Nelchael

The Wandering Wingless, that's the nickname he's been given over the centuries, as he wandered the cities of Europe, never staying in one domain for more than a few decades. Few Kindred confess to knowing any great deal about him, yet the european elders and ancillae of the Lancea Sanctum all seem to know of him.

• Name: Nelchael
• Embraced: 1798
• Covenant: Lancea Sanctum
• Clan: Daeva
• Titles: Herald of Amsterdam
• Domain: Jordaan North, Tenant

Little is known for certain about the Kindred known as Nelchael, though the name he has chosen for himself might lend some insight into his past. What those familiar with demonology/angelogy might know about the name is that Nelchael is a fallen angel, condemned to a place amongst the hierarchy of hell. Nelchael, of the eight throne of the first sphere of Devils, and once of the Throne of God. Thrones are angels of the Sixth Order and are beings of tremendous power and movement. They are the keepers of higher more expanded energies. They ensure that these energies maintain connections and flows through the realms. They are known as Thrones. They act as the conduits of the physical worlds and tend to be more stationary in their existence. From William Frewen's “On Angels and Demons”, 1625, we might find more insight;

“The tale of Nelchael is an uncomfortable one, and not one happily told by many Jews or Christians. Theurges tend to shiver and turn away when his name is mentioned. It is said - though not loudly, or often - that Nelchael was once the patron angel of the artists, poets and playwrights of the world, delighting in all those greatest human works which glorified God by their beauty. It is said that he fell in love with a mortal woman - an artist, a poet of supernatural talent who seduced him with heartbreakingly beautiful words, in every tongue of Men and angels. It is said that they lay together; and that in his love for mortal woman, Nelchael fell. There are legends that Nelchael now wanders the earth, trapped forever in a half-mortal, half-fallen state, unable to die, unable to ever encounter the grace of heaven again. It is said that once a year, he can be found somewhere in the marshes of Somerset; where he sits upon a gravestone whose writing has long been washed away by the endless rains, and weeps. But Theurges and zealots are impressionable types - and one should never put too much credence in stories.”

While the Kindred known as Nelchael is clearly not the same as the fallen angel spoken of here, there are those who have noted similarities between the two. There is an indefineable sadness about Nelchael, which transcends even those of other Kindred.

What is fact, and little known;

Born and raised during the later half of the 18th century in a monastary near Milan, he became a faithful priest of the christian faith, and curiously enough, somewhat of a student of the arts, interacting with nearby townsfolk who were drawn to the arts, and fostering their work in the direction of glorifying God. But just as Frewen's tale, the priest, whose mortal name is now lost even to him, fell in love with the most stunning of artists of Milan, and broke his priestly oaths. Is it then any wonder, that one of the Daeva of the city, long a patron of the arts himsef, observed this most delightful of plays turned real, and decided to embrace the young priest? Perhaps the Daeva was familiar with Frewen's tale, and sought to curse the priest to a fallen state, as the angel himself.

Regardless of the intentions behind his embrace, the former priest himself remembers little of the decades after his embrace, fixating only his grief. But in 1826, the name Nelchael first appears in the history of Milan, though only for a short duration; Though he pledges allegiance to the Lancea Sanctum, He leaves Milan in the winter of 1828, to wander Europe's lands, briefly settling in a number of the great cities of the continent. In 2001, he enters Amsterdam, reluctantly taking the position of Herald.