Character Name Maximillian
	Also Known As Max, Master of the City of Las Vegas
	First Seen in Skin Trade, mentioned in Danse Macabre, mentioned in Blood Noir, Skin Trade
	Character Description Tall, but solid - huge biceps, deeply muscled shoulders. One might think he was fat if one wasn't paying attention. Round face. Dresses in 1940's gangster chic.
	Character Casting Picture The actor Vin Diesel has been cast as Maximillian
	Character Occupation He is the Master of the CIty of Las Vegas, and runs a casino and hotel, the New Taj (ST)
	Character Race Max is a master vampire of Caucasian descent. His animal to call is the tiger

Character Factoids

• He began life as an enforcer and was a mobster when alive. (BN, ST)
• When he became a vampire, he lost that position of mobster boss until he had recovered from the transition and gained enough power. He runs Vegas now, but is no longer a 'boss'. (DM)
• Offered one of his vampires to Anita as an ardeur pomme de sang (DM)
• He petitioned Jean-Claude to make a LV based show that mirrored the ones at Guilty Pleasures. (BN)
• He didn't mind Anita sleeping with his tiger, but took offense to her issuing a mate-call (Which was, in fact, MoAD's doing) (BN)
• He tried to invoke weretiger laws to keep Anita when they had cause to think she might be pregnant by a weretiger. He knew Jean-Claude had not given her the 4th mark and wanted to steal her for himself. (BN)
• Anita thinks he runs a tight ship: Las Vegas has one of the lowest rates of murder by preternatural means. (ref?)
• Max is a considerate master: he started a Boy Scout troop for his tigers (and vampires?);
  
• One of the vampires Vittorio mind-rolled, centuries-old, said Max is a powerful master and that he protects the vampires of his kiss.
• He does not agree with Bibiana trying to manipulate Anita to take over tigers, and helps Anita fly out of his home. (ST) He tells Anita to tell Jean Claude he "knows the rules".
• He's very well connected in Las Vegas that he is one of the major contributors of the pro-vampire lobby in DC.
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Character Quotes

Popular sayings, quotes and quips attributed to this character:

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