Kindred
Lineages - Jetter

Cecil Jetter – Ventrue/Invictus

Since the taking of Quebec City in 1629 from Champlain, the struggle between the Invictus of France of England only intensified. The conflict became truly transnational when Cecil Jetter and his lineage rose to prominence during the eighteenth century. The centuries old conflict of Europe continued in earnest in the New World, the figures ever the same. At the core of the Invictus within the city of Toronto in present nights are the descendents of the Jetter lineage. These Ventrue by virtue of their blood claim more prominence in the Toronto court, waiting for the time when another of their rank can replace Hollinger.

Matthew Braun – Ventrue/Invictus (Childer of Cecil Jetter; Prince of Toronto 1788 - 1904)

Sent in the decades prior to the Toronto purchase, Matthew Braun was granted the domain of Toronto as a reward for his efforts on behalf of the Invictus in Britain. As ever important, the struggle for the New World seemed to be shifting from the Anglo-Franco Invictus struggle that had dominated their respective agenda for centuries, and had instead shifted to become a struggle of ideology as the Carthians swept through America and France. While a reward, much pressure was placed on Braun to ensure that York remained in the hands not just his covenant, but more importantly his family. The family had place much faith in his capacity to retain control over the domain, making greater and greater requests upon his resources, until it was with much shame that Braun was forced to turn to the arrival of the Lancea Sanctum to aid in the negotiated return of Fort York to Invictus hands.

The fact that the attack had been instigated by the very same covenant that was responsible in returning the domain was not lost on the Prince, or any of his confidants. To gain control over his new partner, Braun involved the young Lancea Sanctum leader in many of the projects that promoted the growth of the domain. Through the extension of this power, the Invictus were able to garner many debts from the Lancea Sanctum, creating a greater degree of control over their partners as the decades past. This agenda was fully realized through the creation of the Family Compact that tied the Lancea Sanctum closer to the side of the Invictus. To Braun it was completely reasonable to keep this potential enemy close at his side. Whilst tending to his domain, the prince received a delegation sent from Montreal on behalf of Prince Dorat, which saw the compact joined with the Chateau Clique, and a consolidation of power among the Invictus across the region. A number of potent oaths are said to have been sworn between both Princes, witnessed by a select few.

After the aborted rebellion in 1837, peace seemed to have become the order of the day in the Domain of Toronto. For almost seventy years Braun held the city having quelled any attempts by the American Carthians to challenge his leadership, and an amicable relationship with the Invictus court of Montreal, it seemed that he was now afforded the leisure to focus solely on building the domain into the economic powerhouse of the country. All of this came to a sudden shift as the fires raged throughout Toronto during 1904. It was a complete shock to the few Kindred with the Prince that night when Henry Lange attacked and destroyed Braun. Reeling from the attack, the descendents of this lineage supported Hollinger’s rise to power, and were the first to descend into the streets when the blood hunt against Lange was called. Now the descendents wonder if maybe the Domain should be returned to their hands. Perhaps more of Lange’s descendents are culpable than originally thought.

“Men at some time are masters of their fates; the fault, dear childe, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

Kurtis Clattenburg – Ventrue/Invictus

Sibling to Eliza King, he often chose to remain in the background relinquishing the attention of the court and not challenge her standing as the head of the covenant. Some perceived Kurtis’ decision to refrain from actively engaging in the politics of the domain as a sign of weakness. They were mistaken. Like many of the Jetter line he was a force to be reckoned with, and when he chose to act there was no doubt that he would see it done. It is this attitude that he brought to bear in his interests that has lead many to maintain his responsibility in the disappearance of Ambrose Small; pointing to his own disappearance as proof of his guilt. No doubt, they maintain, that once the dead was done, Kurtis fled the domain knowing that in due time Prince Hollinger would send the Reeve to enact justice upon the offender.

Clinton Ferrin – Ventrue/Lancea Sanctum

In the early 1840s, after the abortive attempt by the American Carthians to seize the domain from the Invictus, Mr. Ferrin, having already become a convert to Lange’s teachings, left the domain in search of his ordained mission. Little is known about his travels other than gaining widespread recognition as a well-known member of the Sanctified proving his devotion to the words of Longinus wherever he traveled. Amongst these travels Clinton came across a man that held many of the same values that he himself believed integral to proper life. Embracing Roland Kaine the two traveled for a brief time while the elder Jetter educated the new kindred in the ways of the court and the practices of the Lancea Sanctum. Ferrin even back in the 1840s when still a member of the Toronto court advocated on behalf of an open Inquisition to ensure the security of the domain. This espousal of Sanctified doctrine burned so brightly within him it is likely that as he continues traveling North America calling upon the Lancea Sanctum to be prepared to lay down their lives in the pursuit of the teachings of Longinus.