Lucien Winterheart
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Age: 582yrs old but his appearance is of a 25yr old.
Gender: Male
Race: Vampire
Clan: Lucien doesn't belong to any of the clans.
Personality: As the years have passed Lucien has grown quite cold and always keeps calm never letting his emotions show. He has completely lost faith in mankind and is yet to find any mortal who is not arrogant, selfish, immature and who isn’t a complete pig. Deep down beneath his icy shell a small fraction of his human self remains is which he has always wanted to belong somewhere and to be able to trust somebody but he usually blocks it out by replaying his horrible past in his head.
Bio: Lucien Ron Vandersuun was the 3rd son of a very wealthy noble family who were well known for their greed. But that was like every other noble family always wanting more power, wealth and favor from the King and Queen. Lucien was the youngest of the Vandersuun House and his father would treat him as if he were a slave often beating him and scolding him for the simplest things. For instance leaving a window open or accidently knocking over a glass…his two older brothers treated him the same making up lies to father so that Lucien could suffer a beating in which his brothers would gain amusement from. His brothers once locked him in the family catacombs and had left him there for 2 hours until the gardener had finally come by and heard the boy screaming and banging on the catacomb doors. Lucien felt somewhat alone and the only person who had treated him like a human being was his long deceased mother. There was a rumor that Lucien’s mother had fallen pregnant with Lucien to another man and her husband had found out, explaining why the man that Lucien calls father beats him due to the fact that it is not his son.
When Lucien was 25 his father was terminally ill, while his father was on his deathbed Lucien had wept not out of sorrow but happiness. He had never thought this day would come when the beatings and the abuse would finally stop. Of course his selfish spoilt brothers where still around and they were head of the family now and nothing was holding him back from leaving. But where would he go he didn’t know anyone or have any clue on where to start so he stayed awhile. Surprisingly when Lucien was young he was still allowed to be schooled and learnt how to read and speak like a gentleman. His father never let him near the bookshelf but now that he was gone Lucien filled his head with books about faraway lands and creatures, Lucien was fascinated always wanting to learn more.
One day while Lucien was out in town picking up groceries for his lazy brothers a travelling theater troupe had rolled in town placing flyers all over the place, a speaker had announced there was going to be a show tonight and Lucien’s face had lit up. He had never seen a show before but it sounded amazing from what he had read from books he quickly raced home with the groceries and pocketed the gold that were left over, he didn’t tell his brothers that he was going to see a show tonight and so he cunningly snuck off. As Lucien entered the theatre tent he watched and laughed as the actors and actresses went along in makeup being complete clowns and performing small acts of magic and fake sword fighting. After the show Lucien approached one of the actresses in which she invited him to her quarters, she had found Lucien very interesting and after a few glasses of wine they got to talking about each other’s life. Lucien listened in amazement to the actress’s wild stories and places she had been and before he knew it he was out of it lying unconscious on the woman’s floor.
Lucien had been drugged and had fallen into a trap sprung by some clever travelling vampires who disguise themselves as performers going town to town feeding on the unsuspecting town’s people and quickly leaving the next day. The vampires had human servants who were promised immortal life if they did the vampires bidding mainly moving the caravans town to town during the day. The vampiress that had tricked Lucien had taken pity on him after hearing about his troubled life and his uncanny similarity to her long lost son she convinced the rest of the vampires to take him in. Naturally they disagreed but seeing no sense in arguing they agreed so, at first Lucien had it tough as the other vampires treated him like cattle but they eventually accepted him as he learnt to stay out of there way and so he came to be yet another servant to them. The vampiress often reminded Lucien of his mother…she was caring and often looked out for him, Lucien begged her to change him too so that he could stay with her forever but she always refused. She often told him to cling onto his humanity, that it was a curse more than a gift and no one should wish vampirism on themselves.
Eventually a group of fanatical vampire hunters caught on to the travelling troupe and had tracked them down and attacked them, during the confusion Lucien was mortally wounded and was on the verge of dying the last thing he saw when he blacked out was the vampiress who looked after him for so long kneeled down beside him with her wrist pressed against his lips and the metallic taste of blood on his tongue. When Lucien had come to he was inside some old caves next to a roaring fire his head was pounding and he felt completely drained. Strangely he could sense somebody else was with him not by sight but by feeling and smell and as his eyesight adjusted quickly to the darkness one of the vampire’s human servants from the perfuming troupe was huddled next to the fire staring blankly into it. Lucien was heartbroken when he had heard that nobody else had survived the attack…the vampires and the vampiress had all been slaughtered and the only place that he finally belonged to was burnt to the ground. After Lucien had finished recovering he had nowhere else to go so he ended up returning to his family estate to his two brothers who were very surprised to see him.
By that time Lucien had grown quite pale and became very ill where he remained in the wine cellar away from the sun for he was beginning to become quite sensitive to light. His ears become quite sensitive and eventually he could hear every conversation happening in the house which had made him paranoid. Everybody whispered about Lucien and he could hear it…they all feared him and his brothers and the servants had whispered that Lucien had gotten himself possessed. When the priest had arrived to perform an exorcism Lucien’s brothers and his servants tried to bind Lucien to his bed where one of the servants injured themselves during the struggle. The warm blood that trickled down the servants left arm triggered an explosion in Lucien’s head and before he knew it he was standing amongst the severed bodies of his brothers and servants, the priest stood at the door to the room staring at Lucien with a mortified look upon his face. As he tried to escape Lucien pounced towards the priest and before he knew it he had drained him completely…shortly afterwards Lucien snapped back to realization and was shocked at what he had done. He then remembered the night where he last saw the vampiress…she changed him that night in order to save him but in doing so must have been too weak to escape. In realization of what he had become Lucien had taken the family sword of Vandersuun and a large amount of gold from the family treasury before fleeing north of the frozen land in which he changed his last name from Vandersuun to Winterheart.
Weapons: If a blade truly belongs to you then you should name it. Lucien uses a large two handed claymore on his back in which he wields with one hand. He has named the Claymore “Nej Hjarta”. He also has a short sword on his belt which he often uses in case of emergency. Lucien has named this short blade “Kylastyng” and finally Lucien has the natural vampire mutation to grow large claws from his fingernail in which he can shred a normal being to pieces with ease.
Abilities: Lucien Winterheart has the ability to traverse in and out of any nearby shadows as well as telekinetic powers for instance moving and throwing things with his mind.
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Other:Lucien has trained for almost five centuries in the art of combat and sword fighting and is a master duelist. He can almost predict the opponent’s movements and attacks. He has been hunting on his own for five centuries and is quite independent for a vampire never seeking any of the brood.
