Jonathan Reid

Name: Jonathan Reid Age: 34 Birthday: 1884/19/07 Height: 6 foot 2 inches (186 centimeters) Species: Vampire; Ekon.

Appearance: Jonathan sports a dark blue coat with brown trims and a white, blue-striped undershirt with a red tie. Jonathan has black hair and semi-large beard. The scleras of his eyes are red and his irises are a now white. His skin is pale and shows faint black veins around his body due to his vampirism. Jonathan is lean but still muscular from his time spent serving in the army. Jonathan has fangs.

Personality: INFJ, intelligent, Conniving, knowledgeable, determined, devoted, polite, proper, gentlemanly, old-fashioned, communicative, collaborative, proud, brave

Backstory: Born in London, Jonathan, along with his sister Mary, were raised in the West End. All was well until their father disappeared, for unknown reasons, when Jonathan was starting his pursuit of becoming a doctor, leaving the rest of the family distraught for a time. Before enlisting to part-take in the Great War, Jonathan Reid was already a renowned doctor and a skilled surgeon. During the war, Reid continued on his pursuit of perfecting his work and research on blood transfusions, while still saving lives on the front lines in the process. Although he loves his family deeply, his career had created a void in the relationship when the need for strangers outshine the need of those closest to him. After he turned into an Ekon he killed his sister Mary who later came back as a full Ekon, showing that Jonathan has a very powerful Vampire lineage. Jonathan then had to kill his sister once again.

Jonathan owns a plant named Lisa and takes great care of it.

VAMPIRE TYPES There are multiple types of vampires.

The Ekon are the most easy to distinguish, given the characters that represent them and what kind of abilities they have. With their ability to manipulate shadows, hemomancy (blood magic), mesmerization, and perform overall supernatural feats combined with the ability to sense things no mortal can sense and yet, to be able to appear as mortal as ever. The Ekon are, without a doubt, a representation of the Gothic, Romantic vampire, or what we by now consider as the “traditional vampire”. This is easily shown with the characters that inhabit this kind of vampire, both sympathetic and unsympathetic.

Skals are curious creatures to place, given how much they vary with behaviour and the capacity to communicate. We have the mobs that are akin to mindless ghouls and mobs, but then there are places like the Skal sewer hideout where we get creatures that, while deformed, are able to communicate and understand who they are. Curiously, too; unlike the Ekon, they are said to feast on vampire blood much more than human blood. They are the deformed versions of their makers, the result of carelessness. With the ability to also produce claws, canines, manipulate the shadows, and their own unique ability of producing acidic clouds and blood, they are undoubtedly representatives to how vampirism throughout all mythology had been seen as an illness or pure corruption. However, Ashbury states they are lesser beings, from their abilities to controlling their hunger, so they are not as powerful as Ekons. A calling to the more monstrous interpretations of the vampire before it took the flesh of an alluring, humane visage. Various characters and types represent this dynamic about them, as well as… interesting in-game issues as to their creation. We do not know much about the Vulkod other than the accounts of research done by Carl Eldritch and the statements from Lord Redgrave. At this point, we can generally conclude that all vampires appear to share the ability of manipulating blood, having canines, shadow magic, and other dark forces at their disposal. Unlike the Skal, however, they do not appear to be capable of making acidic substances. They do, however, have the ability to appear as large, canine beasts, as well as harbour immense physical strength. They are primal and territorial (much like a wolf), and also unlike the Skal, they still seem to be relatively conscious and capable of speech and intelligence.

Nimrod are more fictional concepts, frankly because they are incredibly rare. Much like the Vulkod , there is little to go on in terms of in-game lore as to what these things were and are, and if anyone we see is afflicted. However, we do have some historical accounts in the game for Nimrod, as their general premise is that of the self-hating vampire. A vampire hunter that feasts on vampires alone, hunts them actively as their immortal goal, and much like the Ekon, is able to blend in with mortals easily.

The Ichor are a mutation that now spreads the contagion through means of touch rather than by direct biting, which is what the Ichor are said to be. Skals may have picked up the mutation from Ichor, the Ichor themselves may just be the Ill-Formed prefix mobs and only kill because the ludo-narrative of the game requires it. There is not much to say on Ichor, other than their curious choice of name. We do know that they are always female, according to reports from Friar Tobias Whittaker, which could mean they are the precursor to Disasters. They represent as much symbolism as the Skals do with their grotesque appearance and as symbols of plague and contagion that haunted all vampires in past generations. Lore-wise, they also appear and act the same, for the most part (even if they prefer not to kill directly, they are still rather violent and just seek death through means of plague regardless).

-- Geoffrey McCullum: Born in Dublin, Ireland, Geoffrey was exposed to vampires at a young age after witnessing a vampire, who was once his father, attack his mother by tearing out her throat. After his father was killed by the once leader of the Guard of Priwen, Carl Eldritch, McCullum was raised and trained to kill vampires; including his own brother, Ian. Later in his life Geoffrey became the leader of the Guard of Priwen, dedicated in his fight against eradicating the vampires. He is seen as a fanatic by some, and the hunter has a gruff personality and hostile towards vampires, including those associated with them. Geoffrey frequently refers to vampires as leeches.

-- The Guard of Priwen is a group led by Geoffrey McCullum. They are a group who seeks to eliminate all non humans, including every type of vampire. Guards of Priwen often patrol the streets of London. The Brotherhood of Saint Paul's Stole is a big part of the Vampire and Ekon community. This brotherhood has a lot of ties with Ekons and drive to help them.