The Story The main character in Redemption is Christof Romuald, a 12th century Teutonic knight, who at the beginning of the game is a mortal vampire hunter, arrogant, merciless and with no sympathy for his damned victims. Early on he suffers injury while engaged in battle with some of these damned spawns of Satan. Spending some time in a Prague convent, while healing his wounds, he falls in love with a nun by the name of Anezka. Unable to resolve the conflict between his love for Anezka and his devotion to the order, Christof slips into despair. Not before long events take a turn for the worst. Christof is Embraced (Vampire creation process) by Ecaterina the Wise, an 8th generation Vampire of clan Brujah. He has now become that which he has spent his life slaying in the name of God and all things good, for the first time Christof's faith is put to the test. He fails and believes himself to be truly damned, outcast and soulless. While struggling with his own inner demons, he is unwittingly drawn into the shadowy politics of the vampiric clans in Prague, as a great conflict blossoms. This enmity flared up with the recent appearance of a new clan calling themselves the Tremere. The Tremere was a group of mortal mages, who seized immortality with both hands, by Embracing themselves, using the blood of a Tzimisce (Sabbat clan) Elder (thereby killing this elder). At the same time, Anezka is drawn into the turbulent affairs of the Kindred, as she comes searching for a way to release Christof from his torment. When she suddenly disappears, Christof lays self-pity and loathing aside, and set out to search and rescue his missing love. His search takes him across Europe to Vienna, where he discovers omens, signifying the awakening of an ancient evil, more sinister than any he could imagine. But before he can avert this grim prophecy, tumultuous events leave Christof in torpor (a state of vampiric hibernation). After sleeping the long sleep, Christof awakens in London 1999 and must adjust himself to the drastically different ways of a world that has progressed for 800 years, while continuing his struggle to accept his own vampiric nature, and trying to stop the events, hinted at in the old days. His efforts finally take him to New York, where the grand conclusion to his quest is resolved, on the new years eve of the new millennium.