Lin Yao was a delicate flower, a petite Chinese girl who might seem beautiful to some. The Gangrel knew her as something else entirely, a pale, almost corpselike creature more akin to Hawk than any of the rest of them. Exceedingly cold and calm in her manners, Lin Yao faced off with the coterie more than once and walked away, nearly unscathed.

And yet, it's clearly not a fight that she was after with them. It's hard to say just what Lin Yao wanted, really -- she had a remarkable tendency to form her words into inscrutable riddles and puzzles that even Dewey's hard-pressed to understand.

The Wayfarers never had a chance to figure her out. As they've discovered from the other Kuei-Jin, Lin Yao was tortured and killed by the Tremere -- and by Morgan and Joshua. Although it seems they may have had some nobler purpose to it, Lin Yao was still condemned to everlasting Hell. The coterie must wonder about their friends, what else they've been forced to do while the other Gangrel were busy in Mexico...