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Vurphoadith & Vercingetorix

Artemis created Eric before he created other monsters. Eric was the test of what he could make and the extent of what he could make. Because of this Eric contains the beginning of every single magical creature. He carries their vices, their weaknesses, their strengths, their forms. He can become anything. Because he is everything.

Eric was made from a piece of Artemis' soul. Meaning he is part of Artemis. They have a connection that runs very deep, very personal and both of them will do anything for the other.

They also look alike because of this. Both of them are rather pale, tall and lanky. Long legged and thin fingers. They're not skin and bone, they fill their body out well, but don't have very well defined muscles. They both have black hair and blood red eyes, monolid eye shapes. Thin boney wrists.

For a while they didn't speak, centuries, after Eric started dating his wife and Artemis was more unhinged than he is now. After the death of Elisabeth and Eric slaughtering everyone who caused it, Artemis actually picked the pieces of Eric up and fixed the broken bond between them. Now, Eric is the one constantly picking Artemis up especially after he goes off the wall.

Artemis has a home in the Manor and will never be kicked out. Though he is hard to get along with guests are expected to treat him respectfully as Eric will never let Artemis harm a guest. Artemis knows these rules too and the consequences of his actions. (Which is Eric giving him the cold shoulder for a long time).

Likewise, should anyone harm Eric, they will become Artemis' new playtoy.

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Throne.

“𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲. 𝐇𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐧.” ― DON SANTO

Hiroki, having the childhood he did, is someone who constantly searches for validation from the people around him, especially as King. Proof that he’s doing what he is supposed to be doing, the correct way he’s doing it. He took the reigns to the Kingdom far to young (sixteen) and is now just trying to get by one day at a time while making sure he betters Abarith along with himself.

Because of this fact, when he does something wrong or when something doesn’t entirely go his way, when the people are upset he will let himself be an outlet for their anger. He will stand there and let someone yell, kick, scream, whatever they need to do because he believes in some regards that he very much probably did do something to deserve it. If a farmer is yelling at him their crops are all dead because it hasn’t rained for a week straight? He’ll find some way internally to think he’s probably at fault, even though logically everyone knows you can’t blame the King for lack of rain.

Hiroki will be the first person to throw himself into a burning fire for his people. He’ll be the first one to stand up for them, to pull his sword, to defend Abarith. The Kingdom will not defend their King. And he’s long since come to accept this. Though he is not his father for his entire reign he will carry the sins of his father. This fact is what will keep him from defending himself when people lash out at him. He loves Abarith and it’s people, he just doesn’t believe the people love him and he understands why.

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Hiroki // dating & marriage

   Hiroki, truthfully, never actually intends to marry. 

   Given his position, and the way that things are currently going in Abarith (safe and fine but tense from the last monarch), he doesn’t want to put anyone in the position that he is currently in. Where the people look at him like he is terrifying, like they don’t know if he can trust them or not. Hiroki’s relationship with Abarith as a whole, is one more of mutual necessity than one of actual love and devotion on either end. After the way his father had a grip on the Kingdom and had sacrificed more lives for the progress of the Kingdom than the safety of the people, the citizens look at Hiroki in fear of him becoming like his father or being no different than him. No matter how much he has already given to prove that isn’t the case. 

   To put someone in that position, to hand them the title of Queen, and have them treated the same way as him–is not something he wishes to do. The pressure, the responsibility, the judgment that comes with wearing the other crown is something Hiroki understands greatly and will never be an expectation he wants to place on someone. To harm them emotionally and mentally, even possibly physically, he would rather spend eternity alone than put that on someone. And so, he fully intends to rule and spend forever by himself rather than drag another down. 

   However, in the event that he does end up in a relationship, there are certain–aspects he looks for. Hiroki, if he is going to date or consider marrying someone, doesn’t want to rule alone. He wants someone who will stand beside him, who will take some of the weight off of his shoulders. He wants someone who he can delegate tasks to, who will mingle with the people, who will help ease the burdens of the citizens' hearts and stand beside him. He wants someone who can balance him and keep him stable. Keep him sane and doing the right things. 

   He doesn’t want someone who's just going to sit in a chair and tell him to do whatever he wants. Because that isn’t a partnership. It isn’t a kingdom if the Queen just sits there or goes off partying and pushing more burdens onto him. 

   In his mind, and what he believes in, a King and a Queen rule together. Having that balance is what keeps either of them from making decisions that aren’t in the benefit of the Kingdom. To have that other perspective on things, in his mind, is both a necessity but also something that helps someone make better decisions overall. If he isn’t going to get that, or if he feels they won’t be able to carry the weight of the crown, he will never even think of the idea of marriage.

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satoru // relationships & sex.

Because of his abilities Satoru is greatly uncomfortable with touch. Be it him touching someone else or someone touching him. Usually he has every single inch of skin he can have covered layered in clothing, it doesn’t matter how hot it is outside. He would rather suffer heat stroke than someone accidentally touching him and he inadvertently seeing their memories. Touch is difficult for him to do with anyone, and he even keeps most of his students at an arms length. The older ones know not to touch him without warning, the younger ones can’t truly help it.

When someone shows any sort of interest in him, romantic or sexual, he actually panics. The mere thought of someone wanting to get to know him in a romantic sense is unsettling. He doesn’t want them to feel violated or hate him because of his ability he can’t control. It wouldn’t be the first time it’s happened, and Satoru has long since learned to just keep everyone at an arms length. To protect them and to protect himself. No matter how much he does actually love people, he’s a very social person and genuinely enjoys being around people. He doesn’t trust himself to not screw it up.

For those reasons he’s only had sex once, and the onslaught of his partners memories (despite them knowing this would happen) had been far to great for Satoru to handle. He hasn’t had sex again, not liking the feeling of relieving someone else’s memories in the middle of sex.

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Abilities of the 23rd King of Abarith.

Molecular Combustion (from his father): Hiroki's primary offensive ability. Controlled by his emotions it's triggered with his anger and other negative emotions. Though he has good control over this, that control slips and he tends to blow things up with aggressive movements. Hiroki is a very anmiated speaker, and his molecular combustion comes from movements with his hands. The higher his emotions get, the more animated he becomes, and the throwing his hands around means he unintentionally explodes something.

Control over Nature and Time (from his mother): Hiroki can speed down time and grow any plant. He also can manipulate nature and the plants around them turning his very environment into a weapon. This power takes a lot of energy and focus however, since he needs to pour his magic into the earth and make it respond to his will. So it's not the power he goes to easily or first for offensive matters. He has the best control over this one.

Astral Projection: Hiroki does not have any control over this. It happens most frequently when he's asleep, he finds himself drifting out of his body and ending up in random places. The magic involved with it is complicated and he doesn't understand it. He dislikes this ability of his.

Passive

Detection: Through magic past in his bloodline, Hiroki can detect magic and supernatural creatures. He can tell what someone is if he's close enough to them and they're not surrounded by other magical creatures. If they are in a group, he has to use skin on skin contact to detect what someone is. This also means he can detect when magic is being used, so magical tricks don't work on him.

Elongated Life: Though not immortal by any means, and certainly not invulnerable, Hiroki's family is known to live above average lives although most of them end up meeting a tragic end.

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𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗭𝗨𝗞𝗔 𝗡𝗔𝗞𝗔𝗠𝗨𝗥𝗔 The story of Hiroki's Mother

Shizuka was arranged to marry Gaito Nakamura when she was tweleve years old. The daughter of a high ranking family in Abarith, one of the right hands in the King's court, she was greatly admired for her beauty and reveared by most women later in life. At a young age she knew her place would always be at the King's side and was raised for the single purpose of eventually commiting to her arranged marriage and becoming Queen of the Kingdom.

She didn't marry Gaito until she was twenty, he was twenty-five at the time and working to take the crown from his own father to take the reigns of Abarith. Shizuka was the picture perfect wife in beauty and personality. She never really got involved in the matters of Abarith, never really paid more attention to her husband unless she needed to. The marriage was, strictly speaking, one of convenience for the both of them. Shizuka wasn't attracted to anything Gaito offered, and he was only interested in her for her body.

The previous King of Abarith, Gaito's father, died one winter morning around the same time Hiroki was concieved. Gaito showed no sadness over it, and Shizuki didn't question it more than she should. After all, it was labeled natural causes. She'd taken to spending a lot of her time in the garden, growing plants and nurturing the dying flowers. Her gift was linked to the earth, to plants and their life, and being amongst them brought her joy. As she spent most of her time in the garden, her husband soon noticed her love for the place and the flowers and did the first act of kindness toward her.

The gardners were dismissed and the Royal Gardens were renamed to the Queen's Gardens. Shizuki created her first own unique flower in that garden, the Otretta. It was a flower that only grows in Abarith, created with Shizuka's magic. The flower was dark purple with large petals, shaped like a heart. The flower blooms at night and sparkles with magic. You'll find them abundently in the Queen's Garden.

The flower, surprisingly, was also poisonus.

When she got to big carrying Hiroki the gardners were brought back to work temporarily and Shizuka started spending time with the women of the court. She grew attached to Evelyn Cross and Lacina Reid easily, though she was closer to Lacina than Evelyn in the beginning. Mirette, who had Amir as an infant, joined their small circle they became the quite close knitted bunch.

Luka, who was already born and over a hundred years old but barely five looking, helped take care of the babies when they were born. Entertaining them and playing with them while their mother's hung out. The children grew up together, a close knitted little circle brought together by their parents friendship. Hiroki, Wyatt, his twin Alexander, Luka and Amir.

They were close, and so were their parents.

Shizuka noticed things going wrong with the Kingdom when she was approching her middle thirties. Her husband was cold, callous, and growing worse. It wasn't just that though, walking in the town she could hear the sobs of people. The heartbreak of the town. The guards coward in the Castle, tired of war and terrified of dying. Cattle more or less to climb to where they needed to. Ordered by the King to throw their lives away.

Stepping stones to claim more land for Abarith. Shizuka was as terrified of her husband as she was for the people she was supposed to be doing something to support. She wasn't a great Queen, she looked better sitting beside the King as a doll than she did acting, but she took an oath and she was tired of watching people suffer who looked to her with terrified eyes.

Lacina was the first one she went to.

Her friend for years had been watching the King too, had been with him since he was a child to see the decline in his personality, the horribleness to him. She could see what Shizuka could to easily. The way he twisted things around to do what he wanted. The man was nothing like his father, nothing like the King she had so willingly served and listened to. He was a bad man.

Taking out a King though wasn't as easy as throwing a sword through the air or snapping his neck before everyone's eyes and claiming dominance over the Kingdom. If he saw it coming, they were doomed. He had everyone tangled up in his web. So they thought of doing it quietly, of sneaking him something, of tea laced with a toxin or a dagger in the heart while he slept. Sneaky methods, things Shizuka would need to do on her own.

The Otrette.

It would require some refining, the toxic was to colorful, to tasteful, to biting. Lacina was only a Vampire. So she reached out to Evelyn and included the Witch in their plan. Then Mirette a powerful Mage who could refine the toxin too. The four of them worked together, twisted the plant, used magic to make it more hidden and tasteless. Something someone wouldn't notice. Enough to kill. They finished the vial after months of work and research, then sent it off with Shizuka.

They were close.

The Cross Family was slaughtered in their own Mansion in the middle of the night. Under the floorbaords of his family home Wyatt watched as his mother begged for her families life in the face of people who had them bound surrounded in their own home. Weapons preventing them from using their magic, a witches seal on the ground, magical cuffs strapped to Evelyn's hands. She begged, pleaded, cried, anything and Wyatt watched her throat get slit in a slow and intentionally cruel way. His father had been shot when answering the door, head splattered across the ground and blood spraying.

Wyatt screamed and was found, dragged from the basement and tossed into a car with his siblings. They injected him with something and he was knocked out with what remained of his family. In the house the mercinaries that remained arranged the scene, planned, to make it look like Vampires did it. Bite marks in the body, organs ripped out, bullet and seals cleaned up. Staged.

They were found in the morning by a neighbor, concerned the mansion door was left open. Her screaming could be heard all through Abarith.

And the Witches Coven's connection to the Ley Lines in Abarith shattered.

Word reached the Castle, Shizuka mourned her friend with pain and fear. Terror clenching at her heart and the vial feeling like a led weight in her chest. Vampires, the report came. Bitten and drained, the report said. Shizuka wasn't entirely sure she blieved it. The Reid's wouldn't do that. Wouldn't let that happen.

But the Witches would have their revenge.

The Reid family Mansion burning down happened that very night, the flames licking the skies as the Vampires raged in the street. John Reid dragged his screaming and sobbing son from the Mansion, the night air filled with shouts of "--Why!? You have to save Mom too! You have to try!" the anguish the Vampires felt at the loss of their Pureblood Matriarch was something that couldn't be put into words. Their dead hearts seeming to ache in their chests as John Reid held his angry and mournful son to him, the fire on his house reflecting back in his horrified and heartwrecked eyes.

She knew she was next. Inevitable, it felt like. Heart crushing. Hiroki, only ten at the time, she pulled aside one day and just reminded him how much she loved and adored him. Reminded him that he could be kind. That he had a strong and loving heart. That no matter what happened, what the world seemed like, what it all did to him--she would always be by his side and believe in him. Her little light in this world, her heart.

Gaito came to her that night, the vial of poison they'd made in his hand. He sat down at her little table, a flower in the middle of it in her vase, and placed two glasses of wine down. He poured the vial into her glass, sat it down on the table, and picked up his own glass.

He played with her.

He'd known since the beginning.

He took away everyone that mattered to her one at a time.

Mirette and Hiroki were all that she had left. Her son and her remaining friend. He asked if she wanted to protect what she had left in this world. Protect the life that was still connected to her, that looked up to her, that loved her. He asked if her desire to protect that life, was worth her own. What she was willing to do for her own son.

On a bright fall morning the screaming of the Crown Prince could be heard through the Castle. Anguished and heart broken. The Kingdom would mourn the loss of their Queen for a week, Hiroki for his entire life.

No one would learn Mirette betrayed all of them by telling Gaito that they were planning to kill him and where to find the poison made from Shizuka's own flower.

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satoru's gift curse.

𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴛᴏ ᴘᴇʀᴄᴇɪᴠᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴇꜱɪᴅᴜᴀʟ ɪɴꜰᴏʀᴍᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴏꜰ ᴀɴ ᴏʙᴊᴇᴄᴛ ᴀɴᴅ/ᴏʀ ᴘᴇʀꜱᴏɴ ᴛʜʀᴏᴜɢʜ ᴛᴏᴜᴄʜ.

Satoru is, quite literally, the most skilled and smartest person that doesn't wish to have as much knowledge as they do. The most unwilling and intelligent teacher to ever walk Abarith's streets, there is little he does not know and this all started at a very young age. Satoru's parents discovered his gift when he was just one year old. Unlike most children he was already walking, reading, speaking. Even for the child of an Elven Family, this was abnormal.

Satoru had simply touched a book on learning to walk and could do it. A book teaching a child how to speak was enough to make him speak. They tested the waters a bit, handed him other things, and like a sponge thrown into a puddle, it was soaked up and consumed. He could repeat or do what the book said or taught without even needing to read it.

After they discovered that, he never had a normal childhood.

School was never something he attended, friends was never something he had. His parents kept him inside, fed him information he needed to learn, they wanted him to learn. To pass the time he wrote his own books, composed music, painted and explored different hobbies. Being good at everything made him wonder what he actually enjoyed beneath it all. He learned his favorites were writing, the piano, and reading. Art, though a good outlet for his emotions, was not something he actually enjoyed.

Books and information were not the extent of his gift, that was something he learned on one horrifying day.

Having been curious, risky, he snuck out from the house and went to the park. To play, to meet people, to have fun. Satoru learned very quickly that everything was overwhelming. That everything contains memories. That people are walking books practically. A touch, no matter to what, no matter who, everything gave him knowledge and memories.

Satoru never left his house after that again, till he needed to grow up and move out. He dresses in layers, multiple to cover his entire body and wears gloves to keep from touching anyone. He can't turn this off so he simply moves his life around to better it. To never have skin to skin contact with anything or anyone.

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The Reid Family & Reid Pharmaceuticals.

Current Owner: John Reid Future Owner: Luka Reid Location: West side of Abarith, upper part.

The Reids are the local Pureblood Vampires, the first and only ones to ever settle in Abarith. Their blood is what turned most of the Vampires currently living in Abarith, as their family line is quite old. Luka himself is around two hundred years old, however his father is several thousand years old and his mother was right up there along with him. Their family, while not having as deep a connection with Abarith's roots as Wyatt's and Amir's, is deeply and well respected by the other Vampires simply because of what they are. Pureblooded. Untainted by human blood and connected to the first Vampire. They are where all of it started.

Luka's Mother, Lacina Reid, was the one who bridged the gap between Abarith and the Vampires. To prove that Vampries aren't just lifeless dead creatures that want to eat and turn anything that looks good that day. She was the oe to create a better place for the Vampires in Abarith. To make them more. They gained respect through her taking care of them, guiding them and nuturing them.

Lacina Reid served on the King's court for over a hundred years. She served the 20th, 21st, and 22nd King of Abarith. Going through several lifetimes of King's in Abarith. She loved being able to help and being able to try and further her family for more than what it was. And she raised her son to try and view the world in a positive light no matter what it threw at him.

Her death at the hands of her own best friends betrayal shook the very foundation of the Vampires. Murdered by the Witches, bound in her own home that was set on fire, Lacina Reid was greatly mourned and lost. It hurt them, their view in the Kingdom, and the growing bond between them and the rest of Abarith, especially the Witches. It also completely broke John Reid.

Ried Pharmaceuticals was found by John Reid while he was still married to Lacina Reid. He had an idea for something that would help the Vampires and keep them from feeding entirely on humans. He struggled with this idea, with stabalizing it and making it make sense. He tried a few different things, sane things, and blood tablets were tenatively born. Though the formula for it wasn't exactly very strong and it kept being not quite enough.

Then Lacina Reid died.

Reid Pharmaceuticals, found by John Reid, kidnaps humans and bleeds them dry to use their blood as the base for the formula in blood tablets. John Reid, who has a supernatural hold over his son uses him to hunt down these humans and kidnap them. He also uses his son as a weapon to slaughter Vampires and other people that get in his way.

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Spiderweb of connections.

Hiroki: Childhood friends with Amir, Wyatt and Luka. Reluctantly listened to by (crazy) Artemis. Toshiro serves on his court, Akira is his right hand man and Advisor. Was taught as a child by Satoru. Is in a friendly place with Eric and Zero, often gets advice from Eric.

Akira: Advisor to King Hiroki, friends with Amir. Forced acquaintanceship with Wyatt, Luka, and Toshiro. Friendly with Zero. Artemis would like to step on them. Good friends with Elijah.

Amir: Friends with Akira. Childhood friends with Hiroki, Wyatt and Luka. Has a forced rivalry going with Satoru. Is reluctantly liked by Artemis because of his family's history in Abarith.

Toshiro: Forced and unaccepted acquaintanceship with Hiroki, (hates this one) Luka, Amir, (despises this one) Wyatt and Akira through their shared court. Friends with Casimir and Chyrvin. Is related to Elliot through him being adopted. Friends with Casimir. Liked by Artemis because he's a born wolf.

Luka: Tenative truce with Hiroki, Akira, Amir, Toshiro to run the court. Dismissive of Wyatt's presence at said court meetings. Ongoing fued with Wyatt. Childhood friends with Hiroki, Amir and Wyatt. Friendly with Satoru and Casimir. He enjoys the library and helps guest lecture the Vampire students. Liked by Artemis because he's a born Pureblooded Vampire.

Wyatt: Hateful of Luka, Akira, Amir, Toshiro. There is no one he hates more than Luka and constantly attempts to outright murder him. Neutral with Hiroki. Childhood friends with Hiroki, Amir, and Luka. Hated by Elliot because he's rude to Toshiro, indifferent toward him. Detests whatever the fuck Eric, Artemis and Zero are. Is tortured by Artemis because the man knows it bother's him.

Elliot: Adopted and protective older brother of Toshiro. Respects Hiroki. Detests Wyatt and how he treats his Alpha. Friends with Chyrvin and Casimir and respects Satoru. Disliked and mocked by Artemis for being half-witch and half-wolf.

Elijah: Captain of the King’s Royal Guard. Fiercely Loyal to Toshiro as his Alpha and King Hiroki. Doesn’t get along with Elliot due to his solution of solving problems with his fists. Good friends with Akira and Toshiro, tends to have very pleasant conversations with Eric (possible friend?).

Chyrvin: Younger brother to Ceto, was locked up by one of Hiroki's ancestors making him and his brother very wairy and distrustful of the entire castle and anyone on the Court. They have a very mutual and calm agreement with the Wolves, especially Toshiro, helping to protect the forest in turn for protection from them. Chyrvin likes Elliot and considers him a friend, he also greatly enjoys Casimir and Satoru's company.

Ceto: Older brother of Chyrvin, due to his brother being locked up and tortured by one of Hiroki's ancestors who also cast the binding spell on him, he's very distrustful of the entire castle/court and hateful toward Hiroki. They have a very mutual and calm agreement with the Wolves, especially Toshiro, helping to protect the forest in turn for protection from them. Ceto likes Adriel and considers him a very endearing and level headed person.

Satoru: Taught everyone at some point (minus Eric/Zero/Artemis/Chryvin/Ceto). Specifically taught Hiroki in the Castle as the acting Royal Tutor. (not legally) Adopted Casimir when he was twelve, took the boy under his wing and helped him figure out who and what he was. Is familiar with everyone, but hated by Wyatt for reasons he's unsure. Friendly toward Artemis and tries to give the man some form of stability through treating him kindly.

Casimir: Ward of Satoru. Friends with Toshiro, Luka, Elliot, Chyrvin. Best friends with Zero. Reluctant acquaintanceship with Wyatt due to spending so much time at Starlight. Has fed from him. Hated by Artemis for being a halfling. HAS GOSSIP ON EVERYONE.

Zero: Servant of Eric and technically Artemis. Respectful toward Hiroki, Luka, Akira and Amir. Spiteful of Wyatt for the way he speaks to and treats them. Friends with Adriel and Akira. Best friends with Casimir. Artemis despises him.

Eric: Zero’s creator/master. Knows Hiroki, Akira and Amir. Reluctantly has met Wyatt (he lived). Has met Toshiro. Questionable, uncomfortale, overly friendly conversations with Satoru he can't label. Enjoy’s conversing with Elijah. Artemis' favorite person and his son.

Adriel: Son of Nethroas, the God of Beginnings and Fate, Artemis' oldest brother. Making Artemis his Uncle, and Eric his cousin. Enjoys Zero's company and is fairly friendly with Casimir by extension. Frequently visits Chyrvin's store for supplies and considers Ceto a friend.

Artemis: Father of Eric. Uncle to Adriel (he can't decide how he feels toward him because he's family but the son of the fucker who ruined his life). Likes; Hiroki, Amir, Luka, Satoru, Wyatt. Tollerates; Toshiro, Akira, Ceto, Chyrvin. Hates; Zero, Elliot, Casmir. Though specifically he would like to rip Zero apart and feed what energy he has taken from Eric right back into him and burn his remains.

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hiroki / childhood.

Hiroki really did love his father. When growing up his father had actually been incredibly kind and loving toward him. His father often doted on him and kept him close, to teach him how to be a King like he was. Hiroki was quite sheltered as a result, kept away from the civilians and the growing uprising and unrest over his father's deeds. A man turned by power, desire, ambitions and belief he was the answer to Abarith's growing problems.

Hiroki hadn't noticed his parents growing apart, or his mother attempting to plot against his father. After her death, he did begin to observe his father in a much different light. One of distrust and worry. The haze over his eyes clearing. As his father's mental unrest grew worse, and the cries of the people grew louder, it became more and more clear that the things his father presented weren't what they actually were.

The kind and loving parent who had raised him had been tricking him his entire life.

Hiroki doesn't talk about his father in a personal sense, he doesn't talk about him at all if he doesn't have to. He can give the basic, text book archived, definition of what happened and why the people distrust his family. But he won't talk about his childhood. He certainly won't talk about murdering him.

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Love Styles Test & Capacity to Love Test ♚ — resident ;; Casimir.

Your strongest love style was Touch (100%).Your capacity to love is very high (83%).

He still doesn't believe in love.

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Eric & Elisabeth

Full name: Elisabeth Eleanor Kingston Nicknamed: Lisa

Elisabeth was mortal, human, and born to a Noble family in a neighboring Kingdom near Abarith in the late 1830’s. Eric had been drifting around for quite a while at this point, not quite sure where he was meant to be or where he was going in life. He spent a while working as a consultant for the King of Abarith, which led him to attending the party where he met Elisabeth, attending herself alongside her father and mother. Elisabeth was young, in her early twenties, a picture perfect example of a young nobles daughter and heir to an estate. Unwavering beauty and elegance, Eric found himself drawn to her.

Eric, giving off the appearance of being entirely human himself, and a perfect gentleman, was easily engaged in conversation by the Viscount Kingston. They exchanged pleasantries, tea and snacks, over the table while Elisabeth watched him. Enraptured by the unusual aura Eric gave off, the tall and mysterious persona, she kept a close eye on him the entire conversation. Unable to interrupt her father or the chatter at the table, they waited until the Viscount was lured away by someone else before finally getting to speak.

Names exchanged, written addresses traded, Eric left the gathering with a feeling of purpose and the start of happiness that he hadn’t quite ever been accustomed to. A feeling he hadn’t been able to put a name to at the time.

Over the course of several months Eric and Elisabeth readily exchanged letters. Eric learned she loved the arts, music, rose flavored tea and poetry. Eric told her about his love of books, chess, and building things. Eric had a drive for knowledge and understanding the world around him that seemed to captivate Elisabeth’s attention, his own feelings drawn toward that from a desire to understand what exactly he was. Though he’d yet to divulge that part to her, not wanting to shake the steady bond they had been growing over letters.

The next time Eric saw Elisabeth in person, they’d been invited to a ball at the King’s Castle in Abarith. Eric hadn’t expected Elisabeth to be there, given the unsteady alliance their two Kingdom’s had with each other. Eric knew, not only from speaking to the Viscount but from the stories in Elisabeth’s letters, that the Viscount and most of the other Kingdom didn’t view non-human people very well. The Viscount himself had expressed his loathing of such creatures to Eric’s own face. However, they had come, and Eric wanted to greedily soak up every chance he could get with Elisabeth.

While the Viscount and the Countess was busy mingling, Eric stole Elisabeth away and danced with her in the Ballroom. He swept her around, pulled her in close, and held her tightly for hours. That night, just the two of them dancing to the gentle sway of the music, will always be to Eric one of the best nights of his long life.

The letters after the party turned much more romantic, flirting and teasing. They met up for a few dates, picnics and tea parties that he could steal her away from her family for. Eric was thoroughly captivated and entranced by her and Elisabeth was steadily falling for everything that Eric was. By the end of their year-long courtship Eric finally told her what he was, though the definition was far from easily to explain, and Elisabeth simply told him; you’re not as scary as you pretend to be. Words he’ll carry with him for the rest of his life.

After much deliberation, and another year of dating, Eric grew the nerve to ask Elisabeth’s father for her hand in marriage. Unaware of what Eric was, the man approved it, and they planned a wedding for the spring of the following year. A wedding of flowers and love with hope blooming in both of their hearts.

A decade they were married.

Love and dedication filling both of them.

A year in a house crafted for a future, for a life that could be held.

Someone told the Viscount one day what Eric was. A hateful and spiteful man with not a single bit of passion and understanding for anyone that wasn’t human. Eric remembers Elisabeth telling him her father wanted her to stop by and see him. He remembers her telling him that day to pick her up around dinner time. He remembers her telling him that she’d wanted to talk about their future, about where it was going, about maybe expanding their little family. Eric remembers the love in her eyes, the softness of her skin, the kiss to his cheek before she was gone and the door to visit her family. Family that was supposed to love, protect and care.

He’d spent that day reading and working on some paperwork the King’s had asked for his opinion on. He’d watched the clock, eager for when he’d get to pick Elisabeth up. When it got close enough he’d finally left, not caring if he arrived early to pick his wife up or not. She’d asked him to come get her and he was more than eager to do that. Eric arrived at the Kingston estate around late afternoon, had knocked on the doors, and the butler let him in. He’d asked for Elisabeth and was directed to the lounge where she was meant to be. Eric knocked and announced himself before he stepped inside, finding not only Elisabeth but her father too, shoving a stake into his own daughter's chest.

Eric, panicked and horrified, moved across the room in a flash and snapped the man’s neck without a second of thought before pulling the stake from Elisabeth’s chest. Inches from her heart she lived but the wound was already bleeding impossibly quick, drenching herself and the chair she was in beneath her. Eric pulled her from the chair and into his lap as he crouched on the ground, attempting to apply pressure to the wound as tears rolled down his face.

Elisabeth wasn’t long for the world, incoherent in whatever she was saying and rapidly losing blood. Eric didn’t have many options, regardless of what he’d do he’d lose her anyway. So desperately he attempted the easily solution; biting and changing her, giving her immortality, keeping her at his side.

He hadn’t thought it might not work.

It wasn’t long after he heart stopped, his blood filling her mouth, that she seemed to react to whatever he’d done. Screaming and writhing in his lap, her eyes bleeding and pain wrecking her body. Eric realized the horror of what he’d done, his blood too much for anyone to handle let alone a mortal. To many creatures inside of him, to many things attempting to be transferred to her. Unable to take the screaming anymore, Eric held his wife to him and pierced her heart with his own hand, killing it and ending her suffering.

Elisabeth was buried in a tomb near where the Manor stands in Abairth’s desert. Eric built the Manor from the wood of a nemeton tree, his magic infused with it, away from everyone else. His heart broken, the pain unbearable each day, he carved his heart from his chest and buried it beneath the cellar of the Manor, ending his own suffering as he did Elisabeth’s. He has her locket she always wore, a painted picture of both of them inside of it from their wedding day.

The Kingdom that once existed, Elisabeth’s home, was slaughtered and burned to the ground in a single night the day she died. People will tell you they don’t know who did it, but that the screams of the townsfolk could be heard all the way to Abarith as the sky and river ran red that day.

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Starlight Bar

Owned by Wyatt Cross. Running for seven years. The bar stands at two floors with a cellar beneath it, located in the back of the Witches District on the West Side of Abarith. The bar has a dark blue roof and neat wood finish on the outside. It's open Wednesday through Sunday, three pm to three am. Wyatt is typically there Friday, Satuday and Sunday. He bartends himself on Sunday nights or if they have a call off. Kareoke Night is Friday.

The bar specalizes in magical drinks. Their signature drink is the Starlight which is a purple drink that looks like a galaxy and has a sweet taste. It's strong enough to get even a werewolf drunk. Only the Witch, Mage or Wizard bartenders can make the magical drinks, so they have to have a balance of one magical bartender and someone else.

The upstairs has Wyatt's second office he rarely uses and a couple of bedrooms. It's rooms for those that need privacy if they order for special reasons. The bar employs under the table those that are fine with being a feeder for a Vampire and those that are willing to offer secondary services.

The bar is a front of the money Wyatt pulls in from the Black Market.

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The Manor

Built by Eric when Abarith was still very young, the manor is now several hundred years old. The manor is quite large, has two floors. The manor was hand built by Eric, infused with his magic and energy, and made from a magical tree. Due to this the house is very much alive with magic. Is aware of those that enter and leave it.

The house responds to Eric's emotions and he can feel everything that goes on inside it. He can also tap into the magic of the Manor and essentially magically lock it down if he feels there is a threat. Inside or out. You don't want to be the enemy locked inside with him. Eric uses this sometimes to keep Artemis trapped inside if he's being a particular threat to someone or especially unhindged that day. He doesn't like trapping his father inside.

The Manor has an attic that is used for storage and a basement that is used for other things. The basement has a magical array carved into the ground that allows Eric's magic to flow more freely through the manor. The array also hides what is hidden and buried beneath it (Eric's heart).

Eric doesn't leave the manor. He can wander a good distance from it, can even head to Abarith but the further he gets from the manor (that magical tie to his magic and his heart) he gets weaker. He spends a lot of time inside his office or the library, since he rarely needs to sleep unless he wants to.

The Manor can't be found by normal means. The magical dust storm that covers the desert was created by Eric to hide the manor from those that would seek it out. The manor can be stumbled upon unintentionally by those wandering the desert. It can also be found by those with a connection to any of the residence inside, or have been to the manor multiple times.

The manor is primarily run by Zero.

Artemis tends to keep himself locked in his room. Adriel has a room in the Manor, as he’s staying with them temporarily with nowhere else to go and for protection.

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𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙖𝙧 𝘽𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙑𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙨

The largest part of Abarith's residence are made up of Witches and Vampires, both who live on the West side of Abarith, the Witches district directly below the Vampires. They have an ongoing war, almost like a territory war, that continues due to an incident several years ago.

When the previous King of Abarith was in power, his court was made up of the coven heads, the Patriarchs of the rueling families. This included Pureblood Vampire Lacina Reid, High Witch Evelyn Cross, High Mage Mirette Samaha and Alpha Werewolf Tadashi Kobayashi. All whose children have taken over the current role in modern day.

The 22nd King of Abarith, Hiroki's father Gaito Nakamura, was a man whose only desire was power and bloodshed. He used the soldiers like stepping stones to get what he wanted and had little care for the actual people inside his city. Though he put on the pretenses of a kind and caring man, he simply didn't care who got hurt in his fight for power. Seeing this his own wife Shizuka Nakamura the Queen spoke with Lacina who pulled the other women in the court together and devised a plan, a way to take him down and end his reign of tierney.

Before the plan could come to fruitition, the Cross Family Mansion was broken into in the middle of the night. Slaughtered like animals Wyatt watched through the floorboards of the cellar as his mother begged for her family to be spared and was killed. The mansion painted with blood, the family ripped apart, fang marks in their skin. The Witches were lead to believe their Patriarch had been murdered by Vampires bloodthirsty and on a bindge.

In retaliation to this the Reid Family Manor was burned to the ground with Luka and Lacina inside, Lacina magically bound to prevent her from escaping and saving her own life. Though Luka would give everything to try and save his mother before she was fiercely burned alive in revenge.

Although the truth of what happened is unknown to Luka and Wyatt, Wyatt is very aware that it was not Vampires that murdered his family. This doesn't stop him from holding a grudge again Luka though. Even though Luka is the one who should hold it and doesn't truely anymore. He's grown tired of constantly fighting with Wyatt and he is the only reason that the Vampires have stopped being such a pest to the Witches. Constantly putting them all in their place.

In truth; Mirette had betrayed Shizuka, Evelyn and Lacina. She told Gaito what they were planning to spare her own neck and cement a bigger place for herself in the world. This is the reason she's the only one left alive.

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The Castle

Built in the late 1600's, the Castle has gone through many changes over the years. Advancing and changing. The Nakamura Family is deeply connected to the first King of Abarith, his blood carried through their veins and passing down the unique gifts that come with being related to him. The Nakamura family always has three main active abilities, and the passive ability to sense and identify magic in others.

The Castle has several floors and many bedrooms, Hiroki's room is located in the King's Suit, a room previously belonging to his father. He ends up rarely using the bedroom, most the time he'll fall asleep in his office, on the desk or on the couch. As much as he detests doing paperwork, he'll work through other things in the office constantly trying to better Abarith and better the people's lives. Hiroki cares very deeply for everyone in Abarith, the supernatural and the humans.

Abarith Castle is open to the public Tuesday, Wednesday's and Thursdays, from eight AM to Noon. This is when Hiroki takes questions in the Throne Room and addresses the questions and concerns of the citizens. That's as far in the Castle as people are allowed to go, the rest of it is closed off to the public. Including the Royal Library and the Archives.

The people that live at the Castle are; Hiroki, Amir and Akira. The people that can be found there against their will: Wyatt and Luka.

Wyatt and Luka are required to report to the Castle for Court Meetings Wyatt unwillingly will show up rarely, Luka usually shows up right on the dot and is the first one to leave. If both of them actually show up; the meetings never reach a conclusion because a fight ends up breaking out. Hiroki is doing his best to mend whatever anger Wyatt holds against Luka that causes them to fight so much.

Places of note in the Castle:

The Gardens: One of Hiroki's gifts thaat he got from his mother is the ability to grow and control plants. The garden is large and well cared for, Hiroki spends a lot of time there tending to his mother's flowers. He loves flowers, and the garden is the closest connection he still has to his mother.

The Library: Not as impressive as Satoru's, the library is still rather large being two floors, with books lining every single shelf. A lot of books on Abarith's history and memoirs written by the old Kings and Queens can be found in there.

Hiroki's office: The place he's most often found if he's not in town, the office is placed on the first floor with a large window that looks out into the garden. Hiroki's office door is the biggest victim of his loss of control when his temper gets to high and he blows it up. The desk is the other. The guards will tell you to "approch from the side and with caution".

Akira's office: Down the hall from Hiroki's. Where people are most often directed to. Akira handles a lot of Abarith's more tedious tasks, like permits, questions, complaints, request forms. He also handles a lot of Hiroki's paperwork. he's usually very stressed, he doesn't show it.

Amir's office: Located on the second floor of the Castle, has a door connected to his bedroom, Akira doesn't usually see guests in here unless it's people that know him or work in the Castle. His job doesn't require him to interact much with the civilians inside the Castle. He'll help Akira with paperwork if he's overlaoded though.