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There are a few mortals who appear in the phonebooks of vampire elders and Technocrats alike, and Dr. Egon Weinstedt is one of them. Despite being a mortal he has managed to not only develop an excellent network of contacts among the more unusual inhabitants of the city, but also to survive and prosper.

Dr. Weinstedt is an information broker and power monger with extremely diverse connections, both in the mortal and in the supernatural world. Somehow he always seems to know what various people need, and can usually provide it. A Technocrat needs to get in touch with some Tradition mages for secret negotiations. Dr. Weinstedt arranges the meeting. Someone has stolen a piece of art from a Toreador Elder. Dr. Weinstedt can probably find out who did it and how to get it back. When the anarchs plot a revolt the doctor keeps the Technocracy up to date with the latest developments in exchange for inside tips.

Dr. Weinstedt doesn't work for anyone but himself, which may come as a surprise to many people. His network of contacts supplies him with information, skilled professionals and access to the most diverse resources. Since he is so useful, his contacts have found him much more profitable alive than dead, and he is essentially protected by just about everyone. The vampire Elders have informally declared him and his properties Elysium (although they won't tell this to their neonates), and the Technocracy looks the other way when he deals with reality deviants. Another contributing factor to his survival is that he also seems to have dirt on just about anyone, which makes him a dangerous enemy. He might be a mere mortal, but he could probably get a lot of support from other powerful contacts if attacked. Still, the fact that no one has eliminated him so far is amazing judging by the dangerous games in which he is involved.

Weinstedt has few scruples about what kind of people he deals with, although he is careful not to needlessly antagonize anyone. He doesn't usually deal with the more bestial vampires, since they won't recognize prestation and are generally better avoided. He has little contact with the Garou of the wilderness, since he rarely leaves the city. Among mages, he usually interacts with the Traditions and Technocracy, since contacts with Nephandi are dangerous and seldom useful, and Marauders are frankly too unreliable. He generally prefers social and cultured contacts, and crude or obnoxious people have a hard time even meeting him.

People who meet him never forget him. He is a huge, fat man with an insatiable appetite for life and its pleasures. His wine cellar is quite extraordinary, and he gobbles down gourmet food and smokes expensive cigars as if expecting each day to be his last. He is a very jovial person, always happy to offer visitors dinner, advice and crude jokes (despite his education and actually refined taste, he never misses an opportunity to play some tasteless prank on the lowest ranking visitor). Despite his clownlike demeanor, he is in reality a brilliant, coldly calculating manipulator.

Dr. Weinstedt lives alone in a large house, surrounded by a surprisingly ordinary garden. Usually his butler Eric is within earshot, delivering papers, food and discreetly cleaning up after his master's food orgies. The whole building implies prosperity, but hardly any extreme wealth as one would expect from such an influential man. Dr. Weinstedt actually doesn't care about money very much. He has enough for his needs, and instead gathers the most precious resource around: information. In his study, there are some files in his safe and computer that certain groups would be ready to kill for if they knew about them. Other files, packets of evidence or objects are hidden away in bank vaults or other safe places. The most dangerous information only exists in the head of the doctor.

No one knows what goals he has, or why he is manipulating things. Almost every faction believe he is working for someone else. The truth is frightening: he only works for himself. It is quite possible that he has no other goal than to remain in the game, playing everyone against everyone while he sits in the background enjoying the spectacle.