Profiles

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Acheron Parthenopaeus (Ash)

An ancient immortal Atlantean, the leader and trainer and first of the Dark-Hunters. Son of King Icarion and Queen Aara, Acheron is the elder twin brother of Styxx. He makes his home in Katoteros. Talon Runningwolf refers to him as "T-Rex".
Ash has a handprint scar on his neck. It comes and goes about as often as he changes the color of his hair. His presence will not drain your powers. He's one of the few Dark-Hunters who gets carded at bars. He's also the last face you'll ever see if you piss off the gods.
Much more than that you want to know, and I'm not at liberty to tell you. Let's just leave it at that and move along.
BORN: 9548 B.C.
BIRTHPLACE: Didymos
HEIGHT: six foot eight
HAIR/EYES: varies/silver
POWERS: omniscience, omnipotence, omnilingual
CURRENT LOCATION: Wherever he wants to be

Nicholas Ambrosius Gautier Nick. Nick, Nick,(Sigh.)

Bastard son of a convict (who died in Angola during a prison riot), and a teenage exotic dancer on Bourbon Street (Cherise Gautier), Nick was raised in the back room of his mother's club and ran wild as a child. He was pulled off the streets by the Dark-Hunter Kyrian. It didn't take him long to become a brilliant prelaw student at Loyola and a technogeek computer whiz. According to Tad Addams, Nick could hack into anything.
Nick was Kyrian's Squire and best man at his wedding, drinking buddies with Tabitha Devereaux, and—despite his smart-mouthed, mule-headed, charming-as-hell self—the closest thing to a best friend Acheron ever had. After Kyrian's return to mortality, Nick became Talon's unofficial, part-time Squire.
It all sort of went to pot the night Nick made the worst decision of his life and slept with Simi... though to his credit, he didn't know what she meant to Ash at the time. Ash went so crazy when he found out that he inadvertently cursed Nick by saying, "If I were you, I'd kill myself to save me the trouble of doing it later."
When Nick found his beloved mother after she had been murdered by the Desiderius-possessed Ulric, he took his own life so that Artemis would be forced to make him a Dark-Hunter and allow him his vengeance. Artemis—who cannot make a Dark-Hunter from a suicide—felt she had no right to Nick's soul, so she handed it over to Acheron. Nick bears his bow-and-arrow mark on his face and neck, mak¬ing it impossible to conceal (though it goes quite well with his Blood Rite tattoo). After Acheron gave Nick to Savitar to train, Savitar handed him over to Ravyn Kontis. Angry at the world, Nick ran off and really went to the dark side. He made a pact with Stryker and drank his blood, an act that gave him silver eyes and godlike powers.
Like the world didn't have enough to worry about.
BORN: September 12, 1978
BIRTHPLACE: New Orleans, Louisiana
HEIGHT: six foot four
HAIR/EYES: dark brown/hazel blue (turned silver)
AGE AT DEATH: twenty-seven
POWERS: godlike

Alexion

Alexion is not a name, it's an Atlantean title. The Alexion we know and love today is technically neither human nor Dark-Hunter nor Shade... he's one of those Acheron classifies as "other". His original incarnation was Ias of Groesia.
Ias was the third Dark-Hunter created after Acheron, and he's the whole reason there's an out clause to begin with. Ias, as a human, was killed by his wife's lover. Trusting that Ias's wife's love for him was pure (their first mistake), Acheron entrusted her with Ias's soul medallion.
However, even Ash can be wrong sometimes. The unfaithful wife, unwilling to bear the pain and bring Ias back to humanity, dropped the medallion and instantly doomed Ias to Shadedom. (And don't think she just got away with that. Happily, Ash turned Ias's wife into stone.)
Ash took pity on Ias. He gave him form (of sorts) and took him to live beside him in Katoteros. He bestowed upon Ias the title of Alexion and branded him with Acheron's mark: a gold sun with three lightning bolts.
Unfortunately, Acheron at the time was still coming into his role and was not aware of the full extent of his powers, so—unlike many Acheron has revived since—Alexion can never be truly human again. As a Shade his senses are muted; his lot is to observe life, not live it.
His duties include watching over Simi and keeping her out of trouble. Alexion can also pass judgment on Dark-Hunter groups that are trying to overthrow Acheron's authority, but he can't be outside Acheron's domain for any longer than ten days. No Dark-Hunter retains a memory of the white-coated Alexion once he has passed judgment and returned to Katoteros.
Alexion, like Simi, can only be killed by an Atlantean dagger from the Destroyer herself. He can explode Daimons with a thought. He can hear the Shades as they wail in their living hell. He does not eat; he drinks Ash's blood to survive. (Though he does like popcorn... it has something to do with the consistency.)
He currently lives in Katoteros with Ash, Simi, and Dangereuse St. Richard, Alexion's Dark-Hunter true love who was brought to Katoteros by Acheron after her death.
HAIR/EYES: blond/hazel-green
POWERS: godlike
FEATURED Novel: Sins of the Night

Ryn ap-Owain

Ryn was a Welsh prince whose family was betrayed and wiped out by an ambitious neighbor. In a vengeful rage, he led a suicide charge against his enemy and was left for dead.
BORN: April 25, 1400
BIRTHPLACE: Gwynedd, Wales
HEIGHT: six foot five
HAIR/EYES: black
POWERS: pyiokinesis
AGE AT DEATH: twenty-four
CURRENT Location: Santa Cruz, California

Arien

Arien began her life as the kindhearted daughter of thief. She dedicated her life to helping others, until a clansman accused her of sorcery and blamed her for the death of his wife. Arien and her father escaped into the hills, where they were then betrayed by her lover. Her father was hanged, and Arien was burned as a heretic.
BORN: a.d. 1052
BIRTHPLACE: Gwynedd, Wales
HEIGHT: five foot ten
HAIR/EYES: dark brown
POWERS: precognition
CURRENT LOCATION: New York, N.Y.

Rogue

Baughy, Christopher (aka Rogue) Nickname: Kit. A known Dark-Hunter.
BORN: July 4, 1702
BIRTHPLACE: London, England
HEIGHT: six foot four
HAIR/EYES: black
POWERS: cryokinesis
CURRENT LOCATION: Chicago, Illinois
(since the books don't talk about him much, feel free to use him in the present however you want but keep the past shadowed, not your place to make him a past.)

Blade

A Saxon peasant who rose to knighthood on merit alone, Blade eventually became a mercenary for William the Conqueror. He was assassinated by his lover during the 1066 Norman Invasion after he snuck her through enemy troops to safety.
BORN: a.d. 1032
BIRTHPLACE: Northumberland, England
HEIGHT: six foot four
HAIR/EYES: dark brown
POWERS: telekinesis
CURRENT LOCATION: Atlanta, Georgia

Sundown

Brady, "Jess" William Jessup: Orphaned at age five, Jess was a gunslinger, train robber, and cardsharp by age sixteen. He obtained the nickname "Sundown" because they claimed he always did his best work after dark. The bounty on his head was enough to persuade the best man at Jess's wedding to shoot him in the back. The best man collected... and, thanks to Artemis, so did Jess.
Jess is the only Dark-Hunter that Zarek has ever confided in (they met while playing Myst online). Not surprisingly, he wears a black Stetson.
BORN: August 14, 1869
BIRTHPLACE: Possum Town, Mississippi
HEIGHT: six foot five
HAIR/EYES: dark brown
POWERS: precognition, telekinesis
AGE AT DEATH: twenty-four
CURRENT LOCATION: Reno, Nevada

Cael

A Celtic Dark-Hunter whose wife (Morag), brother, washerwoman mother, and sister (Corynna) were all slain by Vikings in 904. Cael's nobleborn father had sold them all into slavery to save his own wretched life. He probably knew that the Vikings didn't want slaves—they wanted people on whom to practice their fighting skills. Cael was forced to watch as his entire family and his he loved wife were killed before his eyes.
And then came vengeance.
An artist of sorts, Cael makes recycled trash sculptures that he keeps al his home in the basement underneath the Happy Hunting Ground (an Apollite bar) in Seattle. His only friend through the centuries has been the Dark-Hunter/Were-Hunter Ravyn Kontis.
In 2006, Cael's Apollite-turned-Daimon (by accident) wife, Amaranda, fed him the blood of a Daimon to save him from dying—an act that caused his black eyes to be streaked with amber.
BORN: September 2, 879
BIRTHPLACE: Cornwall, England
HEIGHT: six foot six
HAIR/EYES: black/black and amber
POWERS: psychometry, telekinesis
CURRENT LOCATION: Seattle, Washington

Corbin

Nickname: Binny (to a chosen few). A Dark-Huntress, Corbin is a former beloved Greek queen who married and was widowed young. Her reign was uncontested until her brother-in-law made a pact with a barbarian tribe to sack the city and burn it to the ground. She died trying to save her servants and their children.
Corbin gets her kicks out of sneaking up on people. Her Squire is Sara Addams.
BORN: January 17, 190 B.C.
BIRTHPLACE: Athens, Greece
HEIGHT: five foot ten
HAIR: auburn
POWERS: chronokinesis, teleportation
AGE AT DEATH: twenty-six
CURRENT LOCATION: St. Paul, Minnesota

Esperetta Danesti

Nickname: Retta. The daughter of Vlad Tepes (aka Dracula or Vlad the Impaler), Esperetta grew up isolated in a nunnery in the Caucasus. From the moment of her birth, it was decided that she would be a gift to the Church to atone for her father's sins. Retta had no desire for anything else... until the day Velkan saved her from a fate worse than death (see Velkan Danesti). Retta fell instantly in love with the handsome warrior prince. They were married in secret and—because he was a sorcerer—Velkan bound her soul to his so that they might remain together for all eternity.
Killed by Retta's father, Velkan took up Artemis's deal to become a Dark-Hunter. He swore vengeance upon Vlad, and killed him. But because they had been bound by sorcery, when Velkan was reborn as a Dark-Hunter... so was his soul mate.
BORN: December 25, 1452
BIRTHPLACE: Wallachia, Romania
HEIGHT: six feet
HAIR/EYES: auburn/blue
POWERS: longevity
CURRENT LOCATION: Transylvania
FEATURED STORY: "Until Death We Do Part" in the Love at First Bite Anthology

Velkan Danesti

Velkan was the illegitimate son of a Hungarian sorceress-princess and a Moldavian prince who—like the infamous Vlad Dracul—was a member of the Order of the Dragon. Velkan grew up at his father's side, fighting invaders. His brothers were captured and enslaved by their enemies.
Rather than be turned into a slave, Velkan sold his soul to devil for freedom. He vowed that no one would ever enslave or tame him. At age fifteen, he fought and freed his one brother who still lived.
At twenty-six, Velkan captured a band of invaders who had attacked and robbed a group of nuns on their way to Trigoviste. There in their midst, he found a novice who they had captured with the intent to rape and kill her.
This novice from Wallachia was none other than Esperetta, the daughter of Vlad Dracul, one of his father's most hated enemies. Despite her ancestry, Velkan took her to his home and cared for her... and fell in love with her. (See Esperetta Danesti.)
Velkan has a scar

Zarek of Moesia

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Zarek was born the unwanted son of a Greek slave and a Roman senator. Moments after his birth, his mother gave him to a servant with orders to kill the infant. The servant took mercy on the child and took him to his father who had no more use for the baby than his mother had so Zarek became the whipping boy of a noble Roman family.
No one knows how he died or why he traded his soul- he keeps it as a well-guarded secret. He trusts no one. He seldom interacts with other Dark-Hunters and when he does, it is always grudgingly and with the utmost disdain for them.
Because of his steadfast denial to follow any orders (even those of Artemis) and his lack of regard for anyone other than himself, he is kept in isolation in Alaska where his activity is seriously limited and closely monitored. There are many who fear he will one day unleash his powers against the humans as well as the Daimons.
Born: 155 BC
Birthplace: Viminacium, Moesia
Current Location: Alaska