Maximillian Strauss

Maximillian Strauss was born to a well-to-do family in A small town mid-18th century in Austria. His father a devout Christian would impose is extremist view of the Bible and the Faith unto his son from an early age. While a yound Strauss certainly believe in human ethics and some of teachings of the New Testement, He did not entirely believe in the existence of the Christian God. Strauss himself was a humanist at heart and begin to explore other avenues and belief structures during his late teenage years. It was at this time that he would study the worlds religions considerin himself a freelance theologian of sorts.

Dabbling with the Occult
In his early 20s he began to experiment with the forbidden old religions of his land. This choice would land him in the circles of kine and arcane rituals that would lead him down a unholy path, forever changing his life. First he dabbled in light Satanism, practicing harmless rituals and other such things. THis would last quite a while explored other pursuits and came tot eh realization that his Satanism was hollow and he merely wished to discover the arcane secrets. Around his late twenties after years of dabbling and digging, he became involved with a Germanic cult that was rumoured to be very powerful and influential in Munich, Germany.

Living in the Land of the Gauls
Strauss would seek knowledge with the members of this cult and would soon find himself worshipping a group of vampires who likened themselves to creatures gifted by the gods themselves. While he had for a majority of his life believd in the emerging sciences, he was blinded by the power of these "men" and curious seeked the source of teh power. He begin to feign his allegience to teh old gods, and moved to Munich were the cult's power base lied. It would turn out that these vampires were of the Circle of the Crone, and that Strauss would soon find himself a member of their herd. Around this time his future sire, an aristocratic pagan Kindred, would notice a great interest in Strauss to know the traditions of the cult.

A Taste to Die For
Around 1884, Strauss would be taken under the wing of Frederick Beckenbaur and turned into a ghoul. For years he would serve under his domitor in hopes to uncover the secret of their unhuman existence. After 6 years of unquestioned service, Beckenbaur Embraced the thralled kine. Strauss was born again of Mekhet blood and would become a studious Acolyte under Beckenbaur's tutelage. Throughout the 48 years in the Crone, Strauss would develop a fearsome repetoire of Cruac Rituals and become well-versed in the blood magic to further his own ends. In 1820, after a long period of peacful operations in Munich, his sire would be framed into looking as if he had betrayed his own cult. This would be an event in which Strauss would lose his greatest friend and mentor.

The City of Angels
After his sire's death at the hands of his own cult, Maximillian would lose faith in ht members of the cult. Not that he was ever fully faithful tot eh old gods he worshiped to save face. He once thought that he could trust the other Acolytes. It seemed he had been mistaken. This would taint his trust of other Kindred in the many years of his Requiem left. He would move to Los Angeles seeking a fresh start in 1922.