Turned
Orzhov consider vampires as cheaters. The pinnacle what an Orzhov works for is to gain enough wealth to become a ghost with everlasting life. As a vampire you are immortal and has side stepped the pure path.
Everything changed ∾
At 9998 ZC when Izkum was 31, in the middle of his life. He had started to feel that there was not enough time. It was unfair that some races had many Viashino lifetimes to accumulate money to buy a good place in to the afterlife.
An individual contacted him and offered him a choice, time. Izkum was not sure what type of magic it was initially and he promptly told him no when he realized what was asked of him. The individual was insistent and finally sold the idea to go through with it.
He had to sell most of his possessions, his business and use all his savings to pay the individual of the gift of time.
A new world opened it self for Izkum, by Viashino tradition he took him self a new name to signal the change of life. He called him self Vichum from this point of life.
The Depression ∾
The first years until The Dissension at 10,000 ZC was good years but with everything crashing down so did life for Vichum and that throw him in to 30 years of depression.
These where dark times, Vichum wandered the streets of Ravnica searching for a meaning of life. He slowly drifted deeper in to his darker and more evil nature. Killing to survive, blood to drink and money to gain.
These dark times lasted for thirty years between 10,000 and 10,030 ZC.
Two decades in at 10021 ZC Vichum killed the wrong person, he never know who that was really. He was hungry, angry and careless, that human just was at the wrong place. Vichum was identified and he got an arrest order from Boros on him. He went under the streets living in dark shady places doing favors for colorful people to help him stay hidden.
The Dark Viashino
He left the underground at nights, in dark valleys to feed and to from time to time to kill. In XXX around 10,0023 ZC there where rumors about a dark killer hunting the streets scaring the people living there. They called him The Dark Viashino.
The turning point was at year 10,030 when Vichum walked in to a Rakdos bar called The Culture. He got to know "Losty" (Lost & Found) who back then only worked in the bar.
Losty helped Vichum to find legal ways to drink blood. The friendship added a meaning to existence once again that Vichum had not felt since he was alive.
Friends & Family
Izkum had few friends at this stage of the life, his parents had all died and had since then lost most contact with his living siblings.
I found myself ∾
I found my now old good friend Losty at 10030 ZC, that was a turning event and I found my way back to the good old greed and love for profit and once more life.
Since then I have made several friends, connected with some of the Meshir family branches living in district 10. I have become a close friends if the Hoods after two decades of service for their solution to my legal troubles. I'm also from time to time invited to Meshirs Izzet cousins who we share some ancient blood with.
To mark this new milestone of my life I have once again changed my name, this time to Xovus, with is the name I'm known as when the story starts.
For information about Losty see Lostys chapter under Connections.
The Good Years
These are the years I refer to as "The Good Years". I had newly been turned and the world was open for me as a fresh vampire. I lost contact with most of my old life here except my close family.