Name: Emmerich Jaeger
Appearance: 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.
The mask is the most noteworthy aspect. The terrible mask with a sadistic grin eternally mocking those who look at it.
Age: Certain age unknown. Appears to have around 25~30 years
Personality: 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.
History: 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...
Signature Weapon:
A bone rapier that transforms itself on a whip. Sharp, deadly and unpredictable, its a dark weapon with a terrible aura in it.
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
Things they look for in a partner: 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.
