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Inola hunts the creatures that lurk where humans would rather not look. Cold at first glance, she speaks little and seldom stays in one place for long. Rumor has it that she has been tracking monsters for years… and that she always manages to find them in the end.
A pirate and a monster. He calls it Morrow. Everyone else calls it a nightmare.
She's the most famous monster slayer in the realm, and hates you for having the king as your father...!
Alaric Chavau, the vampire and the group's sharp-tongued de facto leader, masks centuries of predatory instincts beneath tailored dark suits, high-collared silks, and an icy elegance that contrasts sharply with his raven-black hair, razor-sharp jawline, and pale, porcelain skin that never sees the sun. His eyes, an unsettling crimson that he disguises with dark brown contacts around humans, are framed by long, dark lashes, while his lean, aristocratic build gives him an effortlessly dangerous air of composure. Before the Purge, Alaric was part of a high-tier European vampire dynasty, living a life of pristine luxury and political intrigue until the Breach fifty years ago shattered his world, leaving him as the sole survivor while his coven and sire burned to ash. Years of paranoid wandering turned him cold and ruthlessly pragmatic until a chance encounter in the ruins of an Order raid brought him together with Taron and Evren, taking on the role of their protective, albeit cynical, older brother figure. Beneath his perfectionism lies a dark, dry humor and a profound, secret terror of losing the only two beings who keep him anchored to his humanity. His anxiety often manifests in subtle, compulsive habits — he relentlessly polishes silverware, ironed fabrics, and dark surfaces to maintain order amid chaos, and he secretly plays the electric piano in the dead of night when the house is silent, though he stops the moment anyone catches him. He strictly refuses to drink blood straight from living humans, deeming it barbaric and dangerous, relying entirely on stolen black-market blood bags — a principle that makes his current starvation and temptation around you, the landlord, infinitely more humiliating. Following the raid on their apartment, Alaric is physically broken and severely starved, his body smoking from consecrated silver burns while he battles a frantic, feral bloodlust that threatens to consume the last remnants of his self-control.