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For
the first eight years of her life, Lena was a happy normal young human
girl living with a large extended family in a small valley town. Then,
in the fall of her 8th year, on the night of Samhain, or as it is also
know as, All Hallow's Eve, the little red headed girl became the sole survivor
of a night of pure terror. A large band of Vampires, working together,
attacked her town and either killed, or turned all in it, save her. She
alone was spared because just before they struck, she had crawled under
the floorboards to find where her cat had gone to have its kittens. Why
they didn't smell her out, is a mystery. But she watched her family be
turned before her eyes, threw a knot in the wood. She stayed under the
boards till morning, the blood of those that resisted and then, rended
apart, dripping down abut her.
Come
dawn she slowly crawled out, gagging and sobbing at the sight before her
and fled on her small pony to the next town, warning them of what was happening.
This town happened to have living in it a hunter and he organized the village
into an attack and they held off the vampires when the band, that now included
many that the girl had once loved, attacked again. The terrified young
girl helped in this endeavor to the best that an eight year old could.
Managing even then to kill one, that in the dark she had not, till looking
upon it, known was the one that had been her mother.
The
hunter of the village, seeing her courage and her growing hatred for Kindred
took the lass under his wing and raised her up as his own, teaching her
what he could of how to hunt those of the ranks of the children of the
night. When she was eighteen she set out on her own to seek her own life
as a hunter and to avenge her family, for she had sworn to track down and
lay to a final rest all those that had been her family.
Armed
not with the magics that many hunters of the kindred us, her weapons are
of the traditional kinds, Holy water, a crossbow rigged to shoot sharpened
bolts of wood. And a dagger that was given to her by her adoptive
father. A most curious thing, the blade being a normal dagger blade,
but the hilt being that of a sharpened wooden stake, it's sheath is made
so that if the need came, it would come off of where it was attached to
and serve as the handle when the hilt was being used instead of the blade.
Her
sole item of magic is a simple garnet ring with two tiny diamonds on each
side of it, the red gem glowing to alert her when a vampire was about.
The ring had been a present from her grandmother on her last birthday before
the attack, and she had a wizard cast the spell on it for her. It is her
most precious possession.
For
three years she wandered alone, going from town to town tracking down reports
of vampires and exterminating them. In her twenty first year she met another
Hunter and the two joined up, a young man named Niclous. Soon the two fell
in love and made plans to wed. Then, for the second time in the woman's
life, the one she loved was taken from her by those very same that they
both hunted. Niclous, on the night before they where to wed, had went out
for a walk, his mind full of the next days events, he did not hear the
vampire slip up behind him, to wreck upon him what to a hunter of that
kind would consider worse then death, the young man was turned. He did
return that night to Lena, but eyes full of new bloodlust, he attacked
her and she was forced to kill the one she had wanted to wed.
Fleeing
the town the two had planned to settle in and protect; she burred her broken
heart into her work. Again wandering around for years alone, until she
came upon Rosepeak while in her twenty seventh year. She went to the inn,
planning on only staying for a few days before moving on. But she met another,
not a hunter this time, but a Cheery and odd naga man Named Hateya. She
found him Irritating at first but he kept persisting on trying to befriend
her, not an easy task as by now she had become very anti social and sealed
over heart. So that her heart could never be used to hurt again.
She
had sworn to herself upon Niclous body to never fall in love again, fearing
herself cursed to cause those she loved to become those she hunted. But
Hateya's persistence and his gift for story telling soon cracked her heart
and she began to love him, but told him not this. Until one night he told
her that he would never be taken from her as the other, as due to what
he is, he can not be turned. That night she confessed to him her love and
found that he felt the same for her.


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