Julian Harrow

Clan	Toreador
Position	N/A
Status	3
Domain	Columbus
Coterie	N/A
Society	N/A
Path	Humanity -
Player	Ethan

Overview

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Alias(es): Julian Harrow, Thaddeus Ashvale, Leander Mirewood, Jared Wrenlow

Real Name: ???

Apparent Age: 35

Concept: Polite Monster, Charismatic Mastermind

Physical description: Julian Harrow appears as an unassuming academic-type with an average build that belies his underlying physical prowess. His dark, brunette hair has grown into a shaggy mane that flows down over his shoulders and his hazel-green eyes are typically framed with dark-rimmed glasses. Modest, yet fashionable, he primarily dresses in neutral tones of white, black, and grey, favoring collared shirts, sweaters, and long overcoats. Prone to checking his watch or polishing his eye glasses.

Detailed Status:
- Acknowledged by Prince Quentin King III of Boston, MA
- Respected as the Scion of Émile Moreau
- Diligent by Prince Madyson Holiday of Columbus, OH

Known History

🧛🏻‍ Name: Professor Julian Harrow, MFA

(Born: 1909 - Embraced: 1944 - Appears: Mid-30s)
Aliases and Other Names: Jared Wrenlow, Leander Mirewood, Thaddeus Ashvale
Current Occupation: Assistant Professor of Studio Art and Art History
Affiliations: Royal College of Art, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Guggenheim Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, various state-run and private universities, and obscure think tanks under the aegis of private museums and collectors.

🎨 Early Years as a Mortal: 1909 - 1938

Julian Harrow (alias) was born into a faded, but dignified aristocratic family in Cambridge, England. The only son of a prominent lecturer of Western philosophy and an amateur sculptor, Julian grew up in an environment that was filled by both rigid scholarship and emotive creativity. This caused the younger Harrow to develop a deep fascination with art's relationship to intellect, and he found intrigue in the interplay between visual aesthetics and moral ambiguity.

From an early age, Julian displayed exceptional talent in both draftsmanship and painting. By age 20, he had trained at the Royal College of Art and quickly established himself as a scholar of painting, aesthetics, and art history.

🇺🇸 Emigration to America and Criminal Beginnings: 1939 - 1944

By the late 1930s, Europe was teetering. With war in the air and the political tides turning, Julian saw both the writing on the wall and how it could lead to grand opportunity. He arranged a quiet departure for New York City in early 1939, under the pretext of taking a visiting artist position amongst the universities along the New England east coast.

In America, he quickly ingratiated himself with the elite art world, marketing himself as a charismatic painter, appraiser, and historian, full of obscure knowledge and decadent charm. He particularly became known amongst high-profile dealers for his lush, modernist paintings; his strange, haunting works hinting at occult allegory and the world's steady moral decay.

🩸 The Embrace: 1943 - 1944

It was late 1943 when Julian met his future sire, a Toreador vampire going by the name Émile Moreau, at a private salon in Manhattan. A French nationalist who had likewise fled Paris at the beginning of World War II, Moreau had been a respected Symbolist painter in Montmartre himself and was instantly taken by Harrow's work and sharp wit. Julian was captivated in turn by Émile's hypnotic voice, his impossible knowledge of centuries-old art, and his decadent cruelty veiled in civility.

Within a few months of meeting, Julian agreed to become Émile's "protégé", thinking it was merely a generous artistic patronage. He was wrong. In October 1944, Julian was embraced, with Émile considering him his "final and greatest masterpiece."

📚 The Scholarly Mask: 1945 - Present

To avoid the further brightening of his spotlight in lieu of his new un-life, Julian faked his death in a studio fire in the spring of 1947. His paintings henceforth abruptly ceased, and the art world, with New York now as its capitol, quietly mourned the loss of his promising talent.

Harrow took on one of many aliases, reinventing himself under as a soft-spoken, enigmatic professor at prestigious universities both small and large. He quickly gained a cult following among avant-garde students and disaffected intellectuals; his lectures carrying whispers of occultism, hidden meanings within classical works, and of paintings that drove men mad.

Though kindly and well-received, students described him as "strangely timeless," "beautiful in a cold, brutal way," and "like he's always watching." Outside his ivy-covered walls, Harrow cultivated relationships with curators, gallery owners, and occult historians, and he often spoke at private events where the "general public" was neither invited nor aware. Rumors swirled at the universities of secret salons and midnight lectures hosted in ruined chateaus or candlelit archives beneath museums.

Timeline of Recent Events

2025:

• 8/22/25 - Julian Harrow makes his first appearance in the Columbus, OH Domain after having recently relocated to assume a teaching post at Denison University.
• 11/6/25 - Harrow is granted Residency within the Columbus Domain.
• 12/19/25 - A much-discussed meeting between Harrow and Prince Madyson Holiday is held to entertain Harrow's interest in Clan Primogency.
• 12/25/25 - Harrow is awarded the status of "Diligent" by Prince Madyson Holiday.

2026:

• 1/3/26 - Harrow is appointed Whip of Clan Toreador in Columbus, OH by Primogen Femina la Spinadora.
• 1/15/26 - 1/18/26 - Harrow attends Blood + Ice 2026 in Milwaukee, WI.
• 1/25/26 - With the removal of Femina la Spinadora as Primogen of Clan Toreador, Harrow's title as Whip is also vacated.

Allies

Madyson Holiday

Sire

Émile Moreau - A French Toreador and Symbolist Painter from Montmartre, Paris. (Moreau would later disappear in the mid-1970s from Kindred society with many rumors abound that Julian was, himself, responsible for his vanishing. No evidence has ever been suggested to prove this notion, however.)

Character Inspirations

Jared Harris as "Professor James Moriarty" in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2015)
Eric Porter as "Professor James Moriarty" in Sherlock Holmes (1984-1985)
David Thewlis as "Remus Lupin" in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Jude Law as "Albus Dumbledore" in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Franchise (2016-2022)
Christoph Waltz as "Franz Oberhauser/Ernst Stavro Blofeld" in Spectre (2015)
Ian McDiarmid as "Palpatine" in the Star Wars Franchise (1977-)

Soundtrack

Erik Satie - 'Gnossiennes: No. 4, Lent'
Modest Mussorgsky - 'Night on Bald Mountain'
Pérotin - 'Beata viscera'
Camille Saint-Saens - 'Carnival of the Animals: The Aquarium'
Shiro Sagisu - 'L'Amour Impitoyable'

Quotes

"Look at you, then take a look at me. Now, ask yourself: 'Who needs who more?'"

Rumors

• Early into his tenure in the Columbus Domain, Harrow was believed to have firebombed the haven of Jonathan Dare, a local Gangrel also new to the city.
• Harrow is said to have some familial relationship to the Harpy of Annapolis, MD; another Kindred in Clan Toreador going by the name "Harrow".
• Harrow has a quiet fondness for the discipline of Vicissitude and has even lamented about its banning by the Camarilla on occasion.
• Although high net worths are usually enjoyed by a great number of Kindred, Julian seems to have usually deep pockets for one on a meager teaching salary.
• Julian is rumored to be rather distrustful of 'Independent' Kindred, often going to great lengths as to pay them no mind.
• Harrow (along with the rest of Clan Toreador in Columbus) was rumored to be blood-bonded to Femina la Spinadora.
• With the inquisitions surrounding the Columbus Toreadors at Blood + Ice 2026, it was speculated by some that Harrow was either working for, or at least had a close audience with, multiple Justicars.