The permanant kindred residents of Uppsala are:
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Ragnar Ericsson :
(Prince of the city, 7th Generation Brujah. d.1400)
A tall, slim man, of obvious nordic descent. First impressions
are to give this chap respect. His steely eyes and intimidating
presence are very reminiscent of a School Headmaster. Ragnar
has spent his entire life and subsequent unlife studying and is
one of the wisest kindred the characters will ever likely meet.
Uppsala is HIS city since Henrik left, and as long as noone
interferes with its smooth running he's a happy kindred. Making
him unhappy is most unwise.
Sven Johansson :
(8th Generation Gangrel. d.1790)
A historian specialising in the Norse, embraced by an old
Viking warrior. Sven came to study in Uppsala first as a
mortal and later as a Cainite. Quick to temper, Sven
prefers his own company, and is curt with anyone who doesn't
immediately gain his interest. A typical Gangrel, though
tempered with a very keen mind. His appearance relates his
loner attitude.
Seth :
(9th Generation Kiasyd. d.1894)
A former Oxford don, embraced for some enigmatic reason
by the most enigmatic of Bloodlines. A very secretive
individual, though not a loner. He is extremely well
mannered...as long as people don't mind talking to
shadows. His only real interest is his studies, though
he will aid any who show enough intelligence to merit
his help.
Pieter Gustafsson :
(11th Generation Malkavian. d.1950)
A very strange little man. A mass of neuroses and complexes, all
wrapped up in a cheap suit, loud tie and a lab jacket. This
Biologist is much liked and pitied by the city's kindred. He is
quite mad...boasting serious agrophobia and a paranoid fear of
other people (the only person he really trusts is the Tremere
Christina) among his eccentricities, along with fairly serious
bouts of manic depression. A workaholic, but still not above the
occasional practical joke...malicious or not, dependent on his
wildly fluctuating moods.
Christina Stenstrom :
(9th Generation Tremere. d.1978)
The Childe of Fredrik the missing Tremere, sent to try to find
her sire. Christina is seriously out of her depth, and while
she is a talented researcher she has found no leads and is
getting worried. She is pleasant, fairly pretty, but
exceedingly nervous. That said, she is determined to find her
sire, and it is this determination that keeps her going.
Per Andersson :
(8th Generation Brujah. d.1973)
It all went wrong for Per when he was embraced...as he didn't
react to the experience very well. he flipped, and is now a
brash, loud and extremely over confident Anarch, of the sort
who are all talk and no action. He has a gang of youths he
thinks give him power, but is really not much of anything
anymore. Ragnar despairs of his childe, hoping one day the
prodigy he embraced will return to the fold. Per changes his
opinions and appearance daily. He's very antisocial and
aggressive. A truly tragic figure.
Ulrika Stromberg :
(10th Generation Toreador. d.1966)
Ulrika arrived in Uppsala ten years ago, having been embraced by
one of Stockholm's Toreador. She now runs the principal concert
venue in town, Babylon, which can be found in the shadow of
the castle. She would be an artiste if she thought she had the
talent, but she knows she was primarily embraced for her looks
- she is the sterotypical tall blonde and busty Swede. However,
her sire did not realise she had a keen brain as well. Ulrika
now claims her art lies in providing entertainment and fostering
its development. Her sire now dislikes her, hence her move from
her home city.
Stefan :
(11th Generation Nosferatu. d.1945)
None of the kindred of Uppsala can remember when Stefan arrived.
None of the kindred really know anything about his life prior to
the embrace. None of them really want to know, and Stefan is
reluctant to answer questions, hinting at some great shame in his
past. All that is known is that he is a highly skilled Linguist
who treasures the quiet life that is provided by Uppsala. The
truth is that he is a former Nazi translator, who fled germany in
1945 and was embraced while passing through Amsterdam. This fact
he will hide as long as it is possible, for while he never did
anything worse than translate intercepted communications, he
feels extremely ashamed of what his allies did.
Fredrik Persson :
(8th Generation Tremere. d.1817)
Fredrik has been the head of Uppsala's Chantry for decades.
Mostly this is because he WAS the chantry, having tired of
the power games that kept most of his clan's swedish members
in Stockholm. Ragnar was initially hostile to Fredrik when
approched for permission to reside in Uppsala but, after
many nights of debate, the two found themselves with much in
common and had become firm friends and allies, each aiding
the other with their studies. Fredrik is small by local
standards, standing only 5'9" tall, and is also a little
overweight. Fredrik went missing six months ago, and has not
been seen since.
In addition to the kindred, Uppsala has several other supernatural residents:
Garou:
The garou have come to loathe the area around Uppsala recently, seemingly
driven away by the taint that now hangs over the city. There was one pack
that formerly patrolled around the edge of the city -- a pack of Get of Fenris,
the Storm of Thor, from a caern to the north west of Uppsala. However,
they now shun the city and are only rarely encountered by the city's kindred.
The leader, Hammerfist, is a member of the Fangs of Garm camp, and as such
formerly had strained relationships with Ragnar, but it has been many years
since they last met.
Mages:
Two mages are resident in the area, having loose ties to the chantry that is
located in Stockholm. They are collaborating on studies at Gamla Uppsala,
investigating what truly lies beneath the mounds. They are Tomas Rekkensberg
of the Dreamspeakers and his pupil, an Euthanatos by the name of Mikael Svensson.
The two keep themselves to themselves. Tomas is growing old and fears his time
will soon run out, and so is turning into an increasingly frustrated workaholic.
Wraiths:
The Wraith population of Scandinavia as a whole falls under the rule of the Dark Kingdom
of Ice. This kingdom - an entirely seperate entity from the Heirarchy - is a society
derived from that of the Vikings. The Shadowlands are akin to Valhalla, with Combat and
song being the order of the day. Politicing occurs between a variety of clans that have
derived from the various groups of Vikings and their descendants. Non-norse are treated
as second class, unless they died in battle, in which case they are honoured thpough may
never rise to any sort of power. The Uppsala area is dominated by the largest clan - Clan
Snow Fox. The city attracts the more thoughtful warrior, and is rich in bards as well as
fighters. In addition to the vikings are many academics and students from accross the
years who have had to adapt to the viking way. Most are somewhat uncomfortable with this,
but accept it. Pathos is drawn mostly from Curiosity, frustration, despair and all the
other trappings of academia.
Changelings:
Changelings are rare in Uppsala. They do not for the most part like the imagination
crushing that the University life inevitably involves. While Uppsala is a young town,
full of ambitious and promising minds, Changelings seem unable to stomach the whole
concept of learning - feeling it takes away something of the romance of life wrapping
it up in laws and theories.
In fact, the kindred of Uppsala know of only one changeling in the city, and even she
is only known to Seth -- a Seelie Sluagh who works in the library in the
Ekonomicum. Seth knows her as Constance, though outside her changeling seeming she is
known as Maria Eriksson. She owes fealty to a Troll lord in Sigtuna, one of the oldest
towns in Sweden, which lies to the south of Uppsala on the banks of Lake Malaren.
