Feoda Byron Corca


General Information

Character created on Feb. 9th, 1992

Name: Byron Decasey (proxy) Astraeus (deity)
Screen Name: JDwqGM
Age: By Appearance; 32, True Age; 16,673, Possible due to Time Striding and living in each time line for hundreds or thousands of years.
Year Sired: AD 154 ET
Year of Birth: AD 109 ET
Race: Ascended Deific Astraeus Vampire - 1st Generation
Path: Guardian of Powers
Class: (as proxy) Battlemage (as Ethereal) Guardian Overseer
Nature: Best described as a noble savage. Honorable, Proud, Dominant, Great Self-Control (unless drunk), generally very subdued more recently, and neutral minded, his actions swift nevertheless when his wrath is aroused.
Demeanor: Charming, Self-possessed, Charismatic when he wishes to be, Proud. Enigmatic, calm, patient unless angered.
Reknown: Once heroic, he had become more Obscure as a proxy and ethereal much as deityhood is new to him.
Occupation: Vintner, Horse Breeder, Diamond, Gems, Arms and Arcane Items Dealer. Inn, tavern, stable, academy shop Owner.
Kingdoms: Planar Kingdom of Seumires (soo-meer-eez)-- the shadow kingdom of Seumir, the Central Planes Kingdom, of An Morendor which includes the Central Planes, the Drylands west of the Great Eastern River, and Hunters' Forest south to the northern end (called Northbend) of Demon Horn Lake.

Seumires emulates Seumir in every detail but one... it is always night in Seumires.

A gateway leads between this mirror kingdom and its material counterpart, accessible to anyone who discovers its location in the Chateau's rose garden in the western courtyard grounds of both kingdoms.

Another very notable difference in Seumires is how barren of inhabitants it is as a new kingdom. Over time the spirits of dead vampires and other twice lived and died kinds will be drawn to Seumires, and those Byron knows and trusts in Morendor will visit his shadow realm at will. His planeswalker guardian Nicodemus is still ever at his side both proxy and ethereal, having created a planar double of his own to serve Byron Prime who goes now by the name Astraeus.
Resources: Count Decasey is the SOLE owner of Chateau Rouge De Lune-(Red Moon Chateau}, its stables and vinyard, and has been for over 2400 years. (Since 1992 real time). He also owns the Redlion Inn, the Haunted Tavern, the Stables and the three academies in Serhaubren. He owns businesses in Castleguard as well and owns a 30% share in the Lake of Shadows. He recently opened an icecream shop in Hassim which Saeed owns half of. Very Wealthy, the property he purchased from his Lord in An Morendor stretches around his Chateau as far as the eye can see. Though he abdicated his throne to his son Armand, he still owns the chateau and the property that forms the district of Traegellen, and castle Redlion with the property of Southshire in Seumir. It is between the chateau and castle his corporeal proxy resides. He also owns businesses across the map.

Year Wed to Lena: 1160-ET, 3134-Age of the Wauru-MT
Year Arrived in the Shadowlands: 3850-Age of Nasguol-MT
Year Wed to Saffiel: 2064-ET, 652-Age of the Tarnath-MT

Kingdom Maps: Serhaubren and Seumir

Appearance: Human Appearance - Height 6'6. Weight 260. Hair: Flaxen. Eyes: Wraught Iron, a steelish blue green that looks black. Handsome facial features, body well built. His hair is long at times, and at others shoulder length.

 

Background

Once Faithful Husband to his most beloved Lena, his terrible enemy Mog took his heart and his wife from him, only to give him another, Princess Saffiel of Hassim, whom he married, thinking Lena was dead. Byron and Lena had suffered through many ordeals and remained faithfully devoted to one another, until at last Mog divided them. If ever two immortals had an undying love for one another, it was Byron and Lena, but her death was too real in his heart for him to risk again. Lena was and shall always be his greatest weakness and his greatest strength. Of her he spoke, "She is my only light in the darkness, without her I dwell in the depths of my own Hell." Happily married for 845 years, divorce finally came with her return from death as he and Saffiel had already wed by the will of his enemy, yet Byron had come to love Saffiel deeply, to find in himself a new light despite the terrible darkness which had brought them together. To have lived and loved two women so completely was almost more than his heart could bear. Life should have held NO meaning after Lena was gone, and but for the will of Mog, and the love of Saffiel who he had given him the ability to love, it would not have. Now the beauty, the goodness and the wonder that was Saffiel held his heart and soul delicately in her beating heart.

The first time he thought Lena lost to him he saw to it that in mortus torpor he lie, and did so for ten years, none able to wake him from that sleep of cold death, until Lena returned and with her love and faith woke him. The stars shone brightly in the night sky again through her eyes.

A dark cloud overshadowed the light that was her when the terrible Beqidum Mog possessed him and lay to ruin all which mattered most to him. For a time; He took her hope and faith away, made her believe the demons from his past had awakened in him, and the formless one drove her and the children she graced him with from him. For years he stood alone, a shipwreck on desolate shores which only Saffiel came to brighten.

Now, during the very crucial dawn of his ethereal ascension, Saffiel has vanished from his life. For all his incredible power, his omniscience as a seer, he cannot find her. He cannot sense her but for knowing she was alive, for had she perished he'd have absorbed her and felt it. And was she not powerful like him? Durable? No, she was definitely alive. And so he begins his journey as a Deific entity anguished. infuriated, frustrated and frought with despair. If not for the spark of hope kept alive in him by the knowledge that SHE was alive, he might have sunk into the shadow kingdom of his immortal quickening and never been seen again. But for her and his unwillingness to shame her by selfishly surrendering to his despair, he survives her loss and moves forward. He tries not to hope too hard for her return for he cannot bear the pain of such hope and the disappointment it brings with every passing hour. Yet however bravely he strives to endure; the effects on him as an Astraeus god fresh out of the primordial soup will surely be felt to shape him.

When Byron ascended; his corporeal and ethereal embodiments were split, creating a physical proxy form and ethereal deific form. While the proxy remained in the material plane of the middle kingdom in Seumir, his prime being sank into Seumires, the shadow realm of his deific birth, a dark mirror realm of Seumir.

The two planes and two kingdoms remained connected by a shadow gate in an isolated corner of the chateau's rose garden. The gate was hard to see, hidden away in a corner of the hedge maze garden of roses behind a large, ancient rose hedge. Its location was the same in both realms.

 

Byron in the physical was at the mercy of his own ethereal embodiment's will, and in time the two could evolve separate ids. Byron by proxy nevertheless would ever be subject to his deific soul. Thus began his new chapter in life as the vampire God of Powers whose continued service to Acheron was given of his own free will. The god Acheron had released him of his mark when he ascended. The lack of its presence was just another adaptation he had to make. 

 

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Items

"Many are my treasures, some of which are extremely dangerous to handle"


Arcane Collection: many magic items and artifacts are at his disposal, many of them found by him during campaigns, most of them made by him, some of them gifts from his ruling Lord. Some are protective while others are combative. Such items must be called and described for them to come into play. Included are:
Rings of Warding: makes bearer immune to holding, transfer or hostile aspects of wards so long as the bearer does not attack anyone within a warded area.
Map and Gate items: Relocater Maps, Refuge and Gate Rings with various protective transfer effects.
Crystals of Holding: hold captured spirits and energies as called
Rings of Power: rings which improve strength, stamina, willpower, health, and resistance
Talismans: talismans which increase luck (on *chance or *save rolls), courage, willpower and confidence (*inititative)
Pendants of Power: pendants which grant the bearer a specific power which must be actived by a word of power or by using a device built into the pendant.
Artifacts: these items grant a passive power or ability but have a negative consequence for their use.
Weapons of Power: these weapons do added damage or have an added elemental or arcane effect.
Juju Items: these bags, runes, or items curse or protect the ones they are used on in various ways.
Map of the Intrepid: Byron's most valuable map item, this vellum gate map has three functions; it is a locator, a gate map, and a visual map. It manifests as an accurate handsome hand drawn map whose alternating field of vision ends at a decorative rope-knot edge. The map scope has a zoom point of view which goes from a world map, to a continental map, to an area map in size with any desired increment in between when the map bearer speaks the words 'home in', or 'home out' with smart commands such as 'home in a little, home in a lot, home out a lot', etc. This map allows the bearer to locate any one or any place the map bearer knows by name. The target shows up on the map as a small ring of light (blue light for living targets, red for place targets) around the location point. Map tracks the bearer's movement on the map with a compass and a green arrow. Map also acts as a gate item, gating the bearer to the highlighted location when the words 'relocate now' are spoken. This map will show any area named on the worlds of Morashtar, Acheron, Cirsuil Ardda, Anwnn, Darkstar or Earth. Byron keeps this map very secret inasmuch as it is valuable enough that those who desire it might be willing to kill or go to war to possess it. This map's gate power cannot bypass wards.
Scepter of Arasgal: a very powerful and much sought after artifact in the form of a puzzle with four main pieces and 50 moveable activation tiles.
Runes of Pente: a very powerful and much sought after set of arcanum in the form of runes, each having unlocked an arcanon power of chaos which he can use in combination to achieve various affects. These Runes are written in his soul and flesh and appear on his flesh when their power is harnessed. The brighter they are and the more of them appear the more power he is drawing. Let it be a warning.

 

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Mustering the Troops

Officers of Seumir

The officers who serve Seumir's King. 'A king is only as good as those who serve him.'

 

*Played Characters ......The rest are NPCs, pick up on request.

The Red Company


Captain Asaad (Shaamea)
*Traerson Denveth (Sephorai)
*Elah Denveth (Sephiroth)
Morgir (Darkscale, Euryalian dusky weredragon of doom, Prince of Doom, commands the Legion of Doom, still moonlights as a ranger)
Arthilus (namas battlemage)
Eames Beneth
Krynmhar (Vars) (Shadowlands Elf)
Estor (Anua demon kin)
Gaianna (goblin crossbreed - goblin/maelvanor)
Cassien (namas)
Romiru (Ariad Elf werewolf)
Demitri (Shadow Vampire)

The Redlion Knights


Captain: Celembror (netherelf)
1st Knight: Erykel (fomor)
2nd at arms: Keshri (morgul shadow wraith)
3rd at arms: Bizjori (red demon acolyte)
4th at arms: Armand (son of Byron)
5th at arms: Haezien (Astraeus progeny of Armand)
6th at arms: Gaerius (progeny of Keshri)
7th at arms: Rumaeol (sharr nephalim)
8th at arms: Setuwe (son of Rumaeol)
9th at arms: Ishaesa (water and ice elemental)
10th at arms: Affritis (earth and fire elemental)
11th at arms: Solus (shapeshifter)
12th at arms: Aafiz (malduzar)

City and Province Guards


Guards of Keystone, Captain Denessae (demon horn)
Guards of Serhaubren, Captain Vael (eagle's roost north)
Guards of Hartfordshire, Captain Ezhaarai (Ezaar) (central planes south)
Guards of Albiraath, Captain Morgrym (eagle's roost south)
Guards of Albaanshire, Captain Aezien (hunters forest south)
Guards of Talgeard, Captain Auduwer (Aud) (wine country, province of the Inn)
*Master at Arms: Mordechai Sirriliad (resident of Redmoon Inn)

City and Province Mages

Morgrumed, Geth, and Arwelyn of Keystone
Grymvel, Selonia, and Anyella of Serhaubren
Kardek, Semtagua, and Warfel of Hartfordshire
Halfwyd, Skarga, and Benyeth of Albiraath
Ulfwyd, Delgru, and Emuan of Albaanshire
Soleun, Effreketh, Tulvek, and Jaas of Traegellen and Talgeard
Mizeks, Ymadryk, and Elacosa of Southshire

Officers of the Realm


Armand Decasey (Crown Prince of Seumir, played)
Shaithis Decasey (prince regent of Seumir, throne of Serhaubren, played).
Byron Decasey (count of Traegellen, played)
Lady Dynai (countess of Talmidden)
Conleth Adarma (regent of Albaanshire)
Prince Morgriff Xevalea (prince of Keystone)
Commander Peracles Tulmeth (warden commander, Keystone)
Lord Memmon Hadrian (magistrate of Serhaubren)
Knight Captain Seffruel (Citadel Knights of Serhaubren)
Sheriff Fauksen (Keystone and Southshire)
Celandrael (Countess of Southshire)
Dom Emeryss (regent of Hartfordshire, dom of the necropolis pride)
Ardysiuss Eruwyr, Ardys (lord steward of Albaanshire, hunters forest south)
Aras (Royal Advisor of Seumir)

 

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Outside the Chateau 

Tending the Vines

Byron with Daughter Aari and Dog Gorgi

Clan members


Decasey Astraeus Vampires

Clan Patriarch and Matriarchs

 

  • Byron Decasey: 
  • Saffiel Kassim: 
  • Selenia, Lena: 
  • Morianna Sirsia Corca, Anna: 
    TRUEBORN OF BYRON AND ANNA TRUEBORN OF BYRON AND LENA DECASEY CLAN PROGENY
      • Celeste: 
      • Robert Lions: 
      • Morrison (Riff) Massie: 
      • Mark Templeton: 
      • Katherine (Kitty) Maynard: 
      • Cole Burger: 
      • Shane Taylor: 
      • Katalin (Kat) Conta: 
      • Terranun Denveth: 
      • Michael Delaighny: 
      • Saffiel Kassim: 
      • Valkar Kassim: 
      THE TRUEBORN OF MOG Trueborn of Saffiel and Byron
        • Kiiamisu Vhanya Decasey, Kim: 
        • Samal Amadantus Decasey, Sam: 
        • Maxentius Arghyle Decasey, Max: 

        Extended Clan

        Clanships, Blood Thralls, Servants, Residents, and Slaves

        Valis Urik: Primogen Arch Patriarch, 1st Generation, *alpha brother of Byron
        Sirrilus Octavian (Seth): Astraeus Prince, 2nd Generation, *beta brother of Byron and Valis
        Nina Alvaro: chambermaid and clan ward
        Nell McQuire: thrall companion
        Delaila (Lilly) Sommerset: vampire servant
        Solstice: elwion slave
        Braegan Caldis: slave sired menial
        Garvos: vampire guard
        Dolrometh: vampire guard
        Rhasef and Dregard: dragonkin demon brothers, guards 

         

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        Son and King Morgriff

        Son and King Shaithis

        HISTORY

        Byron was born as Feodha Corca the Lion, one of the great 'Lions of War' and appears now as he did in his human form as Feodah; However it was not always so. To become an immortal, Feodha struck a deal with Lucifer on his death, whereby his soul was cast into the abyss to be remade as a first born Astraeus vampire. Byron lived his first 500 years with all the appearanced of a Hideous monster, half Lion and half man, the price paid for his immortality. Byron's enemy Ewyn was certain Feodah could be nothing if not evil and do nothing if not unspeakable acts of cruelty, devilry and tyranny. But the life he had lived as a monstrous human did not end with Feodah's death. It began with his rebirth. Feodah made his pact with the devil and was transformed into that creature that was both man and beast. In this pact;, Feodah stood as a man but his face was as a lion's in many ways, his hair a lion's mane, his teeth as a lion's. His flesh was partly furred, his hands like paws with thick, clawed fingers, and his eyes amber as a lion's. Though he stood upright his thighs were turned out as a lion giving him a powerful gate. He even had a Lion's tail. The devil forced Feodah not only to assume this humbling but monstrous form, which he had to hide from the eyes of all men, because on his world of humans he was a freak and a monster, Feodah was also obligated to pay for every sin with his flesh, his pride, his soul, and his cold, cold heart. Feodah was transformed...but in time, he proved himself a worthy servant to the Morning Star, God of Acheron, and moreover, his heart was transformed. He saw the evils he had perpetrated without excuse, without vindication or justifications which could remove him from guilt and remorse. His heart and mind was shredded by the atrocities he had elected, ELECTED to perpetrate. Oh, how he loathed himself. He barely survived the trial of his own evils. He dwelled in his homeland as a recluse, in the castle he had been born in, trapped in that monstrous body. He shrouded himself in robes and a huge cloak of red, black and gold tartan. Men who had followed him as Feodah followed him still as the Astraeus vampire the devil recreated him as. He lengthened the lives of his knights by making them his thralls. He dared not make anyone in his own image. As a vampire, he became Feodah's son, Byron Decasey.

        In the beginning Byron was irascible with his self-loathing. His killing days were not done yet, would never truly be done, for he was the greatest swordsman on earth. No one every proved different. But, he no longer thirsted for blood, else it was to sustain himself as a vampire and and he only took lives to defend his lands and people. What finally began to lift him out of that horrible fog of his past evils, guilt and remorse, was the love of a kind young woman with auburn hair, and deep blue eyes. He fell in love with her...with the first human he permitted to see him as he had become. At first she was terrified...She fled screaming at the sight of him, but the next day she returned to the garden where they met, and where he always waited for her...for his beloved Anna. He confessed everything to her, and she begged him to forgive himself..."You are not that monster anymore," she told him. She resumed her friendship with him as though nothing had ever happened. She professed her love to him and he was reluctant. He feared himself...that he would hurt her. But he could not deny what he felt for her...Theirs was a love that was true and honest. He finally got up the nerve to ask her to be his wife, and she consented. They were married a month after she accepted his marriage proposal. They were happy...so happy, but it was a paradise that would not last. Byron still had Feodah's sins to pay for and he was to pay with the ones he loved. His allies, the Mc'Kewens had dispatched messengers to bring Feodah some news of an Albion division moving on his territory. They found him bathing to envision him as the monster he truly was...the devil they could only see him as unveiled. They hid this from him.

        His allies, his friends, they hid their fear and hate from him, and called him to battle to fight the invading Albion army, and while he fought in the Mc'Kewen's ranks with glorious skill, and with strategies that won the war for them, ten slayers where dispatched to his home to kill his wife. His beloved bride, who was as sweet as clover honey, as gentle as milkweed down, as golden as the sun, who carried in her womb a child seven months conceived, was brutally raped and butchered.

        Byron broke from battle...He felt her fear and her pain...and he drove his horse to the ground riding home, leaving the battle on the borderlands between Caldonia and Albion behind him. His castle was only a few leagues away, those borderlands, his lands. He found his castle, crops, orchards and vinyards burned, and his wife dead. He had not arrived in time to save her...Someone had cut open her body and removed his son...He assumed that it was his enemy. Byron wasted no time. Driven by his rage and grief; he took his wrath and armies on the land, and slew first the Clan Mc'Kewen down to the last man, woman and child, but his fury did not stop with them, no. He became known as the Red Death of Caldonia, a plague that bathed in the blood of thousands of Caldonians and Albions on the battlefield. He was hunted day and night, his knights and soldiers growing fearful, some turning assassin to attempt to slay their good Lord gone mad. When a day came that Byron could trust no one, not even his own knights, he went abroad of Caldonia. It was on that fated day that he won his first war overseas in Gaul, to sack and usurp a castle and kingdom there, that he proved his strength, honor, and skill to Lucifer, who granted Byron his first trial in Hell. His prize? His guise as he was when he was human, and to become an apprentice under Lucifer himself. Lucifer took this vampire under wing and taught him the ways of his paths and those more recluse abilities locked within Byron, and sent him upon many quests to sharpen his skills as a vampire and magus. A natural fighter, and legendary swordsman, one who had an innate ability to learn magic, Byron rose in Hell's ranks to Prince of Vampires, and was given a city of his own to rule in hell; Arcador, the City of Vampires. Over the years Byron became known as the noblest of Vampires, for he sired none who were not willing, who had not the nature to be a vampire, and he slew only those innocents who failed to heed his warnings. His enemies and fools alike alone did he save the savage and masterful skill of his sword's wrath, and vampiric charms for.

        A time came when he learned that it had not been his enemies who had not taken his son. Lucifer had, to place him on the doorstep of a monestary in Gaul. Gaul had long become France before Lucifer reunited Byron with his son Armand. To this day very few remember or know him as the infamous Feodah Corca, The Lion of Scotland. Through all the years he lived alone, only one other woman could tame his heart and bring light to his soul again, his beloved Lena. He thanks the fates everyday for delivering her to him.

        As of 2010 ET he had been married to his wife Lena for 850 years.

         

        Enemies from the Past

        Ewyn Glennamain

        Ewyn Glennamain and his warriors protected their lands and people fiercely. Despite their honor, determination, strength and courage, and all the ordeals they had to overcome together; Defeat found them on the battlefield as Feoda Corca conquered his armies and people. It was with Ewyn's terrible death that he discovered vengeance was his. A vengeance he took against Feoda Corca, the Scourge of Scotland, who had come to Eire to claim as much soil as his armies could take. In life Feoda defeated Ewyn's army by the sword, and executed his worthy opponent by the rising of the tide. As the living dead; Ewyn conquered the wretched king Feoda, his rage, his wits and his bitterness the weapons he used against him. As an immortal; Ewyn discovered that the forces of good and evil maintained a delicate balance, and swore himself to conquer evil wherever it lurked.

         

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        The Past marches into the Future

        The evolution of a vampire

        As the living dead, Feoda Corca became something Ewyn would never have imagined in his wildest dreams, a noble vampire and clan leader who came to be known as Byron Decasey. All his life Ewyn has searched for Feoda, his resolve pit against avenging all the people Byron once slew, oppressed and tormented as Feoda. Not until he came to Morashtar, many thousands of years after his rebirth, had Ewyn so much as glimpsed Feoda Corca, but in a tavern in Hawker's Forte, a little over one hundred years after relocating to Morashtar, he caught his first glimpse of the immortal born in Scotland, and reborn in Hell. Determined to end Byron's life, Ewyn has begun his quest to rid the world of a vampire he believes is the embodiment of evil.

        What was the saying? All good things must come to an end?

         

        A great deal happened to Byron over a two and half year period which would prove challenging and emotional for him and everyone who loved him. All his woes and the ordeals ahead product of a demonic possession by a Beqidum arch-devil named Mog.

        Mog was pure evil, and enjoyed possessing people just to corrupt them and then abandons their coils to observe the results from the body of another person, cat, dog, or bird. He was a time weaver, enchanter, and sorcerer, a Demigod of corruption.

        Mog's purpose in life was to ruin those he possessed, drive them insane, to suicide, make them outcasts, or get them killed indirectly. Mog could not be detected, sensed or seen by any means but one. Mog possessed Byron out of mere chance because Byron killed an enemy the demon inhabited, at what time Mog leapt into Byron even as Byron ran his sword through the heart of the Setis Chieftain he was killing. Mog's favorite men to ruin were those who were rich, good looking and powerful which fit Byron's MO perfectly.

         

        First off, Mog played Byron very well. He let his personality surface even when he was controlling him and then let Byron be very much himself when he was not controlling him. Two factors played into explaining changes in Byron's behavior; One; it is well known that Byron loves scotch and anyone who knows him well is aware of what a lousy drunk he is. Mog gradually turned Byron into an alcoholic. Two; Mog used the excuse of Shaithis not being Byron's son and the vampire's paranoia over the possibility of Valaeros awakening in him to drive a rift between Byron and Lena. As time progressed, Byron became more and more difficult to live with. Byron was abusive to Shaithis when he was drunk. He was abusive to the servants, to Michael (if you remember has been with Byron forever, even before he met Lena) beat Tiber all the time for having raped Shaithis and for just being Tiber, and worst of all, he began breaking his own laws.

         

        Nic, Byron's personal guard, reported to Lena that Byron had forceably sired three people (only one who has surfaced named Terra, the daughter of his own ranger Denveth), and was engaging in blood hunts of random civilians. Byron had outlawed blood hunts on innocents in his country. His Kingdom in An Morendor is called Seumir by the way. Nic would not tell Lena who Byron sired, because he was sworn to keep his confidence and had betrayed him enough by telling her that he had sired anyone at all; he just wanted Lena to know that her husband was breaking his own clan laws, and force siring was one he forbid on the penalty of death. He feared for Byron and swore to her that he would cover up what he had done. Tiber and Rhia finally left after a little over two years of suffering Byron's downward spiral. They returned to earth with Rob and the gang where they stayed between the Club Elysium they had opened in London, the Elysium in New Orleans, with plans to build two more in Spain and Paris.

         

        Now where Lena tended to be able to influence Byron to stop or curtail his drinking at a certain point, Byron became less and less susceptible to her influence. At this point Byron had been physically abusive to everyone BUT Lena. He had neither physically abused her nor fooled around on her, but he had been emotionally abusive at times, accusing her of desiring her own son Shaithis on some level, because she had felt some kind of twisted love for Valaeros. He became violently possessive and protective of her, beating anyone who so much as looked at her wrong, including Shaithis, above all Shaithis perhaps. He tried to keep Lena home at all times, physically stopping her from going anywhere without him.

         

        No one knew he was possessed but Shaithis decided he was. The possibility had not even occured to anyone until Shaithis said to Lena one night that Byron was not behaving at all like himself, not because he had become a drunk, or because he was in pain, but because he was certain he was possessed. Shaithis just got it in his head that some spirit, demon, or devil had possessed his father and refused to believe anything else. He refused to believe Byron was even capable of being so cruel to his own wife, children or even his servants. Lena did not see it because she remembered a darker Byron who was capable of many things his children had never seen in him. She also remembered all the stories Byron had told her of his past, of how wicked he used to be. But now that Shaithis mentioned it, it made her think. Shaithis swore Byron was incapable of the things he was doing unless he was being controlled by something...something very clever which had them all fooled. With no proof to back him, he went to Valis with his claims. All of them, Lena and even Tiber included, tried to prove Shaithis right but failed to do so. Tiber decided Byron was not possessed, that he had just reverted to the asshole he used to be. If Valis and his knights could not even uncover another entity in Byron then it did not exist, he decided. He told Shaithis it was wishful thinking on his part and to deal with the facts. Byron was a total dick. Good old Tiber. Valis remained open to all possibilities. The things Byron was doing were very out of character for him, but then...he had become reliant on booze and was almost always drunk, and the Valaeros thing had really messed with him...and the things Shaithis had dug up in himself over four-hundred years after his birth, Byron discovering after all this time that Shaithis was not even really his son, had reopened those old wounds. Byron had begun acting somewhat irrationally even before he was possessed. His temper was hotter and he often sought battle to vent his frustrations on.

         

        One month after Rhia and Tiber left, Lena went off to earth as well, to find a way to help Byron through Demon connections she had. Whatever Lena said to him when she left, Mog made Byron believe she had told him that she never wanted to see him again, made him believe that she had left him forever...had hated what he had become. Mog compelled Byron thereafter to disown Shaithis, Tiber and Rhia, all of them for abandoning him, and Shaithis because he was not his son. On earth, Lena's connections, either accidentally or intentionally, led Lena to be captured by a VERY powerful demon named Mekkor, who like Valaeros, used her for pleasure, only Mekkor was much worse than Valaeros ever was. Mekkor took her to his countryside manor in England. Mekkor was far more perverse that Valaeros, restrained nothing of his will. He embodied corruption. There was no vile act he feared. Mekkor shared Lena with an Avari vampire who had split identities named Manon, and it was his evil half Mecca he shared Lena with while his better half Manon was held prisoner. Manon, in an effort to purge evil from himself, had separated himself from Mecca recently. While Mecca came and went as he desired, Manon could meander around Mekkor's manor but he could not leave it because of the wards. Lena was also bled to keep her weak, her Astraeus blood preserved for use as a weapon (being that Astraues blood either paralizes or turns anyone it infects into stone, unless they are clan).

         

        Mekkor then arranged to release evidence that Lena had been captured and murdered, a death that he made very convincing. He made it look like slayers had captured her and taken snuff photos of her cruel murder. He made sure this evidence got to Tiber and Rhia, but in a subtle way that was beyond suspicion. News and proof of her death would soon reach Byron.

        Manon in the time being had figured out a way he might escape and was plotting to rejoin with his Mecca personality, and help Lena to escape with him from Mekkor's Keep when a good time presented itself.

         

        Now meanwhile, months before Byron was made aware of Lena's falsified death, Mog had taken Byron to the desert of fire, with the aim of visiting the city of Inaaksu to form an allience with King Saeed, which Mog intended to find a way to endanger Byron by, but on his way there, he met up with King Saeed's children Saffiel and Valkar, who were fleeing Inaaksu for fear of their father the King who had done horrible, even unspeakable things to them both in the recent past. Intercepting them, Mog had Byron do as Byron would have done, he helped them out, but unlike Byron he offered them his protection if Saffiel agreed to marry him, and she did, whereof he sent them to Chateau Rouge DeLune. He went back to the Inn hours later and not a week later Mog had him sire them both (it was their choice), then not a week after that, he took Saffiel as his wife. Mog was sure this would be the blow that would undo Byron if nothing else he had done could. Mog had sabotaged Byron in many ways, done things which would still be catching up to Byron months and years after he vacated Byron's meat suit.

         

        Only days after Byron had married Saffiel, King Saeed came to see the Prince of Vampires and King of Seumir, and with him he had a way of seeing Beqidum (an item which Maelmorda provided him) which thus gave him the power to take action against the formless ones. Mog fled Byron's body because he could be attacked, and jumping from one body to another, he made his escape before anyone could stop him, but Byron was now free of Mog...Free of his spirit but hardly of his influences.

         

        Byron still felt as Mog had made him feel, he remembered what Mog had wanted him to remember, and would in time remember it all because Mog wanted him to suffer everything he had ever done, though some things he would not remember until Mog released those memories to him. Mog was a god among his kind. Byron had in essence been possessed by the demigod of corruption...So here Byron and Lena were, both victims of beings which embodied corruption.

         

        Byron began to feel all the loss and terrible things he had done, and while he was reminded that it was not him, but Mog who had caused so much havoc in his life, he still felt it all in himself. His new wife Saffiel was the one good thing which had come of it all...she lifted his spirit when he wanted to sink into despair. She loved him and he felt the love for her which Mog had planted in his heart. It had taken root and flourished ever after Mog was gone. Byron had come to love Saffiel. It was not the same kind of love he felt for Lena, but it was love all the same. Saffiel was very different from Lena, how could he love them the same?

         

        It was all part of Mog's plan to ruin him. Mekkor was working with Mog. He would allow Lena to escape when the time was right, but only after Byron believed Lena was dead. Manon and Lena would not escape because they could, but because Mekkor would let them. Mog wanted Lena to return to Byron and find him not only with just a wife, but a son which happened to be Mog's, for as Lena had bore him a son out of one enemy, Saffiel had birthed him a son of another enemy. Mog loved irony. Byron discovered very soon in fact that the baby Saffiel carried was Mog's, but he and Saffiel came to love the son they named Victor regardless of who his father was. Byron could sense nothing but goodness in Victor. Byron planned to have a child with Saffiel that was his own however...Rhia and Tiber had abandoned him, Shaithis...well Shaithis still believed in him but he was not really his son, was he? Much as he did love him. Byron felt abandoned by his entire clan, Lena included, but in his heart he could not give up on Lena.

         

        Shaithis meanwhile had made a deal with Saeed, had promised to offer him anything in his power if he could help rid Byron of the demon possessing him. Saeed had intended to that regardless, but after Mog had vacated the Prince of Vampires, he traded on the offer Shaithis had made and marked him as his own, then took Shaithis with him to Inaaksu. It was his way of punishing Byron for taking his son and daughter from him.

         

        Byron went on a search for Lena, unknown to Saffiel and in doing so received news and proof from earth that she was dead. One thing led to another and soon Byron found himself on a dangerous quest in search of a valuable item. A part of him was seeking an end to himself, but it was an end that would not come, because he defeated every enemy and danger he met along the way. He returned home once a week in the two months he strayed. Byron was very proficient at bottling up his emotions, no matter how they ate at him from the inside, and kept all his grief and pain to himself, even when he told Saffiel the news of his second wife's death, second as in, Lena was his second wife, and Saffiel his third. Byron had only been married three times in his absurdly long life. Believing that Lena had left him, and that she was now deceased, did not make anything any easier on Byron. The burden of grief and heartache he carried in himself was immense, but Byron was a survivor, so he went on as best he could, hiding all which he felt, while allowing Saffiel to sooth a small amount of that agony.

         

        So life went on...and he ached inside, burned with Lena's loss, felt as if his soul would capsize and sink into the chasms of the abyss itself, but for Saffiel...She kept him afloat, kept him from relenting to the darkness which tempted his retreat into that empty place where his heart could grow cold and his heart held no sway.

         

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        dice & levels

        "Just because one has the power to destroy does not mean they should."

         

        PATH
        Lost Arcana: level 60
        INBORN PATHS
        Domination: level 60
        Presence: level 60
        Haste: level 58
        Telekinesis: level 56
        Vampiric Traits: level 60
         
        COMBAT
        Melee: level 62, +7 HB
        Thrown: level 60, +6 HB
        Martial: level 59, +5 HB
        Bestial: level 61, +7 HB
        Archery: level 58, +5 HB
        Crossbow: level 60, +6 HB
        Whip: level 41, +3 HB
        Firearms: level 50, +4 HB
        Armour: AC 80


        VITAL STATS

        HP: 3224/13,064
        Regeneration: 100
        AR: 7
        MAR: 7
        RD: 20% / 2
        Fortitude: 47
        Bone Fortitude: unlimited.

         

        CHECK DICE

         

        Physical

        Strength: 62 (+40 vampiric taps)
        Stamina: 67 (+80 vampiric taps)
        Movement: 19 (+1 per success haste)
        Dexterity: 27
        Stealth: 28

         

        Mental

        Willpower: 50
        Intelligence: 50
        Charisma: 26
        Perception: 37

        Byron's horses

        Stormcloud Horse Commander

        Stormcloud Andalusian One Fine Day

        Andalusian Horse Sunny Disposition

        The Exodus 

        Stormcloud Andalusian Triple Threat

        Deific States

        Corporeal Proxy

        • Improved Genetics: cuts all trait penalties of race in half. Also increases physical and mental attributes by +25 (split between checks)
        • Soul of the Prime: a portion of the ethereal spirit is shared with corporeal vessel amplifying power and skill by +3 d6, +1 AR. This also binds the proxy to their prime.
        • Will of the Prime: draw willpower from the prime to cast spells instead of burning stamina, or tap willpower to resist mental force. Tapping the Prime's will weakens their spirit (by -1 willpower per +1 will tapped) which makes up its embodiment but will regenerates by next day. If WP falls to 0 however, prime perishes until proxy releases a portion of their own spirit to restore them (willpower spent=will of restored prime, loss to proxy is permanent). Prime must then rebuild their willpower over a period of time (at cost of check level ups).
        • Master of Powers: like God of Powers below but instead of spirit runes he inscribes physical runes which he can then fuse with target using spirit powers. Also dedicated to the same path of guardianship over the powers.
        • Unchained Astraeus: The only one of his kind, Byron was cut free of Acheron when he attained godhood and any progeny he sires forward of his ascension will be unmarked by Acheron. Byron maintains his loyal alliance with Acheron nevertheless. He may or may not leave his own mark in his progeny himself nevertheless.

        Ethereal Prime

        • Vital Force: add all checks together x 10 +100 for vital force. This acts as their HP and their Willpower and also represents their spirit embodiment. This form takes 0 physical dmg. Their mental attributes and spirit are what can be damaged. Special powers, items or materials gotten through quests can do spirit dmg.
        • God of Powers: this prime is infused with all the runes of the Lost Arcana giving him supreme command over the elements, arcane and even the divine. He can pass chosen powers to others as either knowledge or enchantments by inscribing their flesh or souls, their equipment or even a place with spirit runes of the arcana. What he can give he can also take as a guardian of powers, his path of dedication. If gross abuse of power draws his heed the perpetrator is at risk of having their power or select powers stripped from them until they prove themselves worthy of having it restored.

         

        Traits

        No Undead Blood: Acheron Astraeus cannot drink the blood of other vampires or of the dead unless they are blood kindred to them. Their own blood is poisonous. They will purge any intake of "tainted" blood with a 45% chance of going into torpor.
        Heart Beat: these vampires are living creatures, whereby they have a pulse and heart beat, thus heart wounds cause critical blood loss and can result in torpor.
        Breath: because Astraeus are living creatures, they also need to breathe, although they can hold their breath for very long periods of time (up to ten minutes per level). When they take shadow, wraith, or vapor form, then they no longer rely on breathing. Because they can hold their breath for so long, or need no breath at all in ether forms, it is widely and inaccurately believed as a myth that they do not need to breathe at all.
        Warmth: as living creatures Astraeus have warm bodies, unless they go too long without feeding or have lost blood, in which case their body temperature drops and their flesh grows cold. When chilled they can feel it.

        Immunities: Primogens and Arch Elders 1-4th gen. who have faced the ordeals of Acheron to attain their immunties are immune to sunlight and fire. Crosses, garlic, silver, wooden stakes, other holy artifacts and holy water have no effect on Astraeus UNLESS they are religious. The primogen vampires of faith are immune to holy attacks either way, and their progeny of faith are resistant. Their immunities weaken by 10% per subsequent gen reborn of their blood line from 2nd gen. on down. Their souls cannot be taken. Their Souls are marked and are taken by The Morning Star as they die. Two of the Living Primogens, Byron and Valis, cannot be decapitated or dismembered. Though these two first born may seem invincible they are not invulnerable, just hard to kill.

        Special Advantages: w/Acheron GM only. Some have certain rights of command in Acheron granted by The Morning Star himself, including passage, residence in Arcador, the city of vampires, and the use of power within Acheron.

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