🖌️ Toreador: Master of Craft and Form
Name: Sieur Baudouin du Chesnay
Clan: Toreador
Role: Overseer of Artisan Guilds – influential in painting, carpentry, jewelry, stained glass, and all material arts.
Territory/Influence: Guild halls near the central market, and several workshops crafting components for Notre-Dame-la-Grande.
🧠 Background:
Baudouin was Embraced for his masterwork: a rosewood triptych that depicted the Passion with horrifying beauty. He values precision, form, and discipline in the creative process. To him, beauty is structure, not spontaneity. His influence reaches most artisans in Poitiers, including several secret Cainite-aligned workshops that help craft reliquaries and intricate devotional art.
He holds an open rivalry with Jehanin the Iron Hand, whose unorthodox approach and political leanings make Baudouin’s skin crawl. They occasionally compete over commissions, craftsmen, and even mortal apprentices.
🎭 Roleplaying Notes:
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Fastidious, exacting, dressed in tailored silks smeared with occasional paint or dust.
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Often visits workshops personally, hands clasped behind his back, passing judgment with icy silence.