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Name: Amelia Draculesti (reference to the historical dynasty)
Age: 561
Gender: Female
Species: Vampire (Elder)
Nationality: Hungarian

Personality: Amelia has two faces; her inner self that is calm, calculating, but compassionate even for humans which at times put her at odds with fellow Vampires when she'd aid one without recompense; then there is the masquerade whereby she is a bar owner in town and an upstanding citizen. 

Equipment: Amelia throughout her long life has acquired both equipment old and new. In another time she wore plate armor and wielded a sword named [i]Tyr[/i]. Now she wields a Colt Python with an 8" barrel firing a .357 magnum cartridge. 

Appearance: 
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Amelia is regarded as beautiful, unnaturally so, and does not hesitate to flirt as a way to achieve her own ends. Despite being over five centuries in age Amelia does not appear to be more than 21-25 in human years. Frequently masquerading as a bachelorette or biker-chick. Festooned in black shoes, black leather pants showing off her legs, and a leather body-jacket bearing a fanged bat on the back embroidered in red thread. The letters, [i]Sanguis vitam est sanguis[/i] woven in silver thread underneath the bat's claws. The translation meaning, [i]The blood is life, life is blood.[/i]

Other: Amelia has a hobby of collecting antique medieval weaponry. Often seen frequenting pawn shops and auctions as a result. She can also transfigure herself into that of a white she-wolf. 

History: Amelia is a pureblood, born a vampire, and it is all she has ever known. Born in the year 1455 to the Draculesti clan, the vampiric branch of the historical dynasty, and grew up in a coven of vampires. Her early childhood, which spanned a couple decades to say the least, was largely spent in the Carpathian mountains. Amid the numerous human wars in the region, the war torn landscape was often just as dangerous for vampires as humans, and as a result her earliest memories where of being isolated within the coven's castle perched on steep cliffs. 

But the invading Ottomans, bent on conquest, had discovered it's location. The vampires at first resisted, but the Ottomans where aided by Vampire Hunters, and in a furious siege lasting more than a month they laid waste to the stronghold in 1480. The few surviving Vampires of her clan fled across the Black Sea to the Caucasus. Thinking that this far flung region would be safe. They where wrong, for the Vatican had followed them, and by 1486 a handful of survivors slipped through the Bosporus straits. Landing in Venice, under the very nose of the Vatican, where they laid low. 

Establishing themselves in Venice, Florence, Vienna, and Munich the Vampires began a war of revenge. A secret war of assassination and counter-assassination with the Vampire Hunters. Waging this without end until 1551 when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and privy to the secret war. Successfully attacked the Vampires hideouts, using the cover of proclaimed heresy to not arouse suspicion among the greater human populace, butchering every vampire they found in a night of bloody anger. Yet the Venetian branch had escaped. Using great guile they slipped across the Adriatic on a barge, landing in Ragusa, were they again took up their vampiric crusade. Amelia by this time was becoming renowned among vampires as an able warrior and tactician; while, for her extreme beauty, becoming an object of lust by various suitors. 

Amelia and the coven she belonged too would not enter secret historical annals again until the end of the Thirty Year's War in Germany. The Vampires, disguising themselves, having aided the Protestants against the Imperial Catholic forces! However, on the field of Lutzen, when Gustavus Adolphus became aware of his allies true nature he was assassinated in the heat of battle. Amelia, dressed in the livery of an Imperial cavalryman, complete with fake beard and cut hair, shot the Swedish King through the heart. Ending this potential breach. The Peace of Westphalia occurred and Amelia took up residence in Paris. Rumors circulated among vampiric circles that she had taken a human lover. For she was spotted with a handsome young man named Rudolf sometime in the 1690's.

As fate would have it, her lover was murdered, apparently for the obscenity of such a relationship. Amelia, took revenge in a kinslaying, and took off into the night. Roving about Continental Europe until the 1790's when she moved to London. Becoming a spy for Duke Wellington against Napoleon. Where she was wounded during the Peninsular campaign of 1808. 

After the Napoleonic Wars Amelia joined a small coven of vampires just North of London. Where she resided until 1919 when she relocated to America. Settling in as the second in command of the coven that would reside in Middleborough. Surviving the purge of the Vampire Hunters, once more fleeing, Amelia led the scattered survivors to Middleborough where they now reside. 

Taking up civilian life as a bar owner in town. 

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