- **Race/Class:** Vampire Merchant-Lord (*Blood Trade*) - **Born:** _Unrecorded_ (*[[Geb]], pre-undead records sealed or lost*) - **Status:** (_Undead - Active_) - **Affiliation:** Calderon Blood Consortium - **Height/Build:** Tall, meticulously maintained - **Overview:** Aurelian Calderon is a long-established vampire merchant operating out of [[Sallowshore]], whose holdings span blood import, refinement, and export across [[Geb]] and into select foreign markets. He conducts business with careful distance and near-total emotional opacity, treating blood as a regulated commodity rather than indulgence. Feeding is scheduled, accounted for, and delegated where possible. Violence is not avoided, merely optimized. As a father, Aurelian was present but detached. [[Zeph Calderon]] was regarded less as a son and more as an asset whose future utility had yet to be determined. The child’s dhampir nature was acknowledged early, but never addressed with concern or cruelty; only assessment. When Zephrael fled [[Sallowshore]] as a child, Aurelian did not pursue him. His absence was recorded and written off as an eventual inefficiency. Years later, upon learning Zephrael still lived, Aurelian authorized contact. The offer to elevate him into full vampirism was framed not as reconciliation, but as a correction, an opportunity to fold a misplaced resource back into the family’s operations. No apology accompanied the message. None was expected.