Character Sheet
Name: Markwes Hyeon
Appearance: Markwes stands at about 5'5" tall, with black hair, and brown eyes with distinctive asian features. He looks about in his early 30s, with pale skin and a generally weathered and agitated look. His clothing is more or less in the western style, as is popular among most people in Korea.
Bio: Markwes Hyeon (Korean: 현말퀫) is a native from the Republic of Korea, born in 1986 in Incheon, Korea. Markwes father, Gorgis, was a long time employee of the Church of the East, and it wasn't long before they relocated to the capital of Pyongyang to be closer to operations. Markwes was long expected to follow in his father's footsteps and take up working for the church. He decided against this, and instead worked towards medical school. After 12 years of university studies, Markwes graduated and relocated himself to Seoul, where he married a woman named Ji Su at the age of 23. Things, however, did not end up how he intended, and quickly began to degrade with the Vampire resurgence of 2019, when he was approached by the Nestorian Church, revealing his families long line as a group of vampire hunters, with ties back to the Neman Dynasty, when the Naiman Mongols brought Christianity to Korea.
Markwes was relocated to the Americas, to the Republic of Christiana, where he has been working to track down the resurgence in New Sweden and put an end to it.
Age: 33
Skills: Markwes has a good skill in using the blade and the gun, as well as being trained in demonology and ways to fight off supernatural foes. While not able to use magic, Markwes is trained in magical defenses.
Personality: In general, he's a rather glum individual. Thrust into a role he never wanted, he simply wants to complete his mission and return home. Not one to talk, he can come across as very cold and uninviting, with little interest in making new friends and companions.
World SheetName: The Blackening
Summary of History:
The Blackening is a world plagued by the constant looming threat of vampires. Vampires (Homo Haemophagus) was a species of highly advanced hominids from the foothills of the Himalayas in the Tibetan Plateau. Following massive climate change and the rise of Homo Sapiens, H. Haemophagus was forced to migrate out of Tibet and into China, where they became aware of their impending extinction due to the lack of adaptability of their highly specialized biology. An advanced species with the ability to used sorcery, the kingdoms of the vampires decided to preserve their legacy in the form of Human/Vampire hybrids, who would meld the best elements of the vampire, with the adaptability of humanity. Within 5 centuries of the migration, vampire purebloods became extinct, but they remained in humans turned vampire created through alchemy.
Vampires remained powerful in China, earning their peak of power during the rule of the Heilong Dynasty in 2070 BC, but were eventually defeated by the Shang, and expelled from China, migrating into North Asia, where they thrived in the cold and dark environment. Vampires would not become a major threat to the world again until 768 AD, when The Black Empire arose in the area of Romania, moving to conquer all of the Balkans, and extend its power as far north as Kiev, as far west as Italy, as far east as Baghdad and as far South as Egypt. The Black Empire would embark on a policy of depopulation, zombification, and slavery in the lands it controlled until the 14th century, when it fell to a number of attacks, such as the rise of the Fatimids, the Establishment of Vladimir's Confederacy in Russia, Frankish conquest of Italy and Bavaria, and Turkic invasions. Following this, Migrant Groups from the East invaded and conquered sections of Europe and the Iranian Plateau, while several powerful empires appeared, and some fell, such as the collapse of the Caliphate of Cordoba and France. In this time Christianity began to take root in Asia, with the movement of the Naimans, Keraites, and Christianized Khitans into the East, where they took root in Korea and parts of China, spreading the Church of the East into Korea and Japan.
The Great War was the final major conflict of the world's history, and largely set up the borders of the current nations, although minor presences of vampires and uprisings continues into the modern day:
Important Nations: Great Powers:
3rd French Republic
Republic of Quebec
Russian Republic
Republic of Egypt
Republic of Korea
Federal Republic of Germany
Republic of Alaska
People's Republic of Italy
Greek Democratic People's Republic
Regional Powers Kingdom of England
Kingdom of Scotland
Republic of Sweden
Mexican Empire
Kingdom of Japan
People's Republic of Kurdistan
Syrian Republic
People's Socialist Republic of Libya
Overall Technology Level: Equivalent to modern real world
Map:
Europe and Middle East
North America
Asia
Member
Marik
