Know Your Kindred – Nahum Ben Enosh

Name:  Nahum Ben Enosh
Clan:  Salubri
Generation:  4th
Embrace:  216 CE

Nahum was a Talmudic scholar, studying and arguing all the fine points of Jewish Law.  One evening, while heading home, he said he regretted the fact he was getting older and approaching closer to death.  He mourned the fact that he would not have enough time to acquire all the knowledge he wanted to.  Saulot overheard Nahum’s comments and so he Embraced him.

Nahum spent the following centuries learning and passing on his knowledge to others.  He gained the reputation as a scholar of considerable repute.  He didn’t much care for the blood feeding requirement to be a Cainite, but he reconciled that it must be God’s plan for his life.  Unable to imagine his life as a Salubri warrior, Nahum followed the healing path instead.

With his inquisitive nature, Nahum turned his attention to studying demon pacts.  What are demons exactly?  Why does God allow them to exist?  What purpose do they serve?  Is it possible for a mortal or Cainite to control one?

Nahum appears as a harmless old man in his sixties, dressed in traveler’s robes and carrying a walking staff.  His hair and beard are quite white.

Since Saulot’s destruction Nahum lost most of his enthusiasm.  Tired with the world and unhappy at the direction his clan had taken, Nahum retreated to torpor, where he vanished from the pages of history.

- Source:  Jerusalem by Night, pg. 98-99