Callina Draft [hider=Callina] [b]NAME[/b] Callina venenum publicly. Matriarch / Void mistresses her cultists. [b]AGE[/b] 28 [b]RING[/b] 3rd / 4th [b]ROLE[/b] Matriarch to the cult of shadows. The Cult of shadows is a death cult, assasins ply their trade and its members can be found to bring death in all forms. She is its leader. And its influence is rising higher and extending their tendrils…slowly. On surface she is a mistress of a web of establishments who deal in the vices of men and women. They do not have Judge as long as you have the coin to pay for it. [b]DESCRIPTION[/b] White haired, slender, and lithe. Her skin is pale yet also full of life and a strong hint of danger. In her public persona she is seen as a mistress of a wide number of less morally reputable establishments that serve the desires of those with the coin to pay for them. Dressed in garments that would scandalise an upper ring she presents a rather hedonistic front. Her cult attire is no less provocative, though her face is always masked. One near albino is quite like another in the lower tiers. The leather mask artfully merges the bones of its predecessor as a warning to those who may think to repeat it. Make no mistake, however she dresses to distract and detract… She is deadly. The rumour of her drinking blood and vampirism is potentially not always a rumour. Men and women have not returned from her bed or bath chambers. Her choice of attire can be interesting….but is pragmatic. Whatever works. Works. [hider=My Hider] [img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1136641321864540202/1136641694260011068/70969850.png[/img] [img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1136641321864540202/1136641693177876490/71189486.png[/img] [img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1136641321864540202/1136641693685395497/55866920.png[/img] [img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1136641321864540202/1136641692657791066/37109116.png[/img] [/hider] [b]PERSONALITY[/b] Ruthless, you do not rise to lead a death cult by being nice. A lady who can charm one minute and flirt but also kill you 30 seconds later without mercy. Her front is not a lie, she has no shame, no qualms and her hedonistic rumours are often somewhat true if later exaggerated. Very few things phase her. Her loyalty to gold. Herself and own interests thus her cult. They may have ties to rebels. But that's far from their only customers. [b]SKILLS[/b] Assassin Knife fighting Poisoning and trickery Charm…when needed Matriarch at centre of a spider's Web. Can heal herself / feed by drinking blood. Charismatic cult leader. [b]BACKGROUND[/b] Her true parentage is unknown, maybe 5th ring refugees, maybe an upper rings bastad or an unwanted child of nobility. No one knows. An orphan was left on the cults doorstep and found, taking her in, she was raised slowly by them becoming her twisted but also loyal family as much as they could be. Callina was trained by the cult along with other found children who wandered their way into its clutches. Toys were wooden daggers, play was combat training, the cult was no such easy childhood. Most had killed before they reached their teens and already taken their first contracts before their 15th name day. The cult was brutal, darwinian, many died or failed but those few who survived were some of the best killers in the group. Trained from a young age, they could Infiltrate, evade, and specialise in all manner of weapons. Some from a distance, some up close, others in their own beds, kitchens and more. There was many ways and the cult brought death to every flavour. Callina was ambitious, dangerously so but also dangerously smart. Gathering allies and slowly cultivating her position by expanding their surface interests to hide and fund their activities even into the 3rd ring. Having footholds in 4th and 3rd rings of the nameless city. One day. It all boiled down to one day. A poisoned dagger to the heart. Years of secret planning…was over in seconds. Callina became the matriarch. [b]MISC[/b] Mostly concentrated near the 3rd and 4th ring gate and making inroads into the 3rd. The cult's influence has bled over the borders. [b]CURSE[/b] Vampirism. The curse is not entirely obvious physically unlike some though one who pays particularly close may find something amiss. It has affected her mind more than body. Drinks blood, her restraint and such are reduced. Retractable fangs and blood lust if deprived. Prefers the night but can function in the sunlight. It's just uncomfortable and harsher. [b]Wardina / MAGIC[/b] Taught in the underground by the cult in basic magic. The education was haphazard but functional. Mostly practical skills and those to hide, survive, evade and such skills. They were heavy on practical and not academic [b]Notable NPC[/b] [hider=Janus] [b]Janus[/b] Janus is someone who she trained with, worked, plotted and slipped the very knife she used to slay the previous matriarch. As close to a … lover, friend, lieutenant and almost family at same time. In both forms. Callina is not fussy or hung up on such issues or labels. One watches the light, the other the shadow. Janus is a fairly normal looking person, until you take into the corruption they possess, the one that saw them orphaned and abandoned to the Shadow cult. Janus is many people. Possessing the ability to shift from male to female on demand, to change their very face and voice. They were very much hunted as anyone who would master that would be dangerous indeed. Their identity is… curiously unknown as it's genuinely unsure if they ever have had a default form. Just a form they prefer. Janus is flux…a constant changing chaos of a person. And Callina is only too happy to have such a person at her back. [/hider] [/hider]