Niemand

Clan	Brujah
Position	None
Status	3
Domain	Columbus, OH
Coterie	None
Society	???
Path	Humanity 000
Player	Ryan Lynch

Overview

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Alias(es):
Niemand

Real Name: Magnj "Magnus" Kohler

Apparent Age: A youngish middle-age.

Concept: Recovering Penitent and Camarilla Brujah Mainstay

Physical description: A man of average build and features, he can make himself appear either a bit less noticeable or a bit more so. Magnus usually wears a simple sport jacket, dress shirt, and slacks. In colder months, he wears a severe-looking, long, dark overcoat typical of "cloak and dagger" stereotypes.

Detailed Status:

• Acknowledged (Berlin)
• Cherished (Prince Eric Kein)
• Dignified (Dignitary)
• Faithful

Known History

The Brujah called "Niemand" is a vampire of questionable mortal origin who very well might have been embroiled in any conspiracy theory you see on a bad History Channel documentary. During the 1950s, he would be tasked - first as Greta von Riesling's ghoul - with working alongside the Ventrue "Le Hire" to recover much of the art stolen by the now-defunct regime which he had been an agent of. His torturous embrace in the 1950s was both a blessing from a Kindred spirit for him to seek redemption, and viciously mocking retribution for the part ex-sympathizers like him had played in Nazi crimes. The cowardly complexities motivating Niemand's collusion with that hated regime would not begin to be admitted many years later to other Kindred spirits Niemand would meet, such as Lydia Laurant and Ewa Zofia, but Niemand and other Kindred of the coming decades would nonetheless (certainly misguidedly) use the "Nazi monster" reputation to his occasional advantage despite the self-hatred it invoked to do so. He was forbidden from using his own name by his Sire, who dubbed him "Niemand" (Nobody). It would be decades before he was allowed to resume a version of his given name by Prince Eric Kein of Columbus. Niemand continued to serve as courier for the court of West Berlin, and recovery specialist allying with various Kindred to accomplish his Sire's tasks. In the 1970s, he followed leads to Dallas, Texas, where he worked alongside one of its hounds, J.D. "Ranger" Worth, to stop a cadre of Nazi ghouls and their regnant Sabbat pack from spiriting a cache of stolen art to Mexico City (where the art had been intended to be used in rituals against the specific leaders of the Camarilla). By the 1990s, he had been Acknowledged and allowed to Embrace at least one Childe. A friend of that Childe proved to be an asset against a coven of technocratic Mages assaulting Brujah and Ventrue interests in Berlin, so Greta embraced Melina Hunter at Niemand's request.

Sort of a tomb raider for more powerful Kindred, Niemand infiltrated and stole artifacts from Setites and Tremere in Cleveland, Ohio. Following similar activity in Columbus, he disappeared for several months before returning with the goal of winning back the comradeship of his own clanmates. During the time he served as Scourge in Columbus, he methodically eliminated any un-Acknowledged Kindred who showed up - some of whom Viktor would insist be kept as what-if prisoners. Viktor von Steinwitz and Niemand shared not only mortal history together (the von Steinwitz family were pan-European mercenaries and fixers from the WW2 era), but idealism that often caused them to take alternating good- and bad-cop roles when trying to solve problems together - not least of which was considering again and again whether to overthrow Prince Eric Kein. When finally his allies were all absent and Viktor was ready to strike, though, Niemand found himself accidentally swayed and talked von Steinwitz out of the act - something he might always regret. Another period of torpor followed a spite rant against him by an offended clanmate, whose charges Niemand did not dispute (but which charges did not leave the rant). Being both challenged and benefitted by the mentorships of local elders Bernard and Maggie, Niemand would dabble in the superstitions and paths of morality of numerous other associates (Bernard among them), at least intrigued by the origins and possibilities of faith - though only faith in the Camarilla would prove lasting. Intermittently (when Viktor von Steinwitz was not) serving as Primogen in Columbus, Niemand stepped down from the position after a gruesome incident in Cleveland (where he killed the childe of Archon Reuhe as Brujah he was allied with acted as soldiers in a Praxis). He was stripped of three Status for the incident by Prince Brighton Hughes, spending many months in penance during which he submitted to philosophies espoused by the Child of Haqim, Kunya Nassir, though Nassir would die within the coming years. Before resting in torpor (he claims) for several months, Niemand was named a Sword Bearer of Columbus, and publicly reclaimed a version of his actual name - Magnus Kohler.

Replaced as primogen by his own anarch-sympathizing child, Magnus has spent some time traveling - usually among the anarchs, trying to get to the bottom of Gunther's duplicity. Gunther Bjornson was diablerized by William Satine (who replaced Gunther as Brujah Primogen) on Eric Kein's order. At a world-wide rant on Crete, Magnus was among the voices (along with Jo Satine, who by then was Primogen of Columbus) refusing to accept the Antitribu as Brujah and demanding that they be uninvited, something Critias relented to and sent the Sabbat Brujah packing. Ironically, years earlier, Brighton Hughes, Viktor von Steinwitz, and Niemand had stood by clanmate Norman Samuelson, who had been rendered "dispassionate" during the Year of Fire. Magnus continued to insist, despite his hatred for William Satine, that even the dispassionate were Brujah by blood and belonging. As Viktor von Steinwitz was found to have died, Niemand would turn more and more to the counsel of Dr. Joseph Rich, who he considered the most reliable and Camarilla-faithful of Kindred.

Magnus Kohler appreciated Mia Gunn (a member of a one-time "MC" Niemand had maintained an alliance with, which was instrumental in revealing the crimes of Guy Auvergne and also produced Lloyd Lionsigh) taking Praxis from his enemy, who presumably died in the process, preventing William Satine (who Magnus and others had upheld was a serial diablerist) from continuing success in splitting his own clan locally. Magnus would take years gathering more of his Clan to return to the city. When he did resurface, William Satine's Childe, Grant Collier, had returned to the Domain shortly beforehand and assumed the role of Primogen (which Grant would keep into the regime of Prince Roberts), perhaps precipitating the conflict of personalities that would ensue - though Niemand suspected the cause was something more as he and his allies were trying to cope with furious visions shared by most members of his clan. "Team Brujah" (as Kohler and his friends nostalgically dubbed themselves), tried to establish a set of skills that could benefit the city when, if history would repeat itself, Brujah would be called on to vindicate the city in blood.

As the reign of Prince Mia Gunn seemed to wane, Niemand emerged from a period of isolation to find his long-time personal domain usurped and dangerous, the Tremere of Columbus fractious and undependable, the Ventrue nearly non-existent. Grant Collier, the child of a dead enemy, was Primogen - and remained so as of the Praxis of new Prince Shawn Roberts - but behaved as an island unto himself and antagonist. Niemand consulted with allies, and called other Brujah to the Domain, while fostering alliances between his gathered Brujah friends and the lesser known Kindred having returned or arisen recently in the Domain. Navigating setbacks designed by Collier, he nonetheless supported his detractor's Primogenship as seemed his duty and test to do. Kohler was also anxious over the ongoing blood hunt that persisted against an old friend and fascinating elder, Finn. He hoped to see the man as a buffer against the Anarchs' increasing influence in Columbus, and having personally attacked the man publicly per the blood hunt, had failed miserably to kill him anyway. Frustrated by the lack of information regarding a disturbing vision most Brujah had experienced, Niemand finally gathered a large group, engaging the support of his allies Lydia Laurant and Rowan Hulett - and a silent partner to safely convey them all there and back - to answer the call of Prince Valiente when the subjects of that vision were found and targeted in Tunisia.

Coterie

The vaguely referred to "Team Brujah"

Allies

Those he would trust to deal with, might be a better term:

• Brighton Hughes (beloved; deceased)
• Norman Samuelson (dead)
• Viktor von Steinwitz (beloved; deceased)
• Eric Kein
• Etienne "Le Hire" DeVignolles
• Vanessa Morgan
• Lydia Laurent
• Sylvie (a Gangrel, missing for some time)
• Rob
• Mic Rockaway
• Eric Fulton (dead)
• Ian Bavitz (dead)
• Ewa Zofia Chmielewski (dead)
• Kunya Nassir (dead)
• Joseph Rich III
• Melina Hunter
• J.D. "Ranger" Worth
• Ichabod Shepherd
• Sam Sapienza

Enemies

• Guy Auvergne (dead)
• Ralph Mackenzie (presumed dead)

Sire

Greta von Riesling, a survivor and penitent of the Anarch Revolt, said to hail from an occult Romani and Kabbalistic mortal origin

Childer

Gunther Bjornson (dead)

Character Inspirations

NAZIS ARE UN-AMERICAN - AND EVIL. THOSE WHO SURVIVED THEIR OWN EVIL REGRETTED IT FOREVER. The premise of this character was a person the player knew, an older Austrian guy who was the only member of a part-Jewish family who had chosen to return to Europe in order to join the Nazis, then spent the rest of his life rationalizing and atoning for what he had really meant to do and wishing he "had known what they were really doing", as if everyone in the world didn't know. Nazis are monsters. When the character was created, "Nazis" were perceived extinct - either the brunt of jokes against bigots or the villains in campy horror movies. Unfortunately, bigots in the West are no longer even pretending to be lie low, and the challenge is to steer an 18-year-old character away from the subject matter without "giving up" on the intricacies and investments of a character's story that began in a very different epoch of real-world understanding.

Rumors

• He once reveled in the duties of being a scourge.
• He does not like Clan Tremere.
• He railed against Guy Auvergne's diablerie of Naomi Walker until Guy was dead, making enemies for it.
• He was very unhappy about the death of Eva Sophia, to say the least.
• He is a Baharist.
• He is very unhappy about the death of Gunther Bjornson.