Julric

Julric, commonly known as the Stormcrown, is a Methuselah of the Iriel Clan. He is widely regarded by Kindred historians as the most favored childe of the Iriel Antediluvian, rumored to be entrusted with the location of her resting place. He is one of the oldest members of the clan to survive to modern nights, with nearly all Iriel around the Mediterranean Sea being able to trace their lineage back to him. Despite his titanic age, he remains more active than many Methuselahs who are several millennia his junior, using his mastery of Auspex and Dominate to walk the earth outside his own body whilst he lies in torpor within the depths of the waters within the Berumuda Triangle.

Early Life
Julric was born within the Po Valley in modern day Italy, over five thousand years before the birth of Christ. Julric spent his first few years in a small village of about thirty people, though when he was six years old, his life changed. Iriel, one of the Antediluvians, descended upon the village, and everyone Julric knew was Embraced and devoured by the ancient vampire's hunger. Yet distant as the memory of it was, Iriel still clung on to her humanity, and could not bear to kill a child, even as she walked through the ruins of his village and among the corpses of his family. She took the boy in, using the power of Fortitude to walk in the day, despite the strain upon her, guilt wracked over having robbed the child of everyone he had ever known.

Embrace
Eventually, Julric came to look upon Iriel as a mother, and she to see him as a son. Though she had sired other childer in ages past, never before had she grown so close to one. Eventually, when the boy grew to manhood, she offered him immortality. Many times. For the first few, he refused. Legend said that he was only convinced when they encountered an old man in the woods as they traveled. It was deep in winter, and the old man had been sent away from his village to die, so that his family would not be burdened with feeding him. Disgusted at such a fate, Julric begged Iriel for the Embrace, and she gave it to him gladly. The old man then became his first victim.

The City of Durok
Shortly after his Embrace, Julric's sire began to feel the call of torpor. Wishing for her most beloved childe to remain secure whilst she slumbered, the Antediluvian contacted Oshtek, the childe of Amaros, and the eldest member of the Fourth Generation. Julric and his sire traveled to the city of Durok, Oshtek's home, which he had constructed upon the banks of the Tigris River.