No matter who's looking, they notice Adela. She has an intensity to her that is undeniable. Her looks themselves are almost angelic or rather; she looks more a ghost than she does a vampire. Her skin is as pale as snow, and her hair is almost white-blond. She looks completely innocent, pure even, as if the horrors of the world somehow have no grip on her, as though she exists in a state of grace, seperate from the world. Yet despite this fact, everyone who spends any amount of time with her begins to realize that there is something very very wrong with this little girl. Something evil stirs inside of her, watching from behind those innocent looking eyes, waiting for an opening.

She's only relatively recently arrived in the Greater Amsterdam region, and has so far managed to avoid the attentions of the Prince and his court, having made her presence known only to Kindred who belong to the Circle of the Crone, who know her as the domain's pre-eminent Haruspex, aswell as a teacher of the Second Descent philosophy.

• Name: Adela Hirsch
• Embraced: 1829
• Covenant: Circle of the Crone
• Clan: Mekhet
• Bloodline: Alucinor
• Titles: Haruspex, Eye of Death

Born in 1816 in the German Confederation (Deutscher Bond) in the town of Wesel, Westphalia in Prussia, to a family of minor nobles. The fall of Napoleonic France led to the Congress of Vienna redrawing the map of europe and settle other issues aswell as the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. It was a time of conservative top-down reforms and rising liberal nationalism amongst the Prussian nobles and intellectuals. As the daughter of one of the more liberal noble families, Adela received an education which was, however minor, still considered a strange thing for a woman to receive, even amongst other liberal forces. While the the riots of 1848 were still a long time away, Adela's father was quietly relieved of his wealth and nobility in the early winter of 1829. The process was not a smooth one, as the 13 year old girl was forced to watch her father being beaten as he was dragged off to prison. The fact that her mother had died shortly after she was born meant that she now had no one. The servants that had once been in her father's employ wished nothing to do with the girl, and the authorities couldn't care less. That night she was forced to head into the town, to sleep in the open air, to beg for food, or worse, steal it. But if all that wasn't bad enough, it would be the night of her death aswell. She doesn't remember her sire very well. It's all a blur to her. What she does remember is killing her sire on the same night as her embrace. It wasn't until decades later that she realized she also diablerized him.

She spent the next few months figuring out what she was. It was strange, erupting into frenzy and killing people on several occasions, drinking their blood. Strange too was her instinctive fear of the sun. Such things were just fairytales that her father had told her, but now it was real. Little less than a year after her embrace she was found by another Kindred, a young dragon of the Palatine rite. Curious about the girl's strength of character (for why else would she have been able to survive this long on her own?), he vowed to teach her everything he knew of the Kindred, the covenants, and what she was capable of. He took her to Essen, where she became a citizen of the domain, and spent nearly three decades learning what she could before being released into society on her own. In 1861, after having been released for a year, she met an Alucinor by the name of Kreisse, who had discovered her heritage, which had remained unknown to everyone including herself. The blood itself wasn't yet at the point where she could manipulate the Alucinor powers, but she was getting closer and closer. Kreisse, himself an Acolyte, took her as a pupil, and taught her both the ways of the circle, and the ways of the bloodline. Fortunately for him, she already had a fascination with the occult and pagan religions, though her father never led her study them as much as she wanted. Becoming a part of the chorus for the next 12 years, she only took the final initiation rite when she herself felt ready.

She continues her requiem, studying the arts of cruac, divination, and serves in a variety of roles within the covenant, and in 1888 sired another Kindred as part of the Creation Rite; The childe was quick to distance himself from Adela however, and much to her annoyance joined up with the Sanctified. In 1896 she came into contact with the teachings of the Second Descent, adopting them as her own. She found herself carrying a deep affinity for the imagery of the faction and strove to enhance that image even further. Yet three and a half decades later, she was not yet ready for the extended duration in Torpor. It came sudden and without warning, the eruption of violence within the domain that led to it's total collapse. To this night she has no memories of what caused the violence or who staked her and placed her inside that crypt, and she has no desire to find out either. A hapless mortal priest discovered her torpid body in the depths of the crypt a half century later, and was foolish enough to remove the stake. After draining him dry, she sought out the other Kindred of the domain, but learned that not only had none survived, but she was actively shunned from the domain; they had no tolerance for child vampires. She fled west; To the Netherlands. Making her way over to Arnhem in 1983. There she stayed for a few short years, learning the ins and outs of the modern world, or atleast; as far as she had patience for. The circle was weak in the west, those was the talk amongst the covens, and building upon the foundation of change and tribulation of her particular philosophy, she moved further west, settling around Amsterdam in 1985, where she remains to the modern nights.