Post by Restkastel on Aug 7, 2015 4:52:31 GMT
VAMPIRES
BASIC INFORMATION
Name: Ruby Boivin
Aliases: N/A
Age: 98 (17 Physiologically)
Gender: Female
Faction: Strigoi/Magician's Guild Affiliate
Rank: Neonate
PERSONAL INFORMATION
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Personality: It would be hard to classify Ruby's alignment, to those who are not close to her she appears Lawful Evil, putting herself before others but still holding very much to a personal code, and honoring all deals she makes to the letter. However, to those close to her, this becomes a bit blurred. She shows far more consideration for those she considers to be friends than she is normally willing to let on, and when she is among friends or aggravated, her calm refined noblewoman act cracks, and it becomes obvious she is the kind of person who wears her emotions on her sleeve, showing her rage, her sadness, and her happiness for the world to see. The truth of the matter is that the act she puts on in front of people she is not familiar with is simply that, an act. She was not like this in life, and was very much the person that her friends see, the type of person who would spend hours talking about love with her friends at a sleep over.
Her current persona stems from the same incident that turned her life on its head and led her to later become a member of the Strigoi. Due to what she considers a betrayal by both her God and her closest friend, she has tried to shut herself off from other people, using the facade she puts up as a wall to keep people away, to keep them from getting close enough to her to be able to hurt her ever again. In fact, the only people in the world who know her well enough to see the person behind the facade are her sire and her contracted Daemon Izodar, who both have been with her though a great deal of her time as a vampire, and her sire even beforehand when she was a human affiliate with the Strigoi. She truly does enjoy the hobbies she allows to shine through her facade, such as fine food, wine, classical music, and the like, however they are nowhere near as pleasant for her as her as some of what she considers her more embarrassing hobbies, such as romance novels, collecting plush toys, and other things a young girl would enjoy. In truth, a lot of her most favored things are things a young girl would enjoy, her inner mental state very much stunted. There is quite the disconnect between the personality she shows and the one she has deep down, which often baffles people when her facade does break.
However, the main trait that both her facade and her true personality share is a hatred for God and his church. This is not to say that she hates the people who worship God, instead she sort of pities them, as they are being deceived into thinking that the God that they worship is anything besides a cruel and fickle being who torments humanity for its own pleasure. When fighting church agents, she is known to let her facade slip, and her passions come forth, and she very much loses her cool. However, she will always give them a chance to recant their faith and flee for their lives before ending their life, after all, if she did not she feels she would be no better than them, as they certainly would not give her the same courtesy.
To expand on her hobbies and behaviors, there are the things which are associated with her facade. She enjoys classical music, good food, wine, and tea, and finds blood to be just another drink to be enjoyed. She is very much plays the Social Darwinist, seeming to believe that the strong survive and the weak will die, and this should be the case in society as well. Her hatred for God and the Church appears very much to be more of a disgust for it and what it stands for instead of something more personal, however it is still very vehement. She gives off the aura of a refined lady, and always seems to think over her decisions, taking in all points to come to the solution that is most beneficial to her.
However, this is not true of the personality she hides with the facade. She still enjoys music and food immensely, however when she is not being watched, she often indulges in sugary and far more simple dishes, and much more sweet wines. Shes even been known to sweeten her blood, as she feels it isn't sweet enough. She very much hardens her heart when she is taking on her facade, as she feels quite compelled to save those in need, but suppresses it as she views it as a weakness, which others will in turn exploit if they would find out. So she often attempts to find reasons to justify her helping the weak that seem like they would come from her facade, and a lot of the time she spends deliberating is actually her thinking about how she should respond to maintain the facade.She is most likely to do this when dealing with people who are victims of the church, and least likely when she is dealing with possible food sources and sacrificial victims, as she was taught by her sire to view them as nothing more than resources to be harvested. She does not completely agree with this, but she understands that given her condition and the nature of her new magic, she must use them, and the easiest way to deal with it is to think of them like her sire instructed. Her hatred of the church takes its far more primal form as well, being a personal vendetta against God and his church for abandoning her family to be murdered by his own agents for simply being born magi. She only shows mercy to them because she does not want to sink to their level, and deep down she wishes she could murder every last one of them.
History: Ruby was born to Aldred and Alena Boivin on April 20th, 1910 in the south of England. The Boivins were a family of mages specializing in spirit magic, quite fitting given the fate that would befall their oldest daughter. From a very young age, it was obvious that Ruby was a bit....different, even for a mage. She learned to speak and read at alarmingly fast rates, learning languages as soon as they were introduced to her, even able to read and write languages only spoken to her. It was obvious that the girl was a psychic, but it was not something as frightening as some of the other powers, so they lived quite a normal home life. She would gain her soror percara, her beloved sister, a few years after she was born in 1913. Her name was Amethyst, and unlike her older sister, she did not display any unusual signs of unnatural power, she was born simply as a mage and nothing more. The two of them grew up very close, with Ruby as a doting older sister who often was in charge of her little sister while the parents researched, as well as helping her sister with her magical and academic studies, as thanks to her unnatural comprehension of language, Ruby was far more than just three years ahead of her dear little sister. This, of course, led to her dear sister being rather star struck with her, and bringing the two of them even closer than a set of sisters normally would be.
This normal, or at least as normal as life could be for magi, continued for many years until that fateful night on a cold January night in 1923. Ruby was at home with her parents, while Amethyst was away from home, getting fitted for new clothes as a birthday present to her, as it would be her 10th birthday in less than a week. Suddenly, the door to their estate was broken down, and Ruby's parents hurried her into a closet without telling her exactly what was happening, and told her not to move or make a noise as long a possible, and she quietly obeyed. As she did so however, church agents barged into the house, and killed her parents, who were not too far away from the place she was hiding. The church agents were merciless, killing her parents in an especially brutal fashion, scarring the poor girl for life to hate them and everything they stood for. God, the church, and general believers to an extent only invoke hatred from Ruby, no matter how much good they may do, she cares about none of it. The church agents, having finished with her parents, retreated outside and lit the house on fire before leaving, forcing Ruby to flee her home as fast as possible, with the only thoughts on her mind being that she was glad that her sister was safe and that she needed to get revenge on the church, no matter the cost.
After that, Ruby began to make her way out of Britain, sing her knowledge, her magic, and her abilities to do so. Her final destination was Romania, the homeland of the Strigoi, a group of vampires who were powerful spirit mages, far more powerful than her parents ever were. She needed power, she needed that power that the Strigoi had in order to avenge the death of her parents, after all, as she was now, there was no way she could stand up against hunters of the church, and she knew it. And after about a year or so of travelling across Europe, she made it. She made her way all the way to their homeland, and she managed to join their ranks, however instead of being turned into one, she was taken in as a warlock apprentice as Strigoi custom dictated. She needed to prove her worth before they would make her one of them. And over the next two years, she did exactly that, using her sheer drive for revenge as fuel, she mastered any and all material put in front of her, and overcame any test they threw her way. And at last, at age 17, Ruby Boivin died, and became a fledgling of House Strigoi.
She spent years training with her sire, doing odd jobs, translating, and learning magic from him, and this continued even through the outbreak of war in Europe. Her master aligned himself with Thule, and as a result, the Nazis and Axis powers. He didn't care what they were doing to the people or anything like that, and he taught Ruby that she she should not either. They were providing him with supplies, subjects, and free victims to feed on in exchange for his support and research into what they asked him for, and this is when he made sure to teach Ruby that food and experiments weren't human, they were objects to be used as one pleased. It would simply be too harsh otherwise. It was during this time that she was deemed ready to contract with her first spirit, and in an unsurprising but unusual turn of events, she decided she would make her first contract with a daemon. Most strigoi chose spirits of other kinds as their first bound familiars, however she was different. She truly enjoyed transgressing the mindless edicts that the church laid out, and she got it in her head that she would only contract with Daemons and nothing else. This, of course, was more dangerous than normal for a beginner, as Daemons rarely volunteered to go willingly into a contract that was anywhere near favorable for the Strigoi in question.
Ruby, however, was confident. She knew demons were very prideful creatures, and she had an ace up her sleeve. She would use her psychic power to trump a demon in a contest that would force them to submit willingly to her. And that she did, she summed her contracted demon Izodar, and made a very dangerous bet with her. If she lost, then she would be the Izodar's slave for all eternity, and if she won, Izodar would willingly submit herself to her for all time. Izodar, who was all too arrogant, made the mistake of giving Ruby the choice of contest, and she challenged the demon to a contest of translating demonic to English. The demon, thinking the girl a fool as there was no way she could know demonic, accepted and thus her downfall was sealed. Ruby thoroughly trounced the demon by using her innate gift for language to translate the passage far faster than the Daemon could, forging the beginning of the relationship that she and Izodar have to this day.
Time continued to pass for them, as it always does, with her sire doing jobs for Thule and leaving her behind so that she would not get involved, as she was not yet ready to participate in his opinion, and her helping out by doing translations when he needed them. However, as time passes, things change, and even vampires are not immune to this. The allies finally invaded france and were cutting through the Axis lines, and it only would be a matter of time before they reached Germany and the war would be over. Knowing something was coming, her sire sent her back to the Strigoi HQ, and continued to stay with Thule until the very bitter end, dying in the resulting catastrophe that changed the world forever.
After the revealing of the supernatural to the world, she and went underground for many years as many of her kind were butchered and killed by the humans who outnumbered them and the church which had gained much traction among the common people as the heroes who fought the monsters. For decades she lived on the run from her mortal enemy and the common people who were afraid of anything that was not human. However, after many years the pressure began to relent, and she once again began to live a life where she was no longer on the run, instead she formed ties with the Magicians Guild as well as re-establishing communication with what remained of House Strigoi after the violent decades after the end of WWII. Since then, she has been living her life, hoping that her little sister she left so many years ago was able to live a relatively normal life after that, though she made no real effort to investigate too much further. After all, she was more than likely dead of old age by now, and she was not particularly interested in finding out the truth, after all, it was very likely that she had died after the great catastrophe at the end of the second world war.
Now she is currently stationed in Lakecrest city with the Magicians Guild, and acts as a sort of bridge between them, and House Strigoi, spending her time researching the topics she is given, and trying to gain more power, after all, her revenge is still central to her, she would not rest until she could get revenge on the church for ruining her life, her sister's life, and killing her parents.
STATISTICS
Blood: D (30 Units)
Strength: E
Endurance: E
Agility: E
LOADOUT
Arma Sanguinia:
Name: Pugionii Sacrificii
Rank: E
Description: This dagger is a special sort of tool called an Arma Sanguinia, which is an imitation of Arma Maga created by the Strigoi clan. It works in a very similar manner to a traditional Arma Maga, however, instead of operating on mana like they do, it instead operates on the blood of the Strigoi user, taking advantage of the special properties of their blood to produce the necessary effect. This particular Arma Sanguinia acts as a tool to help capture research specimens or food, when it is stabbed into the target and activated, it floods them wit a paralytic and anesthetic effect, rendering them unconscious and easy for the vampire using it to do as they please with the incapacitated target. This effect is strong enough to work on the average person without trouble, however supernatural creatures and stronger humans would need to be worn down in order for it to be of much effect.
Cost: 4
CAPABILITIES
Weaknesses:
Name: Holy
Description: Anything imbued with holy energies, makes things untouchable or difficult to touch.
Name: Silver
Description: Same reason as holy energies.
Name: Travelling over Water
Description: Traveling over bodies of water is impossible unless in a coffin filled with soil from the place of her birth.
Name: Sunlight
Description: Sunlight will kill her, making her a nocturnal creature.
Name: Fire
Description: Makes damage lasting like those of holy nature.
Name: Wooden Stake
Description: Wooden stakes, or anything of holy nature, to the heart are lethal
Skills:
Name: Thaumaturgical Knowledge (Strigoi Blood Thaumaturgy)
Description: The skill all magician's have, their knowledge of magic. This may range from all sorts of styles of magic imagined. This may include the traditional styles such as Onmyoudo, Alchemy, and Kabbalah. Others may not follow that mold and go about their own way. The rank of this skill determines how good you are at utilizing said magic style and will be a big factor in determining how well advanced you are within your specialized field. In order to cast a spell of a rank, this skill must at least have the same rank or higher.
Rank: E
Name: Academic Knowledge (Ancient Civilizations)
Description: As an area of immense interest to her as a result of her innate gift for languages, Ruby is well versed in the ins and outs of the ancient civilizations of Europe and the near east, This is helped along by her psychic power, especially in the languages department, but having been around for almost a century also has led her to be very proficient in her field of study.Being able to read languages like her own native language, as well as speak them, makes it very easy for her to learn about ancient cultures from untranslated sources.
Rank: E
Name: Atelier
Description: Every Magician has a place where they can devote themselves to research. A very personal space that many shouldn't attempt to enter without permission. The average Magician can set up a simple "workshop" for this purpose. This workshop allows a Magician to work without drawing too much attention from mere mortals. However, the supernaturally-inclined would still easily perceive its presence. To personalize an Atelier further would require a Magical Knowledge Skill.
Incantation: Offero tibi sacrificium sanguinis daemones notoriam. Terminato sanctifica hoc sacrificium per agrum solum sanguinis mei tuebor ut me meae ipsi fines usus est ut non in manufactis sanctis Iesus hominis nec pernumerare curiosi. Offero sanguinis per contractus nunc rerum cardinem et custodias de loco isto in oculis meis. Huc dedicauit sanguine sacrificium daemonibus multo magic.
Rank: E
Abilities:
Name: Blood Thaumaturgy
Description: The unique ability of the vampires to use rituals and spells through their blood. Through blood sacrifice of their own and others, they are capable of performing rituals unique to them. Such an ability relies on the "patronage" of a spiritual being with power.
Rank: E
Name: Blood Contract
Description: The Strigoi also have an unique form of blood that actually affects spiritual entities of both benevolent spirits and even some malicious demons. Any such entities that manage to take in blood in their bodies are bound to the Strigoi. Sometimes there will be set conditions between the Strigoi and the spiritual entity. Other times they can force the contract on such creatures, but only if they manage to force them into submissions through force.
Rank: E
Name: Regeneration
Description: Vampires are capable of healing from their inflicted wounds on their own. This is what makes them difficult to kill. Due to this ability, they actually are able to survive wounds that may kill an average person. It takes supernatural attacks to make any lasting effect, especially those of holy nature which has the most effectiveness.
Rank: E
Name: Frenzy
Description: s is presented to them. Under that newly presented factor, vampires would either try to eliminate/kill what caused it to frenzy or flee out of fear. Some of it maybe a cause of their anger, desperation, or many other forms of reasons. Many vampires who frenzy tend to become numb to pain. However, they are still capable of being damaged. Most vampires who frenzy tend to lack motor functions as they are in a berserk state.
Rank: E
Name: Blessing of Agares
Description: A psychic ability that Ruby was born with, predating her time as a vampire. She is able to speak and understand any language that she comes across as natural as if she had been speaking it her whole life, including being able to read and write it. However, this only applies to the languages of the beings of this world, she has no ability to understand or commune with the horrors.
Rank: E
Techniques/Spells:
Name: Necrosis
Incantation: שטן של החוזה הראשון שלי, לשמוע את השיחה שלי ושחקנים בשבילי! אנכי מצוך כוחות שטניים, להירקב הבשר של האויבים שלי!
Description: By invoking the necromancy of her contracted daemon, Ruby causes the flesh of a foe to begin to rot, dealing E+ rank magic damage. This takes effect by shooting a beam of necrotic energy which causes damage to a a 2inch diameter area as it rots.
Cost: 4
Rank: E
Type: Offense
Name: Unholy Might
Incantation: שטן של החוזה הראשון שלי, לשמוע את השיחה שלי ושחקנים בשבילי! כוחות שטניים, להחדיר חיים קדוש זה עם כוח ולהביא אותם לנצחון!
Description: Through invoking her first contracted spirit, Ruby imbues herself or another undead creature, be it vampire or raised ghouls or skeleton, with power, giving them two plus modifiers to be distributed. Lasts for three posts.
Cost: 5
Rank: E
Type: Defensive
Name: Bind Soul
Incantation: שטן של החוזה הראשון שלי, לשמוע את השיחה שלי ושחקנים בשבילי! לקשור את הנשמה המתה זה למטוס הזה ולמנוע מנוחת העולמים שלהם. עד שאאפשר להם לנוח, הם ישמשו אותי!
Description: A form of more complicated necromancy than simple blood thaumaturgy allows, originating from her Bound Daemon Izodar. This allows her to bind low ranking spirits to things like skeletons and Dead that she raises, allowing them a limited form of consciousness, just enough to complete a set of tasks on their own without supervision and react to situations that aren't exactly in their parameters, but they will not be having philosophical discussions anytime soon. This is limited to giving basic sentience to 5 or so at a time, and of course require the requisite materials. They have F Strength and Agility as well as E ranked endurance.
Cost: 5
Rank: E
Type: Binding Ritual
Name: Blood Summoning
Incantation: Varies (Normally in Latin, but can be others)
Description: The ritual summoning spell of the Strigoi. Its incantations vary widely depending on the target they wish they call upon, so does the sacrifices. If a human spirit is to be summoned, human blood suffices. Or for a vampire, vamipric blood. However, in order to summon more powerful entities, the sacrificial blood they offer must be of equal quality. Even if a spirit is summoned, they must either come to an agreement in a contract or force it to accept it. This is also not something to be used in combat given it takes a long time to set up and the summoned spirit is also likely to not accept servitude.
Cost: Varies
Rank: E
Type: Ritual
CONTRACTED SPIRITS
True Name: Izodar Bune
Age: Appears to be in her mid twenties.
Gender: Female
Type: Daemon
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She has learned to appreciate many of the same things as her mistress, as they share a body and therefore the same senses, leading her to develop a taste for the same things that her mistress enjoys. She does, however, have a few distinct differences from her mistress. While she does help to keep her emotions in check, she also discourages the good things that come as a result of those emotions shining through, such as her wanting to save people when she can. She very much wants to make her mistress into the facade that she puts forth, or at least help her grow into it more than she already has. She, in some senses, is trying to encourage her mistress to grow up and lose the naivete that she has harbored for so long. She very much approves of how her mistress views her food and potential parts to her experiments, and wants to drive the last vestiges of doubt from her mind about it.
Essentially, she is a demon through and through, even if she does care about her mistress, she can only show it in her own warped demonic fashion, trying to bring her up to be more like a demon than a human, as that is what she indeed knows how to raise as she is a demon herself. Her kindness is warped through the lens of her being, and she does to a degree love her master, though that love is not normal whatsoever. It is a demon's sense of love, after all. To erase the pain in her mistresses heart, she wants to erase the reason inside of her that makes it hurt, isntead of the direct stimulus. Perhaps this is because of her demonic nature, but this also may be because it is all she can do in her state. She is unable to affect the outside world, so instead she works to change her mistress so that she is able to interact with the world as a vampire without any internal strife.
History: Izodar was born into the Bune family several decades before she met Ruby, but she really did not count the years, as her family was not that focused on things like age, seniority was a thing but only birth order matter for that. However, above all, what mattered was power, as her family was a very traditional family of Daemons, who ran their family much like one would run an organized crime syndicate in the world of humans. She was a middle child, neither the youngest nor the oldest, so she always felt the need to go out of her way to gain attention and do her best to gain the power necessary to stand out despite not being the oldest, and not being paid attention to like the youngest. This often led to her pulling very dangerous stunts to gain power and recognition in her family, which were of varied success. However, none of her defeats were too bad, except for one, the one that led to her meeting with Ruby.
She, as usual, was attempting to gain power in the family by gaining powerful minions, and when she was called upon by a young, but skilled, Strigoi, she saw her opportunity to gain a very valuable underling. She seemed naive to Izodar, wanting to put forth a wager to get her to submit willingly, instead of trying to force her into submission. Amused by how well this turn of events was going for her, she accepted the challenge, which was translating Demonic to English, rather pridefully, not realizing that it was odd that the contractor would suggest a game that was so much in favor of her, her pride blinding her to this crucial fact As one might expect as a result of this, Izodar was beaten quite badly, and she had no choice but to submit herself as she had sworn, as if she did not, her family would disavow her and possibly kill her. Thus began her long history with Ruby, and the rest has already been told from Ruby's perspective.
Skills:
Name: Magical Knowledge (Infernal Necromancy)
Description: The skill all magician's have, their knowledge of magic. This may range from all sorts of styles of magic imagined. This may include the traditional styles such as Onmyoudo, Alchemy, and Kabbalah. Others may not follow that mold and go about their own way. The rank of this skill determines how good you are at utilizing said magic style and will be a big factor in determining how well advanced you are within your specialized field. In order to cast a spell of a rank, this skill must at least have the same rank or higher.
Rank: E
Abilities:
Name: Infernal Magic Manipulation
Description: The ability to cast Magic. One must be born to use it. With this ability, the world can be manipulated to the degree of one's knowledge and affinity in Magic. This ability ranks up with one's own Mana Statistic. All Magicians must have this ability or they cannot cast anything. That said, they must have this ranked up to at least same rank of the desired spell they wish to cast.
Rank: E
Techniques/Spells:
Name: Necrosis
Incantation: אנכי מצוך כוחות שטניים, להירקב הבשר של האויבים שלי!
Description: By invoking her infernal necromancy, she can cause the flesh of one enemy to begin to rot, dealing E rank magical damage. This takes effect by shooting a beam of necrotic energy which causes damage to a a 2inch diameter area as it rots.
Cost: 4
Rank: E
Type: Offense
Name: Unholy Might
Incantation: כוחות שטניים, להחדיר חיים קדוש זה עם כוח ולהביא אותם לנצחון!
Description: Izodar blesses an undead creature, such as a vampire or other undead, with necromantic power, giving them two plus modifiers to distribute among their stats. LAsts for 3 posts.
Cost: 5
Rank: E
Type: Defensive
Name: Bind Soul
Incantation: לקשור את הנשמה המתה זה למטוס הזה ולמנוע מנוחת העולמים שלהם. עד שאאפשר להם לנוח, הם ישמשו אותי!
Description: A form of middle ranked necromancy that allows the binding of souls to something. This allows her to bind weak human souls or animal souls to constructs to give them a very basic form of consciousness and complete tasks on their own, but independent thought is limited and they will not be having philosophical discussions anytime soon. This is limited to giving basic sentience to 5 or so at a time, and of course require the requisite materials. They have F Strength and Agility as well as E ranked endurance.
Cost: 5
Rank: E
Type: Binding