Fantasy Tales of Gaia CS

[Solirus]

Tales of Gaia CS:


Name: (Self explanatory)

Aliases / Nicknames: (What are they called by the people they know or just by other individuals?)

Race: (What of the many races are they. Hybrids need to point out what type of hybrid)

Gender: (Self explanatory)

Age: (Self explanatory but there are obvious restrictions)

Occupation: (What are/were before, what job did they have?)

Appearance: (You can use an image, describe it with words, or both.)

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Bio: (The characters life up to the point of the RP, it can be short, but I won't complain on long Bios.)

Motivation: (What drives them to seek the wish? (This isn't set in stone, and it can change as the RP moves along, however that is up to you)

Abilities / Magic: (This can vary from the magic your character has inherited to arcane magic they know to racial traits that grant them the equivalent to superpowers but toned down. Please contact me to make sure the abilities are balanced.)

Skills: (What can your character do well? Be sure to not go too overboard with this one, same thing with abilities applies here.)

Weapons: (Self explanatory, just keep it balanced like skills and abilities.)

Equipment / Items: (Same thing with Weapons)

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Other: (Whatever else you want to add, the CS is not set in stone and you may add a couple things if you want to.)

(Side note: Please contact me first if you are interested in the RP and I can invite you to the discord and help you in making a CS and actually explaining what the RP is about, however I am not accepting that many more players currently, so please understand if you aren't invited)

 

[jmann]

Mekoh An

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Name: Mekoh An (May-k-o An)
Alias: Mene, Menaiatos the Mountain
Race: Hybrid (Cinderheart+Chosen)
Gender: Male
Age: 112
Occupation: pilgrim, drifter, ex-dragon slayer
Appearance Description: a mountain of a man with the remnants of old battle scars still adorning his body. His hair had long since fallen out. He wears a large smile and a long blue robe he uses to hide his patches of crimson red scales. He stands at about 7 feet tall. Mekoh has a large diagonal scar that stretches from just below the left breast to just above the right hip. The scar is about 3 inches (4cm) wide.
Personality: Mekoh is strong of heart and dependable. He is courageous beyond belief, staring down even the worst nature has to offer. Mekoh would never leave a man behind or abandon an ally. He values honour but more so values personal righteousness and mental control. Despite all his control, Mekoh is always haunted by the Siege of Vaalkeynin.
Motivation: people see a chaotic group of misfits. Mekoh sees a team of naive youths finding their way, if they don’t have a guiding hand in this world they will surely die or end up someplace terrible.
Abilities: Mekoh has learned Negative Energy (see below), though due to his poor fitness, he cannot use it effectively. He can also release a roaring flame from his mouth as a part of his draconic heritage.
Skills: Mekoh‘s childhood as a Chosen soldier have given him training in almost all forms of combat, such as martial arts and most official weapons, this is present in his Martial Manoeuvres. His attacks are less flowery and graceful (due to his weight) and more focused on brute force. This brute force is a skill An inherited from both parents, leading to a punch that can crack ribs and hugs that may be fatal.
Martial Manoeuvres: Mekoh knows many different manoeuvres and skills from his decades of honing his skill in battle. Each manoeuvre reveals a different “tell”, meaning opponents are increasingly less likely to be affected by a manoeuvre as they see him telegraphing his attack.

Disarm

When Mekoh hits a creature while unarmed or having at least one free hand, he can attempt to disarm the target, forcing it to drop one item it's holding. Targets stronger than Mekoh are likely to beat him and keep their item, while weaker creatures are more likely to fail and lose it. Mekoh can choose to either snatch the object in a free hand if he is able or to drop it at the target’s feet.

Opening Strike

When Mekoh hits a creature, he can distract it momentarily, giving his allies an opening. The attack opens the enemies guard if he is capable of doing so. Creatures with natural armour instead of worn armour are immune to this manoeuvre.

Feint

Mekoh can feint an attack, faking one direction before attacking from another. Attacks after feinting are more likely to hit.

Riposte

When an attack misses Mekoh or is deflected, he can counterattack. This attack does not have the same ferocity as it must be delivered faster than his usual strikes.

Trip

When Mekoh hits a creature, he can attempt to knock the target down. If the target is larger than him, it is less likely to fall, but smaller targets can be easily tripped. Creatures are also less likely to fall if Mekoh uses an unarmed attack, as it has less power than with his staff.

Cripple

When Mekoh hits with a weapon, he can focus the attack into a powerful leg strike, temporarily hindering the target’s mobility. Creatures with more legs are less likely to be negatively affected by this, such as giant centipedes.

Deflect Projectile

The hardest manoeuvre in Mekoh’s arsenal, but one of the most effective as it does not reveal a tell. If Mekoh is fast enough, he can deflect an incoming projectile if it is big enough to hold in one hand. When Mekoh was younger and faster, he could even catch it, though those days seem long gone.

Weapons: Mekoh carries an old wooden walking staff that comes to his shoulder, about six feet long. It has been magically enchanted to not break when struck.
Equipment: Mekoh carries a locket with his wife and son’s portraits inside. He owns a worn tea set and an old scroll of texts.
Strengths: Mekoh can calm his emotions quickly and is slow to anger. He is always looking for the kindest solution. He has gained wisdom in his long years and is eager to share it with his newfound compatriots.
Weaknesses: While he has nearly mastered his emotions, he cannot contain himself at the mention of the Siege of Vaalkeynin. He also has a weakness for food and wouldn’t mind a snack or twelve.

Bio

There was once a Chosen warrior named Arete who took on the greatest challenge of her lifetime, to create the perfect Empire soldier. She stole a young Cinderheart dragon, Vaalhund the Red, and bore its child. Arete died shortly after but the child was healthy and alive. Menaiatos (Mene for short, later changed to Mekoh An), it was named. Mekoh was born in Akrasus, a Chosen city renowned for its proximity to multiple locations and an imprisoned Tideforger made some of the best weapons in Gaia.
Mekoh’s upbringing was not unusual for Chosen children, gruelling physical exercise and displays of unwavering loyalty to the Empire. It was only after his peers graduated that Mekoh was allowed to touch real weapons instead of wooden replicas. His training was moved to a few private tutors, and Mekoh practised wrestling bulls and oxen, sparring with criminals fighting to avoid the executioner’s axe, and studying with some of the best strategists all the way from Kuznitsa Natsii. After decades of training, Mekoh was then given his biggest task yet, to clear out the Dragonwood. He took 500 of his most trusted soldiers and advanced upon the forest. Burning would not work, the dragons would simply flee, so he resorted to the old way of going about things. His action was cruel and merciless. Any hint of a dragon was sniffed out and exterminated; foolhardy Wildwings who got too close, Timbermanes defending some kind of honour. A pack of Mandrisks were also imported directly from Kuznitsa Natsii to aid in hunting down the menace. After over a year in these forests, the death toll finally stopped rising, and Mekoh returned victorious, though he had his doubts about clearing the forest. He has come to peace with the events, but by no means forgives himself or thinks himself exempt from blame in any way. For this exalting deed, Mekoh was made Lieutenant Colonel of the West Gaia Infantry.
Through a series of letters to the General of the Army, he proposed a plan. His commanding officer had laughed him off as a “clueless halfbreed”, but this General did not know he was half-dragon, so it was under this disguise he was granted the role as advisor on the largest operation he had ever seen. 5,000 elite straight from the homeland, donning armour crafted from dragonscale, wielding weapons tempered in the blood of the unfaithful. Perfect soldiers. Perfect dragon slayers. He took hundreds of siege weapons and advanced upon the lair of Vaalkeynin the Wrathful, an ancient Cinderheart that had been terrorising the countryside by the Serpent’s Tail Mountains, and most intimidating of all, the mother of Vaalhund the Red. Mekoh knew his plan inside and out. He knew every possible fault and every possible solution. He was wrong. Vaalkeynin shot out of its lair like a crossbow bolt, it ignored the hundreds of archers who blackened out the sky with their arrows, it ignored ballista that shot around it, coming too close for comfort. It came straight for Mekoh. he panicked and sent the wrong unit to flank the dragon, it twisted and engulfed the entire area in brilliant flames before continuing forward. Mekoh fought to the best of his ability, the ultimate challenge for a Chosen. He was a hero. He was a Chosen. He would win this battle and everyone would see he was not some “clueless halfbreed”, they would respect him. Unfortunately, Mekoh did not win. Its wings batted him off his feet and one quick strike from its claw damn near bisected him. The army was sundered and fled. Vaalkeynin returned to its lair.
But Mekoh did not die. His arm broken and using the other to keep his organ from falling out, he walked all the way back to Moonmirror. Mekoh did not find Fairshire Castle, rather he found himself in a strange land alien to him. Surrounding him were an ethereal group of Shibuki Koku at the base of a seemingly endless waterfall. Starlight Falls, they called it. They healed him and taught him strange practices. They taught him to put down the sword and control the rage and sorrow building inside him. He was taught to express himself through martial arts and the manipulation of Negative Energy. He found great difficulty in Negative Energies, he feared that if he trained his body to the extent that he did in Akrasus, he may fall into old habits. To his family back home, he had died in battle. Mekoh even travelled into what he once considered to be the heart of enemy territory, Tyre. He studied martial arts under the Statue of Emon. But with every victory comes a crushing defeat. Mekoh ranked his son, Geleon, among his most trusted soldiers. But the unit that was supposed to stay far from the battle ended up being the unit that was wreathed in flames. His son was dead, reduced to ashes on an unnamed field. He botched the job and his son paid the price. It was Mekoh who made the mistake and he was fine, but his innocent son was dead.
Now, his training complete, it was time for Mekoh to rejoin the world. There was a rumour of a powerful ritual for near unlimited power. Mekoh does not want the ritual but he knew the type of people who would, and if he could not help them they would surely die.

Negative Energy:
Arcane Disruption: An can hit a person in places that blocks their mind from controlling Arcane magic. For one minute, any spell they attempt simply fails.
Conflagration: An summons the elemental fire in his hands to empower his attacks and burn enemies, this fire propels his arms in bursts of speed. An can even shoot this flame small distances, up to about twenty feet.
Electroconvulsive: An redirects, manipulates, and even summons lightning. Summoning lightning is incredibly taxing on his body and soul. After summoning it, his movements are sluggish and he cannot fight for long after.

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[Juju]

Name: *poof*
Aliases: Kiki. Seriously it's just Kiki. I promise!
Gender: Female
Race: Faery
Age: 72
Occupation: Unemployed Entrepreneur

Note: She is about 16cm tall. Cannot change her form thanks to a powerful curse.​

Personality: Kiki is a fun-loving trickster at heart, and while pranks are a favourite pastime of hers the tricks she pulls are not always lighthearted. Her morality is on the questionable malleable side, and she is not above using dirty tactics and manipulation to get what she wants. So long as something is in her benefit she will go along with it, be it crime or helping people, but the bottom line is that Kiki benefits. It is rare for her to go out of her way for someone else unless she hopes to gain something from it or save face. Most of the time she gets other creatures and people to do the dirty work for her, or otherwise hides behind illusions and charms.

When not relying on her cunning, Kiki enjoys acting innocent and cute, partly for her own amusement but also to throw off suspicion. She is an excellent liar, having loads of practice, and will always try to redirect blame away from herself, even when everyone knows it was her. It has become so much of a habit that it's hard to tell what is true and what is false with her. Her mischief-making reflects her childish and excitable side, which is the motive to many of her impulsive whims such as stealing small things from shops or hiding objects from people.

She loves attention and compliments, no matter if it is real or earned. Authoritative figures annoy her, though this usually manifests as pranks and sass. She doesn't like being told what to do, but she is not an idiot. Kiki has ambitions and low cunning, so she knows when it's most beneficial to behave or act a part. While it can be hard to believe by her spontaneous plans, Kiki is a very driven person who never loses sight of her long term schemes.

Bio:

*poof*
After having a major disagreement with her terrible mother, Kiki was cursed out of pure spite. She had finally stood up to her domineering parent and as such she was punished with being stuck as a tiny fae and forced to endure humiliation. Thankfully through wit and luck she managed to flee her home before she was locked away forever or worse. From then on she traveled the land, searching for a way to break the curse. ​

Spoiler: What? You seriously want a longer version?

Kiki is the 13th and youngest daughter of Queen Vaerillis, regent queen of the Yvesian Fae Court. Her father was one of the many lordlings, though a rather disappointing one in the end. His role in the story of our sweet hero is rather minuscule and forgettable at best, for he was only at court for official meetings. Instead, Kiki was raised under the guidance of her mother and 12 sisters. With little else to compare it to, things were fine and well until the solidification of her powers.

A faery queen's magic is strong, but as her children grow younger the thread of magic tends to fade. Vaerillis had 12 daughters, all of whom through sheer luck were exceptionally gifted with fae spells. Some were illusionists, others memory weavers, and then there was Kiki. At first Kiki did not see the difference, only the occasional patronizing smile or hushed whispers hidden behind hands. The change was slow yet ever steady. Her mother lost interest in her and one by one her older sisters found no more time to spare. If it came to it, they ignored her. They had bigger issues to face.

The daughters of a queen are ever in competition. Only one may ascend to queen and each is a representative of a noble bloodline. In reality all are half-sisters, but in the absence of any concept of marriage, they are sisters all the same... if one was to overlook the looming competition at every step of their life. Every action they did, every spell they could do was measured and judged by their mother. They were constantly compared and even as unmarked ranks changed, Kiki was consistently at the bottom. She was overlooked at best and completely ignored at worst.

It was during this time that she developed an affinity for playing pranks and hiding things, much to the annoyance of her mother, sisters and royal subjects but at least they paid attention to her. Left to her own devices, Kiki read books, maps and stories of Gaia, often sneaking into libraries or private collections. She learned how to make charms on her own, which was considered an archaic and primitive method of fae magic, but to Kiki it was like finding the cure to all things. While her sisters were in the spotlight she mastered the use and creation of these antiquated charms, filling in the gaps where her magic failed. On the bright side of being forgettable, Kiki could lie away suspicion while pursuing her own agenda.

In learning about the rest of Gaia she found out about the lost fae queendom of the riverlands (something that was oddly never mentioned in most history books). It didn't sit right with her that the humans had taken something that should belong to a better and older race. What's more, they were destroying the Wildwood and slowly moving in like rot. When she mentioned this to her mother and sisters they all told her the same thing; that they should avoid the young races of Gaia and remain unknown to them, even if it meant losing parts of their world. Kiki hated this attitude and decided to do something about it. Smuggling Yvesian species and using her charms, Kiki snuck to the Wildwood and combated the humans in secret. She terrorized villages, destroyed new hamlets, and used her animal minions to drive out travelers. Among other things.

This lasted for a time, but eventually her little game was found out. Her mother was furious that she had broken several laws of secrecy and had her punished. She cursed Kiki, binding her form to a tiny size and shackling her already limited magic. Kiki was then magically banished from the Fae Queendoms. For years Kiki searched for a means to get rid of the curse, trying many different methods but none of them seemed to work. Now she only has one option left...

Motivation: Prove a point
Abilities:

• Faery light
  • Summons a floating mote of magical light near the user. It moves based on the caster's whim in a radius of ~8m. The color and intensity of the light can be manipulated, allowing for signals if one is clever enough. Its size and shape can be somewhat altered, though can be no smaller than a coin and no larger than a plate. The light will fizzle out if struck by an attack. Can work underwater.
• Speak with animals
  • This spell allows for the understanding and communication of beasts. Most fae have a general understanding of what an animal's intentions are, but this spell allows for a mental link to grant crystal clear communication. Only one species can be active at a time.
• Invisibility
  • Until she is hit, Kiki can become visually invisible. This invisibility lasts for as long as she can hold it, but any other spell usage will break the invisibility. The spell can be extended to someone else she touches, but they have to remain in contact with her. The more people added to the invisibility spell reduces its potency (1 person = near perfect, 2= shimmers when moving, 3=mostly terrain camouflage).
• Illusions
  • Kiki's second favourite spell. The spell creates the impression of something that is not there and can range from anything from a fire to a person. Complex illusions that are 3d, audible and mobile can be made with roughly the mass of a normal human. Illusions that are 2d can be twice this size, and illusions that are stationary/silent/2d can be thrice this size. For complex illusions she has to focus on the illusion like a puppeteer in order for it to talk and has to maintain sight with it. When an illusion talks she mouths the words, so it can be a clue to the illusion's origins.
• Charm beast/humanoid
  • Beast: This allows her to magically charm a beast into following her commands as if she fully trained them. While they follow her commands, the spell can break if she sends them to do something extremely unnatural such as asking a whale to beach itself or a horse to jump over a cliff. Whatever the beast thinks is important to them (their young, their treasure, their packmates, etc) is redirected to Kiki. This bond only exists until the spell ends (which is 20 minutes) and fades over time. The effect can be extended through the creation of a 'Faery Charm'. [Max size of charmed creature is currently 5 meters in length].
  • Humanoid: similar to the beast variant, charmed humanoids follow Kiki's suggestions in a hypnotized manner (for weak willed individuals). This lasts 5 minutes. For more strong willed individuals, this charm makes them temporarily more friendly towards Kiki, giving them a false sense of friendship or duty towards her for 10 minutes. Whenever the spell ends the individuals will remember everything that happened. It is highly taboo and difficult to make a 'Faery Charm' for a humanoid.
• Faery Charm
  • Faery charms are small talismans that can be used to empower all of Kiki's abilities for a set period of time depending on what the charm was made out off. When the charms are used they will shatter and grant an empowered version of her spells while also allowing her to cast two of her spells at a time. If she uses multiple charms at once only the duration will stack and not the power.
  • Creating a charm takes time and needs to be bathed in moonlight in order to be activated. Charms can be made from anything from bone to gold, but they all have the same symbols painted/engraved into them.
• Sleep
  • Creates a magical dust cloud that poofs out in a radius around her or shoots towards one target (applying to the first person it hits). The sleep for one creature lasts up to an hour and will be broken if the target is hit by something. Loud noises do not count, though a splash of water does. The potency of the sleep decreases based on how many people are afflicted (divide 1 hr by how many creatures are hit).
• Fae Fire
  • Summons a fire in a surface including an individual near her. The fire can be of any color she wants however it is best that she uses the normal color to deceive people best. The fire cannot harm anyone or create any heat, however the fire does give one the feeling that they are receiving heat and that they are being burnt by it. The fire cannot be extinguished but does have the duration of one minute. The fire also is more painful than regular fire and has more than once caused people to fall unconscious from the sheer pain it causes. The fire can only be created to be the size of a small individual but can be made smaller or bigger if charms are used.
• Levitation
  • Upon touching anything with her hand, the touched target will now be unnafected by gravity for up to 2 minutes. She may either do that or channel it within her and whoever she is constantly touching will also be affected by levitation.
• Feather Falling
  • Kiki and whoever she is touching in the moment will fall extremly slowly preventing falls from being fatal. If feather falling is used while they are falling, they will slowly decelerate until reaching the slow and safe fall. This spell doesn't have a max duration but must be constantly channeled.
• Surface Walking
  • Kiki and whoever she is currently touching will be able to walk in any surface quietly and effectively. Mud will be stable, Rough ground will be safe, sand will be stable, and even can be used on water. However the spell can only last for up to a couple minutes and their are certain surfaces that the spell will not be able to work on unless empowered.

Skills: Knowledge of fae, can understand many 'ancient' languages, knowledge of plants and animals, picking locks/pockets, getting into small spaces, lying, history, mapmaking and reading (also a fair bit of lore), charm making.
Weapons: Just magic. (its not like she could wield anything in her current size...)
Equipment: 3 unbound Faery Charms (worn around her waist and resting at her hip like a belt).
Strengths:

• Can fly
• Quick
• Small size means it is difficult to find her in battle and land hits
• No mana
• Immune to charms
• Natural resistant to magic
• Good at hiding!

Weaknesses:

• She is small so a solid hit from a physical attack can mean serious injury or even death.
• If her wings are removed she will die.
• No direct attacks
• Cursed to remain in her small form.
• Cannot carry much

Theme:

 

[Idea]

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Tales of Gaia CS:

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< Elrin Soar >​

~Lady Bloodbog~​

• Identity
• Personality
• Bio
• Skills
• Items
• Misc

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  Aliases / Nicknames: Lady Bloodbog, Bat with a Beak
  
  Race: Vampire (former Enthralled)
  
  Gender: Female
  
  Age: ~800 Years
  
  Occupation: Researcher
  
  Motivation: An obsession with restoring the past, not simply once, but on command.
  
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  Personality​

  
  Despite having her personality warped by centuries of guilt and obsession with finding a way to take back her mistakes, Elrin is still at least in part who she once was when she was an enthralled. Long mulling over the decisions she was content to follow, Elrin found her spine in deciding to take care of her own path. Rather than simply following orders, she would act, and bravery was born within her. Despite her pompous attitude, a result of a vanity that leads her to constantly care for her appearance despite the sort of bloody work she does (in the most literal sense of those words), she is not actually someone who would be afraid to get their hands dirty to do a job. Even with that, however, she is a patient person. When the time comes- and she decides when this time is- then she acts. But she knows better than to be reckless in such an attack.
  
  Elrin is not so wise with everything though. She has a very different common sense from most people, and the things she does without blinking an eye or a hint of shame may seem disturbing or even evil to some. She is a practical person who does not indulge moralisms, her solutions are all about whether a certain way is the best way to do what she wants to do. Her ultimate goals and longings are not far off either- to bring back her past, and finally release herself of the self-imposed punishment of never recovering her wings, despite her longing for the sky.
  
  Truth be told, Elrin has become the kind of person who believes one's judge ought to be only themselves. Even if she believed what someone else was doing was monstrous, she would not step in to stop it nor in any way make it changes, lest there be something to be gained, or someone she actually cares about being at stake. In turn, however, she judges herself. Always self-aware to an extreme, she likes to think she doesn't care about how others see her, but this is in fact, a lie. She simply cannot bring herself to stand confrontation, running from it at every occasion. Even in her frequent bouts of jealousy, she simply turns tail and flees.
  
  
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  Spoiler: All Good Things End

  "All Good Things End"
  
  Paridor was once a magnificent enthralled citadel. It's golden fortifications surrounded most of the city, and even the rock that laid it's foundation were covered by plates light yet undoubtably durable, for within them was contained a precious fragment of the floating islands, remaining afloat through whatever means the islands themselves did. And thus, the various families that formed the city council ruled over a floating city, never forsaking enthralled culture, but certainly changed by their crusade to eliminate the remnants of many evils from the world below, and by the politics which festered within the citadel itself.
  
  Even though she was the only daughter of one of those families, however, Elrin would not face their machinations for a long time, nor would her friends. She and her friends were raised more by the school they frequented than by their own parents. They were, after all, extremely busy, but at least in Elrin's case her parents still took the time to show her love where they could. She had everything: Authority, money, friendship, love, fun... who wouldn't be spoiled by such a youth? So, when her father returned critically injured from a battle, she truly felt fear for the first time. She and her friends would come to research about magic that could heal or extend one's life, and Elrin was in particular fascinated with the tomes about vampires, though this earned her many frowns from the people around her.
  
  This was only the beginning of the end though. Not long after the citadel was stationed outside of an ancient vampiric city, many of the other nobles, alarmed by their daughter's sudden interest in potentially taboo magics, her friends began distancing from her. Some even would turn out to be trying to get to her because of her position, who now scorned her because her interests would. in their eyes, make her fall from grace. In those days, more promises were broken than she could count.

  
  

  Spoiler: Protect the Inner Halls!

  "Protect the Inner Halls!"
  Thus began a life of dedication to her future position, and of seclusion, for Elrin. After losing almost all her friends, she would gaze upon books or the horizon, and learn etiquette, magic and politics from her mother and approved tutors. Her curiosity prompted her to seek out the exotic and the forbidden, however, and to explore her magic beyond what tutors were willing to teach her.
  
  One day, however, without anyone seeming to know why, the Paridor simply began descending. It was sudden, cracks of some unbelievable radiance pouring out of the streets, leylines collapsing and throwing everything into chaos. Amidst the confusion, as every citizen ran for their lives or sought out their families or life's work, an order was shouted from the guars, one to direct the magical leylines used to create a barrier in defense of the city, and focusing them on the Inner halls where the nobles inhabited. Two of Elrin's friends, Manatel (their de facto leader) and Gila ("the smart one"), came to her and proposed a crazy plan: with the help of some defecting guards, they would attempt to direct the escaping magical energy onto a single point, and use that to create a makeshift protective barrier. They succeeded in this plan, with Manatel going into the focus point of the magic and almost dying as she attempted to converge all of it in front of the falling citadel to at least mitigate the damage.
  
  Even so, most did not survive the crash.

  
  

  Spoiler: Nothing but festering lies...

  "Nothing but festering lies..."
  As if those problems weren't enough, the now formless power transformed into none other than wild magic. The surge and the impacted alerted not just the vampires whom the enthralled had recently been combating, but also nearby demingo tribes. The creatures quickly surrounded the ruined city, any survivors out of the reach of any still-standing guards were swiftly captured or killed. It was only as the primitive beings attempted to launch an offensive against the city that the nobles finally took action to the defend the remaining citizens.
  
  The nobles attempted to excuse themselves that they were trying to get the city to stay afloat when they redirected the magic, but only some bought it. The others, however, had no real refute they could voice while in their current state. Everyone needed leadership, and their military leaders were married to the very nobles who just threw their lives away. Fortifications were built as soon as the attacks were fended off, tough part of the ruins were lost too quickly to the demingos to recover. While they attempted their best to maintain order, tensions were naturally high, and they only grew as the discovery was made that the wild magic had turned a simple small sickness into a ravaging and highly infectious plague, corrupting their blood. If nothing was done, soon every inhabitant of the citadel would perish, be it by disease, hunger of being hunted by demingos.

  
  

  Spoiler: They Will Never Accept Our Salvation

  "They Will Never Accept Our Salvation"
  Elrin and her friends, who had looked into the subject before, where the first to realize the only solution: If they could get their former foes, the vampires of the nearby city of Tsurest, to come to their aid, they could save themselves. The few squirmishes they had had shown that the prisoners the vampires took were cured with their blood magic, and who knew how long those same vampires had been fending off the demingo tribes? Albeit rejecting it at first, eventually the pressure forced even the council to endorsing the plan, and the ones who came up with it were sent as emissaries. To their surprise, the vampires accepted the offer with open arms, with one condition: This was not an alliance, but a surrender. The enthralled would be be brought into their city and integrate into their ways- whatever it meant for them.
  
  The emissaries needed some time to mull it over, and were allowed to. The vampires had no intention of hiding what fate awaited them if they accepted: There were many races kept in small homes almost like livestock. But some, they noted, were not treated that way. Some lived, poorly, but with freedom. And among those, there vampires different from most. The following day, Elrin brought up an idea: To become vampires instead. In return they would do everything in their power to aid whatever cause the vampires might have, but if they did this, then their fellow enthralled might follow suit, and be allowed to be at least a grade above livestock.
  
  Although they managed to convince the vampires, they knew this offer would never be accepted by the council. They would die before seeing themselves transformed or subservient. With Manatel at the helm, they spread the word of the offer upon their return, and sought the help of the people who still remembered their efforts to save them all as they crashed.

  
  

  Spoiler: Highlady, Forces Amass Outside Our Gates!

  "Highlady, Forces Amass Outside Our Gates!"
  The uprising began. They fought so fervently, yet neither side could ever take joy in their victory. Indeed, each was fighting to bring upon themselves a different kind of disaster. The council's holing up to protect themselves, however, was ironically the fatal blow to their downfall. Many would quickly desert the leaders they felt they were being abandoned by, and eventually they were brought down. Elrin herself had to use a magic stone from the city to imprison her mother with a petrification spell.
  
  The vampires welcomed them as promised, but even so, most refused to become vampires. Few were not hesitant at least. The emissaries, however, were not turned by any lowly old vampire, but by higher rank ones. Manatel in particular, had seeming attracted the attention of an extremely high rank vampire noble, who was interested in the enthralled's extraordinary reserves of mana, a side effect from when she redirected the escaping magic to protect the city.

  
  

  Spoiler: Our Wings Will Still Cross The Skies and Fulfill Their Duty

  "Our Wings Will Still Cross The Skies and Fulfill Their Duty"
  As Manatel was converted, the other enthralled watched in horror as her wings atrofied and shrunk. However, she was taught that she could repair this. Using her power, she grew new, twisted wings. Even so they were long and smooth and admirable, and she turned to them, and turned around as many as she could. They were becoming vampires, yes, but they would not cease to be themselves, nor were they throwing away their freedom. If anything, they were preserving as much of it as they could. Many of the best fighters, mages and so on in the city would join Manatel and be transformed and regrow their wings, becoming known as the Charmed Skyguard from there on out. Others yet opted for being simple vampires, like Elrin. Even then, some adamantly refused this, and would become like the 'cattle' the emissaries had seen.
  
  Elrin herself continued to beg for the others to join them, but all she got was their spit on her face or shoes. She even got herself a position as a magical researcher and attempt to figure ways to mitigate any side-effects from the vampiric transformation, yet still it fell on deaf ears. She couldn't help feel as though, if she had not suggested what she did, perhaps today things would have been different. She wished she could go back, that all of this mess had never happened, that she simply could have stayed in those old days forever. She continued to research and her research deepened, now seeking to find some way to turn things back to the way they were, not simply reversing their vampirism, but truly be as if time had returned to what it once was.

  
  

  Spoiler: Regretably, We Must Inform You That Henceforth Your Rations Are Cancelled

  "Regretably, We Must Inform You That Henceforth Your Rations Are Cancelled"
  The centuries passed. At first Elrin refused to drink blood, sticking only to milk, but as her body showed signs of aging, she was despised by her own former people, and the vampires mocked her as well. The sensation of passing time got to her as well, and she gave in to drinking blood. She had way outlived many of her peers, and increasingly she and her old friends found solace only on each other and their self-appointed missions. Even they began to drift apart though, as they dedicated themselves, like a drunk drowning in ale to wash away the bad memories.
  
  Elrin came to realize her biggest breakthroughs would probably come from researching the fountain of youth's water. The sheer amount of power it held was incredible, yes, but what really brought her attention to it was its rejuvenative properties. They were not like healing or even rebuilding one's youth, but as though time itself bowed to the liquid and released someone from its grasp. However, to get her hands on that miracle, she had to find an excuse they would accept. Her work, her experiments, they were the only way. If she made them grander, if she showed results and pushed to try bolder experiments, then surely they would give her the water to fuel her research.
  
  Her plan was a success, but just having a portion of the water would barely be enough. She needed to press on, but pressing on would mean continuing and escalating her experiments. Elrin travelled to the ruined city, observing what had once been like her childhood palace, the former gardens, the broken homes... and returned with a renewed resolve. She WOULD master the power of the waters of youth to force a portion of the world back into a primordial state, she theorized, one which she could then mold back into her old life.
  
  All her plans came crashing down, however, when supplies from the inner parts of the city began being rationed. Their quality was also shabby. Something was happening to the fountain of youth for sure. Rumors spread that the abuse of it had lead to the waning power and supply. Elrin, however, made a special petition and received supplies for a while longer. She didn't even realize when the lower-tier areas were cut off from those resources entirely, and would soon come to find just how much they relied on those things. Within those areas, monsters began running rampart as many defenses were cut off, horrifying magical accidents became more common, and the people hid and isolated, becoming scavengers in their own city. Elrin, however, was so immersed in her own work that she only realized how bad things had truly become when she went to her usual supplier in search of blood, but they wouldn't give it to her.
  
  She decided to depart Tsurest in hopes of making it into a different city that would allow her to use the waters to continue her research. However, she was derailed by a certain advertisement...

  
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  Abilities / Magic:
  *Vampiric Abilities:
  -She is able to consume blood from people, sucking it out through her fangs. Like all vampires, blood sucked this way helps restore and preserve a youthful body, including the ability to regenerate. Furthermore, a small portion of the traits from a foe- physical strength, durability, magical reserves - are absorbed each time she drinks their blood. These fade over time, however, as the blood's traces leave her body.
  -She has improved senses, though this isn't necessarily a positive thing. For instance, though her sense of smell is improved, very strong smells can thus become almost repellent to her more than others, garlic for instance.
  
  *Archaic Blood Magic:
  -Transfiguration: Her specialty within archaic blood magic is transfiguration. While arguably a curse, the process is more direct, warping the flesh to a new form, shifting the power of the being to pull resources from one part to another. While she make minuscule changes on the fly, anything large will require a significant amount of time and resources. She has particularly experimented with "transfusion" type transmutation, using samples of some beings as blueprints to alter another.
  
  -Curses: Albeit not her strongest suit, this is perhaps the biggest component of archaic blood magic, so learning it to a degree is inevitable. With something like a small bone or a partially empty vial of blood, she can quickly cast almost any kind of curse equivalent in power to a temporary mild headache. Others may require more specific and complex rituals, involving again a lot of time and resources. Often, physical contact with the victim is required as well.
  

  Spoiler: some examples

  Oblivion Curse- A variable curse. Can be scaled as more of the ritual is used. At the most basic level, the curse requires 1 drop of someone's blood, and being near the victim. The drop of blood evaporates, erasing the past 5 minutes of the victim's memory. As long as their environment hasn't changed too drastically, they will feel as long they simply "dazed out" for a moment. The more complex version of the curse can erase up to a year's worth of memories, requiring more blood from the victim, drawing two complex overlapping runes for "hole" and "memory" and using [create part / material].
  
  -Apathy Curse: The spell reduces the intensity of a negative emotion or sensation someone may experience, from fear to shame and even pain. If channeled long enough it may even remove the sensation entirely for almost a day. A line must be drawn between someone's head and heart or equivalents, with something which leaves a mark. A finger must then go through the line from each end, and meet as close to the middle as possible. The target must then be pinched in that spot, and concentration is required to continue to pressure the effect.
  
  -Unstable Mutation Curse: By applying blood-fed shrooms on someone's skin or other surface, as well as conducting a ritual lasting about 20 minutes, this can force the hand of nature to accelerate evolution. Blisters form as the body mutates, and when they pop the area is transformed as if their species was propelled potentially hundreds of thousands of years into the future. The ultimate results are mostly random, but stimulation during the transformation process can shape the ultimate result. Hitting the target a lot for instance may have them develop some manner of carapace, for instance.

  
  -Healing: Archaic blood magic can enhance and imitate a vampire's natural ability to regenerate. Requires fresh blood in much higher quantities than vampire's usual, as well as strong concentration to channel the blood to form the regeneration.
  
  -Minor Blood Manipulation: She can slowly move blood telekinetically if the owner of the blood is not giving strong resistance to it.
  
  
  *Arcane Magic:
  
  

  Spoiler: Defensive Auras & Barriers

  (A type of barrier is combined with a type of defense. For instance, one can form an aura of anti-heat).
  Type:
  -Aura: Creates a layer around oneself, personal protection. With enchanting, can be used on other people or objects.
  -Barrier: Creates a layer around an area, creating a protected area
  
  Defenses:
  -Anti-Poison: Protects against poisons and toxins
  -Anti-Petrification: Protects against petrifcation of any sort
  -Anti-Heat: Protects against heat-based attacks, especially fire. Because it blocks heat, it also retains heat within itself.
  -Pure Arcane: Creates an arcane energy field, giving general protection against physical and magical attacks alike. It may only be able to soften impact if the power is too great to begin with though.

  
  

  Spoiler: Mental

  -Charm: Your eyes glow for a moment. One whom you lock eyes with after casting this spell will regard you as a one higher tier in a scale of affection: an enemy may disregard you, a stranger may treat you as an acquaintance, a friend as a best friend, a best friend as a lover. Depending on much this modifies their original behavior, they may end up losing memories or rationalizing their own actions. Can be overcome with sufficient willpower.
  
  -Hold: Focuses magical energy on blocking the connection of one's mind with their body, effectively freezing them. Whether this requires concentration or has a temporary effect will depend on the relative amount of mana, spell power and mental fortitude.
  
  -Message: Sends a telepathic message to another one knows the location of and whose mind is receptive to the communication.
  
  -Terrify: A spell similar to "hold", but instead the energy is directed at pressuring someone's mind into an intense reaction of fear, forcing an overriding fight or flight response. While the spell can be used on a regular target at will, it can take 6 hours before the spell is effective on that target again. Furthermore, the intensity depends on a context suggestive to fear: if the caster is trapped, dressed ridiculously or feeble-looking, it can be harder for the spell to take full effect. However, being in a position of power, being near something another dreads (such as a cliff if the target is afraid of heights) and other such circumstances can increase the spell exponentially and even allow it to be cast in an area.

  
  

  Spoiler: Transmogrification

  -Perfect: One of the simplest transmogrification spells, which temporarily improves the efficiency of some part of someone's body.
  
  -Alter Detail: A minute transmogrification spell that alters a minor aspect about someone's body. The spell is more effective the less significant it is. Changing the color of someone's eyes can typically be a permanent change, but adding someone someone the eyes of an eagle to improve their sight will typically be a temporary effect due to a much more significant change that alters how the body functions. Using the spell to do something like sealing someone's nostrils is also possible, but the effect will end almost immediately as the change is too significant and dangerous, and thus is rejected by the body.
  
  -Augment Part: Chooses a part of someone's body and forces it to grow with magic, increasing its power and effectiveness. Excessive use can leave the body part permanently distorted.
  
  -Sprout Wings: A target sprouts bird-like wings with which they can fly. Requires a short ritual and some feathers or bat-wing-skin.
  
  -Compatibilize: A spell which forcefully makes two possibly entirely distinct bodies compatible at a biological level. This makes it so blood transfusion and any kind of transplant is possible and will not be rejected by the body. And advanced form of this spell can also force the body part to integrate with the overall body. Attaching a bear arm in replacement of someone's actual arm this way could force the bear arm to actually attach itself to the shoulder as though it had always been a part of the body, and function as normal. The advanced form of the magic is extremely painful however, and while she knows how to set up wards that reduce the potential "unfortunate incidents" they can require several days of preparation.

  
  

  Spoiler: Traps

  -Snare: Creates a thread of magical energy that goes invisible. Upon someone that not the caster or someone that the caster assigned coming close to it, the thread, the thread leaps out and wraps itself on one of the creature's limbs to attempt to hold them in place.
  
  -Mental Maze: Creates an extremely localized magical area (like a doorknob or a small place on the ground). If one comes in direct or indirect contact with the area, their mind if sent inward into a giant mental maze. In the meantime, their bodies remain frozen in place.
  
  -Alarm: An area is assigned by walking through it as the spell is cast. If someone that not the caster or someone assigned by them enters in the area, the alarm creates a loud noise. Alternatively, it can be inside the caster's head (that the noise is made).

  
  

  Spoiler: Chronomantic

  -Chronomatic Dusting: A spell essential for chronomancy, it can be gathered in any place of great historical important or otherwise very significant to someone nearby due to their past. A container is required to cast the spell, which gathers a mysterious dust required for any chronomancy spell other than this one.
  
  -Retroscience: The spell allows one to observe the past, and potentially project the past of a location or object, so long as one has a general idea of what they are aiming for (the process of observing is extremely accelerated but not instant). Also works with people's memories, but only if they are willing and able to at least vaguely remember themselves. Whichever the target, physical contact is always required.
  
  -Accelerate/Slow: Perhaps the most common chronomancy spell, it can affect a user, target or small area, causing them to move marginally faster or slower through time. The more advanced the user, the bigger the amount. Only requires chronomatic dust.
  
  -Chronomend: Provided at least 95% of an object is nearby, the spell can reverse the state of an object to a previous one, namely to repair it. It can take some time for the item to return to the desired state. Excessive use of this spell on an item makes it crumble to dust as it fades from the timeline.
  
  -Age Shift: A spell combining transmogrification and chronomancy, which alters the physical development of a body. This is a somewhat strenuous effort, and can last only up to a week before needing to be renewed. The standard form of this spell is only able to alter one's appearance, with any physical traits such as strength, mental traits such as memory or maturity, and overall lifespan remaining unchanged. The spell's requirements become more and more complicated and time-consuming as one advances, with the most powerful form of the spell being able to fully alter someone's point in the timeline, in other words alter their body into a past or potential future self. The most advanced form she can currently use can temporarily alter physical traits and makes memories foggier or clearer depending on the change of age. The most basic use require an item with some nostalgic or aspirational value to the target as a catalyst.
  
  -Echo Totem: Before or just as an action is taken, something like an hourglass must be used as a catalyst for this spell. A ritual is required to make a given object viable for this. The hourglass serves as a chronological anchor point which repeats the results of the action the first time the hourglass is turned. For instance if someone threw a punch at someone else while the hourglass was recording, turning the hourglass might cause the force of the punch to appear again on the same place the original punch landed. A more advanced use can increase the number of repetitions possible.

  
  

  Spoiler: Detection Magic

  (A type of magic used to locate or otherwise detect something within an environment, person or object. The spell typically takes a few minutes of concentration to cast, in which one has to remain mostly still)
  *Detect
  -Vitality: A spell used to verify vital signs, be they biological, mystical or spiritual, and returns a "value" for someone's health stability, with 1 being perfectly healthy and 0 being indisputably dead.
  
  -Poison: A spell which can detect the presence of poison, venom or toxins of any kind in any substance, object or small area.
  
  -Magic: Detects the presence of magic and where it may be most concentrated. The spell works better the more the caster understand the form of magic being detected. If it's a magic type that the caster is not aware about, then at best they'll get a vague hunch that something could be there, and perhaps point to a general direction where the magic is really more intense. If it's a type of magic the caster knows like the palm of their hand, they may even be able to identify the exact spell, and other details such as long it has been there, and the specifics of the spell.

  
  

  Spoiler: Misc

  -Aerial Pressure: A spell designed as a defense against flying enemies, it sends a wave of faint energy through layers in the air. The waves then contort and create extreme pressures on any flying entities within the radius. While the spell itself is extremely powerful and dangerous, the rapid and massive requirements in terms of mana, plus the turbulent way in which they exit the body could cause a typical mage to nearly pass out from such a spell, not to mention the extreme exhaustion and the feeling of hangover which can make it hard to concentrate or think enough to use further magic.
  
  -Anti-Gravity: Creates a force that counters gravity, allowing one to float about or objects to be carried more easily. A pattern must be applied on the ground in which the target(s) is/are standing.
  
  -Integral Analysis: A spell to scan the integrity of a structure, typically an object but something like a bone will do too. The target being almost entirely solid is the only requirement, besides a size limit of half the volume of a typical human body. Can locate the position of wounds or otherwise leftover shrapnel within the body for instance, in addition to the typical function of detecting where an item may be damaged. Has the same requirements as Detection Magic, except it also requires touching the thing being analysed.
  
  -Magic Orb: Gather magical energy in an orb for later use. Highly volatile if damaged.
  
  -Minor Light: Creates a small light.
  
  -Dark: Creates an area of darkness, snuffing out all the light within.

  
  Skills:
  *Magical Techniques:
  -Sanguine Steel Forging: Sanguine steel is a metal commonly used in cities like Tsurest, created from blood being melded into artificial leylines in the steel as it is forged, imbuing the material with inherent curses. These are rather formless curses, creating a certain indisposition or misfortune in those that have possess the metal, but artisans (like Elrin) can then force the curse into a given shape.
  
  -Blood Golem Crafting: Golems made from sanguine steel plates and air crystal glass, with blood flowing inside them, they are a common sight in cities like Tsurest, but surprisingly intricate.A few slip ups in the production would be all one would need to either start leaking out all the blood before the spell is ready to keep it in, or otherwise be defective. Their durability and
  
  -Magical Extraction: A lengthy process by which one separates the magic from the mundane imbued with it. A refined form of this is used to extract power from the waters of youth to channel into archaic blood magic.
  
  -Variety of Arcane Casting Methods: Inscription (infusing magical patterns onto something), enchanting (binding a magical aura onto something), circle invocation (creating a memorized magical pattern instantly onto the air or the ground) and basic spellcrafting are all at her disposal.
  
  *Mundane:
  -Extensive academic and practical knowledge of various forms of magic
  
  -Surgical training (mostly through trial and error) and deep knowledge of humanoid anatomy. She obtained this knowledge from some many different kinds of races that it would probably be difficult to miss even with an entirely new kind, provided it could indeed still be described as humanoid.
  
  -Sewing
  
  -Good at locating books in libraries , very fast reader
  
  -Excellent multitasker

  
  
  
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  Weapons:
  
  > Small knives
  
  > She brought with her some blood golems and some experiments under her control. If she gets in a fight, these are almost certainly going to be her go-to weapons.
  
  Equipment / Items:
  
  > Surgic Cursed Gauntlet: A magical gauntlet with long clawed fingers that resemble spider legs, crafted using arcane and archaic blood magic alike. The material is bound by arcane threads, and coated in a paint likewise imbued with arcane powers, yet the metal itself is purely forged sanguine steel. The curses in the gauntlet vastly improves the control of one's movements and their magic control by binding one's muscles to the gauntlet itself. The boost of precision in magic control is equivalent to that of making a medical student on par with senior surgeon, not to mention allowing one to perceive the flow of magic itself so long as it is close enough to the gauntlet. However, the curse's binding means that if the gauntlet is removed not only will the user's coordination severely weaken, but their muscles will loose the vast majority of their physical strength, including 100% of any supernaturally obtained strength.
  
  > Underradiance Crown: Mostly worn as a fashion accessory in Tsurest, the lower classes had only recently gotten into the trend when the fountain's shortage. It contains several exposed blood crystals connected by iron strings to the hollow interior of the crown, and enchanted in such a way that the crown emits a calming emission to non-sentient and just barely sentient creatures. As a side effect, however, creatures which would ordinarily not be hostile may be drawn to the user and be a real pest. Playing on this, most common knock-offs use the selling point of not having this side-effect.
  
  > Crate of Materials: Blood vials, various ores, sanguine steel, bones, leather, among various other things. They were primarily chosen as fuel for her magic when need be, but they could be given other uses as well if the situation calls for it. She keeps them stored up in her carriage.
  
  > "Operating" Tools: A set of surgical elements made from sanguine steel, including knives, prods, pincers, breach hammers (used to pierce harder carapaces when need be, usually applied in small openings), reflex-inducing-oils, electric pebbles, blood bags, wound holders (metal shapes put between a wound to hold it open), scalpels, small shovels and a cauterizer wand.
  
  > Clear-Up Marbles: Four flasks containing several small enchanted spheres which away impurities to clean something. They not a filtration system, and need to pick up suffiently concentrated, but not excessively so, chunks. They could near-perfectly clean a surface, or remove sugar cubes before they mix with a liquid, but once the sugar is already dissolved they can't remove it, for instance.
  
  
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  Strengths:
  +She did have centuries to build up her strength, mana reserves and so on, as a vampire. While the quality of the blood she received did somewhat put a ceiling on what she could achieve, by no means should her strength - physical or magical- nor her in-depth knowledge of magic and other subjects, namely anatomy, be underestimated.
  
  +In combat, she is not typically a singular unit, but rather is accompanied by blood golems and beastial experiments who do her bidding and fight for her. In fact, given time, materials and motive, she can create more of either, and even new materials and cursed items.
  
  +Between the various creations under her control, and her kind of magic she is capable of great adaptability. In fact, her specialty in a team is improving her teammates capabilities or adapting them, via experimenting on them with transmogrification arcane or blood magic.
  
  +She has a collection of materials, items, and other such things she is bringing in a carriage in her journey. Of course, this also means that she needs to actually bring that carriage around to carry all of that...
  
  Neutrals:
  
  *She is, without doubt, a vampire, with all the strengths and weaknesses that come along with it. Her powers and her form wane against the full moon and silver bathed in its light for long enough. Her senses are vastly improved, but because of that they are also overly sensitive, etc...
  
  *A childlike body is highly praised among the followers of the goddess of youth Morois, but for outsiders more unfamiliar with her followers can create confusion, for good or ill.
  
  
  
  Weaknesses:
  -Not good at dealing with immediate or unexpected situations. While she could probably handle a physical confrontation with most non-vampires, any situation in which she might require more tools than simple physical ability she will probably struggle to handle as her magic requires preparation and time to use effectvely.
  
  -Without her tools and items, all she has are some remnants of vampiric abilities and mediocre spells.
  
  -She lived in an isolated city for hundreds of years, only emerging now out of necessity. Not only is she long overdue for a massive culture shock (in fact, even for a vampire she is exceptionally excentric), but she lacks knowledge of pretty much anything and everything on the outside world.
  
  -As a vampire, she has a strongly restrictive diet. The only two things vampires can consume are blood and milk, with the rest providing no form of nutritional value nor satisfaction. If she is unable to procure milk, she will become reliant on obtaining blood, and her desperation for it will only grow the longer she grows hungry. She may be able to feast from her enemies, but if not, then she may be forced to turn on her own allies, or risk starving.
  
  -Perhaps her greatest specialty, the altering of other beings to be more suitable for what's needed from them, is dependent on that being willingly subjecting themselves to it, or force being used to prevent them from escaping or resisting. Given the gruesome results, and potentially some identity questions her experiments could raise, this can be a really hard sell.
  
  Other: (Here will be the experiments)

Spoiler: WIP log

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