Stanford Warwick
His Grace, Stanford Warwick, is a Nosferatu spymaster, the Imperial Prince of Providence, Rhode Island, former Justicar, and an agent of his grandsire, the methuselah Trajan.
Biography
Stanford Warwick was a sailor during his mortal days in the service of Queen Elizabeth, who made the mistake of wandering off in the night on the port after a long stay in a local tavern. When Warwick was quickly overwhelmed, Powell Embraced him to expand the Web of his sire into Scotland. Eventually, Warwick rose to the position of {{www|Strand Master among Trajan's Net, acting as one of his agents against the Malkavian Antoine Le Fanu. Under the orders of Trajan, he traveled to Switzerland where he proposed Operation: Longbow to two of the grandchilder of his grandsire's enemies.
When Warwick arrived in New England, he targeted Providence first. With the assistance of the Brujah Romana Pendragon and Malkavian William Biltmore, he gathered several Nosferatu elders around him and promised them protection and power in exchange for their aid. Together with his coterie, he trained the American Nosferatu in the effective use of their Disciplines, even stating that Obfuscate was Caine's gift to the Clan in order to monitor other Kindred. Beneath Rhode Island, Warwick constructed a gigantic warren and helped in 1895 to initiate the building of the underground railway system in Boston. Five years later, Warwick acted to secure his position as Prince. Causing a gas leak, he attacked the Primogen of Providence while his followers assassinated those vampires Warwick had deemed dangerous to his rule. Crippling the Ventrue herds, he drove the Clan from Rhode Island, establishing him as the sole authority of the domain.
Warwick is also credited for bringing the Web into the United States, a network of information-gathering that was the recreation of Trajan's original network (both would later used as foundations for SchreckNet).
Driving out the Sabbat
Under his new rule, Warwick utilized his position as a Strand Master and his heavy influence in the New England Nosferatu to collect information through the Antitribu about the movements of the Sabbat in New England. In the late 1990's, Warwick turned this information over to the Justicar Council, and particularly to Karsh, who was able to use this plethora of information to systematically wipe out each and every Sabbat haven in New England. For his efforts, Warwick was elevated after the Inner Council meeting of 1998 to the position of Justicar of Clan Nosferatu, replacing the retiring Cock Robin.
Response from the Clan
Clan Nosferatu was not happy with this development. Over the course of the next 13 years, large numbers of Nosferatu began a campaign across Schrecknet to undermine the efforts of Justicar Warwick. An attempt was made to leverage a new Justicar to replace him, but when Warwick was not replaced at the next Inner Council meeting in 2011, Clan Nosferatu redoubled their efforts.
In 2022, a contingent of Nosferatu consisting of Cock Robin, Prudence Stone and Petrodon elected to send a message to the Justicars—Either Warwick be replaced, or Clan Nosferatu would hunt down each and every one of them. To make this message as clear as possible, they descended upon the haven of Justicar Tegyrus, one of them diablerizing the Assamite, and delivered his ashes to the doorstep of Lucinde.
As a result, the Inner Council replaced Stanford Warwick with Prudence Stone at their 2023 meeting, and as an apology to Clan Nosferatu for ignoring their initial request, Tegyrus' seat was replaced with the "Justicar of the Others", representing non-pillar interests—and placed Cock Robin in this seat.
Warwick was allowed to return to Providence and resume his throne, but it was done in exile—as one last insult to the injury, Clan Nosferatu collectively barred Warwick from ever entering the sewers again, nor accessing ShreckNet. The title of Strand Master was passed onto Stanford Warwick's childe, Kurt Densch, and Warwick sheltered himself in his Domain, forever cut off from his own blood for his betrayal of the Clan.
