Helen Thorne

The Prince
"For over a century, this city was ours. Founded by my blood and built by those taken from us. We will not surrender, and we will not be expunged. We will rebuild, we will take back the night."

Helen Thorne has been a part of this city since its foundation, and indeed claims to be responsible for causing the Scottish immigrants who first settled here to found New Babylon. It seems somewhat unbelievable in these nights to consider she may once have been a nomad following a herd across a United States torn apart by the Civil War, but every once in a while that old demeanor shines through. It is particularly evident in her persistent (some may even say stubborn) drive to ensure not only her own survival, but those she sees as under her protection.

Prince Thorne has ruled this city's Kindred (and some would say, for many years, New Babylon's mortals as well) for nearly two decades now. The "setbacks" of the last decade have not dulled her ambition, and some suggest that she is excited by the challenges presented in "resettling" the city's Kindred population. That she considered existence too easy before the Decimation caused by the God-Machine and its servants.

Surviving that decimation required measures that can only be described as draconian and tyrannical, and Thorne enforced the Masquerade to a terrifying degree during the Decimation. Indeed, although the majority of Kindred slain were killed by external powers it seems it may have been a slim majority, and the rest of those Final Deaths were at the hand of Thorne or those most loyal to her. It is equally obvious, however, that without those strict measures there would very likely be no Kindred left in the city at all anymore.

It remains to be seen just what kind of vampire Court Prince Thorne wants to rebuild: tyranny or justice.