Illyanne (anglicized to Illyana) Marie Claudette Chalemagne was embraced, at the age of 25, during the tail end of the French Revolution in Tours, France. She is a stereotypical Tzimisce and was embraced by her father as part of a family tradition. She is the first woman in her family to have recived this great honor, and is still one of few. She was married, as a mortal and had 6 children. Her mortal bloodline still survives to this day.

Illyana spent the first 40 years of the 19th century in extensive training in London. When she emerged from her seclusion, she found the world had changed quite a bit in her absence. She sat back and enjoyed the abundance and relative freedom of Victorian England. In 1894, she moved to Winnipeg and built herself a mansion in which she still lives to this day (ooc: this mansion actually exists : the Dalnavert Museum at 61 Carlton street, Wpg. see their web page.) She donated a wing to the Misericiordia Hospital in exchange for private medical tutilage (she is a registered M.D.). After the First World War, Illyana returned to her seclusion and studies. She re-emerged in 1997 at the request of the Sabbat and was promoted quickly to Archbishop.

Illyana follows the Path of Death and the Soul, and her studies never cease. She is contiually forming new hypothosis, and conducting some interesting and frightning experiments.
(In the sketch below, Illyana is the one in the center, front, seated.)

"Do you ever wonder what will happen to you when you die? Where will your spirit go? Do you have a soul? Does anyone? I have spent the last few hundred years of my life trying to discover that. And I will continue until I know."

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