A very strange Immortal, proving conclusively that I've been reading WAY
too much RAY and JUSTICE LEAGUE TASK FORCE recently:)

All the best

Al

AUTHOR'S NOTE:  Lucius Finch is based on the DC Comics character VANDAL
SAVAGE, particularly the portrayal of Savage in JUSTICE LEAGUE TASK FORCE
and THE RAY.  No copyright infringement is intended, and all the changes
I've made are entirely unofficial.  No profit is intended from this
document and it is to be distributed freely, provided that this notice
remains attached.

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Special Affairs Division
Security Clearance Roosevelt

File Number 803
Lucius Finch

Investigating Agents
Special Agent Catherine Maria Shenko
Special Agent Daniel Philip Hanrahan

SUMMARY OF INVESTIGATION
   Lucius Finch first came to our attention in January of this year, when
he was the victim of an assassination attempt.  Mr Finch was, and is, a
highly successful Corporate Raider and it would appear that, early this
year, he got too close to a competitor.  The car bomb was impressive by any
standards, destroying windows for three miles and killing a bystander 100m
away simply by the shockwave.  Finch was rushed to hospital and remained in
surgery for 10 hours, undergoing a lung and kidney transplant.  He was
given a three percent chance of survival.  Finch walked out of the hospital
a week later.
   At this point, I inquired as to the availability of Lucius Finch's
medical records.  All of his records are classified as COSMIC TOP SECRET,
above even my own clearance and that of my section Chief.
   Undeterred, I made enquiries around the doctors working in the ER when
the bomb victims came in.  Almost all were unwilling or unable to talk to
me(Several had gone on holiday, without leaving a note.  Another had been
reassigned, a fourth retired etc)with one exception.  Dr Frederick
Garrovik, a personal friend was on shift that night, and Garrovik told me
exactly what he'd seen.
   Finch had been the last one brought in, by his own personal ambulance. 
His doctors had commandeered one of the trauma rooms and had immediately
placed him in an enforced coma.  Approximately a minute later, a FINCH
ENTERPRISES chopper landed on the roof, narrowly avoiding a collision with
a paramedic helicopter.  Garrovik was shoved aside as the crew sprinted
downstairs into the trauma room, and handed over five organ transplant
units.  An hour later, Finch was in a stable condition.
   To say that he has a remarkable constitution is, to say the least, an
understatement.  According to Dr Garrovik, Lucius Finch received a lung,
heart, liver, kidney and pancreas transplant, an operation which, aside
from making medical history, apparently took place in an hour.  
   I reviewed the Special Affairs Files, in the hope of finding any
comparable cases and, after, eight hours of continuous research, came up
with a link.  The Rorschach Clinic, one of the "Shadow" Installations
operating in the Midwest, has records dating back over 400 years.  In 1581,
the original Clinic, a plague house in London, reported treating an
unusually deformed individual known as Lukar Finn.  The Clinic kindly faxed
me the records of Finn's treatment including detailed sketches of his
deformity.  Three things immediately became apparent:

A)Lukar Finn is Lucas Finch, with a sloping forehead, cleft palette and
inset eyes.
B)Lukar Finn, and therefore, Lucas Finch, is either an Immortal or an
extremely long lived form of human.
C)The deformities are not deformities, rather the standard facial profile
of Cro-Magnon Man.

   Pursuing this lead, I contacted "Delphi", one of my sources.  They
supplied me with financial records, newspaper reports and, in one case, an
interview, all given by Lukar Finn(Now recognisable as Lucius Finch).  In
short, Lucius Finch is at least two hundred years old.
   I pursued matters further, and via friends in the Anthropology
Departments of several universities, was unable to uncover a little more. 
Stories are told in England, Greenland and Denmark, of a hideously deformed
man who wandered from town to town, offering a simple bargain.  He would
perform whatever work the townspeople desired, in return for a favour(The
similarities to the Pied Piper of Hamelin are clear and Finch does own a
townhouse in that part of Germany).  It seems likely that this was Finch{Or
the culmination of yet another needlessly complex explanation for a
criminal and his activities}.
      Unfortunately, this is as far as I got, and my Awakened sources, when
approached, told me in no uncertain terms what I could do with my request
for information.  As a result, Agent Hanrahan and myself turned to Finch's
present state.  We reviewed every interview he gave, every article he wrote
and every company he has acquired control of.  What we found, is very far
from pretty.
   Each company Finch has taken an interest in, which has refused his
approaches, has experienced serious trouble not long after.  In short,
Finch has used his own resources to harass, and in several cases, kill, the
board members of the company.  We have, appended to this file, a piece of
security camera footage clearly showing him throttling an Executive of
HEPHAESTUS INCORPORATED  to death.
   Equally disturbingly, vans or personnel belonging to Finch-owned
companies have been sighted at no less than 4000 robberies, homicides or
thefts.  These figures are clearly available,and NOTHING has been done
about it.  This man seems to have little short of absolute power in this
country, rising above even the Vampiric Organisations and their known
infiltration of the Senate.

CONCLUSION
   It is this Agent's belief that Mr Finch is an Immortal of a type not
previously seen.  His reliance on Organ Transplants suggests that he is
almost a "Half-caste", a normal human with an unusually robust constitution
and centuries of knowledge, acquaintances, and favours owed.  In short,
both Agent Hanrahan and myself believe Lucius Finch to be, in the short
term, a great danger to both the people of this country and the country
itself.
   Special Agent Catherine Maria Shenko
  Special Agent Daniel Hanrahan
Playing Lucius Finch in the World of Darkness

The Truth
   Shenko's pretty much right.  Finch was Cro Magnon, and holds the
distinction of being one of the first ever Immortals, and certainly one of
the oldest at 50,000(And counting).  However, the circumstances of how he
gained his Immortality were, to say the least, highly unusual.
   Finch was wandering in what is now the Pacific basin, at a time of great
geological activity. He strayed too close to a meteorite impact and was
killed by the shockwave.  When he woke up, he watched, fascinated and
horrified, as his chest knitted itself back together, and one shattered,
burnt leg, slowly returned to normal.  Rejoicing, Finch got as far away
from the crater as possible.
   The true implications of what had happened to him came later.  During a
hunt, he was gored and left for dead by the others.  To his horror, he felt
no pain, but the wound didn't heal, his liver having been torn apart.  In
desperation, he killed one of the scavengers around him and placed it's
liver in the wound.  Feverish and ill, he staggered back to the camp, only
to be driven away by the others.
   That night, he crept back in, clubbed one of the young males to death
and tore his liver out, placing it in his own body.  He was an outcast, but
he was a live outcast.  And one with abilities he was still learning about.
   He soon discovered that organ damaging wounds would not heal, and that
the organ would have to be replaced.  His body fought off infection and
bonded with the new organ quickly, but it had to be of the right type.  His
own kind were best, but he could survive, for a limited time, on animals.
   Over the years, he discovered something else.  He could have children
and those children would carry the same taint as himself.  He had found
that human organs would do, but were still not quite right.  The explosion,
and the elements he had been exposed to had altered him too much, and now
the only people he could live off were his own children.  Finch had learnt
one thing during his first decade as an Immortal.  He wanted to live, and
he would do anything to ensure that.  
   By 1996, he has sired millions of children, and his taint has been
carried down the generations throughout their families.  As a result,
Finch's medical teams can have the necessary organs in place within an
hour, and the deaths will be explained as simply murders or missing
persons. 
   All this information is stored in an encrypted database contained in the
Finch Enterprises main building.  Finch carries a disk copy with him at all
times, and at least ten other copies are known to be stored in major Finch
owned buildings.  Several attempts have been made to find and destroy this
database but, to date, they have been unsuccessful.

The Game
   Finch takes no interest at all in the Immortals' struggle for "The
Prize".  He has killed Immortals, but only to gain information he knew they
had and in each case, has done so with armed backup ready to help him. 
Finch is, however, a highly competent swordsman and Martial Artist and uses
these skills when staging what he calls a "Hostile takeover".
   His attitude towards other Immortals is, to say the least, ambivalent. 
He has been known to help some of his kind, in return for either their
services or information, but at the same time is known to finance at least
one Hunter group.  Those Immortals he does help are acutely aware of both
how lucky they are, and how much potential danger they are in.

General
   Finch is based almost exclusively on the version of Vandal Savage seen
in The Ray  and Justice League Task Force .  In short, a man with immense
wealth, immense power and an incredible capacity for violence.  Finch's
driving force is his ambition because he knows that if he ever stops
reaching, he'll stagnate and when he stagnates, he'll lose his edge.
   Finch has a finger in everything, from the Special Affairs Division and
the Presidency through the Camarilla.  Everyone in any position of power
either knows him or knows of him.  In short, imagine an Immortal version of
Keyser Soze.


Other Races' Views
Camarilla:  He knows more about us than he should.  And is far, far too
clever to be removed from the game.  Be careful.
Sabbat:  Let me get this straight...50,000 years old...knows everyone in
power...utterly ruthless...It's Sinatra!  You're asking us to be scared of
Ole Blue Eyes!

Garou:  He knows too much about us.  When the time comes, he will be
amongst the first to fall.

Magi:  A fascinating individual, both genetically and mentally.  The first
Tradition to blackmail him  instead of vice versa, will be powerful indeed.
The Technocracy:  An old, old friend.  He is our most powerful ally, and
potentially, our most dangerous enemy.

Wraiths:  He has no relevance to us.
Changelings:  Ha!  He has potential!  Given the right training, he could
become a Rook instead of just a Pawn!

Immortals:  Our oldest, and one who, thankfully, has found a better game to
play.  He has been known to help us but, when he does, his price makes the
Changelings look reasonable.

Lucius Finch

Name:  Lucius Finch             Nature:  Conniver               Demeanour: 
Mentor      

PHYSICAL                        SOCIAL                  MENTAL
Strength ******                 Charisma *****          Perception ********
Dexterity *******               Manipulation ********   Intelligence *******
Stamina ********                Appearance ****         Wits ********

TALENTS                         SKILLS                  KNOWLEDGES
Alertness ******                Drive *****             Cosmology *******
Awareness ******                Etiquette *****         Culture *****@
Expression ******               Firearms ***            Enigmas ******
Intuition *******               Research ****           Investigation ******
Intimidation *******            Stealth *****           Law *******
                                Melee ******            Linguistics ******@@
                                                        Medicine *******
                                                        Occult ********
                                ADVANTAGES
BACKGROUNDS                     WILLPOWER               HEALTH
Resources ******                **********              Bruised-0
Arcane **                                               Hurt-0
                                                        Injured-1
                                                        Wounded-1
                                                        Crippled-1
                                                        Incapacitated-1
                                                                
                                QUICKENING      
                                **********

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
   Savage's Neanderthal inheritance is betrayed by his almost abnormal
build.  He is physically an amazingly intimidating man, 6'5 and broad
shouldered, with black hair tied in a ponytail, an immaculately trimmed
goatee and piercing blue eyes.  His voice is deep and slightly gruff, and
his demeanour is always, regardless of the situation, calm and unflappable.
 Imagine a cross between Jonathan Frakes(Voice/Looks)and Henry
Rollins(Build).

@Finch has travelled the world during his 50,000 years on it, and knows the
culture and people of each country intimately.  As a result, when
travelling he obeys every cultural tradition and practice.  As a result,
the native cultures of each country are shown respect and deference, whilst
the big businesses are ruthlessly pursued.

@@Finch knows 90% of modern languages inside out, and is often able to
converse in their older forms.