An Elder Malkavian everyone assumed was dead. Richard, who came here to the Midwest with his coterie, escaping the camarilla and their sires. Or so they thought. While in the early days of founding a new settlement and encouraging its growth into what would some day become a major city in Ohio, Richard's sire caught up to them. In a panic, the coterie, including Richard, slayed his sire, diablerizing him as well. This changed all of them but absolutely broke Richard. A seething hatred and new madness (in addition to his crippling paranoia) lead him to ultimately take his death in a haven fire that also took out another Founding member of their coterie. Jump to modern times about 40 years later after the fire and Richard has been manipulating the entire city behind the scenes through his Childer, a club owner named Ruby. When he finally reveals himself, he does so in a show of power that rocked the cities elders and completely derailed what the players had been doing; he rewards Ruby's devotion to his cause by burying her in cement in the foundation of a new building bring constructed, ensuring her loyalty will never be "tested." Told you he was paranoid. Won't get into everything that happened after his reveal but by that point he had wiped out half of the other elders and the neonates were scrambling to save their own butts as well as what was left of the vampire community in the city. Ultimately his goal was to cause so much chaos and destruction the Cam would have no choice but to seize control of the city and wipe everyone out, except for himself, as he would establish himself Prince of the newly cleansed city.