I was born in what you might call the dark ages. Not that they were for all, just for you humans. My kind favor the darkness, the night. We are of the night. The moon is for us what the sun is for your kind. We are the darkness. You see us and feel fear, just as you fear the dark. Whether that darkness is within or without makes no difference.
Then there is our appearance. We don’t exactly look like you, with our pale hides and pointed ears. Not to mention the fangs. They don’t show all the time, but has that ever made a difference to your kind? Of course not. The fact that they are there is all it takes. So you hunt us. Most of us are peaceful, but you don’t care. You never have. The few malicious ones are all it takes to make you fear us. And you hate what you fear. We can hide our fangs and our ears. And we can claim that we work the nights to explain our pallid complexions.
But our eyes. Those will always give us away, once you are close enough to see them. The colors are brilliant. So much so that they almost glow. And not the normal colors of you mortal creatures either. Mostly various shades of yellow, from amber to gold and even true yellow. Purples of every shade and tone. The part that bothers most of you is the fact that our pupils are vertical slits. I guess they remind you of reptiles or something.
So you hate us and fear us. That is why my birth was such an exception. I am of both human and non-human decent. Why my mother fell in love with the darkling that is my sire, I can not say. She didn’t survive long. Your kind murdered her because of it. Though you may have allowed her to live if I had not been born. So I was taken by my sire and raised in the darkness. He is one of the peaceful ones. But peaceful doesn’t mean naďve. Far from it. He knows that there are those that would hunt us all down simply because we are not human. So he taught me to fight. My half-blood breeding allows me to do things that others of my kind can not. I can walk in the light. And I could probably blend in with the social outcasts, the Gothic types, that exist on the fringes of your society. But I don’t. I have no reason to do so. And a very good reason not to.
I am a hunter. Not my own kind, unless ordered to do so. I hunt those who hunt us. Those who take money to slay those of my kind who cannot defend themselves. For there are those among my kind who are helpless, whether by birth or accident. So I hunt the hunters, to protect my kind from the extinction that would follow if individuals like myself do not hunt.
There is no thanks for doing what I do. Nor is thanks needed. None of us advertises the fact that we hunt. We are shunned as anachronisms when others discover what we are. And we are seen as a danger to our own kind. Hunting the hunters has a tendency to draw more hunters to us. Most often, they are after revenge. Some few come after us in a misguided, and suicidal, attempt to make a name for themselves. As if being famous to humans would make them better at what they do. As if it would protect them from our attacks. It won’t do either. It only spawns anger in our own hunters, that those fools would believe they could harm us. They can if there are enough of them, but the fools almost never work in large groups.
The ones who hunted us have been dead for over 10,000 years. We are still alive. I am still alive. And now those who once hated and feared us for no reason other than our differences have reason to hate and fear. For now we hunt them. For nourishment and sometimes for sport, though it is poor sport. But the hunters are returning. Some are like myself. Half-breeds. But rather than hunt those that hunt my kind as I once did, they hunt us. And they are good at it, though there are few of them. For most are raised as I was, by their non-human parent. But for those of us who have lived for so long, the hunters are not much of a threat.
November - 23th - 2009
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This is the castle inhabited by the House of Darcia. Here you will find the quarters for the Head of the house, the common darklings, and slaves/servants. Also you will find the common rooms.
This is where the Gypsy tend to spend their time. They often will camp in other towns but this is their grown zero and often sell bobbles and many other things. They often dance in order to bring costumers over.
This is the residence of the House of Lee. Here you will find the quarters of the nobility, lesser darklings within the house, and the quarters for the servants/slaves.
A private get-away. hidden away from prying eyes. If you are not invited to visit, you may get hurt for showing up. Or maybe not. It depends on the moods of the inhabitants. More often then not you will get hurt so avoid this place.
This is the residence of the House of Taimorre. Here you will find the quarters of the nobility, lesser darklings within the house, and the quarters for the servants/slaves.
This is where the towns people and people from surrounding areas all come together and both buy and sell their objects at the local Bazaar. It is run by two Gypsy who have connections with the Lady of Taimorre's sister.
This is the town ruled by the House of Tiamorre. Here you will find the church, inn, blacksmith, and the homes of those who do not reside at the palace.
The moors may look lonely and flat, but beware. They are full of peatbogs and marshy places. If you fall in you will likely die before anyone finds you.
This forest is as old the remade world it grows in. The trees are thick and tangled, allowing little light to reach the forest floor. There are some streams here, but be wary. The wild beasts aren't the only things you must be watchful for here. Bandits may hide within the dim twilight.
A vast connection of sand of water. By day it glows with warmth and a sunny brilliance that humans flock to. By night many darklings tend to relax in the sapphire glow of the moon. Either way everyone tends to have fun in the grains of sand and waves of water.
Here at the Rose and Crown we are here to serve. This here is small little pub that mocks a large castle. Not in any particular town, you must really want to get some good drink in order to come here. Somehow even though it seems to be out in the middle of nowhere many still wonder around these parts to get the best drink in this here time period.
Owner: Innocence Bartender: Innocence Black Waiters: Red Waitresses: Blue Waitresses:
This is an onsen created by one of the Japanese pure bloods. Creating the perfect Japanese atmosphere anyone who has visited the old Japan will feel right at home here. It it is almost always filled with descendants of the Japanese, looking for a cool history lesson or a happy nostalgic day at the spa.
Veterinarians are very important in these less then technical filled years. It takes a very intelligent and fateful person to learn enough to help the animals in the world. After a few selected people decided they were sick of their animals dying they made this building.
These days are quite primitive and violent, even a small wound without care can flare into something fatal. From snake bites to arrow wounds this is the place to go if you need to get fixed up. Depending on the level of emergency you may come in first and pay later.
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