Salaman was the apprentice of a master Wizard after a certain chain of events in his childhood which many people including his Master all wish to forget, which Salaman cherishes as the one card he is able to play against the old Wizard. After his mother had given him a stirring speech about following your dreams he had decided to do just that and go find himself a wizard to apprentice himself to. Eventually he chanced upon an old bearded man who, after hearing his story invited him into his non-descript white van. The old man made it about 10km through the England streets before the police were on him and he was arrested for kidnapping.

It took a long time to convince the courts that the old man truly was a wizard and the 'tower' he was going to show the child had really been his wizard tower, on account of there not being official paperwork for a wizard tower and the old man being a rogue wizard, so there was no help from family or other wizards. Following his release, Salaman was finally able to live his dream as a wizard's apprentice, only he was also going to find out what being a rogue wizard meant in the modern day. The Old Man was a rogue wizard because he hadn't paid the fees for his wizarding license or the mortgage on his tower for that matter so after returning from the lengthy court case they came back to the tower being seized by the Wizard Bank of England.

Still determined to make the most of the situation, Salaman stuck with the Old Man. To get his tower back the Old Man took out some shady loans and ended up getting chased by old debt collectors which he had previously escaped as he had suddenly reappeared on their radar. The Old Man taught Salaman what little magic he could and also his current name to inaugurate Salaman unofficially as a new Wizard. They escaped the country together only to find that across the world many of the Old Man's enemies had awakened and were out for blood.

One day after a few years, Salaman woke up to find the Old Man and the white van were gone, only to find a letter saying; "Seek the Outbreakers." After a few more journeys on his own, Salaman finds himself in Japan and the Outbreak Agency his master had told him to find. But his Master is still missing and very little information on him exists. The only thing Salaman has found is that a long time ago his Master had worked here for a while. He was forced to completely enter his pockets to even get this far so now Salaman finds himself without clues, without resources, in a country where he has nothing.

Name: Zanuka "Zann"

Age: Human appearance ~21-24, Exact age unknown, est. around 400-450

Gender: Male

Personality: There's always a slight air of mystery about Zann, his behavior can often be described as peculiar and he is rather mischievous, but he is mostly friendly.

Equipment: Zann doesn't carry much equipment of his own, he only even wears clothes in his human form, but he is capable of using a vast array of weapons and can borrow from the agency's armory as needed.

Abilities: Aside from his shapeshifting Zann is an adept wielder of his Fox-fire and a very skilled illusionist. His illusions can be almost indiscernible from reality, and some can even interact with the world as if they were real, an ability he uses to create duplicates of himself during combat. Due to his time posing as a servant to the onmyōji he has learned the art of Onmyōdō, further enhancing his elemental abilities and allowing him to generate and detonate singularities to create powerful shockwaves.

Skills: In terms of combat Zann is a skilled hand-to-hand fighter, decent bladesman, and expert at throwing knives, and an okay shot with a gun. He usually prefers to fight hand-to-hand in his kitsune form, using his magic to reinforce his claws and fangs, making them capable of piercing anything he can get at with them. In other skills he can seem almost omnipotent, capable of doing or quickly learning almost anything, from cooking and mending clothes to computer programming/repair and even mechanical engineering. driving confounds him to no end, however.

Brief Backstory: It's proven impossible to track down the exact origins of Zann. He makes brief difficult-to-spot appearances throughout history. Then first sightings of him were in Japan during the late Azuchi–Momoyama period. While most of his appearances are brief, with him disappearing again shortly after, some extended appearances have him posing as a servant with the Bureau of Onmyō, likely to learn their magic if his abilities are any indication. As time passed and it became more and more difficult for even a kitsune to remain hidden from the world it became inevitable that he would be tracked down by the outbreak agency or some similar organization, so before that could happen he came to them and asked to join, becoming the personal assistant to Kitagawa Miyu. He is not listed as an official agent.

Allegiance: Outbreak Agency

Name: Kikunojo Kichiro

Age: 22

Gender: Male

Appearance:


Personality: Perhaps it's a result of spending his formative years around the dead, but at some point in the last decade Kichiro just sort of stopped caring. Saying he has no regard for life wouldn't be entirely fair: He does think twice before killing anyone. He certainly doesn't want to die, and he wants the few people he has any attachment with to stay whole and healthy. It's more that he has the chronic habit of not taking anything seriously, approaching the world with cynicism and detached amusement.
He has Manic-Depressive tendencies as well, making him a difficult person to form long term friendships with. Kichiro is frequent user of intoxicants, mainly alcohol and psychotropic drugs, as a way of staving off the general breakdown of sanity associated with his condition, but worries he is fighting a losing battle.

Equipment: Kichiro carries a number of spiritual and shamanic, mainly things that produce smoke such as sage, palo santo, and frankincense. He doesn't actually know if these items actually make him more effective, but they do make him feel more confident. He doesn't carry any physical weapons as he generally avoids fair fights.

Abilities: Kichiro is an ectopath: he lives deeply in tune with a phenomenon he calls “the Ghost Soup”, a sort of psychic smog made from the remnants of dead mortals as well as ambient spiritual and elemental forces attached to any given area. He can channel and redirect these forces to produce a number of paranormal effects.



Skills: Kichiro's main focus lies in espionage. His talents make him ideal for information gathering, information which he relies upon for trade. He's very skilled in deception and manipulation as well, displaying a knack for playing people off one another to keep suspicion off of himself.

In terms of non-profitable skills, Kichiro has a peculiar way with animals. Domesticated animals such as dogs and cats tend to gravitate towards him and give him an unusual amount of trust.

Brief Backstory: Translated roughly to English, “Kichiro” reads as “lucky son”. It's widely held by those that know him that whoever named him must have done so as a mean spirited joke. He keeps a tight, heavy lid on his childhood, so all that is known about him by the Agency starts when he was sixteen.

It was at the scene of a murder, five high school students torn to bloody pieces in a locked apartment. The young Kichiro had slipped in amongst the agents as they investigated, looking gaunt and filthy as though he had been living on the streets. He claimed to know how to help them, and indeed proved his worth by tracking down and assisting in subjugating the rogue entity that had done the deed. Kichiro was offered a job, which he declined, on the grounds that he couldn't bear the idea of bonding himself to any group. He did accept a large sum of money under the table for services rendered, however, being proud but not a fool.

Since then, he has worked as a sort of “freelancer” for the Agency, assisting whenever his particular talents would be most effective. He mainly makes his living through the black market and organized criminal groups. Officially he owns a small occult shop in a dark back alley, directly above which is his small apartment. The items he sells are advertised as “very haunted, possessed, and otherwise hexed”, so most of his sales go to eccentric collectors.

Allegiance: Outbreak Agency (Mostly, and unofficially)