Born Aaricia Edle von Galiana De Walpurgis van Iblis in the year of our lord, 1746, Aaricia van Iblis has always been a voracious consumer of popular culture.  Content to idle away the hours of her young life enamoured by flights of fancy concocted by the Bard of Avon, Aaricia penned her first work based on existing and copyrighted characters at the age of 10.  Titled Hermia/Titania: The Fickle Fairy Queen, the hastily penned tale detailed a fabricated and potentially erotic relationship between characters from A Midsummer Night's Dream.  Young Aaricia proudly shared her entrance into amateur scribing with her father and was unceremoniously flogged by a local priest for her "questionable and demonic" passions.  Dispirited and mentally broken, Aaricia became entirely consumed with what she read, often placing herself in the role of a story's protagonist, romancing the heroine and generally living out a lavish and fanciful fantasy life while her home country was being ravaged by the 7 Years' War.  She chronicled each of these adventures and would receive severe discipline each time one was discovered by a chamber maid or a member of her family.  At 14 Aaricia was quietly betrothed to a middle-aged baron for a few meager tracks of land, the best her family could hope for given her supposedly unstable and disturbing history.   
 
	Belial von Richthofen was once a man of great renown in the northern region of Austria, though his reputation had soured in the years leading up to the 7 Years' War.  Grisly tales began to circulate among the populace detailing the fate of Belial's seemingly inexhaustible parade of servants, some suspecting witchcraft or something far more sinister.  This is how Aaricia was first introduced to vampire society.  Expecting to be sexually despoiled on her first night at Belial's estate, Aaricia was embraced by the elder Malkavian before a word had passed between them.  Neurotic and wildly unstable, Belial isolated himself from Aaricia almost immediately and left the majority of her vampiric tutelage to the other potential paramours he had sired over his many years of existence at his palatial residence.  His withdrawn and cold demenour drove a wedge of unfettered contempt between Aaricia and her sire,  though Belial would continue to watch over her whether she knew it or not.  
 
	Less than two years later Aaricia would leave Belial's manse and return to her ancestral home, slaughtering all inhabitants and claiming it for her own, sating a long standing desire for emotional recompense.  Thought to have been killed during a border skirmish between Prussian and Austrian forces which left much of Belial's outlying lands ravaged, including a summer cottage built for his young fiancee, Aaricia's reemergence came as a shock to the nobility.  The Austrian government would officially state that the Iblis clan was claimed by a genetic malady which left them more vulnerable to a common pox, a ruse crafted by Belial to cover Aaricia's severe indiscretion.  Unofficially Belial claimed the Iblis family had planned on betraying Austria to Prussia and the young Aaricia had patriotically confessed this to him.  He then took it upon himself to eradicate the traitorous Iblis clan before their political rancor could damage Austria's war efforts.  With his reputation repaired, Belias used his high standing and political influence to help Aaricia avoid any potential backlash from the Austrian nobility and vampiric elders, his falsehoods perfectly preserving the Masquerade.  All lands and titles were bequeathed to her and she remained alone at her estate until the end of World War II, whiling away the hours carefully honing her chosen craft.  Having lost faith in both the culture and governance of the European nations, Aaricia sold her lands and moved to North America in 1945, hoping to dominate the booming entertainment industry.  With the advent of the Internet in the mid 90s Aaricia decided to move to River City, hoping the less prolific nature of the city would lead to fewer distractions so she could focus completely on her works, submitting everything she wrote for an online audience. 
 
	Completely withdrawn from the majority of human and vampire society, Aaricia rarely leaves her loft apartment in River City.  In more recent years she's found that leaving her apartment was no longer a necessity as she could lure prey  whenever she liked using the Internet and photos of herself in the various costumes she crafts. Once she has had her fill she will use her powers of dementation to drive her victim mad, their inane ramblings the only proof of the brief liaison, preserving the Masquerade and keeping her free from the scrutiny and meddling of other Kindred.  Having spent most of her life in escapist fantasies, she sometimes has difficulty differentiating between events in her own life and events that transpired in works of fiction.  Though she can only vaguely recall both her father and her sire, she holds a deep-seated resentment toward them and has become a lifelong misandrist.  Though not generally attracted to women, she has always been fixated on relationships between them and has become well known in the world of lesbian slash fiction, with works based on everything from The Glass Menagerie to Sailor Moon.  She posts these works under various pseudonyms, LadyDeathSatanXIII being the most noteworthy.  Aaricia constantly strives to become the most renowned authour of her time, even if her time could theoretically span a millennium.