseen. While inside the two are brought to a library by a butler to wait for the Lady of the house. They begin searching the library for clues and find a record of family members who all seemed to die when their children reached the age of eighteen. Before they can find anything else, Konrad checks the door to find that two of the butlers are positioned outside, one armed with a shotgun. Konrad quickly barricades the door right before a blast shatters through the wood. Unable to escape, the two Kindred fight their attackers, getting shredded by bullet and blade before finally overcoming the butlers.

Then one of the butlers begins to act strangely, contorting itself and its features and claiming to be a deceased relative of the Saunders family named Matthew. He surrenders while Chris appears from a side hallway with the book they had been searching for and they escape the residence with the butler in tow. While driving away they speak with the possessed man, who claims to be the author of the book Hitwick had them recover. He agrees to cooperate with them to stop Hitwick's research.

Weirded out by the whole ordeal, and pockmarked with shotgun pellets, Konrad takes his leave in order to recover his wounds, leaving Hitwick's fate in the hands of Chris and Richard.

Thorned Ten

Skeleton Keys

Among the Carthians

Scenes

Among the Kine

Known among the Kine, he is Konrad Roth Jr., only son of the late Konrad Roth. According to his driver's license he was born in 1982. He supposedly works as a pawn broker employee in affiliation with a local business in Sacramento.

Criminal Affiliations

Mafia Bagman, Fence, & Associate

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