“Corbin Delacroix and his twin sister, Annalise, both come from money. Old money. Plantation money. Their family was and is home to politicians, CEOs, lobbyists, mobsters and eccentric artists. It’s also home to a handful of Ventrue who have kept vigil over the Delacroix family for the better part of two centuries, now. The Lords like to keep a close eye on proper families: after all, good breeding stock in the mortal world easily equates to good stock in Clan Ventrue, too.
And so it came that the local Ventrue attention turned to young Corbin Delacroix: fresh out of law school, top of his class, loved by his family. Corbin, a smart conservative in a cleanly-pressed suit, deserved to belong to the Lords. It was in his nature, much as it was in the nature of his grandfather, Pious Delacroix. And so, after a Skull-and-Bones or Masonic style of initiation, he was gifted with the Embrace.
It hasn’t been precisely easy for Corbin; he’s a new face in a very, very old guard. They have their ways – but he likes to think he has his ways, and that his are quite plainly the best. He has a spirit that the Lords admire, but it is a spirit that they also must in some way break: the way one can admire the wild heart of a Mustang stallion but still seek to impress upon the beast a measure of control. Corbin is resistant, but knows that this is where his (now) dead heart belongs.”
-Vampire: The Requiem - Clans - Ventrue, Lords of the Damned
