Originally an emissary from lords of Spain, Augusto Vidal has been the prince of New Orleans since 1770. Recently, he struggled to keep his sanity. He is also strained by a three-way kind of war for rulership of the city, along with Antoine Savoy, the lord of the French Quarter, and Baron Cimitiere, voodoo leader. The situation is rendered even more dire, given that Vidal's last childe, an engineer called Emmanuel Costa, was killed by his own hand after he attempted to stage a coup against him, in 1812. Vidal has not sired another childe since; rumor has it he remains too heartbroken by the betrayal, but the true reason is much darker.