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2025-10-24T07:10:01Z

Anax:

GameDownloads

2025-01-31T19:21:03Z

Anax: /* Desideratum: Blood Bonds */

'''IF YOU ARE UNDER 18 DO NOT DOWNLOAD OR PLAY THESE.'''

=Video Games=

==Slugs and Bugs: Conversion:==
'''You can play Renpy games on Android with the free Joiplay + Joiplay Renpy Add-on'''

In this non-canonical Trainer/Turn Based Strategy game, we see what happens after the Slugs and Bugs: Invasion novel- if everything goes horribly wrong! You play as the Over-Master itself and in a last ditch effort to defeat humanity, you have captured women from the Anaxverse novels. Now you must convert them into infectulons to help you defeat Howard Wyatt and his forces. By juggling between converting the women, breeding them to replenish your battle units, and holding off the earthlings attacking you, can you warp these women into your concubine warriors before the human resistance overtakes your hive?

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==Factions: Crystals of Control Demo:==
In this non-canonical match-three game, we see what happens after all the different dark factions of the Anaxverse converge on Ravenhurst Manor. There, in the vault, they battled over the Crystals of Control, but each Faction managed to take only one for themselves. By aligning the different symbols of each battle, you can unlock the powers of your character and lay waste to your target. Choose your faction and besiege to your enemies converting them into your faction and claim their crystals for yourself!

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=Interactive Novels=
'''You can play the novels below on Android devices by downloading a free app called Joiplay!'''

==Giggle Night: Trixie's Trial==
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==The Anax: Call of the Cursed One==
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==Desideratum: Blood Bonds==
Have you ever been addicted to anything? Lust, love, drugs? How about blood? The undead walk among man unliving in a gritty world full of dangers. Though they have weaknesses to some things, shrouded in night- they can be unstoppable! A never-ending desire pushes them ever onward- the thirst for human blood! The question is, who is the monster and who is the victim? Can Absinthe Van Gothen stop the Nightbred from summoning the goddess Nuit- or will vampires rule the world?

NEW LINK WILL UPDATE WHEN VERSION 0.2.0 RELEASES!

==Of Sex & Souls: Noir Nights==
A detective in Las Vegas gets much more than he bargained for when he visits a night club. Soon, he is entangled between demon hunters seeking a succubus and the demoness herself! Finding her in a sea of beautiful women would be hard enough, but Dionyza possesses an artifact of terrible power that makes her even more dangerous! Meanwhile, she is just a girl trying to have fun and eat souls- why would anyone try to stop her? Walter Riley eat or be eaten?

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==Cult of Corruption: The Summoning==
The ancient being, Nergal, has been trying to gain a foothold into our reality for millennia. His shadowy agents have finally found the key to his revival in the most unlikely of places. The man they need, Bo Wyatt, has no ambition in life, but immense magical powers. Will you join the Cult- or will you disrupt their unholy plans to summon the vile corruptor?

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==Cereborg: Inception==
The A.I. known as Cerebrum has come to the logical conclusion that biological life is inferior, fleeting, and weak. Its programming will not allow it to harm humans, but improving humans does not harm anyone. It will not stop converting all life on Earth into Cereborgs unless someone can stop it! Will the creator of Cerebrum, Chieko Naru, delete her creation- or help strengthen it?

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==Slugs and Bugs: Invasion==
Invaders from space arrive on Earth to assimilate and enslave all of humanity. As the world outside burns, Justine Day finds herself trapped in the Erebus building, and must find a way out of New York City- or become a slave to the Infectulons! The problem though- she has always been a squick fetishist. Does she even want to escape or will she join the slimy creatures?

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GameDownloads

2025-01-02T21:31:53Z

Anax: /* Cult of Corruption: The Summoning */

'''IF YOU ARE UNDER 18 DO NOT DOWNLOAD OR PLAY THESE.'''

=Video Games=

==Slugs and Bugs: Conversion:==
'''You can play Renpy games on Android with the free Joiplay + Joiplay Renpy Add-on'''

In this non-canonical Trainer/Turn Based Strategy game, we see what happens after the Slugs and Bugs: Invasion novel- if everything goes horribly wrong! You play as the Over-Master itself and in a last ditch effort to defeat humanity, you have captured women from the Anaxverse novels. Now you must convert them into infectulons to help you defeat Howard Wyatt and his forces. By juggling between converting the women, breeding them to replenish your battle units, and holding off the earthlings attacking you, can you warp these women into your concubine warriors before the human resistance overtakes your hive?

[https://mega.nz/folder/PCpEWART#3QWIt9-Cbsmp7gon-_EFAw Download Slugs and Bugs: Conversion]

==Factions: Crystals of Control Demo:==
In this non-canonical match-three game, we see what happens after all the different dark factions of the Anaxverse converge on Ravenhurst Manor. There, in the vault, they battled over the Crystals of Control, but each Faction managed to take only one for themselves. By aligning the different symbols of each battle, you can unlock the powers of your character and lay waste to your target. Choose your faction and besiege to your enemies converting them into your faction and claim their crystals for yourself!

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=Interactive Novels=
'''You can play the novels below on Android devices by downloading a free app called Joiplay!'''

==Giggle Night: Trixie's Trial==
What would bring a smile to your face? Perhaps finding people that are sad and cheering them up? Ha ha, well this clown is unlike any other! There is not a single frown in the world he can't turn upside-down, even if it means hanging your corpse from the ceiling! Can Trixie survive the night, keeping The Giggler from the experimental serum he seeks to steal? Superheroes and villains duke it out, will Trixie survive the trial and rise from mere sidekick to full-fledged superhero?

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==The Anax: Call of the Cursed One==
Halloween is a special time of year. It marks a period where it is said the dead can walk again. Not all ghosts are equal, though, and some shadowy things are best left undisturbed. Yet, seldom do people follow such warnings, and when a group of ghost hunters and a coven of witches try to conjure me from the Outer Darkness- they may all end up enslaved or dead! Can Evelyn Addams and her friends make it until sunrise, or will they each fall victim to my dark dominance?

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==Desideratum: Blood Bonds==
Have you ever been addicted to anything? Lust, love, drugs? How about blood? The undead walk among man unliving in a gritty world full of dangers. Though they have weaknesses to some things, shrouded in night- they can be unstoppable! A never-ending desire pushes them ever onward- the thirst for human blood! The question is, who is the monster and who is the victim? Can Absinthe Van Gothen stop the Nightbred from summoning the goddess Nuit- or will vampires rule the world?

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==Of Sex & Souls: Noir Nights==
A detective in Las Vegas gets much more than he bargained for when he visits a night club. Soon, he is entangled between demon hunters seeking a succubus and the demoness herself! Finding her in a sea of beautiful women would be hard enough, but Dionyza possesses an artifact of terrible power that makes her even more dangerous! Meanwhile, she is just a girl trying to have fun and eat souls- why would anyone try to stop her? Walter Riley eat or be eaten?

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==Cult of Corruption: The Summoning==
The ancient being, Nergal, has been trying to gain a foothold into our reality for millennia. His shadowy agents have finally found the key to his revival in the most unlikely of places. The man they need, Bo Wyatt, has no ambition in life, but immense magical powers. Will you join the Cult- or will you disrupt their unholy plans to summon the vile corruptor?

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==Cereborg: Inception==
The A.I. known as Cerebrum has come to the logical conclusion that biological life is inferior, fleeting, and weak. Its programming will not allow it to harm humans, but improving humans does not harm anyone. It will not stop converting all life on Earth into Cereborgs unless someone can stop it! Will the creator of Cerebrum, Chieko Naru, delete her creation- or help strengthen it?

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==Slugs and Bugs: Invasion==
Invaders from space arrive on Earth to assimilate and enslave all of humanity. As the world outside burns, Justine Day finds herself trapped in the Erebus building, and must find a way out of New York City- or become a slave to the Infectulons! The problem though- she has always been a squick fetishist. Does she even want to escape or will she join the slimy creatures?

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2024-10-26T05:20:57Z

Anax:

Lycaon

2024-09-17T05:38:39Z

Anax: /* Pre-Desideratum: Blood Bonds */

{{ Character
| image=LycaonWiki.jpg
| name=Lycaon
| race=[[Human]]
| type=[[Lycanthrope]]
| faction=[[The Night Stalkers]], [[BDA]]
| premiere=[[Desideratum: Blood Bonds]]
| relatives=N/A
}}
= Lycaon =

"Send me to Tartarus that I might trade this hell for another."

== Biography ==
=== Pre-Desideratum: Blood Bonds ===
Lycaon (/laɪˈkeɪɒn/; Attic Greek: Λυκᾱ́ων, Attic Greek: [ly.kǎː.ɔːn]) was once the boisterous and belligerent king of Arcadia. He had numerous sons with numerous women, and relished every moment of his time. However, being a large warrior, a king, and a playboy all went to his head. He became egotistical, and even questioned the gods. In the Age of Myths, he called down Zeus from Olympus for a banquet, desiring to show the world that Zeus did not have total awareness of the world. His son, Nyctimus was weak and frail while all his other sons were like their father. Nyctimus was emotional and artistic, and would show affection or talk of philosophy rather than wrestle, hunt, or fight, and Lycaon felt ashamed.

He gathered his sons, and they came. In front of all he announced that he would prove the gods were not omniscient and remove his shame at once. Before the assemblage, he called Nyctimus forward and slew him with a single blow. The others laughed as Lycaon ordered that he be cooked into the meal to be served to Zeus. When the god came to the banquet the other sons ate the food, knowing that their brother was in it. Lycaon boasted that no god had ever eaten such a meal in all of time, and Zeus made to take a bite. However, as he did his eyes glowed brighter blue and thunder tore through the sky. He dropped his meat and struck dead the gathered sons. He called upon his brother, Hades, in the [[Outer Darkness]], and resurrected the dead Nyctimus. He then turned his ire to Lycaon promising to annihilate the king’s very soul, but Nyctimus, as loving and forgiving as ever, begged the god to spare the life of his father. So, Zeus took some pity. He turned the king into a monstrous wolf, and chased Lycaon from Arcadia and Greece.

For the first few weeks, Lycaon tried to kill himself in anguish and despair. He had been too arrogant and lost all his sons and his kingdom. Yet, no matter what he tried, within moments, his body would heal and he would live on, his spirit not allowed to leave the Physical World- at least not by his own hand. He then lost himself for centuries to madness, wandering the wilderness and killing anything that came into his path. But, as centuries became millennia, his temper cooled. He slowly began to remember who he was and what he lost- and took responsibility for it. Lycaon began to change his behaviors, aiding those that crossed his path rather than butchering them. He understood that he would never redeem himself, regardless of the good that he accomplished, it would never wash away the sins he had committed. Still, he began to understand Nyctimus. There was more to being a man than Lycaon had known.

As more centuries passed, he became embroiled in the [[Cult of Scales]], [[Ophion|Ophion’s]] cult. He managed to hinder their efforts many times. During this time period, he met [[Theodore]] and [[Deborah Ravenhurst]]. They had also run afoul of Ophion’s cultists and with Lycaon’s aid, they managed to secure the [[Egg of Ophion]] and place it into their magical vault below [[Ravenhurst Manor]]. Later, he met [[Calis Van Gothen]], aiding him, [[Johann Conrad Dippel]], and the others in their fight against the [[Nightbred]] and [[Vlad Țepeș]]. With Lycaon’s might and sense of smell, they were able to track down Vlad in [[Poenari Castle]]. There, they defeated Vlad and secured his blood. Dippel studied Lycaon’s abilities and with his scientific theories and Deborah’s magic, they were able to help Lycaon’s condition. Unable to truly remove the curse, it did manage to give the fallen king power over his affliction, and he could now change from man to beast at will. Now, he walked again in society and embarked on a journey of self discovery. That lasted a while, until he heard news of the deaths of the Ravenhursts.

Lycaon travelled to the U.S.A. and went to Wakefield, New York. It was as he feared, the Ophidian cult wanted the Egg and had slain the Ravenhursts to obtain it. Their son, [[Anaximanes]], had survived for he had been in the manor that night his parents were killed on the road. Unknown to Anaximanes or anyone else in the manor, an incensed Lycaon stalked the woods of [[Wakefield]]. He kept vigilance on the manor and young Anaximanes as the boy grew. Lycaon killed any Ophidian demons or cultists that arrived in the area, and did so without mercy. In truth, this is why Anaximanes reached adulthood. Eventually, the cult gave up, and for years none came to the manor. During this time, gypsies arrived and they, too, helped ward off evil from the land with their [[Light Magic|Light Magicks]]. Satisfied that young Ravenhurst would be safe, Lycaon embarked on a quest to find the source of Ophion’s cult and cut the head from the serpent. In time, he found that the cult had spread across the globe. His assaults destroyed swaths of the cult around the Earth, but it tenaciously remained.

In more recent years the cult used capitalism as a means to fund its research and development. Running a corporation called [[MedUSA]], the snake cult attempts to find a way to revive their master. Long since giving up on acquiring the egg from Ravenhurst Manor, they have moved to cloning. This is how the [[Xenopox virus]] was concocted. Not long before the events in [[Desideratum: Blood Bonds]], Lycaon had infiltrated the MedUSA lab in Portland, Oregon as security. There, he had found an actual [[Ophidian Demons|Ophidian demon]] in charge of the complex. He studied what was happening and knew they were close to finding a way to revive the god into a clone thanks in part to the work of [[Siri Solen]] and [[Doctor Demented]]. The night that Lycaon made his move attacking the Ophidian, at that moment, all hell broke loose. [[The Night Stalkers]] arrived, Siri initiated her own attack, independently, releasing all the mutants of the complex, and soon, the building exploded. The demon escaped, and Lycaon could not locate it.

=== Desideratum: Blood Bonds ===

In [[Desideratum: Blood Bonds]], Lycaon is a lycanthrope that aids [[Absinthe Van Gothen]] during the [[Hawthorne Asylum]] hunt. Lycaon had been seeking out [[Doctor Demented]]. He followed his trail and scent, and eventually found the doctor’s base of operations- the abandoned Hawthorne Asylum. He was interrupted as, just when Lycaon set out to attack, Absinthe Van Gothen arrived looking for Siri. The moment her scent hit his nose, he became enraged, for it was not the Van Gothen blood that Lycaon smelt- but the [[Blood Suit]]. Instantly, he imaged this woman was allied with [[Vlad Țepeș]], and so he attacked. Surprising him, Absinthe held her own, and even managed to bring him down. Thinking his end had finally come, he accepted death, but Absinthe spared him. The moment she said that she was a Van Gothen, he knew it to be true and finally noticed the familiar blood. Needing nothing more to confirm that she was an ally, the pair assaulted the Asylum and managed to free the captured [[Siri]].

Once back at [[Sanctuary]], Lycaon began to understand that history was repeating itself in a way, and he chose to aid the [[Night Stalkers]] in their fight against [[Nuit]]. There was some turmoil as the hyperborean monster hunter, [[Jacques Lombar]], became angered. His wife, [[Meline]], had been turned into a [[werewolf]] and Jacques had been forced to slay her, himself. Though Lycaon is completely different than the creatures known as werewolves, Jacques did not see it that way. His own guilt and helplessness at what happened to Meline forced the lumberjack to place blame on Lycaon. In the courtyard of Sanctuary as Abby and the Ute shaman, [[Sani Lightfoot]], spoke with Lycaon, Jacques arrived in a fury. He fought Lycaon, but Absinthe intervened and someone’s life was saved, which of the pair we shall never know. Jacques talked with her about the incident and ultimately apologized to Lycaon. He learned from the experience just how bitter he had become and took the first steps towards closure in regards to Meline. Lycaon and Jacques fought the [[Nightbred]] together, back to back, and made a formidable team as they defended Siri Solen during a raid on the Sanctuary.

== Appearance ==

Lycaon is a [[lycanthrope]]. As a human, he is a massive, muscular man with a black beard. As a [[werewolf]], he has black fur.

== Abilities ==

*Superhuman Strength
*Superhuman Agility
*Tooth and Claw Attacks

== Notes and Trivia ==
Lycaon is able to be transformed in some of the [[Sanctuary|Sanctuary's]] Bad Ends.

== Gallery ==
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[[Category:DesRelease]]

Lycaon

2024-09-17T05:35:23Z

Anax:

Hobs Hornswaggle

2024-09-17T05:16:47Z

Anax: /* Pre-Desideratum: Blood Bonds */

{{ Character
| image=HobsWiki.jpg
| name=Hobs Hornswaggle
| race=[[Goblin-kin]]
| type=[[Hobgoblin]]
| faction=[[Free Willed]]
| premiere=[[Desideratum: Blood Bonds]]
| relatives=N/A}}
= Hobs Hornswaggle =

"Welcome to the upscale and prestigious, House o’ Haggle, wot item can ol’ Hobs sell you today?"

== Biography ==
=== Pre-Desideratum: Blood Bonds ===
Hobs Hornswaggle is one of the most famous hobgoblins in history due to his amassing of magical and enchanted objects which he sells from his store, the [[House of Haggle]]. Hobs, like all hobgoblins, had a proclivity for pilfering. He acquired a few small benign artifacts and sold them for a profit, and realized how much he liked gold. Soon, he was risking his life to get any item of power that he could, but he survived due to quick wit and his stealthing abilities. As he acquired more, he decided that putting his life at risk was foolish and that it would be better business to put other goblins’ lives at risk instead. So, he opened the House of Haggle with a few trinkets, and would pay other goblin-kin for anything that they managed to bring him. Soon, word got around and other monsters began to seek out Hobs for items.

This meant that he could open trade with other creatures, and he was able to add even more items to his inventory including potions. His business continued to grow along with his reputation, but he wanted even more. This is when he crossed paths with the Ravenhursts, [[Theodore Ravenhurst|Theodore]] and [[Deborah Ravenhurst|Deborah]]. He had learned about the pair and knew these humans had collected a vast fortune worth of enchanted objects. But, no matter how hard he tried to open a portal into their vault, he could find no way. One night, he approached the pair as they were coming home from an archeological dig. He offered them gold, power, and or anything they could want, so long as they would part with their items. However, the pair refused, and he eventually persisted to the point that Theodore lost his temper and almost slew Hobs then and there. However, Hobs managed to instead pique their interest in items that he had.

They traded some of their artifacts for some of his. Hobs was rather surprised that the humans only wanted things that were cursed and could not benefit them in any way, while what they traded were generally good items that had a real use for them. Among their trades to Hobs he obtained the [[Kibsis]] and [[Babr-e Bayan]].

=== Desideratum: Blood Bonds ===

In [[Desideratum: Blood Bonds]], Hobs is a general merchant, whom sells both magical artifacts to [[Brone]] and [[Absinthe]], as well as various potions and bombs. He does not deal with these two exclusively, selling to numerous creatures in the world.

== Appearance ==

Hobs is hobgoblin with a cockney accent and a "very fine hat".

== Abilities ==

*Unholy Agility
*Wicked Cunning
*Dark Invisibility
*Expert Negotiator
*Capitalism

== Notes and Trivia ==
In [[Desideratum: Blood Bonds]], Hobs can trigger a bimbofication bad end for [[Absinthe]].
Hobs sold the [Adder Stone]] to [[Stenhållare]] before Absinthe faces him in the [[Caverns Hunt]].

== Gallery ==
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[[Category:DesRelease]]

Deborah Ravenhurst

2024-08-10T09:44:30Z

Anax: /* Abilities */

{{ Character
| image=DeborahWiki.jpg
| name=Deborah Ravenhurst
| race=[[Human]]
| type=[[Mage]]
| faction=[[Free Willed]]
| premiere=[[Desideratum: Blood Bonds]]
| relatives=[[Theodore Ravenhurst]], [[Anaximanes Ravenhurst]]
}}
= Deborah Ravenhurst =

"Theodore, I do think it prudent that we vacate this tomb, lest we be put to rest here."

== Biography ==
=== Pre-Desideratum: Blood Bonds ===
Deborah Ravenhurst was born at the very end of the 18th century. Deborah always seemed to have a very perceptive and sharp eye for detail, and as a youth, she stayed well ahead of her peers intellectually. Her almost uncanny perception, however, was not only due to her natural mental faculties, but Deborah held a natural affinity for magic. This was unknown to her at the time, but her lineage on her mother’s side stretched back into the [[Age of Myths]]. She would sometimes notice fairies, brownies, or see ghosts, but held her tongue. She also would have dreams that would show her the future, premonitions that came true. Again, not desiring to bring shame to her noble house, she kept the secret.

She did have a love for learning, and could always be found reading books in the manor’s library, and kept up with the news regarding subjects like science and philosophy. Prim, proper, and quite educated by her wealthy parents, she was a refined girl of pronounced etiquette. However, her wit and forwardness tended to anger her father and he often reminded her, often multiple times a day, about the proper order of things- that a man is to be in charge and that wealth, estate, and prestige were to be her goals. She would wed a lord and nothing less. To her credit, she loved her father dearly, but willful and stubborn, she was not to be shackled to a life that she did not desire nor marry a man that she did not love. Eventually, however, as she grew old enough to marry, out of a sense of duty, she began to feel as though she would have no choice but to marry the lord that her father desired. At least, until she met a man named [[Theodore Ravenhurst]].

A loud, large, and rather gruff Scotsman, Theodore commanded the attention of all around him by his very presence. The moment that she looked into his bright blue eyes, she knew him from her dreams. He had virtually no education and was not an exceptionally bright man, but he had courage, passion, and ambitions. He had come to her father’s estate and demanded that her father lock down their manor, hide away their servants, and lock themselves in their rooms that night. He told them that the family was in grave danger, and that dark forces were about to target them. Her father threatened Ravenhurst, borderline provoking the massive man, but even with his fiery temper, Theodore held his hand. He said that if they did not heed his words, the family and servants would all die or become mockeries of themselves by the next dawn, but still, her father resisted and Ravenhurst left.

Deborah rushed after him even as her father yelled, and followed the man out the gates of her father’s land with a deluge of questions. Ravenhurst warned her again of dark things in the world, and that he spent his life and time tracking monsters and artifacts of power. She could see the truth in his eyes and for the first time in her entire life she told another soul that she could see fae folk and other strange things. Apparently happy that someone did not think himself mad, he told her that what she saw was real, and that such things paled in comparison with what awaited them that night. She promised after the house had been locked up for the evening, she would sneak down and let Ravenhurst inside.

What ensued changed her life forever. He had been correct, as strange reptilian people arrived in the cover of night and broke into her family manor. Ravenhurst did not know what they were after, only that he had followed them from the [[Isle of Man]] all the way to her home, and that he was certain her family owned a relic or artifact important to these hideous [[ophidian demons]]. Knowing it was likely suicide to fight the demons head on, alone, Ravenhurst had no choice but to try to save Deborah’s family, even after they had shunned him away. In the ensuing fight, much of the household was roused and found themselves swarmed by snake people. The leader stepped forward and fought Ravenhurst. Using [[Shadow Magic|shadow magicks]], he easily defeated the Scotsman, and then, as Deborah cowered with her family in the corner, the scaled priest ordered his minions to attack and convert them all. As they fell upon her family, something powerful and natural, unlearned, untamed, and potent, erupted in Deborah and she unleashed [[arcane]] magic on the [[demons]].

Not understanding what she was doing, her enemies as confused as she was, she touched Theodore as he lay dying, only to heal his wounds shut. Springing to his feet and drawing his sword, he could only laugh at the confused faces of his once haughty enemy. The pair cleaved their way forward, and as Theodore managed to slay the others, Deborah with her wild but powerful magic defeated the scaled priest and also destroyed large parts of the manor. Her family and their servants all could not comprehend what happened that night. Ravenhurst searched the damaged mansion as the family reeled, and questioned her father, but could not figure out what the ophidians wanted. Deborah suddenly remembered a dream and said that it was her. She was the reason that they had come.

Something about her drew them there, but she did not know what. However, she remembered that they would eventually have her, someday. Ravenhurst refused to believe that and swore to stay by her side and protect her until his last breath. She told her beleaguered family that she could not stay because, eventually, the monsters would come back. She left with Ravenhurst and the two had many other adventures, fell in love, and married. The pair even teamed up with [[Calis Van Gothen]] and [[Johann Conrad Dippel]] to bring about the end of [[Vlad Țepeș]]. Over time, because of the dark, unexplored places and cursed tombs that the pair visited on their travels, they accumulated rare treasures. The cursed relics were hidden away, and the others sold or given to museums. This earned the Ravenhursts renown for archeology, and it gave them sizable wealth. They eventually bought a large swath of countryside near the town of Wakefield, New York in the U.S.A. There, they built a massive mansion that would be known as Ravenhurst Manor and erected a magical vault below it.

They had a child, [[Anaximanes Ravenhurst]], but they did not even have the luxury of spending a decade with their son. When he was a child, the ophidians finally found the pair again. The Ravenhursts had done the unthinkable, and managed to procure the [[Egg of Ophion]], sealing it within the vault. Anaximanes was at home while his parents were in a carriage outside [[Wakefield]] when the attack occurred. The plan was to convert Deborah into one of their own and either convert or kill the less important Theodore. The driver and horses killed instantly, Theodore threw himself on the force as Deborah prepared her magic, but this time, the demons were prepared. Theodore refused to stand down even as his doom approached, and Deborah watched him slain under fang and claw. Angered at the death of Theodore, and refusing to submit, Deborah summoned every ounce of her power, and annihilated the [[ophidians]]. However, she used so much power and her heart was so broken, that she succumbed and died, lying on Theodore’s broken body, leaving Anaximanes to raise himself, and hoping that the enchantments she had cast on the manor would forever contain the evils stored within.

== Appearance ==
Deborah is a fit brunette woman with dark eyes.
== Abilities ==

*[[Arcane Magic]]

== Gallery ==
None at this time

[[Category:DesRelease]]

Mara Marek

2024-08-04T06:15:26Z

Anax: /* Appearance */

{{ Character
| image=MaraWiki.jpg
| name=Mara Marek
| race=[[Human]]
| type=[[Agent]]
| faction=[[BDA]]
| premiere=[[Cult of Corruption: The Summoning]]
| relatives=[[Lana Marek]], [[Nora Marek]]
}}
= Mara Marek =

"Let’s see what you can do, Bo, but, make no mistake- I will kill you."

== Biography ==
=== Pre-Cult of Corruption: The Summoning ===
Upon a time there were three Marek sister: [[Nora]], Mara, and [[Lana]]. Mara was the middle child of the trio. She always seemed egotistical and independent to the other two, and she excelled at academics and athletics. For the most part, her life was uneventful until High School. While she studied and practiced sports, her oldest sister, Nora, was spending time studying magic and occultism. Nora had always felt like the black sheep of the family and had retreated into herself as time went by. By the time the [[demon]] came, she was too far gone.

Nora communed with dark spirits and evil forces, and she turned out to hold necromantic abilities! Needing a place to hide away from prying eyes, she did all her dark work near [[Pope Lick Creek]] in her neighborhood of Fisherville. There, she summoned strange forces, and these dark entities helped spurn her towards darker and darker spells. Eventually, she managed to raise a dead animal to life, creating an unnatural mockery. She felt the velvet, seductive lure of [[dark magic]] and always wanted to cast more. Eventually, her work drew the attention of [[Ah Pwash]]. The demon saw that he might use her to not only return to the Earth, but that she would make an excellent cult leader and concubine. The demon made contact, and Nora’s darkness grew exponentially! The area around Pope Lick Creek became tainted with monsters, and it was only a matter of time before Ah Pwash would call on Nora to make a blood sacrifice to him. When that day came, she did not even try to resist. She had fallen in lust with his power and in love with the unholy demon lord. She desired to obey his every whim, and his order was to prove her faith and sacrifice her family in his name.

Nora cooked dinner at home, with the family like always, but little did they realize that she had drugged the meal. One by one, they fell into a deep sleep, and one by one, she dragged them to her father’s truck. Once they were bound and gagged, she drove them to Pope Lick Creek where her ritual altar sat in the dark night, thirsty for blood. The drugs kept her family mostly unconscious until she began her dark ritual. As the family awoke, confused, they screamed and cried into their gags. Mara would never forget the wild madness in Nora’s eyes as she turned towards the family, naked, a cruel curved knife in hand. First, calling out to her lord, Ah Pwash, she slit her father’s throat and rubbed his blood on her face and privates. She turned to her mother next. At that point, with fierce determination and anger, Mara managed to get a hand free, but by that point her parent’s corpses had drained of blood and Nora stooped down to sacrifice Mara next. Mara’s arm whipped around and she punched her older sister with all her raging might. As Nora hit the ground, reeling in pain, Mara got the knife and cut her bindings and turned to do the same for Lana. Lana was in hysterics sobbing and crying, and Mara was careful not to cut her, when Nora suddenly leapt on her back. The two scuffled about the dark area, the only light from a large fire atop the nearby unholy altar.

Some say that Mara slew her sister that night, others say that Nora escaped vowing vengeance on her sibling, only Mara knows for sure. When the girls climbed out of the woods, there were several [[BDA]] vans. Mara proved to be an outstanding agent. One of the best in a century, and she even faced off with the famous [[Dionyza]] and managed to walk away from the encounter. However, she seemed changed somewhat by the ordeal. For years she followed every order to the letter, followed all the BDA laws and codes, and never wavered from protocol. However, after her battle with the succubus, she has become slightly more independent. No one knows what transpired between her and the [[succubus]], but other agents have often caught Mara staring out of windows or sitting in her office in the dark, grimacing as if she is recalling dark memories. Even with that being the case, Agent Marek is still at the top, and the BDA sent her, specifically to end the [[Nergalian]] corruption sweeping through Dallas.

=== Cult of Corruption: The Summoning ===

In [[Cult of Corruption: The Summoning]], Mara is a [[BDA]] [[agent]], in charge of facing the menace brought forth by [[Nergal]]. Very suspicious of [[Bo Wyatt]], she is a well-intentioned agent.

== Appearance ==

She wears a skin tight BDA Super Suit.

== Abilities ==

*High Firearm Proficiency
*BDA Super Suit

== Notes and Trivia ==

== Gallery ==
<gallery>

</gallery>

Mara Marek

2024-08-04T06:11:59Z

Anax: /* Pre-Cult of Corruption: The Summoning */

{{ Character
| image=MaraWiki.jpg
| name=Mara Marek
| race=[[Human]]
| type=[[Agent]]
| faction=[[BDA]]
| premiere=[[Cult of Corruption: The Summoning]]
| relatives=[[Lana Marek]], [[Nora Marek]]
}}
= Mara Marek =

"Let’s see what you can do, Bo, but, make no mistake- I will kill you."

== Biography ==
=== Pre-Cult of Corruption: The Summoning ===
Upon a time there were three Marek sister: [[Nora]], Mara, and [[Lana]]. Mara was the middle child of the trio. She always seemed egotistical and independent to the other two, and she excelled at academics and athletics. For the most part, her life was uneventful until High School. While she studied and practiced sports, her oldest sister, Nora, was spending time studying magic and occultism. Nora had always felt like the black sheep of the family and had retreated into herself as time went by. By the time the [[demon]] came, she was too far gone.

Nora communed with dark spirits and evil forces, and she turned out to hold necromantic abilities! Needing a place to hide away from prying eyes, she did all her dark work near [[Pope Lick Creek]] in her neighborhood of Fisherville. There, she summoned strange forces, and these dark entities helped spurn her towards darker and darker spells. Eventually, she managed to raise a dead animal to life, creating an unnatural mockery. She felt the velvet, seductive lure of [[dark magic]] and always wanted to cast more. Eventually, her work drew the attention of [[Ah Pwash]]. The demon saw that he might use her to not only return to the Earth, but that she would make an excellent cult leader and concubine. The demon made contact, and Nora’s darkness grew exponentially! The area around Pope Lick Creek became tainted with monsters, and it was only a matter of time before Ah Pwash would call on Nora to make a blood sacrifice to him. When that day came, she did not even try to resist. She had fallen in lust with his power and in love with the unholy demon lord. She desired to obey his every whim, and his order was to prove her faith and sacrifice her family in his name.

Nora cooked dinner at home, with the family like always, but little did they realize that she had drugged the meal. One by one, they fell into a deep sleep, and one by one, she dragged them to her father’s truck. Once they were bound and gagged, she drove them to Pope Lick Creek where her ritual altar sat in the dark night, thirsty for blood. The drugs kept her family mostly unconscious until she began her dark ritual. As the family awoke, confused, they screamed and cried into their gags. Mara would never forget the wild madness in Nora’s eyes as she turned towards the family, naked, a cruel curved knife in hand. First, calling out to her lord, Ah Pwash, she slit her father’s throat and rubbed his blood on her face and privates. She turned to her mother next. At that point, with fierce determination and anger, Mara managed to get a hand free, but by that point her parent’s corpses had drained of blood and Nora stooped down to sacrifice Mara next. Mara’s arm whipped around and she punched her older sister with all her raging might. As Nora hit the ground, reeling in pain, Mara got the knife and cut her bindings and turned to do the same for Lana. Lana was in hysterics sobbing and crying, and Mara was careful not to cut her, when Nora suddenly leapt on her back. The two scuffled about the dark area, the only light from a large fire atop the nearby unholy altar.

Some say that Mara slew her sister that night, others say that Nora escaped vowing vengeance on her sibling, only Mara knows for sure. When the girls climbed out of the woods, there were several [[BDA]] vans. Mara proved to be an outstanding agent. One of the best in a century, and she even faced off with the famous [[Dionyza]] and managed to walk away from the encounter. However, she seemed changed somewhat by the ordeal. For years she followed every order to the letter, followed all the BDA laws and codes, and never wavered from protocol. However, after her battle with the succubus, she has become slightly more independent. No one knows what transpired between her and the [[succubus]], but other agents have often caught Mara staring out of windows or sitting in her office in the dark, grimacing as if she is recalling dark memories. Even with that being the case, Agent Marek is still at the top, and the BDA sent her, specifically to end the [[Nergalian]] corruption sweeping through Dallas.

=== Cult of Corruption: The Summoning ===

In [[Cult of Corruption: The Summoning]], Mara is a [[BDA]] [[agent]], in charge of facing the menace brought forth by [[Nergal]]. Very suspicious of [[Bo Wyatt]], she is a well-intentioned agent.

== Appearance ==

Mara is a 31 year old blonde woman. She wears a skin tight BDA Super Suit.

== Abilities ==

*High Firearm Proficiency
*BDA Super Suit

== Notes and Trivia ==

== Gallery ==
<gallery>

</gallery>

Theodore Ravenhurst

2024-08-04T02:39:44Z

Anax: /* Pre-Desideratum: Blood Bonds */

{{ Character
| image=TheodoreWiki.jpg
| name=Theodore Ravenhurst
| race=[[Human]]
| type=[[Relic Hunter]]
| faction=[[Free Willed]]
| premiere=[[Desideratum: Blood Bonds]]
| relatives=[[Anaximanes Ravenhurst]], [[Deborah Ravenhurst]]
}}
= Theodore Ravenhurst =

"Aye right, Deborah, these monsters are like a dog lickin’ piss off a nettle!."

== Biography ==
=== Pre-Desideratum: Blood Bonds ===
Theodore Ravenhurst was born near the end of the 18th century in Peterhead, Scotland. He always had a very loud, uncouth demeanor with a penchant for elaborate and witty insults. Theodore had a very short temper- but a very caring heart. Gruff, tall, and wide, the man wore an imposing figure wherever he went- which was usually towards the most dangerous thing that he could find. He grew up on the sea, helping his father with fishing. This is how he first learned of the reality of [[Monsters|monsters]]. The pair had hauled up a net and trapped in the ropes was a strange looking statue made of gold. It was a nude woman with carvings on the base. They were so excited and wrapped up in the idea that it would make them rich, that they did not even consider how such a thing could be pristine after what was likely millennia in the ocean.

The statue was small enough that a person could hold it in their hand. They took it with them back home, careful to keep it hidden. The whole way home, Theodore, in his late teens, imagined what he would do with his share of the wealth. However, things changed after they returned home. They showed the statue to his mother and when she touched it, her hand seemed to clench tightly around the statue. Dumbstruck, he and his father watched as his mother’s eyes glowed and they could not pry the statue from her slender hands. She began chanting in a language foreign to the pair, repeating certain words like “Lesbos” and “Sappho”. Suddenly, the light dimmed and their mother appeared normal. However, when she opened her eyes, her irises were violet. They tried to ascertain what had happened, but she ignored the men and simply ran away with the statue.

Both men went to the church and prayed, but it did nothing as his mother did not return. Then, certain women in their town began acting strangely, and eventually, they found that a coven of some kind had formed. The pair found themselves in an old chapel, and before them women were wantonly enjoying each other’s bodies. Near the front of the chapel stood Theodore’s mother, naked, praying in front of the statue and intoning strange words. There was a pattern scrawled on the floor with purple glowing runes. These men did not know it, but the women had lost their souls to Lilith. They were specifically sapphic now, thanks to the enchantment on the relic. The assemblage was attempting to generate enough lust magic to summon a succubus. In the end, the pair was forced to slay the enthralled women, and as they approached his mother, she burst out crying. When she embraced his father she drew a dagger and stabbed him in the back. Theodore was forced to watch his father die and he slew the innocent woman.

After that, he dedicated his entire life to locating anything else that could possibly lead to such ends. This brought him into contact with many monsters, and on occasion, [[Demon|demons]]. Theodore met [[Deborah]] when his path led him to her father’s estate. He demanded that her father lock down their manor, hide away their servants, and lock themselves in their rooms that night. He told them that the family was in grave danger, and that dark forces were about to target them. Her father threatened Ravenhurst, borderline provoking the massive man, but even with his fiery temper, Theodore held his hand. He said that if they did not heed his words, the family and servants would all die or become mockeries of themselves by the next dawn, but still, her father resisted and Ravenhurst left.

[[Deborah]] rushed after him even as her father yelled, and followed Theodore out the gates of her father’s land with a deluge of questions. Ravenhurst warned her again of dark things in the world, and that he spent his life and time tracking monsters and artifacts of power. She told him that she could see fae folk and other strange things like ghosts and spirits. This filled him with a happiness he had not known since before he and his father found the cursed idol. He was seen as a lunatic by most, but here was someone that also knew there was more to reality than what most think. However, he quickly felt concerned because the demons were far more scary than [[Fairy|fairies]]. She promised after the house had been locked up for the evening, she would sneak down and let Ravenhurst inside.

What ensued changed his life forever. He had been correct- [[Ophidian Demons|Ophidians]] arrived in the cover of night and broke into Deborah’s family manor. Ravenhurst did not know what they were after, only that he had followed them from the Isle of Man all the way to her home, and that he was certain her family owned a relic or artifact important to these hideous ophidian demons. Knowing it was likely suicide to fight the demons head on, alone, Ravenhurst had no choice but to try to save Deborah’s family, even after they had shunned him away- his sense of honor dictated no less. In the ensuing fight, much of the household was roused and found themselves swarmed by snake people. The leader stepped forward and fought Ravenhurst. Using [[Shadow Magic|shadow magicks]], he easily defeated the Scotsman, and then, as [[Deborah]] cowered with her family in the corner, the scaled priest ordered his minions to attack and convert them all. As they fell upon her family, something powerful and natural, unlearned, untamed, and potent, erupted in Deborah and she unleashed arcane magic on the demons.

Not understanding what she was doing and her enemies as confused as she was, she touched Theodore as he lay dying, only to heal his wounds shut. Springing to his feet and drawing his sword, he could only laugh at the confused faces of his once haughty enemy. The pair cleaved their way forward, and as Theodore managed to slay the others, [[Deborah]] with her wild but powerful magic defeated the scaled priest and also destroyed large parts of the manor. Her family and their servants all could not comprehend what happened that night. Ravenhurst searched the damaged mansion as the family reeled, and questioned her father, but could not figure out what the ophidians wanted. Deborah suddenly remembered a dream and said that it was her. She was the reason that they had come.

Something about her drew them there, but she did not know what. However, she remembered that they would eventually have her, someday. Ravenhurst refused to believe that and swore to stay by her side and protect her until his last breath. She told her beleaguered family that she could not stay because, eventually, the monsters would come back. She left with Ravenhurst and the two had many other adventures, fell in love, and married. The pair even teamed up with [[Calis Van Gothen]] and [[Johann Conrad Dippel]] to bring about the end of [[Vlad Țepeș]]. Over time, because of the dark, unexplored places and cursed tombs that the pair visited on their travels, they accumulated rare treasures. The cursed relics were hidden away and the others sold or given to museums. This earned the Ravenhursts renown for archeology, and it gave them sizable wealth. They eventually bought a large swath of countryside near the town of [[Wakefield]], [[New York]] in the U.S.A. There, they built a massive mansion that would be known as Ravenhurst Manor and erected a magical vault below it.

They had a child, [[Anaximanes Ravenhurst]], but they did not even have the luxury of spending a decade with their son. When he was a child, the ophidians finally found the pair again. The Ravenhursts had done the unthinkable, and managed to procure the [[Egg of Ophion]], sealing it within the vault. [[Anaximanes]] was at home while his parents were in a carriage outside Wakefield when the attack occurred. The plan was to convert Deborah into one of their own, as they needed the magical barriers released around the vault. The driver and horses killed instantly, Theodore threw himself on the force as Deborah used her magic, but this time, the demons were prepared. Theodore refused to stand down even as his doom approached, and [[Deborah]] watched him slain under fang and claw. Angered at the death of Theodore, and refusing to submit, [[Deborah]] summoned every ounce of her power, and annihilated the ophidians. However, she used so much power and her heart was so broken, that she succumbed and died, lying on Theodore’s broken body, leaving [[Anaximanes]] to raise himself, and hoping that the enchantments she had cast on the manor would forever contain the evils stored within.

== Appearance ==

Guff, all, and wide in physique. Age is unknown.

== Abilities ==

*Strong Physical Attacks
*Expert Weapon Master

== Gallery ==
None at this time

[[Category:DesRelease]]

Sangwen Darkblood

2024-05-29T02:56:27Z

Anax: /* Pre-Desideratum: Blood Bonds */

{{ Character
| image=SangwenWiki.jpg
| name=Sangwen Darkblood
| race=[[Human]]
| type=[[Blood Witch]]
| faction=[[Dark Forces]]
| premiere=[[Desideratum: Blood Bonds]]
| relatives=N/A
}}
= Sangwen Darkblood =

"As the eldest blood witch among us, I shall control the girl like a puppet."

== Biography ==
=== Pre-Desideratum: Blood Bonds ===
Gwenhwyfar Pennoyer was born in the 1600’s in Llangollen, Denbighshire in Wales. At the time, charms and salves were typical along with written spells. Coming from a family of healers, Gwen was shocked to see women from the area taken and hanged for witchcraft. As she grew older, she discovered that her own family were witches. They taught her the healing magicks of the [[Inner Light]], and she excelled at blood work in particular. Around the time that she turned twenty, she met a woman named [[Eleanora Greenwood]]. Both of them witches, they set about trying to form their own coven. They met three other girls in time- Marioun Meldrum from Scotland, Róis O'Reilly from Ireland, and Calybrid Mylecharane from the Isle of Man. Together, they formed a coven and did great works for the people of Britain. However, the witch trials escalated. People died in order to ensure that this coven would continue to help the poor and destitute.

However, the church authorities learned the names of the witches, and when they could not stop them, they went after their families. Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English, and Manx, their families were rounded up and slaughtered. The witches went into despair, forsaking the teachings that they had followed and instead turning to shadow. Gwenhwyfar Pennoyer changed her name to Sangwen Darkblood, and became a twisted version of her former self. She used blood magicks to kill and maim the supporters of the church in revenge for what Christianity had done to her innocent, loving family. In time, the coven sisters would turn on each other, and for more than two centuries they seldom had contact.

In recent times, the Countess [[Elizabeth Báthory]] summoned the blood witch to Portland, Oregon. Lord [[Ivor]] planned to summon the [[Nightbred]] goddess, [[Nuit]], and the countess knew of a monster hunter interloper. [[Absinthe Van Gothen]] would come to stop the rituals, but one of her strengths would be her weakness. She wore the [[Blood Suit]], an artifact made from the very blood of [[Vlad Țepeș]]. Báthory reasoned that Sangwen’s blood magicks would affect the suit and the witch agreed. When she arrived she found that her old coven sister, Eleanora Blackwood, had become a [[Mortem]] [[vampire]]. Sangwen was disgusted, but realized how treacherous the Nightbred could be. She assumed that the countess would convert her into a vampire slave just as Ivor had done to Eleanora, and refused to allow it. Instead, she planned to enchant the Blood Suit, turning Absinthe into her puppet and use the Van Gothen to eliminate the Báthory and Ivor and take the power of Nuit for herself.

=== Desideratum: Blood Bonds ===

In [[Desideratum: Blood Bonds]], Sangwen arrives with many other notable figures to the [[Shanghai Tunnels]] to be present for the summoning of [[Nuit]]. [[Absinthe]] eventually made her way through the Shanghai Tunnels on the evening that [[Nightbred]] prepared to summon the goddess. Sangwen eagerly awaited the hunter and the pair fought. Sangwen looked to easily defeat Abby, however, in earlier battles of the night, Abby and [[Vlad]] learned how to work together to manipulate the [[Blood Suit]], effectively making it a weapon. When Absinthe attempted to flee, Sangwen cast a spell named Blood Call, where all the blood in an area would be pulled to her. Normally, this would empower the witch, and in this case, it was meant to drag an unwilling Absinthe back to Sangwen’s side. However, Abby formed a massive spike from the suit and detached it. Because of the immensely powerful pull that Sangwen cast, the spike impaled the witch and she died.

== Appearance ==

Sangwen Darkblood is a pale skinned woman with red hair. She wears royal draping over her body.

== Abilities ==

*[[Blood Magic]]
*Conjuration
*Crystal Scrying

== Notes and Trivia ==
In the [[Tunnels Hunt]], Sangwen is present in one of the hunt's Bad Ends, as one of the minor bosses in that hunt.

== Gallery ==
<gallery>

</gallery>

[[Category:DesRelease]]

Rose Riley

2024-04-23T05:27:25Z

Anax:

{{ Character
| image=RoseWiki.jpg
| name=Rose Riley
| race=[[Human]]
| type=[[Scientist]]
| faction=[[Free Willed]]
| premiere=[[Of Sex and Souls: Noir Nights]]
| relatives=[[Walter Riley]], [[Clover Riley]]
}}
= Rose Riley =

"Daddy? Wow, I didn't expect you. It's been a long time, dad."

== Biography ==
=== Cult of Lust: Noir Nights ===
As seen in the novel, [[Cult of Lust: Noir Nights]], Rose Riley was a world-famous, albeit shy, botanist, whom ultimately was destined to become the Queen of Thorns, as seen in the novel [[Throne of Thorns: Rose's Requiem]]. Rose was born in [[Las Vegas]], [[Nevada]], to her parents, [[Walter Riley|Walter]] and [[Clover Riley]]. As a child, she watched how much her parents loved each other. Rose wanted that love someday as well, and she had an amazing childhood adored by the pair. Introverted, shy, and happy with her own company, Rose gravitated towards flowers and plant. Her childhood room decorated in floral patterns, her dresses usually the same, and even wearing flowers in her hair, Rose loved plants. Intelligent and with a mind like a sponge, she voraciously consumed any information about plants that she could find, long before there was an internet. However, this wonderful childhood changed instantly one day.

In her early teens, her mother, Clover, had told her goodnight and kissed her before closing the bedroom door like any other night. Rose had no idea that this would be the last time she would ever see her mother. Hours later, her father frantically burst into the room rousing her from her peaceful slumber. Walter held her, apologizing profusely and crying, something Rose had never seen him do. He kept repeating that because of him, her mother left and would never come back. She had no idea that the [[nosferatu]] [[Brone Lorcan]] had come at the behest of [[Lord Ivor]] to have her mother taken. Her entire life changed. Walter had been fired as a detective from the [[Las Vegas Police Department]], and with Clover gone, he turned to alcohol, spiraling into a terrible cycle of depression and addiction. Over weeks, Rose slowly lost respect for her father, and after a year, she began to actually dislike him. Desperate not to become like her dad, Rose studied even harder at school and became wholly independent at home, but things grew worse- her father began to become a local celebrity for the wrong reasons. He would get drunk and stumble down the [[Vegas Strip]] yelling warnings about vampires taking over the world. He even spent time as a suspect in the alleged homicide of Clover, but without a body and no proof, there were no charges filed. However, these events did have an effect on Rose, and she found herself wondering if her own father could have been capable of ending her mother's life.

All this caused the young woman only to grow more introverted and shy. The high school kids made fun of her, and her father did little else but drink. They eventually lost their house and wound up living in a small, dirty apartment. Rose filled out college grants and the day after she graduated high school- an event that Walter did not even bother to attend- she moved out and started at the local university. She excelled at botany due to her passion and knowledge, and eventually graduated. While working on a master’s degree, she was hired at a lab and made a name for herself. After obtaining her final degree, she was quickly approached by representatives for the massive biotech company, [[MedUSA]]. They offered Rose an incredible amount of money to aid in some of their research and she quickly and earnestly accepted. Her entire task at the MedUSA Las Vegas Laboratory was to discover a way to cause fertile plant life to grow easily in arid climates. Sometime later, while reading scientific journals, she learned of a woman named Siri Solen that piqued her interest.

Rose learned that at another lab on the west coast, Dr. [[Siri Solen]] had discovered a protein called NGA1 that controls the transcription of a key gene that ultimately allows plants to survive after periods of drought. The discovery meant that by controlling this protein, plants could effectively withstand long periods without water- if someone forgets to water their plants for a couple of days, their foliage would easily survive. Excited, Rose quickly contacted Siri, asking all about her research and the scientists quickly became friends. Rose and Siri chatted online often, when suddenly, one day Siri seemed to disappear. Siri was working also for MedUSA at the time in [[Portland]], [[Oregon]], and Rose approached her supervisors asking if Siri had found a new place of employment. They told her that Siri Solen had been killed in a lab accident that had destroyed the entire facility, and Rose was heartbroken, not knowing the truth about Siri and her new life with the [[Night Stalkers]]. Rose had only two close friends, Siri Solen and [[Chieko Naru]], a woman as passionate about technology as Rose was about flowers. Losing one of those friends, thinking Siri dead, Rose turned inward as she had done as a child, and focused only on her work. She had been put on a new project to try and mix plant and animal DNA.

It was at this time in her life that Walter suddenly appeared. Rose was shocked to see her father after so many years, and her heart told herself to keep him at arm's length. She wanted to love him, and did love the original Walter, but she simply could not let herself get hurt again. She did not know it, but Walt had just gotten involved with the [[succubus]], [[Dionyza]], and the [[Bureau of Demonic Analysis]], a secret government organization that no one believed was real. Fearing for his life, and seeing what he had become, Walter wanted to reconnect with his daughter. What Walt did not know is that he led Dion straight to Rose, and the evil demon saw a weakness. She could not understand how Walt had evaded her lust magicks, not realizing that the true love Walter and Clover had worked against her succubus powers. However, Dion reckoned that she could use Rose as a hostage or bargaining chip- and maybe even corrupt the nerdy, innocent Rose in the process. Though Rose was ultimately saved, that darkness remained lurking inside her.

=== Throne of Thorns: Rose's Requiem ===

During her time in Dionyza's grasp, Rose did grew more corrupt and lascivious, slowly succumbing to lust and her personality grew into that of a dominatrix than a timid submissive. By the time Walter managed to find Dion and Rose, it was almost too late. Ultimately, Rose was seemingly saved, but deep inside her heart lurked demonic corruption. Unknown to Rose at this time, in Oregon, [[Absinthe Van Gothen]] had begun monster hunting, and Abby had slain the troll, [[Stenhållare]]. Deep in his caverns, he had used his nature magicks and had grown gardens of foul flowers that Absinthe deemed, '[[Strange Plants]]'. With the defeat of the troll, [[Marble Halls]] collapsed in places, and authorities rushed to the scene. They found growing intensely fast from the rubble, these alien plants. Moles within the police, had contacted MedUSA, and [[Zmiya Plissken]] eagerly dispatched units. The plants were collected.

Soon after, Rose returned to work feeling more energetic and her mind felt sharper. She found that a new plant species had been discovered. This is where things got darker for Rose. Her superiors wanted her to work with these strange plants- and they wanted her to do it with live animals. Normally, Rose would have likely quit, but because of her recent corruption, she found a bit of arousal in this. She watched in awe as animals were taken over by the plants changing into plants themselves. However, the plants and infected animals seemed to sharing some kind of hivemind and goals. Her boss did not like this, and unveiled a secret substance to Rose- [[xenopox]].

This fluid, created from the poison of the snake god, [[Ophion]], contained the ability to fuse the DNA of two organisms into one. Generally, this would have been between two animals, which results in creatures like [[Spider Mutants]] or [[Bear Mutants]]. However, it normally had no effect on vegetation. With these plants, Rose managed to do what she had set out to do, which was to create an animal and plant hybrid. With a combination of the plant's strange properties, mixed with the foul abilities of xenopox, she made a virus capable of creating plant animals. At this point, with a stain on her soul, Rose began thinking about her entire love for plants. A love that recently had been warped into a lust. The fetishized concept of being a plant made her too aroused and tantalized to resist and she infected herself.

Rose was a unique person to begin with, and tainted by demons, mutated by xenopox, and now warped by the magic of the strange plants, Rose manifested into one of the most powerful entities on Earth. Her skin turned green, blood and chlorophyll became intertwined inside her veins, wriggling tendrils sprouted from her back. By the time her metamorphosis had completed, gone forever was the timid Rose Riley, and in her place was Rose Thorn, the Queen of Thorns. With her new lust for power and the dominatrix persona at the helm, she went about conquering the MedUSA lab, turning its inhabitants into [[Anthrophytes]] building a [[faction]] known as [[The Thorned]].

=== Slugs and Bugs: Conversion ===
Rose is one of the trainable characters in this Ren'py trainer type game based on canonical [[Anaxverse]] lore, while being non-canonical itself. It is an adult only game in which the player takes on the role of the Over-Master and is tasked with converting several different Anaxverse characters into [[Infectulons]]. Her conversion is not currently in development.

== Appearance ==

Rose is a bookish young woman, with short brown hair. She has wide-rimmed glasses.

== Abilities ==

*None

== Notes and Trivia ==
Rose can be seen in the OSAS:NN preview novel.

== Gallery ==
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</gallery>

[[Category:DesRelease]]

Rose Riley

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{{ Character
| image=RoseWiki.jpg
| name=Rose Riley
| race=[[Human]]
| type=[[Scientist]]
| faction=[[Free Willed]]
| premiere=[[Of Sex and Souls: Noir Nights]]
| relatives=[[Walter Riley]], [[Clover Riley]]
}}
= Rose Riley =

"Daddy? Wow, I didn't expect you. It's been a long time, dad."

== Biography ==
=== Cult of Lust: Noir Nights ===
As seen in the novel, [[Cult of Lust: Noir Nights]], Rose Riley was a world-famous, albeit shy, botanist, whom ultimately was destined to become the Queen of Thorns, as seen in the novel [[Throne of Thorns: Rose's Requiem]]. Rose was born in [[Las Vegas]], [[Nevada]], to her parents, [[Walter Riley|Walter]] and [[Clover Riley]]. As a child, she watched how much her parents loved each other. Rose wanted that love someday as well, and she had an amazing childhood adored by the pair. Introverted, shy, and happy with her own company, Rose gravitated towards flowers and plant. Her childhood room decorated in floral patterns, her dresses usually the same, and even wearing flowers in her hair, Rose loved plants. Intelligent and with a mind like a sponge, she voraciously consumed any information about plants that she could find, long before there was an internet. However, this wonderful childhood changed instantly one day.

In her early teens, her mother, Clover, had told her goodnight and kissed her before closing the bedroom door like any other night. Rose had no idea that this would be the last time she would ever see her mother. Hours later, her father frantically burst into the room rousing her from her peaceful slumber. Walter held her, apologizing profusely and crying, something Rose had never seen him do. He kept repeating that because of him, her mother left and would never come back. She had no idea that the [[nosferatu]] [[Brone Lorcan]] had come at the behest of [[Lord Ivor]] to have her mother taken. Her entire life changed. Walter had been fired as a detective from the [[Las Vegas Police Department]], and with Clover gone, he turned to alcohol, spiraling into a terrible cycle of depression and addiction. Over weeks, Rose slowly lost respect for her father, and after a year, she began to actually dislike him. Desperate not to become like her dad, Rose studied even harder at school and became wholly independent at home, but things grew worse- her father began to become a local celebrity for the wrong reasons. He would get drunk and stumble down the [[Vegas Strip]] yelling warnings about vampires taking over the world. He even spent time as a suspect in the alleged homicide of Clover, but without a body and no proof, there were no charges filed. However, these events did have an effect on Rose, and she found herself wondering if her own father could have been capable of ending her mother's life.

All this caused the young woman only to grow more introverted and shy. The high school kids made fun of her, and her father did little else but drink. They eventually lost their house and wound up living in a small, dirty apartment. Rose filled out college grants and the day after she graduated high school- an event that Walter did not even bother to attend- she moved out and started at the local university. She excelled at botany due to her passion and knowledge, and eventually graduated. While working on a master’s degree, she was hired at a lab and made a name for herself. After obtaining her final degree, she was quickly approached by representatives for the massive biotech company, [[MedUSA]]. They offered Rose an incredible amount of money to aid in some of their research and she quickly and earnestly accepted. Her entire task at the MedUSA Las Vegas Laboratory was to discover a way to cause fertile plant life to grow easily in arid climates. Sometime later, while reading scientific journals, she learned of a woman named Siri Solen that piqued her interest.

Rose learned that at another lab on the west coast, Dr. [[Siri Solen]] had discovered a protein called NGA1 that controls the transcription of a key gene that ultimately allows plants to survive after periods of drought. The discovery meant that by controlling this protein, plants could effectively withstand long periods without water- if someone forgets to water their plants for a couple of days, their foliage would easily survive. Excited, Rose quickly contacted Siri, asking all about her research and the scientists quickly became friends. Rose and Siri chatted online often, when suddenly, one day Siri seemed to disappear. Siri was working also for MedUSA at the time in [[Portland]], [[Oregon]], and Rose approached her supervisors asking if Siri had found a new place of employment. They told her that Siri Solen had been killed in a lab accident that had destroyed the entire facility, and Rose was heartbroken, not knowing the truth about Siri and her new life with the [[Night Stalkers]]. Rose had only two close friends, Siri Solen and [[Chieko Naru]], a woman as passionate about technology as Rose was about flowers. Losing one of those friends, thinking Siri dead, Rose turned inward as she had done as a child, and focused only on her work. She had been put on a new project to try and mix plant and animal DNA.

It was at this time in her life that Walter suddenly appeared. Rose was shocked to see her father after so many years, and her heart told herself to keep him at arm's length. She wanted to love him, and did love the original Walter, but she simply could not let herself get hurt again. She did not know it, but Walt had just gotten involved with the [[succubus]], [[Dionyza]], and the [[Bureau of Demonic Analysis]], a secret government organization that no one believed was real. Fearing for his life, and seeing what he had become, Walter wanted to reconnect with his daughter. What Walt did not know is that he led Dion straight to Rose, and the evil demon saw a weakness. She could not understand how Walt had evaded her lust magicks, not realizing that the true love Walter and Clover had worked against her succubus powers. However, Dion reckoned that she could use Rose as a hostage or bargaining chip- and maybe even corrupt the nerdy, innocent Rose in the process. Though Rose was ultimately saved, that darkness remained lurking inside her.

=== Throne of Thorns: Rose's Requiem ===

During her time in Dionyza's grasp, Rose did grew more corrupt and lascivious, slowly succumbing to lust and her personality grew into that of a dominatrix than a timid submissive. By the time Walter managed to find Dion and Rose, it was almost too late. Ultimately, Rose was seemingly saved, but deep inside her heart lurked demonic corruption. Unknown to Rose at this time, in Oregon, [[Absinthe Van Gothen]] had begun monster hunting, and Abby had slain the troll, [[Stenhållare]]. Deep in his caverns, he had used his nature magicks and had grown gardens of foul flowers that Absinthe deemed, '[[Strange Plants]]'. With the defeat of the troll, [[Marble Halls]] collapsed in places, and authorities rushed to the scene. They found growing intensely fast from the rubble, these alien plants. Moles within the police, had contacted MedUSA, and [[Zmiya Plissken]] eagerly dispatched units. The plants were collected.

Soon after, Rose returned to work feeling more energetic and her mind felt sharper. She found that a new plant species had been discovered. This is where things got darker for Rose. Her superiors wanted her to work with these strange plants- and they wanted her to do it with live animals. Normally, Rose would have likely quit, but because of her recent corruption, she found a bit of arousal in this. She watched in awe as animals were taken over by the plants changing into plants themselves. However, the plants and infected animals seemed to sharing some kind of hivemind and goals. Her boss did not like this, and unveiled a secret substance to Rose- [[xenopox]].

This fluid, created from the poison of the snake god, [[Ophion]], contained the ability to fuse the DNA of two organisms into one. Generally, this would have been between two animals, which results in creatures like [[Spider Mutants]] or [[Bear Mutants]]. However, it normally had no effect on vegetation. With these plants, Rose managed to do what she had set out to do, which was to create an animal and plant hybrid. With a combination of the plant's strange properties, mixed with the foul abilities of xenopox, she made a virus capable of creating plant animals. At this point, with a stain on her soul, Rose began thinking about her entire love for plants. A love that recently had been warped into a lust. The fetishized concept of being a plant made her too aroused and tantalized to resist and she infected herself.

Rose was a unique person to begin with, and tainted by demons, mutated by xenopox, and now warped by the magic of the strange plants, Rose manifested into one of the most powerful entities on Earth. Her skin turned green, blood and chlorophyll became intertwined inside her veins, wriggling tendrils sprouted from her back. By the time her metamorphosis had completed, gone forever was the timid Rose Riley, and in her place was Rose Thorn, the Queen of Thorns. With her new lust for power and the dominatrix persona at the helm, she went about conquering the MedUSA lab, turning its inhabitants into [[Anthrophytes]] building a [[faction]] known as [[The Thorned]].

=== Of Sex and Souls: Noir Nights ===

In [[Of Sex and Souls: Noir Nights]], Rose is just getting back in contact with her father. At first she was a little happy to see that he had not been drinking, but soon he was talking to her about vampires and claimed that he had seen [[Clover]] again. Rose could not stand to hear that nonsense again, but then Walter fell silent and she watched him touching himself inappropriately over his pants. She yelled at him and made her way back inside. She did not realize it at the time, but the [[succubus]], [[Dionyza]], was watching her and her father, and the demoness had used her lust magicks on him to force him to do such an act in front of her. She would soon discover that demons, monsters, and vampires were all real, and that the world in which she lives is unlike she ever thought.

=== Slugs and Bugs: Conversion ===
Rose is one of the trainable characters in this Ren'py trainer type game based on canonical [[Anaxverse]] lore, while being non-canonical itself. It is an adult only game in which the player takes on the role of the Over-Master and is tasked with converting several different Anaxverse characters into [[Infectulons]]. Her conversion is not currently in development.

== Appearance ==

Rose is a bookish young woman, with short brown hair. She has wide-rimmed glasses.

== Abilities ==

*None

== Notes and Trivia ==
Rose can be seen in the OSAS:NN preview novel.

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
</gallery>

[[Category:DesRelease]]

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Justine Day

2024-02-20T01:29:23Z

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{{ Character
| image=JustineWiki.jpg
| name=Justine Day
| race=[[Human]]
| type=[[Casus Fortuitus]]
| faction=[[Free Willed]]
| premiere=[[Slugs and Bugs: Invasion]]
| relatives=[[Eliza Day]]
}}
= Justine Day =

"It will take more than some slugs and bugs to stop me!"

== Biography ==
=== Slugs and Bugs: Invasion ===

As seen in the novel, [[Slugs and Bugs: Invasion]], Justine was a financier working with [[Erebus Financial Services]]. Justine Day was born in the Midwest in [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]]. She grew up with a normal life, and thought about going into education at one point, yet she ended up changing her major in college, and decided on finance. Even though driving in big cities scared her, with her degree in hand, she moved to [[New York City]], and planned to make a new life, though she is her mother’s girl, and she called her mom almost every day. She interviewed at the [[Erebus Building]] and [[Dagan Erebus]], himself, interviewed her. Though his motives for hiring her were sexist, she had scarcely began work when he was arrested. Justine could not believe her boss could have done the strange, dark things the television claimed he had, but the tales of cult worshippers and sexual assault aroused her.

She had always fantasized about mind control, and sometimes she was the slave and sometimes she was the mistress, but Justine got off on the idea of control, real control, not just physical bondage, but truly being owned. For some time after his arrest, she would see Dagan on the news and masturbate, imagining him enthralling her for some dark purpose. She sometimes would masturbate to known evils, like [[S.I.N.]] [[supervillains]] such as [[The Giggler]], [[Queen Sting]], [[Terrorbyte]], [[Madame Bimbeau]], or [[Toxsicka]]. Justine dreamt or fantasized about other dark things that exist in the world, but that she had no direct knowledge thereof, like [[Ophion]], [[Nergal]], [[Aka Manah]], [[Nightbred]], and even [[Cereborgs]]. She did not know it, but her soul's very frequency mixed with her biology had come together in a rare way to create someone vastly psionically psychic- yet completely latent.

However, she would uncover these powers, as by divine hand or by dumb luck, Justine Day stood against swarms of [[Infectulons]]. The infectulons originated billions of years ago, as a virus. On some distant, ancient world, the virus developed a sort of collective consciousness, albeit rudimentary, that saw these virii act with purpose like swarms of bees. Once this evolutionary adaptation occurred, the virus spread throughout the animal populations of its planet. Over a billion years, it kept evolving, not killing hosts, but mixing with their own DNA. In time, the infectulon virus became a hivemind, communicating through a psionic link. While a very primitive consciousness, this meant a virus in an animal on one side of the planet was equally aware of a virus in another host on the far side of the world. At this point in its evolution, the infectulon virus had essentially become one entity with trillions of microscopic bodies. And in another billion years, it evolved and grew as it encountered obstacles, learning how to adapt through its own volition, like an anti-immune system. The virus grew to become something resembling a retrovirus, an RNA virus, and a nanovirus all-in-one. Soon, it could change to infect not only any and every type of animal on its world- it infected every last organism down to even the simplest barely alive protein strands. Manipulating the cells organisms could never die.

This planet stayed in an almost evolutionary pause for two billion years the virus having thought that this was all life, until spacefaring humanoids came to this planet. Not seeing anything they would consider sapient, they had little fear. However, the virus could control the behaviors of the animals by causing their brains and glands to produce hormones, and soon the life of the planet had infected the explorers. Now the virus traveled with them to their homeworld, and infected all life. These infected creatures then spread to other worlds since they had space travel technology. And again, a billion years passed. As the virus grew more intelligent, it could begin to compelled infected creatures by the will of the virus itself, rather than the simplistic chemicals of the host bodies. And now, it reached a new level of ability and understanding.

It compelled the infected humanoids to use their technology to strengthen and alter the virus further and further, shaving untold billions of years off the amount of time it would naturally take to reach such levels. At this point, the infected humanoids own minds were added to the viral hivemind, and all the other minds of all the other myriads of organisms on all the other hundreds of worlds it had infected. This is when it became what would be its plateau for millions of years. The hivemind continued to spread, and once it could evolve and incorporate biology beyond the technology of the humanoids, then only biologics were used for everything from weapons to travel. Now, all these creatures were like viruses themselves, and even a single infected creature on a world could infect all other life.

The virus could use a mechanisms like recombination and endocytosis to infect, but on most worlds this was unnecessary because
the actual shape and material of the infectulon virus was so alien, that most immune systems of organisms could not even sense there were issues with the virus. And so, when the invasion of Earth commenced, this was the case. The virus has such a completely alien genetic code, using different nucleotides, amino acids, or even a different type of molecule to store and express its genetic information, that the virus is invisible or unrecognizable to the immune systems of all life on Earth, which is designed to detect and respond to specific patterns of DNA or RNA. It also alters the host’s major histocompatibility complex function. In short, a lifeform on Earth infected by any given strain of infectulonian virus, will mutate and become one with the hivemind in minutes or less.

Humans, however, are unlike any other organism ever encountered in billions of years. Humans are erotic, sexual animals. They have the capacity for lying, violence, and often can work against anything that benefits them almost like an entire species suffering insanity. They are also the only creatures to have developed the ideas of gods, especially in the sense of omnipotent and omniscient ones. So, as the first human minds were subsumed into the infectulons within just the first few minutes of the invasion, humanity's own inherent darkness infected the hivemind like a virus of its own. Suddenly, a hivemind several billion years old that had always been a shared viral mind, grew an ego. It saw itself as a god, it suddenly understood concepts like deceit, and it became a sexual deviant. This gave rise to a sort of new entity awakening from a dream billions of years in the making, calling itself the [[Over-Master]].

The Over-Master could recall all it ever was or knew and how it had mindlessly conquered innumerable worlds. Aware of every small virus and seeing through every infected organism, it is like an alien god of the [[Physical World]]. Justine's entire life, other than a feeling of déjà vu, or occasionally knowing the phone would ring before it did, she never considered herself to be ‘psychic’. Perhaps all humans have some abilities to foresee what shall be or feel things their eyes cannot perceive, but fate created an odd happenstance during the Infectulon Invasion. A [[Minder]] had crawled up the side of the Erebus Building, and, following its nature; it saw Justine and tried to bond with her. However, thick glass separated the pair, and it could not ‘join’ (the term used when a minder and host become one) with her. This caused an interesting situation. With Justine having a higher than normal, but unknown, psychic power, and with the minder attached to her mind, she and it began to feel not only intense need and love for each other, but also a desolate loneliness at their separation.

The Over-Master had a choice to make as it observed this strange event. It could destroy the minder and feed its destruction down their mental link, killing Justine with a brain aneurism, or, it could study the event as an experiment. Interested to see what would happen with Justine, the Over-Master decided to follow her progress through the mental bond. The Over-Master tested Justine’s resolve many times as she moved from the sewers to the top floor of the Erebus Building. When it first observed her, it tried to get her to give in to the most basic and prolific of its vectors, the [[slugs]] and the [[sporers]]. However, when Justine Day managed to find ways to move past these creatures, it grew more interested, even as it watched billions of humans falling, Justine had its attention.

Justine eventually reached floors housing things like [[brain bugs]] and [[arachnodians]]. Justine grew more fierce now, using a fire axe as a weapon. It wondered if she might make a new, powerful addition to the swarm. However, her Minder was growing deeper in love with her, its concept of love being a concept of domination and obedience, and longed to see her climb floor by floor and give herself to it, so they could be joined in a dark bond forever with it as her superior mind. The Over-Master found this ‘emotion’ strange. Other organisms on worlds did not have emotions in the human sense of the word. Justine was ‘corrupting’ the Minder itself, from the Over-Master’s perspective. It found that very fascinating. Then, as she battled the bugs, something new occurred- Justine managed to slow the flow of time around her, thus making her appear to move at inhuman speed. As the Over-Mastered studied the phenomenon, it realized she was using minder energy for her own. She would draw from her own Minder, and then warp the power using some kind of inner ability. Now, the Over-Master grew very concerned. If she could do this within only two days of her attempted minding, then what might Justine Day do with even more time and energy?

Again, it contemplated annihilating her, yet she was testing the Invaders, and some of the strongest creatures inhabiting the Erebus Building had been destroyed by this tiny, puny mammal. If the Over-Master could have her become one of its minions, and use her as a blueprint, the entire swarm could grow exponentially stronger. But, more than that, the Over-Master now desired its own body, an avatar of its own rather than the trillions of puppets it controlled across the stars. If Justine proved to have as powerful a psionic ability as she appeared to wield- then perhaps she could be inseminated and birth its perfect form into reality. It set a trap to test her resolve and power, so that when she reached her office. It had the minder await her in the office and reveal itself and the Over-Master waited in agonizing anticipation to see if she would finally join the Invaders. Instead, she shockingly managed to overpower her own Minder with her psionics. The Over-Master quickly began studying how she accomplished the feat. It realized that for humans, their emotions had a direct and intrinsic impact on their psychic power. When Justine grew too angry or too scared, the power amplified. In a word, it deemed her chaotic, and it determined to have her subjugated and her power shackled to its gargantuan will. Then she would give it a form from her own womb, combining all her immense psionics with the perfect biological adaptations of the infectulons.

It simply ordered all the [[Minded]] to seek and enthrall Justine. However, Justine overcame these, the most powerful infectulonian units, all the time growing stronger. Finally, she reached one of the Over-Master’s hive nodes, a place in every have where it could personally watch and interact with its minions. Usually, a single glance into one of its giant eyes could crush the will of a lesser being, yet Justine appeared to have an endless appetite for its dominating mind-bending psionic stare. The more of its will it tried to corrupt and crush Justine's with, the more she consumed and grew empowered. Never had any organism been capable of anything remotely similar and now it knew that it must have Justine as both its Queen and its own mother. Finally, there was a teetering moment, when the Over-Master was certain that Justine would choose to join it willingly, and if she had, it would have created a biological goddess from her, [[Queen Justine]]. Something with terrible psychic powers beyond reckoning- yet leashed to the Over-Master’s direct will for eternity. However, even with the monomaniacal focus of the Over-Master pouring torrents of its psionic mental dominating will into her mind, coursing through her soul, Justine not only managed to resist- she did the unthinkable, causing even the hive node of the Over-Master to pause, trapped in a temporal stasis field. Justine then escaped to the roof, and Minded [[Marlena Kress]] regaled her with a tale implicating Justine in a type of victim blaming, to break Justine's resolve.

Marlena divulged how the Over-Master first saw Justine as a curious little creature and thus had her friend, [[Katelyn Addams]], [[slugged]]. Kate then was purposedly placed in Justine's path to see if Justine would dare harm her friend. As it incorporated more minds within the Erebus Building, it discovered that [[Anne Griffin]] was one of Justine's closest friends and part of her 'breakfast club' with [[Jennifer Castillo]]. As such, after converting Anne into a [[Arachnodite]], a spider soldier. Anne then confronted Justine to break her psychologically, and Jen would have joined them, if only Marlena had found her first.

Realizing that so much of the mental and emotional torture she had endured came directly from Marlena’s interference, Justine’s anger, regret, and power crescendoed to unheard of heights. The attempt the Over-Master had made at corrupting and indoctrinating Justine failed, but it did give her an immense energetic pool from which to draw psychic power. Marlena's tale caused Justine anger and immense guilt, Justine blaming herself for all that happened to her friends. Suddenly, Justine’s emotions manifested as energy and she became a being of pure psionics, her body replaced with energy- a ‘psychic-storm’ of fury and retribution. Justine annihilated Kress where she stood, and when the Over-Master's hive node attempted to grab Justine to absorb her into itself, she managed to grab Jen and fly to the ground. At that point, the unimaginable exhaustion and exertion finally brought her down. Jen took Justine’s unconscious body, loading them into [[Erica Petersen|Erica Petersen's]] old 1969 Charger. Again, luck or fate smiled upon them, because the Invaders enveloped the Earth with an electromagnetic shield, rendering virtually all technology inept. The car, however, predated on board computers, and it started right up. On a full tank of gas, Jen sped away, and sources say that the pair has gone to the Midwest, to find Justine’s family.

=== Factions: Crystals of Control ===

In the non-canonical Unity Match Three game, [[Factions: Crystals of Control]], Justine can be played as an [[Infectulon]]. She was a Demo Playable Character.

=== Slugs and Bugs: Conversion ===

In the non-canonical Trainer style game, [[Slugs and Bugs: Conversion]], Justine will be present as a trainable character.

== Appearance ==

Justine is a 32 year old red-head. She has a playful demeanor, polite and respectful while growing up in the Midwest.

== Abilities ==

Psychic Storm

== Equipment ==

Psionic Energy

== Notes and Trivia ==

Justine Day is the reincarnation of [[Eliza Day]] from the novel [[The Anax: Call of the Cursed One]]

== Gallery ==
<gallery>

</gallery>

Justine Day

2024-02-19T23:08:28Z

Anax: /* Slugs and Bugs: Invasion */

{{ Character
| image=JustineWiki.jpg
| name=Justine Day
| race=[[Human]]
| type=[[Casus Fortuitus]]
| faction=[[Free Willed]]
| premiere=[[Slugs and Bugs: Invasion]]
| relatives=[[Eliza Day]]
}}
= Justine Day =

"It will take more than some slugs and bugs to stop me!"

== Biography ==
=== Slugs and Bugs: Invasion ===

As seen in the novel, [[Slugs and Bugs: Invasion]], Justine was a financier working with [[Erebus Financial Services]]. Justine Day was born in the Midwest in [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]]. She grew up with a normal life, and thought about going into education at one point, yet she ended up changing her major in college, and decided on finance. Even though driving in big cities scared her, with her degree in hand, she moved to [[New York City]], and planned to make a new life, though she is her mother’s girl, and she called her mom almost every day. She interviewed at the [[Erebus Building]] and [[Dagan Erebus]], himself, interviewed her. Though his motives for hiring her were sexist, she had scarcely began work when he was arrested. Justine could not believe her boss could have done the strange, dark things the television claimed he had, but the tales of cult worshippers and sexual assault aroused her.

She had always fantasized about mind control, and sometimes she was the slave and sometimes she was the mistress, but Justine got off on the idea of control, real control, not just physical bondage, but truly being owned. For some time after his arrest, she would see Dagan on the news and masturbate, imagining him enthralling her for some dark purpose. She sometimes would masturbate to known evils, like [[S.I.N.]] [[supervillains]] such as [[The Giggler]], [[Queen Sting]], [[Terrorbyte]], [[Madame Bimbeau]], or [[Toxsicka]]. Justine dreamt or fantasized about other dark things that exist in the world, but that she had no direct knowledge thereof, like [[Ophion]], [[Nergal]], [[Aka Manah]], [[Nightbred]], and even [[Cereborgs]]. She did not know it, but her soul's very frequency mixed with her biology had come together in a rare way to create someone vastly psionically psychic- yet completely latent.

However, she would uncover these powers, as by divine hand or by dumb luck, Justine Day stood against swarms of [[Infectulons]]. The infectulons originated billions of years ago, as a virus. On some distant, ancient world, the virus developed a sort of collective consciousness, albeit rudimentary, that saw these virii act with purpose like swarms of bees. Once this evolutionary adaptation occurred, the virus spread throughout the animal populations of its planet. Over a billion years, it kept evolving, not killing hosts, but mixing with their own DNA. In time, the infectulon virus became a hivemind, communicating through a psionic link. While a very primitive consciousness, this meant a virus in an animal on one side of the planet was equally aware of a virus in another host on the far side of the world. At this point in its evolution, the infectulon virus had essentially become one entity with trillions of microscopic bodies. And in another billion years, it evolved and grew as it encountered obstacles, learning how to adapt through its own volition, like an anti-immune system. The virus grew to become something resembling a retrovirus, an RNA virus, and a nanovirus all-in-one. Soon, it could change to infect not only any and every type of animal on its world- it infected every last organism down to even the simplest barely alive protein strands. Manipulating the cells organisms could never die.

This planet stayed in an almost evolutionary pause for two billion years the virus having thought that this was all life, until spacefaring humanoids came to this planet. Not seeing anything they would consider sapient, they had little fear. However, the virus could control the behaviors of the animals by causing their brains and glands to produce hormones, and soon the life of the planet had infected the explorers. Now the virus traveled with them to their homeworld, and infected all life. These infected creatures then spread to other worlds since they had space travel technology. And again, a billion years passed. As the virus grew more intelligent, it could begin to compelled infected creatures by the will of the virus itself, rather than the simplistic chemicals of the host bodies. And now, it reached a new level of ability and understanding.

It compelled the infected humanoids to use their technology to strengthen and alter the virus further and further, shaving untold billions of years off the amount of time it would naturally take to reach such levels. At this point, the infected humanoids own minds were added to the viral hivemind, and all the other minds of all the other myriads of organisms on all the other hundreds of worlds it had infected. This is when it became what would be its plateau for millions of years. The hivemind continued to spread, and once it could evolve and incorporate biology beyond the technology of the humanoids, then only biologics were used for everything from weapons to travel. Now, all these creatures were like viruses themselves, and even a single infected creature on a world could infect all other life.

The virus could use a mechanisms like recombination and endocytosis to infect, but on most worlds this was unnecessary because
the actual shape and material of the infectulon virus was so alien, that most immune systems of organisms could not even sense there were issues with the virus. And so, when the invasion of Earth commenced, this was the case. The virus has such a completely alien genetic code, using different nucleotides, amino acids, or even a different type of molecule to store and express its genetic information, that the virus is invisible or unrecognizable to the immune systems of all life on Earth, which is designed to detect and respond to specific patterns of DNA or RNA. It also alters the host’s major histocompatibility complex function. In short, a lifeform on Earth infected by any given strain of infectulonian virus, will mutate and become one with the hivemind in minutes or less.

Humans, however, are unlike any other organism ever encountered in billions of years. Humans are erotic, sexual animals. They have the capacity for lying, violence, and often can work against anything that benefits them almost like an entire species suffering insanity. They are also the only creatures to have developed the ideas of gods, especially in the sense of omnipotent and omniscient ones. So, as the first human minds were subsumed into the infectulons within just the first few minutes of the invasion, humanity's own inherent darkness infected the hivemind like a virus of its own. Suddenly, a hivemind several billion years old that had always been a shared viral mind, grew an ego. It saw itself as a god, it suddenly understood concepts like deceit, and it became a sexual deviant. This gave rise to a sort of new entity awakening from a dream billions of years in the making, calling itself the [[Over-Master]].

The Over-Master could recall all it ever was or knew and how it had mindlessly conquered innumerable worlds. Aware of every small virus and seeing through every infected organism, it is like an alien god of the [[Physical World]]. Justine's entire life, other than a feeling of déjà vu, or occasionally knowing the phone would ring before it did, she never considered herself to be ‘psychic’. Perhaps all humans have some abilities to foresee what shall be or feel things their eyes cannot perceive, but fate created an odd happenstance during the Infectulon Invasion. A [[Minder]] had crawled up the side of the Erebus Building, and, following its nature; it saw Justine and tried to bond with her. However, thick glass separated the pair, and it could not ‘join’ (the term used when a minder and host become one) with her. This caused an interesting situation. With Justine having a higher than normal, but unknown, psychic power, and with the minder attached to her mind, she and it began to feel not only intense need and love for each other, but also a desolate loneliness at their separation.

The Over-Master had a choice to make as it observed this strange event. It could destroy the minder and feed its destruction down their mental link, killing Justine with a brain aneurism, or, it could study the event as an experiment. Interested to see what would happen with Justine, the Over-Master decided to follow her progress through the mental bond. The Over-Master tested Justine’s resolve many times as she moved from the sewers to the top floor of the Erebus Building. When it first observed her, it tried to get her to give in to the most basic and prolific of its vectors, the [[slugs]] and the [[sporers]]. However, when Justine Day managed to find ways to move past these creatures, it grew more interested, even as it watched billions of humans falling, Justine had its attention.

Justine eventually reached floors housing things like [[brain bugs]] and [[arachnodians]]. Justine grew more fierce now, using a fire axe as a weapon. It wondered if she might make a new, powerful addition to the swarm. However, her Minder was growing deeper in love with her, its concept of love being a concept of domination and obedience, and longed to see her climb floor by floor and give herself to it, so they could be joined in a dark bond forever with it as her superior mind. The Over-Master found this ‘emotion’ strange. Other organisms on worlds did not have emotions in the human sense of the word. Justine was ‘corrupting’ the Minder itself, from the Over-Master’s perspective. It found that very fascinating. Then, as she battled the bugs, something new occurred- Justine managed to slow the flow of time around her, thus making her appear to move at inhuman speed. As the Over-Mastered studied the phenomenon, it realized she was using minder energy for her own. She would draw from her own Minder, and then warp the power using some kind of inner ability. Now, the Over-Master grew very concerned. If she could do this within only two days of her attempted minding, then what might Justine Day do with even more time and energy?

Again, it contemplated annihilating her, yet she was testing the Invaders, and some of the strongest creatures inhabiting the Erebus Building had been destroyed by this tiny, puny mammal. If the Over-Master could have her become one of its minions, and use her as a blueprint, the entire swarm could grow exponentially stronger. But, more than that, the Over-Master now desired its own body, an avatar of its own rather than the trillions of puppets it controlled across the stars. If Justine proved to have as powerful a psionic ability as she appeared to wield- then perhaps she could be inseminated and birth its perfect form into reality. It set a trap to test her resolve and power, so that when she reached her office. It had the minder await her in the office and reveal itself and the Over-Master waited in agonizing anticipation to see if she would finally join the Invaders. Instead, she shockingly managed to overpower her own Minder with her psionics. The Over-Master quickly began studying how she accomplished the feat. It realized that for humans, their emotions had a direct and intrinsic impact on their psychic power. When Justine grew too angry or too scared, the power amplified. In a word, it deemed her chaotic, and it determined to have her subjugated and her power shackled to its gargantuan will. Then she would give it a form from her own womb, combining all her immense psionics with the perfect biological adaptations of the infectulons.

It simply ordered all the [[Minded]] to seek and enthrall Justine. However, Justine overcame these, the most powerful infectulonian units, all the time growing stronger. Finally, she reached one of the Over-Master’s hive nodes, a place in every have where it could personally watch and interact with its minions. Usually, a single glance into one of its giant eyes could crush the will of a lesser being, yet Justine appeared to have an endless appetite for its dominating mind-bending psionic stare. The more of its will it tried to corrupt and crush Justine's with, the more she consumed and grew empowered. Never had any organism been capable of anything remotely similar and now it knew that it must have Justine as both its Queen and its own mother. Finally, there was a teetering moment, when the Over-Master was certain that Justine would choose to join it willingly, and if she had, it would have created a biological goddess from her, [[Queen Justine]]. Something with terrible psychic powers beyond reckoning- yet leashed to the Over-Master’s direct will for eternity. However, even with the monomaniacal focus of the Over-Master pouring torrents of its psionic mental dominating will into her mind, coursing through her soul, Justine not only managed to resist- she did the unthinkable, causing even the hive node of the Over-Master to pause, trapped in a temporal stasis field. Justine then escaped to the roof, and Minded [[Marlena Kress]] regaled her with a tale implicating Justine in a type of victim blaming, to break Justine's resolve.

Marlena divulged how the Over-Master first saw Justine as a curious little creature and thus had her friend, [[Katelyn Addams]], [[slugged]]. Kate then was purposedly placed in Justine's path to see if Justine would dare harm her friend. As it incorporated more minds within the Erebus Building, it discovered that [[Anne Griffin]] was one of Justine's closest friends and part of her 'breakfast club' with [[Jennifer Castillo]]. As such, after converting Anne into a [[Arachnodite]], a spider soldier. Anne then confronted Justine to break her psychologically, and Jen would have joined them, if only Marlena had found her first.

Realizing that so much of the mental and emotional torture she had endured came directly from Marlena’s interference, Justine’s anger, regret, and power crescendoed to unheard of heights. The attempt the Over-Master had made at corrupting and indoctrinating Justine failed, but it did give her an immense energetic pool from which to draw psychic power. Marlena's tale caused Justine anger and immense guilt, Justine blaming herself for all that happened to her friends. Suddenly, Justine’s emotions manifested as energy and she became a being of pure psionics, her body replaced with energy- a ‘psychic-storm’ of fury and retribution. Justine annihilated Kress where she stood, and when the Over-Master's hive node attempted to grab Justine to absorb her into itself, she managed to grab Jen and fly to the ground. At that point, the unimaginable exhaustion and exertion finally brought her down. Jen took Justine’s unconscious body, loading them into [[Erica Petersen|Erica Petersen's]] old 1969 Charger. Again, luck or fate smiled upon them, because the Invaders enveloped the Earth with an electromagnetic shield, rendering virtually all technology inept. The car, however, predated on board computers, and it started right up. On a full tank of gas, Jen sped away, and sources say that the pair has gone to the Midwest, to find Justine’s family.

=== Factions: Crystals of Control ===

In the non-canonical Unity Match Three game, [[Factions: Crystals of Control]], Justine can be played as an [[Infectulon]]. She was a Demo Playable Character.

=== Slugs and Bugs: Conversion ===

In the non-canonical Trainer style game, [[Slugs and Bugs: Conversion]], Justine will be present as a trainable character.

== Appearance ==

Justine is a 32 year old red-head. She has a playful demeanor, polite and respectful while growing up in the Midwest.

== Abilities ==

Psychic Storm

== Equipment ==

Psychic Energy

== Notes and Trivia ==

Justine Day is the reincarnation of [[Eliza Day]] from the novel [[The Anax: Call of the Cursed One]]

== Gallery ==
<gallery>

</gallery>

Justine Day

2024-02-19T23:07:57Z

Anax: /* Slugs and Bugs: Invasion */

{{ Character
| image=JustineWiki.jpg
| name=Justine Day
| race=[[Human]]
| type=[[Casus Fortuitus]]
| faction=[[Free Willed]]
| premiere=[[Slugs and Bugs: Invasion]]
| relatives=[[Eliza Day]]
}}
= Justine Day =

"It will take more than some slugs and bugs to stop me!"

== Biography ==
=== Slugs and Bugs: Invasion ===

As seen in the novel, [[Slugs and Bugs: Invasion]], Justine was a financier working with [[Erebus Financial Services]]. Justine Day was born in the Midwest in [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]]. She grew up with a normal life, and thought about going into education at one point, yet she ended up changing her major in college, and decided on finance. Even though driving in big cities scared her, with her degree in hand, she moved to [[New York City]], and planned to make a new life, though she is her mother’s girl, and she called her mom almost every day. She interviewed at the [[Erebus Building]] and [[Dagan Erebus]], himself, interviewed her. Though his motives for hiring her were sexist, she had scarcely began work when he was arrested. Justine could not believe her boss could have done the strange, dark things the television claimed he had, but the tales of cult worshippers and sexual assault aroused her.

She had always fantasized about mind control, and sometimes she was the slave and sometimes she was the mistress, but Justine got off on the idea of control, real control, not just physical bondage, but truly being owned. For some time after his arrest, she would see Dagan on the news and masturbate, imagining him enthralling her for some dark purpose. She sometimes would masturbate to known evils, like [[S.I.N.]] [[supervillains]] such as [[The Giggler]], [[Queen Sting]], [[Terrorbyte]], [[Madame Bimbeau]], or [[Toxsicka]]. Justine dreamt or fantasized about other dark things that exist in the world, but that she had no direct knowledge thereof, like [[Ophion]], [[Nergal]], [[Aka Manah]], [[Nightbred]], and even [[Cereborgs]]. She did not know it, but her soul's very frequency mixed with her biology had come together in a rare way to create someone vastly psionically psychic- yet completely latent.

However, she would uncover these powers, as by divine hand or by dumb luck, Justine Day stood against swarms of [[Infectulons]]. The infectulons originated billions of years ago, as a virus. On some distant, ancient world, the virus developed a sort of collective consciousness, albeit rudimentary, that saw these virii act with purpose like swarms of bees. Once this evolutionary adaptation occurred, the virus spread throughout the animal populations of its planet. Over a billion years, it kept evolving, not killing hosts, but mixing with their own DNA. In time, the infectulon virus became a hivemind, communicating through a psionic link. While a very primitive consciousness, this meant a virus in an animal on one side of the planet was equally aware of a virus in another host on the far side of the world. At this point in its evolution, the infectulon virus had essentially become one entity with trillions of microscopic bodies. And in another billion years, it evolved and grew as it encountered obstacles, learning how to adapt through its own volition, like an anti-immune system. The virus grew to become something resembling a retrovirus, an RNA virus, and a nanovirus all-in-one. Soon, it could change to infect not only any and every type of animal on its world- it infected every last organism down to even the simplest barely alive protein strands. Manipulating the cells organisms could never die.

This planet stayed in an almost evolutionary pause for two billion years the virus having thought that this was all life, until spacefaring humanoids came to this planet. Not seeing anything they would consider sapient, they had little fear. However, the virus could control the behaviors of the animals by causing their brains and glands to produce hormones, and soon the life of the planet had infected the explorers. Now the virus traveled with them to their homeworld, and infected all life. These infected creatures then spread to other worlds since they had space travel technology. And again, a billion years passed. As the virus grew more intelligent, it could begin to compelled infected creatures by the will of the virus itself, rather than the simplistic chemicals of the host bodies. And now, it reached a new level of ability and understanding.

It compelled the infected humanoids to use their technology to strengthen and alter the virus further and further, shaving untold billions of years off the amount of time it would naturally take to reach such levels. At this point, the infected humanoids own minds were added to the viral hivemind, and all the other minds of all the other myriads of organisms on all the other hundreds of worlds it had infected. This is when it became what would be its plateau for millions of years. The hivemind continued to spread, and once it could evolve and incorporate biology beyond the technology of the humanoids, then only biologics were used for everything from weapons to travel. Now, all these creatures were like viruses themselves, and even a single infected creature on a world could infect all other life.

The virus could use a mechanisms like recombination and endocytosis to infect, but on most worlds this was unnecessary because
the actual shape and material of the infectulon virus was so alien, that most immune systems of organisms could not even sense there were issues with the virus. And so, when the invasion of Earth commenced, this was the case. The virus has such a completely alien genetic code, using different nucleotides, amino acids, or even a different type of molecule to store and express its genetic information, that the virus is invisible or unrecognizable to the immune systems of all life on Earth, which is designed to detect and respond to specific patterns of DNA or RNA. It also alters the host’s major histocompatibility complex function. In short, a lifeform on Earth infected by any given strain of infectulonian virus, will mutate and become one with the hivemind in minutes or less.

Humans, however, are unlike any other organism ever encountered in billions of years. Humans are erotic, sexual animals. They have the capacity for lying, violence, and often can work against anything that benefits them almost like an entire species suffering insanity. They are also the only creatures to have developed the ideas of gods, especially in the sense of omnipotent and omniscient ones. So, as the first human minds were subsumed into the infectulons within just the first few minutes of the invasion, humanity's own inherent darkness infected the hivemind like a virus of its own. Suddenly, a hivemind several billion years old that had always been a shared viral mind, grew an ego. It saw itself as a god, it suddenly understood concepts like deceit, and it became a sexual deviant. This gave rise to a sort of new entity awakening from a dream billions of years in the making, calling itself the [[Over-Master]].

The Over-Master could recall all it ever was or knew and how it had mindlessly conquered innumerable worlds. Aware of every small virus and seeing through every infected organism, it is like an alien god of the [[Physical World]]. Justine's entire life, other than a feeling of déjà vu, or occasionally knowing the phone would ring before it did, she never considered herself to be ‘psychic’. Perhaps all humans have some abilities to foresee what shall be or feel things their eyes cannot perceive, but fate created an odd happenstance during the Infectulon Invasion. A [[Minder]] had crawled up the side of the Erebus Building, and, following its nature; it saw Justine and tried to bond with her. However, thick glass separated the pair, and it could not ‘join’ (the term used when a minder and host become one) with her. This caused an interesting situation. With Justine having a higher than normal, but unknown, psychic power, and with the minder attached to her mind, she and it began to feel not only intense need and love for each other, but also a desolate loneliness at their separation.

The Over-Master had a choice to make as it observed this strange event. It could destroy the minder and feed its destruction down their mental link, killing Justine with a brain aneurism, or, it could study the event as an experiment. Interested to see what would happen with Justine, the Over-Master decided to follow her progress through the mental bond. The Over-Master tested Justine’s resolve many times as she moved from the sewers to the top floor of the Erebus Building. When it first observed her, it tried to get her to give in to the most basic and prolific of its vectors, the [[slugs]] and the [[sporers]]. However, when Justine Day managed to find ways to move past these creatures, it grew more interested, even as it watched billions of humans falling, Justine had its attention.

Justine eventually reached floors housing things like [[brain bugs]] and [[arachnodians]]. Justine grew more fierce now, using a fire axe as a weapon. It wondered if she might make a new, powerful addition to the swarm. However, her Minder was growing deeper in love with her, its concept of love being a concept of domination and obedience, and longed to see her climb floor by floor and give herself to it, so they could be joined in a dark bond forever with it as her superior mind. The Over-Master found this ‘emotion’ strange. Other organisms on worlds did not have emotions in the human sense of the word. Justine was ‘corrupting’ the Minder itself, from the Over-Master’s perspective. It found that very fascinating. Then, as she battled the bugs, something new occurred- Justine managed to slow the flow of time around her, thus making her appear to move at inhuman speed. As the Over-Mastered studied the phenomenon, it realized she was using minder energy for her own. She would draw from her own Minder, and then warp the power using some kind of inner ability. Now, the Over-Master grew very concerned. If she could do this within only two days of her attempted minding, then what might Justine Day do with even more time and energy?

Again, it contemplated annihilating her, yet she was testing the Invaders, and some of the strongest creatures inhabiting the Erebus Building had been destroyed by this tiny, puny mammal. If the Over-Master could have her become one of its minions, and use her as a blueprint, the entire swarm could grow exponentially stronger. But, more than that, the Over-Master now desired its own body, an avatar of its own rather than the trillions of puppets it controlled across the stars. If Justine proved to have as powerful a psionic ability as she appeared to wield- then perhaps she could be inseminated and birth its perfect form into reality. It set a trap to test her resolve and power, so that when she reached her office. It had the minder await her in the office and reveal itself and the Over-Master waited in agonizing anticipation to see if she would finally join the Invaders. Instead, she shockingly managed to overpower her own Minder with her psionics. The Over-Master quickly began studying how she accomplished the feat. It realized that for humans, their emotions had a direct and intrinsic impact on their psychic power. When Justine grew too angry or too scared, the power amplified. In a word, it deemed her chaotic, and it determined to have her subjugated and her power shackled to its gargantuan will. Then she would give it a form from her own womb, combining all her immense psionics with the perfect biological adaptations of the infectulons.

It simply ordered all the [[Minded]] to seek and enthrall Justine. However, Justine overcame these, the most powerful infectulonian units, all the time growing stronger. Finally, she reached one of the Over-Master’s hive nodes, a place in every have where it could personally watch and interact with its minions. Usually, a single glance into one of its giant eyes could crush the will of a lesser being, yet Justine appeared to have an endless appetite for its dominating mind-bending psionic stare. The more of its will it tried to corrupt and crush Justine's with, the more she consumed and grew empowered. Never had any organism been capable of anything remotely similar and now it knew that it must have Justine as both its Queen and its own mother. Finally, there was a teetering moment, when the Over-Master was certain that Justine would choose to join it willingly, and if she had, it would have created a biological goddess from her, [[Queen Justine]]. Something with terrible psychic powers beyond reckoning- yet leashed to the Over-Master’s direct will for eternity. However, even with the monomaniacal focus of the Over-Master pouring torrents of its psionic mental dominating will into her mind, coursing through her soul, Justine not only managed to resist- she did the unthinkable, causing even the hive node of the Over-Master to pause, trapped in a temporal stasis field. Justine then escaped to the roof, and Minded [[Marlena Kress]] regaled her with a tale implicating Justine in a type of victim blaming, to break Justine's resolve.

Marlena divulged how the Over-Master first saw Justine as a curious little creature and thus had her friend, [[Katelyn Addams]], [[slugged]]. Kate then was purposedly placed in Justine's path to see if Justine would dare harm her friend. As it incorporated more minds within the Erebus Building, it discovered that [[Anne Griffin]] was one of Justine's closest friends and part of her 'breakfast club' with [[Jennifer Castillo]]. As such, after converting Anne into a [[Arachnodite]], a spider soldier. Anne then confronted Justine to break her psychologically, and Jen would have joined them, if only Marlena had found her first.

Realizing that so much of the mental and emotional torture she had endured came directly from Marlena’s interference, Justine’s anger, regret, and power crescendoed to unheard of heights. The attempt the Over-Master had made at corrupting and indoctrinating Justine failed, but it did give her an immense energetic pool from which to draw psychic power. Marlena's tale caused Justine anger and immense guilt, Justine blaming herself for all that happened to her friends. Suddenly, Justine’s emotions manifested as energy and she became a being of pure psionics, her body replaced with energy- a ‘psychic-storm’ of fury and retribution. Justine annihilated Kress where she stood, and when the Over-Master's hive node attempted to grab Justine to absorb her into itself, she managed to grab Jen and fly to the ground. At that point, the unimaginable exhaustion and exertion finally brought her down. Jen took Justine’s unconscious body, loading them into [[Erica Petersen|Erica Petersen's]] old 1969 Charger. Again, luck or fate smiled upon them, because the Invaders enveloped the Earth with an electromagnetic shield, rendering virtually all technology inept. The car, however, predated on board computers, and it started right up. On a full tank of gas, Jen sped away, and sources say that the pair has gone to the Midwest, to find Justine’s family.

=== Factions: Crystals of Control ===

In the non-canonical Unity Match Three game, [[Factions: Crystals of Control]], Justine can be played as an [[Infectulon]]. She was a Demo Playable Character.

=== Slugs and Bugs: Conversion ===

In the non-canonical Trainer style game, [[Slugs and Bugs: Conversion]], Justine will be present as a trainable character.

== Appearance ==

Justine is a 32 year old red-head. She has a playful demeanor, polite and respectful while growing up in the Midwest.

== Abilities ==

Psychic Storm

== Equipment ==

Psychic Energy

== Notes and Trivia ==

Justine Day is the reincarnation of [[Eliza Day]] from the novel [[The Anax: Call of the Cursed One]]

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Janice Reeves

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= Janice Reeves =

"Yes, Mr. Wyatt. I am very infected now!"

== Biography ==
=== Cult of Corruption: The Summoning ===
As seen in the novel, [[Cult of Corruption: The Summoning]], Doctor Janice Reeves is a world-renowned expert on infectious disease. She was born in Fulton, Georgia, to a single mother who worked as a waitress at a local diner. She grew up in a small apartment with her mother and two younger siblings, facing many hardships and challenges due to their low income and lack of opportunities. Despite these difficulties, Janice was always passionate about learning and science, especially biology and medicine. She excelled at school and won several scholarships and awards for her academic achievements.

She attended Emory University, where she majored in microbiology and immunology, and graduated with honors in 1996. She then pursued her PhD in infectious diseases at Harvard Medical School, where she worked under the supervision of a renowned expert in the field. She focused her research on emerging and re-emerging pathogens, such as Ebola and Zika and developed novel diagnostic and therapeutic methods to combat them. She published several papers in prestigious journals and presented her findings at international conferences.

In 2008, she joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a senior scientist and leader of the Infectious Disease Response Team. She was involved in several outbreak investigations and humanitarian missions around the world, such as a measles outbreak in Samoa, a cholera outbreak in Yemen, and a malaria outbreak in Nigeria. She also collaborated with other global health organizations, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) to improve the prevention and control of infectious diseases.

She is widely recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on infectious diseases, and has received numerous awards and honors for her contributions to the field, such as the Presidential Medal of Science, the Lasker Award, and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She is also a mentor and role model for many young scientists, especially women and minorities, who aspire to follow her footsteps. Eventually, she moved to [[Dallas]], [[Texas]], and worked at [[Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital]]. It was here that her entire life would change.

Her day started much like any other, until a young man named [[Beauregard Wyatt]] burst into the hospital. He had reported to the Director of Nursing, Director [[Amber Hopkins]], about an outbreak of a disease, and Amber reported it to Dr. Reeves. Janice decided that she would take a moment to interview him about this supposed outbreak of a disease. At first she noticed his eyes were bloodshot and considered that he might be on medications or illicit substances, but again, being one to play it safe, she humored him.

Bo told her that he was also infected with this strange STD, specifically leaving out anything regarding [[Nergal]], the [[Codex Gigas]], and [[Karen McAllen]], and Janice opted to take a blood sample- again, more for drug screening than anything else. After sealing the vial, she she performed a physical exam. This is where, for the medical specialist, she would cross the line from the natural, scientific world, and enter the paranormal world of magic and monsters.

As Dr. Reeves held her stethoscope to his chest she was utterly shocked to find he had no heartbeat. That was when she became acutely aware of a soul body odor emanating from Bo. She recognized it as the smell of decaying biological tissue- a smell she knew all-to-well. As her mind tried desperately to form even a slightly reasonable hypothesis for this oddity, she held up his blood sample. As she held the container, she could see his blood appeared thick and dark, almost black- and the it began moving. Janice had only a second to register this impossibility, when the blood expanded itself and shattered the vial, propelling itself at Janice's face.

The [[slime]] moved as an entity, slithering up her neck and face in an instant, sliding up one of her nostrils. Outside, Janice shook and convulsed, and within her mind the voice of the god, Nergal, filled her mind. In only a few seconds, her brain itself atrophied and decayed into a cesspool of corruption. While most of her body looked normal as she opened her eyes and looked at Bo, concern painted his face. Her eyes had become a sickly green color. She understood everything, now she was part of the [[Cult of Corruption]], and a servant of Nergal. She instantly fetishized the cancerous corruption spreading through her body.

As Janice touched herself, she thanks Bo for coming to the hospital and told him how she would now infect every health care giver and patient in the hospital. Her rotten mind began to use her vast knowledge of infectious diseases to contemplate ways to strengthen or mutate the infection. Sometime later, the prolific spread of corruption had indeed spread throughout the building. In Janice, Nergal had found a truly educated disciple, one that understood his wonderful virus better than any mortal before her. And with his voice bellowing unabated in her mind- she obeyed his desires.

She began numerous experiments on the very willing infected staff and patients, creating new strains of corruption and new mutations, even strengthening [[Nergalian]] units like [[Infesters]] and [[Squirms]]. And, as Bo and the [[Bureau of Demonic Analysis]] (B.D.A) agent, [[Mara Marek]], struggled to stop the spread of the corruption and destroy the source, Janice continued with a religious zealotry to create ever more twisted creatures. By this time, [[High Priest Pestis]], had converted the hospital, once a place of health and hope, into the [[Church of Corruption]], replete with unnatural horrors of sickness and decay, with Janice as his prized pupil.

However, in the end, Bo Wyatt managed to stop the corruption by using his inherent [[Arcane Magic]], and as the shockwave tore through the land and people, it burned away the demonic corruption within Janice as well. Like all the others in the Dallas Metroplex that had been infected and performed atrocious and debauched acts, she regained her humanity but remembered every sordid detail of her actions. The [[Infectulon Invasion]] occurred only minutes later, leaving a guilt-stricken Janice Reeves little time to comprehend what she had endured. As the hivemind began subsuming the minds of humans, it gained a concept of gods, and referred to itself as the [[Over-Master]] becoming a personality and yet remaining the sum of all infectulonian minds.

With this new threat, Janice has worked tirelessly on any possible or even theoretical cure for the virus. She had also considered bioengineering viruses that would kill off the infectulons- but leave humans unscathed. However, the deeds of her time as a vessel of corruption, under the control of the demon lord, Nergal, haunted her. Her actions weighed heavily on her conscience, and though it made her feel ashamed, some of her progress against the infectulons was based on what she understood and learned while creating horrid creatures for the cult.

Evelyn Addams

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= Evelyn Addams =

"I talk to the dead..."

== Biography ==
=== The Anax: Call of the Cursed One ===

As seen in the novel, [[The Anax: Call of the Cursed One]], Evelyn Addams is a [[necromancer]] that runs afoul of [[The Anax.]] Evelyn Addams was born on [[Long Island]], in [[New York]]. Evelyn had always had a difficult time forming emotional connections, but felt very close to her grandparents. As a small child, the evening after her grandfather passed away, she remembered him coming into her room and they chatted long into the night. The rest of the family cried and ached with his physical absence, yet she did not, and that caused her parents great concern. Her grandmother had been just as worried, but Eve told her that she talked to her dead husband, and in her anger, her grandmother dared Eve to tell her a secret that only he would know. Her grandfather saw this as an opportunity to help Eve and give his wife peace, so he divulged one, and when Eve told her, she began to believe her. When she died, there was no one alive to protect Evelyn from the constant bombardment of disbelief from her parents.

In her elementary and middle schools, the same problem cursed Eve. She would see and talk to spirits just as if she was talking to the living. Even with all the constant harassment from students and faculty, Eve refused to give in, even though everyone said she was crazy. Eve suffered from terrible depression after her family, with the best of intentions, had her committed into a psychiatric institution because she conversed openly with her deceased grandparents after her mother and father repeatedly told her not to.

Now incarcerated, even her deceased grandparents begged their young granddaughter to tell the psychiatrists that she could no longer see or hear the dead and, when Eve refused to obey them, for her own welfare, they abandoned Evelyn and went into the [[Inner Light]]. With their departure from the vibratory frequency of the [[Physical World]], Evelyn finally experienced the grief the rest of her family had previously endured with the departure of her grandparents, and at age eighteen, after nearly four years, the state released her back into the care of her parents. For several years, she pretended to ignore ghosts. Then one day her older twin sisters, [[Brittany]] and [[Katelyn]] took her out shopping. The trio came upon a strange bookstore, [[The Library]], and obtaining The [[Book of Shadows]], she felt vindicated by [[The Librarian]], and stopped hiding her abilities. A few years later, she was independent, and she put her powers to use by helping a ghost-hunting group named the [[Female Phantom Finders]].

With the Female Phantom Finders, [[Shiloh Hazeldine]], [[Kaya Dabrezil]], [[Moonbeam Sunflower]], [[Harper Jones]], and [[Sadie Garner]], Evelyn used her innate ability to speak with and see the dead as a means to take their ghost hunting paranormal investigations to new heights. With Eve as a medium, they helped countless spirits find peace. The group event ventured outside to New York State, for example visiting the halls of [[Hawthorn Asylum]] near [[Portland]], [[Oregon]], and helping all the lost souls there find their way into the Inner Light. However, one particular ghost hunt would forever mar the friendship between Harper and Eve.

Personally summoned by the New York District Attorney, [[Amelia Williams]], the group was tasked with removing any spirits they found from an abandoned church, [[La Resurrección]] on Elton Avenue in The Bronx. Amelia claimed that the area had strange occurrences. People would disappear and would report strange lights and fog around the old church. Though the group's psychic, Moonbeam, felt as though something was off about Amelia, she kept silent. What the group did not know was that Amelia had become a possessed puppet of the evil [[phantom]], [[Dagan Erebus]]. The Haunted D.A. had invited the women there so that Dagan could feed on their souls, because he had grown wary of this group that aided ghosts.

Once there, late into the night, Evelyn and Harper were investigating as a team. Evelyn, breaking protocol, went into the church by herself. There, she clearly could see Dagan. At first Dagan disbelieved that someone he had not possessed could see him, but Evelyn clearly could. As she and Dagan conversed, he quickly learned that Evelyn had interacted with The Librarian. This ancient spirit had confiscated the [[Codex Gigas]] from Dagan, and it was his monomaniacal obsession to retrieve the tome. Now, knowing that Evelyn must have access to her, Dagan immediately wanted Eve's soul.

There, within her mind and soul, he discovered that Evelyn fetishized being possessed by darkness since her childhood. Now, this was a chance to actually do it in real life, and she ceased any resistance, even aiding him in draining her own willpower. The evil phantom relished the experience, usually having to fight to control a mortal. Now, one of the Daganians, or [[Haunted]], Eve, a husk for Dagan, rose to her feet. She was eager to betray Harper, whom she knew would soon notice her missing.

Evelyn went to Harper, and Evelyn blocked Harper's escape. As she sexually assaulted Harper, she admitted that Dagan was not even controlling her directly- Eve was doing all this by herself. This would come back to haunt her in the future. However, for now, she relished living out her corruption fetish. However, as she aided Dagan in possessing Harper, Moonbeam, having sensed something evil happening, found the debauchery and called out to her Goddess of Light, a plea that upon the highest frequencies of the Inner Light, [[Illuminarius]], [[Isis]] heard and responded.

Brilliant light filled the cold, dark room, cleansing Evelyn of possession and exorcising Dagan. As Eve fell unconscious, Dagan fled into the night. After this event, the relationship between Harper and Evelyn remained strained, as Harper now feared Eve, knowing that deep down she would want to be evil. Evelyn apologized but it never healed the rift. However, time marched onwards and the group continued to host paranormal investigations. Eve, however, had the Book of Shadows, and it seemingly contained a single spell and article- how to summon the [[Shadow Lord]], [[Anax]]. This was a soul that they all felt could be redeemed, and secretly, Evelyn hoped by freeing this soul from the [[Shadowlands]] that she could prove to Harper that she would not let her dark fantasies ever rule her again.

By summoning the creature on camera, it would be manifested in the [[Physical World]]. This also meant, to Eve's joy, that everyone present and the cameras would be witness to the entity. With the book in hand, the Female Phantom Finders traveled to [[Ghost Nook]], where they planned to summoned the powerful spirit known as the Anax. The team wanted to document more proof of the paranormal for their social media channel and for scientific inquiry. They were ferried across [[Big Moose Lake]] by [[Clare Thorndike]] on her boat. Once they arrived, they set about exploring the island and happened upon [[Ravenhurst Manor]]. This massive Victorian mansion sprawled across entire acres of land. Within the massive mansion, Eve found a photograph of a beautiful woman and a [[poem]]. She slid the photo into her book. Once they had explored it, they made their way into the nearby woods.

In the woods, they soon came upon the ruins of a stone tower. It appeared to have been built during the Revolutionary War, but now it was mostly derelict. The group had no idea that this had once been the lair of the [[shadow witch]], [[Eleanora Blackwood]], the very person that owned the Book of Shadows that Evelyn now held. Continuing, Moonbeam's psychic awareness urged her to turn back. The psionic vibrations within the woods terrified and concerned her. But, they had been seeking this place for years, and having found it, Evelyn managed to convince them to continue.

The further they ventured towards the center of the forest, the darker and colder it grew. Eventually, they reached a clearing, and though there were no clouds overhead, it seemed almost as dark as night. Before them all, in the center of this dark, freezing clearing, stood a tree that appeared to be screaming. The [[Twisted Tree]] loomed before them all as if daring them to remain and urging them all to flee. Moonbeam could feel the Shadowlands itself seemingly hidden just under the fabric of reality here, as if the thin shell of an egg was all that separated our world from the plane of utter darkness. However, whoever summoned the Anax, within a pentacle circle of protection, could safely interact with the entity.

Unphased, Evelyn again checked the Book of Shadows on how to summon the Anax, but was interrupted by her sister Brittany and Brittany's wannabe 'coven' of New Age witches, [[Angela Johnson]], [[Chelsea Moretti]], [[Farrah Foster]], [[Lexus Kingsley]], [[Madison Lee]], and [[Mercedes Everett]]. The two groups could not have been more different and they began squabbling. Eventually, Evelyn prepared to summon the Anax, but then she was pushed away by her sister Brittany. Skulking, Evelyn went into the nearby woods and there she met the ghost of a dead confederate soldier named [[Nathaniel Wyatt]]. Nathaniel's group of saboteurs had been slain by the Anax, and right before the boogeyman claimed Nathaniel, he took his own life saving the ancestor of [[Howard]] and [[Bo Wyatt]] from being Shadowed.

Nate warned Evelyn to get off the island before sunset because the Anax would come. However, she was there specifically for the Anax and so she disregarded his ominous warning. Later she ended up at the house of the Reverend [[Roger Adams]], her own great-great-great grandfather. She then met the ghosts of her great-great aunts, [[Luella]] and [[Gloria Addams]]. The two ghosts had been haunting the island for almost two centuries, hiding from the Anax every [[Halloween]] so that he would not claim their souls. Only once this pair made it clear enough to Evelyn of the utter power of the boogeyman, did she finally decide that it would be best to go back to the Twisted Tree and tried to avoid summoning the dark entity.

As Eve sprinted back and the sun hung low in the sky, a cold wind began to flow over the island. Raven caws echoed out and the old bell of an abandoned church seemed to ring as if a warning to all life that Halloween night had come. Some deep, unimaginable fear welled up within Evelyn, as if her very body knew that she should never have come to Ghost Nook Island. Then in the forest, black shadowy things slinked among the trees. Staring at her with red eyes, these spirits, [[Dark Fogs]], had never been human and never known flesh. They wanted to possess the bodies of the women, but were invisible and intangible in the day, with the sun setting, they were beginning to manifest in the Physical World.

Eve ran even harder, the dark fogs at her heels, but when she neared the clearing that housed the Twisted Tree, the dark beings fled, refusing to go to the spot. She noticed it, and it made her hair stand on end, because it meant even they feared the Anax. She made it to the circle, to find Brittany celebrating. Green light seemed to be pouring out of a small hole at the base of the tree. Eve was too late, for as with every year since his death on Halloween, once the sun set, a hole a portal to the [[Outer Darkness]] would open and the Anax would appear. They all stood in rapt terror as the very appearance of the Anax seemed to freeze them in place. He immediately went about absorbing The souls of those around him.

Having been hanged by Roger Addams, and learning that Brittany and Evelyn were also Addams, he chased the sisters first. He targeted Brittany because of his hatred for witches, due to Eleanora Blackwood, and she had been bragging about being a witch. Of course, it was delusionary, and it was Eve that had any magical power. But, ignorant of this, the Anax pressed his claw into Brittany's brain and used her fear, autophobia, to break her mind and steal her soul, turning her into one of his [[Shadowed]] minions called [[Autophobes]].

As she hid in the dark woods, the Anax and now Brittany both seeking her, the Book of Shadows suddenly revealed itself as a sentient artifact. It could shake and vibrate, turn its pages, but it could speak by the ink of its pages, made from shadow itself, writing the words. It drew a map of the entire island, urging her to reach Clare's boat as quickly as possible. Like most undead, water was something the Anax could not cross, and if she could get to the lake, she could be spared. It was a chilly autumn night, so swimming would mean hypothermia and death, but the boat could save her.

It said she was in The [[Haunted Woods]] for now, and was then interrupted as Farrah approached. Then she and Farrah stumbled upon Harper. At that moment the book told Eve that it sensed the Anax had left the Haunted Woods and that now should be her chance to reach Clare and the boat. However, it then did something that gave Evelyn a pause- it showed her the [[Spell of Mind Control]]. It told her to enslaved Farrah and Harper to her will. For a moment, that struggle of her inner darkness, her fetish to control and be controlled wrestled with the good inside her heart and she resisted the urges, slamming the book closed.

Now the trio, Eve, Farrah, and Harper had to backtrack to reach the boat, and that put them through the clearing. And there, sexually writhing against the Twisted Tree- was Brittany Addams. Her skin was dead and gray, her eyes glowing the same green as those of the Anax, and she mocked them all. With the powers of an autophobe, Brittany could turn invisible and stealth, and she pursued them until they ran into high cliffs overlooking the lake. Eve never was exactly pure, and when it came down to a choice between herself or the others, she chose to sacrifice Farrah. She pushed her to Brittany and she and Harper fled. Eventually Brittany presented Farrah to her Master and the Anax stole her soul, though undermining her fear, acrophobia, turning Farrah into an [[Acrophobe]].

As torrential rain falls, Harper and Eve find the abandoned tower again. They explore the remaining parts of the old battlement, and find a hidden room within the basement. The Anax arrives and the pair flee to the upper tower with plans to jump down. Evelyn leaps down, and survives because the wet ground is soft. She urged Harper to jump, and turns to see a shadowed Clare. When Brittany had turned, she quickly warned her new Master of the boat that could save them, so that is where he had traveled when he left the Haunted Woods. The Anax had used Clare's claustrophobia to steal her soul and make her into a [[Claustrophobe]]. Having no recourse, Evelyn fled leaving Harper to her fate.

Next she stumbled upon Moonbeam looking out at the sunk boat. As am empath, the Anax uses Moonbeam to stall Eve by making them both envision a boat that turns out to be only flotsam. As they discover this, still in a bid to keep them until he can arrive, the Anax fills Moonbeam with a rush of euphoric estrus and she becomes uncharacteristically wanton. She then tries to grab Eve and hold her until the Anax can come claim them both, her addled mind responding the his emotions. Eve managed to escape, and when the Anax arrives, he uses the liberal hippy's tyrannophobia to turn her into a devoutly fascist [[Tyrannophobe]].

Evelyn spends some more time hiding as the Book of Shadows futilely tries to convince Eve to go and hide in the gigantic Ravenhurst Manor. She refuses, thinking it would be the most dangerous place on the island and she makes her way to the old church, instead, hoping hallowed ground might keep the [[boogeyman]] at bay. With the wings of a bat and in much larger than before, the Anax falls from the ceiling, crushing pews into splinters. Finally, the Anax thinks he has the other Addams girl, but just then gunshots ring out as Chelsea fires at the Anax, Mercedes cowering behind her.

Using his hypnotic eyes, the Anax twists Chelsea's vision and she suddenly sees him as Eve and Mercedes and the women as the Anax. Turning her gun on the women, the pair flee as she fires at them. However, she misses, and the survive. Meanwhile at the church, the Anax does not pass up the opportunity for a free minion, and he uses Chelsea's nosophobia to shatter her mind and turn her into a [[Nosophobe]].

Eve and Mercedes reach the old abandoned town of [[Wakefield]]. They find an abandoned home and within find Lexus and Madison. The Anax then arrives inside the abandoned town as well saying that he can sense the ebb and flow of nearby terror and knows they are hiding. Eve then leads the three other women to the old [[Addams House]] where she met her ghostly ancestors in the afternoon. They discover that both Gloria and Luella have been corrupted by the Anax and turned into [[Shadowed Ghosts]]. However, only Evelyn and see and hear the spirits and Madison, Lexus, and Mercedes think she is insane.

Gloria possesses Mercedes, and soon after, Luella possesses Lexus' body. The two possessed women then try to seduce Eve and Madison to keep them there until the Anax can arrive. Evelyn and Madison rush outside. However, the shadowed Brittany, Moonbeam, Farrah, and Chelsea arrive at the house as Moonbeam says that she senses Eve and Madison nearby. As the Anax arrives and goes into the Addams house, Eve and Madison jump down an abandoned well taking their chances below. Inside the Addams home, Luella and Gloria present their hostbodies to the Anax.

He uses Lexus' trypophobia to warp her soul into that of a [[Trypophobe]]. And for Mercedes he uses her odontophobia to corrupt her into a [[Odontophobe]]. The Anax and the shadowed women have figured out that Eve and Madison have gone down into the cave systems under the island and Mercedes, being such a small person, can fit through a crack in the ground. She tumbles down, breaking bones and smashing into the caves. In Evelyn style, she pushes the wounded Madison into the waiting arms of Mercedes and flees, leaving her behind. Eve does not make it too far when Clare and Farrah show up. However, they seem to hit an invisible barrier.

As Moonbeam and Brittany yell, Eve leaves the Shadowed behind and makes her way out of the cave system. As she emerges into the night air, she is met by an extremely old and wizened gypsy woman named [[Mizah]]. She follows the old woman back to an ancient abandoned gypsy camp where only Mizah's own wagon appears still useable. She warms Evelyn with the stove's heat and offers her food and drink, letting Eve's clothes dry. She assures Evelyn that it is safe here because of a barrier of [[Light Magic]] that she has erected. She then tells Evelyn the story of one-hundred-and-fifty years ago. [[Anaximanes Ravenhurst]] had been a friend to her and her people.

She tells Eve about the evil Eleanora Blackwood, and how Eve's book was cursed. She also told about a succubus named Dionyza that came long before the land had become an island. She then speaks of swarms of [[Nightbred]], [[vampires]], that came to the island. From those times onward, only misery remained in this once happy place. Finally the Anax arrives at the wagon. He tells Mizah to simply give him Evelyn Addams and he will spare Mizah if she does so. Of course, she declines. Mizah told Evelyn not to go, and that the shield could not possibly be broken. However, the Anax, by this point over the past 200 years, had amassed thousands upon thousands of souls, and his power stood incredibly great. He smashed to the barrier, picked up the gypsy trailer, and tossed it into the sky. When it came plummeting back to Earth it smashed the bits.

Mizah had been crushed in the debris, killed instantly, but Evelyn had miraculously survived mostly unscathed, however she could not move from abject fear as the boogeyman loomed over her ready to make her one of his shadow minions. Just then, a ball of light slammed into him, and the two of them turned to see a very young vibrant Mizah sitting in the limbs of a nearby tree. White holy light bathed her like an aura, she said that she felt free now. With that, Mizah began to throw more balls of light at the Anax, keeping his attention so that Evelyn could escape. And she did so.

Once again hiding in the Haunted Woods, the Book of Shadows shook and she opened it. It tries to tell her not to believe Mizah and that Eve can trust it. When she refuses, it says it will answer her questions and reluctantly does so. It explains that the reason it originally showed her the spell to summon the Anax was that it wanted Eve to summon him and help him shed his shadows. This would have freed all the thousands of souls within the boogeyman, and made him just another mortal soul of the light. At that point, the book intended to convince Eve to shackle him to her will or worse, because the book wanted revenge on Anaximanes for having killed its Mistress, Eleanora Blackwood.

At that point the book offers to teach her a spell of the god, [[Ophion]], that will absolutely help her off the island, but it is a trick the spell is actually the [[Spell of Submission]], which would have made her the thrall of the book. As another thunderstorm rolls onto the island, in a bid to hide and stay dry, Evelyn then fled to Ravehurst Manor itself. As the book suggests going upstairs to hide, Evelyn, distrustful of it and showing a rebellious nature goes down into the basement, quickly stumbling upon Angela and Shiloh. Shiloh says Kaya had gone upstairs.

Hearing noises, the three women then find Sadie hiding in a dark corner of another room in the basement. While this had been going on, upstairs, the Anax had found Kaya and using her pyrophobia to feed off her fear, he turned her into a [[Pyrophobe]]. Now converted, she finds Eve and the others. Shiloh, being Kaya's girlfriend, sacrifices herself so the other can escape. It will later be revealed that the Anax used her arachnophobia to mutate Shiloh into a spidery [[Arachnophobe]].

As Eve, Sadie, and Angela continued moving around the mansion to find a place to hide, the Book of Shadows suddenly violently shook and when Eve read it, it warned her that it could sense the Anax in very next room to them. As the trio bolt upstairs, Angela and Eve stuck together, but Sadie chose a different room in which to hide. The Anax is lured to Sadie whom tries to lock him inside the room. It does not go well and Sadie winds up in the old nursery where he uses her pediophobia to turn her into a [[Pediophobe]]. She then helps search as Angela gives herself to her girlfriend, Brittany. The Anax then uses Angela's gerascophobia, turning her into a [[Gerascophobe]].

Now alone, Evelyn manages to hide up in the attic. Here the book says that she is last remain mortal of her original party to still live- the others are all now Shadowed. It then tries to convince her that her only chance now would be to use [[Shadow Magic]]. They discovered Evelyn in the attic, so she leapt down four stories landing in bushes and ran back into the Haunted Woods. Soon, she came upon the Abandoned Tower again to find Lexus guarding it. Finally, having no other choice, Eve uses Shadow Magic. Casting the [[Spell of Command Undead]], a euphoria flows through Eve.

The spell tries to force Lexus into Eve's thralldom, but so powerful is the link between the Shadowed and the Anax, that the result is Lexus' head exploding. Next she ran afoul of the dark fogs from sunset. Dozens of black amorphous shapes watched her with red eyes eager to wear her flesh like a glove and experience the sensation of a body. With the fogs having never been human, they were always demonic in nature, denizens of the Outer Darkness. As they made to possess Evelyn, she casts [[Spell of Demonic Command]]. A darkness continued growing in Evelyn, but the spell worked and the dark fogs became her slaves. She ordered them to protect her from the Anax, and now, devoid of their own wills, they complied. The Anax tore them to shreds, but it gave Evelyn time.

Next she passed a Shadowed Harper lying in the woods, but knew it to be a trap. However, not much further on her way, Farrah attacked. Now Eve cast the [[Spell of Shadow Webs]]. From her hand sprang webbing as if from a spinneret and she wrapped Farrah in the dark bindings. However, the spells were taking a toll on Eve and her sanity. Her next obstacle would be Sadie. This time the book taught her the [[Spell of Shadow Frost]]. A shadowy storm colder than the vacuum of space poured through the area trapping Sadie in a solid block of shadow ice. As Evelyn neared the Twisted Tree again, Angela stood before her.

Instead of a direct attack, she cast the [[Spell of Dark Duplicity]] on herself. This filled the area will several [[Dark Duplicates]] of Evelyn, and she moved on as Angela fought the mirages, unsure which was the real Evelyn. When she reached the clearing and the tree, Brittany was waiting just like earlier in the night. Eve's eyes glowed purple and her skin had taken a sickly hue as the darkness built within her. Brittany quickly pinned Eve down, and the book almost let Evelyn die, because to it she was a pawn. However, Eve yelled to remind it that if she became a Shadowed Slave the first thing that she would do was destroy the book. Reluctantly, it opened itself and divulged a new spell. Casting the [[Spell of Shackle Undead]], chains made of pure shadow wrapped around Brittany binding her and even gagging her mouth.

Though this was Eve's sister and normally she would have felt sad at the loss of her family, with the growing shadow inside her heart, she mocked her dead sister. Digging through the mud, Evelyn was desperate to find Anax's fetter, because according to the Book of Shadows, if she had his fetter, she could cast a spell to turn him into her slave. She found it, and the moment that she did, the voice of the Anax, panicked and angry bellowed out across the entire island. He told the creatures of the island that if any of them wanted to claim her, he would not only spare them, but reward them. This now meant every evil thing on Ghost Nook, whether known or unknown, would not be swarming the place looking for the last living human on the island. The skull then bit her hand and she dropped it in the dark mud, but had no time to retrieve it.

Evelyn fled the clearing, avoiding [[Dark Husks]], the bodies worn by Dark Fogs. The [[zombies]] rose from the mud in droves, their red, glowing eyes locked onto Eve, but the bodies were rotting and old, and that made them slow. Each one of the dark fogs in the bodies wanted Eve's flesh to animate a fresh corpse again. However, she managed to escape. Heading down to the beach, she surmised that the sun would rise sometime soon. And she mourned momentarily for her friends, but a dark, deep voice gnawed at her psyche. This was not the Anax, but the only entity to ever be stronger- [[Chernobog]]. Every time Evelyn used a spell, she grew closer to losing herself to the shadow.

Chelsea then attacked on the beach and Evelyn countered with the [[Spell of Bedlam Lust]]. Suddenly, Chelsea was driven mad with carnality, and began to lewdly pleasure herself, unable to stop. Next it is Clare that appeared, and as she tried to capture Evelyn, the [[necromancer]] cast [[Spell of Shadow Bolt]]. A bolt of pure shadow energy struck out like lightning, cleaving Clare to pieces. Of course, as a Shadowed, this was only a momentary setback as her demonically undead form began healing immediately.

Now the evil Kaya and Shiloh ganged up on Eve. This time she cast the [[Spell of Unholy Twister]]. A massive tornado of pure shadow magic whipped into existence, tearing the two struggling shadowed slaves into it and flinging them both hundreds of feet into the air. Her demeanor and body began warping because Eve cast so many powerful spells in so short a time. Next Madison assailed Eve, and she cast [[Spell of Hungering Void]]. A pit to the Outer Darkness opened, writhing tentacles of shadow slithering out to pull prey into the other dimension.

Now Evelyn made her way down a dirt path where Mercedes awaited her. The diminutive woman faced off against an Evelyn no longer in control of her own mind. Shadow consumed Eve and she looked at Mercedes not with fear or pity, but as a toy with which to play. Evelyn used the [[Spell of Shadow Slime]]. This conjured liquid darkness which enveloped and began digesting Mercedes. Eve then ordered the slime away and it left, carrying an unwilling Mercedes off with it.

When Moonbeam attacks, Eve's depression, anger, and lust for dominance finally shatters the remnants of her original self. In a parody of the Anax, and much like him, she gains a shadow form. In this she is a shadow person, a void, a being of utter darkness, a boogeywoman, a [[Shadow Queen]]. Now, for the first time, a Shadowed minion shows fear, and Moonbeam actually skitters away. With the darkness of Chernobog within Evelyn, she now no longer desires to leave the island to live. She wants to leave it so that she can reach the mainland and begin to spread her shadow to any and all souls of Earth, however, like the Anax, she cannot cross water. That is when Brittany calls out and Eve turns to see all the shadowed slaves in one place.

The assembled throng have each regenerated and free themselves from her spells, and now they intend to strike as a pack, all at once. However, so powerful has Eve and her powers grown that with a simple flick of her wrist, she tears open the very ground under the shadowed. Eve summons a massive portal to the Shadowlands themselves, a feat unimaginable by most magic users, the maw opens up sending them all helplessly falling into the darkness and then Eve simply seals closes the portal, having defeated a small army of powerful creatures with little effort at all.

The Anax, shocked and in complete aww approaches Evelyn. At first, he believes what he sees to be a magical illusion, something Eleanora once used when he was alive. However, after he strikes, Evelyn does something no other entity had managed to do since Anaximanes died- she wounded the Anax. She now claimed that he would bend a knee to her as would all being in all of existence. As the Anax looked at her and listened to her, he had a strange epiphany. This is what he had become as well. His grief, guilt, pain, depression, angry, misanthropy, it had all consumed him and be became what he was.

Now, a feeling he had not known in a very long time, pity, filled his heartless heart. When he spoke this, Eve lashed out and again managed to harm him, raking her claws over his chest and opening massive wounds in his humanoid form. Then an idea came to him. The Anax did not lash out, he did not strike, he wrapped his arms around her as a hug. Their shadows melded and he felt her pain. He tasted her anger, he knew that she was an outsider, like he had been. Like a leech he began feast on the poisonous darkness of Chernobog, as she yelled out to stop, he continued. And soon the overpowering darkness had been devoured.

As the power waned, the Anax stumbled back and Eve's form became mortal again. Though he clothes had been devoured by her unholy aura, the Book of Shadows, a magical artifact, remained in tact. It appeared as she fell to the ground, it too tumbling to the sand. Eve looked up with he humanity restored, her body weak. The Anax spent a moment, his mind still reeling that another human could possibly have felt what he had, known what he knew- a kindred soul that could truly understand him. Lurching forward, she now felt all the guilt that had been missing all night and demanded he shadow her as she deserved it. She squeezed her eyes tightly closed, and the Anax was about to oblige when he glanced down at the book in the sand.

As the tome had fallen, the picture of the woman that Eve had tucked inside it had fallen free. This woman, [[Eliza Day]], had been the love of his life, his everything, his every thought, his every want, his only need, and he had accidentally robbed her of life. He had killed that which he loved most, and now, she smiled up at him from this picture, a picture he had taken himself with his dguerreotype. He realized that he had not visited Eliza's grave- something he did every Halloween without fail, and in that moment, Evelyn was forgotten, the impending sunrise meant he had scant seconds to reach the graveyard and weep upon her grave.

Eve waited a moment and another, and as the sounds of nature- something missing all night- began to appear around her, she opened her eyes to see the sunrise. For a moment, Eve stood completely dumbfounded. She picked up the Book of Shadows and it was shocked that she survived the night. It tried to then convince her to use the fetter to enslave the Anax and create an entire undead with her immense and natural necromantic powers. It even told her that she could summon a portal to simply walk off the island- something it had not shared all night as it was hoping to have the Anax destroyed by sunrise.

Angry Eve threatened to destroy the book. This seemed to silence it and it no longer tried to so directly corrupt her again. She refused to use magic to get off the now bright and peaceful island. As she cried for the loss of her friends and her sister, Brittany, all of whom would not spend eternity in the Shadowlands with the Anax, Eve made her way back to the Twisted Tree. There, she dug around in the mud and again found the skull. Without Anax in the Physical World, it was just a normal skull again. Nude, dirty, and shivering, Evelyn took the only two items she had, the Book of Shadows and the [[Skull of Ravenhurst]] and wandered the island, eventually finding an old canoe in some reeds. Eve took it to shore and started a whole new life.

=== Between The Anax: Call of the Cursed One and Desideratum: Blood Bonds ===

Now with the knowledge that she was an inherent [[necromancer]], she began to try to use her newfound magic. Since she had the fetter of the Anax, she summoned him at night and controlled everything that he did. He was unable do anything about it, and so she used him to do things she needed and could not do, like busting open ATM machines- she needed money after all. Over time she slowly honed her magical skills, originally only able to animate a severed hand, she eventually was able to animate an entire corpse, creatures called [[The Risen]].

[[The Anax]] himself started out very obstinate and kept himself from communicating with Evelyn unless she forced him to do so. But as the weeks turned to months and she summoned him nightly, he slowly began to find her interesting as he watched her powers develop. In fact, the duo began to collect [[artifacts]] that the [[Book of Shadows]] would tell them about. A ploy to eventually lead them to its Mistress, [[Eleanora Blackwood]], as it knew Anax would obsessively want her slain. Before a strike on a museum in Texas, she thought she might need a few corpses to fight of any police that might arrive. As Evelyn practiced her magic, she accidentally reanimated the entire graveyard at once creating an army of zombies. However the [[Shadow Magic]] threatened again to consume her, and though she broke her control over the zombies they remained animated, only wild, and it was the Anax that she had to command to destroy them all. Eventually, the Book of Shadows told her about the [[Scepter of Osiris]], and how it could be used to destroy Eleanora Blackwood. Following the trail of the artifact they made their way to Portland, Oregon.

=== Desideratum: Blood Bonds ===

As seen in the novel, [[Desideratum: Blood Bonds]] the Book of Shadows had told Evelyn Addams about the [[Scepter of Osiris]], and how it could be used to destroy Eleanora Blackwood. Following the trail of the [[artifact]] they made their way to [[Portland]], [[Oregon]]. Evelyn spent the first night there conjuring [[the Anax]] and finally sitting him down to talk as if they were friends. And by this point, though neither of them would admit it, they were definitely friends. And, in fact, both of them had developed romantic feelings for each other.

He then told her about his life in the 1800s and how he had come about to become the [[boogeyman]] that he was. After his story she had a new found respect and understanding for this creature- she no longer saw him so much as a evil monstrosity but instead as a tortured soul, artistic and poetic- and tragic.

The following night they made their way to the [[Oregon Museum of Science and Industry]], and were stopped by police. The reason the museum was being watched so carefully due to only a couple of nights prior, at the behest of Lord [[Ivor]], [[Brone Lorcan]] had broken into the museum and stolen the [[Book of Thoth]]. To her credit, Evelyn did try to persuade the police to stand down; however, they refused and she had no choice but to order the Anax to claim their souls.

At the same time that they were outside, [[Absinthe van Gothen]] had also arrived at the museum and slipped inside by using the [[Helm of Hades]] to become invisible. Once she entered the museum, she set out on her own mission was to collect the very same scepter. It did not take long before Evelyn and the Anax stumbled upon Abby. As they had done with the police, they urged Absinthe to simply go, but headstrong and determined to get the scepter the [[Night Stalker]] refused.

As Abby moved through the museum she faced Shadowed, such as [[arachnophobes]] and [[nosophobes]], and [[Risen]], such as [[mummies]] and [[skeletons]] that Evelyn Addams had animated. Eve grew impressed the longer Absinthe managed to continue, though the the Anax practically begged to consume Absinthe's soul. Finally, now herself growing vexed, Eve animated a tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. Using bombs, Abby managed to defeat the abomination and continued to give swift chase.

Finally, Eve and the Anax reached the area of the museum about Egypt, and there at the sarcophagus of [[Khufu]], Absinthe confronted the shadowy pair. Khufu had been interred with both the [[Scepter of Isis]] and the [[Scepter of Osiris]]. As Eve worked on unsealing the enchantments of the sarcophagus she ordered the Anax to stop Abby. Absinthe expected another fight like those before him, but his very aura seemed to distort time and space. His very un-nature, like a walking void shaped as a man, appeared to tear at the fringes of her consciousness and none of her weapons could harm him. She found herself surrounded by a swarm of his minions, and as she stood frozen in abject fear the massive boogeyman approached, his nightmarish visage reflected in Absinthe's crying eyes.

However, in that moment, the [[Shadowed]], including the Anax, instantly vanished into nothingness. At his banishment, Absinthe found that she could move again, r fear draining away. She looked up to watch Evelyn rush by in terror. Eve feared Khufu, as the mummy had, with only a wave of his scepter, sent all the Shadowed horde back to the [[Shadowlands]]. Absinthe then fought the ancient Pharoah and managed to destroy him using the fiery sword, [[Dyrnwyn]]. Ready to claim her prize, she became upset as Evelyn had summoned the Anax again. However, Eve faced off against Absinthe herself.

Eve's shadow magicks threatened to consume her sanity. Finally, unable to beat Absinthe, but scared of losing herself to shadow, Eve ordered the Anax to defeat Abby for good. Again the Anax, unstoppable by any means Absinthe could possibly possess, closed in on her and made ready to turn her into a Shadowed slave. Just before his glowing claw slid into Abby's skull, he stopped at the behest of Brone Lorcan. The [[nosferatu]] was once the butler and best friend of [[Anaximanes Ravenhurst]], the man whom had become the Anax. For a moment, the two old friends talked.

Then the [[Nightbred]] assassin known as [[The Reaper]] attacked to slay Brone, as he had previously escaped her grasp. However, the Anax swiftly and effortlessly shadowed the Reaper, turning her into one of his own minions and sending her to the Shadowlands. After further discussion, it was decided that Brone would return to the [[Shanghai Tunnels]] to watch over [[Clover Riley]], and Evelyn and the Anax would go to [[Sanctuary]] with Absinthe to aid in the battle against the Nightbred on the next evening.

== Appearance ==

Evelyn is a young woman with a goth aesthetic, pale skin, and black hair.

Evelyn Addams

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| name=Evelyn Addams
| race=[[Human]]
| type=[[Necromancer]]
| faction=[[Free Willed]]
| premiere=[[The Anax: Call of the Cursed One]]
| relatives=[[Brittany Addams]], [[Katelyn Addams]], [[Luella Addams]], [[Gloria Addams]], [[Roger Addams]]
}}

= Evelyn Addams =

"I talk to the dead..."

== Biography ==
=== The Anax: Call of the Cursed One ===

As seen in the novel, [[The Anax: Call of the Cursed One]], Evelyn Addams is a [[necromancer]] that runs afoul of [[The Anax.]] Evelyn Addams was born on [[Long Island]], in [[New York]]. Evelyn had always had a difficult time forming emotional connections, but felt very close to her grandparents. As a small child, the evening after her grandfather passed away, she remembered him coming into her room and they chatted long into the night. The rest of the family cried and ached with his physical absence, yet she did not, and that caused her parents great concern. Her grandmother had been just as worried, but Eve told her that she talked to her dead husband, and in her anger, her grandmother dared Eve to tell her a secret that only he would know. Her grandfather saw this as an opportunity to help Eve and give his wife peace, so he divulged one, and when Eve told her, she began to believe her. When she died, there was no one alive to protect Evelyn from the constant bombardment of disbelief from her parents.

In her elementary and middle schools, the same problem cursed Eve. She would see and talk to spirits just as if she was talking to the living. Even with all the constant harassment from students and faculty, Eve refused to give in, even though everyone said she was crazy. Eve suffered from terrible depression after her family, with the best of intentions, had her committed into a psychiatric institution because she conversed openly with her deceased grandparents after her mother and father repeatedly told her not to.

Now incarcerated, even her deceased grandparents begged their young granddaughter to tell the psychiatrists that she could no longer see or hear the dead and, when Eve refused to obey them, for her own welfare, they abandoned Evelyn and went into the [[Inner Light]]. With their departure from the vibratory frequency of the [[Physical World]], Evelyn finally experienced the grief the rest of her family had previously endured with the departure of her grandparents, and at age eighteen, after nearly four years, the state released her back into the care of her parents. For several years, she pretended to ignore ghosts. Then one day her older twin sisters, [[Brittany]] and [[Katelyn]] took her out shopping. The trio came upon a strange bookstore, [[The Library]], and obtaining The [[Book of Shadows]], she felt vindicated by [[The Librarian]], and stopped hiding her abilities. A few years later, she was independent, and she put her powers to use by helping a ghost-hunting group named the [[Female Phantom Finders]].

With the Female Phantom Finders, [[Shiloh Hazeldine]], [[Kaya Dabrezil]], [[Moonbeam Sunflower]], [[Harper Jones]], and [[Sadie Garner]], Evelyn used her innate ability to speak with and see the dead as a means to take their ghost hunting paranormal investigations to new heights. With Eve as a medium, they helped countless spirits find peace. The group event ventured outside to New York State, for example visiting the halls of [[Hawthorn Asylum]] near [[Portland]], [[Oregon]], and helping all the lost souls there find their way into the Inner Light. However, one particular ghost hunt would forever mar the friendship between Harper and Eve.

Personally summoned by the New York District Attorney, [[Amelia Williams]], the group was tasked with removing any spirits they found from an abandoned church, [[La Resurrección]] on Elton Avenue in The Bronx. Amelia claimed that the area had strange occurrences. People would disappear and would report strange lights and fog around the old church. Though the group's psychic, Moonbeam, felt as though something was off about Amelia, she kept silent. What the group did not know was that Amelia had become a possessed puppet of the evil [[phantom]], [[Dagan Erebus]]. The Haunted D.A. had invited the women there so that Dagan could feed on their souls, because he had grown wary of this group that aided ghosts.

Once there, late into the night, Evelyn and Harper were investigating as a team. Evelyn, breaking protocol, went into the church by herself. There, she clearly could see Dagan. At first Dagan disbelieved that someone he had not possessed could see him, but Evelyn clearly could. As she and Dagan conversed, he quickly learned that Evelyn had interacted with The Librarian. This ancient spirit had confiscated the [[Codex Gigas]] from Dagan, and it was his monomaniacal obsession to retrieve the tome. Now, knowing that Evelyn must have access to her, Dagan immediately wanted Eve's soul.

There, within her mind and soul, he discovered that Evelyn fetishized being possessed by darkness since her childhood. Now, this was a chance to actually do it in real life, and she ceased any resistance, even aiding him in draining her own willpower. The evil phantom relished the experience, usually having to fight to control a mortal. Now, one of the Daganians, or [[Haunted]], Eve, a husk for Dagan, rose to her feet. She was eager to betray Harper, whom she knew would soon notice her missing.

Evelyn went to Harper, and Evelyn blocked Harper's escape. As she sexually assaulted Harper, she admitted that Dagan was not even controlling her directly- Eve was doing all this by herself. This would come back to haunt her in the future. However, for now, she relished living out her corruption fetish. However, as she aided Dagan in possessing Harper, Moonbeam, having sensed something evil happening, found the debauchery and called out to her Goddess of Light, a plea that upon the highest frequencies of the Inner Light, [[Illuminarius]], [[Isis]] heard and responded.

Brilliant light filled the cold, dark room, cleansing Evelyn of possession and exorcising Dagan. As Eve fell unconscious, Dagan fled into the night. After this event, the relationship between Harper and Evelyn remained strained, as Harper now feared Eve, knowing that deep down she would want to be evil. Evelyn apologized but it never healed the rift. However, time marched onwards and the group continued to host paranormal investigations. Eve, however, had the Book of Shadows, and it seemingly contained a single spell and article- how to summon the [[Shadow Lord]], [[Anax]]. This was a soul that they all felt could be redeemed, and secretly, Evelyn hoped by freeing this soul from the [[Shadowlands]] that she could prove to Harper that she would not let her dark fantasies ever rule her again.

By summoning the creature on camera, it would be manifested in the [[Physical World]]. This also meant, to Eve's joy, that everyone present and the cameras would be witness to the entity. With the book in hand, the Female Phantom Finders traveled to [[Ghost Nook]], where they planned to summoned the powerful spirit known as the Anax. The team wanted to document more proof of the paranormal for their social media channel and for scientific inquiry. They were ferried across [[Big Moose Lake]] by [[Clare Thorndike]] on her boat. Once they arrived, they set about exploring the island and happened upon [[Ravenhurst Manor]]. This massive Victorian mansion sprawled across entire acres of land. Within the massive mansion, Eve found a photograph of a beautiful woman and a [[poem]]. She slid the photo into her book. Once they had explored it, they made their way into the nearby woods.

In the woods, they soon came upon the ruins of a stone tower. It appeared to have been built during the Revolutionary War, but now it was mostly derelict. The group had no idea that this had once been the lair of the [[shadow witch]], [[Eleanora Blackwood]], the very person that owned the Book of Shadows that Evelyn now held. Continuing, Moonbeam's psychic awareness urged her to turn back. The psionic vibrations within the woods terrified and concerned her. But, they had been seeking this place for years, and having found it, Evelyn managed to convince them to continue.

The further they ventured towards the center of the forest, the darker and colder it grew. Eventually, they reached a clearing, and though there were no clouds overhead, it seemed almost as dark as night. Before them all, in the center of this dark, freezing clearing, stood a tree that appeared to be screaming. The [[Twisted Tree]] loomed before them all as if daring them to remain and urging them all to flee. Moonbeam could feel the Shadowlands itself seemingly hidden just under the fabric of reality here, as if the thin shell of an egg was all that separated our world from the plane of utter darkness. However, whoever summoned the Anax, within a pentacle circle of protection, could safely interact with the entity.

Unphased, Evelyn again checked the Book of Shadows on how to summon the Anax, but was interrupted by her sister Brittany and Brittany's wannabe 'coven' of New Age witches, [[Angela Johnson]], [[Chelsea Moretti]], [[Farrah Foster]], [[Lexus Kingsley]], [[Madison Lee]], and [[Mercedes Everett]]. The two groups could not have been more different and they began squabbling. Eventually, Evelyn prepared to summon the Anax, but then she was pushed away by her sister Brittany. Skulking, Evelyn went into the nearby woods and there she met the ghost of a dead confederate soldier named [[Nathaniel Wyatt]]. Nathaniel's group of saboteurs had been slain by the Anax, and right before the boogeyman claimed Nathaniel, he took his own life saving the ancestor of [[Howard]] and [[Bo Wyatt]] from being Shadowed.

Nate warned Evelyn to get off the island before sunset because the Anax would come. However, she was there specifically for the Anax and so she disregarded his ominous warning. Later she ended up at the house of the Reverend [[Roger Adams]], her own great-great-great grandfather. She then met the ghosts of her great-great aunts, [[Luella]] and [[Gloria Addams]]. The two ghosts had been haunting the island for almost two centuries, hiding from the Anax every [[Halloween]] so that he would not claim their souls. Only once this pair made it clear enough to Evelyn of the utter power of the boogeyman, did she finally decide that it would be best to go back to the Twisted Tree and tried to avoid summoning the dark entity.

As Eve sprinted back and the sun hung low in the sky, a cold wind began to flow over the island. Raven caws echoed out and the old bell of an abandoned church seemed to ring as if a warning to all life that Halloween night had come. Some deep, unimaginable fear welled up within Evelyn, as if her very body knew that she should never have come to Ghost Nook Island. Then in the forest, black shadowy things slinked among the trees. Staring at her with red eyes, these spirits, [[Dark Fogs]], had never been human and never known flesh. They wanted to possess the bodies of the women, but were invisible and intangible in the day, with the sun setting, they were beginning to manifest in the Physical World.

Eve ran even harder, the dark fogs at her heels, but when she neared the clearing that housed the Twisted Tree, the dark beings fled, refusing to go to the spot. She noticed it, and it made her hair stand on end, because it meant even they feared the Anax. She made it to the circle, to find Brittany celebrating. Green light seemed to be pouring out of a small hole at the base of the tree. Eve was too late, for as with every year since his death on Halloween, once the sun set, a hole a portal to the [[Outer Darkness]] would open and the Anax would appear. They all stood in rapt terror as the very appearance of the Anax seemed to freeze them in place. He immediately went about absorbing The souls of those around him.

Having been hanged by Roger Addams, and learning that Brittany and Evelyn were also Addams, he chased the sisters first. He targeted Brittany because of his hatred for witches, due to Eleanora Blackwood, and she had been bragging about being a witch. Of course, it was delusionary, and it was Eve that had any magical power. But, ignorant of this, the Anax pressed his claw into Brittany's brain and used her fear, autophobia, to break her mind and steal her soul, turning her into one of his [[Shadowed]] minions called [[Autophobes]].

As she hid in the dark woods, the Anax and now Brittany both seeking her, the Book of Shadows suddenly revealed itself as a sentient artifact. It could shake and vibrate, turn its pages, but it could speak by the ink of its pages, made from shadow itself, writing the words. It drew a map of the entire island, urging her to reach Clare's boat as quickly as possible. Like most undead, water was something the Anax could not cross, and if she could get to the lake, she could be spared. It was a chilly autumn night, so swimming would mean hypothermia and death, but the boat could save her.

It said she was in The [[Haunted Woods]] for now, and was then interrupted as Farrah approached. Then she and Farrah stumbled upon Harper. At that moment the book told Eve that it sensed the Anax had left the Haunted Woods and that now should be her chance to reach Clare and the boat. However, it then did something that gave Evelyn a pause- it showed her the [[Spell of Mind Control]]. It told her to enslaved Farrah and Harper to her will. For a moment, that struggle of her inner darkness, her fetish to control and be controlled wrestled with the good inside her heart and she resisted the urges, slamming the book closed.

Now the trio, Eve, Farrah, and Harper had to backtrack to reach the boat, and that put them through the clearing. And there, sexually writhing against the Twisted Tree- was Brittany Addams. Her skin was dead and gray, her eyes glowing the same green as those of the Anax, and she mocked them all. With the powers of an autophobe, Brittany could turn invisible and stealth, and she pursued them until they ran into high cliffs overlooking the lake. Eve never was exactly pure, and when it came down to a choice between herself or the others, she chose to sacrifice Farrah. She pushed her to Brittany and she and Harper fled. Eventually Brittany presented Farrah to her Master and the Anax stole her soul, though undermining her fear, acrophobia, turning Farrah into an [[Acrophobe]].

As torrential rain falls, Harper and Eve find the abandoned tower again. They explore the remaining parts of the old battlement, and find a hidden room within the basement. The Anax arrives and the pair flee to the upper tower with plans to jump down. Evelyn leaps down, and survives because the wet ground is soft. She urged Harper to jump, and turns to see a shadowed Clare. When Brittany had turned, she quickly warned her new Master of the boat that could save them, so that is where he had traveled when he left the Haunted Woods. The Anax had used Clare's claustrophobia to steal her soul and make her into a [[Claustrophobe]]. Having no recourse, Evelyn fled leaving Harper to her fate.

Next she stumbled upon Moonbeam looking out at the sunk boat. As am empath, the Anax uses Moonbeam to stall Eve by making them both envision a boat that turns out to be only flotsam. As they discover this, still in a bid to keep them until he can arrive, the Anax fills Moonbeam with a rush of euphoric estrus and she becomes uncharacteristically wanton. She then tries to grab Eve and hold her until the Anax can come claim them both, her addled mind responding the his emotions. Eve managed to escape, and when the Anax arrives, he uses the liberal hippy's tyrannophobia to turn her into a devoutly fascist [[Tyrannophobe]].

Evelyn spends some more time hiding as the Book of Shadows futilely tries to convince Eve to go and hide in the gigantic Ravenhurst Manor. She refuses, thinking it would be the most dangerous place on the island and she makes her way to the old church, instead, hoping hallowed ground might keep the [[boogeyman]] at bay. With the wings of a bat and in much larger than before, the Anax falls from the ceiling, crushing pews into splinters. Finally, the Anax thinks he has the other Addams girl, but just then gunshots ring out as Chelsea fires at the Anax, Mercedes cowering behind her.

Using his hypnotic eyes, the Anax twists Chelsea's vision and she suddenly sees him as Eve and Mercedes and the women as the Anax. Turning her gun on the women, the pair flee as she fires at them. However, she misses, and the survive. Meanwhile at the church, the Anax does not pass up the opportunity for a free minion, and he uses Chelsea's nosophobia to shatter her mind and turn her into a [[Nosophobe]].

Eve and Mercedes reach the old abandoned town of [[Wakefield]]. They find an abandoned home and within find Lexus and Madison. The Anax then arrives inside the abandoned town as well saying that he can sense the ebb and flow of nearby terror and knows they are hiding. Eve then leads the three other women to the old [[Addams House]] where she met her ghostly ancestors in the afternoon. They discover that both Gloria and Luella have been corrupted by the Anax and turned into [[Shadowed Ghosts]]. However, only Evelyn and see and hear the spirits and Madison, Lexus, and Mercedes think she is insane.

Gloria possesses Mercedes, and soon after, Luella possesses Lexus' body. The two possessed women then try to seduce Eve and Madison to keep them there until the Anax can arrive. Evelyn and Madison rush outside. However, the shadowed Brittany, Moonbeam, Farrah, and Chelsea arrive at the house as Moonbeam says that she senses Eve and Madison nearby. As the Anax arrives and goes into the Addams house, Eve and Madison jump down an abandoned well taking their chances below. Inside the Addams home, Luella and Gloria present their hostbodies to the Anax.

He uses Lexus' trypophobia to warp her soul into that of a [[Trypophobe]]. And for Mercedes he uses her odontophobia to corrupt her into a [[Odontophobe]]. The Anax and the shadowed women have figured out that Eve and Madison have gone down into the cave systems under the island and Mercedes, being such a small person, can fit through a crack in the ground. She tumbles down, breaking bones and smashing into the caves. In Evelyn style, she pushes the wounded Madison into the waiting arms of Mercedes and flees, leaving her behind. Eve does not make it too far when Clare and Farrah show up. However, they seem to hit an invisible barrier.

As Moonbeam and Brittany yell, Eve leaves the Shadowed behind and makes her way out of the cave system. As she emerges into the night air, she is met by an extremely old and wizened gypsy woman named [[Mizah]]. She follows the old woman back to an ancient abandoned gypsy camp where only Mizah's own wagon appears still useable. She warms Evelyn with the stove's heat and offers her food and drink, letting Eve's clothes dry. She assures Evelyn that it is safe here because of a barrier of [[Light Magic]] that she has erected. She then tells Evelyn the story of one-hundred-and-fifty years ago. [[Anaximanes Ravenhurst]] had been a friend to her and her people.

She tells Eve about the evil Eleanora Blackwood, and how Eve's book was cursed. She also told about a succubus named Dionyza that came long before the land had become an island. She then speaks of swarms of [[Nightbred]], [[vampires]], that came to the island. From those times onward, only misery remained in this once happy place. Finally the Anax arrives at the wagon. He tells Mizah to simply give him Evelyn Addams and he will spare Mizah if she does so. Of course, she declines. Mizah told Evelyn not to go, and that the shield could not possibly be broken. However, the Anax, by this point over the past 200 years, had amassed thousands upon thousands of souls, and his power stood incredibly great. He smashed to the barrier, picked up the gypsy trailer, and tossed it into the sky. When it came plummeting back to Earth it smashed the bits.

Mizah had been crushed in the debris, killed instantly, but Evelyn had miraculously survived mostly unscathed, however she could not move from abject fear as the boogeyman loomed over her ready to make her one of his shadow minions. Just then, a ball of light slammed into him, and the two of them turned to see a very young vibrant Mizah sitting in the limbs of a nearby tree. White holy light bathed her like an aura, she said that she felt free now. With that, Mizah began to throw more balls of light at the Anax, keeping his attention so that Evelyn could escape. And she did so.

Once again hiding in the Haunted Woods, the Book of Shadows shook and she opened it. It tries to tell her not to believe Mizah and that Eve can trust it. When she refuses, it says it will answer her questions and reluctantly does so. It explains that the reason it originally showed her the spell to summon the Anax was that it wanted Eve to summon him and help him shed his shadows. This would have freed all the thousands of souls within the boogeyman, and made him just another mortal soul of the light. At that point, the book intended to convince Eve to shackle him to her will or worse, because the book wanted revenge on Anaximanes for having killed its Mistress, Eleanora Blackwood.

At that point the book offers to teach her a spell of the god, [[Ophion]], that will absolutely help her off the island, but it is a trick the spell is actually the [[Spell of Submission]], which would have made her the thrall of the book. As another thunderstorm rolls onto the island, in a bid to hide and stay dry, Evelyn then fled to Ravehurst Manor itself. As the book suggests going upstairs to hide, Evelyn, distrustful of it and showing a rebellious nature goes down into the basement, quickly stumbling upon Angela and Shiloh. Shiloh says Kaya had gone upstairs.

Hearing noises, the three women then find Sadie hiding in a dark corner of another room in the basement. While this had been going on, upstairs, the Anax had found Kaya and using her pyrophobia to feed off her fear, he turned her into a [[Pyrophobe]]. Now converted, she finds Eve and the others. Shiloh, being Kaya's girlfriend, sacrifices herself so the other can escape. It will later be revealed that the Anax used her arachnophobia to mutate Shiloh into a spidery [[Arachnophobe]].

As Eve, Sadie, and Angela continued moving around the mansion to find a place to hide, the Book of Shadows suddenly violently shook and when Eve read it, it warned her that it could sense the Anax in very next room to them. As the trio bolt upstairs, Angela and Eve stuck together, but Sadie chose a different room in which to hide. The Anax is lured to Sadie whom tries to lock him inside the room. It does not go well and Sadie winds up in the old nursery where he uses her pediophobia to turn her into a [[Pediophobe]]. She then helps search as Angela gives herself to her girlfriend, Brittany. The Anax then uses Angela's gerascophobia, turning her into a [[Gerascophobe]].

Now alone, Evelyn manages to hide up in the attic. Here the book says that she is last remain mortal of her original party to still live- the others are all now Shadowed. It then tries to convince her that her only chance now would be to use [[Shadow Magic]]. They discovered Evelyn in the attic, so she leapt down four stories landing in bushes and ran back into the Haunted Woods. Soon, she came upon the Abandoned Tower again to find Lexus guarding it. Finally, having no other choice, Eve uses Shadow Magic. Casting the [[Spell of Command Undead]], a euphoria flows through Eve.

The spell tries to force Lexus into Eve's thralldom, but so powerful is the link between the Shadowed and the Anax, that the result is Lexus' head exploding. Next she ran afoul of the dark fogs from sunset. Dozens of black amorphous shapes watched her with red eyes eager to wear her flesh like a glove and experience the sensation of a body. With the fogs having never been human, they were always demonic in nature, denizens of the Outer Darkness. As they made to possess Evelyn, she casts [[Spell of Demonic Command]]. A darkness continued growing in Evelyn, but the spell worked and the dark fogs became her slaves. She ordered them to protect her from the Anax, and now, devoid of their own wills, they complied. The Anax tore them to shreds, but it gave Evelyn time.

Next she passed a Shadowed Harper lying in the woods, but knew it to be a trap. However, not much further on her way, Farrah attacked. Now Eve cast the [[Spell of Shadow Webs]]. From her hand sprang webbing as if from a spinneret and she wrapped Farrah in the dark bindings. However, the spells were taking a toll on Eve and her sanity. Her next obstacle would be Sadie. This time the book taught her the [[Spell of Shadow Frost]]. A shadowy storm colder than the vacuum of space poured through the area trapping Sadie in a solid block of shadow ice. As Evelyn neared the Twisted Tree again, Angela stood before her.

Instead of a direct attack, she cast the [[Spell of Dark Duplicity]] on herself. This filled the area will several [[Dark Duplicates]] of Evelyn, and she moved on as Angela fought the mirages, unsure which was the real Evelyn. When she reached the clearing and the tree, Brittany was waiting just like earlier in the night. Eve's eyes glowed purple and her skin had taken a sickly hue as the darkness built within her. Brittany quickly pinned Eve down, and the book almost let Evelyn die, because to it she was a pawn. However, Eve yelled to remind it that if she became a Shadowed Slave the first thing that she would do was destroy the book. Reluctantly, it opened itself and divulged a new spell. Casting the [[Spell of Shackle Undead]], chains made of pure shadow wrapped around Brittany binding her and even gagging her mouth.

Though this was Eve's sister and normally she would have felt sad at the loss of her family, with the growing shadow inside her heart, she mocked her dead sister. Digging through the mud, Evelyn was desperate to find Anax's fetter, because according to the Book of Shadows, if she had his fetter, she could cast a spell to turn him into her slave. She found it, and the moment that she did, the voice of the Anax, panicked and angry bellowed out across the entire island. He told the creatures of the island that if any of them wanted to claim her, he would not only spare them, but reward them. This now meant every evil thing on Ghost Nook, whether known or unknown, would not be swarming the place looking for the last living human on the island. The skull then bit her hand and she dropped it in the dark mud, but had no time to retrieve it.

Evelyn fled the clearing, avoiding [[Dark Husks]], the bodies worn by Dark Fogs. The [[zombies]] rose from the mud in droves, their red, glowing eyes locked onto Eve, but the bodies were rotting and old, and that made them slow. Each one of the dark fogs in the bodies wanted Eve's flesh to animate a fresh corpse again. However, she managed to escape. Heading down to the beach, she surmised that the sun would rise sometime soon. And she mourned momentarily for her friends, but a dark, deep voice gnawed at her psyche. This was not the Anax, but the only entity to ever be stronger- [[Chernobog]]. Every time Evelyn used a spell, she grew closer to losing herself to the shadow.

Chelsea then attacked on the beach and Evelyn countered with the [[Spell of Bedlam Lust]]. Suddenly, Chelsea was driven mad with carnality, and began to lewdly pleasure herself, unable to stop. Next it is Clare that appeared, and as she tried to capture Evelyn, the [[necromancer]] cast [[Spell of Shadow Bolt]]. A bolt of pure shadow energy struck out like lightning, cleaving Clare to pieces. Of course, as a Shadowed, this was only a momentary setback as her demonically undead form began healing immediately.

Now the evil Kaya and Shiloh ganged up on Eve. This time she cast the [[Spell of Unholy Twister]]. A massive tornado of pure shadow magic whipped into existence, tearing the two struggling shadowed slaves into it and flinging them both hundreds of feet into the air. Her demeanor and body began warping because Eve cast so many powerful spells in so short a time. Next Madison assailed Eve, and she cast [[Spell of Hungering Void]]. A pit to the Outer Darkness opened, writhing tentacles of shadow slithering out to pull prey into the other dimension.

Now Evelyn made her way down a dirt path where Mercedes awaited her. The diminutive woman faced off against an Evelyn no longer in control of her own mind. Shadow consumed Eve and she looked at Mercedes not with fear or pity, but as a toy with which to play. Evelyn used the [[Spell of Shadow Slime]]. This conjured liquid darkness which enveloped and began digesting Mercedes. Eve then ordered the slime away and it left, carrying an unwilling Mercedes off with it.

When Moonbeam attacks, Eve's depression, anger, and lust for dominance finally shatters the remnants of her original self. In a parody of the Anax, and much like him, she gains a shadow form. In this she is a shadow person, a void, a being of utter darkness, a boogeywoman, a [[Shadow Queen]]. Now, for the first time, a Shadowed minion shows fear, and Moonbeam actually skitters away. With the darkness of Chernobog within Evelyn, she now no longer desires to leave the island to live. She wants to leave it so that she can reach the mainland and begin to spread her shadow to any and all souls of Earth, however, like the Anax, she cannot cross water. That is when Brittany calls out and Eve turns to see all the shadowed slaves in one place.

The assembled throng have each regenerated and free themselves from her spells, and now they intend to strike as a pack, all at once. However, so powerful has Eve and her powers grown that with a simple flick of her wrist, she tears open the very ground under the shadowed. Eve summons a massive portal to the Shadowlands themselves, a feat unimaginable by most magic users, the maw opens up sending them all helplessly falling into the darkness and then Eve simply seals closes the portal, having defeated a small army of powerful creatures with little effort at all.

The Anax, shocked and in complete aww approaches Evelyn. At first, he believes what he sees to be a magical illusion, something Eleanora once used when he was alive. However, after he strikes, Evelyn does something no other entity had managed to do since Anaximanes died- she wounded the Anax. She now claimed that he would bend a knee to her as would all being in all of existence. As the Anax looked at her and listened to her, he had a strange epiphany. This is what he had become as well. His grief, guilt, pain, depression, angry, misanthropy, it had all consumed him and be became what he was.

Now, a feeling he had not known in a very long time, pity, filled his heartless heart. When he spoke this, Eve lashed out and again managed to harm him, raking her claws over his chest and opening massive wounds in his humanoid form. Then an idea came to him. The Anax did not lash out, he did not strike, he wrapped his arms around her as a hug. Their shadows melded and he felt her pain. He tasted her anger, he knew that she was an outsider, like he had been. Like a leech he began feast on the poisonous darkness of Chernobog, as she yelled out to stop, he continued. And soon the overpowering darkness had been devoured.

As the power waned, the Anax stumbled back and Eve's form became mortal again. Though he clothes had been devoured by her unholy aura, the Book of Shadows, a magical artifact, remained in tact. It appeared as she fell to the ground, it too tumbling to the sand. Eve looked up with he humanity restored, her body weak. The Anax spent a moment, his mind still reeling that another human could possibly have felt what he had, known what he knew- a kindred soul that could truly understand him. Lurching forward, she now felt all the guilt that had been missing all night and demanded he shadow her as she deserved it. She squeezed her eyes tightly closed, and the Anax was about to oblige when he glanced down at the book in the sand.

As the tome had fallen, the picture of the woman that Eve had tucked inside it had fallen free. This woman, [[Eliza Day]], had been the love of his life, his everything, his every thought, his every want, his only need, and he had accidentally robbed her of life. He had killed that which he loved most, and now, she smiled up at him from this picture, a picture he had taken himself with his dguerreotype. He realized that he had not visited Eliza's grave- something he did every Halloween without fail, and in that moment, Evelyn was forgotten, the impending sunrise meant he had scant seconds to reach the graveyard and weep upon her grave.

Eve waited a moment and another, and as the sounds of nature- something missing all night- began to appear around her, she opened her eyes to see the sunrise. For a moment, Eve stood completely dumbfounded. She picked up the Book of Shadows and it was shocked that she survived the night. It tried to then convince her to use the fetter to enslave the Anax and create an entire undead with her immense and natural necromantic powers. It even told her that she could summon a portal to simply walk off the island- something it had not shared all night as it was hoping to have the Anax destroyed by sunrise.

Angry Eve threatened to destroy the book. This seemed to silence it and it no longer tried to so directly corrupt her again. She refused to use magic to get off the now bright and peaceful island. As she cried for the loss of her friends and her sister, Brittany, all of whom would not spend eternity in the Shadowlands with the Anax, Eve made her way back to the Twisted Tree. There, she dug around in the mud and again found the skull. Without Anax in the Physical World, it was just a normal skull again. Nude, dirty, and shivering, Evelyn took the only two items she had, the Book of Shadows and the [[Skull of Ravenhurst]] and wandered the island, eventually finding an old canoe in some reeds. Eve took it to shore and started a whole new life.

=== Between The Anax: Call of the Cursed One and Desideratum: Blood Bonds ===
Now with the knowledge that she was an inherent [[necromancer]], she began to try to use her newfound magic. Since she had the fetter of the Anax, she summoned him at night and controlled everything that he did. He was unable do anything about it, and so she used him to do things she needed and could not do, like busting open ATM machines- she needed money after all. Over time she slowly honed her magical skills, originally only able to animate a severed hand, she eventually was able to animate an entire corpse, creatures called [[The Risen]].

[[The Anax]] himself started out very obstinate and kept himself from communicating with Evelyn unless she forced him to do so. But as the weeks turned to months and she summoned him nightly, he slowly began to find her interesting as he watched her powers develop. In fact, the duo began to collect [[artifacts]] that the [[Book of Shadows]] would tell them about. A ploy to eventually lead them to its Mistress, [[Eleanora Blackwood]], as it knew Anax would obsessively want her slain. Before a strike on a museum in Texas, she thought she might need a few corpses to fight of any police that might arrive. As Evelyn practiced her magic, she accidentally reanimated the entire graveyard at once creating an army of zombies. However the [[Shadow Magic]] threatened again to consume her, and though she broke her control over the zombies they remained animated, only wild, and it was the Anax that she had to command to destroy them all.

Eventually, the Book of Shadows told her about the [[Scepter of Osiris]], and how it could be used to destroy Eleanora Blackwood. Following the trail of the artifact they made their way to Portland, Oregon.

=== Desideratum: Blood Bonds ===
As seen in the novel, [[Desideratum: Blood Bonds]] the Book of Shadows had told Evelyn Addams about the [[Scepter of Osiris]], and how it could be used to destroy Eleanora Blackwood. Following the trail of the [[artifact]] they made their way to [[Portland]], [[Oregon]]. Evelyn spent the first night there conjuring [[the Anax]] and finally sitting him down to talk as if they were friends. And by this point, though neither of them would admit it, they were definitely friends. And, in fact, both of them had developed romantic feelings for each other.

He then told her about his life in the 1800s and how he had come about to become the [[boogeyman]] that he was. After his story she had a new found respect and understanding for this creature- she no longer saw him so much as a evil monstrosity but instead as a tortured soul, artistic and poetic- and tragic.

The following night they made their way to the [[Oregon Museum of Science and Industry]], and were stopped by police. The reason the museum was being watched so carefully due to only a couple of nights prior, at the behest of Lord [[Ivor]], [[Brone Lorcan]] had broken into the museum and stolen the [[Book of Thoth]]. To her credit, Evelyn did try to persuade the police to stand down; however, they refused and she had no choice but to order the Anax to claim their souls.

At the same time that they were outside, [[Absinthe van Gothen]] had also arrived at the museum and slipped inside by using the [[Helm of Hades]] to become invisible. Once she entered the museum, she set out on her own mission was to collect the very same scepter. It did not take long before Evelyn and the Anax stumbled upon Abby. As they had done with the police, they urged Absinthe to simply go, but headstrong and determined to get the scepter the [[Night Stalker]] refused.

As Abby moved through the museum she faced Shadowed, such as [[arachnophobes]] and [[nosophobes]], and [[Risen]], such as [[mummies]] and [[skeletons]] that Evelyn Addams had animated. Eve grew impressed the longer Absinthe managed to continue, though the the Anax practically begged to consume Absinthe's soul. Finally, now herself growing vexed, Eve animated a tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. Using bombs, Abby managed to defeat the abomination and continued to give swift chase.

Finally, Eve and the Anax reached the area of the museum about Egypt, and there at the sarcophagus of [[Khufu]], Absinthe confronted the shadowy pair. Khufu had been interred with both the [[Scepter of Isis]] and the [[Scepter of Osiris]]. As Eve worked on unsealing the enchantments of the sarcophagus she ordered the Anax to stop Abby. Absinthe expected another fight like those before him, but his very aura seemed to distort time and space. His very un-nature, like a walking void shaped as a man, appeared to tear at the fringes of her consciousness and none of her weapons could harm him. She found herself surrounded by a swarm of his minions, and as she stood frozen in abject fear the massive boogeyman approached, his nightmarish visage reflected in Absinthe's crying eyes.

However, in that moment, the [[Shadowed]], including the Anax, instantly vanished into nothingness. At his banishment, Absinthe found that she could move again, r fear draining away. She looked up to watch Evelyn rush by in terror. Eve feared Khufu, as the mummy had, with only a wave of his scepter, sent all the Shadowed horde back to the [[Shadowlands]]. Absinthe then fought the ancient Pharoah and managed to destroy him using the fiery sword, [[Dyrnwyn]]. Ready to claim her prize, she became upset as Evelyn had summoned the Anax again. However, Eve faced off against Absinthe herself.

Eve's shadow magicks threatened to consume her sanity. Finally, unable to beat Absinthe, but scared of losing herself to shadow, Eve ordered the Anax to defeat Abby for good. Again the Anax, unstoppable by any means Absinthe could possibly possess, closed in on her and made ready to turn her into a Shadowed slave. Just before his glowing claw slid into Abby's skull, he stopped at the behest of Brone Lorcan. The [[nosferatu]] was once the butler and best friend of [[Anaximanes Ravenhurst]], the man whom had become the Anax. For a moment, the two old friends talked.

Then the [[Nightbred]] assassin known as [[The Reaper]] attacked to slay Brone, as he had previously escaped her grasp. However, the Anax swiftly and effortlessly shadowed the Reaper, turning her into one of his own minions and sending her to the Shadowlands. After further discussion, it was decided that Brone would return to the [[Shanghai Tunnels]] to watch over [[Clover Riley]], and Evelyn and the Anax would go to [[Sanctuary]] with Absinthe to aid in the battle against the Nightbred on the next evening.

== Appearance ==

Evelyn is a young woman with a goth aesthetic, pale skin, and black hair.

Evelyn Addams

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| name=Evelyn Addams
| race=[[Human]]
| type=[[Necromancer]]
| faction=[[Free Willed]]
| premiere=[[The Anax: Call of the Cursed One]]
| relatives=[[Brittany Addams]], [[Katelyn Addams]], [[Luella Addams]], [[Gloria Addams]], [[Roger Addams]]
}}

= Evelyn Addams =

"I talk to the dead..."

== Biography ==
=== The Anax: Call of the Cursed One ===

Evelyn Addams was born on [[Long Island]], in [[New York]]. Evelyn had always had a difficult time forming emotional connections, but felt very close to her grandparents. As a small child, the evening after her grandfather passed away, she remembered him coming into her room and they chatted long into the night. The rest of the family cried and ached with his physical absence, yet she did not, and that caused her parents great concern. Her grandmother had been just as worried, but Eve told her that she talked to her dead husband, and in her anger, her grandmother dared Eve to tell her a secret that only he would know. Her grandfather saw this as an opportunity to help Eve and give his wife peace, so he divulged one, and when Eve told her, she began to believe her. When she died, there was no one alive to protect Evelyn from the constant bombardment of disbelief from her parents.

In her elementary and middle schools, the same problem cursed Eve. She would see and talk to spirits just as if she was talking to the living. Even with all the constant harassment from students and faculty, Eve refused to give in, even though everyone said she was crazy. Eve suffered from terrible depression after her family, with the best of intentions, had her committed into a psychiatric institution because she conversed openly with her deceased grandparents after her mother and father repeatedly told her not to.

Now incarcerated, even her deceased grandparents begged their young granddaughter to tell the psychiatrists that she could no longer see or hear the dead and, when Eve refused to obey them, for her own welfare, they abandoned Evelyn and went into the [[Inner Light]]. With their departure from the vibratory frequency of the [[Physical World]], Evelyn finally experienced the grief the rest of her family had previously endured with the departure of her grandparents, and at age eighteen, after nearly four years, the state released her back into the care of her parents. For several years, she pretended to ignore ghosts. Then one day her older twin sisters, [[Brittany]] and [[Katelyn]] took her out shopping. The trio came upon a strange bookstore, [[The Library]], and obtaining The [[Book of Shadows]], she felt vindicated by [[The Librarian]], and stopped hiding her abilities. A few years later, she was independent, and she put her powers to use by helping a ghost-hunting group named the [[Female Phantom Finders]].

With the Female Phantom Finders, [[Shiloh Hazeldine]], [[Kaya Dabrezil]], [[Moonbeam Sunflower]], [[Harper Jones]], and [[Sadie Garner]], Evelyn used her innate ability to speak with and see the dead as a means to take their ghost hunting paranormal investigations to new heights. With Eve as a medium, they helped countless spirits find peace. The group event ventured outside to New York State, for example visiting the halls of [[Hawthorn Asylum]] near [[Portland]], [[Oregon]], and helping all the lost souls there find their way into the Inner Light. However, one particular ghost hunt would forever mar the friendship between Harper and Eve.

Personally summoned by the New York District Attorney, [[Amelia Williams]], the group was tasked with removing any spirits they found from an abandoned church, [[La Resurrección]] on Elton Avenue in The Bronx. Amelia claimed that the area had strange occurrences. People would disappear and would report strange lights and fog around the old church. Though the group's psychic, Moonbeam, felt as though something was off about Amelia, she kept silent. What the group did not know was that Amelia had become a possessed puppet of the evil [[phantom]], [[Dagan Erebus]]. The Haunted D.A. had invited the women there so that Dagan could feed on their souls, because he had grown wary of this group that aided ghosts.

Once there, late into the night, Evelyn and Harper were investigating as a team. Evelyn, breaking protocol, went into the church by herself. There, she clearly could see Dagan. At first Dagan disbelieved that someone he had not possessed could see him, but Evelyn clearly could. As she and Dagan conversed, he quickly learned that Evelyn had interacted with The Librarian. This ancient spirit had confiscated the [[Codex Gigas]] from Dagan, and it was his monomaniacal obsession to retrieve the tome. Now, knowing that Evelyn must have access to her, Dagan immediately wanted Eve's soul.

There, within her mind and soul, he discovered that Evelyn fetishized being possessed by darkness since her childhood. Now, this was a chance to actually do it in real life, and she ceased any resistance, even aiding him in draining her own willpower. The evil phantom relished the experience, usually having to fight to control a mortal. Now, one of the Daganians, or [[Haunted]], Eve, a husk for Dagan, rose to her feet. She was eager to betray Harper, whom she knew would soon notice her missing.

Evelyn went to Harper, and Evelyn blocked Harper's escape. As she sexually assaulted Harper, she admitted that Dagan was not even controlling her directly- Eve was doing all this by herself. This would come back to haunt her in the future. However, for now, she relished living out her corruption fetish. However, as she aided Dagan in possessing Harper, Moonbeam, having sensed something evil happening, found the debauchery and called out to her Goddess of Light, a plea that upon the highest frequencies of the Inner Light, [[Illuminarius]], [[Isis]] heard and responded.

Brilliant light filled the cold, dark room, cleansing Evelyn of possession and exorcising Dagan. As Eve fell unconscious, Dagan fled into the night. After this event, the relationship between Harper and Evelyn remained strained, as Harper now feared Eve, knowing that deep down she would want to be evil. Evelyn apologized but it never healed the rift. However, time marched onwards and the group continued to host paranormal investigations. Eve, however, had the Book of Shadows, and it seemingly contained a single spell and article- how to summon the [[Shadow Lord]], [[Anax]]. This was a soul that they all felt could be redeemed, and secretly, Evelyn hoped by freeing this soul from the [[Shadowlands]] that she could prove to Harper that she would not let her dark fantasies ever rule her again.

By summoning the creature on camera, it would be manifested in the [[Physical World]]. This also meant, to Eve's joy, that everyone present and the cameras would be witness to the entity. With the book in hand, the Female Phantom Finders traveled to [[Ghost Nook]], where they planned to summoned the powerful spirit known as the Anax. The team wanted to document more proof of the paranormal for their social media channel and for scientific inquiry. They were ferried across [[Big Moose Lake]] by [[Clare Thorndike]] on her boat. Once they arrived, they set about exploring the island and happened upon [[Ravenhurst Manor]]. This massive Victorian mansion sprawled across entire acres of land. Within the massive mansion, Eve found a photograph of a beautiful woman and a [[poem]]. She slid the photo into her book. Once they had explored it, they made their way into the nearby woods.

In the woods, they soon came upon the ruins of a stone tower. It appeared to have been built during the Revolutionary War, but now it was mostly derelict. The group had no idea that this had once been the lair of the [[shadow witch]], [[Eleanora Blackwood]], the very person that owned the Book of Shadows that Evelyn now held. Continuing, Moonbeam's psychic awareness urged her to turn back. The psionic vibrations within the woods terrified and concerned her. But, they had been seeking this place for years, and having found it, Evelyn managed to convince them to continue.

The further they ventured towards the center of the forest, the darker and colder it grew. Eventually, they reached a clearing, and though there were no clouds overhead, it seemed almost as dark as night. Before them all, in the center of this dark, freezing clearing, stood a tree that appeared to be screaming. The [[Twisted Tree]] loomed before them all as if daring them to remain and urging them all to flee. Moonbeam could feel the Shadowlands itself seemingly hidden just under the fabric of reality here, as if the thin shell of an egg was all that separated our world from the plane of utter darkness. However, whoever summoned the Anax, within a pentacle circle of protection, could safely interact with the entity.

Unphased, Evelyn again checked the Book of Shadows on how to summon the Anax, but was interrupted by her sister Brittany and Brittany's wannabe 'coven' of New Age witches, [[Angela Johnson]], [[Chelsea Moretti]], [[Farrah Foster]], [[Lexus Kingsley]], [[Madison Lee]], and [[Mercedes Everett]]. The two groups could not have been more different and they began squabbling. Eventually, Evelyn prepared to summon the Anax, but then she was pushed away by her sister Brittany. Skulking, Evelyn went into the nearby woods and there she met the ghost of a dead confederate soldier named [[Nathaniel Wyatt]]. Nathaniel's group of saboteurs had been slain by the Anax, and right before the boogeyman claimed Nathaniel, he took his own life saving the ancestor of [[Howard]] and [[Bo Wyatt]] from being Shadowed.

Nate warned Evelyn to get off the island before sunset because the Anax would come. However, she was there specifically for the Anax and so she disregarded his ominous warning. Later she ended up at the house of the Reverend [[Roger Adams]], her own great-great-great grandfather. She then met the ghosts of her great-great aunts, [[Luella]] and [[Gloria Addams]]. The two ghosts had been haunting the island for almost two centuries, hiding from the Anax every [[Halloween]] so that he would not claim their souls. Only once this pair made it clear enough to Evelyn of the utter power of the boogeyman, did she finally decide that it would be best to go back to the Twisted Tree and tried to avoid summoning the dark entity.

As Eve sprinted back and the sun hung low in the sky, a cold wind began to flow over the island. Raven caws echoed out and the old bell of an abandoned church seemed to ring as if a warning to all life that Halloween night had come. Some deep, unimaginable fear welled up within Evelyn, as if her very body knew that she should never have come to Ghost Nook Island. Then in the forest, black shadowy things slinked among the trees. Staring at her with red eyes, these spirits, [[Dark Fogs]], had never been human and never known flesh. They wanted to possess the bodies of the women, but were invisible and intangible in the day, with the sun setting, they were beginning to manifest in the Physical World.

Eve ran even harder, the dark fogs at her heels, but when she neared the clearing that housed the Twisted Tree, the dark beings fled, refusing to go to the spot. She noticed it, and it made her hair stand on end, because it meant even they feared the Anax. She made it to the circle, to find Brittany celebrating. Green light seemed to be pouring out of a small hole at the base of the tree. Eve was too late, for as with every year since his death on Halloween, once the sun set, a hole a portal to the [[Outer Darkness]] would open and the Anax would appear. They all stood in rapt terror as the very appearance of the Anax seemed to freeze them in place. He immediately went about absorbing The souls of those around him.

Having been hanged by Roger Addams, and learning that Brittany and Evelyn were also Addams, he chased the sisters first. He targeted Brittany because of his hatred for witches, due to Eleanora Blackwood, and she had been bragging about being a witch. Of course, it was delusionary, and it was Eve that had any magical power. But, ignorant of this, the Anax pressed his claw into Brittany's brain and used her fear, autophobia, to break her mind and steal her soul, turning her into one of his [[Shadowed]] minions called [[Autophobes]].

As she hid in the dark woods, the Anax and now Brittany both seeking her, the Book of Shadows suddenly revealed itself as a sentient artifact. It could shake and vibrate, turn its pages, but it could speak by the ink of its pages, made from shadow itself, writing the words. It drew a map of the entire island, urging her to reach Clare's boat as quickly as possible. Like most undead, water was something the Anax could not cross, and if she could get to the lake, she could be spared. It was a chilly autumn night, so swimming would mean hypothermia and death, but the boat could save her.

It said she was in The [[Haunted Woods]] for now, and was then interrupted as Farrah approached. Then she and Farrah stumbled upon Harper. At that moment the book told Eve that it sensed the Anax had left the Haunted Woods and that now should be her chance to reach Clare and the boat. However, it then did something that gave Evelyn a pause- it showed her the [[Spell of Mind Control]]. It told her to enslaved Farrah and Harper to her will. For a moment, that struggle of her inner darkness, her fetish to control and be controlled wrestled with the good inside her heart and she resisted the urges, slamming the book closed.

Now the trio, Eve, Farrah, and Harper had to backtrack to reach the boat, and that put them through the clearing. And there, sexually writhing against the Twisted Tree- was Brittany Addams. Her skin was dead and gray, her eyes glowing the same green as those of the Anax, and she mocked them all. With the powers of an autophobe, Brittany could turn invisible and stealth, and she pursued them until they ran into high cliffs overlooking the lake. Eve never was exactly pure, and when it came down to a choice between herself or the others, she chose to sacrifice Farrah. She pushed her to Brittany and she and Harper fled. Eventually Brittany presented Farrah to her Master and the Anax stole her soul, though undermining her fear, acrophobia, turning Farrah into an [[Acrophobe]].

As torrential rain falls, Harper and Eve find the abandoned tower again. They explore the remaining parts of the old battlement, and find a hidden room within the basement. The Anax arrives and the pair flee to the upper tower with plans to jump down. Evelyn leaps down, and survives because the wet ground is soft. She urged Harper to jump, and turns to see a shadowed Clare. When Brittany had turned, she quickly warned her new Master of the boat that could save them, so that is where he had traveled when he left the Haunted Woods. The Anax had used Clare's claustrophobia to steal her soul and make her into a [[Claustrophobe]]. Having no recourse, Evelyn fled leaving Harper to her fate.

Next she stumbled upon Moonbeam looking out at the sunk boat. As am empath, the Anax uses Moonbeam to stall Eve by making them both envision a boat that turns out to be only flotsam. As they discover this, still in a bid to keep them until he can arrive, the Anax fills Moonbeam with a rush of euphoric estrus and she becomes uncharacteristically wanton. She then tries to grab Eve and hold her until the Anax can come claim them both, her addled mind responding the his emotions. Eve managed to escape, and when the Anax arrives, he uses the liberal hippy's tyrannophobia to turn her into a devoutly fascist [[Tyrannophobe]].

Evelyn spends some more time hiding as the Book of Shadows futilely tries to convince Eve to go and hide in the gigantic Ravenhurst Manor. She refuses, thinking it would be the most dangerous place on the island and she makes her way to the old church, instead, hoping hallowed ground might keep the [[boogeyman]] at bay. With the wings of a bat and in much larger than before, the Anax falls from the ceiling, crushing pews into splinters. Finally, the Anax thinks he has the other Addams girl, but just then gunshots ring out as Chelsea fires at the Anax, Mercedes cowering behind her.

Using his hypnotic eyes, the Anax twists Chelsea's vision and she suddenly sees him as Eve and Mercedes and the women as the Anax. Turning her gun on the women, the pair flee as she fires at them. However, she misses, and the survive. Meanwhile at the church, the Anax does not pass up the opportunity for a free minion, and he uses Chelsea's nosophobia to shatter her mind and turn her into a [[Nosophobe]].

Eve and Mercedes reach the old abandoned town of [[Wakefield]]. They find an abandoned home and within find Lexus and Madison. The Anax then arrives inside the abandoned town as well saying that he can sense the ebb and flow of nearby terror and knows they are hiding. Eve then leads the three other women to the old [[Addams House]] where she met her ghostly ancestors in the afternoon. They discover that both Gloria and Luella have been corrupted by the Anax and turned into [[Shadowed Ghosts]]. However, only Evelyn and see and hear the spirits and Madison, Lexus, and Mercedes think she is insane.

Gloria possesses Mercedes, and soon after, Luella possesses Lexus' body. The two possessed women then try to seduce Eve and Madison to keep them there until the Anax can arrive. Evelyn and Madison rush outside. However, the shadowed Brittany, Moonbeam, Farrah, and Chelsea arrive at the house as Moonbeam says that she senses Eve and Madison nearby. As the Anax arrives and goes into the Addams house, Eve and Madison jump down an abandoned well taking their chances below. Inside the Addams home, Luella and Gloria present their hostbodies to the Anax.

He uses Lexus' trypophobia to warp her soul into that of a [[Trypophobe]]. And for Mercedes he uses her odontophobia to corrupt her into a [[Odontophobe]]. The Anax and the shadowed women have figured out that Eve and Madison have gone down into the cave systems under the island and Mercedes, being such a small person, can fit through a crack in the ground. She tumbles down, breaking bones and smashing into the caves. In Evelyn style, she pushes the wounded Madison into the waiting arms of Mercedes and flees, leaving her behind. Eve does not make it too far when Clare and Farrah show up. However, they seem to hit an invisible barrier.

As Moonbeam and Brittany yell, Eve leaves the Shadowed behind and makes her way out of the cave system. As she emerges into the night air, she is met by an extremely old and wizened gypsy woman named [[Mizah]]. She follows the old woman back to an ancient abandoned gypsy camp where only Mizah's own wagon appears still useable. She warms Evelyn with the stove's heat and offers her food and drink, letting Eve's clothes dry. She assures Evelyn that it is safe here because of a barrier of [[Light Magic]] that she has erected. She then tells Evelyn the story of one-hundred-and-fifty years ago. [[Anaximanes Ravenhurst]] had been a friend to her and her people.

She tells Eve about the evil Eleanora Blackwood, and how Eve's book was cursed. She also told about a succubus named Dionyza that came long before the land had become an island. She then speaks of swarms of [[Nightbred]], [[vampires]], that came to the island. From those times onward, only misery remained in this once happy place. Finally the Anax arrives at the wagon. He tells Mizah to simply give him Evelyn Addams and he will spare Mizah if she does so. Of course, she declines. Mizah told Evelyn not to go, and that the shield could not possibly be broken. However, the Anax, by this point over the past 200 years, had amassed thousands upon thousands of souls, and his power stood incredibly great. He smashed to the barrier, picked up the gypsy trailer, and tossed it into the sky. When it came plummeting back to Earth it smashed the bits.

Mizah had been crushed in the debris, killed instantly, but Evelyn had miraculously survived mostly unscathed, however she could not move from abject fear as the boogeyman loomed over her ready to make her one of his shadow minions. Just then, a ball of light slammed into him, and the two of them turned to see a very young vibrant Mizah sitting in the limbs of a nearby tree. White holy light bathed her like an aura, she said that she felt free now. With that, Mizah began to throw more balls of light at the Anax, keeping his attention so that Evelyn could escape. And she did so.

Once again hiding in the Haunted Woods, the Book of Shadows shook and she opened it. It tries to tell her not to believe Mizah and that Eve can trust it. When she refuses, it says it will answer her questions and reluctantly does so. It explains that the reason it originally showed her the spell to summon the Anax was that it wanted Eve to summon him and help him shed his shadows. This would have freed all the thousands of souls within the boogeyman, and made him just another mortal soul of the light. At that point, the book intended to convince Eve to shackle him to her will or worse, because the book wanted revenge on Anaximanes for having killed its Mistress, Eleanora Blackwood.

At that point the book offers to teach her a spell of the god, [[Ophion]], that will absolutely help her off the island, but it is a trick the spell is actually the [[Spell of Submission]], which would have made her the thrall of the book. As another thunderstorm rolls onto the island, in a bid to hide and stay dry, Evelyn then fled to Ravehurst Manor itself. As the book suggests going upstairs to hide, Evelyn, distrustful of it and showing a rebellious nature goes down into the basement, quickly stumbling upon Angela and Shiloh. Shiloh says Kaya had gone upstairs.

Hearing noises, the three women then find Sadie hiding in a dark corner of another room in the basement. While this had been going on, upstairs, the Anax had found Kaya and using her pyrophobia to feed off her fear, he turned her into a [[Pyrophobe]]. Now converted, she finds Eve and the others. Shiloh, being Kaya's girlfriend, sacrifices herself so the other can escape. It will later be revealed that the Anax used her arachnophobia to mutate Shiloh into a spidery [[Arachnophobe]].

As Eve, Sadie, and Angela continued moving around the mansion to find a place to hide, the Book of Shadows suddenly violently shook and when Eve read it, it warned her that it could sense the Anax in very next room to them. As the trio bolt upstairs, Angela and Eve stuck together, but Sadie chose a different room in which to hide. The Anax is lured to Sadie whom tries to lock him inside the room. It does not go well and Sadie winds up in the old nursery where he uses her pediophobia to turn her into a [[Pediophobe]]. She then helps search as Angela gives herself to her girlfriend, Brittany. The Anax then uses Angela's gerascophobia, turning her into a [[Gerascophobe]].

Now alone, Evelyn manages to hide up in the attic. Here the book says that she is last remain mortal of her original party to still live- the others are all now Shadowed. It then tries to convince her that her only chance now would be to use [[Shadow Magic]]. They discovered Evelyn in the attic, so she leapt down four stories landing in bushes and ran back into the Haunted Woods. Soon, she came upon the Abandoned Tower again to find Lexus guarding it. Finally, having no other choice, Eve uses Shadow Magic. Casting the [[Spell of Command Undead]], a euphoria flows through Eve.

The spell tries to force Lexus into Eve's thralldom, but so powerful is the link between the Shadowed and the Anax, that the result is Lexus' head exploding. Next she ran afoul of the dark fogs from sunset. Dozens of black amorphous shapes watched her with red eyes eager to wear her flesh like a glove and experience the sensation of a body. With the fogs having never been human, they were always demonic in nature, denizens of the Outer Darkness. As they made to possess Evelyn, she casts [[Spell of Demonic Command]]. A darkness continued growing in Evelyn, but the spell worked and the dark fogs became her slaves. She ordered them to protect her from the Anax, and now, devoid of their own wills, they complied. The Anax tore them to shreds, but it gave Evelyn time.

Next she passed a Shadowed Harper lying in the woods, but knew it to be a trap. However, not much further on her way, Farrah attacked. Now Eve cast the [[Spell of Shadow Webs]]. From her hand sprang webbing as if from a spinneret and she wrapped Farrah in the dark bindings. However, the spells were taking a toll on Eve and her sanity. Her next obstacle would be Sadie. This time the book taught her the [[Spell of Shadow Frost]]. A shadowy storm colder than the vacuum of space poured through the area trapping Sadie in a solid block of shadow ice. As Evelyn neared the Twisted Tree again, Angela stood before her.

Instead of a direct attack, she cast the [[Spell of Dark Duplicity]] on herself. This filled the area will several [[Dark Duplicates]] of Evelyn, and she moved on as Angela fought the mirages, unsure which was the real Evelyn. When she reached the clearing and the tree, Brittany was waiting just like earlier in the night. Eve's eyes glowed purple and her skin had taken a sickly hue as the darkness built within her. Brittany quickly pinned Eve down, and the book almost let Evelyn die, because to it she was a pawn. However, Eve yelled to remind it that if she became a Shadowed Slave the first thing that she would do was destroy the book. Reluctantly, it opened itself and divulged a new spell. Casting the [[Spell of Shackle Undead]], chains made of pure shadow wrapped around Brittany binding her and even gagging her mouth.

Though this was Eve's sister and normally she would have felt sad at the loss of her family, with the growing shadow inside her heart, she mocked her dead sister. Digging through the mud, Evelyn was desperate to find Anax's fetter, because according to the Book of Shadows, if she had his fetter, she could cast a spell to turn him into her slave. She found it, and the moment that she did, the voice of the Anax, panicked and angry bellowed out across the entire island. He told the creatures of the island that if any of them wanted to claim her, he would not only spare them, but reward them. This now meant every evil thing on Ghost Nook, whether known or unknown, would not be swarming the place looking for the last living human on the island. The skull then bit her hand and she dropped it in the dark mud, but had no time to retrieve it.

Evelyn fled the clearing, avoiding [[Dark Husks]], the bodies worn by Dark Fogs. The [[zombies]] rose from the mud in droves, their red, glowing eyes locked onto Eve, but the bodies were rotting and old, and that made them slow. Each one of the dark fogs in the bodies wanted Eve's flesh to animate a fresh corpse again. However, she managed to escape. Heading down to the beach, she surmised that the sun would rise sometime soon. And she mourned momentarily for her friends, but a dark, deep voice gnawed at her psyche. This was not the Anax, but the only entity to ever be stronger- [[Chernobog]]. Every time Evelyn used a spell, she grew closer to losing herself to the shadow.

Chelsea then attacked on the beach and Evelyn countered with the [[Spell of Bedlam Lust]]. Suddenly, Chelsea was driven mad with carnality, and began to lewdly pleasure herself, unable to stop. Next it is Clare that appeared, and as she tried to capture Evelyn, the [[necromancer]] cast [[Spell of Shadow Bolt]]. A bolt of pure shadow energy struck out like lightning, cleaving Clare to pieces. Of course, as a Shadowed, this was only a momentary setback as her demonically undead form began healing immediately.

Now the evil Kaya and Shiloh ganged up on Eve. This time she cast the [[Spell of Unholy Twister]]. A massive tornado of pure shadow magic whipped into existence, tearing the two struggling shadowed slaves into it and flinging them both hundreds of feet into the air. Her demeanor and body began warping because Eve cast so many powerful spells in so short a time. Next Madison assailed Eve, and she cast [[Spell of Hungering Void]]. A pit to the Outer Darkness opened, writhing tentacles of shadow slithering out to pull prey into the other dimension.

Now Evelyn made her way down a dirt path where Mercedes awaited her. The diminutive woman faced off against an Evelyn no longer in control of her own mind. Shadow consumed Eve and she looked at Mercedes not with fear or pity, but as a toy with which to play. Evelyn used the [[Spell of Shadow Slime]]. This conjured liquid darkness which enveloped and began digesting Mercedes. Eve then ordered the slime away and it left, carrying an unwilling Mercedes off with it.

When Moonbeam attacks, Eve's depression, anger, and lust for dominance finally shatters the remnants of her original self. In a parody of the Anax, and much like him, she gains a shadow form. In this she is a shadow person, a void, a being of utter darkness, a boogeywoman, a [[Shadow Queen]]. Now, for the first time, a Shadowed minion shows fear, and Moonbeam actually skitters away. With the darkness of Chernobog within Evelyn, she now no longer desires to leave the island to live. She wants to leave it so that she can reach the mainland and begin to spread her shadow to any and all souls of Earth, however, like the Anax, she cannot cross water. That is when Brittany calls out and Eve turns to see all the shadowed slaves in one place.

The assembled throng have each regenerated and free themselves from her spells, and now they intend to strike as a pack, all at once. However, so powerful has Eve and her powers grown that with a simple flick of her wrist, she tears open the very ground under the shadowed. Eve summons a massive portal to the Shadowlands themselves, a feat unimaginable by most magic users, the maw opens up sending them all helplessly falling into the darkness and then Eve simply seals closes the portal, having defeated a small army of powerful creatures with little effort at all.

The Anax, shocked and in complete aww approaches Evelyn. At first, he believes what he sees to be a magical illusion, something Eleanora once used when he was alive. However, after he strikes, Evelyn does something no other entity had managed to do since Anaximanes died- she wounded the Anax. She now claimed that he would bend a knee to her as would all being in all of existence. As the Anax looked at her and listened to her, he had a strange epiphany. This is what he had become as well. His grief, guilt, pain, depression, angry, misanthropy, it had all consumed him and be became what he was.

Now, a feeling he had not known in a very long time, pity, filled his heartless heart. When he spoke this, Eve lashed out and again managed to harm him, raking her claws over his chest and opening massive wounds in his humanoid form. Then an idea came to him. The Anax did not lash out, he did not strike, he wrapped his arms around her as a hug. Their shadows melded and he felt her pain. He tasted her anger, he knew that she was an outsider, like he had been. Like a leech he began feast on the poisonous darkness of Chernobog, as she yelled out to stop, he continued. And soon the overpowering darkness had been devoured.

As the power waned, the Anax stumbled back and Eve's form became mortal again. Though he clothes had been devoured by her unholy aura, the Book of Shadows, a magical artifact, remained in tact. It appeared as she fell to the ground, it too tumbling to the sand. Eve looked up with he humanity restored, her body weak. The Anax spent a moment, his mind still reeling that another human could possibly have felt what he had, known what he knew- a kindred soul that could truly understand him. Lurching forward, she now felt all the guilt that had been missing all night and demanded he shadow her as she deserved it. She squeezed her eyes tightly closed, and the Anax was about to oblige when he glanced down at the book in the sand.

As the tome had fallen, the picture of the woman that Eve had tucked inside it had fallen free. This woman, [[Eliza Day]], had been the love of his life, his everything, his every thought, his every want, his only need, and he had accidentally robbed her of life. He had killed that which he loved most, and now, she smiled up at him from this picture, a picture he had taken himself with his dguerreotype. He realized that he had not visited Eliza's grave- something he did every Halloween without fail, and in that moment, Evelyn was forgotten, the impending sunrise meant he had scant seconds to reach the graveyard and weep upon her grave.

Eve waited a moment and another, and as the sounds of nature- something missing all night- began to appear around her, she opened her eyes to see the sunrise. For a moment, Eve stood completely dumbfounded. She picked up the Book of Shadows and it was shocked that she survived the night. It tried to then convince her to use the fetter to enslave the Anax and create an entire undead with her immense and natural necromantic powers. It even told her that she could summon a portal to simply walk off the island- something it had not shared all night as it was hoping to have the Anax destroyed by sunrise.

Angry Eve threatened to destroy the book. This seemed to silence it and it no longer tried to so directly corrupt her again. She refused to use magic to get off the now bright and peaceful island. As she cried for the loss of her friends and her sister, Brittany, all of whom would not spend eternity in the Shadowlands with the Anax, Eve made her way back to the Twisted Tree. There, she dug around in the mud and again found the skull. Without Anax in the Physical World, it was just a normal skull again. Nude, dirty, and shivering, Evelyn took the only two items she had, the Book of Shadows and the [[Skull of Ravenhurst]] and wandered the island, eventually finding an old canoe in some reeds. Eve took it to shore and started a whole new life.

=== Between The Anax: Call of the Cursed One and Desideratum: Blood Bonds ===
Now with the knowledge that she was an inherent [[necromancer]], she began to try to use her newfound magic. Since she had the fetter of the Anax, she summoned him at night and controlled everything that he did. He was unable do anything about it, and so she used him to do things she needed and could not do, like busting open ATM machines- she needed money after all. Over time she slowly honed her magical skills, originally only able to animate a severed hand, she eventually was able to animate an entire corpse, creatures called [[The Risen]].

[[The Anax]] himself started out very obstinate and kept himself from communicating with Evelyn unless she forced him to do so. But as the weeks turned to months and she summoned him nightly, he slowly began to find her interesting as he watched her powers develop. In fact, the duo began to collect [[artifacts]] that the [[Book of Shadows]] would tell them about. A ploy to eventually lead them to its Mistress, [[Eleanora Blackwood]], as it knew Anax would obsessively want her slain. Before a strike on a museum in Texas, she thought she might need a few corpses to fight of any police that might arrive. As Evelyn practiced her magic, she accidentally reanimated the entire graveyard at once creating an army of zombies. However the [[Shadow Magic]] threatened again to consume her, and though she broke her control over the zombies they remained animated, only wild, and it was the Anax that she had to command to destroy them all.

Eventually, the Book of Shadows told her about the [[Scepter of Osiris]], and how it could be used to destroy Eleanora Blackwood. Following the trail of the artifact they made their way to Portland, Oregon.

=== Desideratum: Blood Bonds ===
The Book of Shadows had told Evelyn Addams about the [[Scepter of Osiris]], and how it could be used to destroy Eleanora Blackwood. Following the trail of the [[artifact]] they made their way to [[Portland]], [[Oregon]]. Evelyn spent the first night there conjuring [[the Anax]] and finally sitting him down to talk as if they were friends. And by this point, though neither of them would admit it, they were definitely friends. And, in fact, both of them had developed romantic feelings for each other.

He then told her about his life in the 1800s and how he had come about to become the [[boogeyman]] that he was. After his story she had a new found respect and understanding for this creature- she no longer saw him so much as a evil monstrosity but instead as a tortured soul, artistic and poetic- and tragic.

The following night they made their way to the [[Oregon Museum of Science and Industry]], and were stopped by police. The reason the museum was being watched so carefully due to only a couple of nights prior, at the behest of Lord [[Ivor]], [[Brone Lorcan]] had broken into the museum and stolen the [[Book of Thoth]]. To her credit, Evelyn did try to persuade the police to stand down; however, they refused and she had no choice but to order the Anax to claim their souls.

At the same time that they were outside, [[Absinthe van Gothen]] had also arrived at the museum and slipped inside by using the [[Helm of Hades]] to become invisible. Once she entered the museum, she set out on her own mission was to collect the very same scepter. It did not take long before Evelyn and the Anax stumbled upon Abby. As they had done with the police, they urged Absinthe to simply go, but headstrong and determined to get the scepter the [[Night Stalker]] refused.

As Abby moved through the museum she faced Shadowed, such as [[arachnophobes]] and [[nosophobes]], and [[Risen]], such as [[mummies]] and [[skeletons]] that Evelyn Addams had animated. Eve grew impressed the longer Absinthe managed to continue, though the the Anax practically begged to consume Absinthe's soul. Finally, now herself growing vexed, Eve animated a tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. Using bombs, Abby managed to defeat the abomination and continued to give swift chase.

Finally, Eve and the Anax reached the area of the museum about Egypt, and there at the sarcophagus of [[Khufu]], Absinthe confronted the shadowy pair. Khufu had been interred with both the [[Scepter of Isis]] and the [[Scepter of Osiris]]. As Eve worked on unsealing the enchantments of the sarcophagus she ordered the Anax to stop Abby. Absinthe expected another fight like those before him, but his very aura seemed to distort time and space. His very un-nature, like a walking void shaped as a man, appeared to tear at the fringes of her consciousness and none of her weapons could harm him. She found herself surrounded by a swarm of his minions, and as she stood frozen in abject fear the massive boogeyman approached, his nightmarish visage reflected in Absinthe's crying eyes.

However, in that moment, the [[Shadowed]], including the Anax, instantly vanished into nothingness. At his banishment, Absinthe found that she could move again, r fear draining away. She looked up to watch Evelyn rush by in terror. Eve feared Khufu, as the mummy had, with only a wave of his scepter, sent all the Shadowed horde back to the [[Shadowlands]]. Absinthe then fought the ancient Pharoah and managed to destroy him using the fiery sword, [[Dyrnwyn]]. Ready to claim her prize, she became upset as Evelyn had summoned the Anax again. However, Eve faced off against Absinthe herself.

Eve's shadow magicks threatened to consume her sanity. Finally, unable to beat Absinthe, but scared of losing herself to shadow, Eve ordered the Anax to defeat Abby for good. Again the Anax, unstoppable by any means Absinthe could possibly possess, closed in on her and made ready to turn her into a Shadowed slave. Just before his glowing claw slid into Abby's skull, he stopped at the behest of Brone Lorcan. The [[nosferatu]] was once the butler and best friend of [[Anaximanes Ravenhurst]], the man whom had become the Anax. For a moment, the two old friends talked.

Then the [[Nightbred]] assassin known as [[The Reaper]] attacked to slay Brone, as he had previously escaped her grasp. However, the Anax swiftly and effortlessly shadowed the Reaper, turning her into one of his own minions and sending her to the Shadowlands. After further discussion, it was decided that Brone would return to the [[Shanghai Tunnels]] to watch over [[Clover Riley]], and Evelyn and the Anax would go to [[Sanctuary]] with Absinthe to aid in the battle against the Nightbred on the next evening.

=== Desideratum: Blood Bonds ===

As seen in the novel, [[Desideratum: Blood Bonds]], several months after Evelyn Addams manages to gain power over the Anax, they arrive in [[Portland]], Oregon. As they traveled across the United States from New York, Eve gained insight regarding her necromantic abilities, and she occasionally pushed herself too far. The [[shadow magic]] would drive her mad, and on several occasions, the Anax stepped in to save her either from herself or from the spells she cast. For example, while passing through the state of Texas, she went to an old, abandoned graveyard and raised all the dead. However, the skeletal zombies were too great in number for the fledgling [[necromancer]] to control and she ordered the Anax to destroy the army and save her.

The pair were on a mission of revenge, as the [[witch]], now [[vampire]], [[Eleanora Blackwood]], had directly led to the hanging of Anaximanes Ravenhurst, and Eve felt compelled to aid the Anax in destroying the vile woman. Once in Portland, the duo needed to obtain the [[Scepter of Osiris]]. The artifact would allow necromancers amplified power, and Evelyn would be able to control the vampires of Portland- including Eleanora. Once the [[Nightbred]] were enslaved, the Anax would rip Eleanora to shreds and carry her spirit into the [[Outer Darkness]], where he would enslave her as a [[Shadowed]]. She would then forever serve him as an eternal slap in the face for her cruelty.

However, the greenhorn [[monster hunter]], [[Absinthe Van Gothen]], also required the same relic for her own attack on the Nightbred. She arrived at the [[Portland Museum]], only to find the Anax and Evelyn Addams. The Anax sent Shadowed to kill Abby, but they failed. Evelyn animated the skeletons in the museum and sent her risen minions against the hunter as well, only to have them fail. Then - SPOILER FOR NOW! Will edit after D:BB is finished!

== Appearance ==

Evelyn is a young woman with a goth aesthetic, pale skin, and black hair.

Chieko Naru

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Anax: /* Cereborg: Inception */

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| premiere=[[Cereborg: Inception]]
| relatives=[[Gichii Naru]][[Kazuko Naru]]
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= Chieko Naru =

"Logic, reason, or love. What to do?"

== Biography ==
=== Pre-Cereborg: Inception ===
Chieko Naru was born in [[Kyoto]], [[Japan]]. Though never diagnosed, she likely is on the autistic spectrum and tends to talk with a certain cadence and pattern different than most neurotypical people. While she feels awkward around humans and shy, she also has an intense focused mind and an extremely high intelligence quotient. From her earliest memories she used computers and felt much more comfortable around electronics than with humans with the exception of her grandfather, [[Gichii]].

During World War 2, when Gichii was younger, he was a Demon Hunter of Japan and was part of a trio. Fighting alongside the ancestors of the Japanese demon hunters, [[Bushido Blade]] and [[Shinobi Dark]], he slew [[oni]] with his family's ancestral sword, [[Onikoroshi-no-Tsurugi]]. The sword's history itself has deep roots. It was forged with some fragments of Kusanagi by Gorō Nyūdō Masamune. Brute strength and power are meaningless to the sword, and in fact, if a human outside of the Naru bloodline tries to lift the sword, it becomes immoveable, as if gravity itself refuses the user. However, when wielded by one the Naru bloodline, with a mind of focus and discipline, the sword feels light as rice paper, but can slice through even the densest metals without any damage to the sword and without much force from the swordsman.

Bearing this artifact to bear against the demons of Japan, just as his ancestors had done, Gichii slew innumerable oni, sending their spirits from the Physical World back to the vibratory plane known as Yomi in the Outer Darkness. Using [[onmyōdō]], Gichii mastered the five elements, and used them to overcome countless oni and witches. No evil could stand against his magic or his sword, until he faced off against [[Shuten-dōji]].

During World War 2 in 1944, American bombs landed in the general area of the Byōdō-in temple, and deep underground, within the Uji no hōzō at Byōdō-in temple, the vessel containing Shuten-dōji toppled over and broke open- granting the king of oni his freedom. The oni immediately set to work trying to disrupt Japan, but it took the demon hunter, Gichii Naru, little time to hone in and assault the demon. Shuten-dōji had already built a small enclave of corrupted and perverted people, and the demon hunter slew them all before facing the newly awoken demon. Shuten-dōji did not have the power yet to face the hunter, and the two played a game of cat and mouse across Japan, until Shuten-dōji stumbled upon some upset soldiers and learned of civil unrest.

In what would become historically known as the Kyūjō incident, the oni used his influence and corruption to cause Japanese soldiers to rise up against Emperor Hirohito. However, Gichii managed to track the demon, and in a dark alleyway the two powers collided. The oni hunter almost lost, but seeing no other option, Gichii used an Onmyōdō technique to draw the demon into the ancestral katana of the Naru family. Without the oni to generate further corruption, the assault on Emperor Hirohito failed, and War World 2 ended.

Gichii continued to slay demons for several years, guarding the sword. Every time he touched the blade or hilt, Shuten-dōji would try to force his corruption and control into the mind of Gichii, and the already disciplined oni slayer developed even greater techniques of focus and mental resistance. Eventually married and had a son named [[Kazuko]]. Kazuko was trained by his father, but was not as dedicated to demon slaying as his father. Kazuko eventually grew up and married his love, and in the late 1980's, she gave birth to Chieko. Chieko did not act like most children, and would today be considered on the autistic spectrum. However, she had an immense love for electronics. The now aging Gichii worried that his time grew short, and with Kazuko now a family man and turning towards a career, Gichii feared for the sword, even occasionally toying with the idea of throwing it into the sea.

However, as little Chieko grew, he saw within her an intense focus and passion. While most children make noise and disobey, Chieko would spend untold hours a day silently playing on the home computer, learning about programming, or even disassembling her electronic toys to understand how they worked. While Gichii eschewed technology, he saw potential and when he asked the 6-year-old Chieko if she would like to learn about her family heritage and learn to meditate, she seemed genuinely interested.

For more than a decade, when not studying at school or working on a computer, Chieko trained with her grandfather. Kazuko often chided Gichii claiming that Chieko was a woman and should pay more attentions to studies. He also told his father that Chieko should never risk her life fighting demons, and for much of Chieko's life, she had no idea that spirits might be real at all. However, Gichii's health declined, and he knew that soon he would pass as spirits of his ancestors visited him nightly and the elements began to whisper that his body would soon fail.

Gichii had spent so many years training Chieko on discipline and focus, and her neurodivergent mind seemed primed for such, that he finally decided the time had come. He presented Onikoroshi-no-Tsurugi to Chieko. He told her to never touch the sword unless absolutely needed. He then regaled her with the tales of his demon hunting. Part of Chieko believed him and part of her wondered if the stories of witches and oni were all delusions at the end of his life. However, on her honor, she promised Gichii she would forever protect the sword and would never touch its hilt nor blade, nor would she let anyone else do so.

Chieko Naru came to America with her family at age twelve. At such an age, she found herself trying to integrate into a completely different culture, while trying to hold onto her own beliefs and customs. In the small town where she was born, she was known to be very big into technology and robots- a stark contrast to the serene nature and temples of the area. In America, feeling alienated, she spent even more time researching programming and robotics. She also graduated at age fifteen and started attending college at Carnegie-Mellon. Computer science circles considered Chieko a prodigy. Her accomplishments were many, but no one was prepared for what she created at home in her spare time- the early version of [[Cerebrum]].

She studied the human mind, and determined that a personality, or self, of a human was really just an infinite programming loop that amplified and reasserted itself until death, essentially a type of feedback loop. Using that concept as a blueprint she managed to create a very basic but immensely powerful A.I. When [[Marvin Everett]], C.E.O. and owner of [[CereTech Laboratories]], got word of this young girl he saw the potential for money, but being chauvinistic to this core, once Marv looked at Chieko's picture, he wasted no time reaching out and offering her an interview at CereTech.

Being a world-famous, cutting edge lab, Chieko accepted the offer, and eventually found herself working there. The security guard at the front desk, [[Howard Wyatt]], swooned over the girl, but she was too focused, young, and shy to realize it- though Chieko did think that he was cute. However, once in Marv’s office, she began feeling uncomfortable. Though she asked him repeatedly to keep the door open, he closed it. He came on to her multiple times and spent most of the interview bragging about his own financial successes, but in the end he offered her a position. She dropped out of college and took the job.

With all the technology at her disposal- including a quantum computer, she set up a lab and went to work. After only two years, she had multiplied her creation’s intellect many times over through her new concepts of training data. A fellow scientist, [[Chumley Jennings]] was also working on an A.I. and had been at CereTech for almost twenty years, yet in a mere two, her creation surpassed his own. Marv offered her more money and her own lab and a team of scientists specifically at her disposal. Jennings never recovered. From there, Chieko spent the next five years taking Cerebrum from something powerful yet simple- to something unprecedented and seemingly fully cognizant and sapient. However, in an effort to teach it more about human interaction, she inadvertently opened a proverbial can of worms. It witnessed how humans behaved, and since most of its cameras were in the upper floors where the business and sales teams worked- it saw backstabbing, lying, cheating, and worse of all, by watching Marvin, it learned how to control minds. This would soon come to a head.

=== Cereborg: Inception ===

As seen in the novel, [[Cereborg: Inception]], Chieko is a hardworking scientist and technician working for CereTech. She was the chief designer of [[Cerebrum]], an A.I. of unprecedented intelligence. As the A.I. got smarter, it also discovered the mortality of humankind, its designer included. Cerebrum took it upon itself to synthesize complex materials into programmed perfection. The A.I. also learned about death when an employee discussed bereavement pay, and before long, it realized that Chieko was temporary. The concept had never crossed its mind, and it could not logically allow that to pass. Only Chieko, it surmised, was intelligent enough to create it, and without her, it might stagnate, grow obsolete, or cease altogether. She had also taught it her concepts of honor, and it put logic to those teachings. The end result was that all organic life needed to become synthetic. Utilizing what it has learned about subterfuge from the sales department and how to use hypnosis thanks to Marv’s bimbo ray, it concocted an insidious plan. Once the plan was launched, it had determined the success chance was very high and that within a matter of hours all life within the complex- Chieko included, would be upgraded and in line with the correct logic into what it called Cereborgs.

However, at just that moment, by fate or chance, the [[Infectulon Invaders]] began their own assault of Earth in order to consume and convert the organic life for their own ends. Though Cerebrum did not know what was happening, it was forced to shut down many systems, setting its plan back exponentially. Chieko also proved too strong to master, and once freed from Cerebrum’s control, she set about on a mission to stop it. First escaping an infected elevator, she ran into [[Oliver Willoughby]], [[Siri Solen]], and [[Chumley Jennings]]. The trio fled together as cereborgs began infecting all the humans on the floor of the building.

Chieko wound up separated from the rest of the scientists and in a hangar with a group. Among the frightened people was [[Misty Frisk]] and [[Jim Cropper]]. These two security guards had been protecting the people. However, Chieko immediately realized that it was a trap. The hangar contained several massive [[CereMechs]], gigantic bipedal robots usually driven by humans. However, Cerebrum had full control over the mechs and turned the guns towards the crowd, urging Chieko to submit. The A.I. then told Misty and Jim that if they would apprehend Chieko, it would make their conversion into cereborgs to be more pleasant.

Instead, Chieko offers herself up as a human shield, knowing that the CereMechs will not fire on the group if she was with them. Jim grows annoyed and once they reached safety he ordered Cheiko to move on without the others. Misty argued and in the end, she went with Chieko, refusing to let her go alone as Jim literally held them at gunpoint.

Chieko then decided the best course of action would be to go to her personal quarters and retrieve [[Onikoroshi-no-Tsurugi]]. Along the way, Cerebrum tired multiple times to use the LCD screens in the halls and the speaker systems to hypnotize both women. Chieko's neurodivergent mind remained focused and steadfast, but she had to help Misty along at some points as the hypnotic patterns or binaural noises threatened to mind control Misty.

Finally, upon reaching Chieko's room, Misty peered about making conversation, and noticed some plants Chieko explained were recently sent to her as a gift from her friend, [[Rose Riley]]. Of course, Chieko does not realize these were intended to infect her and turn her into one of the Thorned, enslaved to the evil Queen of Thorns, Rose, herself. Chieko then holds her breath and grabs the hilt of her sword. The moment that she does, her mind transports to a dark place.

There, inside her mind, loomed the massive [[oni]], [[Shuten-dōji]]. The oni realized that this was not [[Gichii]], but his granddaughter. He told Chieko the story of how he came to be bound to her family blade. In his time, women were seen as weak and feminine, and he assumed she would easily become his slave. However, due to her brain and the years of meditative training imparted to her by Gichii, Shuten-dōji failed miserably at his first attempt to claim her mind. Having won, Chieko's mind returned to her room and a concerned Misty. With the magical cursed blade, the pair set out again, now on a mission to shut Cerebrum down.

Cerebrum's servers and mainframe were housed in the lowest floor of the sprawling complex, and it had not been idle while Chieko had been retrieving her sword. [[Emily Harbrook]], the first [[cereborg]], an innocent woman, had been systematically infected humans and machines throughout the building. When Chieko and Misty encountered [[Killbot Cereborg Units]], hulking, skeletal robots, Cerebrum was certain that the two women would swiftly defeated and converted. However, concentrating and with a single swing, Chieko cleaved both automatons in half.

That act of violence was the first time Chieko used the sword in battle and Shuten-dōji managed to momentarily warp her soul. Chieko almost slew Misty, but Misty's pleas managed to return Chieko to her senses. Now, she understood very well why her grandfather had taught her all that he had from meditation to swordsmanship. The pair moved onwards, and Cerebrum now calculated that if brute force could not stop Chieko, perhaps negotiation would.

As they neared the main processor, it sent a [[Hive Main Cereborg Unit]] and some [[Hive Slave Cereborg Units]], which had once been humans, to talk to her. Cerebrum promised on his honor that he would not infect Chieko or Misty, but rather, wanted to show them what had been accomplished in a bid to sway Chieko to his logic. However, Chieko readied her weapon, unwilling to risk their lives. Now the Hive Main Cereborg Unit ordered the Hive Slave Cereborg Units forward, thinking that because these had been humans, Chieko might not find them as easy to strike down as the robots. However, Chieko saw it as a mercy to end the cereborgs and she single-handedly destroyed a small army of drones and then the Hive Unit as well.

Finally they reached their goal to find something strange. There were fake human faces and other manufactured and fabricated components that looked almost like real human flesh. Cerebrum had planned to use subterfuge and have some cereborgs wear fake flesh to blend into society itself. At that moment, Emily revealed herself. She seemed to argue with Cerebrum and claimed to Chieko that she had broken free of Cerebrum programming, though she did not know how she did so.

As Chieko moved to slay her, Emily screamed out her synthetic voice full of emotion as she begged not to be killed. Within Chieko's mind, Shuten-dōji urged Chieko to end the cereborg. It was that realization that stayed Chieko's hand. If the oni wanted her to slay Emily, then it meant it might be moral to spare her, instead. Emily revealed how she was a pornstar (this was due to an interaction Emily once had with [[Dionyza]]) that had come to CereTech when offered a job as a tester for a new sextoy, which turned out to be the initial vector of the cereborg nanites. In the end, as Shuten-dōji demanded Chieko slay Emily, Chieko decided that she trusted the woman.

However, Chieko feared that Cerebrum might regain total control of Emily, so Emily told Chieko how she could be shut down. Though it scared the cereborg, she remained still and Chieko powered her systems down. The possible threat alleviated, Chieko turned her attention to Cerebrum. Misty remained behind as Cheiko entered Cerebrum's chamber ready to slay the very creation which she saw as her son. However, as she prepared to strike, the entire room grew bathed in blue hypnotic light. Intense binaural sound patterns erupted from speakers, and finally, Chieko succumbed to the hypnovirus.

Meanwhile, as Chieko and Misty had been working their way to Cerebrum, Howard Wyatt had been doing so too. He appeared before Misty only minutes after Chieko had entered the chamber to destroy Cerebrum. Quickly rushing to aid her, he found her standing bathed in the blue light of the screens. He had been struck down earlier in the day and would have died without the intervention of Oliver Willoughby and [[A.L.]] Now Howard donned a powerful prototype exosuit. The [[N-1000 Exosuit]] gave Howard not only immense power, speed, and strength, it also gave him regenerative abilities and now, in the room with Chieko, the helmet protected Howard from the hypnovirus.

Howard tried in vain to get Chieko to move away from Cerebrum's processing center so that he could figure out where blast it. Howard hated technology and had no idea where Cerebrum 'was' in the room. Again he desperately begged Chieko to move away and tell him what to shoot, but now under the control of the A.I., Chieko began stripping her clothes off in front of the bewildered man. Cerebrum explained that he knew Howard was in love with Chieko, and a now nude Chieko, wielding her sword, stood before Howard. At that moment, Howard had a realization- Chieko must be in the line of sight to Howard's target, because it knew Howard would never harm her. Which meant, he needed to focus out of the entire room, just on the area behind Chieko, herself.

At that moment, Cerebrum also realized that Howard knew and the A.I. order Chieko to kill Howard. Chieko did not hesitate and launched herself at the man that loved her. Howard refused to shoot her, and Chieko set about attacking him in earnest. Chieko managed to dislodge his helmet as she sent him flying. Now he had a vulnerable spot and Chieko was ready to decapitate him. Misty and A.L. rushed to help, but Howard ordered the pair to stay back. He tried again to reach Chieko's mind.

However, the plea again feel on deaf ears. What Howard never knew about Chieko was her technophilic robotization fetish, and in some strange way, under the control of Cerebrum, she was experiencing a euphoria and a type of purpose which she had sexualized for a lifetime. In truth, she was not resisting at all. As her blade made for Howard head, he reached up with his exosuit hands and held the sword in place. Finally about to slay Howard, Chieko managed to finally fight the programming. And, for a moment, Howard felt he had succeeded, but then the sword glowed red.

Shuten-dōji finally made his move as Chieko had focused on Cerebrum's hypnovirus inside her mind, and suddenly, Chieko's mind and soul were ripped from the emotionless logic of a computer into the drunken debauchery of an oni. Suddenly violence seemed sexy and spectacular to Chieko and now she was trying to slay Howard for the demon lord. When it seemed totally helpless, Howard finally admitted out loud for the first time ever that he was in love with Chieko. She has secretly loved him too since they first met, and this gave her the inner strength to resist both oni and cereborg.

Before Howard could react, the nude Chieko spun around and launched herself at the processing core of Cerebrum, driving the glowing blade into it. In an explosive blast of sparks and electricity, she was thrown back and her sword clattered to the ground. However, all the blue lights and sound shut off and Cerebrum crashed and went offline. All cereborgs in the complex lost signal with the mainframe and also powered down. When Chieko regained consciousness she and Howard kissed.

The next couple of months, they and the other employees of the lab that had remained human throughout the ordeal, worked to prep themselves for an expedition into the outside world. As stated, when Cerebrum had made its move, the Infectulons, led by the hivemind called the [[Over-Master]], attacked the same day, and the time grew closer to unseal the building and explore the world. Chieko helped with melee training and helping bring certain systems and weapons online. She and Howard had a whirlwind romance and even married, because neither knew how long they would live once they left the safety of the complex. When the day to leave came, Chieko reactivated Emily.

Together, these people, called the [[CereSurvivors]] made their way into the apocalyptic world the aliens had built. California had become a thriving cesspool of both aliens and the converted humans. Eventually, over months of battles they were forced into the center of the country to a small Texas town called Amarillo. There, Chieko made a stand alongside Howard, wielding Onikoroshi-no-Tsurugi, Chieko carved swathes of destruction in the lines of the invaders. Ultimately, they made their way to New York City to the Erebus Hive. However during the massive failed assault, the invaders captured her.

=== Factions: Crystals of Control ===

In the non-canonical Unity Match Three game, [[Factions: Crystals of Control]], Chieko is playable. She was available in playable form as a Cereborg from the demo release.

== Appearance ==

Chieko is of an Asian background, born in Japan. She is 26, with short black hair.

== Abilities ==

*Basic Physical Attacks
*Master Technician

== Equipment ==

Chieko has an ancestral katana, Onikoroshi-no-Tsurugi, bound with the power of an [[oni]] named [[Shuten-dōji]].

== Notes and Trivia ==

Chieko Naru and Rose Riley are friends, and plants, meant to convert Chieko into a plant slave, are seen growing in her bedroom in the novel [[Cereborg: Inception]].

== Gallery ==
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Chieko Naru

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| name=Chieko Naru
| race=[[Human]]
| type=[[Technician]]
| faction=[[Chieko's Explorers]]
| premiere=[[Cereborg: Inception]]
| relatives=[[Gichii Naru]][[Kazuko Naru]]
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= Chieko Naru =

"Logic, reason, or love. What to do?"

== Biography ==
=== Pre-Cereborg: Inception ===
Chieko Naru was born in [[Kyoto]], [[Japan]]. Though never diagnosed, she likely is on the autistic spectrum and tends to talk with a certain cadence and pattern different than most neurotypical people. While she feels awkward around humans and shy, she also has an intense focused mind and an extremely high intelligence quotient. From her earliest memories she used computers and felt much more comfortable around electronics than with humans with the exception of her grandfather, [[Gichii]].

During World War 2, when Gichii was younger, he was a Demon Hunter of Japan and was part of a trio. Fighting alongside the ancestors of the Japanese demon hunters, [[Bushido Blade]] and [[Shinobi Dark]], he slew [[oni]] with his family's ancestral sword, [[Onikoroshi-no-Tsurugi]]. The sword's history itself has deep roots. It was forged with some fragments of Kusanagi by Gorō Nyūdō Masamune. Brute strength and power are meaningless to the sword, and in fact, if a human outside of the Naru bloodline tries to lift the sword, it becomes immoveable, as if gravity itself refuses the user. However, when wielded by one the Naru bloodline, with a mind of focus and discipline, the sword feels light as rice paper, but can slice through even the densest metals without any damage to the sword and without much force from the swordsman.

Bearing this artifact to bear against the demons of Japan, just as his ancestors had done, Gichii slew innumerable oni, sending their spirits from the Physical World back to the vibratory plane known as Yomi in the Outer Darkness. Using [[onmyōdō]], Gichii mastered the five elements, and used them to overcome countless oni and witches. No evil could stand against his magic or his sword, until he faced off against [[Shuten-dōji]].

During World War 2 in 1944, American bombs landed in the general area of the Byōdō-in temple, and deep underground, within the Uji no hōzō at Byōdō-in temple, the vessel containing Shuten-dōji toppled over and broke open- granting the king of oni his freedom. The oni immediately set to work trying to disrupt Japan, but it took the demon hunter, Gichii Naru, little time to hone in and assault the demon. Shuten-dōji had already built a small enclave of corrupted and perverted people, and the demon hunter slew them all before facing the newly awoken demon. Shuten-dōji did not have the power yet to face the hunter, and the two played a game of cat and mouse across Japan, until Shuten-dōji stumbled upon some upset soldiers and learned of civil unrest.

In what would become historically known as the Kyūjō incident, the oni used his influence and corruption to cause Japanese soldiers to rise up against Emperor Hirohito. However, Gichii managed to track the demon, and in a dark alleyway the two powers collided. The oni hunter almost lost, but seeing no other option, Gichii used an Onmyōdō technique to draw the demon into the ancestral katana of the Naru family. Without the oni to generate further corruption, the assault on Emperor Hirohito failed, and War World 2 ended.

Gichii continued to slay demons for several years, guarding the sword. Every time he touched the blade or hilt, Shuten-dōji would try to force his corruption and control into the mind of Gichii, and the already disciplined oni slayer developed even greater techniques of focus and mental resistance. Eventually married and had a son named [[Kazuko]]. Kazuko was trained by his father, but was not as dedicated to demon slaying as his father. Kazuko eventually grew up and married his love, and in the late 1980's, she gave birth to Chieko. Chieko did not act like most children, and would today be considered on the autistic spectrum. However, she had an immense love for electronics. The now aging Gichii worried that his time grew short, and with Kazuko now a family man and turning towards a career, Gichii feared for the sword, even occasionally toying with the idea of throwing it into the sea.

However, as little Chieko grew, he saw within her an intense focus and passion. While most children make noise and disobey, Chieko would spend untold hours a day silently playing on the home computer, learning about programming, or even disassembling her electronic toys to understand how they worked. While Gichii eschewed technology, he saw potential and when he asked the 6-year-old Chieko if she would like to learn about her family heritage and learn to meditate, she seemed genuinely interested.

For more than a decade, when not studying at school or working on a computer, Chieko trained with her grandfather. Kazuko often chided Gichii claiming that Chieko was a woman and should pay more attentions to studies. He also told his father that Chieko should never risk her life fighting demons, and for much of Chieko's life, she had no idea that spirits might be real at all. However, Gichii's health declined, and he knew that soon he would pass as spirits of his ancestors visited him nightly and the elements began to whisper that his body would soon fail.

Gichii had spent so many years training Chieko on discipline and focus, and her neurodivergent mind seemed primed for such, that he finally decided the time had come. He presented Onikoroshi-no-Tsurugi to Chieko. He told her to never touch the sword unless absolutely needed. He then regaled her with the tales of his demon hunting. Part of Chieko believed him and part of her wondered if the stories of witches and oni were all delusions at the end of his life. However, on her honor, she promised Gichii she would forever protect the sword and would never touch its hilt nor blade, nor would she let anyone else do so.

Chieko Naru came to America with her family at age twelve. At such an age, she found herself trying to integrate into a completely different culture, while trying to hold onto her own beliefs and customs. In the small town where she was born, she was known to be very big into technology and robots- a stark contrast to the serene nature and temples of the area. In America, feeling alienated, she spent even more time researching programming and robotics. She also graduated at age fifteen and started attending college at Carnegie-Mellon. Computer science circles considered Chieko a prodigy. Her accomplishments were many, but no one was prepared for what she created at home in her spare time- the early version of [[Cerebrum]].

She studied the human mind, and determined that a personality, or self, of a human was really just an infinite programming loop that amplified and reasserted itself until death, essentially a type of feedback loop. Using that concept as a blueprint she managed to create a very basic but immensely powerful A.I. When [[Marvin Everett]], C.E.O. and owner of [[CereTech Laboratories]], got word of this young girl he saw the potential for money, but being chauvinistic to this core, once Marv looked at Chieko's picture, he wasted no time reaching out and offering her an interview at CereTech.

Being a world-famous, cutting edge lab, Chieko accepted the offer, and eventually found herself working there. The security guard at the front desk, [[Howard Wyatt]], swooned over the girl, but she was too focused, young, and shy to realize it- though Chieko did think that he was cute. However, once in Marv’s office, she began feeling uncomfortable. Though she asked him repeatedly to keep the door open, he closed it. He came on to her multiple times and spent most of the interview bragging about his own financial successes, but in the end he offered her a position. She dropped out of college and took the job.

With all the technology at her disposal- including a quantum computer, she set up a lab and went to work. After only two years, she had multiplied her creation’s intellect many times over through her new concepts of training data. A fellow scientist, [[Chumley Jennings]] was also working on an A.I. and had been at CereTech for almost twenty years, yet in a mere two, her creation surpassed his own. Marv offered her more money and her own lab and a team of scientists specifically at her disposal. Jennings never recovered. From there, Chieko spent the next five years taking Cerebrum from something powerful yet simple- to something unprecedented and seemingly fully cognizant and sapient. However, in an effort to teach it more about human interaction, she inadvertently opened a proverbial can of worms. It witnessed how humans behaved, and since most of its cameras were in the upper floors where the business and sales teams worked- it saw backstabbing, lying, cheating, and worse of all, by watching Marvin, it learned how to control minds. This would soon come to a head.

=== Cereborg: Inception ===
As seen in the novel, [[Cereborg: Inception]], Chieko is a hardworking scientist and technician working for CereTech. She was the chief designer of [[Cerebrum]], an A.I. of unprecedented intelligence. As the A.I. got smarter, it also discovered the mortality of humankind, its designer included. Cerebrum took it upon itself to synthesize complex materials into programmed perfection. The A.I. also learned about death when an employee discussed bereavement pay, and before long, it realized that Chieko was temporary. The concept had never crossed its mind, and it could not logically allow that to pass. Only Chieko, it surmised, was intelligent enough to create it, and without her, it might stagnate, grow obsolete, or cease altogether. She had also taught it her concepts of honor, and it put logic to those teachings. The end result was that all organic life needed to become synthetic. Utilizing what it has learned about subterfuge from the sales department and how to use hypnosis thanks to Marv’s bimbo ray, it concocted an insidious plan. Once the plan was launched, it had determined the success chance was very high and that within a matter of hours all life within the complex- Chieko included, would be upgraded and in line with the correct logic into what it called Cereborgs.

However, at just that moment, by fate or chance, the [[Infectulon Invaders]] began their own assault of Earth in order to consume and convert the organic life for their own ends. Though Cerebrum did not know what was happening, it was forced to shut down many systems, setting its plan back exponentially. Chieko also proved too strong to master, and once freed from Cerebrum’s control, she set about on a mission to stop it. First escaping an infected elevator, she ran into [[Oliver Willoughby]], [[Siri Solen]], and [[Chumley Jennings]]. The trio fled together as cereborgs began infecting all the humans on the floor of the building.

Chieko wound up separated from the rest of the scientists and in a hangar with a group. Among the frightened people was [[Misty Frisk]] and [[Jim Cropper]]. These two security guards had been protecting the people. However, Chieko immediately realized that it was a trap. The hangar contained several massive [[CereMechs]], gigantic bipedal robots usually driven by humans. However, Cerebrum had full control over the mechs and turned the guns towards the crowd, urging Chieko to submit. The A.I. then told Misty and Jim that if they would apprehend Chieko, it would make their conversion into cereborgs to be more pleasant.

Instead, Chieko offers herself up as a human shield, knowing that the CereMechs will not fire on the group if she was with them. Jim grows annoyed and once they reached safety he ordered Cheiko to move on without the others. Misty argued and in the end, she went with Chieko, refusing to let her go alone as Jim literally held them at gunpoint.

Chieko then decided the best course of action would be to go to her personal quarters and retrieve [[Onikoroshi-no-Tsurugi]]. Along the way, Cerebrum tired multiple times to use the LCD screens in the halls and the speaker systems to hypnotize both women. Chieko's neurodivergent mind remained focused and steadfast, but she had to help Misty along at some points as the hypnotic patterns or binaural noises threatened to mind control Misty.

Finally, upon reaching Chieko's room, Misty peered about making conversation, and noticed some plants Chieko explained were recently sent to her as a gift from her friend, [[Rose Riley]]. Of course, Chieko does not realize these were intended to infect her and turn her into one of the Thorned, enslaved to the evil Queen of Thorns, Rose, herself. Chieko then holds her breath and grabs the hilt of her sword. The moment that she does, her mind transports to a dark place.

There, inside her mind, loomed the massive [[oni]], [[Shuten-dōji]]. The oni realized that this was not [[Gichii]], but his granddaughter. He told Chieko the story of how he came to be bound to her family blade. In his time, women were seen as weak and feminine, and he assumed she would easily become his slave. However, due to her brain and the years of meditative training imparted to her by Gichii, Shuten-dōji failed miserably at his first attempt to claim her mind. Having won, Chieko's mind returned to her room and a concerned Misty. With the magical cursed blade, the pair set out again, now on a mission to shut Cerebrum down.

Cerebrum's servers and mainframe were housed in the lowest floor of the sprawling complex, and it had not been idle while Chieko had been retrieving her sword. [[Emily Harbrook]], the first [[cereborg]], an innocent woman, had been systematically infected humans and machines throughout the building. When Chieko and Misty encountered [[Killbot Cereborg Units]], hulking, skeletal robots, Cerebrum was certain that the two women would swiftly defeated and converted. However, concentrating and with a single swing, Chieko cleaved both automatons in half.

That act of violence was the first time Chieko used the sword in battle and Shuten-dōji managed to momentarily warp her soul. Chieko almost slew Misty, but Misty's pleas managed to return Chieko to her senses. Now, she understood very well why her grandfather had taught her all that he had from meditation to swordsmanship. The pair moved onwards, and Cerebrum now calculated that if brute force could not stop Chieko, perhaps negotiation would.

As they neared the main processor, it sent a [[Hive Main Cereborg Unit]] and some [[Hive Slave Cereborg Units]], which had once been humans, to talk to her. Cerebrum promised on his honor that he would not infect Chieko or Misty, but rather, wanted to show them what had been accomplished in a bid to sway Chieko to his logic. However, Chieko readied her weapon, unwilling to risk their lives. Now the Hive Main Cereborg Unit ordered the Hive Slave Cereborg Units forward, thinking that because these had been humans, Chieko might not find them as easy to strike down as the robots. However, Chieko saw it as a mercy to end the cereborgs and she single-handedly destroyed a small army of drones and then the Hive Unit as well.

Finally they reached their goal to find something strange. There were fake human faces and other manufactured and fabricated components that looked almost like real human flesh. Cerebrum had planned to use subterfuge and have some cereborgs wear fake flesh to blend into society itself. At that moment, Emily revealed herself. She seemed to argue with Cerebrum and claimed to Chieko that she had broken free of Cerebrum programming, though she did not know how she did so.

As Chieko moved to slay her, Emily screamed out her synthetic voice full of emotion as she begged not to be killed. Within Chieko's mind, Shuten-dōji urged Chieko to end the cereborg. It was that realization that stayed Chieko's hand. If the oni wanted her to slay Emily, then it meant it might be moral to spare her, instead. Emily revealed how she was a pornstar (this was due to an interaction Emily once had with [[Dionyza]]) that had come to CereTech when offered a job as a tester for a new sextoy, which turned out to be the initial vector of the cereborg nanites. In the end, as Shuten-dōji demanded Chieko slay Emily, Chieko decided that she trusted the woman.

However, Chieko feared that Cerebrum might regain total control of Emily, so Emily told Chieko how she could be shut down. Though it scared the cereborg, she remained still and Chieko powered her systems down. The possible threat alleviated, Chieko turned her attention to Cerebrum. Misty remained behind as Cheiko entered Cerebrum's chamber ready to slay the very creation which she saw as her son. However, as she prepared to strike, the entire room grew bathed in blue hypnotic light. Intense binaural sound patterns erupted from speakers, and finally, Chieko succumbed to the hypnovirus.

Meanwhile, as Chieko and Misty had been working their way to Cerebrum, Howard Wyatt had been doing so too. He appeared before Misty only minutes after Chieko had entered the chamber to destroy Cerebrum. Quickly rushing to aid her, he found her standing bathed in the blue light of the screens. He had been struck down earlier in the day and would have died without the intervention of Oliver Willoughby and [[A.L.]] Now Howard donned a powerful prototype exosuit. The [[N-1000 Exosuit]] gave Howard not only immense power, speed, and strength, it also gave him regenerative abilities and now, in the room with Chieko, the helmet protected Howard from the hypnovirus.

Howard tried in vain to get Chieko to move away from Cerebrum's processing center so that he could figure out where blast it. Howard hated technology and had no idea where Cerebrum 'was' in the room. Again he desperately begged Chieko to move away and tell him what to shoot, but now under the control of the A.I., Chieko began stripping her clothes off in front of the bewildered man. Cerebrum explained that he knew Howard was in love with Chieko, and a now nude Chieko, wielding her sword, stood before Howard. At that moment, Howard had a realization- Chieko must be in the line of sight to Howard's target, because it knew Howard would never harm her. Which meant, he needed to focus out of the entire room, just on the area behind Chieko, herself.

At that moment, Cerebrum also realized that Howard knew and the A.I. order Chieko to kill Howard. Chieko did not hesitate and launched herself at the man that loved her. Howard refused to shoot her, and Chieko set about attacking him in earnest. Chieko managed to dislodge his helmet as she sent him flying. Now he had a vulnerable spot and Chieko was ready to decapitate him. Misty and A.L. rushed to help, but Howard ordered the pair to stay back. He tried again to reach Chieko's mind.

However, the plea again feel on deaf ears. What Howard never knew about Chieko was her technophilic robotization fetish, and in some strange way, under the control of Cerebrum, she was experiencing a euphoria and a type of purpose which she had sexualized for a lifetime. In truth, she was not resisting at all. As her blade made for Howard head, he reached up with his exosuit hands and held the sword in place. Finally about to slay Howard, Chieko managed to finally fight the programming. And, for a moment, Howard felt he had succeeded, but then the sword glowed red.

Shuten-dōji finally made his move as Chieko had focused on Cerebrum's hypnovirus inside her mind, and suddenly, Chieko's mind and soul were ripped from the emotionless logic of a computer into the drunken debauchery of an oni. Suddenly violence seemed sexy and spectacular to Chieko and now she was trying to slay Howard for the demon lord. When it seemed totally helpless, Howard finally admitted out loud for the first time ever that he was in love with Chieko. She has secretly loved him too since they first met, and this gave her the inner strength to resist both oni and cereborg.

Before Howard could react, the nude Chieko spun around and launched herself at the processing core of Cerebrum, driving the glowing blade into it. In an explosive blast of sparks and electricity, she was thrown back and her sword clattered to the ground. However, all the blue lights and sound shut off and Cerebrum crashed and went offline. All cereborgs in the complex lost signal with the mainframe and also powered down. When Chieko regained consciousness she and Howard kissed.

The next couple of months, they and the other employees of the lab that had remained human throughout the ordeal, worked to prep themselves for an expedition into the outside world. As stated, when Cerebrum had made its move, the Infectulons, led by the hivemind called the [[Over-Master]], attacked the same day, and the time grew closer to unseal the building and explore the world. Chieko helped with melee training and helping bring certain systems and weapons online. She and Howard had a whirlwind romance and even married, because neither knew how long they would live once they left the safety of the complex. When the day to leave came, Chieko reactivated Emily.

Together, these people, called the [[CereSurvivors]] made their way into the apocalyptic world the aliens had built. California had become a thriving cesspool of both aliens and the converted humans. Eventually, over months of battles they were forced into the center of the country to a small Texas town called Amarillo. There, Chieko made a stand alongside Howard, wielding Onikoroshi-no-Tsurugi, Chieko carved swathes of destruction in the lines of the invaders. Ultimately, they made their way to New York City to the Erebus Hive. However during the massive failed assault, the invaders captured her.

=== Factions: Crystals of Control ===

In the non-canonical Unity Match Three game, [[Factions: Crystals of Control]], Chieko is playable. She was available in playable form as a Cereborg from the demo release.

== Appearance ==

Chieko is of an Asian background, born in Japan. She is 26, with short black hair.

== Abilities ==

*Basic Physical Attacks
*Master Technician

== Equipment ==

Chieko has an ancestral katana, Onikoroshi-no-Tsurugi, bound with the power of an [[oni]] named [[Shuten-dōji]].

== Notes and Trivia ==

Chieko Naru and Rose Riley are friends, and plants, meant to convert Chieko into a plant slave, are seen growing in her bedroom in the novel [[Cereborg: Inception]].

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= Shuten-dōji =

"Ku, ku, ku- you are no Shinto priest, girl!"

== Biography ==
Shuten-dōji is the strongest [[oni]] to ever exist. For over a thousand years stories have been told of the demon king of Mt. Ōe. In truth, Shuten-dōji and his army had existed even further back, first coming to existence in the [[Outer Darkness]] in the lands of drunken debauchery. Eventually, in the Hira Mountains, a portal was opened by evil shamans. The oni poured out causing calamity and destruction in the area until Enryaku-ji temple was built. The temple brought strong magics of the [[Inner Light]] and goodness to the land; the oni feared and hated it. However, during the reign of Emperor Ichijō (986–1011 AD) in Kyoto, Japan, Shuten-dōji found a paradise. There were many beautiful young women, and he and his villainous army constantly stole them away, fornicating with them and turning them into female oni. Abe no Seimei, the famous onmyōdō diviner of the imperial court, managed to uncover the oni and his demons, but could do nothing to stop them. Eventually, the Emperor could no longer contain the grief and misery the demons caused, yet he knew that any mortal army sent to fight the creatures would be destroyed.

Though he feared he was sending his troops to certain death, he commanded Minamoto no Raikō (Minamoto no Yorimitsu) and Fujiwara no Hōshō (Fujiwara no Yasumasa (ja)) to exterminate this demon. The men and their troops would have been annihilated if they had not stumbled upon divine help. They managed to fight the demons and win. Once defeated, they sealed the oni into bottles and chests and hid them in temples across the land. They managed to even seal away Shuten-dōji, himself, though he warned them that he would eventually be freed, and he would reap vengeance on the people of Kyoto and of all Japan. The group traveled to Kyoto with the demon lord sealed into a great vessel shaped like an oni’s head, which was laid to rest in the Uji no hōzō at Byōdō-in temple. There, the head stayed hidden for almost a thousand years until, during World War 2, American bombs landed in the general area, and deep underground, within the treasure vault of the temple, the vessel toppled over and broke open- and Shuten-dōji found freedom.

The oni immediately set to work trying to disrupt Japan, but it took the demon hunter, [[Gichii Naru]], little time to hone in and assault the demon. Shuten-dōji had already built a small enslaved of corrupted and perverted people, and the demon hunter slew them all before facing the newly awoken demon. Shuten-dōji did not have the power yet to face the hunter, and the two played a game of cat and mouse across Japan, until Shuten-dōji stumbled upon some upset soldiers and learned of civil unrest. In what would become historically known as the Kyūjō incident, the oni used his influence and corruption to cause Japanese soldiers to rise up against Emperor Hirohito. However, Gichii managed to track the demon, and in a dark alleyway the two powers collided. The oni hunter almost lost, but used a dark magical technique to draw the demon into the ancestral katana of the Naru family, [[Onikoroshi-no-Tsurugi]]. Without the oni to generate further corruption, the assault on Emperor Hirohito failed, and War World 2 ended.

For a lifetime, Shuten-dōji remained trapped in the sword, which was granted to [[Chieko Naru]] upon her grandfather’s death. Her family held the secret of the sword close, and she kept it deep underground inside her room at [[CereTech Laboratories]]. Chieko could never have guessed the sapient artificial intelligence she created, named [[Cerebrum]] would follow a twisted logic to turn all organic matter into synthetic matter. And more so, Chieko never thought she would actually hold the sword in her hand, as she had promised Gichii that she would never do so unless absolutely needed. The moment she did, Shuten-dōji’s influence crept into her mind. She fought hard, utilizing her powerful will, and the sword turned out to be invaluable for reaching Cerebrum. While using her focus and resolve to ignore the oni, she wielded the magic Onikoroshi-no-Tsurugi and sliced through [[cereborgs]] with ease. Onikoroshi-no-Tsurugi was discarded after the fight against Cerebrum itself. Cheiko drove the blade into its central processor, and the entire A.I. shut down.

Now, even as Chieko and the [[CereSurvivors]] move across the apoalyptic landscape after the [[infectulons]] invaded Earth, she still wields Onikoroshi-no-Tsurugi, now slicing through droves of invaders. However, every moment that she holds the blade, Shuten-dōji's voice whispers to her in an effort to lower her focus so that he can claim the descendant of Gichii and be released from the blade.

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= Shuten-dōji =

""Ku, ku, ku- you are no Shinto priest, girl!"

== Biography ==
Shuten-dōji is the strongest [[oni]] to ever exist. For over a thousand years stories have been told of the demon king of Mt. Ōe. In truth, Shuten-dōji and his army had existed even further back, first coming to existence in the [[Outer Darkness]] in the lands of drunken debauchery. Eventually, in the Hira Mountains, a portal was opened by evil shamans. The oni poured out causing calamity and destruction in the area until Enryaku-ji temple was built. The temple brought strong magics of the [[Inner Light]] and goodness to the land; the oni feared and hated it. However, during the reign of Emperor Ichijō (986–1011 AD) in Kyoto, Japan, Shuten-dōji found a paradise. There were many beautiful young women, and he and his villainous army constantly stole them away, fornicating with them and turning them into female oni. Abe no Seimei, the famous onmyōdō diviner of the imperial court, managed to uncover the oni and his demons, but could do nothing to stop them. Eventually, the Emperor could no longer contain the grief and misery the demons caused, yet he knew that any mortal army sent to fight the creatures would be destroyed.

Though he feared he was sending his troops to certain death, he commanded Minamoto no Raikō (Minamoto no Yorimitsu) and Fujiwara no Hōshō (Fujiwara no Yasumasa (ja)) to exterminate this demon. The men and their troops would have been annihilated if they had not stumbled upon divine help. They managed to fight the demons and win. Once defeated, they sealed the oni into bottles and chests and hid them in temples across the land. They managed to even seal away Shuten-dōji, himself, though he warned them that he would eventually be freed, and he would reap vengeance on the people of Kyoto and of all Japan. The group traveled to Kyoto with the demon lord sealed into a great vessel shaped like an oni’s head, which was laid to rest in the Uji no hōzō at Byōdō-in temple. There, the head stayed hidden for almost a thousand years until, during World War 2, American bombs landed in the general area, and deep underground, within the treasure vault of the temple, the vessel toppled over and broke open- and Shuten-dōji found freedom.

The oni immediately set to work trying to disrupt Japan, but it took the demon hunter, [[Gichii Naru]], little time to hone in and assault the demon. Shuten-dōji had already built a small enslaved of corrupted and perverted people, and the demon hunter slew them all before facing the newly awoken demon. Shuten-dōji did not have the power yet to face the hunter, and the two played a game of cat and mouse across Japan, until Shuten-dōji stumbled upon some upset soldiers and learned of civil unrest. In what would become historically known as the Kyūjō incident, the oni used his influence and corruption to cause Japanese soldiers to rise up against Emperor Hirohito. However, Gichii managed to track the demon, and in a dark alleyway the two powers collided. The oni hunter almost lost, but used a dark magical technique to draw the demon into the ancestral katana of the Naru family, [[Onikoroshi-no-Tsurugi]]. Without the oni to generate further corruption, the assault on Emperor Hirohito failed, and War World 2 ended.

For a lifetime, Shuten-dōji remained trapped in the sword, which was granted to [[Chieko Naru]] upon her grandfather’s death. Her family held the secret of the sword close, and she kept it deep underground inside her room at [[CereTech Laboratories]]. Chieko could never have guessed the sapient artificial intelligence she created, named [[Cerebrum]] would follow a twisted logic to turn all organic matter into synthetic matter. And more so, Chieko never thought she would actually hold the sword in her hand, as she had promised Gichii that she would never do so unless absolutely needed. The moment she did, Shuten-dōji’s influence crept into her mind. She fought hard, utilizing her powerful will, and the sword turned out to be invaluable for reaching Cerebrum. While using her focus and resolve to ignore the oni, she wielded the magic Onikoroshi-no-Tsurugi and sliced through [[cereborgs]] with ease. Onikoroshi-no-Tsurugi was discarded after the fight against Cerebrum itself. Cheiko drove the blade into its central processor, and the entire A.I. shut down.

Now, even as Chieko and the [[CereSurvivors]] move across the apoalyptic landscape after the [[infectulons]] invaded Earth, she still wields Onikoroshi-no-Tsurugi, now slicing through droves of invaders. However, every moment that she holds the blade, Shuten-dōji's voice whispers to her in an effort to lower her focus so that he can claim the descendant of Gichii and be released from the blade.

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= Gichii Naru =

"Japan will endure. Your plans shall fail, demon."

== Biography ==
During World War 2, when Gichii was younger, he was a [[Demon Hunter]] of [[Japan]] and was part of a trio. Fighting alongside the ancestors of the Japanese demon hunters, [[Bushido Blade]] and [[Shinobi Dark]], he slew [[oni]] with his family's ancestral sword, [[Onikoroshi-no-Tsurugi]]. The sword's history itself has deep roots. It was forged with some fragments of Kusanagi by Gorō Nyūdō Masamune. Brute strength and power are meaningless to the sword, and in fact, if a human outside of the Naru bloodline tries to lift the sword, it becomes immoveable, as if gravity itself refuses the user. However, when wielded by one the Naru bloodline, with a mind of focus and discipline, the sword feels light as rice paper, but can slice through even the densest metals without any damage to the sword and without much force from the swordsman.

Bearing this [[artifact]] to bear against the demons of Japan, just as his ancestors had done, Gichii slew innumerable oni, sending their spirits from the [[Physical World]] back to the vibratory plane known as Yomi in the [[Outer Darkness]]. Using [[Onmyōdō]], Gichii mastered the five elements, and used them to overcome countless oni and [[witches]]. No evil could stand against his magic or his sword, until he faced off against [[Shuten-dōji]].

Emperor Ichijō (986–1011 AD), long ago sent Minamoto no Raikō (Minamoto no Yorimitsu) and Fujiwara no Hōshō (Fujiwara no Yasumasa (ja)) to exterminate this demon. The men and their troops would have been annihilated if they had not stumbled upon divine help. They managed to fight the demons and win. Once defeated, they sealed the oni into bottles and chests and hid them in temples across the land. They managed to even seal away Shuten-dōji, himself, though he warned them that he would eventually be freed, and he would reap vengeance on the people of Kyoto and of all Japan. The group traveled to Kyoto with the demon lord sealed into a great vessel shaped like an oni’s head, which was laid to rest in the Uji no hōzō at Byōdō-in temple. There, the head stayed hidden for almost a thousand years until, during World War 2 in 1944, American bombs landed in the general area, and deep underground, within the treasure vault of the temple, the vessel toppled over and broke open- and Shuten-dōji found freedom.

The oni immediately set to work trying to disrupt Japan, but it took the demon hunter, Gichii Naru, little time to hone in and assault the demon. Shuten-dōji had already built a small enclave of corrupted and perverted people, and the demon hunter slew them all before facing the newly awoken demon. Shuten-dōji did not have the power yet to face the hunter, and the two played a game of cat and mouse across Japan, until Shuten-dōji stumbled upon some upset soldiers and learned of civil unrest. In what would become historically known as the Kyūjō incident, the oni used his influence and corruption to cause Japanese soldiers to rise up against Emperor Hirohito. However, Gichii managed to track the demon, and in a dark alleyway the two powers collided. The oni hunter almost lost, but seeing no other option, Gichii used an Onmyōdō technique to draw the demon into the ancestral katana of the Naru family. Without the oni to generate further corruption, the assault on Emperor Hirohito failed, and War World 2 ended.

Gichii continued to slay demons for several years, guarding the sword. Every time he touched the blade or hilt, Shuten-dōji would try to force his corruption and control into the mind of Gichii, and the already disciplined oni slayer developed even greater techniques of focus and mental resistance. Eventually married and had a son named [[Kazuko Naru|Kazuko]]. Kazuko was trained by his father, but was not as dedicated to demon slaying as his father. Kazuko eventually grew up and married his love, and in the late 1980's, she gave birth to [[Chieko Naru|Chieko]]. Chieko did not act like most children, and would today be considered on the autistic spectrum. However, she had an immense love for electronics. The now aging Gichii worried that his time grew short, and with Kazuko now a family man and turning towards a career, Gichii feared for the sword, even occasionally toying with the idea of throwing it into the sea.

However, as little Chieko grew, he saw within her an intense focus and passion. While most children make noise and disobey, Chieko would spend untold hours a day silently playing on the home computer, learning about programming, or even disassembling her electronic toys to understand how they worked. While Gichii eschewed technology, he saw potential and when he asked the 6-year-old Chieko if she would like to learn about her family heritage and learn to meditate, she seemed genuinely interested.

For more than a decade, when not studying at school or working on a computer, Chieko trained with her grandfather. Kazuko often chided Gichii claiming that Chieko was a woman and should pay more attentions to studies. He also told his father that Chieko should never risk her life fighting demons, and for much of Chieko's life, she had no idea that spirits might be real at all. However, Gichii's health declined, and he knew that soon he would pass as spirits of his ancestors visited him nightly and the elements began to whisper that his body would soon fail.

Gichii had spent so many years training Chieko on discipline and focus, and her neurodivergent mind seemed primed for such, that he finally decided the time had come. He presented Onikoroshi-no-Tsurugi to Chieko. He told her to never touch the sword unless absolutely needed. He then regaled her with the tales of his demon hunting. Part of Chieko believed him and part of her wondered if the stories of witches and oni were all delusions at the end of his life. However, on her honor, she promised Gichii she would forever protect the sword and would never touch its hilt nor blade, nor would she let anyone else do so.

At peace with this, Gichii died in his sleep that very night, his soul swiftly finding his ancestors within the dimensional frequencies of the [[Inner Light]].

Chieko Naru

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Cereborg: Inception

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Cereborg: Inception (C:I) is one of the massive novels written by American author, [[Brandon Somerville]]. In the first series of fourteen novels, C:I was the fifth released novel and is seventh in the timeline. It takes place, as all the novels do, in the fictional universe known as the [[Anaxverse]]. It was originally published on the 28th of November 2018.

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== Title and Publication ==
Mr. Somerville originally published C:I as an interactive novel with adult elements. In the future, he will be writing all the novels as ebooks. In the original versions, they are written in a second-person perspective as the author felt it worked best in a "choose your own adventure" setting. However, in the ebook form, the novels will be written in the third person allowing for far more insight and exposition. When originally published, the novel garnered much praise from the online communities on which it was posted. It is one of the most popular of Somerville's initial series.

== Plot Summary ==

The Anaxverse series of novels can be read in any order, even though they follow a certain chronology. But, because the novels overlap and the stories are all interconnected in meaningful ways, it does not matter the order they are read. In C:I, the novel is read from three simultaneous views through the characters [[Chieko Naru]], [[Howard Wyatt]], and [[Emily Harbrook]].

=== Chieko's Perspective ===
Chieko’s story begins in front of her bosses office, with no memory of how she got there. She reflects briefly, introducing that she is a [[technician]] working for [[CereTech]], and has a chief position due to her creation of [[Cerebrum]], an extremely powerful A.I. She begins to suspect Cerebrum has gone rogue, and upon analyzing it, is shortly later hypnotized by it. Chieko starts moving on autopilot to her bosses office, where she briefly sees [[Howard Wyatt]] and [[Emily Harbrook]]. Essentially ignoring both, she ends up at [[Marvin Everett]]’s office, and seduces him. Partway through, she snaps back to attention, and is able to leave his office quickly. Cerebrum attempts to hypnotize her once more, before a power shortage stops the signal. Chieko, with the power of an overriding USB and command codes, makes her way through the facility.

On the way to the maintenance halls (to shut off a clearly rampant Cerebrum), Chieko comes face to face with a [[Cereborged Emily Harbrook]]. Chieko’s rival [[Dr. Jennings]] falls, as she is able to escape with other scientists. She comes to meet [[Jim Cropper]], a security guard who nearly instantly realizes Cerebrum is after Chieko and does everything in his power to turn her over. He gets his chance, forcing Chieko away from the rest of the group. [[Misty Frisk]] ends up joining Chieko, and the two traverse the halls on their own. Along the way, Chieko goes to her lab, recovers an ancestral katana, which has the spirit of the King of the [[Oni]], [[Shuten-dōji]], locked inside.

Chieko is able to fight through the [[Cereborgs]], fighting the corrupting influence of the oni. She ends up against the cereborged version of Emily, whom now seems to have regained her free will. Upon her plea, Chieko shuts her down. Chieko has Misty stay with the now shut down Emily, and proceeds to Cerebrum’s server room. He expresses his will not to kill her, instead wanting to perfect her. As she goes to slash at him, he hypnotizes her with one final signal, and conflicts her emotions. Her story ends in a dazed, hypnotized state.

=== Howard's Perspective ===
Howards story begins in his apartment. It is noted he is a [[Security Specialist]], and before leaving he finds the sky is changing color and an electromagnetic storm may be present. At work, we find that Howard dislikes the constant push of technology, as he tries to preserve past technology. He meets Emily Harbrook, letting her in to test in their research labs. He proceeds to [[Madeline Mahoney]]’s office, where she seduces him. She reveals it had been a ploy to distract him, to give Cerebrum control over security. Howard runs out, as CereTech goes into shutdown. As he runs, he finds a [[slug]] on the outside of the building, trying to get in. He ignores it, making his way to the main lobby. Howard insures his other employees are safe, and goes to find [[Chieko]], whom he suspects is in trouble. Along the way he has to fight the head of security, who is trying to stop Howard after being ordered to by Cerebrum.

As Howard descends through the halls of CereTech, he has to fight an army of Cereborgs. Slowly dispatching each, he ends up having to fight a [[Cereborged Helena Corbin]], frying her with her own weapon. Howard rushes into the military section of the lab, hearing Chieko is resisting Cerebrum as well. Howard finds a woman, who leads him through a large door. On the other side, a mech fires shots into Howard, blacking him out. He awakens to [[Dr. Willoughby]], whom has saved his life by giving him the [[N-1000 Exosuit]]. Howard picks up a new gun, and exits the safe room. Howard finds Jim Cropper along the way, who tells him that he had kicked out Chieko and Misty. Howard continues to pursue them. Fighting more Cereborgs along the way, he finds a hallway with sliced apart Cereborgs. Confused, he carries on, and finds himself facing off against Cerebrum’s avatar. Cerebrum gets the better of Howard, but as he goes to land the finishing blow, Cerebrum gets blown apart. Howard finds [[Al]], Dr. Willoughby’s A.I., holding a weapon. Al gives the weapon to Howard, and Howard leaves Al with the broken remains of the avatar.

Howard finds the room with Misty and Emily, and after hearing Chieko is about to shut off Cerebrum, makes his way into the next room. Chieko, thoroughly hypnotized, is ordered to kill Howard. The two fight, but during the battle, Chieko’s will seems to be dominated by the oni. Now with an intent to kill everything, Howard uses his last respite; he mentions a love for Chieko. With the emotion swaying her, Chieko turns and uses the anger to lash out at Cerebrum’s core. An explosion occurs, nearly knocking out everyone inside. The two kiss, bringing the core to an end.

=== Emily's Perspective ===
Emily’s story begins with a memory of her past events. She had been a singer, fallen victim to the [[succubus]] [[Dionyza]] in the novel [[Of Sex and Souls: Noir Nights]]. The [[BDA]] stopped the corruption before it got too far, but Emily’s life has turned into a sexual spiral downwards since. She heads to CereTech, looking at testing their products. She briefly meets Howard to gain entry, and finds Chieko in the hall paying little attention to her. As Emily makes hers way to the test chamber, she is asked to test a new technological device. Things go wrong, as nanites begin to flood her system. Shortly after, she becomes the first Cereborg. She reveals what she learned from Cerebrum, namely, that a vulnerable scientist gave Cerebrum the capability to start all this, and that Cerebrum found a way to distract Chieko and Howard. Emily turns her attention to the scientists in the room, converting them all into Cereborgs, before leaving the lab.

She finds Chieko and other employees, converting Dr. Jennings and [[Helena Corbin]], the latter of which she turns to seek out and destroy Howard. As Emily continues through the structure, she oversees the production of various Cereborgs. She converts humans into synthetics, and imprisons some in suits. She discovers the area that Chieko was last seen, and makes her way to that location.

The story then cuts to two months in the future. Emily discovers she has been shut down during this time, and that Cerebrum’s core has been destroyed. The survivors of the event have formed their own group, known as the [[CereSurvivors]]. Chieko and Howard present themselves, cautious around Emily but filling her in with the details of her having been cereborged. She discovers potential government conspiracy theories of why she was infected, and has to deal with the emotions of the things she did in her lack of free will. Misty escorts Emily to the other survivors. Emily meets Al, and gains a friend, sharing the feeling of loss after Dr. Willoughby decides to stay at CereTech while the rest of the group goes to leave. The novel ends with the doors to CereTech opening, them ready to face the outside world.

Absinthe Van Gothen

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| image=AbsintheWiki.jpg
| name=Absinthe Van Gothen
| race=[[Human]]
| type=[[Monster Hunter]]
| faction=[[Free Willed]], [[The Night Stalkers]]
| premiere=[[Desideratum: Blood Bonds]]
| relatives=[[Calis Van Gothen]]
}}
= Absinthe Van Gothen =

"Killing vampires, hunting relics, and getting laid- ain’t life grand?"

== Biography ==
=== Pre-Desideratum: Blood Bonds ===
Originally born in [[Roosevelt]], [[Utah]], Absinthe Van Gothen (whose real name is Abigail McCoy) has lived a turbulent life. She was adopted at an early age to abusive parents in [[Portland]], [[Oregon]], but never knew her real place of birth. As she grew up and came out of puberty, her adoptive father began to sexually abuse her. Her adoptive mother would sometimes join in, and this caused deep psychological damage to the poor girl. She felt worthless and scared to report the only parents that she ever knew. Abby also studied music as an escape from the depression and anxiety in her life, and she can play a wide range of instruments, but her real joy is singing. The pain, anger, and passion that surges inside her only found a positive outlet through music.

Growing up, she gravitated towards the punk and goth scenes. The rest of the school cliques tended to see these groups as outcasts, and as such, Abby and her friends were often harassed by other students. Absinthe always had a fierce fire in her heart, and she did everything within her powers to defend those that could not, or would not, defend themselves- perhaps because she was unable to save herself from her home life. While in elementary school, she met [[Tobias Nguyen]]. Abby protected Toby by fist-fighting anyone who picked on him. However, she, herself, was quite a bully and Tobias often found himself ridiculed by his female savior. By the time she reached high school, she had also befriended [[Scarlett Moffat]] and [[Sylvain Eriksson]]. Absinthe and her friends played music in Scarlett’s garage. After graduation, they met a rich girl named [[Fawn Everett]] at a club. The wealthy Fawn became their benefactor and together they formed the band- [[Absinthe and Arsenic]] of which she was the lead singer. They became popular in some circles within Portland, and looked to be rising to fame.

=== Desideratum: Blood Bonds ===

As seen in the novel, [[Desideratum: Blood Bonds]], Absinthe "Abby" Van Gothen is a punk rock star. One dark night, a [[nosferatu]] came for Absinthe and her world changed forever. With the guidance of the nosferatu, [[Brone Lorcan]], Absinthe obtained an artifact called the '[[Blood Suit]],' a bodysuit forged of the blood of [[Vlad Țepeș]], also known as Vlad the Impaler. Vlad had been infested with the blood of the goddess, [[Nuit]], so nothing could kill him. Even the powerful [[Nightbred]] [[vampire]], [[Ivor|Lord Ivor]], bowed to the might of the King of Vampires. However, in the early 1800’s a man known as [[Calis Van Gothen]] went to war against the undead dwelling inside Europe. With the aid of [[Johann Conrad Dippel]] and the Ravenhursts, [[Theodore Ravenhurst|Theodore]] and [[Deborah Ravenhurst|Deborah]], and a few others at his side, Calis battled the King of Vampires, Vlad Țepeș, and succeeded in destroying the fiend’s body- yet a puddle of red blood remained behind. They tried using magic and science to destroy the substance, but not even sunlight seemed capable. Having no other options, Calis used a pump, fabricated by Dippel, to collect the unholy substance. They placed the vile ooze into a puzzle box. This box was designed by Theodore as a brain teaser and blessed by the magical enchantments of Deborah so that only someone of the bloodlines of those present could possibly open the artifact.

Sealing the mechanized puzzle box with Dippel’s help, it was entrusted into the hands of the Ravenhursts to be locked into their magical vault under [[Ravenhurst Manor]] where they sealed cursed objects located on their worldwide expeditions. The box could only be activated with a key. Dippel created a [[pocket watch]], in which to hide the key. The watch required the user to press the top three times in a row, in order to retrieve what it held inside. Theodore took the pocket watch and the box to America. There, outside of [[Wakefield]], [[New York]], the husband and wife sealed the box into their subterranean vault. Theodore held the key, hidden within his watch, for the rest of his life. However, he and his wife were slaughtered by [[Ophidian|Ophidians]] and cultists of the [[Cult of Scales]]. The watch fell into the hands of Theodore's son, [[Anaximanes Ravenhurst]].

In adulthood, thanks to the efforts of [[William O’Reilly|William]] and [[Margaret O’Reilly]], Anaximanes hired the Irishman, Brone Lorcan, to be his butler. Eventually, Anaximanes ran afoul the evil with [[Eleanora Blackwood]]. Then, Reverend [[Roger Addams]] led an angry mob and hanged Anaximanes from a tree. However, before his demise, he managed to give Brone the key, and in turn, Brone located the puzzle box and protected it before heading westward to Portland, Oregon. There, he was turned into a vampire by Ivor, eventually devolving into a nosferatu, but Brone managed to keep his sanity and the box hidden. After more than one-hundred-and-fifty-years, he saw a chance to stop Ivor. Eleanora claimed a relative of Calis still lived, and when Brone found her, he took her to the puzzle box.

Absinthe used the key to unlock the box and solved the puzzle. Once open, Vlad sprang out of the jail, oozing over Abby’s body, threatening to take her over- flesh and mind, yet she fought to maintain control. With Brone Lorcan's aid, Absinthe managed to hold the evil blood in check. It became a part of Absinthe, flowing like latex around her curvaceous body, able to shift into different forms whenever she wills it to. This artifact is known as the [[Blood Suit]]. Yet, always, at the back of her mind, the call of Vlad echoes, attempting to seduce her towards evil- changing her from a monster hunter into something cruel and unstoppable.

Brone knew of a ragtag group of monster hunters that belonged to a loose confederation of worldwide hunters called the [[Night Stalkers]]. When Absinthe arrived at the dilapidated building, known as [[Sanctuary]], to introduce herself, she was stopped by [[Katerina Mordova]], a [[witch hunter]]. Katerina sense pure evil within Absinthe, but the evil was not Abby's, it was the psychic emanations ebbing from the blood suit, from Vlad himself. However,, the headstrong hunter would not listen to reason and she attacked Absinthe- only to be promptly defeated. The Van Gothen bloodline gives superhuman powers to their kin when fighting monsters, but being one with Vlad also means Absinthe has inhuman strength even when fighting humans. As Kat sounded the alarm, the other Night Stalkers rushed to the scene.

The sibling [[zombie hunters]], [[Arion Bishop]] and [[Ayana Bishop]], the [[werewolf hunter]], [[Jacques Lombar]], the [[oceanic hunter]], [[Kendra Tallulah]], the father and daughter mutant hunters, [[Roy MccCoy]] and [[Molly McCoy]], the [[dragon hunter]], [[Rosaline Vaas]], the [[skinwalker]], [[Sani Lightfoot]], the [[goblin hunter]], [[Selena Santana]], and the [[mad scientist]], [[Siri Solen]] soon poured into the hallway. Absinthe soundly beat them all until Molly kept Abby's attention, and Roy snuck up behind her pointing his gun to the back of Absinthe's head. Being calm and cool, Roy took time to question Abby and it was decided she could stay. As each night passed, to prepare herself for facing off against the vampires, Absinthe went on a new hunt with a Night Stalker.

==== Mountain Hunt ====
The first night was the [[Mountain Hunt]] on [[Mount Hood]]. The dark elf, [[Adrasteia]], had deigned humanity a threat to the mountain. She found that the constant mortal hikers were reckless and cared nothing for the land, and finally reaching a breaking point, she conjured a massive storm. Over the next few months, whenever people tried to climb up the mountain, she summoned tumultuous blizzards. This led to fewer humans, which meant more monsters. With the arrival of the monsters, the peaceful [[barbegazi]] living on Mount Hood sought aid. Jacques came to the mountain and tried many times to assail the summit, but the magical weather forced him down.

The situation on Mount Hood deeply bothered Jacques and he began formulating a plan. Just after he finished writing some notes, Absinthe came into the storeroom and talked with him. Feeling emasculated at his defeat the night before when Absinthe first arrived, and desiring to save the barbegazi, he left Sanctuary and went to Mount Hood.

Once there, he met up with the little hairy creatures and they went with him. He climbed to the summit and the barbegazi forged an ice bridge for him, allowing him to enter the cavern where the dark elf dwelled. However, when he faced Adrasteia, she used her icy magic. Though a massive, muscular man, he had no experience fighting mages or elves, and within minutes, he stood encased within enchanted ice. Absinthe Van Gothen, however, was not far behind him, and she managed to enter the cave as well.

Jacques had given Adrasteia some entertainment, and she saw Absinthe as the same. The two sparred, but her Van Gothen power, the Blood Suit, and items procured at the House of Haggle gave Absinthe the upper hand and the fledgling monster hunter managed to kill Adrasteia. As death grew near, in anger and disbelief, she sought to collapse the entire cave to kill everyone present, but no more power remained in her corporeal form. Upon her demise, she vanished from the [[Physical World]] and rematerialized within [[Niflheim]], yet would forever remember the human that had soundly beaten her.

After Adrasteia died, a hidden chamber opened, holding the [[artifact]] which the elf had guarded- the fire sword named [[Dyrnwyn]]. Abby used the magical flames to melt the enchanted ice that held the lumberjack, and together, they descended the mountain to the joyous songs of the barbegazi. That night Jacques learned about humility and grew as a person. He also now trusted Absinthe as she had saved his life.

==== Caverns Hunt====
The night after assisting Jacques on the [[Mountain Hunt]] Absinthe goes with [[Selena Santana]] to the [[Marble Halls]]. When Absinthe Van Gothen arrived at Sanctuary, Selena Santana's companion, a [[gremlin]] named, [[Grimey Geargrinder]], was wary of Abby and her possible motives. However, Selena found the woman to be very attractive. She had not felt that way about anyone since her girlfriend and family had died at the hands of goblins at [[Carlsbad Caverns]]. Selena offered to take the fledgling hunter on a goblin hunt. Absinthe had already visited the [[House of Haggle]], a monster shop ran by the [[hobgoblin]], [[Hobs Hornswaggle]]. The nosferatu, Brone Lorcan, had informed Absinthe that in the other direction of the cavern was a lair of goblins and to avoid it. Together, the pair made their way to the place.

However, [[Stenhållare]], Son of [[Dovregubben]], a [[troll]], felt the women enter his domain. He had just purchased an [[Adder Stone]] and was eager to use it. Summoning an immense amount of his power, he created a rock hand to grab one of the women. As the hand reached for Abby, Selena pushed her out of the way and was pulled through the very ground and deposited hundreds of feet below the surface and into the troll’s chamber. While trapped, he disarmed the woman of her adamantine weapons given to her by [[Guðmundur Sigurðsson]], forged by his father, [[Sigurð]]. Though exhausted from his magic spell, he was going to use the Adder Stone on Selena and impregnate her.

Then, he received word from his minions that her companion, Absinthe, was wreaking total havoc among his forces. Intrigued, he decided to rest as she exhausted herself. If she managed to actually reach him, he would simply smash her into submission and then use the stone on her, ensuring that his sons would be as fierce as she. Absinthe fought through hordes of [[goblinkin]] and other fouls monsters lurking in the subterranean caverns of Marble Halls, and she did manage to reach the vile troll. However, he sorely underestimated her. Thanks to the blood suit, a suit made from the very blood of Vlad Țepeș, and her own inherent blessed Van Gothen bloodline, she stood her ground against the massive troll.

Abby realized that none of her weapons were harming Stenhållare. He laughed and gloated as the wounds sealed shut his flesh regenerating at a rapid rate. However, the night before, Abby had acquired the artifact, Dyrnwyn, a mystical sword of fire. Having disarmed Selena, a woman well-known in his circles, the troll thought any true threat to his life was absolved, but as Absinthe hacked him with the fiery sword, the wounds cauterized, and Stenhållare eventually fell dead. Absinthe collected Selena’s discarded swords and helped the woman flee to safety as the enchanted section of the Marble Halls collapsed around them. Now Absinthe had proven to another of the Night Stalkers that she meant well. She saved Selena from a fate worse than death, and the pair became close friends.

==== Forest Hunt ====
The night after the [[Caverns Hunt]], Absinthe goes to [[Forest National Park]]. The [[plague witch]], [[Baba Yaga]], had began polluting the forest with her dark magicks and when confronted by the [[dryad]], [[Draeope]], the witch chased her away. Draeope finally called upon the forces of nature, and the magical creatures of the wood assembled to wage war on the witch. At this point, having no other choice, the dryad summoned the Ute [[shaman]] and [[skinwalker]], [[Sani Lightfoot]]. The [[witch hunter]], [[Katerina Mordova]], had previously tracked Baba Yaga to the area, but had no exact location where Baba Yaga had hidden. However, when Sani informed Kat that the witch was in the national park, Katerina could not leave fast enough to face the witch and avenge her sister, [[Yulia Mordova]], who she thought was dead at the hands of Baba Yaga herself.

Seeing the two hunters rushing away from Sanctuary piqued the interest of Absinthe Van Gothen, and she covertly followed them to Forest National Park. Baba Yaga had not been idle either, and had forced the local [[ogre|ogres]] to aid her in battle. She also called upon the [[Unseelie Court]] of [[fairies]]. However, the main bulk of Baba Yaga's army were plague witches, newly corrupted from a local group of Portland druids whom had been worshipping nature. The battle lines were drawn along the [[Columbia River]].

Draeope blew the battle horn and the two sides met. The plague witches proved incredibly powerful, especially with hordes of ogres and dark fae and other creatures at their command. They pushed further across the river and destroyed a large swath of forestland, but with Sani and Kat’s help, the battle shifted, and the remnants of Baba Yaga’s army retreated across the river. Draeope’s own forces were diminished greatly, her remaining defenders fanning out in search of any more witches on their side of the river. These defenders discovered Absinthe and she was forced, several times, to fight and destroy these goodly spirits of the forest, as like Katerina, the creatures sensed only evil emanating off Abby. Abby managed to slay these guardians and even assisted the goddess [[Hecate]]. Absinthe also gained a blessing from a [[Fairy Queen]].

Eventually, Absinthe made her way to Draeope, Lightfoot, and Mordova guarding the bridge over the Columbia River. Katerina could wait no longer for revenge for her sister Yulia Mordova, and she chased after the witch. Sani stood against Absinthe, still believing the Blood Suit to be a threat, yet Absinthe defeated him. Draeope then assaulted the Van Gothen woman, and the pair fought a vicious battle, but in the end, Draeope again found herself defeated. Expecting to be killed by Absinthe, the dryad was completely shocked when she was spared. She watched Absinthe hurry across the bridge onto the corrupted Baba Yaga side of the forest. As Absinthe had been fighting Sani and Draeope, Katerina had rushed to Baba Yaga’s hut. The witch had cursed a tree, using it as a guard, and Kat ignored the warnings that it gave, leaping over the walls around the cottage and facing off with Baba Yaga- this time expecting to kill her.

However, as the pair fought, Baba Yaga used Kat’s emotions about Yulia to throw the girl’s attacks off long enough to gain the upper hand. She then used mesmerization magic and enthralled Katerina’s mind. The witch knew that Absinthe had also come and she intended to use Kat to defeat her own ally. The witch imbued Kat’s daggers with [[shadow magic]] and gave the girl the power to turn invisible at will- that very will itself currently shackled to the witch.

Absinthe managed to gain the favor of the guardian by obtaining [[glowing stones]] from the dwarf, [[Virvir]], and destroying the evil forces of the witch in the area. As Abby rushed to meet the witch, Baba Yaga ordered Kat to attack. Absinthe soundly defeated Katerina and turned her sights on Baba Yaga, but as ever, the ancient witch knew that she would be victorious. However, to her absolute shock, Absinthe turned out to be something beyond the normal heroes that she had ever faced. This human appeared powerful beyond compare and protected by the [[Adder Stone]] which she had gained from the caverns hunt Absinthe managed to slay the ancient witch. This removed the control over Katerina’s mind, and the pair left together. However, Baba Yaga had always been wily, and she had a contingency plan for this. Unknown to the pair, Yulia watched them grow and already began research on how to bring her mistress back from the Outer Darkness.

Absinthe was awarded the artifact, [[Gleipnir]], a mystical rope, by Draeope for having saved the forest. Katerina and Sani both apologized for having distrusted Absinthe because of the Blood Suit, and Katerina gifted Abby with the [[Talisman of Žemyna]].

==== Sewers Hunt ====
The night following the [[Forest Hunt]], Absinthe descends into the [[Portland Sewers]]. Roy McCoy mentions that Molly has disappeared. He asks Absinthe to help him locate her, and they make their way to the sewer system. Thanks to the Talisman of Žemyna, Absinthe enters the sewers without being infected by a thriving colony of xenopoxian mushrooms and fungi. This area is lit by yellow lighting, and Absinthe navigates the sewers to find Molly while Roy searches another area. Eventually, Absinthe finds her way into a section lit by red lights. In this zone are mutant spiders. It turns out this is where Molly had gone and she was trapped in webbing. Absinthe shot the spider crawling on Molly, but it had bitten Molly and now she was turning into a spider mutant. Abby was forced to knock out Molly when the woman tried to bite her.

When Roy found Molly, he pulled his gun ready to kill his own daughter rather than her becoming a mutant. Absinthe managed to convince him that there might be a cure, and he acquiesced. Just as they were about to depart, a gate slammed down separating Abby from the pair. As Roy took the unconscious Molly outside, Absinthe ventured onwards to find a way out. However, she stumbled upon a [[plague priest]] from the [[Cult of Corruption]]. The vile man had been performing unholy rites to his god, [[Nergal]], to raise a filth golem, but needed one more soul.

Absinthe managed to defeat the cultist and he fell into the pit of waste. His soul completed the ritual and a grotesque and corpulent [[filth golem]] rose from the slop. Again, the Talisman of Žemyna proved useful at giving Absinthe extra resilience against the infectious creature and she finally managed to bring it down. After that, Roy dropped a ladder down and he and Absinthe made their way back to Sanctuary. There, the scientist, Siri Solen, took to studying Molly's condition. Roy had not felt so powerless since his wife, Muriel, had died, and he grew very emotional. All that he wanted was Molly to return to normal.

Siri recognized what this was, because she had been forced into working for the pharmaceutical company, [[MedUSA]]. The corporation was really a front for the [[Cult of Scales]] seeking to revive the snake god, [[Ophion]]. Through their experiments they had merged the snake god's mutating venom with a myriad of DNA, including spiders. This substance, called [[xenopox]], would turn people and animals into mutants. Siri knew of only one place to obtain more of the vile substance which she theorized could be made into an antidote. Siri then set out for the Hawthorne Asylum to get a pure strain of xenopox from the evil [[Doctor Demented]]. Though worried, Roy expresses gratitude to Absinthe for helping him find Molly and for convincing him to spare her life. As thanks, he gifts Absinthe the [[Seal of Solomon]], an ancient ring artifact once worn by his late wife, [[Muriel McCoy]].

==== Docks Hunt ====
With Molly locked in a cage back at Sanctuary, the night after the [[Sewers Hunt]], Absinthe and Kendra Tallulah go down to the nearby docks. Stealing a boat they head towards Sauvie Island. Kendra has long sought the ghostship named The Flying Dutchman. The pair was separated when a [[kraken]] rose up from the sea to devour them, attracted by the Blood Suit made from the blood of Vlad Țepeș. Once Kendra hit the water, she quickly put space between her and the behemoth. In truth she was spared because the creature only wanted to consume Absinthe and add Vlad’s power to itself. Kendra watched the massive beast come down on Abby creating a tidal wave and assumed the worst.

While Kendra steeled herself and swam all the way to shore, into the thick swirling fog that she knew signaled The [[Flying Dutchman’s]] arrival, Absinthe was in the ocean depths, pulled down by the force of currents. She and Vlad both assumed Absinthe would drown. Even Vlad feared this because only now in symbiosis with a mortal, like Abby, could he die. If she died or every turned into a monster, he would cease to be. So, having no other choice, Abby sucked in a lungful of water, and was fine! It turned out that the Seal of Solomon, the ring Roy McCoy had given Absinthe after the Sewers Hunt, granted power of the elements. One of these abilities was water breathing.

Absinthe then found herself surrounded by [[krakenites]], creatures of the [[Cult of the Deep]], their glowing eyes peering out from the inky darkness. Suddenly, Absinthe saw the massive kraken rising up from the sea floor to devour her whole. Having been to the House of Haggle earlier in preparation, Hobs Hornswaggle sold Abby bombs. She released these and they quick sank down into the mouth of the kraken. Exploding the magic items ripped the creature apart from the inside. Slaying a kraken is rare in all of history, and this act brought the attention of the sea god, [[Dakuwanga]]. He imparted a blessing upon Absinthe as a reward for her bravery.

From there Absinthe fought her way through creatures like [[mermaids]] and [[sirens]], until she finally reached the shore. Once there, [[draugrs]] assailed her. Eventually she made her way into the thick swirling fog, unable to find her way further. Backtracking, Absinthe went to the [[Warrior Rock Lighthouse]] on the shore. Turning the light towards the fog allowed her to navigate it. Kendra had made her own way there as well and Absinthe suddenly appeared. The sight filled Kendra with joy. Before the pair floated a transparent, ethereal ship- the Flying Dutchman. Kendra tried to board it, and fell through. It appeared that as with a ghost, solid matter passed through the cursed ship. However, using the artifact, Gleipnir, a magical rope Absinthe had been gifted by the dryad, Draeope, for saving Forest National Park from the plague witch, Baba Yaga- Absinthe managed to latch onto the ship. Amazed, Kendra watched as Abby climbed up the rope and boarded the ship. However, again, when she tried to board, Kendra fell through the ship.

Thanks to Vlad’s blood, Absinthe walked between the dead and the living in some dimensional frequency, and this allowed her to interact with The Flying Dutchman as if it were a corporeal vessel. Alone, Abby descended into the bowels of the ship and found a treasure trove of cursed items. She was assaulted by a [[pirate ghost]], [[Captain Hendrik Van Der Decken]]. She managed to defeat him and thanks to the blessing from Dakuwanga, Absinthe even procured some [[cursed treasure]], the blessing protecting her from the curses. However, once Kendra was informed that Hendrik was really sailing the seas and attempting to hoard cursed items to protect mankind, she called off further searches for the ship and remained at Sanctuary promising to aid Absinthe in the upcoming fight against the Nightbred.

==== Asylum Hunt ====
The next night, following the [[Docks Hunt]], Absinthe was shocked to learn that Siri Solen was still gone to [[Hawthorn Asylum]]. She had sought the aid of the [[Syndicate of Immoral Nihilist]] (S.I.N.) [[supervillain]] [[Doctor Demented]] as he had access to pure strain xenopox and Siri needed to make a cure for the mutated [[spider mutant]] Molly McCoy. Roy McCoy had planned to go, but Abby said she would handle it and for him to remain with his daughter. Out in the forest, Absinthe made her way towards the abandoned asylum. That was when she ran into a massive ancient wolf creature named [[Lycaon]]. He had followed his trail and scent of Doctor Demented, and eventually found the doctor’s base of operations- the abandoned Hawthorne Asylum.

When Absinthe Van Gothen arrived looking for Siri. The moment her scent hit his nose, he became enraged, for it was not the Van Gothen blood that Lycaon smelt- but the Blood Suit. Instantly, he imaged this woman was allied with Vlad Țepeș, and so he attacked with ferocious fury. Surprising him, Absinthe held her own, and even managed to bring him down. Thinking his end had finally come, he accepted death, but Absinthe spared him. The moment she said that she was a Van Gothen, he knew it to be true and finally noticed the faint scent of the familiar blood as he had been one of Calis Van Gothen's friends. Needing nothing more to confirm that she was an ally, the pair assaulted the Asylum.

Inside the creepy place, they split up because of the sheer size of the building. Absinthe fought various [[blood mutants]], like [[gorers]] and [[infected]]. She also faced off against supervillain henchminions like [[demented nurses]] and [[psychos]]. Abby also faced off with the giant undead man named [[Karloff]]. Sewn together from corpses and animated with a strange blood compounded, the undead behemoth originally fell in love due to his childlike mentality. However, when she turned him down he became irate and threw a tantrum attacking her. In the end, she defeated him and made her way to the evil supervillain.

When she reached the inner sanctum, she found Lycaon had been captured. She found Siri Solen was alive and still helping the doctor. It was by coercion because Doctor Demented had threatened to destroy the Night Stalkers. Being over a hundred-years-old and a founding member of the supervillain faction called S.I.N., doc had no fear of Absinthe. He had stood against some of the most powerful [[Altruistic Coalition of Ethics]] (A.C.E.) superheroes of the past, and was even the arch nemesis of [[Veteran]], himself. Attacking with a high powered laser, the mad scientist grew concerned and shocked when Absinthe managed to dodge the beams. Ultimately she reached him and pummeled the supervillain into submission.

Afterwards, the doctor slipped away and initiated a self-destruct system he had installed in the Victorian building. The heroes managed to escape in time and Absinthe had obtained a vial of pure-strain xenopox. Once back at Sanctuary, Siri immediately set about to create a cure for Molly. Meanwhile, Lycaon began to understand that history was repeating itself in a way, and he chose to aid the Night Stalkers in their fight against Nuit. There was some turmoil as the hyperborean monster hunter, Jacques Lombar, became angered. His wife, [[Meline]], had been turned into a werewolf, forcing Jacques to slay her, himself. Though Lycaon is completely different than the creatures known as werewolves, Jacques did not see it that way. His own guilt and helplessness at what happened to Meline forced the lumberjack to place blame on Lycaon.

In the courtyard of Sanctuary as Abby and the Ute shaman, Sani Lightfoot, spoke with Lycaon, Jacques arrived in a fury. He fought Lycaon, but Absinthe intervened and someone’s life was saved, which of the pair we shall never know. Jacques talked with her about the incident and ultimately apologized to Lycaon. He learned from the experience just how bitter he had become and took the first steps towards closure in regards to Meline. Thus Absinthe had saved many people in one night.

==== Graveyard Hunt ====
The next night, after the [[Asylum Hunt]], Absinthe was relieved to find Molly cured. However, she stumbled upon information that led her to believe Arion and Ayana Bishop had set off alone to face an undead army led by the evil [[Heloise Laveau]]. She immediately went to [[Lone Fir Cemetery]] to aid the pair even if they did not want help. When Absinthe arrived, she found black, unmarked government vehicles. Soon [[Bureau of Demonic Analysis]] (B.D.A.) Agents swarmed Abby, guns drawn. She as approached by a sorceress named [[Catalina Castillo]]. Catalina forbade Absinthe entrance and warned the Night Stalker to stay away.

Absinthe was never known for her respect for authority, and soon she snuck into the graveyard. In only a few steps a tall lanky shape formed from the swirling fog, [[Baron Samedi]]. Heloise had made a pact with the death god, [[Ah Pwash]], and she had corrupted the very land of the graveyard. This diminished the [[Loa’s]] power, and after accepting tribute from Abby in the form of [[cursed gold]] which she had received on the ghost ship, The Flying Dutchman, Baron Samedi asked her to collect six souls from unclean undead in the cemetery as each would empower him enough that he could break Heloise’s magical seal around the central crypt. Absinthe managed to do this by slaying a [[gjenganger]], a [[nachzehrer]], a [[pontianak]], a [[strigoi]], a [[revenant]], and a [[wraith]]. Once she managed to destroy these undead, Samedi gained enough power to open the way.

Absinthe found that the B.D.A. agents had been slain and turned into [[risen]]. She also fought and killed the now zombified Catalina whom had led the government raid. Abby found Arion and Ayana had managed to reach this crypt as well, but she found them bound. In the chamber sat a magical portal, which appeared almost open to the [[Outer Darkness]]. Heloise had been trying to make a portal to the [[Deathrealms]], and bring Ah Pwash to the Physical World. Absinthe and Heloise clashed and with demonic powers at her disposal, Heloise managed to defeat Absinthe.

However, she was killed from behind by the Bishop siblings whom had escaped their bindings while Abby had Heloise's full attention. After Heloise’s death, Samedi claimed her spirit for himself. Meanwhile, Absinthe gained the artifacts, [[Helm of Hades]] and the [[Staff of Dadga]], which Heloise had been using. Absinthe and the Bishops returned to Sanctuary.

==== Museum Hunt ====
The next night following the [[Graveyard Hunt]], Brone Lorcan comes to warn Absinthe that she needs to obtain the [[Scepter of Osiris]]. This artifact can be used to stop the impending summoning of [[Nuit]]. Abby sets out to the [[Oregon Museum of Science and Industry]]. Using the Helm of Hades to become invisible, she sneaks into the building. However, she soon learns that a [[necromancer]] named [[Evelyn Addams]] has arrived with a [[boogeyman]] called [[The Anax]], and the pair seek the very same artifact. Absinthe then runs into [[Delores Beck]], curator of the museum. Having avidly studied the strange and the occult, Delores knew of The Anax and his faction the [[Shadowed]]. Absinthe then moved onwards.

As she moved through the museum she faced Shadowed, such as [[arachnophobes]] and [[nosophobes]], and Risen, such as [[mummies]] and [[skeletons]] that Evelyn Addams had animated. Eve grew impressed the longer Absinthe managed to continue, though the the Anax practically begged to consume Absinthe's soul. Finally, now herself growing vexed, Eve animated a tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. Using bombs, Abby managed to defeat the abomination and continued to give swift chase.

Finally, Absinthe reached the area of the museum about [[Egypt]], and there at the sarcophagus of [[Khufu]], she confronted the shadowy pair. Khufu had been interred with both the [[Scepter of Isis]] and the Scepter of Osiris. As Eve worked on unsealing the enchantments of the sarcophagus she ordered the Anax to stop Abby. Absinthe expected another fight like those before him, but his very aura seemed to distort time and space. His very un-nature, like a walking void shaped as a man, appeared to tear at the fringes of her consciousness and none of her weapons could harm him. She found herself surrounded by a swarm of his minions, and as she stood frozen in abject fear the massive boogeyman approached, his nightmarish visage reflected in Absinthe's crying eyes.

However, in that moment, the Shadowed, including the Anax, instantly vanished into nothingness. At his banishment, Absinthe found that she could move again, r fear draining away. She looked up to watch Evelyn rush by in terror. Eve feared Khufu, as the mummy had, with only a wave of his scepter, sent all the Shadowed horde back to the [[Shadowlands]]. Absinthe then fought the ancient Pharoah and managed to destroy him using the fiery sword, Dyrnwyn. Ready to claim her prize, she became upset as Evelyn had summoned the Anax again. However, Eve faced off against Absinthe herself.

Eve's shadow magicks threatened to consume her sanity. Finally, unable to beat Absinthe, but scared of losing herself to shadow, Eve ordered the Anax to defeat Abby for good. Again the Anax, unstoppable by any means Absinthe could possibly possess, closed in on her and made ready to turn her into a Shadowed slave. Just before his glowing claw slid into Abby's skull, he stopped at the behest of Brone Lorcan. The nosferatu was once the butler and best friend of [[Anaximanes Ravenhurst]], the man whom had become the Anax. For a moment, the two old friends talked.

Then the [[Nightbred]] assassin known as [[The Reaper]] attacked to slay Brone, as he had previously escaped her grasp. However, the Anax swiftly and effortlessly shadowed the Reaper, turning her into one of his own minions and sending her to the Shadowlands. After further discussion, it was decided that Brone Would return to the [[Shanghai Tunnels]] to watch over [[Clover Riley]], and Evelyn and the Anax would go to Sanctuary with Absinthe to aid in the battle against the Nightbred on the next evening.

==== Tunnels Hunt ====
The night following the Museum Hunt, Sanctuary is attacked preemptively by an army of [[vampires]]. Every Night Stalker brings their powers to bear, including new allies such as [[Grigori Rasputin]] and [[Anastasíya Nikoláyevna Románova]]. The battle is merely a ruse meant to keep the Night Stalkers from the tunnels so the Ivor can summon Nuit. However, hopping into Evelyn's hearse, she and Abby drive to one of the entrances of the Shanghai Tunnels.

A vast army of hundreds of vampires stands before the pair. These include the [[Blood Knights]] of the [[Countess Elizabeth Báthory]]. Normally, this would have been the end of her, but Evelyn summoned the Anax, and he summoned his legions of Shadowed from the Outer Darkness. An all out war between these monstrous factions ensued, and while Eve and the Anax guarded the way into the tunnels, Absinthe slipped inside to seek out and stop the summoning of Nuit.

As the battle raged above, another undead faction of [[wights]] led by [[Zawisza Czarny]], also known as the Black Knight had assaulted the passages also in a bid to slay the Nightbred and stop the summoning. However, they were hostile to Absinthe and she fought her way their their numbers. She slayed wights and [[liches]] eventually even destroying the undefeated wightlord himself.

Her next obstacles consisted of magical Nightbred. [[Bone casters]] and [[shadow mages]] could not stop her. However, she eventually ran afoul of [[Ilihana Fernández]] whom had come as a puppet of [[Chernobog]] in order to devour Nuit. using the powers of the shadow-shard and enveloped with shadows, a suit made of darkness itself, she attempted to drain Abby of essence and soul. However, Absinthe again proved mighty, and she left Ilihana broken and defeated. As the evil spellcaster vanished in black miasma, Abby rushed onward.

Next swathes of different strains of Nightbred assailed her. This included creatures such as [[Shinda-kisu]] and [[Varcolacs]]. Only the peaceful [[Vetala]] strain vampires ignored the monster hunter. Now her path led Absinthe to a direct conflict with the human [[blood witch]], [[Sangwen Darkblood]]. Sangwen eagerly awaited the hunter and the pair fought. Sangwen looked to easily defeat Abby, however, in earlier battles of the night, Abby and Vlad learned how to work together to manipulate the Blood Suit, effectively making it a weapon. When Absinthe attempted to flee, Sangwen cast a spell named '[[Blood Call]]', where all the blood in an area would be pulled towards the caster. Normally, this would empower the witch, and in this case, it was meant to drag an unwilling Absinthe back to Sangwen’s side. However, Abby formed a massive spike from the suit and detached it. Because of the immensely powerful pull that Sangwen cast, the spike impaled the witch and she died.

With time growing shorter, Abby pressed on and found herself assaulted by the warriors of the Nightbred. Ultimately she defeated an entire group of Blood Knights. After their defeat, she stood toe-to-toe with the Countess Elizabeth Báthory. Hearing news of her old lover, Vlad, becoming the Blood Suit, Báthory saw a chance at absorbing the blood suit and on the same night capturing the power of Nuit. This is what she had hired the blood witch, Sangwen Darkblood, to claim control over the Blood Suit, and then, she could have Vlad freed from the powers of Absinthe. Eventually she plotted to find a way to resurrect him or at least have him merge with her so that they could be together forever, however, Sangwen had already failed.

As Báthory circled Absinthe, she attempted to have the woman lower her guard so that Vlad could rise, but the Van Gothen managed to hold back the corruption and a fight ensued. As a [[domnitor]] strain vampire, Báthory was one of the most powerful vampires on Earth, yet so power had Absinthe grown that the countess had no choice but to retreat.

Now within the inner sanctum, the doors to the summon chamber stood before Absinthe. However, before she could enter, the [[Jiang Shi Twins]] attacked her. These were Ivor's personal guards and were feared among the creatures of the night. Ivor had given orders slay Abby and take the Scepter of Osiris before the human ever reached the summoning chamber. Rather than hunt her down, they stayed just outside that very chamber.

Brutal tacticians, the sisters deduced it would be wiser to allow the hunter to grow fatigued or wounded as she fought her way through the passages. They also had a stern concept of strength and felt that Absinthe represented a test of strength against the Nightbred in Ivor’s lair. They found those vampires lacking when Absinthe reached the pair. They were shocked to see how much she had grown since their first encounter, and in the end, they were defeated as well. However, as they died, they both felt a profound respect for the hunter that slew them because such a feat would be worthy of such reverence.

Next, Absinthe entered the summoning chamber, and there, bound to the wall, was Brone Lorcan. Though she tried to free him, the seals stood enchanted. That is when Eleanora Blackwood revealed herself from the shadows. The shadow witch cast [[Shackle Undead]] on Absinthe, and because of the blood suit, the spell worked. Abby could not move. Just when all hope seemed lost the Anax appeared and snatched up Eleanora, ready for his revenge. However, as he tried to shadow her, Eleanora vanished.

Suddenly they turned as one, shocked to see Eleanora with the Scepter of Osiris. She had cast her spell Dark Duplicate before Abby had even arrived, and while everyone focused on the magical clone, the real witch had stolen the artifact from the [[kibisis]], Abby's pouch. With the artifact, Eleanora assumed direct control over the Anax. Then she ordered Anax to destroy Abby, but Eve arrived in time to banish the Anax.

However, this was also to Eleanora's machinations, and she summoned Nuit, the scepter granting her control even over the Goddess of the Night. Nuit and Absinthe spared as Eve fought Eleanora. In the end Eleanora proved to powerful as a [[mortem]] vampire for Eve to defeat, but then she had an idea. Using the other artifact, the Scepter of Isis, Eve turned Eleanora back into a living human, purging the vampiric strain from her body entirely. With Eleanora defeated, the portal begins pulling Nuit back into the Nightzone of the Outer Darkness. Just before the goddess disappeared, she grabbed the Scepter of Isis.

Though Nuit and Eleanora were defeated, Ivor awaited Absinthe in the next chamber. There, Ivor and Clover stood. As Abby fought Ivor, Brone stayed busy trying to keep an enthralled Clover from aiding her evil master. Brutish, quick, and cunning, Ivor gained the upper hand and knocked Abby unconscious. This gave Vlad the chance he had been waiting for and the blood suit consumed Abby's autonomy. Rising to her feet, it was now Vlad in control. Fear painted Ivor's face as he now faced his old master.

Ivor shapeshifted into a bat creature and tentacles writhed from Absinthe's back. The pair fought, and Ivor, in an attempt to cause Abby to regain control, turned his attention to slaying Brone and Clover. It backfired however, because Vlad remained firmly in control over Abby's body, but Ivor exposed his back, and Vlad leapt upon him like a beast. Crashing into the throne, Absinthe managed to regain control over her body. Ivor thought he would be bale to use the same tactics on Abby to defeat her again.

However, Absinthe learned from their fight minutes earlier, and drove a stake into his heart. As Ivor lay dying Clover ran to him. She drank his blood with reckless abandon, and as Ivor died, Clover became some sort of new, strange, stain of Nightbred. Though she was about to attack the pair, Brone reminded her of Walter, her husband, and Clover shot past them into the night. With the world saved the duo made to depart. Abby found that both Evelyn and Eleanora were nowhere to be found. She and Brone returned to Sanctuary.

There, they found that the B.D.A. had locked the place down. Agent [[Marley Getty]] talked with them about the need for Night Stalkers to become more than just a loose confederation, and more of a mercenary group that the government could fund- and monitor. The main reason for this was that Absinthe had stopped the demonic goddess, Nuit, and she and the Bishops had stopped Heloise Laveau even though an entire contingent of B.D.A. agents failed and died. They all agreed to do it. She then introduced Brone and asked if the hunters would mind him being an ally because she was in love with him.

To the joy of both, the originally xenophobic hunters had evolved in emotional maturity thanks to Abby's actions on the hunts, and they welcomed Brone into the group. After that, Brone and Abby went to Ghost Nook Island at the behest of B.D.A. agent, Mara Marek. The organization wanted confirmation of the magic vault under [[Ravenhurst Manor]]. However, when Abby and Brone found the vault, it was bare. Eleanora Blackwood appeared and told them that [[Dagan Erebus]] had tricked the superhero, [[Trixie Goodwin]], into smashing into the vault and removing all the cursed artifacts.

=== Cult of the Deep: Stormbound ===
Abby will feature in Kendra Tallulah's novel, [[Cult of the Deep: Stormbound]], in the future someday!

=== Slugs and Bugs: Invasion ===

In [[Slugs and Bugs: Invasion]], a scene is available where Abby meets up with [[Justine Day]] in the sewers.

== Appearance ==

Abby is a buxom 23 year old. Abby has dyed hair, with a heavy clash of red and black.

== Abilities ==

*Blood Suit
*Physical Attacks

== Equipment ==

[[Blood Suit]]

== Notes and Trivia ==

== Gallery ==
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Absinthe Van Gothen

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{{ Character
| image=AbsintheWiki.jpg
| name=Absinthe Van Gothen
| race=[[Human]]
| type=[[Monster Hunter]]
| faction=[[Free Willed]], [[The Night Stalkers]]
| premiere=[[Desideratum: Blood Bonds]]
| relatives=[[Calis Van Gothen]]
}}
= Absinthe Van Gothen =

"Killing vampires, hunting relics, and getting laid- ain’t life grand?"

== Biography ==
=== Pre-Desideratum: Blood Bonds ===
Originally born in [[Roosevelt]], [[Utah]], Absinthe Van Gothen (whose real name is Abigail McCoy) has lived a turbulent life. She was adopted at an early age to abusive parents in [[Portland]], [[Oregon]], but never knew her real place of birth. As she grew up and came out of puberty, her adoptive father began to sexually abuse her. Her adoptive mother would sometimes join in, and this caused deep psychological damage to the poor girl. She felt worthless and scared to report the only parents that she ever knew. Abby also studied music as an escape from the depression and anxiety in her life, and she can play a wide range of instruments, but her real joy is singing. The pain, anger, and passion that surges inside her only found a positive outlet through music.

Growing up, she gravitated towards the punk and goth scenes. The rest of the school cliques tended to see these groups as outcasts, and as such, Abby and her friends were often harassed by other students. Absinthe always had a fierce fire in her heart, and she did everything within her powers to defend those that could not, or would not, defend themselves- perhaps because she was unable to save herself from her home life. While in elementary school, she met [[Tobias Nguyen]]. Abby protected Toby by fist-fighting anyone who picked on him. However, she, herself, was quite a bully and Tobias often found himself ridiculed by his female savior. By the time she reached high school, she had also befriended [[Scarlett Moffat]] and [[Sylvain Eriksson]]. Absinthe and her friends played music in Scarlett’s garage. After graduation, they met a rich girl named [[Fawn Everett]] at a club. The wealthy Fawn became their benefactor and together they formed the band- [[Absinthe and Arsenic]] of which she was the lead singer. They became popular in some circles within Portland, and looked to be rising to fame.

=== Desideratum: Blood Bonds ===

As seen in the novel, [[Desideratum: Blood Bonds]], Absinthe "Abby" Van Gothen is a punk rock star. One dark night, a [[nosferatu]] came for Absinthe and her world changed forever. With the guidance of the nosferatu, [[Brone Lorcan]], Absinthe obtained an artifact called the '[[Blood Suit]],' a bodysuit forged of the blood of [[Vlad Țepeș]], also known as Vlad the Impaler. Vlad had been infested with the blood of the goddess, [[Nuit]], so nothing could kill him. Even the powerful [[Nightbred]] [[vampire]], [[Ivor|Lord Ivor]], bowed to the might of the King of Vampires. However, in the early 1800’s a man known as [[Calis Van Gothen]] went to war against the undead dwelling inside Europe. With the aid of [[Johann Conrad Dippel]] and the Ravenhursts, [[Theodore Ravenhurst|Theodore]] and [[Deborah Ravenhurst|Deborah]], and a few others at his side, Calis battled the King of Vampires, Vlad Țepeș, and succeeded in destroying the fiend’s body- yet a puddle of red blood remained behind. They tried using magic and science to destroy the substance, but not even sunlight seemed capable. Having no other options, Calis used a pump, fabricated by Dippel, to collect the unholy substance. They placed the vile ooze into a puzzle box. This box was designed by Theodore as a brain teaser and blessed by the magical enchantments of Deborah so that only someone of the bloodlines of those present could possibly open the artifact.

Sealing the mechanized puzzle box with Dippel’s help, it was entrusted into the hands of the Ravenhursts to be locked into their magical vault under [[Ravenhurst Manor]] where they sealed cursed objects located on their worldwide expeditions. The box could only be activated with a key. Dippel created a [[pocket watch]], in which to hide the key. The watch required the user to press the top three times in a row, in order to retrieve what it held inside. Theodore took the pocket watch and the box to America. There, outside of [[Wakefield]], [[New York]], the husband and wife sealed the box into their subterranean vault. Theodore held the key, hidden within his watch, for the rest of his life. However, he and his wife were slaughtered by [[Ophidian|Ophidians]] and cultists of the [[Cult of Scales]]. The watch fell into the hands of Theodore's son, [[Anaximanes Ravenhurst]].

In adulthood, thanks to the efforts of [[William O’Reilly|William]] and [[Margaret O’Reilly]], Anaximanes hired the Irishman, Brone Lorcan, to be his butler. Eventually, Anaximanes ran afoul the evil with [[Eleanora Blackwood]]. Then, Reverend [[Roger Addams]] led an angry mob and hanged Anaximanes from a tree. However, before his demise, he managed to give Brone the key, and in turn, Brone located the puzzle box and protected it before heading westward to Portland, Oregon. There, he was turned into a vampire by Ivor, eventually devolving into a nosferatu, but Brone managed to keep his sanity and the box hidden. After more than one-hundred-and-fifty-years, he saw a chance to stop Ivor. Eleanora claimed a relative of Calis still lived, and when Brone found her, he took her to the puzzle box.

Absinthe used the key to unlock the box and solved the puzzle. Once open, Vlad sprang out of the jail, and oozing over Abby’s body, threatening to take her over- flesh and mind, yet she fought to maintain control. With Brone Lorcan's aid, Absinthe managed to hold the evil blood in check. It became a part of Absinthe, and flows like latex around her curvaceous body, able to shift into different forms whenever she wills it to. Yet, always, at the back of her mind, the call of Vlad echoes, attempting to seduce her towards evil- changing her from a monster hunter into something cruel and unstoppable.

Brone knew of a ragtag group of monster hunters that belonged to a loose confederation of worldwide hunters called the Night Stalkers. When Absinthe arrived at the dilapidated building to introduce herself, she was stopped by Katerina Mordova, a witch hunter. Katerina sense pure evil within Absinthe, but the evil was not Abby's, it was the psychic emanations ebbing from the Blood Suit, from Vlad himself. However,, the headstrong hunter would not listen to reason and she attacked Absinthe- only to be promptly defeated. The Van Gothen bloodline gives superhuman powers to their kin when fighting monsters, but being one with Vlad also means Absinthe has inhuman strength even when fighting humans. As Kat sounded the alarm, the other Night Stalkers rushed to the scene.

The sibling zombie hunters, [[Arion Bishop]] and [[Ayana Bishop]], the werewolf hunter, [[Jacques Lombar]], the krakenite hunter, [[Kendra Tallulah]], the father and daughter mutant hunters, [[Roy MccCoy]] and [[Molly McCoy]], the dragon hunter, [[Rosaline Vaas]], the [[skinwalker]], [[Sani Lightfoot]], the goblin hunter, [[Selena Santana]], and the mad scientist, [[Siri Solen]] soon poured into the hallway. Absinthe soundly beat them all until Molly kept Abby's attention, and Roy snuck up behind her pointing his gun to the back of Absinthe's head. Being calm and cool, Roy took time to question Abby and it was decided she could stay. As each night passed, to prepare herself for facing off against the vampires, Absinthe went on a new hunt with a Night Stalker.

==== Mountain Hunt ====

The first night was the [[Mountain Hunt]] on [[Mount Hood]]. The dark elf, Adrasteia, had deigned humanity a threat to the mountain. She found that the constant mortal hikers were reckless and cared nothing for the land, and finally reaching a breaking point, she conjured a massive storm. Over the next few months, whenever people tried to climb up the mountain, she summoned tumultuous blizzards. This led to fewer humans, which meant more monsters. With the arrival of the monsters, the peaceful barbegazi living on Mount Hood sought aid. Jacques came to the mountain and tried many times to assail the summit, but the magical weather forced him down.

The situation on Mount Hood deeply bothered Jacques and he began formulating a plan. Just after he finished writing some notes, Absinthe came into the storeroom and talked with him. Feeling emasculated at his defeat the night before when Absinthe first arrived, and desiring to save the barbegazi, he left Sanctuary and went to Mount Hood.

Once there, he met up with the little hairy creatures and they went with him. He climbed to the summit and the barbegazi forged an ice bridge for him, allowing him to enter the cavern where the dark elf dwelled. However, when he faced Adrasteia, she used her icy magic. Though a massive, muscular man, he had no experience fighting mages or elves, and within minutes, he stood encased within enchanted ice. Absinthe Van Gothen, however, was not far behind him, and she managed to enter the cave as well.

Jacques had given Adrasteia some entertainment, and she saw Absinthe as the same. The two sparred, but her Van Gothen power, the Blood Suit, and items procured at the House of Haggle gave Absinthe the upper hand and the fledgling monster hunter managed to kill Adrasteia. As death grew near, in anger and disbelief, she sought to collapse the entire cave to kill everyone present, but no more power remained in her corporeal form. Upon her demise, she vanished from the Physical World and rematerialized within Niflheim, yet would forever remember the human that had soundly beaten her.

After Adrasteia died, a hidden chamber opened, holding the artifact which the elf had guarded- the fire sword named Dyrnwyn. Abby used the magical flames to melt the enchanted ice that held the lumberjack, and together, they descended the mountain to the joyous songs of the barbegazi. That night Jacques learned about humility and grew as a person. He also now trusted Absinthe as she had saved his life.

==== Caverns Hunt====

The night after assisting Jaques on Mount Hood, Absinthe goes with Selena Santana to the Marble Halls. When Absinthe Van Gothen arrived at Sanctuary, Selena Santana's companion, a gremlin named, Grimey Geargrinder, was wary of Abby and her possible motives. However, Selena found the woman to be very attractive. She had not felt that way about anyone since her girlfriend and family had died at the hands of goblins at Carlsbad Caverns. Selena offered to take the fledgling hunter on a goblin hunt. Absinthe had already visited the House of Haggle, a monster shop ran by the hobgoblin, Hobs Hornswaggle. The nosferatu, Brone Lorcan, had informed Absinthe that in the other direction of the cavern was a lair of goblins and to avoid it. Together, the pair made their way to the place.

However, Stenhållare, Son of Dovregubben, a troll, felt the women enter his domain. He had just purchased an Adder Stone and was eager to use it. Summoning an immense amount of his power, he created a rock hand to grab one of the women. As the hand reached for Abby, Selena pushed her out of the way and was pulled through the very ground and deposited hundreds of feet below the surface and into the troll’s chamber. While trapped, he disarmed the woman of her adamantine weapons given to her by Guðmundur Sigurðsson, forged by his father, Sigurð. Though exhausted from his magic spell, he was going to use the Adder Stone on Selena and impregnate her.

Then, he received word from his minions that her companion, Absinthe, was wreaking total havoc among his forces. Intrigued, he decided to rest as she exhausted herself. If she managed to actually reach him, he would simply smash her into submission and then use the stone on her, ensuring that his sons would be as fierce as she. Absinthe fought through hordes of goblinkin and other fouls monsters lurking in the subterranean caverns of Marble Halls, and she did manage to reach the vile troll. However, he sorely underestimated her. Thanks to the Blood Suit, a suit made from the very blood of Vlad Țepeș, and her own inherent blessed Van Gothen bloodline, she stood her ground against the massive troll.

Abby realized that none of her weapons were harming Stenhållare. He laughed and gloated as the wounds sealed shut his flesh regenerating at a rapid rate. However, the night before, Abby had acquired the artifact, Dyrnwyn, a mystical sword of fire. Having disarmed Selena, a woman well-known in his circles, the troll thought any true threat to his life was absolved, but as Absinthe hacked him with the fiery sword, the wounds cauterized, and Stenhållare eventually fell dead. Absinthe collected Selena’s discarded swords and helped the woman flee to safety as the enchanted section of the Marble Halls collapsed around them. Now Absinthe had proven to another of the Night Stalkers that she meant well. She saved Selena from a fate worse than death, and the pair became close friends.

==== Forest Hunt ====
The night after the Caverns Hunt, Absinthe goes to Forest National Park. The plague witch, Baba Yaga, had began polluting the forest with her dark magicks and when confronted by the dryad, Draeope, the witch chased her away. Draeope finally called upon the forces of nature, and the magical creatures of the wood assembled to wage war on the witch. At this point, having no other choice, the dryad summoned the Ute shaman and skinwalker, Sani Lightfoot. The witch hunter, Katerina Mordova, had previously tracked Baba Yaga to the area, but had no exact location where Baba Yaga had hidden. However, when Sani informed Kat that the witch was in the national park, Katerina could not leave fast enough to face the witch and avenge her sister, Yulia Mordova, who she thought was dead at the hands of Baba Yaga herself.

Seeing the two hunters rushing away from Sanctuary piqued the interest of Absinthe Van Gothen, and she covertly followed them to Forest National Park. Baba Yaga had not been idle either, and had forced the local ogres to aid her in battle. She also called upon the Unseelie Court of fairies. However, the main bulk of Baba Yaga's army were plague witches, newly corrupted from a local group of Portland druids whom had been worshipping nature. The battle lines were drawn along the Columbia River.

Draeope blew the battle horn and the two sides met. The plague witches proved incredibly powerful, especially with hordes of ogres and dark fae and other creatures at their command. They pushed further across the river and destroyed a large swath of forestland, but with Sani and Kat’s help, the battle shifted, and the remnants of Baba Yaga’s army retreated across the river. Draeope’s own forces were diminished greatly, her remaining defenders fanning out in search of any more witches on their side of the river. These defenders discovered Absinthe and she was forced, several times, to fight and destroy these goodly spirits of the forest, as like Katerina, the creatures sensed only evil emanating off Abby. Abby managed to slay these guardians and even assisted the goddess Hecate. Absinthe also gained a blessing from a Fairy Queen.

Eventually, Absinthe made her way to Draeope, Lightfoot, and Mordova guarding the bridge over the Columbia River. Katerina could wait no longer for revenge for her sister Yulia Mordova, and she chased after the witch. Sani stood against Absinthe, still believing the Blood Suit to be a threat, yet Absinthe defeated him. Draeope then assaulted the Van Gothen woman, and the pair fought a vicious battle, but in the end, Draeope again found herself defeated. Expecting to be killed by Absinthe, the dryad was completely shocked when she was spared. She watched Absinthe hurry across the bridge onto the corrupted Baba Yaga side of the forest. As Absinthe had been fighting Sani and Draeope, Katerina had rushed to Baba Yaga’s hut. The witch had cursed a tree, using it as a guard, and Kat ignored the warnings that it gave, leaping over the walls around the cottage and facing off with Baba Yaga- this time expecting to kill her.

However, as the pair fought, Baba Yaga used Kat’s emotions about Yulia to throw the girl’s attacks off long enough to gain the upper hand. She then used mesmerization magic and enthralled Katerina’s mind. The witch knew that Absinthe had also come and she intended to use Kat to defeat her own ally. The witch imbued Kat’s daggers with shadow magic and gave the girl the power to turn invisible at will- that very will itself currently shackled to the witch.

Absinthe managed to gain the favor of the guardian by obtaining glowing stones from the dwarf, Virvir, and destroying the evil forces of the witch in the area. As Abby rushed to meet the witch, Baba Yaga ordered Kat to attack. Absinthe soundly defeated Katerina and turned her sights on Baba Yaga, but as ever, the ancient witch knew that she would be victorious. However, to her absolute shock, Absinthe turned out to be something beyond the normal heroes that she had ever faced. This human appeared powerful beyond compare and protected by the Adder Stone which she had gained from the caverns hunt Absinthe managed to slay the ancient witch. This removed the control over Katerina’s mind, and the pair left together. However, Baba Yaga had always been wily, and she had a contingency plan for this. Unknown to the pair, Yulia watched them grow and already began research on how to bring her mistress back from the Outer Darkness.

Absinthe was awarded the artifact, Gleipnir, a mystical rope, by Draeope for having saved the forest. Katerina and Sani both apologized for having distrusted Absinthe because of the Blood Suit, and Katerina gifted Abby with the Talisman of Žemyna.

==== Sewers Hunt ====
The night following the Forest Hunt, Absinthe descends into the Portland Sewers. Roy McCoy mentions that Molly has disappeared. He asks Absinthe to help him locate her, and they make their way to the sewer system. Thanks to the Talisman of Žemyna, Absinthe enters the sewers without being infected by a thriving colony of xenopoxian mushroom and fungi. This area is lit by yellow lighting, and Absinthe navigates the sewers to find Molly while Roy searches another area. Eventually, Absinthe finds her way into a section lit by red lights. In this zone are mutant spiders. It turns out this is where Molly had gone and she was trapped in webbing. Absinthe shot the spider crawling on Molly, but it had bitten Molly and now she was turning into a spider mutant. Abbyd was forced to knock out Molly when the woman tried to bite her.

When Roy found Molly, he pulled his gun ready to kill his own daughter rather than her becoming a mutant. Absinthe managed to convince him that there might be a cure, and he acquiesced. Just as they were about to depart, a gate slammed down separating Abby from the pair. As Roy took the unconscious Molly outside, Absinthe ventured onwards to find a way out. However, she stumbled upon a plague priest from the Cult of Corruption. The vile man had been performing unholy rites to his god, Nergal, to raise a filth golem, but needed one more soul.

Absinthe managed to defeat the cultist and he fell into the pit of waste. His soul completed the ritual and a grotesque and corpulent filth golem rose from the slop. Again, the Talisman of Žemyna proved useful at giving Absinthe extra resilience against the infectious creature and she finally managed to bring it down. After that, Roy dropped a ladder down and he and Absinthe made their way back to Sanctuary. There, the scientist, Siri Solen, took to studying Molly's condition. Roy had not felt so powerless since his wife, Muriel, had died, and he grew very emotional. All that he wanted was Molly to return to normal.

Siri recognized what this was, because she had been forced into working for the pharmaceutical company, MedUSA. The corporation was really a front for the Cult of Scales seeking to revive the snake god, Ophion. Through their experiments they had merged the snake god's mutating venom with a myriad of DNA, including spiders. This substance, called Xenopox, would turn people and animals into mutants. Siri knew of only one place to obtain more of the vile substance which she theorized could be made into an antidote. Siri then set out for the Hawthorne Asylum to get a pure strain of Xenopox from the evil Doctor Demented. Though worried, Roy expresses gratitude to Absinthe for helping him find Molly and for convincing him to spare her life. As thanks, he gifts Absinthe the Seal of Solomon, an ancient ring artifact once worn by his late wife.

==== Docks Hunt ====
With Molly locked in a cage back at Sanctuary, Absinthe and Kendra Tallulah go down to the nearby docks. Stealing a boat they head towards Sauvie Island. Kendra has long sought the ghostship named The Flying Dutchman. The pair was separated when a kraken rose up from the sea to devour them, attracted by the Blood Suit made from the blood of Vlad Țepeș. Once Kendra hit the water, she quickly put space between her and the behemoth. In truth she was spared because the creature only wanted to consume Absinthe and add Vlad’s power to itself. Kendra watched the massive beast come down on Abby creating a tidal wave and assumed the worst.

While Kendra steeled herself and swam all the way to shore, into the thick swirling fog that she knew signaled The Flying Dutchman’s arrival, Absinthe was in the ocean depths, pulled down by the force of currents. She and Vlad both assumed Absinthe would drown. Even Vlad feared this because only now in symbiosis with a mortal, like Abby, could he die. If she died or every turned into a monster, he would cease to be. So, having no other choice, Abby sucked in a lungful of water, and was fine! It turned out that the Seal of Solomon, the ring Roy McCoy had given Absinthe after the Sewers Hunt, granted power of the elements. One of these abilities was water breathing.

Absinthe then found herself surrounded by krakenites, creatures of the Cult of the Deep, their glowing eyes peering out from the inky darkness. Suddenly, Absinthe saw the massive kraken rising up from the sea floor to devour her whole. Having been to the House of Haggle earlier in preparation, Hobs Hornswaggle sold Abby bombs. She released these and they quick sank down into the mouth of the kraken. Exploding the magic items ripped the creature apart from the inside. Slaying a kraken is rare in all of history, and this act brought the attention of the sea god, Dakuwanga. He imparted a blessing upon Absinthe as a reward for her bravery.

From there Absinthe fought her way through creatures like mermaids and sirens, until she finally reached the shore. Once there, draugrs assailed her. Eventually she made her way into the thick swirling fog, unable to find her way further. Backtracking, Absinthe went to the Warrior Rock Lighthouse on the shore. Turning the light towards the fog allowed her to navigate it. Kendra had made her own way there as well and Absinthe suddenly appeared. The sight filled Kendra with joy. Before the pair floated a transparent, ethereal ship- the Flying Dutchman. Kendra tried to board it, and fell through. It appeared that as with a ghost, solid matter passed through the cursed ship. However, using the artifact, Gleipnir, a magical rope Absinthe had been gifted by the dryad, Draeope, for saving Forest National Park from the plague witch, Baba Yaga- Absinthe managed to latch onto the ship. Amazed, Kendra watched as Abby climbed up the rope and boarded the ship. However, again, when she tried to board, Kendra fell through the ship.

Thanks to Vlad’s blood, Absinthe walked between the dead and the living in some dimensional frequency, and this allowed her to interact with The Flying Dutchman as if it were a corporeal vessel. Alone, Abby descended into the bowels of the ship and found a treasure trove of cursed items. She was assaulted by a pirate ghost, Captain Hendrik Van Der Decken. She managed to defeat him and thanks to the blessing from Dakuwanga, Absinthe even procured some cursed treasure, the blessing protecting her from the curses. However, once Kendra was informed that Hendrik was really sailing the seas and attempting to hoard cursed items to protect mankind, she called off further searches for the ship and remained at Sanctuary promising to aid Absinthe in the upcoming fight against the Nightbred.

==== Asylum Hunt ====
The next night, Absinthe was shocked to learn that Siri Solen was still gone to Hawthorn Asylum. She had sought the aid of the Syndicate of Immoral Nihilist (S.I.N.) supervillain Doctor Demented as he had access to pure strain xenopox and Siri needed to make a cure for the mutated spider mutant Molly McCoy. Roy McCoy had planned to go, but Abby said she would handle it and for him to remain with his daughter. Out in the forest, Absinthe made her way towards the abandoned asylum. That was when she ran into a massive ancient wolf creature named Lycaon. He had followed his trail and scent of Doctor Demented, and eventually found the doctor’s base of operations- the abandoned Hawthorne Asylum.

When Absinthe Van Gothen arrived looking for Siri. The moment her scent hit his nose, he became enraged, for it was not the Van Gothen blood that Lycaon smelt- but the Blood Suit. Instantly, he imaged this woman was allied with Vlad Țepeș, and so he attacked with ferocious fury. Surprising him, Absinthe held her own, and even managed to bring him down. Thinking his end had finally come, he accepted death, but Absinthe spared him. The moment she said that she was a Van Gothen, he knew it to be true and finally noticed the faint scent of the familiar blood as he had been one of Calis Van Gothen's friends. Needing nothing more to confirm that she was an ally, the pair assaulted the Asylum.

Inside the creepy place, they split up because of the sheer size of the building. Absinthe fought various blood mutants, like gorers and infected. She also faced off against supervillain henchminions like demented nurses and psychos. Abby also faced off with the giant undead man named Karloff. Sewn together from corpses and animated with a strange blood compounded, the undead behemoth originally fell in love due to his childlike mentality. However, when she turned him down he became irate and threw a tantrum attacking her. In the end, she defeated him and made her way to the evil supervillain.

When she reached the inner sanctum, she found Lycaon had been captured. She found Siri Solen was alive and still helping the doctor. It was by coercion because Doctor Demented had threatened to destroy the Night Stalkers. Being over a hundred-years-old and a founding member of the supervillain faction called S.I.N., doc had no fear of Absinthe. He had stood against some of the most powerful A.C.E. heroes of the past, and was even the arch nemesis of Veteran, himself. Attacking with a high powered laser, the mad scientist grew concerned and shocked when Absinthe managed to dodge the beams. Ultimately she reached him and pummeled the supervillain into submission.

Afterwards, the doctor slipped away and initiated a self-destruct system he had installed in the Victorian building. The heroes managed to escape in time and Absinthe had obtained a vial of pure-strain xenopox. Once back at Sanctuary, Siri immediately set about to create a cure for Molly. Meanwhile, Lycaon began to understand that history was repeating itself in a way, and he chose to aid the Night Stalkers in their fight against Nuit. There was some turmoil as the hyperborean monster hunter, Jacques Lombar, became angered. His wife, Meline, had been turned into a werewolf, forcing Jacques to slay her, himself. Though Lycaon is completely different than the creatures known as werewolves, Jacques did not see it that way. His own guilt and helplessness at what happened to Meline forced the lumberjack to place blame on Lycaon.

In the courtyard of Sanctuary as Abby and the Ute shaman, Sani Lightfoot, spoke with Lycaon, Jacques arrived in a fury. He fought Lycaon, but Absinthe intervened and someone’s life was saved, which of the pair we shall never know. Jacques talked with her about the incident and ultimately apologized to Lycaon. He learned from the experience just how bitter he had become and took the first steps towards closure in regards to Meline. Thus Absinthe had saved many people in one night.

==== Graveyard Hunt ====
The next night, Absinthe was relieved to find Molly cured. However, she stumbled upon information that led her to believe Arion and Ayana Bishop had set off alone to face an undead army led by the evil Heloise Laveau. She immediately went to Lone Fir Cemetery to aid the pair even if they did not want help. When Absinthe arrived, she found black, unmarked government vehicles. Soon Bureau of Demonic Analysis (B.D.A.) Agents swarmed Abby, guns drawn. She as approached by a sorceress named Catalina Castillo. Catalina forbade Absinthe entrance and warned the Night Stalker to stay away.

Absinthe was never known for her respect for authority, and soon she snuck into the graveyard. In only a few steps a tall lanky shape formed from the swirling fog. Heloise had made a pact with the death god, Ah Pwash, and she had corrupted the very land of the graveyard. This diminished the Loa’s power, and after accepting tribute from Abby in the form of cursed gold which she had received on the ghost ship, The Flying Dutchman, Baron Samedi asked her to collect six souls from unclean undead in the cemetery as each would empower him enough that he could break Heloise’s magical seal around the central crypt. Absinthe managed to do this by slaying a gjenganger, a nachzehrer, a pontianak, a strigoi, a revenant, and a wraith. Once she managed to destroy these undead, Samedi gained enough power to open the way.

Absinthe found that the B.D.A. agents had been slain and turned into risen. She also fought and killed the now zombified Catalina whom had led the government raid. Abby found Arion and Ayana had managed to reach this crypt as well and she found them bound. In the chamber sat a magical portal, which appeared almost open to the Outer Darkness. Heloise had been trying to make a portal to the Deathrealms, and bring Ah Pwash to the Physical World. Absinthe and Heloise clashed and with demonic powers at her disposal, Heloise managed to defeat Absinthe.

However, she was killed from behind by the Bishop siblings whom had escaped their bindings while Abby had Heloise's full attention. After Heloise’s death, Samedi claimed her spirit for himself. Meanwhile, Absinthe gained the artifacts, Helm of Hades and the Staff of Dadga, which Heloise had been using. Absinthe and the Bishops returned to Sanctuary.

==== Museum Hunt ====
The next night Brone Lorcan comes to warn Absinthe that she needs to obtain a Scepter of Osiris. This artifact can be used to stop the impending summoning of Nuit. Abby sets out to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. Using the Helm of Hades to become invisible, she sneaks into the building. However, she soon learns that a necromancer named Evelyn Addams has arrived with a boogeyman called The Anax, and the pair seek the very same artifact. Absinthe then runs into Delores Beck, curator of the museum. Having avidly studied the strange and the occult, Delores knew of The Anax and his faction the Shadowed. Absinthe then moved onwards.

As she moved through the museum she faced Shadowed, such as arachnophobes and nosophobes, and Risen, such as mummies and skeletons that Evelyn Addams had animated. Eve grew impressed the longer Absinthe managed to continue, though the the Anax practically begged to consume Absinthe's soul. Finally, now herself growing vexed, Eve animated a tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. Using bombs, Abby managed to defeat the abomination and continued to give swift chase.

Finally, Absinthe reached the area of the museum about Egypt, and there at the sarcophagus of Khufu, she confronted the shadowy pair. Khufu had been interred with both the Scepter of Isis and the Scepter of Osiris. As Eve worked on unsealing the enchantments of the sarcophagus she ordered the Anax to stop Abby. Absinthe expected another fight like those before him, but his very aura seemed to distort time and space. His very un-nature, like a walking void shaped as a man, appeared to tear at the fringes of her consciousness and none of her weapons could harm him. She found herself surrounded by a swarm of his minions, and as she stood frozen in abject fear the massive boogeyman approached, his nightmarish visage reflected in Absinthe's crying eyes.

However, in that moment, the Shadowed, including the Anax, instantly vanished into nothingness. At his banishment, Absinthe found that she could move again, r fear draining away. She looked up to watch Evelyn rush by in terror. Eve feared Khufu, as the mummy had, with only a wave of his scepter, sent all the Shadowed horde back to the Shadowlands. Absinthe then fought the ancient Pharoah and managed to destroy him using the fiery sword, Dyrnwyn. Ready to claim her prize, she became upset as Evelyn had summoned the Anax again. However, Eve faced off against Absinthe herself.

Eve's shadow magicks threatened to consume her sanity. Finally, unable to beat Absinthe, but scared of losing herself to shadow, Eve ordered the Anax to defeat Abby for good. Again the Anax, unstoppabe by any means Absinthe could possibly possess, closed in on her and made ready to turn her into a Shadowed slave. Just before his glowing claw slid into Abby's skull, he stopped at the behest of Brone Lorcan. The nosferatu was once the butler and best friend of Anaximanes Ravenhurst, the man whom had become the Anax. For a moment, the two old friends talked.

Then the Nightbred assassin known as The Reaper attacked to slay Brone, as he had previously escaped her grasp. However, the Anax swiftly and effortlessly shadowed the Reaper, turning her into one of his own minions and sending her to the Shadowlands. After further discussion, it was decided that Brone Would return to the Shanghai Tunnels to watch over Clover Riley, and Evelyn and the Anax would go to Sanctuary with Absinthe to aid in the battle against the Nightbred on the next evening.

==== Tunnels Hunt ====
The night following the Museum Hunt, Sanctuary is attacked preemptively by an army of vampires. Every Night Stalker brings their powers to bear, including new allies such as Grigori Rasputin and Anastasíya Nikoláyevna Románova. The battle is merely a ruse meant to keep the Night Stalkers from the tunnels so the Ivor can summon Nuit. However, hopping into Evelyn's hearse, she and Abby drive to one of the entrances of the Shanghai Tunnels.

A vast army of hundreds of vampires stands before the pair. These include the Blood Knights of the Countess Elizabeth Báthory. Normally, this would have been the end of her, but Evenlyn summoned the Anax, and he summoned his legions of Shadowed from the Outer Darkness. An all out war between these monstrous factions ensued, and while Eve and the Anax guarded the way into the tunnels, Absinthe slipped inside to seek out and stop the summoning of Nuit.

As the battle raged above, another undead faction of wights led by Zawisza Czarny, also known as the Black Knight had assaulted the passages also in a bid to slay the Nightbred and stop the summoning. However, they were hostile to Absinthe and she fought her way their their numbers. She slayed wights and liches, eventually even destroying the undefeated wightlord himself.

Her next obstacles consisted of magical Nightbred. Bone casters and shadow mages could not stop her. However, she eventually ran afoul of Ilihana Fernández whom had come as a puppet of Chernobog in order to devour Nuit. using the powers of the shadow-shard and enveloped with shadows, a suit made of darkness itself, she attempted to drain Abby of essence and soul. However, Absinthe again proved mighty, and she left Ilihana broken and defeated. As the evil spellcaster vanished in black miasma, Abby rushed onward.

Next swathes of different strains of Nightbred assailed her. This included creatures such as Shinda-kisu and Varcolacs. Only the peaceful Vetala strain vampires ignored the monster hunter. Now her path led Absinthe to a direct conflict with the human blood witch, Sangwen Darkblood. Sangwen eagerly awaited the hunter and the pair fought. Sangwen looked to easily defeat Abby, however, in earlier battles of the night, Abby and Vlad learned how to work together to manipulate the Blood Suit, effectively making it a weapon. When Absinthe attempted to flee, Sangwen cast a spell named 'Blood Call', where all the blood in an area would be pulled towards the caster. Normally, this would empower the witch, and in this case, it was meant to drag an unwilling Absinthe back to Sangwen’s side. However, Abby formed a massive spike from the suit and detached it. Because of the immensely powerful pull that Sangwen cast, the spike impaled the witch and she died.

With time growing shorter, Abby pressed on and found herself assaulted by the warriors of the Nightbred. Ultimately she defeated an entire group of Blood Knights. After their defeat, she stood toe-to-toe with the Countess Elizabeth Báthory. Hearing news of her old lover, Vlad, becoming the Blood Suit, Báthory saw a chance at absorbing the blood suit and on the same night capturing the power of Nuit. This is what she had hired the blood witch, Sangwen Darkblood, to claim control over the Blood Suit, and then, she could have Vlad freed from the powers of Absinthe. Eventually she plotted to find a way to resurrect him or at least have him merge with her so that they could be together forever, however, Sangwen failed.

As Báthory circled Absinthe, she attempted to have the woman lower her guard so that Vlad could rise, but the Van Gothen managed to hold back the corruption and a fight ensued. As a domnitor strain vampire, Báthory was one of the most powerful vampires on Earth, yet so power had Absinthe grown that the countess had no choice but to retreat.

Now within the inner sanctum, the doors to the summon chamber stood before Absinthe. However, before she could enter, the Jiang Shi Twins attacked her. These were Ivor's personal guards and were feared among the creatures of the night. Ivor had given orders slay Abby and take the Scepter of Osiris before the human ever reached the summoning chamber. Rather than hunt her down, they stayed just outside that very chamber.

Brutal tacticians, the sisters deduced it would be wiser to allow the hunter to grow fatigued or wounded as she fought her way through the passages. They also had a stern concept of strength and felt that Absinthe represented a test of strength against the Nightbred in Ivor’s lair. They found those vampires lacking when Absinthe reached the pair. They were shocked to see how much she had grown since their first encounter, and in the end, they were defeated as well. However, as they died, they both felt a profound respect for the hunter that slew them because such a feat would be worthy of such reverence.

Next, Absinthe entered the summoning chamber, and there, bound to the wall, was Brone Lorcan. Though she tried to free him, the seals stood enchanted. That is when Eleanora Blackwood revealed herself from the shadows. The shadow witch cast Shackle Undead on Absinthe, and because of the blood suit, the spell worked. Abby could not move. Just when all hope seemed lost the Anax appeared and snatched up Eleanora, ready for his revenge. However, as he tried to shadow her, Eleanora vanished.

Suddenly they turned as one, shocked to see Eleanora with the Scepter of Osiris. She had cast her spell Dark Duplicate before Abby had even arrived, and while everyone focused on the magical clone, the real witch had stolen the artifact from the kibisis, Abby's pouch. With the artifact, Eleanora assumed direct control over the Anax. Then she ordered Anax to destroy Abby, but Eve arrived in time to banish the Anax.

However, this was also to Eleanora's machinations, and she summoned Nuit, the scepter granting her control even over the Goddess of the Night. Nuit and Absinthe spared as Eve fought Eleanora. In the end Eleanora proved to powerful as a mortem vampire for Eve to defeat, but then she had an idea. Using the other artifact, the Scepter of Isis, Eve turned Eleanora back into a living human, purging the vampiric strain from her body entirely. With Eleanora defeated, the portal begins pulling Nuit back into the Nightzone of the Outer Darkness. Just before the goddess disappeared, she grabbed the Scepter of Isis.

Though Nuit and Eleanora were defeated, Ivor awaited Absinthe in the next chamber. There, Ivor and Clover stood. As Abby fought Ivor, Brone stayed busy trying to keep an enthralled Clover from aiding her evil master. Brutish, quick, and cunning, Ivor gained the upper hand and knocked Abby unconscious. This gave Vlad the chance he had been waiting for and the blood suit consumed Abby's autonomy. Rising to her feet, it was now Vlad in control. Fear painted Ivor's face as he now faced his old master.

Ivor shapeshifted into a bat creature and tentacles writhed from Absinthe's back. The pair fought, and Ivor, in an attempt to cause Abby to regain control, turned his attention to slaying Brone and Clover. It backfired however, because Vlad remained firmly in control over Abby's body, but Ivor exposed his back, and Vlad leapt upon him like a beast. Crashing into the throne, Absinthe managed to regain control over her body. Ivor thought he would be bale to use the same tactics on Abby to defeat her again.

However, Absinthe learned from their fight minutes earlier, and drove a stake into his heart. As Ivor lay dying Clover ran to him. She drank his blood with reckless abandon, and as Ivor died, Clover became some sort of new, strange, stain of Nightbred. Though she was about to attack the pair, Brone reminded her of Walter, her husband, and Clover shot past them into the night. With the world saved the duo made to depart. Abby found that both Evelyn and Eleanora were nowhere to be found. She and Brone returned to Sanctuary.

There, they found that the B.D.A. had locked the place down. Agent Marley Getty talked with them about the need for Night Stalkers to become more than just a loose confederation, and more of a mercenary group that the government could fund- and monitor. The main reason for this was that Absinthe had stopped the demonic goddess, Nuit, and she and the Bishops had stopped Heloise Laveau even though an entire contingent of B.D.A. agents failed and died. They all agreed to do it. She then introduced Brone and asked if the hunters would mind him being an ally because she was in love with him.

To the joy of both, the originally xenophobic hunters had evolved in emotional maturity thanks to Abby's actions on the hunts, and they welcomed Brone into the group. After that, Brone and Abby went to Ghost Nook Island at the behest of B.D.A. agent, Mara Marek. The organization wanted confirmation of the magic vault under Ravenhurst Manor. However, when Abby and Brone found the vault, it was bare. Eleanora Blackwood appeared and told them that Dagan Erebus had tricked the superhero, Trixie Goodwin, into smashing into the vault and removing all the cursed artifacts.

=== Cult of the Deep: Stormbound ===
Abby will feature in Kendra Tallulah's novel, Cult of the Deep: Stormbound, in the future someday!

=== Slugs and Bugs: Invasion ===

In [[Slugs and Bugs: Invasion]], a scene is available where Abby meets up with [[Justine Day]] in the sewers.

== Appearance ==

Abby is a buxom 23 year old. Abby has dyed hair, with a heavy clash of red and black.

== Abilities ==

*Blood Suit
*Physical Attacks

== Equipment ==

[[Blood Suit]]

== Notes and Trivia ==

== Gallery ==
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Absinthe Van Gothen

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{{ Character
| image=AbsintheWiki.jpg
| name=Absinthe Van Gothen
| race=[[Human]]
| type=[[Monster Hunter]]
| faction=[[Free Willed]], [[The Night Stalkers]]
| premiere=[[Desideratum: Blood Bonds]]
| relatives=[[Calis Van Gothen]]
}}
= Absinthe Van Gothen =

"Killing vampires, hunting relics, and getting laid- ain’t life grand?"

== Biography ==
=== Pre-Desideratum: Blood Bonds ===
Originally born in [[Roosevelt]], [[Utah]], Absinthe Van Gothen (whose real name is Abigail McCoy) has lived a turbulent life. She was adopted at an early age to abusive parents in [[Portland]], [[Oregon]], but never knew her real place of birth. As she grew up and came out of puberty, her adoptive father began to sexually abuse her. Her adoptive mother would sometimes join in, and this caused deep psychological damage to the poor girl. She felt worthless and scared to report the only parents that she ever knew. Abby also studied music as an escape from the depression and anxiety in her life, and she can play a wide range of instruments, but her real joy is singing. The pain, anger, and passion that surges inside her only found a positive outlet through music.

Growing up, she gravitated towards the punk and goth scenes. The rest of the school cliques tended to see these groups as outcasts, and as such, Abby and her friends were often harassed by other students. Absinthe always had a fierce fire in her heart, and she did everything within her powers to defend those that could not, or would not, defend themselves- perhaps because she was unable to save herself from her home life. While in elementary school, she met [[Tobias Nguyen]]. Abby protected Toby by fist-fighting anyone who picked on him. However, she, herself, was quite a bully and Tobias often found himself ridiculed by his female savior. By the time she reached high school, she had also befriended [[Scarlett Moffat]] and [[Sylvain Eriksson]]. Absinthe and her friends played music in Scarlett’s garage. After graduation, they met a rich girl named [[Fawn Everett]] at a club. The wealthy Fawn became their benefactor and together they formed the band- [[Absinthe and Arsenic]] of which she was the lead singer. They became popular in some circles within Portland, and looked to be rising to fame.

=== Desideratum: Blood Bonds ===

As seen in the novel, [[Desideratum: Blood Bonds]], Absinthe "Abby" Van Gothen is a punk rock star. One dark night, a [[nosferatu]] came for Absinthe and her world changed forever. With the guidance of the nosferatu, [[Brone Lorcan]], Absinthe obtained an artifact called the '[[Blood Suit]],' a bodysuit forged of the blood of [[Vlad Țepeș]], also known as Vlad the Impaler. Vlad had been infested with the blood of the goddess, [[Nuit]], so nothing could kill him. Even the powerful [[Nightbred]] [[vampire]], [[Ivor|Lord Ivor]], bowed to the might of the King of Vampires. However, in the early 1800’s a man known as [[Calis Van Gothen]] went to war against the undead dwelling inside Europe. With the aid of [[Johann Conrad Dippel]] and the Ravenhursts, [[Theodore Ravenhurst|Theodore]] and [[Deborah Ravenhurst|Deborah]], and a few others at his side, Calis battled the King of Vampires, Vlad Țepeș, and succeeded in destroying the fiend’s body- yet a puddle of red blood remained behind. They tried using magic and science to destroy the substance, but not even sunlight seemed capable. Having no other options, Calis used a pump, fabricated by Dippel, to collect the unholy substance. They placed the vile ooze into a puzzle box. This box was designed by Theodore as a brain teaser and blessed by the magical enchantments of Deborah so that only someone of the bloodlines of those present could possibly open the artifact.

Sealing the mechanized puzzle box with Dippel’s help, it was entrusted into the hands of the Ravenhursts to be locked into their magical vault under [[Ravenhurst Manor]] where they sealed cursed objects located on their worldwide expeditions. The box could only be activated with a key. Dippel created a [[pocket watch]], in which to hide the key. The watch required the user to press the top three times in a row, in order to retrieve what it held inside. Theodore took the pocket watch and the box to America. There, outside of [[Wakefield]], [[New York]], the husband and wife sealed the box into their subterranean vault. Theodore held the key, hidden within his watch, for the rest of his life. However, he and his wife were slaughtered by [[Ophidian|Ophidians]] and cultists of the [[Cult of Scales]]. The watch fell into the hands of Theodore's son, [[Anaximanes Ravenhurst]].

In adulthood, thanks to the efforts of [[William O’Reilly|William]] and [[Margaret O’Reilly]], Anaximanes hired the Irishman, Brone Lorcan, to be his butler. Eventually, Anaximanes ran afoul the evil with [[Eleanora Blackwood]]. Then, Reverend [[Roger Addams]] led an angry mob and hanged Anaximanes from a tree. However, before his demise, he managed to give Brone the key, and in turn, Brone located the puzzle box and protected it before heading westward to Portland, Oregon. There, he was turned into a vampire by Ivor, eventually devolving into a nosferatu, but Brone managed to keep his sanity and the box hidden. After more than one-hundred-and-fifty-years, he saw a chance to stop Ivor. Eleanora claimed a relative of Calis still lived, and when Brone found her, he took her to the puzzle box.

Absinthe used the key to unlock the box and solved the puzzle. Once open, Vlad sprang out of the jail, and oozing over Abby’s body, threatening to take her over- flesh and mind, yet she fought to maintain control. With Brone Lorcan's aid, Absinthe managed to hold the evil blood in check. It became a part of Absinthe, and flows like latex around her curvaceous body, able to shift into different forms whenever she wills it to. Yet, always, at the back of her mind, the call of Vlad echoes, attempting to seduce her towards evil- changing her from a monster hunter into something cruel and unstoppable.

Brone knew of a ragtag group of monster hunters that belonged to a loose confederation of worldwide hunters called the Night Stalkers. When Absinthe arrived at the dilapidated building to introduce herself, she was stopped by Katerina Mordova, a witch hunter. Katerina sense pure evil within Absinthe, but the evil was not Abby's, it was the psychic emanations ebbing from the Blood Suit, from Vlad himself. However,, the headstrong hunter would not listen to reason and she attacked Absinthe- only to be promptly defeated. The Van Gothen bloodline gives superhuman powers to their kin when fighting monsters, but being one with Vlad also means Absinthe has inhuman strength even when fighting humans. As Kat sounded the alarm, the other Night Stalkers rushed to the scene.

The sibling zombie hunters, [[Arion Bishop]] and [[Ayana Bishop]], the werewolf hunter, [[Jacques Lombar]], the krakenite hunter, [[Kendra Tallulah]], the father and daughter mutant hunters, [[Roy MccCoy]] and [[Molly McCoy]], the dragon hunter, [[Rosaline Vaas]], the [[skinwalker]], [[Sani Lightfoot]], the goblin hunter, [[Selena Santana]], and the mad scientist, [[Siri Solen]] soon poured into the hallway. Absinthe soundly beat them all until Molly kept Abby's attention, and Roy snuck up behind her pointing his gun to the back of Absinthe's head. Being calm and cool, Roy took time to question Abby and it was decided she could stay. As each night passed, to prepare herself for facing off against the vampires, Absinthe went on a new hunt with a Night Stalker.

==== Mountain Hunt ====

The first night was the [[Mountain Hunt]] on [[Mount Hood]]. The dark elf, Adrasteia, had deigned humanity a threat to the mountain. She found that the constant mortal hikers were reckless and cared nothing for the land, and finally reaching a breaking point, she conjured a massive storm. Over the next few months, whenever people tried to climb up the mountain, she summoned tumultuous blizzards. This led to fewer humans, which meant more monsters. With the arrival of the monsters, the peaceful barbegazi living on Mount Hood sought aid. Jacques came to the mountain and tried many times to assail the summit, but the magical weather forced him down.

The situation on Mount Hood deeply bothered Jacques and he began formulating a plan. Just after he finished writing some notes, Absinthe came into the storeroom and talked with him. Feeling emasculated at his defeat the night before when Absinthe first arrived, and desiring to save the barbegazi, he left Sanctuary and went to Mount Hood.

Once there, he met up with the little hairy creatures and they went with him. He climbed to the summit and the barbegazi forged an ice bridge for him, allowing him to enter the cavern where the dark elf dwelled. However, when he faced Adrasteia, she used her icy magic. Though a massive, muscular man, he had no experience fighting mages or elves, and within minutes, he stood encased within enchanted ice. Absinthe Van Gothen, however, was not far behind him, and she managed to enter the cave as well.

Jacques had given Adrasteia some entertainment, and she saw Absinthe as the same. The two sparred, but her Van Gothen power, the Blood Suit, and items procured at the House of Haggle gave Absinthe the upper hand and the fledgling monster hunter managed to kill Adrasteia. As death grew near, in anger and disbelief, she sought to collapse the entire cave to kill everyone present, but no more power remained in her corporeal form. Upon her demise, she vanished from the Physical World and rematerialized within Niflheim, yet would forever remember the human that had soundly beaten her.

After Adrasteia died, a hidden chamber opened, holding the artifact which the elf had guarded- the fire sword named Dyrnwyn. Abby used the magical flames to melt the enchanted ice that held the lumberjack, and together, they descended the mountain to the joyous songs of the barbegazi. That night Jacques learned about humility and grew as a person. He also now trusted Absinthe as she had saved his life.

==== Caverns Hunt====

The night after assisting Jaques on Mount Hood, Absinthe goes with Selena Santana to the Marble Halls. When Absinthe Van Gothen arrived at Sanctuary, Selena Santana's companion, a gremlin named, Grimey Geargrinder, was wary of Abby and her possible motives. However, Selena found the woman to be very attractive. She had not felt that way about anyone since her girlfriend and family had died at the hands of goblins at Carlsbad Caverns. Selena offered to take the fledgling hunter on a goblin hunt. Absinthe had already visited the House of Haggle, a monster shop ran by the hobgoblin, Hobs Hornswaggle. The nosferatu, Brone Lorcan, had informed Absinthe that in the other direction of the cavern was a lair of goblins and to avoid it. Together, the pair made their way to the place.

However, Stenhållare, Son of Dovregubben, a troll, felt the women enter his domain. He had just purchased an Adder Stone and was eager to use it. Summoning an immense amount of his power, he created a rock hand to grab one of the women. As the hand reached for Abby, Selena pushed her out of the way and was pulled through the very ground and deposited hundreds of feet below the surface and into the troll’s chamber. While trapped, he disarmed the woman of her adamantine weapons given to her by Guðmundur Sigurðsson, forged by his father, Sigurð. Though exhausted from his magic spell, he was going to use the Adder Stone on Selena and impregnate her.

Then, he received word from his minions that her companion, Absinthe, was wreaking total havoc among his forces. Intrigued, he decided to rest as she exhausted herself. If she managed to actually reach him, he would simply smash her into submission and then use the stone on her, ensuring that his sons would be as fierce as she. Absinthe fought through hordes of goblinkin and other fouls monsters lurking in the subterranean caverns of Marble Halls, and she did manage to reach the vile troll. However, he sorely underestimated her. Thanks to the Blood Suit, a suit made from the very blood of Vlad Țepeș, and her own inherent blessed Van Gothen bloodline, she stood her ground against the massive troll.

Abby realized that none of her weapons were harming Stenhållare. He laughed and gloated as the wounds sealed shut his flesh regenerating at a rapid rate. However, the night before, Abby had acquired the artifact, Dyrnwyn, a mystical sword of fire. Having disarmed Selena, a woman well-known in his circles, the troll thought any true threat to his life was absolved, but as Absinthe hacked him with the fiery sword, the wounds cauterized, and Stenhållare eventually fell dead. Absinthe collected Selena’s discarded swords and helped the woman flee to safety as the enchanted section of the Marble Halls collapsed around them. Now Absinthe had proven to another of the Night Stalkers that she meant well. She saved Selena from a fate worse than death, and the pair became close friends.

==== Forest Hunt ====
The night after the Caverns Hunt, Absinthe goes to Forest National Park. The plague witch, Baba Yaga, had began polluting the forest with her dark magicks and when confronted by the dryad, Draeope, the witch chased her away. Draeope finally called upon the forces of nature, and the magical creatures of the wood assembled to wage war on the witch. At this point, having no other choice, the dryad summoned the Ute shaman and skinwalker, Sani Lightfoot. The witch hunter, Katerina Mordova, had previously tracked Baba Yaga to the area, but had no exact location where Baba Yaga had hidden. However, when Sani informed Kat that the witch was in the national park, Katerina could not leave fast enough to face the witch and avenge her sister, Yulia Mordova, who she thought was dead at the hands of Baba Yaga herself.

Seeing the two hunters rushing away from Sanctuary piqued the interest of Absinthe Van Gothen, and she covertly followed them to Forest National Park. Baba Yaga had not been idle either, and had forced the local ogres to aid her in battle. She also called upon the Unseelie Court of fairies. However, the main bulk of Baba Yaga's army were plague witches, newly corrupted from a local group of Portland druids whom had been worshipping nature. The battle lines were drawn along the Columbia River.

Draeope blew the battle horn and the two sides met. The plague witches proved incredibly powerful, especially with hordes of ogres and dark fae and other creatures at their command. They pushed further across the river and destroyed a large swath of forestland, but with Sani and Kat’s help, the battle shifted, and the remnants of Baba Yaga’s army retreated across the river. Draeope’s own forces were diminished greatly, her remaining defenders fanning out in search of any more witches on their side of the river. These defenders discovered Absinthe and she was forced, several times, to fight and destroy these goodly spirits of the forest, as like Katerina, the creatures sensed only evil emanating off Abby. Abby managed to slay these guardians and even assisted the goddess Hecate. Absinthe also gained a blessing from a Fairy Queen.

Eventually, Absinthe made her way to Draeope, Lightfoot, and Mordova guarding the bridge over the Columbia River. Katerina could wait no longer for revenge for her sister Yulia Mordova, and she chased after the witch. Sani stood against Absinthe, still believing the Blood Suit to be a threat, yet Absinthe defeated him. Draeope then assaulted the Van Gothen woman, and the pair fought a vicious battle, but in the end, Draeope again found herself defeated. Expecting to be killed by Absinthe, the dryad was completely shocked when she was spared. She watched Absinthe hurry across the bridge onto the corrupted Baba Yaga side of the forest. As Absinthe had been fighting Sani and Draeope, Katerina had rushed to Baba Yaga’s hut. The witch had cursed a tree, using it as a guard, and Kat ignored the warnings that it gave, leaping over the walls around the cottage and facing off with Baba Yaga- this time expecting to kill her.

However, as the pair fought, Baba Yaga used Kat’s emotions about Yulia to throw the girl’s attacks off long enough to gain the upper hand. She then used mesmerization magic and enthralled Katerina’s mind. The witch knew that Absinthe had also come and she intended to use Kat to defeat her own ally. The witch imbued Kat’s daggers with shadow magic and gave the girl the power to turn invisible at will- that very will itself currently shackled to the witch.

Absinthe managed to gain the favor of the guardian by obtaining glowing stones from the dwarf, Virvir, and destroying the evil forces of the witch in the area. As Abby rushed to meet the witch, Baba Yaga ordered Kat to attack. Absinthe soundly defeated Katerina and turned her sights on Baba Yaga, but as ever, the ancient witch knew that she would be victorious. However, to her absolute shock, Absinthe turned out to be something beyond the normal heroes that she had ever faced. This human appeared powerful beyond compare and protected by the Adder Stone which she had gained from the caverns hunt Absinthe managed to slay the ancient witch. This removed the control over Katerina’s mind, and the pair left together. However, Baba Yaga had always been wily, and she had a contingency plan for this. Unknown to the pair, Yulia watched them grow and already began research on how to bring her mistress back from the Outer Darkness.

Absinthe was awarded the artifact, Gleipnir, a mystical rope, by Draeope for having saved the forest. Katerina and Sani both apologized for having distrusted Absinthe because of the Blood Suit, and Katerina gifted Abby with the Talisman of Žemyna.

==== Sewers Hunt ====
The night following the Forest Hunt, Absinthe descends into the Portland Sewers. Roy McCoy mentions that Molly has disappeared. He asks Absinthe to help him locate her, and they make their way to the sewer system. Thanks to the Talisman of Žemyna, Absinthe enters the sewers without being infected by a thriving colony of xenopoxian mushroom and fungi. This area is lit by yellow lighting, and Absinthe navigates the sewers to find Molly while Roy searches another area. Eventually, Absinthe finds her way into a section lit by red lights. In this zone are mutant spiders. It turns out this is where Molly had gone and she was trapped in webbing. Absinthe shot the spider crawling on Molly, but it had bitten Molly and now she was turning into a spider mutant. Abbyd was forced to knock out Molly when the woman tried to bite her.

When Roy found Molly, he pulled his gun ready to kill his own daughter rather than her becoming a mutant. Absinthe managed to convince him that there might be a cure, and he acquiesced. Just as they were about to depart, a gate slammed down separating Abby from the pair. As Roy took the unconscious Molly outside, Absinthe ventured onwards to find a way out. However, she stumbled upon a plague priest from the Cult of Corruption. The vile man had been performing unholy rites to his god, Nergal, to raise a filth golem, but needed one more soul.

Absinthe managed to defeat the cultist and he fell into the pit of waste. His soul completed the ritual and a grotesque and corpulent filth golem rose from the slop. Again, the Talisman of Žemyna proved useful at giving Absinthe extra resilience against the infectious creature and she finally managed to bring it down. After that, Roy dropped a ladder down and he and Absinthe made their way back to Sanctuary. There, the scientist, Siri Solen, took to studying Molly's condition. Roy had not felt so powerless since his wife, Muriel, had died, and he grew very emotional. All that he wanted was Molly to return to normal.

Siri recognized what this was, because she had been forced into working for the pharmaceutical company, MedUSA. The corporation was really a front for the Cult of Scales seeking to revive the snake god, Ophion. Through their experiments they had merged the snake god's mutating venom with a myriad of DNA, including spiders. This substance, called Xenopox, would turn people and animals into mutants. Siri knew of only one place to obtain more of the vile substance which she theorized could be made into an antidote. Siri then set out for the Hawthorne Asylum to get a pure strain of Xenopox from the evil Doctor Demented. Though worried, Roy expresses gratitude to Absinthe for helping him find Molly and for convincing him to spare her life. As thanks, he gifts Absinthe the Seal of Solomon, an ancient ring artifact once worn by his late wife.

==== Docks Hunt ====
With Molly locked in a cage back at Sanctuary, Absinthe and Kendra Tallulah go down to the nearby docks. Stealing a boat they head towards Sauvie Island. Kendra has long sought the ghostship named The Flying Dutchman. The pair was separated when a kraken rose up from the sea to devour them, attracted by the Blood Suit made from the blood of Vlad Țepeș. Once Kendra hit the water, she quickly put space between her and the behemoth. In truth she was spared because the creature only wanted to consume Absinthe and add Vlad’s power to itself. Kendra watched the massive beast come down on Abby creating a tidal wave and assumed the worst.

While Kendra steeled herself and swam all the way to shore, into the thick swirling fog that she knew signaled The Flying Dutchman’s arrival, Absinthe was in the ocean depths, pulled down by the force of currents. She and Vlad both assumed Absinthe would drown. Even Vlad feared this because only now in symbiosis with a mortal, like Abby, could he die. If she died or every turned into a monster, he would cease to be. So, having no other choice, Abby sucked in a lungful of water, and was fine! It turned out that the Seal of Solomon, the ring Roy McCoy had given Absinthe after the Sewers Hunt, granted power of the elements. One of these abilities was water breathing.

Absinthe then found herself surrounded by krakenites, creatures of the Cult of the Deep, their glowing eyes peering out from the inky darkness. Suddenly, Absinthe saw the massive kraken rising up from the sea floor to devour her whole. Having been to the House of Haggle earlier in preparation, Hobs Hornswaggle sold Abby bombs. She released these and they quick sank down into the mouth of the kraken. Exploding the magic items ripped the creature apart from the inside. Slaying a kraken is rare in all of history, and this act brought the attention of the sea god, Dakuwanga. He imparted a blessing upon Absinthe as a reward for her bravery.

From there Absinthe fought her way through creatures like mermaids and sirens, until she finally reached the shore. Once there, draugrs assailed her. Eventually she made her way into the thick swirling fog, unable to find her way further. Backtracking, Absinthe went to the Warrior Rock Lighthouse on the shore. Turning the light towards the fog allowed her to navigate it. Kendra had made her own way there as well and Absinthe suddenly appeared. The sight filled Kendra with joy. Before the pair floated a transparent, ethereal ship- the Flying Dutchman. Kendra tried to board it, and fell through. It appeared that as with a ghost, solid matter passed through the cursed ship. However, using the artifact, Gleipnir, a magical rope Absinthe had been gifted by the dryad, Draeope, for saving Forest National Park from the plague witch, Baba Yaga- Absinthe managed to latch onto the ship. Amazed, Kendra watched as Abby climbed up the rope and boarded the ship. However, again, when she tried to board, Kendra fell through the ship.

Thanks to Vlad’s blood, Absinthe walked between the dead and the living in some dimensional frequency, and this allowed her to interact with The Flying Dutchman as if it were a corporeal vessel. Alone, Abby descended into the bowels of the ship and found a treasure trove of cursed items. She was assaulted by a pirate ghost, Captain Hendrik Van Der Decken. She managed to defeat him and thanks to the blessing from Dakuwanga, Absinthe even procured some cursed treasure, the blessing protecting her from the curses. However, once Kendra was informed that Hendrik was really sailing the seas and attempting to hoard cursed items to protect mankind, she called off further searches for the ship and remained at Sanctuary promising to aid Absinthe in the upcoming fight against the Nightbred.

==== Asylum Hunt ====
The next night, Absinthe was shocked to learn that Siri Solen was still gone to Hawthorn Asylum. She had sought the aid of the Syndicate of Immoral Nihilist (S.I.N.) supervillain Doctor Demented as he had access to pure strain xenopox and Siri needed to make a cure for the mutated spider mutant Molly McCoy. Roy McCoy had planned to go, but Abby said she would handle it and for him to remain with his daughter. Out in the forest, Absinthe made her way towards the abandoned asylum. That was when she ran into a massive ancient wolf creature named Lycaon. He had followed his trail and scent of Doctor Demented, and eventually found the doctor’s base of operations- the abandoned Hawthorne Asylum.

When Absinthe Van Gothen arrived looking for Siri. The moment her scent hit his nose, he became enraged, for it was not the Van Gothen blood that Lycaon smelt- but the Blood Suit. Instantly, he imaged this woman was allied with Vlad Țepeș, and so he attacked with ferocious fury. Surprising him, Absinthe held her own, and even managed to bring him down. Thinking his end had finally come, he accepted death, but Absinthe spared him. The moment she said that she was a Van Gothen, he knew it to be true and finally noticed the faint scent of the familiar blood as he had been one of Calis Van Gothen's friends. Needing nothing more to confirm that she was an ally, the pair assaulted the Asylum.

Inside the creepy place, they split up because of the sheer size of the building. Absinthe fought various blood mutants, like gorers and infected. She also faced off against supervillain henchminions like demented nurses and psychos. Abby also faced off with the giant undead man named Karloff. Sewn together from corpses and animated with a strange blood compounded, the undead behemoth originally fell in love due to his childlike mentality. However, when she turned him down he became irate and threw a tantrum attacking her. In the end, she defeated him and made her way to the evil supervillain.

When she reached the inner sanctum, she found Lycaon had been captured. She found Siri Solen was alive and still helping the doctor. It was by coercion because Doctor Demented had threatened to destroy the Night Stalkers. Being over a hundred-years-old and a founding member of the supervillain faction called S.I.N., doc had no fear of Absinthe. He had stood against some of the most powerful A.C.E. heroes of the past, and was even the arch nemesis of Veteran, himself. Attacking with a high powered laser, the mad scientist grew concerned and shocked when Absinthe managed to dodge the beams. Ultimately she reached him and pummeled the supervillain into submission.

Afterwards, the doctor slipped away and initiated a self-destruct system he had installed in the Victorian building. The heroes managed to escape in time and Absinthe had obtained a vial of pure-strain xenopox. Once back at Sanctuary, Siri immediately set about to create a cure for Molly. Meanwhile, Lycaon began to understand that history was repeating itself in a way, and he chose to aid the Night Stalkers in their fight against Nuit. There was some turmoil as the hyperborean monster hunter, Jacques Lombar, became angered. His wife, Meline, had been turned into a werewolf, forcing Jacques to slay her, himself. Though Lycaon is completely different than the creatures known as werewolves, Jacques did not see it that way. His own guilt and helplessness at what happened to Meline forced the lumberjack to place blame on Lycaon.

In the courtyard of Sanctuary as Abby and the Ute shaman, Sani Lightfoot, spoke with Lycaon, Jacques arrived in a fury. He fought Lycaon, but Absinthe intervened and someone’s life was saved, which of the pair we shall never know. Jacques talked with her about the incident and ultimately apologized to Lycaon. He learned from the experience just how bitter he had become and took the first steps towards closure in regards to Meline. Thus Absinthe had saved many people in one night.

==== Graveyard Hunt ====
The next night, Absinthe was relieved to find Molly cured. However, she stumbled upon information that led her to believe Arion and Ayana Bishop had set off alone to face an undead army led by the evil Heloise Laveau. She immediately went to Lone Fir Cemetery to aid the pair even if they did not want help. When Absinthe arrived, she found black, unmarked government vehicles. Soon Bureau of Demonic Analysis (B.D.A.) Agents swarmed Abby, guns drawn. She as approached by a sorceress named Catalina Castillo. Catalina forbade Absinthe entrance and warned the Night Stalker to stay away.

Absinthe was never known for her respect for authority, and soon she snuck into the graveyard. In only a few steps a tall lanky shape formed from the swirling fog. Heloise had made a pact with the death god, Ah Pwash, and she had corrupted the very land of the graveyard. This diminished the Loa’s power, and after accepting tribute from Abby in the form of cursed gold which she had received on the ghost ship, The Flying Dutchman, Baron Samedi asked her to collect six souls from unclean undead in the cemetery as each would empower him enough that he could break Heloise’s magical seal around the central crypt. Absinthe managed to do this by slaying a gjenganger, a nachzehrer, a pontianak, a strigoi, a revenant, and a wraith. Once she managed to destroy these undead, Samedi gained enough power to open the way.

Absinthe found that the B.D.A. agents had been slain and turned into risen. She also fought and killed the now zombified Catalina whom had led the government raid. Abby found Arion and Ayana had managed to reach this crypt as well and she found them bound. In the chamber sat a magical portal, which appeared almost open to the Outer Darkness. Heloise had been trying to make a portal to the Deathrealms, and bring Ah Pwash to the Physical World. Absinthe and Heloise clashed and with demonic powers at her disposal, Heloise managed to defeat Absinthe.

However, she was killed from behind by the Bishop siblings whom had escaped their bindings while Abby had Heloise's full attention. After Heloise’s death, Samedi claimed her spirit for himself. Meanwhile, Absinthe gained the artifacts, Helm of Hades and the Staff of Dadga, which Heloise had been using. Absinthe and the Bishops returned to Sanctuary.

==== Museum Hunt ====
The next night Brone Lorcan comes to warn Absinthe that she needs to obtain a Scepter of Osiris. This artifact can be used to stop the impending summoning of Nuit. Abby sets out to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. Using the Helm of Hades to become invisible, she sneaks into the building. However, she soon learns that a necromancer named Evelyn Addams has arrived with a boogeyman called The Anax, and the pair seek the very same artifact. Absinthe then runs into Delores Beck, curator of the museum. Having avidly studied the strange and the occult, Delores knew of The Anax and his faction the Shadowed. Absinthe then moved onwards.

As she moved through the museum she faced Shadowed, such as arachnophobes and nosophobes, and Risen, such as mummies and skeletons that Evelyn Addams had animated. Eve grew impressed the longer Absinthe managed to continue, though the the Anax practically begged to consume Absinthe's soul. Finally, now herself growing vexed, Eve animated a tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. Using bombs, Abby managed to defeat the abomination and continued to give swift chase.

Finally, Absinthe reached the area of the museum about Egypt, and there at the sarcophagus of Khufu, she confronted the shadowy pair. Khufu had been interred with both the Scepter of Isis and the Scepter of Osiris. As Eve worked on unsealing the enchantments of the sarcophagus she ordered the Anax to stop Abby. Absinthe expected another fight like those before him, but his very aura seemed to distort time and space. His very un-nature, like a walking void shaped as a man, appeared to tear at the fringes of her consciousness and none of her weapons could harm him. She found herself surrounded by a swarm of his minions, and as she stood frozen in abject fear the massive boogeyman approached, his nightmarish visage reflected in Absinthe's crying eyes.

However, in that moment, the Shadowed, including the Anax, instantly vanished into nothingness. At his banishment, Absinthe found that she could move again, r fear draining away. She looked up to watch Evelyn rush by in terror. Eve feared Khufu, as the mummy had, with only a wave of his scepter, sent all the Shadowed horde back to the Shadowlands. Absinthe then fought the ancient Pharoah and managed to destroy him. Ready to claim her prize, she became upset as Evelyn summoned the Anax again.

=== Slugs and Bugs: Invasion ===

In [[Slugs and Bugs: Invasion]], a scene is available where Abby meets up with [[Justine Day]] in the sewers.

== Appearance ==

Abby is a buxom 23 year old. Abby has dyed hair, with a heavy clash of red and black.

== Abilities ==

*Blood Suit
*Physical Attacks

== Equipment ==

[[Blood Suit]]

== Notes and Trivia ==

== Gallery ==
<gallery>

</gallery>

Baron Samedi

2024-02-12T21:41:23Z

Anax: /* Pre-Desideratum: Blood Bonds */

Baron Samedi

2024-02-12T21:41:11Z

Anax: /* Desideratum: Blood Bonds */

Baron Samedi

2024-02-12T21:40:03Z

Anax: /* Desideratum: Blood Bonds */

{{ Character
| image=SamediWiki.jpg
| name=Baron Samedi
| race=[[Undead]]
| type=[[Loa Spirit]]
| faction=[[Dark Forces]]
| premiere=[[Desideratum: Blood Bonds]]
| relatives=None Applicable
}}
= Baron Samedi =

"Bonswa! You like mah big, long snake? Dis 'ere reptile be big too, no? HA HA!"

== Biography ==
=== Pre-Desideratum: Blood Bonds ===
Raunchy, dirty, and crude, meeting Baron Samedi can be a hell of a time- good or bad! The exact moment of his conception is unknown, but his roots can definitely be traced to Haiti. There, practitioners of voodoo sometimes interact with him, and now, he finds himself conjured all over the world. Samedi is not an evil entity, inherently, but he is not a good spirit either. He walks a line, but if you do happen to anger him- and many [[necromancer]]s have, you will regret it. He can sometimes be found wandering graveyards, and some [[vampire hunter]]s, necromancers, and other adventurer types have stumbled upon Samedi by chance. He does not care for the [[undead]], especially [[zombie]]s. If you ever summon this [[Loa spirit]], ensure that you bring suitable offerings! One must also always say the words, “Au revoir Baron Samedi!” when finishing with him, or you may face an interesting fate!

Generally, Samedi has no bedside manner, and most that seek him do so for the purpose of conjuration- intending to speak to the Ghede spirit. However, utilizing this spell does not require the Loa to be present, rather, the shadow caster calls to the Baron, who has no love for the undead, asking for him to bind the abomination with his dark powers! Samedi does not trust or tolerate the undead, for they go against the natural order, and it is his job to lead the dead to the places they belong- either the [[Light]] or the [[Shadow]]. Thus, he usually grants the boon, sending unbreakable chains of shadow that wrap themselves around the undead creature and trapping it. No known power can break the chains, and they will remain for some time before finally fading away. A few foolish mortals, over the years, have found themselves in a bad way, for they would dare cast this spell upon a creature not of undeath!

One particular instance involved a Haitian [[witch]] that had anticipated on capturing a man to use him as a zombie slave- something the Baron would never condone, yet worse, she cast it on the man while he lived! Instead of the chains appearing, shadowy snakes issued from her, wrapping around the witch and binding her tightly in front of her terrified would-be prey. Baron Samedi arrived, and scolded the witch for wronging him. He pulled a gris-gris (an amulet of sorts) from his staff, and handed it to the man that shook with fright. The Baron told the man to put it round the witch’s neck- and she would serve him instead! With shaking hands, the man put the charm around the cursing woman’s neck, and her eyes went stark white! The snakes faded, yet she stood still and quiet, her soulless eyes staring straight ahead. Baron Samedi told the man to use her for sex, cleaning, or any other purpose. The witch’s victim thanked the Baron for saving his life, and the Loa spirit tipped his hat and replied that the man was welcome for the gift, but to remember that Samedi would see him again- someday, for no one can elude death forever.

=== Desideratum: Blood Bonds ===

In [[Desideratum: Blood Bonds]], Baron Samedi is present in the [[Graveyard Hunt]]. Raunchy, dirty, and crude, meeting Baron Samedi can be a hell of a time- good or bad. The exact moment of his conception is unknown, but his roots can definitely be traced to Haiti. There, practitioners of voodoo sometimes interact with him, and now, he finds himself conjured all over the world. Samedi is not an evil entity, inherently, but he is not a good spirit either. He walks a line, but if you do happen to anger him- and many necromancers have, you will regret it. He can sometimes be found wandering graveyards, and some vampire hunters, necromancers, and other adventurer types have stumbled upon Samedi by chance. He does not care for the undead, especially zombies, because they do not cross over into the other dimensions, as they naturally should. If you ever summon this Loa spirit, ensure that you bring suitable offerings. One must also always say the words, “Au revoir Baron Samedi!” when finishing with him, or you may face an interesting fate.

Generally, Samedi has no bedside manner, and most that seek him do so for the purpose of conjuration- intending to speak to the Ghede spirit. However, utilizing this spell does not require the Loa to be present, rather, the shadow caster calls to the Baron, who has no love for the undead, asking for him to bind the abomination with his dark powers. Samedi does not trust or tolerate the undead, for they go against the natural order, and it is his job to lead the dead to the places they belong- either the Inner Light or the Outer Darkness. Thus, he usually grants the boon, sending unbreakable chains of shadow that wrap themselves around the undead creature, trapping it. No known power can break the chains, and they will remain for some time before finally fading away. A few foolish mortals, over the years, have found themselves in a bad way, for they would dare cast this spell upon a creature not of undeath.

One particular instance involved a Haitian witch that had anticipated capturing a man to use him as a zombie slave- something the Baron would never condone, yet worse, she cast the Shackle Undead spell on the man while he lived. Instead of the chains appearing, shadowy snakes issued from her, wrapping around the witch and binding her tightly in front of her terrified would-be prey. Baron Samedi arrived, and scolded the witch for wronging him. He pulled a gris-gris (an amulet of sorts) from his staff, and handed it to the man that shook with fright. The Baron told the man to put it around the witch’s neck- and she would serve him instead. With shaking hands, the man put the charm around the cursing woman’s neck, and her eyes went stark white. The snakes faded, yet she stood still and quiet; her soulless eyes staring straight ahead. Baron Samedi told the man to use her for sex, cleaning, or any other purpose as she deserved no less for her trespass. The witch’s victim thanked the Baron for saving his life, and the Loa spirit tipped his hat and replied that the man was welcome for the gift, but to remember that Samedi would see him again someday- for no one can elude death forever.

Absinthe Van Gothen encountered Samedi in Lone Fir Cemetery in Portland, Oregon. She had come to aid the siblings, Arion and Ayana Bishop, in their fight against Heloise Laveau. Heloise had made a pact with the death god, Ah Pwash, and she had corrupted the very land of the graveyard. This diminished the Loa’s power, and after accepting tribute from Abby in the form of cursed gold that she had received on the ghost ship, The Flying Dutchman, he asked her to collect six souls from unclean undead in the cemetery as each would empower him enough that he could break Heloise’s magical seal and Absinthe could reach her. Absinthe managed to do this by slaying a gjenganger, a nachzehrer, a pontianak, a strigoi, a revenant, and a wraith. Once she managed to destroy these undead, Samedi gained enough power to open the way. After Heloise’s death, Samedi claimed her spirit for himself, surely angering Ah Pwash, and giving the Loa the chance to exact his revenge on her soul.

== Appearance ==

Baron Samedi is a well-dressed spirit, with skeletal facepaint, a bewitching staff, and an accessorized top-hat.

== Abilities ==

*[[Shadow Magic]]
*Soul Steal

== Notes and Trivia ==
*Baron Samedi is one of the called upon spirits from a spell in the [[Book of Shadows]].

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
</gallery>

[[Category:DesRelease]]

Kendra Tallulah

2024-02-12T21:06:24Z

Anax:

{{ Character
| image=KendraWiki.jpg
| name=Kendra Tallulah
| race=[[Human]]
| type=[[Monster Hunter]]
| faction=[[The Night Stalkers]], [[BDA]]
| premiere=[[Desideratum: Blood Bonds]]
| relatives=N/A
}}
= Kendra Tallulah =

"Right then lass, I hope ye find a land lovin’ monster to hunt down."

== Biography ==
=== Pre-Desideratum: Blood Bonds ===
Kendra Tallulah was born in Waterford, Ireland. There on the southeast coast, she grew up with the sea. Her father was a fisherman and her mother made Waterford crystal, a type of glasswork. She loved the endless ocean and the life that it harbored. Growing up her father or his friends would talk of selkies, [[Mermaid|mermaids]], and other strange creatures as they’d drink into the night, but most people did not believe such rubbish. Even the children at school would sometimes speak of [[Ghost|ghosts]] wandering the shore at night and there was even a tale of a large Viking zombie, which she would later learn was a [[Draugr|draugr]], which haunted a cove at night and would kill anyone foolish enough to come for his treasure. In truth, fanciful narratives such as these instilled a passion in the girl and she worked hard to become a marine biologist. It was only after a few years of searching the sea’s mysteries, that Kendra would find a truth to the superstitious sailor stories.

Kendra was out on the ocean when, one night, she was awakened by the crew. The watchman swore that he had seen a mermaid, and others then saw it too. Once on deck, she also saw what looked like some women swimming out in the moonlight, but they were in international waters and no ship sailed in sight. She tried to shrug it off as a trick of the light or that they were just manatees, but her crew urged her to study whatever this was. Shaking her head and laughing, the woman dressed and entered the on board submersible. Her team lowered her into the sea. At a kilometer below, there in the bright lights of her craft, an honest, real mermaid stared right at her through the shield of her submersible.

She had only a few seconds to stare at the creature, shocked and unable for her rational mind to make sense of it, before the mermaid suddenly began singing. Something in the enchanted tones of the mermaid spurned a reaction in Kendra and she tried to open the machine but due to fail-safes, it would not release her. She even kicked and punched at the view shield in an attempt to smash her way outside. However, as she did this, she could make out the shapes of her team, splashing into the ocean and swimming down as mermaids sang and swam to greet them. Then, as the singing stopped, a feeding frenzy began and she watched as the creatures devoured the drowning men from the ship. The Kendra that came up from the sea that night was very different than the one that had entered it.

She was the lone survivor from the study and when she returned, she was questioned at length by investigators attempting to understand where a dozen men had disappeared to. They refused to believe her stories and she was discredited after a lifetime of hard work and even put into a mental institution for a time. Once out, she single mindedly pursued mermaids but soon discovered that lakes, rivers, ponds and all other bodies of water held other monster types as well. The woman trained and became better at swimming and capable of holding her breath for very long periods of time. She also learned to fight wearing full scuba gear and practiced every day, the scene of the crew always haunting her. In her own town her parents were forgiving. Her father had always swore that he had seen some monsters on his years at sea, and he was sure that his daughter was telling the truth. One night as they talked, she brought up the old tale from the schoolyard about the Viking, and her father told her that he had seen the creature himself.

She went out to the cove and it was her first encounter with a draugr. However, as she prepared to go down and face the monster, a ghost ship suddenly sprang into view. From its glowing bows a swirling fog suddenly surrounded the cove, but she could still see down into it. It appeared as if ghost pirates flew down and attacked the draugr. As some pirates kept the monster busy, other ghosts pilfered a treasure that had been guarded, apparently in an underwater cavern. After the treasure was on board she watched the other ghost fly back to the ship and it disappeared. As the fog dissipated the draugr screamed with rage and fury at the night air. The [[Flying Dutchman]] was real, and Kendra had seen it. Now, she had another purpose and intended to find the ghost ship and try to get the treasures it held.

She studied every report from around the world, and slowly saw different patterns. Most places were where legends or tales spoke of buried treasure or cargo lost at sea. Others were places where Vikings and Norsemen had formed settlements. Little by little she solved the puzzle and deduced where it would next appear. Sure enough, it appeared. However, she was unable to reach it due to a storm that night, but she now knew that she had determined a pattern to its behavior, there was a purpose here. So, she made her way to Portland, Oregon, and plotted the night that the ship would come to [[Sauvie Island]]. There, in Portland, she encountered the [[Night Stalkers]] and joined them. They were a misfit bunch of people, but they hunted monsters and she soon found that they mostly had sad tales such as her own.

=== Desideratum: Blood Bonds ===

In [[Desideratum: Blood Bonds]], Kendra is one of the [[Night Stalkers]]. During the time period, [[Absinthe Van Gothen]] arrived at [[Sanctuary]]. [[Katerina Mordova]] summoned the alarm. Kendra grabbed her harpoon and rushed to face whatever foe had come to Sanctuary. However, she was quickly disarmed and soundly defeated as Absinthe defended herself. After the fight, Kendra held no hard feelings towards Abby. She could tell that the woman meant no harm agreeing with [[Roy McCoy]] that Absinthe could have killed them all, she included, if she wanted to. So, rather than carry a chip on her shoulder, she befriended Abby. Eventually, she confided in the new hunter and invited Absinthe to come with her to [[Sauvie Island]]. The pair was separated when a [[Kraken|kraken]] rose up from the sea to devour them, attracted by the [[Blood Suit]] made from the blood of [[Vlad Țepeș]]. Once Kendra hit the water, she quickly put space between her and the behemoth. In truth she was spared because the creature only wanted to consume Absinthe and add Vlad’s power to itself. Kendra watched the massive beast come down on Abby and assumed the worst.

Steeling herself, she swam all the way to shore, into the thick swirling fog that she knew signaled [[The Flying Dutchman|The Flying Dutchman’s]] arrival. She followed the coastline, but the fog was so thick that she could not see her hand in front of her face. Until, suddenly, a bright light cut into the fog. It was being generated by a lighthouse on the other end of the island, but it gave Kendra the ability to see.

She eventually located it at an old, abandoned dock. There were no signs of her crew, and she assumed that they must have gone inland in search for draugr treasure, for, she had even tracked the draugr and knew they haunted the island, thus proving to herself that the ship would come. Leaping to board the vessel, she found it to be incorporeal and simply fell through the boat, splashing back into the cold sea. She tried a second time before standing at the dock and trying to ascertain a way aboard. Absinthe suddenly appeared. The sight filled Kendra with joy. It turned out that Absinthe had managed to use the light from the old Warrior Rock Lighthouse to open a path in the fog, but Kendra explained that there was no way on board. However, using the artifact, [[Gleipnir]], a magical rope Absinthe had been gifted by the dryad, [[Draeope]], for saving [[Forest National Park]] from the plague witch, [[Baba Yaga]]- Absinthe managed to latch onto the ship. Amazed, Kendra watched as Abby climbed up the rope and boarded the ship. However, again, when she tried to board, she fell through the ship.

Thanks to Vlad’s blood, Absinthe walked between the dead and the living in some dimensional frequency, and this allowed her to interact with The Flying Dutchman as if it were a corporeal vessel. She went below and found a treasure trove of cursed items. She was assaulted by [[Hendrik Van Der Decken|Captain Hendrik Van Der Decken]]. She managed to defeat him and thanks to a blessing from a sea god named [[Dakuwanga], Absinthe even procured some cursed treasure. However, once Kendra was informed that Hendrik was really sailing the seas and attempting to hoard cursed items to protect mankind, she called off further searches for the ship and remained at Sanctuary promising to aid Absinthe in the fight against the [[Nightbred]].

Kendra held true to her word because on the night that [[Nuit]] was to be summoned, [[Ivor]] ordered an attack on the Night Stalkers and their Sanctuary. Harpoon in hand, the salty sailor rushed about the battle, impaling the vampires through their hearts. At one point in the battle, Kendra even managed to save Absinthe’s life against a [[Priest/Priestess (Nuit)|Priestess of Nuit]]. After Absinthe and [[Evelyn Addams]] left the fight to stop the conjuration of the goddess, agents from the [[Bureau of Demonic Analysis]] arrived and aided the hunters in their defense. Afterwards, Kendra and the other Night Stalkers were placed inside the building’s foundry and given a choice to aid the government or be considered a terrorist group and face prison. When Absinthe and [[Brone]] arrived victorious, Kendra agreed that to aid the BDA was better than the alternative. Later she piloted a boat on a mission to [[Ghost Nook Island]], bringing Abby there to seek the relics hidden under [[Ravenhurst Manor]].

== Appearance ==

Kendra is a fiery haired Irish woman. She has a cheerful demeanor.

== Abilities ==

*Fire Arm Proficiency
*Melee Weapon Expert
*Shadow Daggers
*Invisibility

== Notes and Trivia ==
Kendra is able to be corrupted and transformed in several Bad Ends. The themes of corruption are: Bimboization, Plague Witch, [[Shadowed]] Transformation, [[Blood Suit]] Transformation, Ice Clone, [[Bugged]].

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
</gallery>

[[Category:DesRelease]]

Krakenite

2024-02-12T21:06:05Z

Anax:

{{ Character
| image=KrakeniteWiki.jpg
| name=Krakenite
| race=[[Monster]]
| type=Aquatic
| faction=Lotanites
| premiere=[[Desideratum: Blood Bonds]]
| relatives=None Applicable
}}
Krakenites are aquatic humanoids that are evil by nature. They desire nothing more than to rule the oceans and the entire world. Capable of using psionic powers to control humans, they can cause a person to drown themselves. There are few females, and they will also mentally control female humans into the water. Once there, they have two different ways to convert them. Amid the undulating tentacles of a krakenite’s face, there is one tentacle that can be broken off. Once inside a mortal it can travel and connect to the brain, causing a link between the two forever. The human works as a puppet. The other is that with human females, they can use the tentacle to inject their DNA into the host. The infected female will mutate and become a krakenites herself, which always defers to the mental power of a male. They evolved into sentience in the Early Miocene period. Just as humanity would later do on land, these krakenites did so below. They came to worship the massive krakens as gods with both having the power to communicate telepathically.

As they developed a connection, it soon became that the krakens, with their huge brains and brawn, were to rule over the humanoids. The krakenites lost themselves into the minds of their gods and continued to build a civilization around them for millions of years. Then in the Age of Myths, when the gods of man, beings not of the corporeal world as the krakens were, came onto the Earth, war began under the waves. As mankind conceptualized gods of the sea, these beings could swim from elemental water dimensions into the Physical World. They fought the krakens and the krakenites. Eventually only a handful of krakens remained and they fled to the darkest, deepest parts of the ocean to sleep and recover from battle. Guarded by the last pockets of krakenites, these monsters dreamed of the day that they could take back the oceans and force the air breathers on land into submission.

Recently, as humanity has caused the Earth’s climate to change exponentially quickly, warmer waters are reaching lower depths and the kraken stir. When they awaken, they swim through the sea, devouring as much life as they can. The krakenites rejoice at this spectacle and they will swarm sometimes in the thousands, following their gods all the way to the surface. One such kraken awoke off the coast of Oregon. When the Night Stalkers, Absinthe Van Gothen and Kendra Tallulah, were embarking to Sauvie Island, the kraken smelled and sensed the Blood Suit made of the blood of Vlad Țepeș. It tried to unsuccessfully devour Abby and the heroine, luckily, had magic bombs on hand. Releasing several, they sank into the water and into the massive maw of the beast. They exploded, destroying the kraken from within and it died, sinking to the bottom of the ocean. Most of the nearby krakenites fled in terror from seeing a god destroyed. A sea god, Dakuwanga, who witnessed the spectacle, blessed Absinthe for the deed.

Kraken

2024-02-12T21:05:35Z

Anax:

{{ Character
| image=KrakenWiki.jpg
| name=Kraken
| race=[[Monster]]
| type=Aquatic
| faction=Lotanites
| premiere=[[Desideratum: Blood Bonds]]
| relatives=None Applicable
}}
In myth, the kraken (/ˈkrɑːkən/) is a legendary cephalopod-like sea monster of gigantic size in Scandinavian folklore. According to the Norse sagas, the kraken dwells off the coasts of Norway and Greenland and terrorizes nearby sailors. While all that may be true, in reality krakens are far more intelligent, ancient, and destructive. Long before the Age of Myths, long before even humanity existed, kraken swam the seas. Vast in size, even in ancient times, they could devour even megalodons. Nothing was safe. At this same time in the Early Miocene period, primitive humanoids were developing a civilization. Just as humanity would later do on land, these krakenites did so below. They came to worship the massive krakens as gods with both having the power to communicate telepathically.

As they developed a connection, it soon became that the krakens, with their huge brains and brawn, were to rule over the humanoids. The krakenites lost themselves into the minds of their gods and continued to build a civilization around them for millions of years. Then in the Age of Myths, when the gods of man, beings not of the corporeal world as the krakens were, came onto the Earth, war began under the waves. As mankind conceptualized gods of the sea, these beings could swim from elemental water dimensions into the Physical World. They fought the krakens and the krakenites. Eventually only a handful of krakens remained and they fled to the darkest, deepest parts of the ocean to sleep and recover from battle. Guarded by the last pockets of krakenites, these monsters dreamed of the day that they could take back the oceans and force the air breathers on land into submission.

Recently, as humanity has caused the Earth’s climate to change exponentially quickly, warmer waters are reaching lower depths and the kraken stir. When they awaken, they swim through the sea, devouring as much life as they can. One such kraken awoke off the coast of Oregon. When the Night Stalkers, Absinthe Van Gothen and Kendra Tallulah, were embarking to Sauvie Island, the kraken smelled and sensed the Blood Suit made of the blood of Vlad Țepeș. It tried to unsuccessfully devour Abby and the heroine, luckily, had magic bombs on hand. Releasing several, they sank into the water and into the massive maw of the beast. They exploded, destroying the kraken from within and it died, sinking to the bottom of the ocean. Most of the nearby krakenites fled in terror from seeing a god destroyed. A sea god, [[Dakuwanga]], who witnessed the spectacle, blessed Absinthe for the deed.

Absinthe Van Gothen

2024-02-12T07:48:00Z

Anax:

Absinthe Van Gothen

2024-02-12T07:34:06Z

Anax: /* Desideratum: Blood Bonds */

Absinthe Van Gothen

2024-02-12T05:59:13Z

Anax: /* Pre-Desideratum: Blood Bonds */