Samuel James

The Sheriff
"Listen, I'm gonna put it to you straight: the folks that didn't survive were missing something. Might've been skill, luck, loyalty, probably even faith; but whatever it is they didn't have, those of us who are left did. I want to make sure you get it too, but if you don't learn the easy way then it's my job to make sure you learn the hard way."

Samuel James has been Prince Thorne's right hand man and spiritual advisor since just a few decades past the founding of New Babylon. When he tells his story, it is that he was a prospector who came north and west in search of gold but found only sin instead. After his Embrace, he figured eternity was real and he better do something about making sure he got to see it. His Sire was the last Archbishop of the Lancea et Sanctum in New Babylon and destroyed by the agents of the God-Machine, but he doesn't really seem to like to talk about that.

If it exists in the city, Sheriff James has probably had to hunt it down at some point. Mortals? Absolutely. Vampires? Sure. But the stranger things too. There's plenty of tales (some of them no doubt a bit too tall) of him directly opposing the God-Machine's agents but again, he's not much for talking about that. Sheriff James' voice is chiefly used for practical advice or pronouncing judgment and there's not much in between.

Whether it is through faith, or whether the Sheriff is concealing some deep ties to touchstones is unknown, but despite it all he has managed to cling to his Humanity, but it surely must be in shreds by now. Even if his body survives the coming nights, how will his soul?