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Maximilian was born to an influential family, a Roman politician father and an Ethiopian business-owner mother. He didn't lack for much, but that didn't stem his innocent and love-filled heart, who frequently cared for his lessers even despite his status. He grew up to be quite rascally, though his rascality was more in the sense that he couldn't seem to keep it in his pants. He was a very charismatic and suave man, and this caused his father some grief, as he feared his reputation souring. His parents did support his chosen career to aid his mother in the seamstress business, as well as his love of music.
At the age of 22, he met a girl that captured his heart, who was incidentally, a childhood friend of his. Luckily, she returned these feelings, and they got to know each other better. He was good to her, and even her grandfather, a Deva kindred, took an interest in him. During one such meeting of theirs, they both got waylaid and beaten up by a jealous ex-lover of hers. Accidents happen, and this guy killed her by accident, and turned to kill Max after discovering what he had done. The timely intervention of a kindred kept that from happening, and the assailant ran away. However, Max was now out for blood, and after mourning her, persuaded her vampire grand-dad to embrace him.
After the embrace, Max hunted down his lover's killer and drained him of all his blood. This bloodlust soon took him over, and he began drowning his sorrows in the blood of others. It took a masquerade break and some teachings by his new sire to learn control, though the disciplines instilled in him a thirst for knowledge of the supernatural. After being disowned by his father, he ran away from home and joined the underground society of Daeva vampire, honing his skills, carrying out missions and errands, and reading up on supernatural powers. Now, as Rome was a multi-culture state, he was able to learn from various types of undead, even falling in with a fleshcrafter who chose to spare him and use him as an aid for his experiments.
In a matter of centuries, about 300 years from his turning, he became a feared one, falling out of favor with most kine for his obsession with blood, blood magic and fleshcrafting, which he specifically chose for the purpose of bringing his lover back from the dead. He succeeded, too, but she came back wrong and he had to end her existence once more. This failure made him grieve, and he entered a state of Torpor that lasted for a few more centuries.
700 years after his turning, and immediately after waking up from his torpor, he looked to find that Rome had fallen and been rebuilt as Italy. After adapting to the environment (and renaming himself Caesar), he stumbled upon a younger kindred called Xanetta, who served as the bartender for a drinking establishment he used to frequent. They soon became an item, and even after hearing of his past, she didn't give up on him. It was her influence that shifted him from a callous mad scientist to a kindred more in touch with his humanity. His womanizing ways remained, though she remained the only kindred he dated while they remained together. His love for magic remained, leading to him creating a bloodline of his own, the Sanguines. This made him rise in prominence and notoriety among the Daeva, gaining him allies and enemies alike, especially old enemies unwilling to accept that this kindred had changed.
After Xanetta's untimely death at the hands of his enemies, or what he thought was her death, Caesar travelled around the world, bettering his craft, siring vampires, building his bloodline etc. He eventually settled in Ireland, and made 'Flynn' his last name. A few more long torpors, and one day he ends up in the Nexus.
His goal is both to find a way home (just so he'll know), learn more magic and travel the Nexus.