This story begins a long time ago it is the story of how the son of a herald became a prince...it was the year 1503 A.D. a lovely summer day on august 11th the butterflies were fluttering around in the field when madam Gillis' water broke. thirty minutes later Erlisa Evond Gillis was born with minimal complications some tearing is all....he was a big boy...weighing a good 10 pounds at birth.....his family was well off but far from noble....he did receive a very fine education....tutelage in reading writing science theology and had sun tzu's art of war memorized.

Now rieley only grew bigger as he was well fed, and he was as brave as the day was long....once actually killing a wolf with his bare hands. now it seamed he was the city's heart throb young girls smitten with watching the young master Gillis fetch water from the well, chop wood, or take part in the city games held every year.....he always won the archery and the kaber toss and his prowess with a sword was bordering on legendary so it was no surprise to anyone that he was recruited to his majesties army and even less surprised when he was made a captain...it was one day however with the attracted eye of a young nobol girl that his life was going to change.

This noble girl, lady Anya had a suitor who had more influence in his majesties court then young Erlisa did and soon Erlisa was told that he was to increase the kingdoms holding in Latvia, Erlisa only gave his trade mark smirk that is still ever present told his majesty that Latvia was already taken....they just didn't know it yet.

By this time Erilsa learned that his father, whom he had always looked up to, was unworthy of his respect with the arrival of a young girl of 4 years old by the name of Abigail, his half sister. At first Erlisa hated this little girl who represented his fathers major failing of promiscuity and how she always clung to the boy. but the haterd soon died down to more of the annoying little sister, then out right love for his darling little child, whom could never pronounce his name correctly and called him Rinee....during that time he learned French, English, German and Russian then finally the orders came...he had to leave, that night he tucked Abigail into bed kissed her good night and left promising that he'd be back before her next birthday. Rinee failed to keep that promise.

He attacked Latvia with only a handful of men under his command....it was hear that he would meet his fate. the attack started in the morning, and was over by lunch time....he led his men in a charge against a fort built on a hill, The defenders rolled and tossed rocks down upon the small band of men. his horse fell and broke his neck trapping the young captain beneath him as the rest of his unit was summarily executed. For hours he laid there under his horse unable to move, his knee shattered. Soon darkness fell and that's when his phobia developed. The feral cats came out of the woods to clean up after the battle.....he watched the remains of his men and friends get dragged off to feed a cub or two. When he could take no more he closed his eyes knowing his turn was next. two cats started a fight over who was going to feast on his liver when the horse was lifted off of him. he saw a small pale blond girl in rustic but fine furs standing over him, the body of his sergeant in her hand. She was a pretty little thing but couldn't be more then 16 maybe 17. Her face and lips were covered in blood. he stared up at her yelling at her in first Dutch, then Russian, then German. She said nothing just fell upon him the pain was sharp and quick she was so cold.....but gradually warmed up. He admittedly felt pleasure in her embrace and slowly his senses darkened. he later awoke to feeding blood from her wrist he demanded of her again but she said nothing, just left him walking away stopping once to turn and curtsey to him with a flourish. Yes Erlisa was a vampire

He figured word of his death and his companions trickled down and reached his kingdom and family. He decided that he would no longer be Erlisa Evond Gillis....he changed his name to rieley Gillis and became a mercenary. he fought in every major conflict he could. from the wars of the 1600's to the war of the roses all the way to Viet Nam, when he was approached by an official of the camarilla and became a hit man.

That is where yet another turning point entered his life. the prince of Sacrimento was killed in a very cruel way by a three day old Brujah. his job was to find this fledgling and destroy him. He tracked the chylde to New Orleans. posing as a Camarilla intelligence gatherer. there he met a blond Ravanos whom he was instantly attracted to.....having kept that emotion safely bottled away to make his job easier but this woman made his heart jump fangs ache and his stomach, along with his pants tighten. He of course told her how he felt not being one to back down from any thing, didn't i already tell you how brave he was?

Alex shunned him at every turn but there was no way he was letting this one get away like he did with others in his past. He turned to another vampire. Whether it was because she loved this other or it was because she didn't want to end up falling for rieley. He of course was livid with rage, but he never let it show.

He asked her if she felt the same about him. She told him that though she did like him. She was not in love with him. So he offered his friendship figuring that she was to be another to get away.

one day while he was outside he watched a Malkavian feed from and turn a vampire in public, no.....now that was it....if the martial of the city was going to do nothing then he would after all the cam was paying him so he had to follow their laws....he grabbed the girl and pinned the fleadgling to the ground with a heavy boot and was about to ash these vamps when he was stopped by a Nosferatu, whom seemed to be the head of the city and demanded that on who's authority he was acting upon. rieley answers simply "my employers" it was then that mort "appointed him prince of New Orleans. Needless to say he was stunned but accepted the appointment with fervor and took right over control of the city opting to be a ruler but not a tyrant. He appointed Mortimer the Nos as Primogen and the woman he loved as Sherriff.

Under his rule New Orleans became a utopia for the supernatural. All follow him from the vampires to the Garou to the wraiths. He is a grand prince and every one enjoys freedom under his rule.

Now at this time the powers that be smiled upon him again. Hadrian the vamp that his crush was shacked up with betrayed Alex's trust someway or another and soon she was at his door just "needing some space" the two became close friends and eventually Alex stopped shunning his past advances and met him in the middle breaking her relationship with hadrian and eventually marrying rieley.

So that is the story once the son of a promiscuous herald to prince rieley Gillis