Characters By Species
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Beserkers
A cadre of human warriors, known for their merciless brutality, who swear allegiance to Wóden. Stronger and faster than mere mortals, they carry within them the spirit of the bear and can channel its ferocity into a berserkrage, temporarily becoming as powerful as an immortal. They are considered a part of the Lore and the only mortals who are allowed to know the secrets of the Lore.
Tropes shared by all Berserkers:
- The Berserker: Stronger and faster than mere mortals, they carry within them the spirit of the bear and can channel its ferocity into a berserkrage, temporarily becoming as powerful (and sometimes more powerful than) as an immortal.
- Badass Normal: They're all considered part of the Lore and allowed to know things that the Forbearers aren't, but despite their gifts they are all mortal.
- Red String of Fate: They can recognise their mate.
- Religion is Magic: If a Berserker wins two hundred battles while wearing a Woden they get ohalla and achieve immortality and become stronger to the level of immortals, making them Empowered Badass Normals.
Declan Chase/ Aidan the Fierce
AKA Declan the Fierce. A Berserker who didn't know it, he was saved from death by the Order and joined them. He married Regin the Radiant.Tropes:
- Defecting for Love: Regin makes him see that not all immortals are evil. It helps that they fell in love and she was immortal and his beliefs couldn't stand up to his love.
- Empowered Badass Normal: Compared to his Berserker brethren, he reached two hundred battles, and gained ohallanote .
- Dark and Troubled Past: Boy howdy. Born in Ireland, he felt something wrong because he soul knew he was wrongnote . To fix it he became a heroin addict and after a weekend bender returned home to see his parents and little brother tortured and killed by
Neoptera. He was tortured and scarred, he killed some of the Neoptera and was saved by The Order who told him all immortals were evil.- While working for the Order he became a torturer to get secrets from immortals, and hooked on opiates to control his berserkrage. He then discovered that not only was he if not an immortal but a part of the immortal world himself but that he'd helped the love of his lives be tortured.
- Fighting Irish: He's Irish, boyo.
- Past-Life Memories: In his past lives he gets his past life memories after kissing Regin and become Aidan the Fierce again but this time all his torture made this version of him stronger than any of his past lives.
- Reincarnation: He has reincarnated four times previously and he is the fifth reincarnation of Aidan the Fierce.
- Reincarnation Romance: With Regin.
- Two-Person Love Triangle: Himself, Aidan, his past life and Regin.
- You Are What You Hate: He turns out to be a Berserker, an immortal the thing he hates more than anything after he watched his family be tortured and eaten and then tortured himself by immortals causing him to paint all immortals with the same brush.
Brandr
AKA Brandr the TrueTropes:
- Empowered Badass Normal: Compared to his Berserker brethren, he reached two hundred battles, and gained ohallanote .
- The Fettered: Promised Aidan he'd gain ohalla and watch out for Regin's safety. He got his trailing name because of this.
- Forgotten Fallen Friend: Inverted, Brandr only seems to arrive in time to watch his friends latest death. He even laments this time around that he wants to get spend time with him, and guilts Regin into letting him because she always gets to and he doesn't.
- The Lancer: To Aidan/ Declan.
Humans
Characters who are or spent a significant amount of time as human. They are basically humans in the setting of the Lore and spend no time in the human world.
Tropes shared by all Humans:
- Humans Are Average:
- Humanity Is Young: Immortals that are 70 are considered young so actual humans are considered young and naive.
- Puny Earthlings: Far weaker than most species of immortal.
- We Are as Mayflies:
Elizabeth Ann Peirce
A human born into the proud Peirce family in Appalachia. Highly intelligent her future plans were derailed when it turns out that she's possessed by an evil Vampire Goddess. Bride of Lothaire.Tropes:
- Death Row: Spent five years there and was going to be executed when Lothaire broke her out.
- Demonic Possession: By Saroya the Soul Reaper, Vampire Goddess who was cursed into humans to feel mortality. She loves to kill and used Ellie's body to do it.
- I Love You Because I Can't Control You: She invokes this with Lothaire. She deliberately brings up his flaws instead of fawning over him and she is unpredictable to Lothaire who is gifted at guessing people's actions.
- Mountain Man: Considers herself mountain folk. Her family own a mountain rich in coal. She was working in her uncle's outfitting store because K-Mart jobs are hard to get.Ellie: I’m sure there are nice, safe coal companies out there; Va-Co isn’t one of them. Mining’s over for us.
- Viral Transformation: Averted, Vampires can change humans into vampires, but not women so Ellie is transformed using a mystickal ring that grants wishes.
- Why Can't I Hate You?: With Lothaire at first because he's trying to extinguish her soul.
Commander Preston Webb
AKA Dustin Todd. Leader of the Order, a group of humans dedicated to exterminating all immortals regardless of their actions.Tropes:
- Archnemesis Dad: To Declan, his son figure. He saved Declan from Neoptera and when Declan defected because he realise that the Order were going too far he became this. After he took a capsule of Immortal blood and went in the other direction, as a genocidal to humans to both Declan and Chloe (his actual child).
- Cape Busters: He sees himself as this but since he doesn't evaluate based on action but on immortality or not he's more of a Knight Templar.
- One-Winged Angel: He takes a capsule filled with the blood of various immortals when Lothaire kills him. His transformation is basically horrifying to everyone who's seen him.
Phantoms
Shape-shifters between life and death, Phantoms are very powerful Lore creatures even more so because of their few weaknesses and rarity. They shift between a ghost form and an embodied form.
Tropes shared by all Phantoms
- Intangibility: In their ghostly form.
- Jacob Marley Apparel: For a former ghost (and human) turned Phantom when they go intangible they transform into the outfit they were wearing when they died.
- Mind over Matter: Telekinetic, at least while intangible.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: Phantom are the Lore versions of ghosts, "real" ghosts exist, but phantoms aren't them.
- They can leave their spirit anchor and grow a body (incarnate) at will and are both rare and among the most powerful of Lore beings.
- They can't be killed while intangible and can only be killed by decapitation when incarnated, which makes them very hard to kill as if they see a hit coming they can become intangible in moments.
- They are telekinetic and can trace. They need sleep about four hours a day, to regain energy that they expend.
- Teleporters and Transporters: Phantoms can trace.
Neomi Laress
A prima ballerina and former burlesque dancer Neomi was the daughter of a noble man and lived above a burlesque bar in the twenties. Her mother worked as a burlesque dancer and wanted for her paramour to come for her, he never did having told her a Motivational Lie to get her to leave France. When her mother died Neomi took up dancing and eventually became a dancer. After she broke off their engagement Louis Robicheaux murdered her on the night off her triumph at Elancourt she became a ghost trapped within the walls and forced to feeling him stab her to death once a month. After the Wroth brothers trap Conrad Wroth in her home they fall in love and later marry.Tropes:
- Closed Circle: She's unable to leave Elancourt, the place she died and her spirit anchor.
- Empathic Environment: Elancourt to the boundary and some areas outside it are affected by her mood.
- Femme Fatale:
- The Flapper: Well, it was The Roaring '20s.
- The Peeping Tom: Well she was alone for 80 years. And it helps to break up the monotony.
- Good Bad Girl: She didn't think there was any shame in enjoying herself when she was alive and she get right back to it as soon as she can.
- Gratuitous French: Well, she is French.
- Grave Robbing: Discussed, with Conrad she mentions where she was buried, unless her body was stolen. She thinks it would be funny, Conrad is not as amused.
- Heroic Bastard: Her mother died waiting for her father to come out to America like he had promised her. She was not pleased that her mother had fallen for those lies.
- Woman Scorned: Gender Inverted, she was murdered by her ex-fiance who couldn't let her go.
- You Can Leave Your Hat On: Was a burlesque dancer in her early years.
Thaddeus Brayden:
Thad is a seventeen year oldnote kid from Texas. He didn't know he wasn't a normal kid until he woke up in the Order's custody. He was in the same room as Natalya and Regin, they determined he was a vampire hybrid because of his fangs and because he had tan lines meaning he could go in the sun. Initially upset he is excited to learn that there isn't a drinking age in the Lore.Tropes:
- Accidental Pornomancer: He ignored a girl for a semester and came home one day to find her naked in his bed. His mother was not pleased.
- The All-American Boy: He's literally an eagle scout and despite his being incredibly powerful and rare and every Lorean reacting that way to him he's still a good kid.
- Big Man on Campus: He was back in Texas, playing on the football team, but he's such an eagle scout that he definitely wasn't a Jerk Jock.
- Dhampyr: He's an incredibly powerful vampire-phantom hybrid meaning he has the strengths of vampires without the pesky sun problem.
- Happily Adopted: He's half-vampire, half-phantom and his parents are mortal. One of the best things about his being found by Loreans is that the set up a new home taking away the stress his mother and grandmother had over money while moving them somewhere they can be watched over.
- Heroic BSoD: Being pulled into the Order's facility and surrounded by nightmare creatures makes Thaddeus check out until Regin and Natalya talk him out of it.
- He later pays it forward by talking Ellie Peirce out of her own Heroic BSoD.
- Scout-Out: At 17 he's an Eagle Scout. And he acts like it, when people call him a boy scout they're right.
- Tag Along Kid: To Lothaire of all people.
Salem
Formerly a phantom warrior, he was cursed to be a sylph or air elemental, leaving him trapped without a body (even a ghostly one).Tropes:
- Funetik Aksent: An English one, of the lower class style.
- Cursed with Awesome: Subverted with his sylph curse, sure he's invisible now and can possess objects (not phantom abilities), but he can't incarnate anymore and no-one can see him. Plus he's bound to a bell which causes him to be forcibly summoned to the person who rings it.
- The Peeping Tom: He watches Bettina bathe often.
- Summoning Artifact: A bell summons him to the bearer.
Ubus
The Ubus are the collective succubi and incubi of the Lore world. They have a reputation for being evil, because the majority of those who leave their home plane were banished because of crimes. The others are Ubus sent out to hunt and kill the others.
Tropes shared by all Ubus:
- Always Chaotic Evil: In-Universe, they appear to be this because the majority of Ubus on Earth are criminals evicted from their dimension before they realised their was another plane full of people on the other side of the portal.
- Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism: Women are Succubae, Men are Incubi.
- My Species Doth Protest Too Much: They have to fight hard against the Lore's view of them because they only view through the lens of their criminals. This is their fault though because they sent them out without checking if anything was on the other side of the portal.
- Not Always Evil: This is because most of them are average Ubus, the Lore usually encounters their exiled criminals. As a species they actually are closer to Always Lawful Good.
- Our Monsters Are Different: They need sex from their preferred partner for strength and do not need food.
- After a third mating, they form a bond with their conquests, a mystical tie called venom. This will cause pain in their conquest if they aren't with the ubus regularlynote . The venom reverses itself if one is to mate an unwilling partner more than once. Once might be forgiven, might be the difference between life and death. But after that, every time they take, they’ll sicken in the same way their partner would after taking on venom, poisoning the energy to the point of potentially killing them. The odium curse prevents partners from becoming enslaved by strew and envenomed against their will. This doesn't prevent an ubus from convincing the partner that they are willing to avoid this however.
- Full Ubus possess the ability to sexually madden their victims. A succubus uses strew; an incubus stav. This is not to be used except under dire circumstances, such as capture and potential death. Cambions half-human ubus don't have the ability to strew or stav.
- Protagonist-Centered Morality: The portal from their realm to ours which opened in Scotland was seen for many years to be something they were supposed to use to banish their troublemakers. Unfortunately they learned otherwise by having their plane attacked and almost overrun by evil creatures from the Forests of Murk. They were only saved by Uilleam and Munro, who were destroying the creatures because of Uilleam's trauma at the hands of a pedophilic succubus.
- Succubi and Incubi: They gain power through sex but when they are with their mate both partners will gain strength, this is how an incubus and succubus can be in a relationship without killing each other.
Chloe Todd:
AKA Baby T-Rex. A Women's Olympic Soccer hopeful and the daughter of Dustin Todd/ Preston Webbnote and Fiore, a Succubi who was sent out to kill rogue Succubi.Tropes:
- Half-Human Hybrid: Her mother was a Succubi and her dad was both human and nearly killed her before she used her Succubi powers to get out. He still killed her though.
- Stereotype Flip: Beautifully subverted, she fights hard to be view as not the stereotype of a succubus, only to discover that the stereotype is actually wrong and her natural behaviour is in line with plenty of Ubus.
- You Are What You Hate: Based on what Uilleam tells her about Succubae she hated what she was; they both learn that Succubae are not all vain women who live for sex and having men do everything for them and she gets over it.
