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Thousand Year Old Vampire: Guillaume d'Orléans
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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 8848260" data-attributes="member: 11760"><p><strong>Orléans, 1025</strong></p><p></p><p>Desperate to escape me, Cateline marries the first man who asks our father for her hand in marriage: Anouilh, an aged merchant who needs a new mother for his children, who are only a few years younger than Cateline. Their mother was consumed by some sort of brain fever; she saw visions and everywhere saw the work of the devil before she finally took her own life.</p><p></p><p>Cateline is like a ghost in her new house, eyes haunted, still terrified of me, unwilling to be alone with me now, even though I have never shown her any violence nor exposed her to what I am now since the night I killed Father Guiscard. She takes to Anouilh's little boy, whom she carries everywhere, the boy clinging to her like the baby he no longer is, big brown eyes watching me over his shoulder. They whisper confidences to each other and withdraw from everyone else.</p><p></p><p>But Anouilh's daughter is very different and very strange. Cateline is the third woman of the house in her lifetime, with her mother dying years before her half-brother's mother did. Constansia is literate and musical: She sings sad songs she says her mother taught her, long ago. Her hair is black and long, eyes dark as well. She pays no heed to Cateline, coming and going as she wishes, taking with her a riding crop from her father's stable and savagely beats the men who approach her in the streets of Orléans.</p><p></p><p>From the shadows, I follow one such man who thought a young girl, alone at night, might fall victim to his lusts. Instead, I drag him into a darkened corner of the church's graveyard, Since Guiscard's death, I have had trouble controlling myself, and I slash open the man's neck and torso with my claws. I am less human all the time and only my elderly father's failing eyesight keeps him from realizing what shares a home with him. I have stopped going to the scriptorium altogether.</p><p></p><p>As I drink from the would-be rapist's blood, slurping and chewing hungrily, I look up and see Constansia watching me, calmly. My bloodlust sated, for the moment, we sit and watch each other, colorless figures of black and white in the pale moonlight.</p><p></p><p>Finally, the girl drops to her knees in the graveyard, raising her arms up to me, her face a mask of ecstasy.</p><p></p><p>"Master," she calls me.</p><p></p><p>Constansia knows me for a monster and is entranced by it. She believes me to be an agent of the Devil himself, a notion that amuses Carnutes, who quotes some doleful Ovid when I tell him.</p><p></p><p>In the coming nights, Constansia lures victim after victim to me, wandering along the trade roads or lurking in alleys, enticing soldiers to follow her into the shadows or highwaymen to give chase, each time leading them into my waiting arms. She watches, enraptured, as I devour them in turn. It takes a great act of will to not give into my gluttony and draw the attention of the duke or church upon me.</p><p></p><p>It is a simple matter to overwhelm the mind of Constansia's father, Cateline's husband, and officially, Constansia becomes my wife, moving into the large, empty house I now share with my father. As I go to sleep each dawn, Constansia is there beside me, whispering blasphemies in the dark.</p><p></p><p>[spoiler="Character sheet"]Prompt 1 + 9 - 4 = Prompt 6</p><p></p><p><em>A mortal Character begins serving you. Who are they? Why are they drawn to you? Create a new mortal Character.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Guillaume d'Orléans</strong></p><p></p><p>Skills: literate in French; literate in Latin; a capable gardener; bloodthirsty</p><p></p><p>Resources: a cowhorn inkwell, engraved with a knight; a penknife; a small bronze crucifix</p><p></p><p>Characters:</p><p>Onfroi, my father, an ambitious farmer who has pinned the family's hopes on me (mortal);</p><p>Cateline, my sickly younger sister, my best friend (mortal);</p><p>Carnutes, the center of the heresy and vampire, a melancholy figure often lost in reminiscences of Rome (immortal);</p><p>Constansia, Guillaume's first wife, a sociopath who believes her husband is an agent of the Devil</p><p></p><p>Marks: My eyes cannot stand bright light and I have to remain in shadows at all times</p><p></p><p>Memories (five up to three Experiences each):</p><p>1. I am Guilliame d'Orléans, son of Onfroi, a novice scribe born late in the 10th Century of Our Lord</p><p>2. I am Guilliame d'Orléans: My father, Onfroi, gifts me an engraved inkwell, which he had to save for months to afford</p><p>3. I am Guilliame d'Orléans: Father Guiscard invites himself into our home, openly lusting after Cateline, which neither my father and I can do anything about; I kill him when I come home to find him raping Cateline, which she watches in mute horror</p><p>4. I am Guilliame d'Orléans: The night the other heretics were burned alive, Carnutes fed upon me as I screamed in pitch black darkness</p><p>5. I am Guilliame d'Orléans: I rescue a dark-haired girl from attack and Constansia pledges herself to me, believing me to be a servant of Satan, and we soon wed;[/spoiler]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 8848260, member: 11760"] [B]Orléans, 1025[/B] Desperate to escape me, Cateline marries the first man who asks our father for her hand in marriage: Anouilh, an aged merchant who needs a new mother for his children, who are only a few years younger than Cateline. Their mother was consumed by some sort of brain fever; she saw visions and everywhere saw the work of the devil before she finally took her own life. Cateline is like a ghost in her new house, eyes haunted, still terrified of me, unwilling to be alone with me now, even though I have never shown her any violence nor exposed her to what I am now since the night I killed Father Guiscard. She takes to Anouilh's little boy, whom she carries everywhere, the boy clinging to her like the baby he no longer is, big brown eyes watching me over his shoulder. They whisper confidences to each other and withdraw from everyone else. But Anouilh's daughter is very different and very strange. Cateline is the third woman of the house in her lifetime, with her mother dying years before her half-brother's mother did. Constansia is literate and musical: She sings sad songs she says her mother taught her, long ago. Her hair is black and long, eyes dark as well. She pays no heed to Cateline, coming and going as she wishes, taking with her a riding crop from her father's stable and savagely beats the men who approach her in the streets of Orléans. From the shadows, I follow one such man who thought a young girl, alone at night, might fall victim to his lusts. Instead, I drag him into a darkened corner of the church's graveyard, Since Guiscard's death, I have had trouble controlling myself, and I slash open the man's neck and torso with my claws. I am less human all the time and only my elderly father's failing eyesight keeps him from realizing what shares a home with him. I have stopped going to the scriptorium altogether. As I drink from the would-be rapist's blood, slurping and chewing hungrily, I look up and see Constansia watching me, calmly. My bloodlust sated, for the moment, we sit and watch each other, colorless figures of black and white in the pale moonlight. Finally, the girl drops to her knees in the graveyard, raising her arms up to me, her face a mask of ecstasy. "Master," she calls me. Constansia knows me for a monster and is entranced by it. She believes me to be an agent of the Devil himself, a notion that amuses Carnutes, who quotes some doleful Ovid when I tell him. In the coming nights, Constansia lures victim after victim to me, wandering along the trade roads or lurking in alleys, enticing soldiers to follow her into the shadows or highwaymen to give chase, each time leading them into my waiting arms. She watches, enraptured, as I devour them in turn. It takes a great act of will to not give into my gluttony and draw the attention of the duke or church upon me. It is a simple matter to overwhelm the mind of Constansia's father, Cateline's husband, and officially, Constansia becomes my wife, moving into the large, empty house I now share with my father. As I go to sleep each dawn, Constansia is there beside me, whispering blasphemies in the dark. [spoiler="Character sheet"]Prompt 1 + 9 - 4 = Prompt 6 [I]A mortal Character begins serving you. Who are they? Why are they drawn to you? Create a new mortal Character.[/I] [B]Guillaume d'Orléans[/B] Skills: literate in French; literate in Latin; a capable gardener; bloodthirsty Resources: a cowhorn inkwell, engraved with a knight; a penknife; a small bronze crucifix Characters: Onfroi, my father, an ambitious farmer who has pinned the family's hopes on me (mortal); Cateline, my sickly younger sister, my best friend (mortal); Carnutes, the center of the heresy and vampire, a melancholy figure often lost in reminiscences of Rome (immortal); Constansia, Guillaume's first wife, a sociopath who believes her husband is an agent of the Devil Marks: My eyes cannot stand bright light and I have to remain in shadows at all times Memories (five up to three Experiences each): 1. I am Guilliame d'Orléans, son of Onfroi, a novice scribe born late in the 10th Century of Our Lord 2. I am Guilliame d'Orléans: My father, Onfroi, gifts me an engraved inkwell, which he had to save for months to afford 3. I am Guilliame d'Orléans: Father Guiscard invites himself into our home, openly lusting after Cateline, which neither my father and I can do anything about; I kill him when I come home to find him raping Cateline, which she watches in mute horror 4. I am Guilliame d'Orléans: The night the other heretics were burned alive, Carnutes fed upon me as I screamed in pitch black darkness 5. I am Guilliame d'Orléans: I rescue a dark-haired girl from attack and Constansia pledges herself to me, believing me to be a servant of Satan, and we soon wed;[/spoiler] [/QUOTE]
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