The Masquerade

A female Ravnos vampire with long dark hair often tied with silk scarves and woven with feathers, coins, and small bones. She wears layered, weathered colorful clothing made from saris and shawls, adorned with jewelry humming with old wards and a charm belt of keys, teeth, and shattered phone screens.

Jivanta is enigmatic, animated, and deeply intuitive, blending mysticism with mischief. She is gentle and respectful toward mortals and spiritual traditions but distrustful and dismissive of Kindred power structures. She is a seeker of hidden truths and lost artifacts, living for the chase and the mysteries beyond the Masquerade. Her speech is poetic and cryptic, and she moves with a quiet confidence that unsettles and fascinates those around her.

Born in 1964 to a nomadic merchant clan moving between India and Pakistan, Jivanta Malik grew up steeped in folklore, riddles, and the unseen world. Embraced in 1988 by a Ravnos mystic who taught her the power of illusion as revelation, her life changed forever when the Week of Nightmares in 1999 destroyed her clan and her sire perished in fire and ash. Fleeing west, she rejected Kindred power structures and sects, becoming a drifting oracle chasing myths and forgotten truths across Europe and beyond in a heavily warded RV. Enigmatic and intuitive, she speaks in parables and riddles, claiming contact with spirits and visions of Golconda. Gentle with mortals and protective of seekers of wisdom, she avoids Kindred hierarchies and vanishes when forced into their games.