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18 January 2010 @ 11:30 pm
Bio: Camilla de Medici  
Camilla de Medici

Name: Camilla Margherita Luisa de Medici (Camilla)
Tribe: Other. A vampire from the mainland, castaway from the Hnakra
Home: Originally Florence, Italy. After being turned by Silas, she joined him in perpetual travel.
Age: 488 (Born in 1522, turned at the age of 34 and hasn't aged a day since)

A daughter of the renowned Medici family of renaissance Florence, Italy, Camilla was a fixture at court both during and between her many marriages. She was rumored to be the Florentian Lucrezia Borgia due to her constant status as a widow, yet nothing was ever proven. Her charmed life took a turn for the interesting when she met Silas Ioannidis at one such event. The two began a torrid affair, and when Silas made Camilla into a vampire she followed him around the world in perpetual travel. She has been uneasy about her position in Silas' favors since Alexis joined the group.
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12 January 2010 @ 10:40 pm
Bio: Thomas Hyde  
Thomas Hyde

Name: Thomas Hyde
Tribe: Human, castaway from the Hnakra
Home: Originally Los Angeles. Currently the Island.
Age: 31

Thomas had, in his youth, aspired to be a famous musician, however those dreams never really made it off the ground. He was never a member of any band, only a lone guitarist blessed with an angel's voice. He played venues across Los Angeles (including street corners) before deciding to try his luck on the East Coast. Finding no success there, he accepted a job on board the cruise ship Hnakra to play with the house band. This fateful decision has left him alone, thousands of miles from home-- though really, it's not that different to what he's used to.
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10 January 2010 @ 11:52 pm
Bio: Ophelia  
Ophelia

Name: Ophelia
Tribe: Vatnadis, whom are water spirits, or naiads. They are usually women, connected to a body of water that they must remain close to. They have power of water, much more over their specific body of water
Home: Ophelia's Stream, a trickle of water from Corycra's Marsh between the Black Woods and the Verdure Grasslands
Age: Approximately eight years old

Ophelia was born when Nataliya created the eastern stream from Corycra's Marsh. She is a bitter little naiad, and takes it out on everyone around her. She is madly jealous of Lilaea for having a loving family to keep her company. When she has a temper tantrum, she floods the marsh and muddies up the water wherever someone is trying to use it. Her loneliness is reflected in her actions; she attempts to drown visitors to her stream so that she will have playmates. The stream is shallow, no more than about three feet deep in the centre and about as wide at it's largest berth. It is perfectly safe to visit Ophelia's Stream... as long as you're stronger than she is.
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10 January 2010 @ 10:58 pm
Bio: Lucas Redcliff  
Lucas Redcliff

Name: Lucas Redcliff
Tribe: Nghrau, vampires whom live mostly by night (as they age dramatically in the sun) and must drink blood to survive. They are known as predators.
Home: Midnight Cliffs
Age: 163 (Born in 1847, turned at the age of 30 and hasn't aged a day since)

Lucas Redcliff was, once, a Victorian gentleman of good breeding, leading a perfectly ordinary life. From a moderately wealthy family, and suitably engaged to a young lady of social standing despite his somewhat rakish charms, Lucas enjoyed the gentleman's clubs and related establishments as an eligible bachelor, gambling idly, drinking to excess and flirting wildly. On his way home from one of these excursions, he ran into Norton Peregrine, who attacked him in an alley, turning him vampire, bloodthirsty and cold, and revealing to him the existence of the Island. For some time, he immersed himself in the depraved nightlife of the English underworld but later tired of London, and left shortly after the Whitechapel murders. The fact that Jack the Ripper was never heard of again may or may not be related to this departure. He has been at the Island ever since.

Lucas harnessed his seductive vampire powers quite early on, becoming quite the danger to the young unmarried at the time. Over time, he has come to enjoy the seduction more than the resulting bloodshed or sex that would follow and would just as soon have you charmed with him for the sake of entertainment. This might make him even more dangerous.
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10 January 2010 @ 10:43 pm
Bio: Belua  
Belua

Name
: Belua (Be-looah). She has long since forgotten her other names.
Tribe: Lagrimas Irmoes, merfolk, which live in the central lake of the island. They have been granted the ability to leave the water (by switching fins to legs), but only during the daytime. At night they must return to water.
Home: The Circular Lake
Age: Has the appearance of a young woman of approximately twenty, but cannot remember her actual age.

Belua was once a witch of the Kouzelheks, but was transformed into a mermaid as punishment for daring to try and set foot on Estrella Island in the middle of the lake. She still bears the characteristic red hair of her original tribe. Though she has no recollection of the actual event, it was traumatic for her, and she cannot remember her life before her legs were taken from her. She hates her mermaid tail and is deeply ashamed of it, going to great lengths to prevent others seeing it. During the sunlight, when the merfolk are allowed to roam on land, she spends the entire day running free, climbing, kicking, dancing... and having sex with any male she can successfully proposition. This is her 'legtime', and these are things she can only do when she has legs. At the first sign of sundown she will disappear and hide-- even when in the middle of something-- all to avoid people catching a glimpse of her cursed tail.
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10 January 2010 @ 10:27 pm
Bio: Athe  
Athe

Name
: Athe (Ay-th)
Tribe: Andi Aave, tree spirits or dryads which exist in some of the trees on the island.
Home: Nomadic, but can often be found in the Black Woods
Age: You'd have to cut into her and count the rings.

Athe is a nymph born of a white birch. In her nymph form she appears almost human; a smaller, slighter girl with pale skin dotted with leaves, green hair and green eyes. She has a scar across her chest where an inconsiderate human once carved his name into her while she was in tree form. Her screams were not recognized, because Athe only speaks the language of tree. If you do not understand tree, you hear her voice only as rustling leaves. If you do not speak tree, she doesn't understand you. Her tree form is a slender white birch, and she will revert to this form when fearful, startled, or sleeping. She is an intensely curious creature and often observes the other inhabitants of the island from a safe distance.
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