[hider=Emmerich Jaeger]
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[b]Name:[/b] Emmerich Jaeger


[b]Appearance:[/b] 1,98m high, wide shoulders and an athletic build, Emmerich is certainly an imposing sight. Blonde, slightly wavy, shoulder length hair, which he usually wears tied in a ponytail and brown eyes. His serious expression, coupled with his build makes most people avoid him. Usually wears a top hat with a silver crest and decoration.

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The mask is the most noteworthy aspect. The terrible mask with a sadistic grin eternally mocking those who look at it.
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[b]Age:[/b] Certain age unknown. Appears to have around 25~30 years


[b]Personality:[/b] Emmerich is a serious and quiet man who most of the times prefer to pass unnoticed. A cold expression and stern posture are some of his defining traits. Making him open his heart can be a very difficult task, but if you know how to approach him though, you will find a deeply intelectual man who enjoys conversation and can be very warm and friendly to those whom he holds dear. Regarding women, Emmerich is not the womanizer type, preferring to chose very well his mate. His acid humour sometimes get the worst out of him, especially to strangers.

When he wears his mask, he undergoes a radical change in personality. Cruel and cold, he fights in an almost feral way, laughing as he moves with an animalistic agility. More sadistic than ever, he enjoys bloodshed while on this state. Dangerous and unscrupulous, he is not to be trusted while under this persona.


[b]History:[/b] Before being a hunter, Emmerich was a gentleman, a scholar who enjoyed researching everything, including magic and the night beasts, travelling through the lands, in his endless curiosity. Well... they say that those who search too much, can find things which they didn't wish they had. And that's exactly what happened to them. Foolishly walking inside a cave, which was a powerful ritual site, used by a powerful coven of witches, he saw things which deeply disturbed him. While hidden in the crevices of the cave, he observed the ritual with his notebook on hands, writing down everything. As the coven opened some kind of portal, he saw something that no human should see. His hands began to tremble, he screamed in horror, but nothing came out of his dry throat. He tried to avert his gaze from the portal, but it was useless. Something kept his eyes wide opened while unspeakable horrors invaded his mind. Falling on his knees, he passed out.

On the next day, another person woke up on that same cave... Cruel, sadistic and unscrupulous, filled with rage, this person proceeded to brutally murder an apprentice witch, who was left behind to clean the cave. Bathing in its blood with a terrible grin on his face, he ripped her flesh with his bare hands. Again and again, like a mad beast he bit her throat, dilacerating her flesh as his hands broke her bones and teared her apart. Long after she was dead, he continued. Bathed on her blood, a terrible laughter filled the cave, a laughter that was barely human at all... Tearing the witch's spine and pelvis out of its carcass, he proceeded to sit down and started to carve them with a piece of sharp stone, working diligently on them for an entire day.

The result? An immaculately white whip-rapier was the result, its disturbingly clean, ivory-colored edge was almost maddening. With her pelvis bone, a mask. The terrible mask that would haunt Emmerich's dreams forever, the same mask that symbolized his curse. 
Its maddening grin was almost like it was laughing to those who looked at it. Laughing at their pain, laughing at their suffering, laughing at their very soul.

The next day, an confused Emmerich woke up with a scream. Sweating and profusely disturbed due to the nightmares he believed he had. Upon looking around, he saw all the blood, meat and entrails decorating the cave with a beautiful crimson red color. And near his hands, the rapier and the mask... That dreaded mask... Laughing at him, remembering him of the monster that was inside of him, remembering that it was part of him. Willingly or not, he would wear it again, for it was part of him. He wouldn't be able to resist its call. After all, now he was as much of a monster as the beasts he studied.

Years later, an foreigner appeared in Seren's Folly. Terrible rumors came together with that man. The man said he was a scholar, and his purpose of coming to Seren's Folly was to study the night beasts. Some believed him, other didn't...

After a few months there, Emmerich was known as a specialist at night beasts by the other denizens of Seren's Folly. Some said he appeared to be cold, but actually helped them in protecting themselves of those beasts, giving them crosses, wolfsbane & etc. Others said that he was only fooling them. That he was actually a beast himself...

[b]Signature Weapon:[/b] 

[hider=Fragmentierte Seele (Fragmented Soul)]
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A bone rapier that transforms itself on a whip. Sharp, deadly and unpredictable, its a dark weapon with a terrible aura in it.

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[hider=Sniper Crossbow]
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Made of special alloy, its lighter than it seems. Firing special bolts made specifically for it (due to their size), its terribly accurate and packs a big punch
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Things they look for in a partner:[/b] Emmerich looks for someone who can soothe his heart. Help him to ward of the beast inside him away. Someone whom he open his heart for and understands him. Someone who will let him cry on her arms. Cry about all the horrors he saw and did.
While with his mask though, he is attracted by power and strong personalities.

[b]Pets/Familiars:[/b] Animals often react badly to him, being afraid and/or running away.
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[hider=Shai]
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[b]Name:[/b] Shai


[b]Appearance:[/b] Blonde, short eyes. Around 1,67m high, has a delicate face and a tiny build. Uses a big hat to hide (or at least try to) her draconic ears when near other people. As a dragon-human hybrid, she has a tail and her body is partially covered by scales (more specifically on her ribs, covering the side of her body and part of her belly, her back and her thighs. Has yellow eyes with a slit pupil.
Many hunters/witches and even normal people try to either capture or kill her due to her unique appearance and traits.


[b]Age:[/b] 19


[b]Personality:[/b] Around other people, Shai is very wary, and tends to have problems to trust others, due to her being mostly mistreated, hated and even beaten by others. Shai is a very sweet girl, curious and loves to talk... well... she would love to have someone to talk... Tends to be overly affectionate and is quick to get attached to someone, after it conquers her trust... which can take a lot of time and effort. She will often avoid unecessary fights, prefering to run from them, without harming anyone.


[b]History:[/b] Mankind always wanted to control everything which surrounded them. Everything they don't understand they tend to either hate and destroy or capture and try to subjugate it to their will. It is and it will be always like that.
Knowing this, I make you a question: what is the thing that humans fear the most, trying desperately to control or destroy it?
Its the magick. The arcane, energy, Mana, call it whatever you like. But the arcane is not like other forces in the universe. It has its own, unknown and ever changing laws. How can men control something that is eternally twisting and changing? They cant. Then they proceed to hate it and try to destroy it. Few are the ones who chose to embrace it, not trying to control and obtain it, but accepting it as part of the world. The ones who do it are called mages and witches, who see the world with different eyes, seeing it as it truly is.
But even those are still part humans, and some, who realize the unthinkable power that permeates the existence, try to hold it for their own. Those often die, burned by the arcane, or turn into arcane filled monsters, beasts without reason or thoughts, irregularities at the arcane flow, almost as tumors. Growing and burning their essence and arcane energy until their body cant hold it anymore and they simply burst. 

But it all changed when a substance called "Dragon Blood", or at least its this the name the researches gave it due to its crimson color and burning hot feeling, was discovered at the ruins of an antique and lost civilization, who instead of hating and repelling the arcane, chose to embrace it, the Babylonians. Legends tell of a mythical place where everything is possible, Babylon was built on a node on the arcane new, which runs through the reality. This node made possible incredible advances at the art of the arcane. But as always... Humanity destroyed it, fearing that which they couldn't understand, negating the arcane and every aspect of it. Apparently it is a condensed form of Bloodmoon stone. The only means to create it was lost with the babilonian civilization. It emanated an incredible amount of arcane energy, almost like it was warping and distorting the arcane net itself.

With this new substance, they did what the human race always did. Try to control it. Dissolving it and putting it in a human embryo, they made an entire new creature. A hybrid girl. 
This hybrid was a walking node at the arcane net. Not only tapping into it, but controlling it as well, She had unlimited access to the arcane energy.

Unfortunately, for the humans, this creature was as volatile and uncontrollable as the arcane itself. After suffering from years of living locked and being experimented on, the hybrid, which they gave the name "Shai" lost control. As they were trying to infuse innumerous Bloodmoon stones into her, trying to replicate the "Dragon's Blood". Losing the control over her own magick, the stars shook and trembled by the sudden outburst of power. With a huge flash and a terrible magical shockwave, a meteor fell on the research center, but instead of impacting on the earth and destroying everything, it hovered over the hybrid. The researchers looked, amazed as it glowed and changed its form, turning into an orb, mystical cards and a set of thorny dices, artifacts imbued with arcane energy.

With those in her hands, the hybrid, or I should say, Shai, ran away. Going as far as she could from there.

After years being mistreated and hunted due to her traits and appearance, Shai found refuge and shelter at the Forest near the mountain. Coincidentally there is a an Arcane Node hidden somewere in the mountain, which is perfect to hide Shai's presence from others. 
As the time passed, rumours began to be told at Seren's Folly, rumors of a "spirit" which lived inside a very old ruin, inside a cave at the Forest. This "spirit" would divine the fate of those who went there, requiring only one payment: the tale of one's life until the presente moment and a good conversation. No one who went there ever saw the spirit in person, but all of them say they heard its beautiful voice.
Some drunkards swear they saw the spirit, claiming it is a beautiful hybrid girl, with a tail and scales, but they are just crazy drunkards, who would believe them anyways, am I right?

[b]Special Power:[/b] Shai is able not only to read the stars (as a form of divination) using her star globe and tarot deck, but control them as well. By attuning her energies with the cosmos she can wield magicks of unseen and new properties, including healing, using the astral energy to smite her enemies (think of it as some kind of "starfall") , compressing or extending one's flow of time (slowing or accelerating them and their perception of time), and manipulating gravity (which she also uses to move her dices around at blinding speeds, as projectiles or barriers). Additionally, Shai can block one's access to magical energy if she touches this person. Its a complicated and lengthy process. Completely cutting a mage or a witch from the Arcane net is a process that can take up to hours, even days, but temporarily weakening it is something that can be done without too much effort.

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[b]
Things they look for in a partner:[/b] Partner? Do you mean... like a... mate? *blushes heavily covering her mouth* I don't know... maybe someone kind, strong, that doesn't care for my appearance. Someone interesting with lots of stories to tell me and that can take me to many interesting and different places!

[b]Pets/Familiars:[/b] None, untill now.
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