Nandor the Relentless

Nandor is a fierce Ottoman warrior and a caller of house meetings. He is the de facto head of the vampire household, and despite his reputation as a conqueror, he’s actually a bit of a softy. He was hard hit when he learned that his country, Al Quolanudar, was dissolved in the 15th century and no one thought to tell him. Nandor was born in 1262 in Al Qolnidar, in what is now southern Iran. He rose to power as the nation's Supreme Viceroy in 1279. Nandor became a general of the Ottoman Empire, presumably some time after its founding in 1299. During this time he pillaged many villages without discrimination and twice turned the Euphrates “red with blood”. As a human general, Nandor owned a horse named Jahan, whom he was very fond of, and Jahan assisted him in numerous battles. One day, Nandor and his army became stranded with no food and Nandor had no choice but to kill and eat Jahan. Nandor was devastated and wept while doing so, even though Jahan was "delicious". Nandor would later misremember his name as "John", and secretly missed him, regretting not being nicer to him. Nandor was married to 37 men and women at once and loved 35 of them. It was during this marriage that he became a vampire. He gained the unique abilities of pyrokinesis and being able to turn into vapor. All of his wives became sick of his moodiness, sleeping during the day and blood-drinking and they all left, taking his children with them. He tried to visit them but kept scaring them away. Nandor was eventually driven out of Al Qolnidar by peasants. At some point between 1362 and 1457, Nandor razed a village in Greece. The decimated village would later become the birthplace of Nadja, his future vampire roommate. Nadja would not realize this until the 21st century. Nandor eventually learned English, forgot how to speak Persian and failed to notice the dissolving of Al Qolnidar in 1401. He moved into a house with fellow vampires Nadja, Laszlo Cravensworth and Colin Robinson in Staten Island, New York. Nandor took on a young familiar named Benjy Everett during the 1970s, but grew tired of him. Nandor wiped Benjy’s memories and abandoned him at a rest stop in Delaware. During the late seventies or early eighties, he began an on-off relationship with a human woman named Gail. He would spend the next forty years falling into a pattern of dating her, offering to turn her into a vampire so they could be together forever, getting turned down and reconnecting with her. Around 2009 he adopted a new human familiar, Guillermo. Despite having three roommates and a loyal familiar for several years, Nandor did express feelings of loneliness several times. He eventually promoted Guillermo to the role of bodyguard, after he saved the entire household from being killed by destroying dozens of enemy vampires. Guillermo has vampire hunter heritage, and can keep up with Nandor in a fight. Nandor once offered to take him on a trip and turn Guillermo into a vampire, like he has always wanted, but due to circumstances beyond his control, Guillermo was unable to go with him. When Nandor returned a year later, he refused to turn Guillermo, who then asked a fledgling vampire he barely knew to turn him instead. When Nandor found out, he was furious at first, vowing to kill Guillermo and then himself. Instead, he helped turn Guillermo back into a human once he realised he was not ready for vampirism. Nandor has attempted to find love with many people, including a vampire cult leader woman, magical clones of all of his past wives, and a magical clone of Guillermo's first boyfriend. Since Nandor is so old, he has a lot of traditional ideas about the world. He also struggles to remember things, such as the passing of time, cultural trends, laws, etc. He can be incredibly blunt and rude to others, especially Guillermo, attempting to hide any of his vulnerabilities. He cares deeply for the people around him, but his volatile emotions frequently lead to conflicts.