Severin de Saint Germain

Sculpt: Dollmore Model Lawrence Owen Hair: Leeke something-or-other Eyes: Masterpiece custom, 12mm FaceUp: Madam Mau Mau Arrival: February 2008

Severin is a congenital vampire and the last survivor of the ancient house of Saint Germain. He is a man of another age. Although born at the height of the Renaissance, he has felt most at home in the jewelled salons of the Eighteenth Century. His urbane manner and quick wit have earned him a seat at many an influential dinner table. Indeed, he was the inspiration for Wilde’s Lord Henry Wotton and is depicted as Saint Lawrence in a painting by Bronzino. It is also believed that he gave rise to the enduring legend of le Comte de Saint Germain, an alchemist who achieved immortality by discovering the elixir of life.

Severin exercises his impeccably good taste as a dealer in objets d’art. He has become a particular authority on eighteenth century timepieces.

Severin is calm and wise.  He can be depended on to know the right  thing to do or say in most situations.  He is also something of a sensualist.  He enjoys luxury and likes the good things in life: a good opera, good food, good wine or a pint of warm O Negative.

Severin is Circus Master.  He is the one that the troupe will turn to in times of need and has adopted a somewhat paternal role within the troupe.

Chateau Latour 1991, being able to cheat Time.

Vulgar ostentation, anyone who seeks to hurt Demian.

Severin was originally conceived of as an adjunct to Demian who needed to stop being such an isolated doom merchant.  He soon became an essential lynchpin in the NachtZirkus story.

Severin has been very difficult to manifest in resin as they just don't make dolls that look like the lovechild of Stephen Fry and Oscar Wilde.  Anyway, the Lawrence Owen sculpt has just enough of that sophisticated insouciance to get by.  Those beautifully lidded eyes and glorious, patrician nose convey just the right feel.