Alessandra "Alicia" Murray

Alias: Alicia Murray
Actual Identity: Alessandra d'Orleans DeRosa Laurent
Age: 959 years old
Eyes: Silver
Hair: Light brown
Race: Slight hybrid, traditional vampire dominant
Rank: High Matriarch of the Laurent Clan Sire: Alexandrov DeRose
History: Alessandra was, at one time, the first young bride to Philippe Charles duc d'Orleans, the nephew of Louis XIV. They were wed in December 1690, Philippe 16 and she having just turned 15 a month prior. A few weeks after their unconsummated marriage, she was presented at the court of Versailles where she met Angela deRose near the palace gardens. Hoping to find a friend at court, Alessandra walked the garden with her new aquaintence and met her brother, Alexandrov. Unfortunately for her, it was not just friendship they were looking for as both soon fed their fill from her and she was stolen from the palace to the DeRose home where she remained for many years. Philippe eventually remarried to Francois-Marie de Bourbon and Alessandra became nothing more than a whisp of memory and rumor in French history, if even that much.
That very night, she was sired by Alexandrov and took the DeRose surname, becoming the third member of the DeRose household. Over time, she became accustomed to her new life and enjoyed the decandent lifestyle vampirism had to offer her, eventually becoming the lover and favorite of her sire, Alexandrov or Alex, as she called him and a devoted sister to Angela DeRose, or Angel as she was called. She and Angel were practically inseperable from one another and caused much trouble for Alex on more than one occasion. Things would be good for many decades but her stubborn personality and haughty disposition would see her struggle to obey her sire and eventually, their disagreements would lead to her fleeing from the coven Alex would eventually build up.
Prior to fleeing, however, she managed to raise two non-vampire immortals...Andrew Laurent and a child she claimed as her own daughter, Maria Amelia DeRose, that put her at extreme odds with both her coven and Angel. While neither she nor Angel cared much for the coven, Angel disliked Andrew and Maria's race. So one night, after a particularly violent disagreement between Alex and herself, she fled the coven and gave up her high-ranking position within it. She would then spend over a century on her own, battling with insanity over her still-fifteen year old body until 1997, when she worked a deal with the scientists behind the modern production of nanodes to help "cure" most terminal illnesses. So, a deal was made between her and one scientist...she would give him immortality if he would give her the nanodes to help her age. The nanodes thrived in her body, repairing much of the dead tissue while she slept and it indeed aged her, but only another two or three years so she would remain an eternal teenager in body, but not in mind. As a result, she is said to have "sired" the newest crop of neo-technical vampires that her, and other, coven despise so much.
She grew her intelligence by personal study and hard work, entering a top university to gain a business degree that would allow her to open, own and operate three of the most popular clubs in London: Club Icarus, The Excelsior and the Ice Rink, all of which cater to both vampires and mortals. As a result, she was able to form quite a following of loyal vampires, both traditional and neo-technical, that compose an underground unit of communication to keep her updated on Alexandrov's new motives, as well as those of other coven members. The past six hundred years have not been the smoothest for her. Already teetering the line of insanity, she has been pushed further by horrific abuses and experiences that have left her world in tatters. Once more ousted from her coven, she is on the run for reasons unknown to many though rumors of murder are in the air.
Since the great war with her sire, she had attached to Andrew Laurent but the lure of power became too much and what started as a co-regency along the West Coast covens and new-vampires became Andrew’s ambition for empire. To keep her tied to him, Andrew began slowly poisoning the blood and nanodes - withholding the cure if she stepped out of line, attempted to usurp or undermine him or ever thought of leaving. As compensate, he granted her the title of High Matriarch of their clan and power along with it. However, the position and its master drives her ever that much closer to the edge of insanity she thought she had beaten off.