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[b]Name:[/b]
Esperanza Rosalind Ernesta Ciervo

[b]Nickname:[/b]
Espie, Esp, Esper, La Hija de la Muerte

[b]Age:[/b]
19

[b]Gender:[/b]
Female

[b]Power/Skills:[/b]
[i]Necromancy:[/i] Esperanza is an incredibly powerful necromancer for her age, due to the years spent at the practice and the raw strength passed through her family. Not only can she raise corpses to her bidding, but she can also commune with and command spirits. Those who can sense spirits or spiritual energy might find that she’s perpetually surrounded by a veritable army of spirits, either hanging back and observing, or waiting at the forefront for her directions. While she can command them into performing tasks for her, the spirits are still very much entities with free will, and will attempt to act independently at times- something Esperanza herself allows, due to her beliefs. Depending on how much energy is flowing through the spirits, they range from being simply traces of themselves, to nearly corporeal- if not transparent- ghosts that can move things about with ease. 

[i]Conjuring/Warding:[/i] The Ciervo family also regularly dabbles in blood rituals, and, as such, it is a knowledge that has been passed onto Espie as well. By painting sigils in her own blood, she can create wards against evil or bind them temporarily, depending on how much detail she puts into the sigil. In addition, it’s also possible for her to summon...beings, demons included. While she has a pool of creatures she often calls, her most prominent is a rather hideous being that she fondly refers to as “Chupcabra”, or “Chu” for short. 

The creature possesses a wide, human smile and a very human tongue, with the head, nose, and ears of a cat. Its body and hind legs are that of a weasel, its front paws are akin to an aye-aye, and its eyes, black in color, are so numerous and so clustered together that they could be mistaken for spider’s eggs. Its tail is long, and ends in five sharp points, like the claws of a witch. Chitinous bone like teeth cover its belly, and the rest of its body is covered in thick, blood red fur. Chu tends to serve as a sort of hammerspace for some of Esperanza’s belongings, although it’s also capable of speech. Its voice is high and womanish, despite the fact Esp refers to it as a male.

[b]Species:[/b]
Human- Necromancer

[b]Crush:[/b]
Currently N/A.

[b]Relationship:[/b] 
None- Heterosexual

[b]Appearance:[/b]
Esperanza is a fairly slight young woman, with dark eyes, thick waves of black hair grown to the center of her back, and full lips that are often carefully rouged. She stands at 5’3”, and often carries a dreamy expression on her face- although it’s most often not her face that draws the most attention. Instead, one might find themselves more interested in the pitch black tattoos that completely cover her arms and back, taking the form of feathers, and heavy wings that run down her back. Her pinkie finger on her left hand has been amputated down to the knuckle, as well as several of her toes on both feet. She tends to dress in bright, flowing skirts, blouses, and flats, although when travelling she dons a heavy brown cloak and hood. 

[b]Personality:[/b]
Esperanza is...not what one might expect from a death worshipping cultist, to say the least. Ever friendly and eager to help, the necromancer holds in cheer what she lacks in street smarts. She holds a fascination with the world outside home, and is incredibly loyal- both to her religion, and to any friends that earn her (easily obtainable) trust. She’s slow to anger, quicker to become upset than genuinely enraged, and tends to just want everyone to get along more than anything else.

[b]Background:[/b]
While many necromancing groups could be thought of as “eccentric” by the standards of others, the Ciervo lineage is one of the more strange ones. Based in rural Mexico, the Ciervos are a line of Necromancers that found their start back when the Mayans were still alive and well. They have made a name for themselves for their rather interesting community- a cult by their own creation, based around the worship of the Lady Death. The methods have ranged from cannibalism to live human sacrifice in the past, although due to the intervention of other magical groups, they have tampered these practices down for the most part.

The cult rounds to about a few hundred members in modern times, and is a primarily matriarchal society led by La Hijas de la Muerte: The Daughters of Death. As the name would imply, the Daughters are a group made up of exclusively female necromancers chosen as young girls from the Ciervo line, who are seen as the leaders and guardians of the cult. It is their job to organize and perform the various sacraments, rituals and ceremonies the cult performs in their god’s name, overlook and make decisions, tend to the bodies within the public crypt, and protect their community from harm.

Esperanza was one such girl, having been chosen as a young child after an incident involving the channeling of her great-grandmother’s spirit. She was promptly whisked away to reside with the other Daughters, and, while tutored in the basics of learning, her education was primarily focused around learning control of her own developing powers, varieties of blood wards, preparation of cadavers, and so on and so forth. While allowed to roam the grounds of the cult and visit family, most of her time was spent in the crypts. For the most part, Esp was content with this life, albeit somewhat lonely.

Upon growing up, Esperanza was tasked with a bit of a diplomatic mission- the Ciervos had been informed of a town populated with man and monster alike, and wished to investigate it. And, potentially, to scope it out for possible members. Esperanza was delighted to take upon the mission, and as such, promptly set out to find this strange town for herself. 
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