<center>Whispers In The Shadows
A Vampire RP by Goldy and Enno

Welcome to a world as utterly unlike our own as you could imagine.
The world in which our story takes place is of medieval concept; not unlike medieval England. There is nothing in the least what we would call modern in this world, for the nobility dwell in grand castles and houses, whilst the poorer of citizens make do with small villages and hamlets. Every man is required to have knowledge in sword craft and archery should he be called up for war. And the land is ruled over… at least, artificially… by a bloodline of Lords and Ladies, who, not unlike monarchs, inherit their titles. In their belief, they wield supreme power. How little they know, for they are deceived.
As our story unfolds you will soon discover a web of deceit and secrets, secrets that go beyond most human knowledge. Nothing is as it seems; on the surface is a world that might seem akin to tales you have read of before, histories of our own world. But in stark reality it is nothing like.
For the vampires hold unquestionable secret power of everything, in the dark. This is the way it has always been, and if some have their way, the way it will always be. This as yet remains to be seen.
This is a world of whispers. Whispers in the shadows.

The night was still for hundreds of years in the eyes of the humans - they reigned supreme, but they were wrong. Evil* beings have controlled them and their world for longer than they could possibly imagine, and they are intelligent. They knew they had to stay hidden in the shadows, in the night. But that doesn’t mean they enjoyed it. For years a select group has been planning their escape from the shackles of humanity. Though they are in control, very few people know it and that is not how it should be. They’ve sired more than they should have, taught them how to survive using techniques that should not be used, and pushed their hatred of the secrecy onto them. They are gaining more power by the night, but not enough to challenge the council. For there are rules in their world, albeit very few**, and they have to stick to them. For now. Times are changing, humans are getting smarter, and the vampires are getting sloppy. Things have to change if they want to stay in control, if they do not want to be hunted like the animals they would be viewed as if the humans found out. Things have to change, but what things? Should rules be enforced more harshly? Or should the secret be blown, and a battle for control begin?
This is yet to be decided.
Who knows if the whispers in the shadows, are to become screams in the night? </center>



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While they are evil technically in the whole demons of the night type of thing, they don’t have to be evil personality wise. They’re basically humans who need blood to survive when it comes down to that.

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~Can’t go out in sunlight. Burn up, flames, excruciating pain, imminent death etc
~Need blood to survive, can go without for a few days if they’re new to vampirism, a few weeks if they’re not so new, a few months if they’re very experienced, but aren’t as strong as they could be and tend to lose control feeding and kill. Don’t have to kill when they feed, purely choice.
~Can’t have children. Any they do have are either from when they were human, or basically adopted, people they’ve sired, or just taken under their wing.
~Immortal, can heal, but sunlight/stake to the heart will kill them. Needs to be a wooden stake, a dagger to the heart will seriously injure them, but not kill.
~To sire they take blood, give blood, then the human dies, has to feed to complete the change. They don’t necessarily need to be buried although it makes it tidier – better than them just disappearing.
~Not many rules, basically only to keep themselves secret, tidy up after themselves etc. A council of many is on hand to sort any problems out, with a head of seven who stay together most of the time in a base of sorts. They’re not official in any sense, but have gained respect.
~Some of them can go out in sunlight, if they've taken a secret medicine. The main ingredient is hard to come by though, and only a few people know how to make it. Only those high up in the chain of command have complete access, anyone else has to make it themselves if they can find out the recipe, or pay a high price for it.
~They can heal on their own, and eventually do, but it speeds it up if they drink blood.
~If they're weakened, animal blood helps, but human blood is best. Vampire blood if it's all that's on offer, they could have, but it would have the same effect as animal blood.

Chain of Command;
Octavion and The Council [The ones really controlling everything]
Lord and Lady Ralle's Advisers [All human except one, answer to the council]
Lord and Lady Ralle

Anything that you’re not sure about vampire wise, just ask, and I’ll answer/add it to the list.

Characters;
Octavian; ~Goldleaf~
Isolde; ~Goldleaf~
Belle Mykr; *Ennostiel*
James Ralle; *Ennostiel*
?; Maethoriel
Sir Darius de Chaney; Lady Elenriel
Calista Labeau; Lady Elenriel
Vincent McCloud; Eruraina
Jocelyn D'Pointe; Pandora

General RPing Rules;
~ No God-modding
~ Post with content
~ Keep RPing at a pace everyone can keep up with

<center>Belle Mykr
Taryn Manning
Pictures; Belle 1
Belle 2
Date of Birth; March 3rd
Age; 27
Turned At; 19
Gender;Female
Race; Vampire
Hair; Shoulder length wavy blonde.
Apparel; Usually dressed in a short black and/or red dress. When she wants to blend in with the villagers she’ll wear something longer, so she doesn’t draw too much attention to herself, but the shorter the better in her opinion.
Eyes; Blue
Personality; Belle is flirtatious and coy. She knows what she wants and will do anything to get it. She can take charge and control others if need be, but she doesn’t enjoy the control as much as the games she plays to get it.
History/Background; When Belle was 18, soon to be 19 she fell fatally ill and became a shadow of her former self. She was getting weaker by the day, and by her birthday she didn’t recognise anything, or anyone - she was delirious. A council member came across her when he was looking to feed - he didn’t like feeding on the healthy. He was planning on killing her in the process, but changed his mind half way through and forced her to take his blood in return, thus changing her into a vampire. She resisted at first, but didn’t have much of a choice. Her mother found her, and though she was distraught, it didn’t come as a surprise. She was buried not far from where she lived, and was reborn the night after her burial. She was as weak as she had been when she arose, but after her first feed she was better than her old self, and has never looked back. Some vampires resent their maker, but Belle was thankful and trained under him for the first three years of her new life before he left the security of the council base, and went travelling. He hasn’t returned, but Belle isn’t worried, she doesn’t expect him to return, though deep inside she is hopeful he will.
Other Notes; /// </center>


<center>James Ralle
Milo Ventimiglia
Pictures; James 1
James 2
Date of Birth; September 17th
Age; 29
Gender; Male
Race; Human
Hair; Short, dark brown
Apparel; Usually dressed in formal wear when in the public eye, but as soon as he’s out of it he’ll do anything he can to blend in.
Eyes; Brown
Personality; James likes to think he’s likeable, but in truth most people think he’s a hard character to deal with. He’s seen as someone who is over confident, and hates to be proven wrong. Occasionally he’ll humour people, and act a little humble but it’s mostly for his own amusement. Since being left to fend for himself, he’s been a lot quieter. He does have a softer side; he likes exploring and getting away from the responsibility. He’s even started to enjoy helping people, although not publicly. He doesn’t particularly want to go back to his family and be in charge once they decide to step down.
History/Background; Since James was a small boy, he’s had a luxurious lifestyle, where his every whim was catered for. His childhood was filled with him being told he was perfect - he could do no wrong in the eyes of his parents (Lord and Lady Ralle) - and that mentality has stuck with him. His family is powerful, if only in their small village, and he takes that for granted. The Ralle family had always had servants, and control - for the last century a Ralle had been in charge of the village, though technically speaking the control is figurative as they pass the responsibility out so they can enjoy a relaxed life - and he’s gotten used to it. On the advice of his parents’ many advisors - the real people in charge - they've cut James off and left him to fend for himself. They want him to prove that he can take over when they’re gone, and he doesn’t understand, after all, in his eyes his parents don’t do that much. What his parents have recently learnt though, is that they’re held responsible for everything that goes wrong, as well as right. A string of attacks on the villagers, which is getting steadily more frequent, has gotten to the point that most people are scared to leave their homes at night.
Other Notes; ///

Name: Isolde
Gender: Female
Race: Vampire
Age: 221 (turned into vampire at 21 years of age)
Appearance: Isolde 1
Isolde 2
Isolde 3
Isolde 4
Personality: Isolde is a spirited girl who knows her own mind; yet despite her natural confidence, she prefers solitude to being in company. She finds it tiring having to make small talk with strangers, and likes retreating into her own dream world. Her father often reproaches her for this, saying that she should make a bigger effort to be a credit to him. However, she disregards this, and spends a lot of time sitting by herself under trees, or going for walks in the castle grounds of her home. She appreciates nature, and finds her father’s various banquets and parties tedious. But despite her tendency to dreaminess, Isolde has a real skill with sword craft and archery, having from a young age trained in such things.
History: Isolde grew up the daughter of a nobleman called Octavian, living in a prosperous area of the countryside in a grand castle. Her mother had died giving birth to her, so she had only one parent; it was difficult for her to grow up without a mother, but she was surrounded with various servants for the duration of her childhood, including a governess who educated her and indulged her love of faerytales, and a teacher who trained her in sword craft and archery. From a young age her father told her that she would be married one day to his advantage and to honour her family, and that any potential husband would expect her to know the obedient ways of a wife. Isolde resented this, knowing that she had both the intellect and determination to go her own way in life.
As she grew older she and her father had many arguments about this; their disputes often became violent, and Isolde would fight her corner with spectacular perseverance. One evening, when she was twenty-one, her father threatened to turn her out of the castle, declaring that if she would not marry then she was of no use to him. Isolde retorted that she would gladly leave if it gave her the chance to lead her own life, and, taking her horse, went from the castle in a fit of anger.
But she did not get further than the castle grounds, for she was waylaid by a strange group on horseback. It was nightfall and pitch black; they were cloaked in strange robes, and had pointed teeth.
The following events reconciled Isolde and her father to each other’s company again, for they both now suffered the same awful predicament; they had been turned into vampires. It was a terrifying revelation, but the cloaked strangers, before their departure, had informed them that they were now like them – and that soon more of their people would come for them.
When they came, Isolde and Octavian’s new life began. Octavian, as a nobleman with money and considerable influence, was accepted into the council of vampires, who were the real source of power in their world. Nothing would ever be the same again. </center>

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~~Siggy by Lembas~~

woot! I'm in. I'll have a bio up soon. Love me some real vampires.

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Set 1: Nurr | Set 2: Me

Can I join please?

Here are my character bios. Just changed my superhero ones a bit so hopefully they are okay. Let me know if I need to change anything.

Name: Sir Darius de Chaney
(Actor: Ben Barnes)

Gender: Male

Race: Vampire

Age: 250 (turned into vampire at 21 years of age)

Parents: Arthur and Margaret de Chaney

Appearance:
Pic #1
Pic #2
Pic #3


Personality: Generally cold and aloof, he prefers to keep to himself. There is an air of mystery that seems to surround him. However, he can be charming and seductive if he so chooses.

History: Born to a powerful nobleman, his mother died in childbirth and his father took on a second wife who loathed his existence as he stood to inherit his father’s lands. From an early age, he was taught the ways of the sword, becoming one of the best swordsmen in the kingdom and was knighted at the age of 15. His father then arranged for him to marry the daughter of a powerful duke, but he disdained the girl for her pride and refused the match. Due to the shame brought upon the family, his father threatened to disown him unless he agree to the match which he stubbornly refused. Turning his back on the castle that day, he set forth with sword, shield, spear and horse to become a knight errant. During that period, he achieved many adventures, earning great renown for his prowess. However, on one dark fateful night, he had the misfortune to be waylaid by a group of vampires. Here he would have been slain if not for a female vampire among the group that taking a liking to him, made him drink her blood. His body was found the next day and buried richly as deserving of a nobleman’s son and worthy knight. On the night after his burial, he rose from the dead, and finding himself to be a creature of the night, he cursed the world for what he had become. Drinking blood now to survive, he felt a strong bitterness to the she-vampire that created him and refused to seek her out. As the years grew by, his heart grew colder and colder until he seemed to be more of a renegade vampire than any. After a few centuries passed him by, as he was on the prowl for a nightly meal, he spied a beautiful village girl alone. Making his way toward her in great haste, he grabbed her and pinned her beneath him, intent on killing her, but as he spied her fear as she lay thrashing beneath him, mercy stayed his hand. He could not explain the sudden reluctance to drink her blood--especially since she smelled so sweet. Maybe it was just a pretty face or maybe deep down where he did not want to admit, he longed for something more than a life of darkness. Or perhaps it was the knight within him trying to re-establish himself after years of feeding off the blood of women. In all his years as a vampire, this girl was the first prey he captured but willingly let go. "What is your name, maiden?" he asked her. "Calista Labeau," came her reply in a trembling voice. Letting her go unharmed, he forbid her from breathing a word to anyone. There was just something in her eyes that told him she could be trusted and on the night they were to meet again would be the test to see if that were so.
Other: He has an English accent.

Name: Calista Labeau
(Actress: Diane Kruger)

Gender: Female

Race: Human

Age: 21

Parents: Mark and Gwen Labeau

Appearance:

Pic #1
Pic #2
Pic #3

Personality: Curious and sweet. She can be headstrong and willful at times. Beneath her innocent exterior lies a spirit that longs for adventure which can get her in trouble. She is also a dreamer, longing for a world and existence better than hers.

History: Born to a poor farmer and milkmaid in England, Calista was no stranger to hardship nor hard work. The only one of 7 children to survive, she became her parents pride and joy. As she grew order, she possessed an uncommon beauty and grace and was thought to be the fairest maiden in the village. Many of the young men of the village sought her hand in marriage, yet she refused them all, pleading with her parents to let her remain as she was for just a bit longer. Her parents acquiesced to her request, until she turned 21 when they threatened her to marry the head village master’s son on pain of disownment. Utterly distraught, Calista snuck out that night, contemplating on ending her own life, when she was attacked by a strange yet handsome man. Suddenly fearful of what may befall her, she thrashed wildly beneath him and to her surprise, he let her go. Intrigued by him, she called after him, pleading for his name, which he gave her reluctantly. She then asked him what he was, sensing there was something different about him, to which he replied that he was a creature of the night and showed his fangs as if to prove a point. Calista knew she should have been afraid, but found that she wasn’t. Instead she found herself desiring his company, though it could only be at night. “Shall I see you again?” she had asked him. “Meet me here on the night after tomorrow, but tell none of what you have seen.” Nodding wordlessly, the two departed and true to her word, she told no one of her meeting with a vampire, knowing that she could not endanger him after he spared her. On the next morning Calista begged for another respite to the marriage and her parents ended up giving her another year. Relieved at the delay, Calista looked forward to her meeting with Darius on the night after wanting to get to know him while hoping that he could save her from the prison she felt herself to be in.

I just have a couple of questions (and sorry they are probably pretty stupid). Do vampires have heightened senses--ie sight, smell etc-- compared to humans (like in most other stories)? Also can they just heal on their own or do they have to drink blood to heal, and if they are weak from not drinking blood for awhile is it only human blood that can help them or can they drink other blood (ex: animal, other vampires etc)?

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AWESOME set by the AMAZING Lembas!!!

Real vampire! Yes! And the plot looks really interesting! Count me in!

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Married Cloud Strife 9/17/08

Yay! Welcome everyone

Goldy; Have done

Lady Elenriel; Yes to the heightened senses. I haven't really thought about the healing much Hmm. Let's go with they can heal on their own, and eventually do, but it speeds it up if they drink blood. [I shall add that to the first post as well]
If they're weakened, animal blood helps, but human blood is best. Vampire blood.. well I wouldn't think they would ever do that, but I guess if it's all that's on offer, they could, but it would have the same effect as animal blood

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Alright, I'm finally putting up my bio! Hope it's alright!

Name: Vincent McCloud
Gender: male
Race: Vampire
Age: 316 (turned at age 35)
Appearance:
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History:
Vincent was born to a poor blacksmith in a small town (In a landscape much like Irelands). He was an only child, destined to take over his father's smithy. And that's just what he did. He grew up with a very peaceful and laid back life where one could sleep well every night after a day of hard work. He became a very skilled in the smithy able to forge tools of any metal, as well as swords, and the like. Vincent McCloud was not is original name. For him that name has not been used in so long he had forgotten.

His mother, weak all her life, passed away from a sickness -though not unexpectedly. His father lived to be 60 where he died peacefully in his sleep, also expected. But then Vincent was 29 and out on his own, and even looking for a potential wife, having taken over the family business.

It was a few years later when the unexpected happened. One night Vincent was working late in the forge when the whole building seemed to collapse around him. He was knocked nearly unconciouse, barely aware of what was going on around him. He felt someone pull him from the debre, though he didn't know who. Something was placed at the lips of his dieing body and told him to drink.

And so he did, and then he passed out. The next morning, thinking him dead, the people of the village burried him beside his parents. But then night came again and he freed himself of his encasement to find himself a creature of the night. He fleed from his home town, and went far away. He held no spite for the one who had changed him, because for all he knew they had saved his life.

But lost in this new world, he wandered for some time until he settled down is a large city that he descovered was full of his kind. And he started a shop to do what he did best. He started a blacksmith shop. And over the years, he moved many many times, so as not to have suspisions grow with the humans about what he truelly was.

All his shops had his house built into them so he would not have to go out in daylight, because he could spend most of it in the shop. Eventually other vampires caught on and he became one of the most known vampiric blacksmiths over the years, the quality of his work growing better and better...

(bleh, not so good history there... but, here it is anyway.)

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Married Cloud Strife 9/17/08

Name: Jocelyn D'Pointe
[actress: Ashley Greene]

Age: 23 when sired

Gender: Female

Race: Vampire

Appearence:Jocelyn 1
Jocelyn is quite tall for her age, standing straight at 5'10. Her lithe form is wrapped in porcelain skin with a small stream of freckles along her nose and cheeks. Her hair cascades in auburn ringlets to her waist, a stream of bands occasionally falling in front of her eyes. Her feline-like eyes are a piercing emerald flicked with speck of golden light under a set of long dark lashes. Her thin nose falls just above bow-shaped lips of a pale crimson color.

Personality: When she was young her parents died leaving her in an unknown world. She became naturally shy and independent learning to live on her own. Everything she had to go through being alone brought her up to be strong-willed and cunning in the streets.

Clothing: Mostly her attire consists of a simple red dress, a tight bodice on top while the rest of the dress falls down her to the ground with an array of silken fabric. The sleeves billow slightly and hang off her fragile shoulders. Occasionally when the mood hits her she will wear form-fitting black pants with a tight white tunic under a short red french renaissance frock coat and a black top hat with a long red sash.

History: Jocelyn was born in England many years ago to Johnathon and Evelyn DePointe. She had no other siblings and was a happy child in their small 3 bedroom home in the outskirts of the city. Her parents were always there for her, teaching her the ways of the world, how to read and write, and even to paint. Her father was the one that inspired her love and passion of the arts and the world around her. She had never been happier, until her 8th birthday. Her parents had gone out to buy some presents, leaving her home to wait impatiently; as she did every year. Except this year her parents never came home. The clock struck midnight and they were still not home, she waited days, weeks, months; no one came to her. She never found out what happened to her parents, she left the home she lived in for eight years and choose the life of an orphan, traveling the streets hoping one day to find her parents. Her 23rd birthday rolled around, in those 15 years she learned a lot of life and the mind and had what some called street smarts. Though it was not good enough, for she had met a man; Daeron. At the time he seemed like a sweet man until that night. He told her to meet him in the park outside one of the many forests, her favorite forest to be exact. She did not expect the events that were to occur that night, turns out Daeron was a vampire. How could she not have known after many a year? Her last thoughts before joining the undead was she only wished she could see her parents once more.


Other:
Father's name: Johnathon Chris DePointe
Mother's name: Evelyn Amor Harker
-she's a slight sadomasochist.
-she has a temper that when provoked can turn ugly.
-She loves grapes.
-she thinks she falls in love
-she has a thing for wanting closure

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The waves that C R A S H E D upon
The R O C K S that you were trying to step along

And in my head I heard them play a S O N G