1778: Jacques Chevalier is born.
1786: Jacques' father dies in a drunken brawl.
1793: Jacques enlists and serves in Siege of Toulon in an artillery unit.
1795: Fights aside loyalists on 13 Vendémiaire.
1796: Jacques serves in the Montenotte Campaign.
1798: Jacques serves in the Battle of the Pyramids and takes a festering wound to the chest.
1798: Jacques is Sired by the Anubi Ademenakil of the long-vanquished Kipchak Bahri Dynasty.
1731: Deemed ready for war, Ademenakil and his few allies unleash their personal army of Kindred on undead society in Damascus, using his mortal thrall Ibrahim Pasha to assure control of the city. Among the lot of them they massacre several vassals of Ademenakil's main rival in the region, an Ottoman Prince. Jacques commits diablerie on a relatively young Daeva socialite on his master's command and is granted the name of Chigaru for it.
1832-1840: Years of bloodshed ensue. Several of Ademenakil's rivals allies go to ground or flee Damascus. Ademenakil declares himself Prince of Damascus and begins a bloody and short reign.
1834: Jacques Sires a local Christian and beats the God out of him, so to say, a process that his Sire greatly enjoys, to a disturbing extent. The man's faith does not waver and Ademenakil grants him his Final Death, then severely punishes Jacques. Jacques feels grievously sad at his demise, and realises that perhaps his Sire has finally snapped under the burden that the Requiem represents for them.
1841: Several of Ademenakil's allies turn on him as his madness becomes apparent, making the streets of Damascus run red with Kindred blood. Jacques commits diablerie on a fellow Anubi and on a Daeva warrior who came dangerously close to serving him his Final Death. Jacques becomes Irrational. Meanwhile Pasha's influence in Syria fades as the Ottomans retake their provinces.
1847: Ademenakil and several of his Childer meet Final Death at the hands of vampires accompanying the Ottomans. Jacques Chevalier and a dozen servants,vassals and two other Anubi neonates flee Damascus.
1848: Ibrahim Pasha dies, allegedly of disease, though his rampant aging points at the lack of vitae after the death of his master.
1848-1859: Jacques haunts the countryside as protector of a band of gypsies, who worship him as a malign deity. He and his siblings avoid Kindred society, preying off travellers instead.
1853: Jacques runs into a travelling neonate, in a similar situation as himself, and he  commits diablerie, hungry for power. Jacques acquires Narcissism.
1860: Travelling through Cairo to scout out opportunities to settle down more permanently, Jacques runs into Nemon the Elder, or rather Nemon the Elder hunts down the remaining Childer of Adenemakil, dismisses two of them and takes Jacques under his wing for his apparent display of Majesty on his gypsy subjects.
1860: A coterie of Anubi incites rebellion in Lebanon under Maronite Christians. The resulting riots cost the lives of 20.000 Maronites and strips several Sanctified Kindred of their mortal power base.
1861-1880: Nemon the Elder's Childe Nemon the Younger instructs Jacques on the basics of the Masquerade and Kindred daily unlife, pointing out the precarious edge that Jacques is standing on. Nemon the Younger ensures that the Traditions in Cairo are served and presents Jacques to the Prince of Cairo. Nemon the Elder, meanwhile, orders Jacques to instruct him in the ways of Majesty, while urging him to somehow master the discipline, something which Jacques seems incapable of doing without a skilled tutor himself. Nemon the Elder teaches Jacques the essence of Heka and opens his eyes to the spirit world, introducing him into his cult as a minor deity. Jacques plays the role acceptably well, tapping into his no longer latent narcissism.
1881: Nemon the Younger gains his Sire's leave to introduce Jacques to the Kindred of the Commonwealth of Carthage. Though initially pertubed by the mien of his Beast, the effects of his low humanity clear to see on him, the Kindred of the Commonwealth nevertheless welcome him in their ranks.
1881-1901: The shark-infested waters that are Kindred society are a thrill to Jacques, and he learns to appreciate the vivid discussions with his fellow Carthians. He learns to regret his younger years, and strives to become a part of this Danse Macabre rather than fall back on his old habits of bloody murder.
1902: The almost palpably charismatic Abu Sa'id Al-Afif, a big Kindred player in local mortal politics, notices the talent of Jacques and attempts to take him under his wing and away from the clutches of the Commonwealth, much to the dismay of Nemon the Younger. After interference of Nemon the Elder the two reach a rather lopsided settlement of which the details were spared to Jacques. He ends up tutoring Jacques in the ways of Majesty and holds him under a blood bond of at least one step. (More details will follow, of course)

Important NPCs:

Ademenakil, the Bahriyya Mamluke, Sire (Damascus)
Ademenakil is a stern, short, stocky man. His features seem to lie somewhere between Egyptian and Eastern European. While Jacques is confident that Ademenakil has died the Final Death, chances are he somehow survived the events of 1810 and is still out there somewhere. If this were the case, he would be a threat to both kindred and mortal alike, since he would be clinically insane and over seven hundred years old, presumably.

Nemon the Elder, Anubi Elder (Cairo)
Nemon the Elder is the Gangrel Primogen of Cairo. Unaligned as he remains, he holds influence in Cairo on account of being the only remotely sane Gangrel of his age in Cairo, which is substantial.

Nemon the Younger, Anubi Ancilla (Cairo)
Nemon the Younger acts as the active servant of his sire, wielding his influence as though it were its own. He is an avid Carthian, though, and the principles of the Commonwealth and his Sire often clash. Nemon the Younger has learned the hard way to choose his Sire's mandate, and by extent that of the Anubi, over that of his covenant, much to the dismay of several of his peers.

Abu Sa'id Al-Afif, Daeva Harpy (Cairo)
A tongue as smooth as silk, and yet barbed at the most inconvenient of moments. Abu Sa'id Al-Afif serves as a harpy in Cairo, extending his privileges to his two Childes.

Amirah Al-Afif, Daeva (Cairo, Dubai)
The lover, more information follows.