Ambrose + Voso

Ambrose Valentine was Born in Naples, Italy in 1486 to a wealthy family. He was generally a confusing disappointment to his parents for 23 years, and then he was brutally attacked while on an evening stroll and pronounced dead the next morning. His family and friends, marginally distraught over this loss, held a funeral and then moved on with their lives. Then, one night he was unceremoniously ressurected in a fevered hunger, and proceeded to kill a deer with his bare hands and drink its blood. This would have been all well and good if his local pastor had not seen him doing it. Unfortunately, his local pastor did see him doing this and so it was all poor and bad. Ambrose was promptly deemed a partner of the devil, excommunicated, and banished from his home town. It wasn't very fun for him.

Abandoned by his family and his church, very thoroughly confused about all of the recent events that had transpired, and with a strange craving for fruit, Ambrose wandered through the countryside in an attempt to escape his new reputation as a witch. He was determined not to do anything else incriminating (like killing more woodland creatures and eating them raw), because although he knew he had never convened with the devil, it would take some work to convince everyone else of the same. This inevitably led to him collapsing from starvation a few days later. Oops.

Ambrose woke up in the attic of a small farmhouse, somehow even more comfused and disoriented than the last time he was found [un]dead. A tiny (albeit strong-looking) young woman emerged from behind some boxes and explained that she had found him lying unconsious in one of their fields. At first she thought he was dead, but then she looked closer and saw that he was still breathing, so he coudln't have been entirely dead- and see, she was right! He was only partially dead. Ambrose was surprised and heartened by her complete lack of a healthy fear or even wariness of the half-dead man sitting in front of her, and proceeded to explain his own account of the past few days. She was eager to help him, citing the fact that provincal farm life was much less exciting than this hypothetical adventure, and before long the two agreed to run away together and determine the cause of Ambrose's apparent immortality.

Though never officially married (due to one of the parties being dead in the eyes of the state) Ambrose and this adventurous farmgirl were happily together until her death some 20 years later. Ambrose was deeply broken by her death, but after decades of living quietly in the shadows of society he began to recover. He still carried inside him her passion for the unknown, and used this motivation to travel the world. He eventually discovered that there were more vampires like him throughout the world, and was welcomed into their arcane society. He was given a new headstone (for identification purposes) and for the first time in awhile felt the warmth of companionship.

Ambrose continued to traverse the globe in the following centuries, avoiding conflict as well as he could while still maintainting a close relationship to human society. Though this was difficult to maintain, he loved being part of their ever-changing and developing world. Currently, he resides in a small town in the northeastern United States. He does his best to visit his home country of Italy as frequently as he can.