Damballah’s Hidden Temple in Harlem

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Territory

  • Manhattan, Harlem

Members

Ductus

Papa Kalfu

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  • Clan: Serpent of the Light
  • Position: Ductus
  • Faction: Occult Underground (Master)
  • Status: 2 (Positional), 5 (Reputational)
  • Background: Born in the fires of the the Haitian Revolution, the man who would become known as Papa Kalfu earned his place in world in a baptism of fire. Long before the birth of the Serpent’s of the Light, Papa Kalfu was born into servititue. Even though on his tiny island the Africans outnumbered the French; they were still little better than slaves. The child of two slaves, Kalfu was raised to serve his French masters. It is said that even in his childhood, the young Kalfu was ordained by the priests of the Voodoo religions of Haitai to grow into a man of great importance.

In the 1970s Kalfu and his family immigrated to the United States. Like so many, he did so through the walls of New York City. A predominatly Sabbat City, Kalfu was happy to call this new place home. While a priest of the Voodoo religion, Kalfu also had become a priest of the sect itself. Seeing much in the history of his own kind, in his own faith. The pack, lead by Kalfu moved into slums of Harlem like that of many other Haitians, Spanish, and other miniorties. Though far from Haiti, Kalfu knew he had earned many enemies among the followers of set, fighting for his clans freedom. Even in New York he was not beyond their reach. So, Kalfu once again laid down his machete and picked up the bones of his ancestors once again. In Harlem his own Haitian people needed a priest of their faith and among the Sabbat he and his pack offered a new and exciting anomaly among the damned. Many among the American Sabbat had only heard of the Serpents, few had met any by the time Kalfu arrived in Harlem. As something of a joke on the matter Kalfu named his pack Damballah’s Hidden Temple in Harlem; as they hide right out in the open. Kalfu opened a simple Voodoo shop with the same name. Among his own people and the Sabbat Kalfu now served as priest for all their needs. His Occult shop quickly becoming famous among both the living and the damned. As the years passed few learned of the packs invovlment with the Serpent revolution. Sabbat tend to live short quick lives, and where once Kalfu and his pack were known as warrior priests, he had simply become the strange but firendly voodoo man in Harlem. Of course, like all vampire Kalfu was invovled in other matters. In time Kalfu became a kingpin of the drug trade of Harlem and in time controlled much of the area. Though preffering to keep to themselves, Kalfu and his pack are known to always have their doors open to any of the Sabbat. Even to this night Kalfu lends his service to sect from his humble shop. Those who seek the wisdom of the ancestors and the gods often find their way to his door step.


Pack Priest

Mama Patience/Elie Sansaricq

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  • Clan: Serpent of the Light
  • Position: Pack Priest
  • Faction: Occult Underground (Cleric)
  • Status: 2 (Positional), 5 (Reputational)
  • Background: Elie Sansaricq was raised as a faithful member of New York’s Haitian Santeria community. As a young woman, she rose quickly in prominence until she caught the eye of Papa Kalfu. Her tidy, moralistic, and self-aware personality drew his attention, and he decided after several years of watching over her to embrace her into what was coming to be known as the Serpents of the Light. Now known as Mama Patience, she tends their growing community dressed in a plain white dress, hoop earrings, a necklace of baubles, and her motherly countenance.


Abbott

Sister Chastity

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  • Clan: Serpent of the Light
  • Position: Abbott
  • Faction: Occult Underground (Neophyte)
  • Status: 2 (Positional), 4 (Reputational)
  • Background: Sister Charity was embraced not long after Mama Patience. In the early nineties, a surge in the Caribbean faiths put strain on the Serpents of the Light in New York, and so Mama Patience sought out a promising member of her followers to elevate in much the same way Papa Kalfu had done for her. The person she found was Sister Charity. A frank individual and a fast learner, Sister Charity’s only real flaw was that she could become vulgar when she was feeling comfortable speaking with someone. But, she was loved by the Loa and her community alike, and so Patience and Kalfu looked past the clothing and the foul language to see what the ancestors saw: their next sister.


Other Members

Sister Faith

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  • Clan: Serpent of the Light
  • Position: True Sabbat
  • Faction: Occult Underground (Neophyte)
  • Status: 1 (Positional), 4 (Reputational)
  • Background: Sister Faith is not native to New York, or even America. Like Papa Kalfu, she was born and raised in Haiti as a slave before being embraced into the much-distanced branch of Setites. When she finally left her homeland, following in the footsteps of one of their greatest religious leaders, she found him amidst the thronging crowds of New York City. Interested in what he was doing in this new world, she watched him and his work for some time before formally joining both the Sabbat and Damballah’s Hidden Temple in Harlem. Sister Faith appears as an older African woman with rings around her neck all the way from her shoulders to the back of her skull. She wears hoop earrings like Mama Patience, and her hair is commonly tied back in a ponytail. At her side is a woven satchel bag, from which she has been known to draw the most absurdly specific things when she needs them.