Celine de la Rouge - Vampire Hemomancer

Born in Baldur at the turn of the Second Era, Celine was raised in the eaves of the Fringe, the spawn of forbidden love between Elf and Man in a time where racial tensions were high from skirmishes between Nan Thalias and Baldur in the Fringe. Celine’s early life was filled with turmoil, for her parents and herself were hated by all their kin. They would eventually find an escape by retreating into the east of Baldur, in the foothills near Arvere where they would build a cottage and live off the land, with her mother’s druidic abilities providing for them. She was joined by three younger siblings in that time, and though their father passed on, her mother and siblings continued their sheltered life. Though this fairytale came to a bitter end in Celine’s thirtieth summer. She had left for town in the day to procure tools and sell off some of their harvest, though she returned to tragedy that evening: her mother and siblings had all been feasted upon by a set of brigands instilled with vampirism. Having had their filling, they chose to instead enthral Celine, feeding upon her and cursing her with the dark affliction. For years she was bound to their will, though she noted a unique property within her that seemed to rise from the affliction: the ability to manipulate and control blood using Minera’s Breath, and with this she broke her thraldom and slaughtered her family’s killers in their sleep. She had overheard talk from them, mocking of a coven of vampires in the penal colony on Duskweave led by an old Belfrian noble. With little other knowledge of what that might entail, she travelled there, quickly becoming smitten with the coven’s leader, who in turn became infatuated with her. Though when the coven was exiled from Duskweave following their betrayal of Kelathar, an inkling of resentment was planted in Celine’s heart for her lover’s ineptitude to safeguard his family. This seedling was watered over time by his inaction and reactive leadership style, only making decisions when cruxes had come to a head, rather than preparing for whatever crisis might befall them.