Horace came to Baton Rouge ten years ago to assist in the war effort and proved to be quite useful to the Prince as a spy and interrogator. However, both Orlando and his childe have their suspicions regarding the Malkavian, suspicions which are well fonded, as he is actually an Archon sent to assess the situation in Louisiana (particularly the stability of Orlando). However, his skill and unique derangement have made it impossible for the Brujah to prove anything.
Shortly after the first World War, Horace returned to his home in Wisconsin scarred by a vision of a world without order or reason, where death and violence made a mockery of any attempt by religion or philosophy to give meaning to existence. While the war represented a loss of innocence for the entire generation, for him it was the irritant around which a pearl would be wrought. Looking for the first time with fresh eyes on the world he knew, he saw it for the illusion it really was and, loosed from any sense of obligation to the truth, he found that he was free. His newfound freedom did not go unnoticed, however. A similarly enlightened being waited for an opportune moment to save Horace from the side-effects of his fledgeling disregard for the rules of reality and brought him into the enlightenment of Malkav.
Throughout his years as a neonate, he saw all he believed proven true as the world threw itself into chaos, tyrants rose and the blood of the innocent filled the gutters of the world. Under the tutelage of his sire, he learned just how malleable the truth could be using the gifts of his blood. Giddy with the ability to step in and out of the world at will and infect its residents with whatever delusion struck his fancy, he began to experiment with different guises and alternative personalities, molding his identity like soft clay. He proved so adept at this that he caught the eye of another of the undead, this time a Justicar in need of an adept spy to gather information for the Inner Circle. Horace lept at the opportunity, but merely because the challenges offered by this new game intrigued him.
This is his third assignment and, if successful, will prove to his superiors that his success is more than chance. He has little personal interest in the information he gathers or the people he deceives. He barely acknowledges their reality, seeing them as little more than opponents in his game. His fascination with the malleable nature of reality has, however, caused him to become intrigued by the concept of magic and he's been tailing Martin LaSalle of late to see exactly what it is that the magician is capable of.
Horace's true personality is whimsical and dangerously solipsistic, but few ever see it. Instead, those around him interact with one of the hundreds of personalities he's built for himself. He's long since gone past the need to create entirely divergent histories for his different personas. His lying is much more subtle now and involve variations in body language, mannerisms, prejudice, and subtlties of belief and behavior. He's incredibly perceptive and is quite adept at noticing the way people respond to body language and using that to his advantage. He can even adopt the subtle markers of a particular person in order to evoke some emotional response in another.
Horace has had little contact with his sire since he became an ancilla, but they do tend to run into each other at oddly coincidental moments when Horace is feeling thoughtful. He has begun to suspect that his sire wishes to convert him over to his own path, but isn't sure what that is.
He has some pity for Orlando, whom he sees as his opposite, a being trapped in his false vision of the way the world is and slowly losing his mind. He's expressed this opinion to his superiors and it is being taken very seriously. Of the rest of the kindred of Baton Rouge, the only one he has any strong opinion on is Ben, whom he genuinely likes. They have frequent conversations wherein the Nosferatu encourages him to adopt a value system closer to Nietzsche's aesthetic principle, which indicates he has at least a basic awareness of the nature of Horace's derangement.
While he doesn't have a lot of attachment to the kindred of the city, he does enjoy watching them go about their business. He is particularly interested in how Annalisa's plot will unfold and the struggle for control of the city after Orlando is removed. He's leaning towards Esteve, just because he finds the man the most agreeable of the lot, but is quite content to sit back and watch a war unfold over succession, should his superiors not instruct him to do otherwise.