She was a woman once, petite with dark hair, born to a wild Welsh prince and his bride. She did nothing remarkable with her life, though like all Welsh women, learned the sword and bow as was expected. As a babe, she was promised to a God that dwelled within her father's kingdom.

 The day of marriage came, a day of sacrifice for her Father's people, to a God know as Bran the Raven, who lived among the oak trees in the darkest forest with her father's kingdom. A master of the Isle of Briton, he was a cauldron God, associated with a cauldron of regeneration which would revive the slain while leaving them voiceless. Called by some as He Who Dwells Among the Oaks, know to bestow favors on those he considered worthy, vengeful and terrible when crossed.

 Thought to be taken into Gwales, it was there that she became  kindred from the first bloody kiss of her God-Husband Bran, one of the true brujah. Taught the ways of her clan, and trained to be a brutal huntress, she was eventually taken to Carthage and introduced to her Clan within that beautiful city.

 

"We must live in two worlds:

The World of Form, and the Otherworld of Force,

for a true existence involves the constant intercourse of both."

Years passed, time spent in Carthage with Bran, and with his Sire, Brujah. Beauty explored, Passion revealed, history's studied and kept. She went through extensive training at the hands of her Husband-Sire with weapons, and her abilities multiplied. Journeys taken with Bran over the world, into the far East, through the snowy steppes of Russia, eventually leading back to Wales. 

He was worshipped as God upon the Isle of Briton, and soon she was a Goddess herself . At times called Aerfen or Aeron, a Goddess of fate who presided over the outcome of war between several Celtic clans. She had a shrine at Glyndyfrdwy on the banks of the river Dee, where legend came to say that three human sacrifices had to be made every three years to ensure success in future battles.

It was there war broke out between the Clans upon the Isles of Briton. Brandwyn, the emissionary of the Elois upon the isle of Eire was taken by the Ventrue elder Matholwch. Bran raised an army to defeat him, creating a war that lasted for a century

Mythology and history intermingled, to recount the legendary tale of Bran the Blessed and his war Bride, Aerten.

Soon, the war was over, and Branwyn returned to Bran's side. It was then Aerten left Wales to return to Carthage, and continue study under the tutelage of Brujah.

"Carthage was Utopia.

It is a living dream. 

Millennia ago, we Brujah created a city where Kindred and kine could live together. 

We strove for the heavens only to see others grow jealous. 

They betrayed us and destroyed the dream."

 

...to be continued, because it's a lot of damned history...