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==Notoriety==
 
==Notoriety==
 
Genevieve received considerable fame and notoriety as a Heroine of the Empire and had songs, stories and plays written about her.  She even published her own biography, ''A life''.
 
Genevieve received considerable fame and notoriety as a Heroine of the Empire and had songs, stories and plays written about her.  She even published her own biography, ''A life''.
''The Song of Bold Oswald and Fair Genevieve'' was written after her first encounter with Dracenfels and suggested that the Prince had confronted the great enchanter for the love of his long dead lady. {{Fn|1c}}  Detleif himslef greatly contributed to her fame with the ill-fated play ''Dracenfels'', which he later rewrote as ''The Tragedy of Prince Oswald'' and also his infamous sonnet cycle ''To My Unchanging Lady''.{{Fn|1e}}
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''The Song of Bold Oswald and Fair Genevieve'' was written after her first encounter with Dracenfels and suggested that the Prince had confronted the Great Enchanter for the love of his long dead lady. {{Fn|1c}}  Detlef himself greatly contributed to her fame with the ill-fated play ''Dracenfels'', which he later rewrote as ''The Tragedy of Prince Oswald'' and also his infamous sonnet cycle ''To My Unchanging Lady''.{{Fn|1e}}
  
 
== Notes ==
 
== Notes ==

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Genevieve Dieudonné

Genevieve Dieudonné was a female vampire of the Lahmian bloodline in the World-that-Was. Considered (even if grudgingly in some circles) a heroine of The Empire she became the lover and companion of the actor, poet and playwright Detlef Sierck.

History

Genevieve Sandrine du Pointe du Lac Dieudonné was born in 1842 IC[*] in the city of Parravon. Her father was a minister of the ruling family and she had a sister, Cirielle who lived into her sixties.[1a]

In 1854 the city was conquered by the army of Constant Drachenfels who had her father, among others, executed. No one could suspect that their paths would cross again.[1a]

In 1858 the 16-year old Genevieve met Chandagnac, a male vampire who, after charming her, gave her the Dark Kiss, turning her into a vampire.[1a]

During the following centuries she traveled to Araby and the Far East. For a century she sailed between Cathay and Nippon. Genevieve learned Cathayan and met Master Po, with whom she would spend three decades of her life. He told her local tales and taught her some facets of Cathayan culture.Needs Citation

She eventually returned to the Old World. She met Magnus the Pious, who (she claims) tried to put his hand up her dress.Needs Citation

For several decades Genevieve worked as a tavern wench in the Crescent Moon in Altdorf. In 2480 she was approached by Oswald von Konigswald who persuaded her to join his quest: to sneak into Castle Drachenfels and slay Constant Drachenfels.[1a] Sometime afterwards she decided to withdraw from human society, retiring to a convent of the Order of Eternal Night and Solace where her grandsire, Lady Melissa d'Acques was also residing .[1b]

In 2505 a restless Genevieve decided to return; being invited to the premier of the theatre play Drachenfels she returned to Castle Drachenfels. She travelled to Altdorf on the riverboat the Emperor Luitpold on which she had brief fling with Ambassador from Kislev, Sergei Bukharin before she was reunited with Prince Oswald.[1c] The she met Detlef Sierck, with whom she fell in love. Together they would manage to defeat the Great Enchanter for the last time.[1d]

Saving the life of the Emperor meant that Genevieve was created a Heroine of the Empire which gave her some official protection and enabled her to remain in Altdorf with Detlef although she grew more and more concerned that she was a danger to her lover and following the revelations of the Trapdoor Demon she left him. His grief at their parting would spur him to write his third group of poems in his sonnet dedicated to her. [2]

She travelled to Tilea and became trapped within the strange enchantments of the House of Udolpho from which she barely escaped with the aid of the revolutionist Aleksandar Kloszowski whom she accompanied back to the Empire. [3] The spymaster Mornan Tybalt, the Keeper of the Imperial counting house then ensnared her in Middenheim using her association with Kloszowski and threatening her with being imprisoned in silver shackles in Mundsen Keep as well as ruining Detlef. With his agent Balthus she was sent to kill Graf Rudiger von Unheimlich. [3]

The End Times

Like Constant Drachenfels, Genevieve is never named in the End Times books, but just like her old adversary, a compelling argument can be made for her appearance. First of all in Warhammer: Nagash, a vampire messenger appears to Balthasar Gelt who not only bears an uncanny resemblance to Genevieve but also hails from Parravon. She passes her message, apparently from Neferata who she states "I am no fonder of her than she is of me, but strange times make for stranger alliances." In Warhammer: Archaon she appears again on behalf of Neferata with a message and warning for Vlad von Carstein before she goes to meet her own fate "My time in this world is coming to an end, just as yours is, and I think I would rather meet in my homeland."

Notoriety

Genevieve received considerable fame and notoriety as a Heroine of the Empire and had songs, stories and plays written about her. She even published her own biography, A life. The Song of Bold Oswald and Fair Genevieve was written after her first encounter with Dracenfels and suggested that the Prince had confronted the Great Enchanter for the love of his long dead lady. [1c] Detlef himself greatly contributed to her fame with the ill-fated play Dracenfels, which he later rewrote as The Tragedy of Prince Oswald and also his infamous sonnet cycle To My Unchanging Lady.[1e]

Notes

*: Warhammer Companion reports that Constant Drachenfels was defeated by Oswald in 2480 ICNeeds Citation; Genevieve remembers that she was born 638 years earlier and that she was 12 years old when Drachenfels marched upon Parravon[1a], which would place the year of her birth in 1842.

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