Here's the first character I'll be dropping into this. Apologies for the continued delay - I should be able to get this up and running tomorrow, provided my laptop will cooperate. I'll be putting in one or two more, though I don't imagine they'll be that important (or long-lived. We need victims...)

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Name: Han Lee
Age: Over 400; looks to be in his 20s.
Gender: Male
Species: Dragon
Appearance:
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Abilities/Skills: 
In human form he is slightly quicker and strong than most people.
He is a [i]‘jianke’ [/i]– a skilled swordsman with the Chinese Jian sword using a style of martial arts combat called [i]taijijian[/i] – basically t’ai chi with weapons.
He can turn into a dragon. In dragon form he has incredible strength and limited invulnerability – most types of weapons will bounce off his shining skin, though enchanted weapons will still hurt him. 
If flying as a dragon he can, when he chooses, cause a small storm (basically thunder and lightning).

Weakness: 
He can only hold his dragon form for a short time and with the growth of lighting in cities has to be careful not to be seen. If he tries to hold this form too long, he will eventually revert forcibly back into his human form and collapse, exhausted.
He has a strange effect on technology: if he tries to use anything more modern than an electric lightbulb it will almost inevitably go wrong. His computer crashes with monotonous regularity, and his landline telephone is only borderline reliable; as for mobiles – forget it. He gave up driving almost as soon as he got a car (not only could the mechanic not fix it, he couldn't work out what was wrong with it).
he has a sense of responsibility that means he will put himself at risk to protect others.

Personality: Quiet, disciplined and soft-spoken. Han has an air of authority about him. Although often thoughtful and allowing others their say, he can be opinionated and stubborn. He may feel protective of some of the younger or weaker supernaturals he knows of. He has a very dry sense of humour, seldom noticed by those he meets.

Brief history/background: Han was born in what is now Nainjing province in China in the reign of the Emperor Yingzong (around 1440). Growing up in a poor peasant family, Han had no desire to work the land like his father and brothers. Visiting the nearest town, he quickly developed a taste for women, strong drink and gambling. He fell in with a bad crowd and ended up joining a group of bandits; the leader took a shine to the young man and taught him the basics of swordfighting. After he’d been with the bandits for a couple of years they made the mistake of attacking a monk, who turned on his attackers, killing most of them. He was eventually stabbed from behind by the bandit leader. Han, prompted by an impulse he didn’t understand, fought with the leader and killed him. The other bandits fled and Han turned to the monk, who was clearly dying. As Han held him the monk whispered words, presumably a prayer, and clutched at the young man. As the monk died, Han felt a terrible pain on his back, like a brand burning him and passed out. When he came to, he had the tattoo of a dragon on his back. 
He soon found out this tattoo had a strange effect on him: he could no longer continue with his previous dissolute lifestyle; if he tried to indulge in drinking and whoring his back would burn like fire, and he could no longer turn his sword against innocent men – in fact, he found himself drawing his blade against his former friends – quite against his will; the dragon seemed to be controlling him.
In desperation, Han searched for other monks. It took a long time, but he eventually found their monastery.  The monks explained that their murdered brother had clearly ignited the spark of goodness in Han’s heart and bestowed the dragon upon him – the dragon would not allow its human bearer to commit any evil act as it was the guardian of innocence. To live in peace with the dragon soul he now housed, Han would have to follow the path of righteousness. He stayed with the monks for many years, learning how to master the powers the dragon had given him, as well as learning how to use the sword and becoming a genuinely better person.
He travelled to Europe during the 1600s, accompanying some Europeans merchants. After passing through most of mainland Europe he arrived in Britain – he can’t remember the year, but it was during the end of Elizabeth I’s reign. What with one thing and another, he never went back.
Han works nowadays as an antique dealer, specialising in Chinese antiques. He used to be helpful in returning items the Europeans had ransacked from China back to his homeland, but has been reluctant to do so since the Cultural Revolution. Though it pains him, he’s beginning to think it’s better for an item to be preserved in the Metropolitan or British Museum where it can be viewed by all rather than being sent back to China to be held by some shady businessman who will lock it away in his vault.

Anything else: In his human form, his dragon form is shown as a tattoo on his back. 
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