Devon was born sometime in the early 1700s in Munich and was a prodigy among the aspiring doctors at the city's University. He was one of the youngest to both be inducted into their learned halls and to graduate. He was able to master both surgery and psychiatry, working tirelessly in a local asylum. Devon had little oversight in his experimentations and explorations of the human body and psyche. He lobotomized many, many decades before the practice was rediscovered due to his notes, and performed a multitude of surgeries upon the brains and bodies of his patients.
His obscene acts drew the notice of those creatures that lurk in the shadows and delight in the torment of others and they fueled his atrocities masked as medical endeavors. The group gambled on which would embrace the man and thus further his obscene actions. Esther Brooke, a Malkavian of some age, won and began to seduce Devon by acting as a patient. She drove him to depravities he had never before considered as he sliced into her flesh. Esther would laugh with glee as he bore into her skull and violently probe the inner recesses of her brain.
For several weeks she stayed in his care before Devon finally broke and moved silently through the asylum ‘curing’ the staff and doing much worse to the unfortunate patients. While he sat there, after he was done and covered in blood, she approached him and embraced him. Knowing there would be no way to hide such a massive crime inside the hospital, the pair fled the city.
From Munich, they went to Prussia and a tour of the other Eastern European lands and empires. Their bloodlust never abated and the pair left carnage in their wake, forcing their exoduses to other cities. Eventually, in 1879, the pair moved to America and there the pair broke apart. They ran into a Sabbat pack and Esther happily converted while Devon fled. Eventually, he took up residence in an asylum and resumed his duties. One of his patients was a young woman troubled by visions of the dead. Laura was the only daughter of a wealthy Dutch van Vries family that had emigrated to the area and sought to save their child. Sadly, she went under the care of Devon.
His care and attention broke her and he took up the role of both Doctor and Husband when he moved into her family's home. The parents did not last long, both passing away from a ‘wasting disease’ which left a massive sum of money in Devon's hands. Laura eventually escaped, fleeing into the night while he was accosted by a pair of Gangrel. She believes him to have been killed, freeing her of his abuse and tyranny.