Ignatius Crane

Iggy was born James William Kent. His mother, a Polish immigrant married into the Astor family in the late 1800s. Their family was large, Iggy being the youngest of 6 children.

Because he was a handfull and his mother was sickly and trying to keep up with the social standards of the time, Iggy was given over to a nanny in 1894. Little did he know, he'd meet his best friend that day. The two were inseperable. Where there was one, there was the other. They were master prank artists, even from a young age, and every time they were caught, Iggy would say it was his idea, and because his mother was protective, never got punished. This attitude towards figures of authority would continue throughout his life and then into his time as a vampire.

In the Summer of 1897, Iggys father paid for his grandmother to move to the United States from Poland. She was a foreign entity in a world that didn't understand her. In a world of refinement and propriety, she favored the outdoors and the land. His grandmother was in not so many words, a witch, though it was not a stigma where she was from. More like a medicine woman. Though it wasn't talked about with the rest of the family, she taught Iggy everything she knew. Reading cards, signs in nature, remedies, how to hex people... Even how to contact the dead. Between his proper education and the education his grandmother gave him, his mind tended to wander, which would lead to him often getting into trouble.

In the summer of 1908, Iggy moved to Florida where his Paternal Grandparents had relocated 10 years prior. They had already made a lot of money in land developement. His father, not amused by his antics, decided that he needed to do something respectable and insisted he go live with his grandparents and learn their business practices. Iggy was not pleased about this because he was more interested in engineering and mathematics and drawing than making money for the family.

Iggys paternal grandparents did not approve of his mother, and in extension, himself. They were very strict with what he did while in Florida, and kept him at arms length. His grandfather was not afraid to talk down on Iggys mother and grandmother, going into detail about the flaws in their Jewish upbringing. Iggy, not being one to take guff from anyone, didn't take it well and began sabotaging his grandparents company by purposefully sending information on their sales habits to their competitors. As these things happen, 23 year old Iggy wasn't the most thorough in covering his tracks, and he was found out. After a huge blow out fight with his grandfather, which resulted in the police being called, Iggy ran away and made his way back to New York to be with his mother.

After the Death of his Grandmother, he acted even more irrationally. When the police came for him, he fled to New York city where he planned to go to college. Unfortunately he didn't spend very much time there, as the police got word that he was in the city, and he barely made it out without getting arrested.

After taking a month to travel North and clear his head, Iggy went home where he had planned to live with his mother and grandmother. His father had other plans. Iggy and his father got into such a heated debate, that it came to blows. Iggy went to strike his father, and his grandmother stepped in front of him so that he wouldn't hit anyone, and in his anger, he struck his grandmother instead, not realizing what he was done until it was too late. She fell to the ground and her head struck the corner of the fireplace mantle as she fell, and she died instantly. Iggy in a panic tried to wake her but she was gone.

The family tried to cover it up. Iggy became obsessed with his grandmother, taking all of her things, and dedicating himself to her memory. He delved deeply into the occult studies that she practiced and did what he could to make it up to her memory.

Iggy had spent most of his time in California conning people out of their money. It wasn't an honest living, but it was fun. He stole what he could when he could, putting his massive intellect to use devising these elaborate cons that he'd work for months at a time. As luck would have it, he just so happened to have been working the same mark as a young tremere bounty hunter. After getting into a long and frustrating game of cat and mouse, Iggy was embraced by the tremere, and quickly initiated into the family business of bounty hunting supernatural creatures.

A lot happened during this time period in Iggys Life. He learned who he really was, breaking through his own mental blocks, and truly becoming that person he was meant to be. He found the courage he needed to find his center, and in the end, it was the reason he was embraced. He also went from Chantry to Chantry trying to learn as much useful and dangerous knowledge as possible. This tendency made his stays shorter than average in each chantry he'd visit. He'd offer his services as a bounty hunter. Track down folks. Things would then get weird. And he's leave. The only reason he got out of trouble as much as he did was because he was really good at his job.