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The Headless Horseman- or perhaps simply 'a' headless horseman, he is attached to the House of Rage, and rides on the business of his Lady, the goddess h'Kani. It is said that this vicious apparition is all that remains of the first of the black Veksun- a prince and a renowned warrior before he became a black monk. It seems that his mission is sometimes to protect and at other times to destroy the young women who, like Anna Bloom, find themselves serving the House of Rage. He is an immortal, but more often than not he appears to be a slave without any will or desires of his own. He has been known to appear with his head attached, often in the guise of a messenger or a mercenary and riding an armored black horse, instead of the flaming-maned black horse with the exposed skull. In that incarnation his actions are more like those of a man than a mere tool. He is seldom recognized since the chief characterization of a headless horseman is, of course, his lack of a head. |
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Nancy - is a part blood Neh’Nameist (shadow demon). The pure blood Neh'Nami are shape shifters, nightmare creatures with mass but without definite forms, able to mimic shapes but not pigment. The Neh'Nami prey on sentient beings, feeding as much on fear as on flesh. The physical forms they take are often simply reflections of whatever an observer attributes to them. They are often depicted as having human-like torsos and lower bodies that resemble tentacles or smoke. Being creatures of shadow, Neh'Nami are vulnerable to sunlight and fire. In the City one is more likely to run across half breeds like Nancy, creatures often as unwelcome in the shadow realms as they are in the world of men. Half breeds can often pass as humans as they tend to resemble their human (or human-like) parents in coloration and form. They are also are less vulnerable to light while keeping some of the basic shadow walking, shape shifting abilities of their pure blood Neh'Nami ancestors. Besides Nancy, other part blood Neh'Nami scattered about include Lucas (Luke) Ross (a.k.a. The Shadow/ Half Shadow Man) and an enigmatic young woman named Marcie Crane. |
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The Skinned Man - he's a ghul, a vampire-like creature that eats corpses and yet, he is an anomoly for his species - since they tend to be brainless wraiths and Skin retains much of the intellect he had as a man. He also can shift his features into a more human face, something that is not typical of the average undead individual. And, well, the whole 'skinned' thing is a bit of an open question. |
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The White Cat - I'm not sure that she is a monster, but I know she is not a man. She is not human, at least. She arrived in this world from another one as a young girl and has never found her way back to her home. Before the Revolution threw the countryside into chaos, she was a well-regarded superhero and in the time since then, she has quietly resumed that life although now she avoids the sort of attention she once basked in. These days she is regarded as sort of an urban legend. Many people believe that she died during or soon after the Revolution or else they think of her as the old woman she ought to be - for all the time she has spent in this world (nearly fifty years by the time armageddon girl gets underway) she has only aged a decade or so. |
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Vampires. |
