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	The war did not go well for Imperial Russia, however. The high casualties and alleged incompetence and callousness of the Tsar caused severe war weariness in the troops,. In 1917 Maria Bochkareva, a Siberian peasant and combat veteran created the 1st Russian Battalion of Death. Although Bochkareva took seriously the intent of the women as a combat unit, the leadership saw it as a propaganda tool to counteract war weariness in the men, by inspiring them with women serving at the front and encouraging further enrollment. Although Tatjana was not involved with this, she heard about it, and when there was a recruitment call for further female-only battalions, she immediately applied, desiring to be able to proudly serve in a full capacity, without pretence. Because of her experience, she was made a Korporal in the 1st Petrograd Women's Battalion. Before being deployed to the front, however, her unit received orders on 24th October 1917 to report to the Winter Palace for a parade, wherein General Alexander Kerensky would review the female troops prior to their departure. On arrival, the Petrograd Military District commander ordered the unit to defend the Provisional Government. Although the batallion commander sent the majority of the unit back to their encampment, he left Tatjana's 2nd company (137 soldiers) to defend the some fuel trucks, but soon found themselves defending the palace alongside units of Cossacks and cadets. Although they fought their best, they were greatly outnumbered by Bolshevik supporters and eventually surrendered. During their transfer to a holding camp, some of the women suffered verbal, physical and sexual abuse at the hands of the Red Guards and soldiers. Tatjana nearly became such a victim when a Red Guard attempted to rape her. She fought him off, tearing off a chunk of his lip when he forcibly kissed her. Although she fought bravely and viciously against the guard in the ensuing struggle and would have soundly defeated him, other Red Gaurds joined the fray, wounding her with a pistol shot and, considering her too much trouble, threw her off the moving train.		The war did not go well for Imperial Russia, however. The high casualties and alleged incompetence and callousness of the Tsar caused severe war weariness in the troops,. In 1917 Maria Bochkareva, a Siberian peasant and combat veteran created the 1st Russian Battalion of Death. Although Bochkareva took seriously the intent of the women as a combat unit, the leadership saw it as a propaganda tool to counteract war weariness in the men, by inspiring them with women serving at the front and encouraging further enrollment. Although Tatjana was not involved with this, she heard about it, and when there was a recruitment call for further female-only battalions, she immediately applied, desiring to be able to proudly serve in a full capacity, without pretence. Because of her experience, she was made a Korporal in the 1st Petrograd Women's Battalion. Before being deployed to the front, however, her unit received orders on 24th October 1917 to report to the Winter Palace for a parade, wherein General Alexander Kerensky would review the female troops prior to their departure. On arrival, the Petrograd Military District commander ordered the unit to defend the Provisional Government. Although the batallion commander sent the majority of the unit back to their encampment, he left Tatjana's 2nd company (137 soldiers) to defend the some fuel trucks, but soon found themselves defending the palace alongside units of Cossacks and cadets. Although they fought their best, they were greatly outnumbered by Bolshevik supporters and eventually surrendered. During their transfer to a holding camp, some of the women suffered verbal, physical and sexual abuse at the hands of the Red Guards and soldiers. Tatjana nearly became such a victim when a Red Guard attempted to rape her. She fought him off, tearing off a chunk of his lip when he forcibly kissed her. Although she fought bravely and viciously against the guard in the ensuing struggle and would have soundly defeated him, other Red Gaurds joined the fray, wounding her with a pistol shot and, considering her too much trouble, threw her off the moving train.

	[[File:Tatjana4.jpg\|350px\|thumb\|right\|Old photograph of Tatyana during her mortal days]]But she didn't die, and ended up in a Petrograd hospital. The captivity of her unit was short lives as the wife of the British ambassador to Russia requested that the British military attaché in Petrograd, General Alfred Knox, intervene to secure their release, which was accomplished the following day (October 26). Tatjana, however, spend nearly the entire year 1918 in a Petrograd hospital, suffering from concussion and neck trauma in addition to the gunshot wound in her abdomen. As she recovered the Russian Civil War was in full sway, and the ~~Red~~ Army and their supporters actively hunted and she was thrown into a prison by Bolsheviks. Soon after, all the male prisoners were murdered while she, the lone female POW, was abandoned in her locked cell when the Bolsheviks left. Unguarded, she managed to escape and fled eastward by train across Russia in winter. En route she was conscripted into White Russian forces under command of Captain Kappel while weak with the pervasive lack of food and still not fully recovered. In a fight she was shot again, through the armpit muscles and shoulder by Bolsheviks while on patrol, and spent three more weeks recovering in an infirmary in Omsk. Due to the intervention of a friendly officer, however, she was released and given passage and 500 rubles to travel to Vladivostok. The train she was a passenger on was stopped in the middle of the Siberian wasteland, sandwiched between two Bolshevik armies. Led by a contingent of Russian officers, she abandoned the train along with a party of about 100 Royalists (both men and women) and walked through Siberia for a month evading war and destruction of the populace, eventually reaching the Russian military hospital in Vladivostok.<br />		[[File:Tatjana4.jpg\|350px\|thumb\|right\|Old photograph of Tatyana during her mortal days]]But she didn't die, and ended up in a Petrograd hospital. The captivity of her unit was short lives as the wife of the British ambassador to Russia requested that the British military attaché in Petrograd, General Alfred Knox, intervene to secure their release, which was accomplished the following day (October 26). Tatjana, however, spend nearly the entire year 1918 in a Petrograd hospital, suffering from concussion and neck trauma in addition to the gunshot wound in her abdomen. As she recovered the Russian Civil War was in full sway, and the White Army and their supporters were actively hunted and she was taken from the hospital and thrown into a prison by Bolsheviks. Soon after, all the male prisoners were murdered while she, the lone female POW, was abandoned in her locked cell when the Bolsheviks left. Unguarded, she managed to escape and fled eastward by train across Russia in winter. En route she was conscripted into White Russian forces under command of Captain Kappel while weak with the pervasive lack of food and still not fully recovered. In a fight she was shot again, through the armpit muscles and shoulder by Bolsheviks while on patrol, and spent three more weeks recovering in an infirmary in Omsk. Due to the intervention of a friendly officer, however, she was released and given passage and 500 rubles to travel to Vladivostok. The train she was a passenger on was stopped in the middle of the Siberian wasteland, sandwiched between two Bolshevik armies. Led by a contingent of Russian officers, she abandoned the train along with a party of about 100 Royalists (both men and women) and walked through Siberia for a month evading war and destruction of the populace, eventually reaching the Russian military hospital in Vladivostok.<br />
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	=== Departure From Russia ===		=== Departure From Russia ===
	At the military hospital Tatjana was placed in a small ward with a few senior officers, and she quickly became a staff favorite. By this stage in the long war and revolution, the collapsed national economy had already caused several years of food shortage and famine, lack of medical care, vanished government services and total societal collapse from warfare and marauding gangs pillaging and massacring villages across the continent. The military who gave their all in service their nation, to preserve life and order, were being hunted down and killed along with all administrators, intelligentsia, businessmen, clergy, and royalty at all levels, whether rich or poor. Tatjana's remaining family died in these hunts, angering her - that her own people had done this to them, after they had been so loyal and given so much for Russia. This was when she decided that this new Russia was not deserving of her support any longer, and that she would leave. The hospital was funded by American Red Cross donations and an American Doctor there approved her for evacuation. After recuperating there for three weeks, she was given passport and passage to a sanatorium at Chigasaki, Japan. She spent several years as one of many Russian expatriate refugees adrift and desperate in daily life in a vibrant Japan twelve years prior to invasion of Manchuria. There her her strong will, built by a strong set of moral values instilled by her Cossack work ethic formative years, empowered her efforts to develop employable skills, such as memorizing the English dictionary. Eventually in 1922, she managed to immigrate to the United states with little but the ironic three Cross of Saint George medals she had received for bravery for her service during the war and early stage of the revolution.		At the military hospital Tatjana was placed in a small ward with a few senior officers, and she quickly became a staff favorite. By this stage in the long war and revolution, the collapsed national economy had already caused several years of food shortage and famine, lack of medical care, vanished government services and total societal collapse from warfare and marauding gangs pillaging and massacring villages across the continent. The military who gave their all in service their nation, to preserve life and order, were being hunted down and killed along with all administrators, intelligentsia, businessmen, clergy, and royalty at all levels, whether rich or poor. Tatjana's remaining family died in these hunts, angering her - that her own people had done this to them, after they had been so loyal and given so much for Russia. This was when she decided that this new Russia was not deserving of her support any longer, and that she would leave. The hospital was funded by American Red Cross donations and an American Doctor there approved her for evacuation. After recuperating there for three weeks, she was given passport and passage to a sanatorium at Chigasaki, Japan. She spent several years as one of many Russian expatriate refugees adrift and desperate in daily life in a vibrant Japan twelve years prior to invasion of Manchuria. There her her strong will, built by a strong set of moral values instilled by her Cossack work ethic formative years, empowered her efforts to develop employable skills, such as memorizing the English dictionary. Eventually in 1922, she managed to immigrate to the United states with little but the ironic three Cross of Saint George medals she had received for bravery for her service during the war and early stage of the revolution.

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Gallery

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Fenton: /* PC to NPC: Secret History */

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PC to NPC: Secret History

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	=== PC to NPC: Secret History ===		=== PC to NPC: Secret History ===
	'''Personal entry by player: [[User:Fenton\|Fenton]]''' <br>		'''Personal entry by player: [[User:Fenton\|Fenton]]''' <br>
	I originally created Tatjana for [[User:Dermont\|Dermont's]] modern-era Sabbat game set in New York. Although we had neonate-level characters, I made her an assassin, good with guns and very fast (invested virtually everything into buying high-level Celerity) and also bought the Black Hand membership background. Oh, and a silver 1200cc Harley-Davidson Sportster (an improved, custom-version of the 883cc Sportster I actually had in real life). The game eventually concluded, but Tatjana was one of the few PCs left standing and had survived a lot of crap - a freaky supernatural carnival obviously inspired by "Something Wicked This Way Comes" and committed diablerie a few times, enough to be able to get Celerity 6 and Firearms 6, which allowed creative and supernatural shooting abilities not possible for humans or normal kindred (such as in one case ricocheting rounds off a gravestone to strike a traitorous PC in the head after he killed [[User:Divineshadow\|Divineshadow's]] character and was hiding behind what he thought was total cover). It had from the offset been said that she was not a ~~Tremere~~ antitribu (I disliked their whole sadism thing, and liked the idea that despite the horror of her existence, she was still noble deep down and loved art and music), and so a Camarilla defector. It was loosely stated that she'd defected because she hated her sire and being controlled by her, but that was about it. So I turned her into an NPC for my Ashford game, where I actually used her as an antagonist for the Camarilla players but as a mentor for a small group of Sabbat players in a small College RPG group I ran at lunchtimes (eventually these characters would try to kill the PCs of the main group and, after a big battle with casualties on both sides, lost). It was during this little group that I introduced the character of Grace, another Sabbat Black Hand member who Tatjana was mentoring. Grace would end up being the archvillain behind the Sabbat Crusade that's reset the setting.		I originally created Tatjana for [[User:Dermont\|Dermont's]] modern-era Sabbat game set in New York. Although we had neonate-level characters, I made her an assassin, good with guns and very fast (invested virtually everything into buying high-level Celerity) and also bought the Black Hand membership background. Oh, and a silver 1200cc Harley-Davidson Sportster (an improved, custom-version of the 883cc Sportster I actually had in real life). The game eventually concluded, but Tatjana was one of the few PCs left standing and had survived a lot of crap - a freaky supernatural carnival obviously inspired by "Something Wicked This Way Comes" and committed diablerie a few times, enough to be able to get Celerity 6 and Firearms 6, which allowed creative and supernatural shooting abilities not possible for humans or normal kindred (such as in one case ricocheting rounds off a gravestone to strike a traitorous PC in the head after he killed [[User:Divineshadow\|Divineshadow's]] character and was hiding behind what he thought was total cover). It had from the offset been said that she was not a Toreador antitribu (I disliked their whole sadism thing, and liked the idea that, despite the horror of her existence and it being a Sabbat campaign, she was still noble deep down and loved art and music), and so a Camarilla defector it'd be. It was loosely stated that she'd defected because she hated her sire and being controlled by her, but that was about it. So I turned her into an NPC for my Ashford game, where I actually used her as an antagonist for the Camarilla players but as a mentor for a small group of Sabbat players in a small College RPG group I ran at lunchtimes (eventually these characters would try to kill the PCs of the main group and, after a big battle with casualties on both sides, lost). It was during this little group that I introduced the character of Grace, another Sabbat Black Hand member who Tatjana was mentoring. Grace would end up being the archvillain behind the Sabbat Crusade that's reset the setting.

	But after she became an NPC, especially after the death of her pack (ie the above-mentioned PCs) I started using her more like an antihero antagonist than a pure villain. I read up on the "true Black Hand" when the book came out and decided it made sense for her. Tbh I had more her ideology and personality than actual history. It was known she was considered an enemy of the Camarilla, and I wanted to write a story that would contain flashbacks to her past, showing key events that made her who she is, along different periods of time. It ended up being a short story (wasn't intended to be a short story, but I tended to begin writing a lot of stories and lose steam after a chapter or two, and this was no exception) that covered the dirty crap her sire made her do (mostly via forced blood bond) and how she killed two Camarilla alastors sent to kill her.It also effectively canonised her love for classical music (especially Tchaikovsky) which would eventually be a tie-in as to why she would be in the Opera House on the opening salvo of the Sabbat Crusade. This would end up being the official retcon/explanation of why she defected (the Black Hand realised she hated her sire and all they had to do was offer to break her bond, and she'd be a ready-made perfect double-agent) and how she got her Harley (I retconned that to make it an older-series Harley, whilst in the original game it'd been assumed it was a fairly new one she'd taken off some undefined victim - Sabbat don't tend to buy things legally from mortals, after all). I even had her tie in with some of the PCs, mentor them and help them for her own reasons - usually left undefined except for her own, misunderstood (even by herself) sense of honour. I also ran a story where the PCs ended up helping Tatjana kill her sire, who it turned out was a diabolist and was helping Black Spirals and Nephandi carry out a ritual to break ''The Vase of Solomon'' where legend had it that King Solomon had trapped 40 powerful demons; and this would release the demons unfettered into the world. Of course, this meant Tatjana aiding Camarilla kindred, but in a way that annoyed both the Camarilla (who saw it as Tatjana once again assassinating a respected Camarilla elder) and the Sabbat (who actually thought the diabolists' plan working would actually cause the Camarilla damage and thus further their plans; something Tatjana found reprehensible and - after meaningful contact with Camarilla kindred - made her wonder if perhaps the Sabbat was "the right side" after all) who declared her rogue for it.		But after she became an NPC, especially after the death of her pack (ie the above-mentioned PCs) I started using her more like an antihero antagonist than a pure villain. I read up on the "true Black Hand" when the book came out and decided it made sense for her. Tbh I had more her ideology and personality than actual history. It was known she was considered an enemy of the Camarilla, and I wanted to write a story that would contain flashbacks to her past, showing key events that made her who she is, along different periods of time. It ended up being a short story (wasn't intended to be a short story, but I tended to begin writing a lot of stories and lose steam after a chapter or two, and this was no exception) that covered the dirty crap her sire made her do (mostly via forced blood bond) and how she killed two Camarilla alastors sent to kill her.It also effectively canonised her love for classical music (especially Tchaikovsky) which would eventually be a tie-in as to why she would be in the Opera House on the opening salvo of the Sabbat Crusade. This would end up being the official retcon/explanation of why she defected (the Black Hand realised she hated her sire and all they had to do was offer to break her bond, and she'd be a ready-made perfect double-agent) and how she got her Harley (I retconned that to make it an older-series Harley, whilst in the original game it'd been assumed it was a fairly new one she'd taken off some undefined victim - Sabbat don't tend to buy things legally from mortals, after all). I even had her tie in with some of the PCs, mentor them and help them for her own reasons - usually left undefined except for her own, misunderstood (even by herself) sense of honour. I also ran a story where the PCs ended up helping Tatjana kill her sire, who it turned out was a diabolist and was helping Black Spirals and Nephandi carry out a ritual to break ''The Vase of Solomon'' where legend had it that King Solomon had trapped 40 powerful demons; and this would release the demons unfettered into the world. Of course, this meant Tatjana aiding Camarilla kindred, but in a way that annoyed both the Camarilla (who saw it as Tatjana once again assassinating a respected Camarilla elder) and the Sabbat (who actually thought the diabolists' plan working would actually cause the Camarilla damage and thus further their plans; something Tatjana found reprehensible and - after meaningful contact with Camarilla kindred - made her wonder if perhaps the Sabbat was "the right side" after all) who declared her rogue for it.

Fenton: /* The Sabbat Crusade */

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The Sabbat Crusade

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	Then the Sabbat Crusade began on Christmas day 2016 with the infamous ''Christmas Day Opera House Massacre'', which marked the beginning of the Sabbat Crusade against Ashford. The surprise attack killed various Primogen, elders and notable Camarilla power holders; including Clarissa Jade, the Senya Whip (and sire of [[Willa Jade (WoD)\|Willa Jade, a Fledgling of Clan Senya]]). As Clarissa died protecting her childe Willa, and the Malkavian Whip known as ''AJ'', the two neonates fled the opera house and encountered a Sabbat rearguard group guarding one of the exits. They believed their fates were sealed, when a then-unknown, striking, mysterious woman in a black evening gown (that would later be identified as Tatjana) appeared, also wanting to exit the location. Unlike the neonates who were fleeing for their lives in terror, this woman was calm and simply allegedly told the Sabbat, who's leader became enraged by her presence, to simply get out of the way and let her pass, or be destroyed. Willa Jades stated afterwards ''"I have never in my unlife seen a kindred that fast or deadly!"'' as the Sabbat attacked and this woman brought a pair of handguns out and took out the Sabbat within seconds using incendiary rounds. The woman then simply told the neonates that they should consider it their lucky day, and left.		Then the Sabbat Crusade began on Christmas day 2016 with the infamous ''Christmas Day Opera House Massacre'', which marked the beginning of the Sabbat Crusade against Ashford. The surprise attack killed various Primogen, elders and notable Camarilla power holders; including Clarissa Jade, the Senya Whip (and sire of [[Willa Jade (WoD)\|Willa Jade, a Fledgling of Clan Senya]]). As Clarissa died protecting her childe Willa, and the Malkavian Whip known as ''AJ'', the two neonates fled the opera house and encountered a Sabbat rearguard group guarding one of the exits. They believed their fates were sealed, when a then-unknown, striking, mysterious woman in a black evening gown (that would later be identified as Tatjana) appeared, also wanting to exit the location. Unlike the neonates who were fleeing for their lives in terror, this woman was calm and simply allegedly told the Sabbat, who's leader became enraged by her presence, to simply get out of the way and let her pass, or be destroyed. Willa Jades stated afterwards ''"I have never in my unlife seen a kindred that fast or deadly!"'' as the Sabbat attacked and this woman brought a pair of handguns out and took out the Sabbat within seconds using incendiary rounds. The woman then simply told the neonates that they should consider it their lucky day, and left.

	Eventually, after her identity was confirmed, it would ultimately be Tatjana's information and assistance that would end the Crusade. The Malkavian Whip AJ, along with other kindred such as Willa Jade and Valerie Leigh of Clan Senya, convinced Tatjana to sit for a negotiation with the new Primogen council who, in return for her information and assistance, would grant her an official pardon (at least within the Ashford domain, the Camarilla has yet to officially confirm the removal of her Autarkis status outside the domain - although they have not rejected it, leading most to believe they are taking the attitude of turning a blind eye, rather than needlessly provoking the Russian bear). Tatjana revealed the identity of the Crusade leader to be a Lasombra Black Hand member known as [[Grace Williams (WoD)\|Grace Williams]]], who had been Masquerading as a Malkavian neonate known as Graziella Cohen, along with the aid of a Malkavian turncoat known as Paul Bairstow. Grace was a former student of hers and Tatjana identified her tactics and various Sabbat safe-houses that they had set up in Ashford years ago when Tatjana was still a Black Hand member herself. Information provided by Clan Senya narrowed down the list of locations, and the group led an attack that resulted in Grace and Bairstow's deaths, decapitating the remaining Sabbat Crusade leadership, which dwindled to nothingness shortly after.		Eventually, after her identity was confirmed, it would ultimately be Tatjana's information and assistance that would end the Crusade. The Malkavian Whip AJ, along with other kindred such as Willa Jade and Valerie Leigh of Clan Senya, convinced Tatjana to sit for a negotiation with the new Primogen council who, in return for her information and assistance, would grant her an official pardon (at least within the Ashford domain, the Camarilla has yet to officially confirm the removal of her Autarkis status outside the domain - although they have not rejected it, leading most to believe they are taking the attitude of turning a blind eye, rather than needlessly provoking the Russian bear). Tatjana revealed the identity of the Crusade leader to be a Lasombra Black Hand member known as [[Grace Williams (WoD)\|Grace Williams]], who had been Masquerading as a Malkavian neonate known as Graziella Cohen, along with the aid of a Malkavian turncoat known as Paul Bairstow. Grace was a former student of hers and Tatjana identified her tactics and various Sabbat safe-houses that they had set up in Ashford years ago when Tatjana was still a Black Hand member herself. Information provided by Clan Senya narrowed down the list of locations, and the group led an attack that resulted in Grace and Bairstow's deaths, decapitating the remaining Sabbat Crusade leadership, which dwindled to nothingness shortly after.

	Since then, Tatjana has been keeping to herself, doing her own concerns and not causing any major problems for the Camarilla. She has seemingly joined the unofficial coterie known as [[Coterie:_The_Guild_(WoD)\|The Guild]], a coterie of kindred assassins and mercenaries for hire, but is selective about the jobs she takes - she seems to have a criteria, but will not share or explain it. Some have noticed that these actions seem to aid the ambitions of the Lupines of the now-allied [[Sept of Sacrificial Friendship (WoD)\|Sept of Sacrificial Friendship]]. Politically, she is no longer either Camarilla or Sabbat and, officially at least, Autarkis or hunted by both sects (although the Camarilla are respecting their agreement and she is safe within the domain). Although she never had much association with them, she now finds herself agreeing with many of the ideologies of the Anarch Movement, and has been seen with various of their members. If she really has joined the Anarchs, then they have gained a very powerful ally.		Since then, Tatjana has been keeping to herself, doing her own concerns and not causing any major problems for the Camarilla. She has seemingly joined the unofficial coterie known as [[Coterie:_The_Guild_(WoD)\|The Guild]], a coterie of kindred assassins and mercenaries for hire, but is selective about the jobs she takes - she seems to have a criteria, but will not share or explain it. Some have noticed that these actions seem to aid the ambitions of the Lupines of the now-allied [[Sept of Sacrificial Friendship (WoD)\|Sept of Sacrificial Friendship]]. Politically, she is no longer either Camarilla or Sabbat and, officially at least, Autarkis or hunted by both sects (although the Camarilla are respecting their agreement and she is safe within the domain). Although she never had much association with them, she now finds herself agreeing with many of the ideologies of the Anarch Movement, and has been seen with various of their members. If she really has joined the Anarchs, then they have gained a very powerful ally.

Fenton: /* Recent Sightings */

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Recent Sightings

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	=== ~~Recent Sightings~~ ===		=== The Sabbat Crusade ===
	Since then Tatjana has almost dropped out of sight. Camarilla spies have confirmed that Tatjana has apparently taken no active Sabbat/Black Hand missions since the aforementioned vase event, and there have been rumours that she has been sighted in Ashford various times; especially rumoured to have allegedly for years taken care of a young orphaned girl who the Camarilla now believes is [[Stephanie Wolfthorn (WoD)\|Stephanie "Silverwrath" Wolfthorn]], a renown Lupine pack leader and rising star in her Sept. But in 2004 she disappeared yet again, curiously shortly before Silverwrath left for Russia in 2008. Tatjana was sighted again in 2012, a mere few months after Silverwrath's sudden return from Russia; witnesses seeing Tatjana fighting a pack of red-furred lupines, who were in turn fighting Silverwrath. The kindred who claimed to witnessed this understandably did not hang around to see the outcome of that battle.		Since then Tatjana has almost dropped out of sight. Camarilla spies have confirmed that Tatjana has apparently taken no active Sabbat/Black Hand missions since the aforementioned vase event, and there have been rumours that she has been sighted in Ashford various times; especially rumoured to have allegedly for years taken care of a young orphaned girl who the Camarilla now believes is [[Stephanie Wolfthorn (WoD)\|Stephanie "Silverwrath" Wolfthorn]], a renown Lupine pack leader and rising star in her Sept. But in 2004 she disappeared yet again, curiously shortly before Silverwrath left for Russia in 2008. Tatjana was sighted again in 2012, a mere few months after Silverwrath's sudden return from Russia; witnesses seeing Tatjana fighting a pack of red-furred lupines, who were in turn fighting Silverwrath. The kindred who claimed to witnessed this understandably did not hang around to see the outcome of that battle.

	~~The most recent sighting, and arguably~~ the ~~most interesting and possibly revealing, was~~ on Christmas day 2016 ~~during~~ the infamous ''Christmas Day Opera House Massacre'' which marked the beginning of the Sabbat Crusade against Ashford. The surprise attack killed various Primogen, elders and notable Camarilla power holders; including Clarissa Jade, the Senya Whip (and sire of [[Willa Jade (WoD)\|Willa Jade, a Fledgling of Clan Senya]]). As Clarissa died protecting her childe Willa, and the Malkavian Whip known as ''AJ'', the two ~~neonate~~ fled the opera house ~~to walk into~~ a Sabbat ~~battle~~ group guarding one of the exits. They believed their fates were sealed, when a striking, mysterious woman in a black evening gown (that would later be identified as Tatjana) appeared, also wanting to exit the location. Unlike the neonates who were fleeing for their lives in terror, this woman was calm and simply allegedly told the Sabbat, who's leader became enraged by her presence, to simply get out of the way and let her pass, or be destroyed. Willa Jades stated afterwards ''"I have never in my unlife seen a kindred that fast or deadly!"'' as the Sabbat attacked and this woman brought a pair of handguns out and took out the Sabbat within seconds using incendiary rounds. The woman then simply told the neonates that they should consider it their lucky day, and left.		Then the Sabbat Crusade began on Christmas day 2016 with the infamous ''Christmas Day Opera House Massacre'', which marked the beginning of the Sabbat Crusade against Ashford. The surprise attack killed various Primogen, elders and notable Camarilla power holders; including Clarissa Jade, the Senya Whip (and sire of [[Willa Jade (WoD)\|Willa Jade, a Fledgling of Clan Senya]]). As Clarissa died protecting her childe Willa, and the Malkavian Whip known as ''AJ'', the two neonates fled the opera house and encountered a Sabbat rearguard group guarding one of the exits. They believed their fates were sealed, when a then-unknown, striking, mysterious woman in a black evening gown (that would later be identified as Tatjana) appeared, also wanting to exit the location. Unlike the neonates who were fleeing for their lives in terror, this woman was calm and simply allegedly told the Sabbat, who's leader became enraged by her presence, to simply get out of the way and let her pass, or be destroyed. Willa Jades stated afterwards ''"I have never in my unlife seen a kindred that fast or deadly!"'' as the Sabbat attacked and this woman brought a pair of handguns out and took out the Sabbat within seconds using incendiary rounds. The woman then simply told the neonates that they should consider it their lucky day, and left.

	She has not been seen since. Considering there is a full-blown Sabbat Crusade going on, that this one sighting of her actually seems to show her acting ''against'' the Sabbat, is something of great interest to the beleaguered Camarilla.

			Eventually, after her identity was confirmed, it would ultimately be Tatjana's information and assistance that would end the Crusade. The Malkavian Whip AJ, along with other kindred such as Willa Jade and Valerie Leigh of Clan Senya, convinced Tatjana to sit for a negotiation with the new Primogen council who, in return for her information and assistance, would grant her an official pardon (at least within the Ashford domain, the Camarilla has yet to officially confirm the removal of her Autarkis status outside the domain - although they have not rejected it, leading most to believe they are taking the attitude of turning a blind eye, rather than needlessly provoking the Russian bear). Tatjana revealed the identity of the Crusade leader to be a Lasombra Black Hand member known as [[Grace Williams (WoD)\|Grace Williams]]], who had been Masquerading as a Malkavian neonate known as Graziella Cohen, along with the aid of a Malkavian turncoat known as Paul Bairstow. Grace was a former student of hers and Tatjana identified her tactics and various Sabbat safe-houses that they had set up in Ashford years ago when Tatjana was still a Black Hand member herself. Information provided by Clan Senya narrowed down the list of locations, and the group led an attack that resulted in Grace and Bairstow's deaths, decapitating the remaining Sabbat Crusade leadership, which dwindled to nothingness shortly after.

			Since then, Tatjana has been keeping to herself, doing her own concerns and not causing any major problems for the Camarilla. She has seemingly joined the unofficial coterie known as [[Coterie:_The_Guild_(WoD)\|The Guild]], a coterie of kindred assassins and mercenaries for hire, but is selective about the jobs she takes - she seems to have a criteria, but will not share or explain it. Some have noticed that these actions seem to aid the ambitions of the Lupines of the now-allied [[Sept of Sacrificial Friendship (WoD)\|Sept of Sacrificial Friendship]]. Politically, she is no longer either Camarilla or Sabbat and, officially at least, Autarkis or hunted by both sects (although the Camarilla are respecting their agreement and she is safe within the domain). Although she never had much association with them, she now finds herself agreeing with many of the ideologies of the Anarch Movement, and has been seen with various of their members. If she really has joined the Anarchs, then they have gained a very powerful ally.

	== Mortal Society ==		== Mortal Society ==

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	'''Personal entry by player: [[User:Fenton\|Fenton]]''' <br>		'''Personal entry by player: [[User:Fenton\|Fenton]]''' <br>
	I originally created Tatjana for [[User:Dermont\|Dermont's]] modern-era Sabbat game set in New York. Although we had neonate-level characters, I made her an assassin, good with guns and very fast (invested virtually everything into buying high-level Celerity) and also bought the Black Hand membership background. Oh, and a silver 1200cc Harley-Davidson Sportster (an improved, custom-version of the 883cc Sportster I actually had in real life). The game eventually concluded, but Tatjana was one of the few PCs left standing and had survived a lot of crap - a freaky supernatural carnival obviously inspired by "Something Wicked This Way Comes" and committed diablerie a few times, enough to be able to get Celerity 6 and Firearms 6, which allowed creative and supernatural shooting abilities not possible for humans or normal kindred (such as in one case ricocheting rounds off a gravestone to strike a traitorous PC in the head after he killed [[User:Divineshadow\|Divineshadow's]] character and was hiding behind what he thought was total cover). It had from the offset been said that she was not a Tremere antitribu (I disliked their whole sadism thing, and liked the idea that despite the horror of her existence, she was ~~stille~~ noble deep down and loved art and music), and so a Camarilla defector. It was loosely stated that she'd defected because she hated her sire and being controlled by her, but that was about it. So I turned her into an NPC for my Ashford game, where I actually used her as an antagonist for the Camarilla players but as a mentor for a small group of Sabbat players in a small College RPG group I ran at lunchtimes (eventually these characters would try to kill the PCs of the main group and, after a big battle with casualties on both sides, lost). It was during this little group that I introduced the character of Grace, another Sabbat Black Hand member who Tatjana was mentoring. Grace would end up being the archvillain behind the Sabbat Crusade that's reset the setting.		I originally created Tatjana for [[User:Dermont\|Dermont's]] modern-era Sabbat game set in New York. Although we had neonate-level characters, I made her an assassin, good with guns and very fast (invested virtually everything into buying high-level Celerity) and also bought the Black Hand membership background. Oh, and a silver 1200cc Harley-Davidson Sportster (an improved, custom-version of the 883cc Sportster I actually had in real life). The game eventually concluded, but Tatjana was one of the few PCs left standing and had survived a lot of crap - a freaky supernatural carnival obviously inspired by "Something Wicked This Way Comes" and committed diablerie a few times, enough to be able to get Celerity 6 and Firearms 6, which allowed creative and supernatural shooting abilities not possible for humans or normal kindred (such as in one case ricocheting rounds off a gravestone to strike a traitorous PC in the head after he killed [[User:Divineshadow\|Divineshadow's]] character and was hiding behind what he thought was total cover). It had from the offset been said that she was not a Tremere antitribu (I disliked their whole sadism thing, and liked the idea that despite the horror of her existence, she was still noble deep down and loved art and music), and so a Camarilla defector. It was loosely stated that she'd defected because she hated her sire and being controlled by her, but that was about it. So I turned her into an NPC for my Ashford game, where I actually used her as an antagonist for the Camarilla players but as a mentor for a small group of Sabbat players in a small College RPG group I ran at lunchtimes (eventually these characters would try to kill the PCs of the main group and, after a big battle with casualties on both sides, lost). It was during this little group that I introduced the character of Grace, another Sabbat Black Hand member who Tatjana was mentoring. Grace would end up being the archvillain behind the Sabbat Crusade that's reset the setting.

	But after she became an NPC, especially after the death of her pack (ie the above-mentioned PCs) I started using her more like an antihero antagonist than a pure villain. I read up on the "true Black Hand" when the book came out and decided it made sense for her. Tbh I had more her ideology and personality than actual history. It was known she was considered an enemy of the Camarilla, and I wanted to write a story that would contain flashbacks to her past, showing key events that made her who she is, along different periods of time. It ended up being a short story (wasn't intended to be a short story, but I tended to begin writing a lot of stories and lose steam after a chapter or two, and this was no exception) that covered the dirty crap her sire made her do (mostly via forced blood bond) and how she killed two Camarilla alastors sent to kill her.It also effectively canonised her love for classical music (especially Tchaikovsky) which would eventually be a tie-in as to why she would be in the Opera House on the opening salvo of the Sabbat Crusade. This would end up being the official retcon/explanation of why she defected (the Black Hand realised she hated her sire and all they had to do was offer to break her bond, and she'd be a ready-made perfect double-agent) and how she got her Harley (I retconned that to make it an older-series Harley, whilst in the original game it'd been assumed it was a fairly new one she'd taken off some undefined victim - Sabbat don't tend to buy things legally from mortals, after all). I even had her tie in with some of the PCs, mentor them and help them for her own reasons - usually left undefined except for her own, misunderstood (even by herself) sense of honour. I also ran a story where the PCs ended up helping Tatjana kill her sire, who it turned out was a diabolist and was helping Black Spirals and Nephandi carry out a ritual to break ''The Vase of Solomon'' where legend had it that King Solomon had trapped 40 powerful demons; and this would release the demons unfettered into the world. Of course, this meant Tatjana aiding Camarilla kindred, but in a way that annoyed both the Camarilla (who saw it as Tatjana once again assassinating a respected Camarilla elder) and the Sabbat (who actually thought the diabolists' plan working would actually cause the Camarilla damage and thus further their plans; something Tatjana found reprehensible and - after meaningful contact with Camarilla kindred - made her wonder if perhaps the Sabbat was "the right side" after all) who declared her rogue for it.		But after she became an NPC, especially after the death of her pack (ie the above-mentioned PCs) I started using her more like an antihero antagonist than a pure villain. I read up on the "true Black Hand" when the book came out and decided it made sense for her. Tbh I had more her ideology and personality than actual history. It was known she was considered an enemy of the Camarilla, and I wanted to write a story that would contain flashbacks to her past, showing key events that made her who she is, along different periods of time. It ended up being a short story (wasn't intended to be a short story, but I tended to begin writing a lot of stories and lose steam after a chapter or two, and this was no exception) that covered the dirty crap her sire made her do (mostly via forced blood bond) and how she killed two Camarilla alastors sent to kill her.It also effectively canonised her love for classical music (especially Tchaikovsky) which would eventually be a tie-in as to why she would be in the Opera House on the opening salvo of the Sabbat Crusade. This would end up being the official retcon/explanation of why she defected (the Black Hand realised she hated her sire and all they had to do was offer to break her bond, and she'd be a ready-made perfect double-agent) and how she got her Harley (I retconned that to make it an older-series Harley, whilst in the original game it'd been assumed it was a fairly new one she'd taken off some undefined victim - Sabbat don't tend to buy things legally from mortals, after all). I even had her tie in with some of the PCs, mentor them and help them for her own reasons - usually left undefined except for her own, misunderstood (even by herself) sense of honour. I also ran a story where the PCs ended up helping Tatjana kill her sire, who it turned out was a diabolist and was helping Black Spirals and Nephandi carry out a ritual to break ''The Vase of Solomon'' where legend had it that King Solomon had trapped 40 powerful demons; and this would release the demons unfettered into the world. Of course, this meant Tatjana aiding Camarilla kindred, but in a way that annoyed both the Camarilla (who saw it as Tatjana once again assassinating a respected Camarilla elder) and the Sabbat (who actually thought the diabolists' plan working would actually cause the Camarilla damage and thus further their plans; something Tatjana found reprehensible and - after meaningful contact with Camarilla kindred - made her wonder if perhaps the Sabbat was "the right side" after all) who declared her rogue for it.

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	'''Personal entry by player: [[User:Fenton\|Fenton]]''' <br>		'''Personal entry by player: [[User:Fenton\|Fenton]]''' <br>
	I originally created Tatjana for [[User:Dermont\|Dermont's]] modern-era Sabbat game set in New York. Although we had neonate-level characters, I made her an assassin, good with guns and very fast (invested virtually everything into buying high-level Celerity) and also bought the Black Hand membership background. Oh, and a silver 1200cc Harley-Davidson Sportster (an improved, custom-version of the 883cc Sportster I actually had in real life). The game eventually concluded, but Tatjana was one of the few PCs left standing and had survived a lot of crap - a freaky supernatural carnival obviously inspired by "Something Wicked This Way Comes" and committed diablerie a few times, enough to be able to get Celerity 6 and Firearms 6, which allowed creative and supernatural shooting abilities not possible for humans or normal kindred (such as in one case ricocheting rounds off a gravestone to strike a traitorous PC in the head after he killed [[User:Divineshadow\|Divineshadow's]] character and was hiding behind what he thought was total cover. It had from the offset been said that she was not a Tremere antitribu (I disliked their whole sadism thing, and liked the idea that despite the horror of her existence, she was stille noble deep down and loved art and music), and so a Camarilla defector. It was loosely stated that she'd defected because she hated her sire and being controlled by her, but that was about it. So I turned her into an NPC for my Ashford game, where I actually used her as an antagonist for the Camarilla players but as a mentor for a small group of Sabbat players in a small College RPG group I ran at lunchtimes (eventually these characters would try to kill the PCs of the main group and, after a big battle with casualties on both sides, lost). It was during this little group that I introduced the character of Grace, another Sabbat Black Hand member who Tatjana was mentoring. Grace would end up being the archvillain behind the Sabbat Crusade that's reset the setting.		I originally created Tatjana for [[User:Dermont\|Dermont's]] modern-era Sabbat game set in New York. Although we had neonate-level characters, I made her an assassin, good with guns and very fast (invested virtually everything into buying high-level Celerity) and also bought the Black Hand membership background. Oh, and a silver 1200cc Harley-Davidson Sportster (an improved, custom-version of the 883cc Sportster I actually had in real life). The game eventually concluded, but Tatjana was one of the few PCs left standing and had survived a lot of crap - a freaky supernatural carnival obviously inspired by "Something Wicked This Way Comes" and committed diablerie a few times, enough to be able to get Celerity 6 and Firearms 6, which allowed creative and supernatural shooting abilities not possible for humans or normal kindred (such as in one case ricocheting rounds off a gravestone to strike a traitorous PC in the head after he killed [[User:Divineshadow\|Divineshadow's]] character and was hiding behind what he thought was total cover). It had from the offset been said that she was not a Tremere antitribu (I disliked their whole sadism thing, and liked the idea that despite the horror of her existence, she was stille noble deep down and loved art and music), and so a Camarilla defector. It was loosely stated that she'd defected because she hated her sire and being controlled by her, but that was about it. So I turned her into an NPC for my Ashford game, where I actually used her as an antagonist for the Camarilla players but as a mentor for a small group of Sabbat players in a small College RPG group I ran at lunchtimes (eventually these characters would try to kill the PCs of the main group and, after a big battle with casualties on both sides, lost). It was during this little group that I introduced the character of Grace, another Sabbat Black Hand member who Tatjana was mentoring. Grace would end up being the archvillain behind the Sabbat Crusade that's reset the setting.

	But after she became an NPC, especially after the death of her pack (ie the above-mentioned PCs) I started using her more like an antihero antagonist than a pure villain. I read up on the "true Black Hand" when the book came out and decided it made sense for her. Tbh I had more her ideology and personality than actual history. It was known she was considered an enemy of the Camarilla, and I wanted to write a story that would contain flashbacks to her past, showing key events that made her who she is, along different periods of time. It ended up being a short story (wasn't intended to be a short story, but I tended to begin writing a lot of stories and lose steam after a chapter or two, and this was no exception) that covered the dirty crap her sire made her do (mostly via forced blood bond) and how she killed two Camarilla alastors sent to kill her.It also effectively canonised her love for classical music (especially Tchaikovsky) which would eventually be a tie-in as to why she would be in the Opera House on the opening salvo of the Sabbat Crusade. This would end up being the official retcon/explanation of why she defected (the Black Hand realised she hated her sire and all they had to do was offer to break her bond, and she'd be a ready-made perfect double-agent) and how she got her Harley (I retconned that to make it an older-series Harley, whilst in the original game it'd been assumed it was a fairly new one she'd taken off some undefined victim - Sabbat don't tend to buy things legally from mortals, after all). I even had her tie in with some of the PCs, mentor them and help them for her own reasons - usually left undefined except for her own, misunderstood (even by herself) sense of honour. I also ran a story where the PCs ended up helping Tatjana kill her sire, who it turned out was a diabolist and was helping Black Spirals and Nephandi carry out a ritual to break ''The Vase of Solomon'' where legend had it that King Solomon had trapped 40 powerful demons; and this would release the demons unfettered into the world. Of course, this meant Tatjana aiding Camarilla kindred, but in a way that annoyed both the Camarilla (who saw it as Tatjana once again assassinating a respected Camarilla elder) and the Sabbat (who actually thought the diabolists' plan working would actually cause the Camarilla damage and thus further their plans; something Tatjana found reprehensible and - after meaningful contact with Camarilla kindred - made her wonder if perhaps the Sabbat was "the right side" after all) who declared her rogue for it.		But after she became an NPC, especially after the death of her pack (ie the above-mentioned PCs) I started using her more like an antihero antagonist than a pure villain. I read up on the "true Black Hand" when the book came out and decided it made sense for her. Tbh I had more her ideology and personality than actual history. It was known she was considered an enemy of the Camarilla, and I wanted to write a story that would contain flashbacks to her past, showing key events that made her who she is, along different periods of time. It ended up being a short story (wasn't intended to be a short story, but I tended to begin writing a lot of stories and lose steam after a chapter or two, and this was no exception) that covered the dirty crap her sire made her do (mostly via forced blood bond) and how she killed two Camarilla alastors sent to kill her.It also effectively canonised her love for classical music (especially Tchaikovsky) which would eventually be a tie-in as to why she would be in the Opera House on the opening salvo of the Sabbat Crusade. This would end up being the official retcon/explanation of why she defected (the Black Hand realised she hated her sire and all they had to do was offer to break her bond, and she'd be a ready-made perfect double-agent) and how she got her Harley (I retconned that to make it an older-series Harley, whilst in the original game it'd been assumed it was a fairly new one she'd taken off some undefined victim - Sabbat don't tend to buy things legally from mortals, after all). I even had her tie in with some of the PCs, mentor them and help them for her own reasons - usually left undefined except for her own, misunderstood (even by herself) sense of honour. I also ran a story where the PCs ended up helping Tatjana kill her sire, who it turned out was a diabolist and was helping Black Spirals and Nephandi carry out a ritual to break ''The Vase of Solomon'' where legend had it that King Solomon had trapped 40 powerful demons; and this would release the demons unfettered into the world. Of course, this meant Tatjana aiding Camarilla kindred, but in a way that annoyed both the Camarilla (who saw it as Tatjana once again assassinating a respected Camarilla elder) and the Sabbat (who actually thought the diabolists' plan working would actually cause the Camarilla damage and thus further their plans; something Tatjana found reprehensible and - after meaningful contact with Camarilla kindred - made her wonder if perhaps the Sabbat was "the right side" after all) who declared her rogue for it.

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	Even without using her ability with the Vicissitude discipline, Tatjana appears as a striking woman in her mid-20s. A hard life of military family background, and fighting in both the Great War and the Russian Revolution that followed it, has granted her a naturally athletic physique that enhances the beauty of her sharp facial features, light brown eyes and near-black hair. However through the use of Vicissitude she has altered her appearance slightly to a more typically ''perfect'' physique akin to fitness and glamour models, than simply that of a soldier.		Even without using her ability with the Vicissitude discipline, Tatjana appears as a striking woman in her mid-20s. A hard life of military family background, and fighting in both the Great War and the Russian Revolution that followed it, has granted her a naturally athletic physique that enhances the beauty of her sharp facial features, light brown eyes and near-black hair. However through the use of Vicissitude she has altered her appearance slightly to a more typically ''perfect'' physique akin to fitness and glamour models, than simply that of a soldier.

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	The war did not go well for Imperial Russia, however. The high casualties and alleged incompetence and callousness of the Tsar caused severe war weariness in the troops,. In 1917 Maria Bochkareva, a Siberian peasant and combat veteran created the 1st Russian Battalion of Death. Although Bochkareva took seriously the intent of the women as a combat unit, the leadership saw it as a propaganda tool to counteract war weariness in the men, by inspiring them with women serving at the front and encouraging further enrollment. Although Tatjana was not involved with this, she heard about it, and when there was a recruitment call for further female-only battalions, she immediately applied, desiring to be able to proudly serve in a full capacity, without pretence. Because of her experience, she was made a Korporal in the 1st Petrograd Women's Battalion. Before being deployed to the front, however, her unit received orders on 24th October 1917 to report to the Winter Palace for a parade, wherein General Alexander Kerensky would review the female troops prior to their departure. On arrival, the Petrograd Military District commander ordered the unit to defend the Provisional Government. Although the batallion commander sent the majority of the unit back to their encampment, he left Tatjana's 2nd company (137 soldiers) to defend the some fuel trucks, but soon found themselves defending the palace alongside units of Cossacks and cadets. Although they fought their best, they were greatly outnumbered by Bolshevik supporters and eventually surrendered. During their transfer to a holding camp, some of the women suffered verbal, physical and sexual abuse at the hands of the Red Guards and soldiers. Tatjana nearly became such a victim when a Red Guard attempted to rape her. She fought him off, tearing off a chunk of his lip when he forcibly kissed her. Although she fought bravely and viciously against the guard in the ensuing struggle and would have soundly defeated him, other Red Gaurds joined the fray, wounding her with a pistol shot and, considering her too much trouble, threw her off the moving train.		The war did not go well for Imperial Russia, however. The high casualties and alleged incompetence and callousness of the Tsar caused severe war weariness in the troops,. In 1917 Maria Bochkareva, a Siberian peasant and combat veteran created the 1st Russian Battalion of Death. Although Bochkareva took seriously the intent of the women as a combat unit, the leadership saw it as a propaganda tool to counteract war weariness in the men, by inspiring them with women serving at the front and encouraging further enrollment. Although Tatjana was not involved with this, she heard about it, and when there was a recruitment call for further female-only battalions, she immediately applied, desiring to be able to proudly serve in a full capacity, without pretence. Because of her experience, she was made a Korporal in the 1st Petrograd Women's Battalion. Before being deployed to the front, however, her unit received orders on 24th October 1917 to report to the Winter Palace for a parade, wherein General Alexander Kerensky would review the female troops prior to their departure. On arrival, the Petrograd Military District commander ordered the unit to defend the Provisional Government. Although the batallion commander sent the majority of the unit back to their encampment, he left Tatjana's 2nd company (137 soldiers) to defend the some fuel trucks, but soon found themselves defending the palace alongside units of Cossacks and cadets. Although they fought their best, they were greatly outnumbered by Bolshevik supporters and eventually surrendered. During their transfer to a holding camp, some of the women suffered verbal, physical and sexual abuse at the hands of the Red Guards and soldiers. Tatjana nearly became such a victim when a Red Guard attempted to rape her. She fought him off, tearing off a chunk of his lip when he forcibly kissed her. Although she fought bravely and viciously against the guard in the ensuing struggle and would have soundly defeated him, other Red Gaurds joined the fray, wounding her with a pistol shot and, considering her too much trouble, threw her off the moving train.

	[[File:Tatjana4.jpg\|~~50%~~\|thumb\|right\|Old photograph of Tatyana during her mortal days]]But she didn't die, and ended up in a Petrograd hospital. The captivity of her unit was short lives as the wife of the British ambassador to Russia requested that the British military attaché in Petrograd, General Alfred Knox, intervene to secure their release, which was accomplished the following day (October 26). Tatjana, however, spend nearly the entire year 1918 in a Petrograd hospital, suffering from concussion and neck trauma in addition to the gunshot wound in her abdomen. As she recovered the Russian Civil War was in full sway, and the Red Army and their supporters actively hunted and she was thrown into a prison by Bolsheviks. Soon after, all the male prisoners were murdered while she, the lone female POW, was abandoned in her locked cell when the Bolsheviks left. Unguarded, she managed to escape and fled eastward by train across Russia in winter. En route she was conscripted into White Russian forces under command of Captain Kappel while weak with the pervasive lack of food and still not fully recovered. In a fight she was shot again, through the armpit muscles and shoulder by Bolsheviks while on patrol, and spent three more weeks recovering in an infirmary in Omsk. Due to the intervention of a friendly officer, however, she was released and given passage and 500 rubles to travel to Vladivostok. The train she was a passenger on was stopped in the middle of the Siberian wasteland, sandwiched between two Bolshevik armies. Led by a contingent of Russian officers, she abandoned the train along with a party of about 100 Royalists (both men and women) and walked through Siberia for a month evading war and destruction of the populace, eventually reaching the Russian military hospital in Vladivostok.<br />		[[File:Tatjana4.jpg\|350px\|thumb\|right\|Old photograph of Tatyana during her mortal days]]But she didn't die, and ended up in a Petrograd hospital. The captivity of her unit was short lives as the wife of the British ambassador to Russia requested that the British military attaché in Petrograd, General Alfred Knox, intervene to secure their release, which was accomplished the following day (October 26). Tatjana, however, spend nearly the entire year 1918 in a Petrograd hospital, suffering from concussion and neck trauma in addition to the gunshot wound in her abdomen. As she recovered the Russian Civil War was in full sway, and the Red Army and their supporters actively hunted and she was thrown into a prison by Bolsheviks. Soon after, all the male prisoners were murdered while she, the lone female POW, was abandoned in her locked cell when the Bolsheviks left. Unguarded, she managed to escape and fled eastward by train across Russia in winter. En route she was conscripted into White Russian forces under command of Captain Kappel while weak with the pervasive lack of food and still not fully recovered. In a fight she was shot again, through the armpit muscles and shoulder by Bolsheviks while on patrol, and spent three more weeks recovering in an infirmary in Omsk. Due to the intervention of a friendly officer, however, she was released and given passage and 500 rubles to travel to Vladivostok. The train she was a passenger on was stopped in the middle of the Siberian wasteland, sandwiched between two Bolshevik armies. Led by a contingent of Russian officers, she abandoned the train along with a party of about 100 Royalists (both men and women) and walked through Siberia for a month evading war and destruction of the populace, eventually reaching the Russian military hospital in Vladivostok.<br />
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	=== Murder of Joan d'Aulon ===		=== Murder of Joan d'Aulon ===
	[[File:Tatjana2.jpg\|~~50%~~\|thumb\|right]]The Camarilla is unsure of events after the 1979 conflict, as Tatjana moved around a lot with her own Black Hand pack, often in undercover operations in Camarilla territory. It is known that she surfaced in Ashford in 1999, originally forming a new pack of Sabbat recruits to disrupt Camarilla operations; but although they killed some Camarilla kindred, most of the pack died whilst fighting a Camarilla coterie later on. Still, a few months later Tatjana mysteriously appeared again and, if rumour is true, fought with a coalition of Camarilla kindred that included [[Valerie Leigh (WoD)\|Valerie Leigh of Clan Senya]] (who, allegedly, had been one of the kindred to have killed one of her recruits), several Lupines and a ''Werecoyote'' to kill her sire Joan d'Aulon who was in Ashford for unknown reasons. Tales of what truly occurred are known only by those present - many of who have died since, and the now-discredited Valerie being possibly the only kindred left existing to tell the tale - and was heavily covered and any information aggressively silenced by the Camarilla; who officially claim that the autarkis came and killed a respected Toreador elder, although no-one still knows why the elder was in Ashford in the first place (or at least, no-one is talking).		[[File:Tatjana2.jpg\|350px\|thumb\|right]]The Camarilla is unsure of events after the 1979 conflict, as Tatjana moved around a lot with her own Black Hand pack, often in undercover operations in Camarilla territory. It is known that she surfaced in Ashford in 1999, originally forming a new pack of Sabbat recruits to disrupt Camarilla operations; but although they killed some Camarilla kindred, most of the pack died whilst fighting a Camarilla coterie later on. Still, a few months later Tatjana mysteriously appeared again and, if rumour is true, fought with a coalition of Camarilla kindred that included [[Valerie Leigh (WoD)\|Valerie Leigh of Clan Senya]] (who, allegedly, had been one of the kindred to have killed one of her recruits), several Lupines and a ''Werecoyote'' to kill her sire Joan d'Aulon who was in Ashford for unknown reasons. Tales of what truly occurred are known only by those present - many of who have died since, and the now-discredited Valerie being possibly the only kindred left existing to tell the tale - and was heavily covered and any information aggressively silenced by the Camarilla; who officially claim that the autarkis came and killed a respected Toreador elder, although no-one still knows why the elder was in Ashford in the first place (or at least, no-one is talking).

	=== Murderer, or Saviour? ===		=== Murderer, or Saviour? ===
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	== Personality ==		== Personality ==
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	No-one is really sure of Tatjana's personality. She has been a celebrated national war hero and a traitor to her country. A Camarilla scourge then defector. A Sabbat ductus, priest, black hand captain and now possibly traitor and independent. Her current attitude appears to have been shaped by many events and sources; seemingly allying herself to causes or groups by choice, need or circumstance, but then equally seeming to suddenly betray them at a later stage if they fail to live up to some morale or ethical compass that Tatjana appears to have, but no-one really understands. Some would argue that her betrayals are justifiably so, as though she commits to a group but when then discovers truths she does not like, leaves them for another ''more noble'' group - which ultimately she leaves when dissatisfied again. This would reflect either a person with a deep sense of honour, or who ultimately only cares about her own survival and well being. Or both? To most of the Camarilla and Sabbat elders, she is simply someone with a proven history of disloyalty and treachery.		No-one is really sure of Tatjana's personality. She has been a celebrated national war hero and a traitor to her country. A Camarilla scourge then defector. A Sabbat ductus, priest, black hand captain and now possibly traitor and independent. Her current attitude appears to have been shaped by many events and sources; seemingly allying herself to causes or groups by choice, need or circumstance, but then equally seeming to suddenly betray them at a later stage if they fail to live up to some morale or ethical compass that Tatjana appears to have, but no-one really understands. Some would argue that her betrayals are justifiably so, as though she commits to a group but when then discovers truths she does not like, leaves them for another ''more noble'' group - which ultimately she leaves when dissatisfied again. This would reflect either a person with a deep sense of honour, or who ultimately only cares about her own survival and well being. Or both? To most of the Camarilla and Sabbat elders, she is simply someone with a proven history of disloyalty and treachery.

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	*'''Real/Birth Name:''' Tatyana Dragomirovna Yurlova		*'''Real/Birth Name:''' Tatyana Dragomirovna Yurlova
	*'''Known ~~Identiy~~/Mortal Alias:''' Tatjana		*'''Known Identity/Mortal Alias:''' Tatjana
	*'''Place of Origin:''' Raevskaya, Russian Empire		*'''Place of Origin:''' Raevskaya, Russian Empire
	*'''Height:''' 5'7"		*'''Height:''' 5'7"

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	Then the Sabbat Crusade began on Christmas day 2016 with the infamous ''Christmas Day Opera House Massacre'', which marked the beginning of the Sabbat Crusade against Ashford. The surprise attack killed various Primogen, elders and notable Camarilla power holders; including Clarissa Jade, the Senya Whip (and sire of [[Willa Jade (WoD)\|Willa Jade, a Fledgling of Clan Senya]]). As Clarissa died protecting her childe Willa, and the Malkavian Whip known as ''AJ'', the two neonates fled the opera house and encountered a Sabbat rearguard group guarding one of the exits. They believed their fates were sealed, when a then-unknown, striking, mysterious woman in a black evening gown (that would later be identified as Tatjana) appeared, also wanting to exit the location. Unlike the neonates who were fleeing for their lives in terror, this woman was calm and simply allegedly told the Sabbat, who's leader became enraged by her presence, to simply get out of the way and let her pass, or be destroyed. Willa Jades stated afterwards ''"I have never in my unlife seen a kindred that fast or deadly!"'' as the Sabbat attacked and this woman brought a pair of handguns out and took out the Sabbat within seconds using incendiary rounds. The woman then simply told the neonates that they should consider it their lucky day, and left.		Then the Sabbat Crusade began on Christmas day 2016 with the infamous ''Christmas Day Opera House Massacre'', which marked the beginning of the Sabbat Crusade against Ashford. The surprise attack killed various Primogen, elders and notable Camarilla power holders; including Clarissa Jade, the Senya Whip (and sire of [[Willa Jade (WoD)\|Willa Jade, a Fledgling of Clan Senya]]). As Clarissa died protecting her childe Willa, and the Malkavian Whip known as ''AJ'', the two neonates fled the opera house and encountered a Sabbat rearguard group guarding one of the exits. They believed their fates were sealed, when a then-unknown, striking, mysterious woman in a black evening gown (that would later be identified as Tatjana) appeared, also wanting to exit the location. Unlike the neonates who were fleeing for their lives in terror, this woman was calm and simply allegedly told the Sabbat, who's leader became enraged by her presence, to simply get out of the way and let her pass, or be destroyed. Willa Jades stated afterwards ''"I have never in my unlife seen a kindred that fast or deadly!"'' as the Sabbat attacked and this woman brought a pair of handguns out and took out the Sabbat within seconds using incendiary rounds. The woman then simply told the neonates that they should consider it their lucky day, and left.

	Eventually, after her identity was confirmed, it would ultimately be Tatjana's information and assistance that would end the Crusade. The Malkavian Whip AJ, along with other kindred such as Willa Jade and Valerie Leigh of Clan Senya, convinced Tatjana to sit for a negotiation with the new Primogen council who, in return for her information and assistance, would grant her an official pardon (at least within the Ashford domain, the Camarilla has yet to officially confirm the removal of her Autarkis status outside the domain - although they have not rejected it, leading most to believe they are taking the attitude of turning a blind eye, rather than needlessly provoking the Russian bear). Tatjana revealed the identity of the Crusade leader to be a Lasombra Black Hand member known as [[Grace Williams (WoD)\|Grace Williams]]], who had been Masquerading as a Malkavian neonate known as Graziella Cohen, along with the aid of a Malkavian turncoat known as Paul Bairstow. Grace was a former student of hers and Tatjana identified her tactics and various Sabbat safe-houses that they had set up in Ashford years ago when Tatjana was still a Black Hand member herself. Information provided by Clan Senya narrowed down the list of locations, and the group led an attack that resulted in Grace and Bairstow's deaths, decapitating the remaining Sabbat Crusade leadership, which dwindled to nothingness shortly after.		Eventually, after her identity was confirmed, it would ultimately be Tatjana's information and assistance that would end the Crusade. The Malkavian Whip AJ, along with other kindred such as Willa Jade and Valerie Leigh of Clan Senya, convinced Tatjana to sit for a negotiation with the new Primogen council who, in return for her information and assistance, would grant her an official pardon (at least within the Ashford domain, the Camarilla has yet to officially confirm the removal of her Autarkis status outside the domain - although they have not rejected it, leading most to believe they are taking the attitude of turning a blind eye, rather than needlessly provoking the Russian bear). Tatjana revealed the identity of the Crusade leader to be a Lasombra Black Hand member known as [[Grace Williams (WoD)\|Grace Williams]], who had been Masquerading as a Malkavian neonate known as Graziella Cohen, along with the aid of a Malkavian turncoat known as Paul Bairstow. Grace was a former student of hers and Tatjana identified her tactics and various Sabbat safe-houses that they had set up in Ashford years ago when Tatjana was still a Black Hand member herself. Information provided by Clan Senya narrowed down the list of locations, and the group led an attack that resulted in Grace and Bairstow's deaths, decapitating the remaining Sabbat Crusade leadership, which dwindled to nothingness shortly after.

	Since then, Tatjana has been keeping to herself, doing her own concerns and not causing any major problems for the Camarilla. She has seemingly joined the unofficial coterie known as [[Coterie:_The_Guild_(WoD)\|The Guild]], a coterie of kindred assassins and mercenaries for hire, but is selective about the jobs she takes - she seems to have a criteria, but will not share or explain it. Some have noticed that these actions seem to aid the ambitions of the Lupines of the now-allied [[Sept of Sacrificial Friendship (WoD)\|Sept of Sacrificial Friendship]]. Politically, she is no longer either Camarilla or Sabbat and, officially at least, Autarkis or hunted by both sects (although the Camarilla are respecting their agreement and she is safe within the domain). Although she never had much association with them, she now finds herself agreeing with many of the ideologies of the Anarch Movement, and has been seen with various of their members. If she really has joined the Anarchs, then they have gained a very powerful ally.		Since then, Tatjana has been keeping to herself, doing her own concerns and not causing any major problems for the Camarilla. She has seemingly joined the unofficial coterie known as [[Coterie:_The_Guild_(WoD)\|The Guild]], a coterie of kindred assassins and mercenaries for hire, but is selective about the jobs she takes - she seems to have a criteria, but will not share or explain it. Some have noticed that these actions seem to aid the ambitions of the Lupines of the now-allied [[Sept of Sacrificial Friendship (WoD)\|Sept of Sacrificial Friendship]]. Politically, she is no longer either Camarilla or Sabbat and, officially at least, Autarkis or hunted by both sects (although the Camarilla are respecting their agreement and she is safe within the domain). Although she never had much association with them, she now finds herself agreeing with many of the ideologies of the Anarch Movement, and has been seen with various of their members. If she really has joined the Anarchs, then they have gained a very powerful ally.