ScorpionFlower

The Kingdom of Belvoir - Hunter's Guild (Taking Applications)

@Nymeria@LordLinguinie

Sorry I posted it directly in the character section. Completely forgot I had to show it first. ._.
Shouldn't matter too much what with the hunt going on and all, though.

I think I took a lot of liberties, so I'll edit anything you don't agree with or think need changing. :P

The Kingdom of Belvoir - Hunter's Guild (Taking Applications)

De Lacroy

Princes of Trade

Always Faithful and Prepared

Family History

The De Lacroy come from outside Belvoir, from another kingdom they refuse to talk about. No one knows exactly when they arrived in Rothenburg, about a few generations ago. They arrived by sea, nothing more than petty merchants like so many others. Through decades of good planning and financial success, however, they managed to climb the social ladder and make a true name for themselves. Their many partners and contracts made sure they received a cut from almost any deal within the docks or imports/exports, giving them respectable trade power.

While incredibly rich, the family does not hold a fraction of the power the real Nobles of Rothenburg have for one good reason: they are foreigners. Despite their best efforts, they always have been seen as foreigner by the people no matter how well they succeeded. They made a good name for themselves. They gained the trust of their trade partners. However, the only political weight they might have is their wealth, nothing more. No one from the people seem to forget they are outsiders. As for the Nobles and the High class, though they do trade and mingle together from time to time, they never really accepted the fact that they were not born from noble ancestry.

The image of the De Lacroy is mostly positive and honest, but there are those that say they have a hand in the black market. Nothing has ever surfaced to prove this, but with their influence on every traders or so within the city, it would not be surprising.

Family's Influence

- Many buildings on the waterfront belongs directly to the family: businesses, storage and other. Through them, they operate the majority of their operations in the docks. One of those building, flanked by the family's coat of arms and richly decorated, is their main company's building.

- The family's residing home was built close to the northern wall's gate which is closest to the docks (S Sector). That part of the city was mostly poor before the De Lacroy arrived. They invested a lot of their personal wealth in repairing the sector, building homes and employing most of the local residents. Doing so gave them good influence in the sector.

- Melisentia's family Mining Company that is situated south of Rothenburg, close to the foot of the mountains. From them, they receive ample supplies of Ores that they can use to influence the trade of tools or weapons.

- The family hold rights to tax anyone using the docks, meaning they make good money out of all the fishing trade or any merchants coming in and out of town. They themselves have a fishing company that is doing rather well.

- All of their influence make sure they have ears on the majority of deals regarding trade within the city. They also have a vast portion of the black market answer to them, unknown from the public, which they use to undermine current rivals and bring low any possible rising new ones.

Head of the Family

Louis De Lacroy

Hider

Louis was born in Rothenburg forty-three years ago. His grandfather had come here in his younger years and began the family's business. Louis' father brought it up to become greater than it ever was. Louis, as for him, managed to keep the business flourishing through the wars of King Gustavo. He did so by using the trade power of his family to to gain access to weapons that he redistributed through their many contacts everywhere inside and outside the Kingdom - without much regards if they were friends or foes of Rothenburg. He did, however, make sure to leave nothing that could directly incriminate him from selling to the enemy or using the war to get richer.

Though he did not do it out of pure greed. Louis was loyal to Rothenburg, but the incessant conquering had been bad for business and was bringing low his family. By using his network to sell to friends, foes and potential mercenaries he made sure his family remained alive and strong as well as filling up their coffers more than ever before.

To Louis, the De Lacroy are in a good position and he seeks only what he always sought: the survival of his family and keeping the dominance on the trade. Nothing more.

Tails of the Family

Melisentia De Lacroy

Hider

Melisentia De Lacroy once belonged to a small family of successful partners of the De Lacroy. They were in control of a small territory to the south of the city, near the foot of the Durot Mountains, where they mined for ores. For their arms trades during the wars the De Lacroy needed those ores and so the alliance was secured through the hand of Melisentia. The mining company had long since been incorporated, from one way or another, in the De Lacroy possessions.

Melisentia loves her husband as a wife ought to. She is loyal and helps him in his duty to the family, but she never understood his lack of desire for more. Louis' wife would see the De Lacroy rise among the Nobles of Rothenburg and seek ever more possessions and power within the city. She is the one that launched the family into the black market, as a tool to one day further her desire for more. There she gained her own little piece of power. Louis is well aware of the doings of his wife, but leave her at her own designs as long as it is beneficial for the family.

Heir of the Family

Raphael De Lacroy

Hider

Raphael was groomed to be the heir of the De Lacroy family and business. He was taught everything by his father on how to manage the many possessions of the family, on how to deal with partners, handle money and the such. He was also shown the proper Rothenburgian etiquette among nobles - and he was good at it.

However, Raphael was also raised by his mother and he shared her interest for rising in the Nobility rank. He did not understand why his father did not wish for more and was contempt with what he had, but he respected it. He respected his father for how he managed to keep the family afloat during the war and his immensely good sense of business.

Raphael was heir of the family. Once his father would pass the reins down to him, he would have all the power and time he needed to build more for himself and his won sons and daughters. For now, he had time to plan and prepare.

Flower of the Family

Sophia De Lacroy

Hider

Admiral Sophia De Lacroy, as she came to be known. Sophia was a brilliant girl that took more after her father in looks then her brother while keeping the adventurous and desire for greatness of her mother. However, being second born and a woman, she would never lead the family. Her family situation also meant that while she would not be married to lower class families, the possibility for a higher class noble family to accept her hand were very slim.

As such, she was given more freedom than her brother and much more than women who were ordinarily groomed to become wives. Sophia took part in the family business and was also very good at it. Partly because she was a very hard headed and aggressive dealer. Her temperament brought her to the decision of learning swordplay. The wealth of the family made sure that she could afford some of the best swordmasters available around.

The family 'owned' the docks and, as such, quite a few ships. Shipments headed for the coastal cities of Overresch, Silchester and Maastrich were a large enough part of their revenue as well as fishing expeditions. With the rise of monsters in the kingdom, including sea-bound ones, the waters became even more dangerous. That is without mentioning the ever come-and-go piracy that occurred in the coastal waters. Sophia's training and iron mettle eventually led her to assemble her own troop of seamen and built her own ship known as Le Fleur-De-Lys. A small light ship, but very fast and well equipped and with a solid crew. With it, Sophia built herself a reputation by protecting the cargo ships of her family's business and partners from would be pirates. Thus her nickname 'Admiral'.

The Kingdom of Belvoir - Hunter's Guild (Taking Applications)

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His daughter hates him, his sister in law as well and she is lady Ligart, and he killed the rest of his family coz they turned into bloodsuckers. No wonder why the poor sod sticks to being monster bait.

@AtomicNut

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The Kingdom of Belvoir - Hunter's Guild (Taking Applications)

@AtomicNut There is no such thing as a Digraced blue blood.

Blue blood once, blue blood always ! (•̀ᴗ•́)൬༉

The Kingdom of Belvoir - Hunter's Guild (Taking Applications)

Maybe. Hahaha. I am thinking up what exactly I want. Once it's written, I'll tell you more.

@Nymeria Say, what does it look like on the other side of that sea or simply further on the coast?
Could it be possible that my family is foreigner? I wanted to give them French family names and have an foreign ''French-Nobility'' accent. Feasible?

The Kingdom of Belvoir - Hunter's Guild (Taking Applications)

I am thinking about creating a full family. Of course, not as powerful as the three main families, that goes without say.

If they control the docks or parts of it, though, it could mean they control a lot of what goes in and out of the city. I don't know the state of commerce in your world, but generally controlling that more often than not led to more power than kings Hahaha. Of course, I don't care.

I might just go for someone controlling parts of the docks and many shops in a certain area of the city. I just need to take another look at the map. I'd go for multiple characters, like you did. I could see RPing a family that's all about trying to create a good business to boost them even more to the top such as weapons dealings with Hunters or anything like that.

The Kingdom of Belvoir - Hunter's Guild (Taking Applications)

I was thinking of making another character. Taking example on @AtomicNut.

Also, I get the feeling I won't always be able to post as Juniper and keep it interesting as much as I'd like. I might like to have a character that's noble or something close to it, but I don't know if that is feasible? I was thinking maybe someone that just ascended to Noble status. A very successful merchant family that attained their status through wealth and may be not as liked by the Nobility as blue blood.

is something like this feasible? Otherwise I might just straight out make a Hunter or wait for a good opportunity/idea.

EDIT: @Zelosse Well she won't necessarily end up there. I just imagined the scene could be epic. Haha.

The Kingdom of Belvoir - Hunter's Guild (Taking Applications)

@Zelosse Hahaha I knew I'd pick your interest. I'm pretty sure we'll have the chance to meet again. in the Arena would be epic.

The Kingdom of Belvoir - Hunter's Guild (Taking Applications)

Yeah no problem @LordLinguinie. I thought the same. I kind of did some time skip to the evening/night, so I guessed we'd wait for everyone else to catch up.

@AtomicNut Sorry :( Would've loved it.

The Kingdom of Belvoir - Hunter's Guild (Taking Applications)

@Zelosse
As Juniper was contemplating all of the targets around her and possibly assessing threats, she received a massive punch right on the snout, making her take a step back in surprise. She clawed forward as a basic reflex of self defense, but hit nothing more than air. Looking back up in front of her she saw him: a menacing cloaked figure. His smell was not like the others. He was not a hunter. He was a predator.

The rage was fueled by hunger, but also by something more. She had met this prey before, though her thoughts were in shamble right now and wolf Juniper cared little for the reason why she'd tore him open first. She simply lunged forward with a menacing growl thinking he'd be as easy to open up as the previous vampire - she was wrong. Just as her claws were about to reach the frail body, she felt a massive object hitting the side of her skull. her jaws snapped at the air right beside the man's head as she was led off-target and into the nearby wall.

She shook her head to get back into it and slowly raised her stare back up at him, showing her fangs and snarling even more than before. Digging her feet solidly in the ground, she raised herself to the maximum of her new height to be as menacing as possible then let out a powerful growl at her target just as he shouted back at her in a similar fashion.

Her upper lips fell back unveiling the full series of razor sharp fangs she had, snapping at him. His Blades mirrored her now fully extended claws. His show of strength and his lack of fear made the Lycan hesitate for a mere moment, but she lunged back at him all the same.

With no self regards for safety she got in close trying to lend multiple slash of her powerful claws, but the man evaded with relative ease. It angered her all the more, causing her to be push the attack to the point where she made mistakes. One such mistake caused her to almost impale herself on of the wrist blade of the man and let out a high pitch pain noise while stepping back. She blade had made it's way deep into her side.

Now on the defensive, her blood hunger calmed down enough for her to take a look around and realize in what a dangerous situation she was in. The hunters were busy with the vampires, but if more than one turned to face her first she couldn't handle them by herself. The vampires themselves were not allies either. The only solution to this was flight. Feelings like pride had all but left her in this state and were not troubling her in the slightest. She was lucky in the fact that Davos' might not realize, in his focused state, that she was envisaging fleeing. He probably expected another attack, and she was gonna give it to him.

The Lycan feinted another aggressive leap, but used her heightened reflexes to quickly evade any attacks and jump around him, bouncing off the wall in a great leap towards the staircase. There she turned around to stare at him one last time. In that final gaze there was more intelligence than a beast. There was hate, anger and a strong desire for vengeance. On all fours, she made her way up the stairs and exited the vampire's den in a matter of seconds.

A few hours laters

Evening in Rothenburgh

@LordLinguinie
After her escape, Juniper ran through the nearby woods for a long time. She was not exactly aware of where she was going, but her instinct were bringing her back to the only place she felt was home: Rothenburgh.

She stopped between two trees as the walls came into sight, sniffing the evening's air. She ran up to the wall and easily enough climbed it up and, from there, jumped on a roof inside the city. Unaware of it herself, she was making her way to the old hideout where she had been welcomed by other beggars. To both Juniper and her inner wolf it was perceived as home and safe. There were still people on the streets, but she managed to remain unseen by remaining on the roofs for as long as possible.

Since the sun was setting, people were quick to empty the streets. Juniper judged it safe to make her way down into an alley since she was closer to her destination. Just as it came into sight, however, a noise caught her attention. Making her way down on the ground had caught the attention of a group of about six men who were making their way towards her right now: armed. Were they keeping watch on the place where a previous werewolf attack had occurred?

Everything after that happened in an instant. She gave up a as much as a fight as she could, but exhaustion and her wound sapped at her strength. While she managed to rip through the first guard she leaped on, tearing him to shreds, and severely wounding the second man who attacked her, she eventually was outnumbered. One spear piercing her tight brought her low and another man threw a net around her. They seemed to be well equipped to deal with such a threat while not being hunters.

Exhausted and beaten, Juniper turned back from a large whimpering beast to the form of a little crying girl. Her agony did not last long before she blacked out, however. One of the man threw a large blanket over her possibly to hide her from any prying eyes and prepared her for transportation.