Adrien Donatien Jacques de Moulins was born to Vicomte Auguste Benoît de Moulins and Anne-Marie Victoire de Moulins on December 21, 1537. He was the fourth of five children born to the Vicomte before his wife's battle and eventual death of cancer in 1547. Jean-Paul was the oldest of the de Moulins children and inherited his father's hungers at a young age. André was the second oldest, and while he didn't show signs of vampirism until puberty as was normal, he was a bully to his younger siblings. Élise was Adrien's older sister. Of all the de Moulins children, she was the best at hiding what she was, and was the most social of them. Adrien himself was a sickly child, and often spent more time in the library than the fields, nursing one illness or another. His younger sister, Colette, was born frail and succumbed to childhood illness at the age of five, long before the curse in her blood could protect her from such diseases.
The Vicomte was a strict parent, especially once his human wife died. The children, even Élise, had a tutor, Monsieur Laurent, who taught them to read and write and also taught them some of the more advanced subjects. The children were bright, though prone to terrorizing their tutor. Behind their father's back, they terrorized most of the human servants, especially Jean-Paul, who from the age of eight suffered the same hunger and thirst that his father did. Once they were older, their father took more interest in them, especially once they started showing more signs of vampirism. He taught them about magic, the occult, and their history. He also taught them about their nature and how to hunt, once they were far enough along in their change that they needed to learn.
They lived in Moulins until 1567, when the unrest caused by the Wars of Religion spread to Moulins. The de Moulins family were called witches and sorcerers at the best of times, and a Huguenot mob surrounded the castle, demanding the head of the Vicomte. He was decapitated in battle with a soldier who went rogue to help the mob. Jean-Paul and André were held in the castle dungeon until the mob finally decided to burn the two de Moulins captives. Élise was married to a duke abroad and was safely out of harm's way. Adrien alone managed to escape, and enacted a spell to protect the castle and its grounds from fire before he left to live with his sister and her family in Scotland until the furor died down around Moulins.
He returned to Moulins in 1589, pretending to be a son of Élise, and managed to hold onto the de Moulins estate for another 34 years, until the summer of 1623 when suspicion again began to rise regarding the de Moulins estate and its inhabitant. This time, he moved first to England, then took a ship from England to the Massachusetts colonies in 1652. He returned to Moulins from Andover in 1692, during the witch trials, which had again begun to compromise his safety. He lived quietly in Moulins until 1751 when he moved to a house in Paris. There he stayed until 1787, until growing resentment of the upper class and the king prompted a move first back to Moulins, then across the Atlantic to America in 1789 to escape the French Revolution.
Adrien discovered business while he was in America, and used family money to found a successful retail company, Moulins and Trapp, which specialized in European fashion. He was involved in the company with his partner, William Trapp, until the latter's death in 1817. The company was sold and Adrien moved farther north, into Maine, where he lived quietly until 1836, when he again returned to Moulins. He spent the next 90 years traveling between America, Europe, and Moulins, never spending more than five years in any one place. In the 1920s he moved to New York, where he met with figures in organized crime at the time. In 1931, he was suspected in two suspicious deaths at his New York apartment, and he moved back to Moulins to avoid prosecution.
Adrien dropped off the radar for most of the 20th century, presumably remaining in quiet solitude at the Chateau de Moulins until May of 1993, when he abruptly packed most of the remaining possessions in the Chateau de Moulins and moved to a mansion in Tampa, Florida. He was married in 1998, and his wife, Stephanie, gave birth to a his son, Nicolae in 1999. Stephanie later died due to anemia and heart problems, just after the birth of Adrien's daughter, Marie, in 2006. Both children currently attend a private Catholic school in Tampa. Adrien owns a security consulting firm in Tampa, Florida, specializing in corporate and cyber security. The Chateau de Moulins is still in the hands of the de Moulins family, but as it is in ruins now, it is no longer inhabited.