E L I
E L I C A R R I O N v o n C A R S T E I N ◼ U N K N O W N ( S E V E N T Y - T W O ) ◼ F E M A L E ◼ H E L L I O N
"I am the monster in your closet."
"I’m not going to get any older."
//STATS:◼ HEIGHT | 4’8”
◼ WEIGHT | 91 lbs
◼ BUILD | Thin, almost waifish
◼ HAIR COLOR | Midnight Black
◼ EYE COLOR | Faded Blue
◼ OTHER | Can be changed/removed depending on if your character has any other noteworthy features. Feel free to add additional stats for piercings, tattoos, scars etc. Sexuality could also be added here if you feel it's worth noting.
//DESCRIPTION:Eli is very deceptive in terms of her appearance and presentation. She looks young, like an adolescent girl and presents herself with a certain quiet, reservedness. Thin and short with a pale complexion, she hardly looks intimidating. Her clothes are usually basic with very neutral colors with a very conservative theme, matching what one would expect from a young girl who was off to Sunday services.
"Yea… just like a vampire."
Somewhere dangling from the Tree of Life and Death is a world similar to this one that played out entirely differently. For simplicity sake, Eli’s homeworld will be referred to as Earde and this world, Earth. For the most part, the two worlds share a common ancestry but with different land features and a weaker sun compared to Earth’s. However ancestral Homo-Sapiens, humans, grew up with a closely related cousin, Homo-Nosferatu, Vampyrs. The origins of Homo-Nosferatu are largely unknown as their ancestral history is near non-existent. This is likely due to the Earde theory of Historia Victoria, stating that early Vampyrs had very few numbers compared to humans and were often exterminated with extreme prejudice by humans due their intolerance of Vampyrs and their vampiric tendencies towards their kind.
This “boogeyman” in Earde had usually provided a common enemy and as a result, human empires were vastly more successful than their Earth counterparts. The promise of security from the parasitic menace had provided the tools of subjugation and loyalty that the historical empires of Earth had never seen. As a result, some things never happened like the Israelite rebellion on Egypt. However, humans weren’t completely united and power struggles, rebellions, and wars still did happen.
At around 200 AD, the Roman Empire was a prominent force with close ties with their long-term allies the Egyptians, who controlled vast expanses of the Middle East and Africa while Rome controlled nearly all of modern Europe. In fact, they were just about to squash the petty rebellion of the Germanics who had tried to break away from Roman rule for centuries. Their desperation had finally brought them to make a deal with their cousins, the Vampyrs.
That deal would shape the modern world of Earde as the Vampyrs used the terms of the deal to bolster their ranks of the Germanic Nobles, converting them into Vampyrs from their bite. In turn, the Vampyr Germanics used their heightened abilities to fight off and defeat the Romans in a pinnacle battle that is covered in every modern day Earde history class. The name accredited with this deal was a Vampyr named Archalian who bestowed his gift to the Germanic Leader at the time, Germanicus von Carstein.
The results of the that battle would be the turning point and for the first time, Vampyrs were the winners as they successfully bent the Romans to surrender, providing the Vampyrs their first sovereign nation, Transylvania.
In the centuries following the Transylvania’s creation, humans tried many times to eradicate the Vampyr menace but each time were defeated by the cunning of the Germanicus using the hit-and-run tactics throughout the forest. The march through the Transylvanian Forest became a nightmare for humans until eventually they stopped trying to invade all together.
For nearly a millennia, the Vampyrs were left alone as humankind continue to develop their technology, eventually reaching the enlightened age of the Renaissance. It was at this stage that the first olive branch would be offered to the Vampyrs, offering the very primitive Vampyrs a chance to develop and sophisticate themselves in the following years. Trade and diplomacy were now common with the Vampyrs but it wouldn’t last eternally.
As Earde continued to develop, the small Vampyr nation could no longer trust the nations of the humans as their weapons were beginning to negate their advantages. Firearms were proving to be too effective at slowly balancing the power differential between Vampyrs and humans, causing tension to form as the humans no longer wanted their own being sacrificed to the Vampyr Lords.
War broke out in 1850 as the entire modern human nations united against the Transylvania. Both sides were taxed greatly with casualties but the Vampyrs had won and without the threat of nations to stop them now, they quickly expanded their influence across Earde until nearly every nation was under their rule. This would be the beginning of the end for both.
No longer restricted, Vampyrs subjugated the human populace, making them more slaves than anything. Technology develop came to a halt and the world entered a dark age, mirroring Earth’s typical tales of Vampires. Vampyr nobility ruled over their respective regions in large castles or estates while humans lived poorly under their rule.
Initially there were no restrictions in place as Vampyrs drank from and then killed or converted any human they wanted. However as the populations of Vampyrs grew and Humans diminished, the problem eventually realized. This lifestyle was unsustainable and moves were made to prevent this. Human breeding became just as common as human harvesting. The need to preserve humans drove technology to advance again until eventually Earde entered a modern age comparable to Earth.
Humans were slowly becoming an “extinct” species as automated facilities processed their birthing, development, and eventual harvesting. The ease of nourishment saw an increase of Vampyr adoption and their population soared to unsustainable levels. To make matters worse, processed humans were slowly dying out due to a disease or weakness of some kind, further limiting the human blood supply.
Enter Elicarrion von Carstein who is adopted by the descendant of Germinus von Carstein. Her father, Wilhelm von Carstein, is recognized as the modern leader of all Vampyrs simply due to his bloodline. As daughter of the most powerful Vamp in the world, she lived quite tastefully in luxury. While she grew up being taken care of, many of the Vampyrs were struggling with starvation. Riots were becoming commonplace as human blood started to become a rarity. Eli was spared of all that up until she became old enough to realize what was going.
To put it simply, Eli was against her father in nearly everywhere, often fighting with him, blaming him for everything. In truth, there wasn’t much Wilhelm could do but due to his private reserve of humans and strong-arm tactics to control the Vampyr population, he could hardly be counted as innocent. Eli would go on to try to be an active force against her father. This would eventually lead to her house arrest under her father’s watch.
On a rather ordinary day under house arrest, Eli would just vanish. Thorough investigations took place and the results eventually concluded that Eli had been taken somewhere else, virtually unreachable in another world. Alarmed but also intrigued, Wilhelm began focusing all his attention on discovering how to recreate the circumstances of his daughter’s disappearance. There was a chance that wherever she might be, there'd be a rich source of new sustenance…
Eli has been missing from Earde for about one month and to her, it was as if she had passed from her previous life to feast in the eternal halls of Archalian’s Manor. Despite being gifted with such a blessing, Eli is cautious about her unnatural existence in this world. To spread her Vampyr blood to this new world would risk the same fate that awaits her homeworld, thus she has reserved herself to drink only when she needs to and opting to kill any she tries to feast on, lest they become a Vampyr like her.
▼ M O T I V A T I O N / O B J E C T I V E:
"Believe me, there are worse out there."
Eli’s foremost goal is to survive in this new world while also trying to keep low. While this alone may be easy, she theorizes that there is a danger that her father may discover how to follow her. She wants to prevent a catastrophe like that in her homeworld and feels she must let this world know somehow. Driven by this, she is carefully considering how to come forth, wary that her identity alone could be treated with hostilities.
▼ A B I L I T I E S / S K I L L S:
"Just like your vampires, I’ll fuck you up."
//ABILITIES:◼ Vampyr Physiology | Eli’s physical attributes are considered to be far beyond the capabilities of a normal human. She is not only gifted in superior strength, faster speeds, quicker reaction times, but also heightened senses as well.
◼ Virtually Immortal | The oldest Vampyr is said to have aged to see a thousand years because the fact is, Vampyr’s slowly age, are almost entirely impervious to disease, and have incredible regenerative capabilities. Although she can still feel pain (even pass out from too much). She doesn’t even need to eat or drink like a normal human, relying entirely on human blood to sustain herself.
//SKILLS:◼ Espionage | Eli’s time as a saboteur for her father’s enterprises have conditioned her well enough to be fairly talented in stealth and deception tactics.
//LIMITATIONS:◼ Blood Dependance | A Vampyr who had recently drank a human’s blood will nine times out of ten, beat a Vampyr who hasn’t drank in a week. This is because the human blood is necessary to providing the energy to obtain those heightened abilities. Furthermore, a Vampyr can die of starvation if they do not drink at least a pint in 10 days. That bare minimum, leaves a Vampyr very weakened, however.
//WEAKNESSES:◼ 30 Days of Darkness | On Earde, the sun’s weak rays barely penetrated the ozone of the distant planet and even then, the Vampyr population always found themselves getting sunburns from that amount of light. Compare that to Earth and a Vampyr’s skin peel and burn under that intense amount of UV Light. Even the briefest exposure of their skin would result in third degree burns. Weaponized UV Light can be just as damaging.
◼ Animal Repelism | Animals hate Vampyr’s especially cats and dogs. They can smell Eli for what she is and may viciously attack her, no matter the circumstance.
◼ Let the Right One In | There was a strange side effect when Eli arrived in this world. It is as if the Vis present in this world is manifesting itself against Eli in the form of a deterrent.She has to hear an audible invitation into someone’s private dwelling in order to enter. Otherwise she may explode. Whether this was a product of earlier Draoi or Venari influence or just some weird effect, humans have a passive protection against a Vampyr.
◼ Watching what you Eat | Eli will get physically ill if she eats even a little bit of human food or drink. This can effectively be a poison to her and too much may risk some severe health problems.
//SUPPORTING CAST:▼ ALLIES
◼ Eric Cromwell | Plays as Eli’s host. Divorced after losing his daughter. Honest hardworking man. Eli’s moral compass.
▼ FRIENDS
◼ Oskar von Carstein| Eli’s second elder brother; he is a bit of a sweetheart and a goof. Unfortunately passive and often overlooked.
▼ ENEMIES
◼ Wilhelm von Carstein | Eli’s Father. An oppressive, violent tycoon, Wilhelm will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
◼ Victor von Carstein | Eli’s Eldest Brother. The heir of the von Carstein line but more of a pawn in Wilhelm’s schemes. A complete idiot, though brutal.
//STOMPING GROUNDS◼ The Narrows | Home. Eric’s lowly, cheap apartment is here and where Eli hides during the day.
◼ Lower East Side | Feeding territory. As per Eric’s condition, Eli is tasked with vigilante justice and take out the scum who took his daughter away from him.
//PARAPHERNALIA◼ N/A |
I do like how detailed it is though!
