OOC: About Mina
Mina, aka Elisabeta, aka Wilhelmina Murray, aka Mina Harker, aka Mina Dracul, is from the movie Bram Stoker's Dracula, which of course is based off Stoker's novel. I've added a twist to the ending of the movie, however. After Dracula was killed, Mina did not revert back to human form. She remained a vampire, which she hid from Jonathan and Van Helsing. Several years passed, and she remained married to Jonathan until she could no longer explain her youthful appearance. She left her husband and roamed Europe for a time, then traveled to America, where she recently ended up in Milieux.
In life (the late 1800s), Mina was a schoolmistress, teaching etiquette and decourum. She was a proper Victorian era woman. What she did not know was that she was the reincarnation of Elisabeta, wife of Vlad III the Impaler (aka Count Dracula), who committed suicide by throwing herself from a castle tower after being given false news that Vlad was dead. The church damned Elisabeta as a suicide, causing Vlad to become enraged and renounce god, which somehow transformed him into a vampire.
Over 400 years later, Jonathan Harker came to Transylvania to complete real estate transactions for Dracula. While he was there, Dracula saw a picture of Harker's fiance Mina and realized she was his lost love. He imprisoned Harker and traveled to London, where he met and began to seduce Mina, helping her to remember her past life. When Mina realized what Dracula is, she was repulsed, but she still loved him and asked him to make her like him. He tried to refuse at first, but then gave in and bit her, beginning the vampiric transformation.
Of course, this didn't sit well with Harker and Van Helsing. They pursued Dracula, using Mina to track him. Dracula was sorely wounded in a battle at his castle, and he asked Mina to give him peace and deliver the killing strike. She did so, and everyone believed she has been restored to human form. Only . . . not so much.
As a vampire, Mina possesses great strength; she is much stronger than she looks. She can hypnotize humans (only with player permission, of course!). Nocturnal animals such as wolves and rats and bats obey her commands, and she also has some control over the weather (summoning mists or storms). She can shape-change into a wolf, bat, or fog. She casts no reflection but does have a shadow that sometimes seems to move about of its own accord.
Sunlight is not fatal, but Mina is less powerful in daylight. She is, however, repulsed by garlic, crucifixes and wafers of the Host and can only cross running water at low or full tide. She is also unable to enter a place unless invited to do so, though once invited, she can approach and leave the premises at will. Being undead, she is immune to conventional means of attack, the only ways to definitively kill her being shooting with a sacred bullet, decapitation and stabbing through the heart with a wooden stake.
And, of course, Mina requires blood to survive. She can eat and drink if she wishes (and indeed has a great fondness for absinthe), but it is not necessary. Without blood, she will start to physically age at an accelerated rate.
Mina can create other vampires if she so wishes. The transfer of the vampiric curse is done via biting the victim's neck, and the transformation is gradual.
Mina has been a vampire for just over 100 years. She's caught up with modern technology, so she isn't too out of her element when confronted by a computer or such. As the years passed she learned to embrace her more hedonistic side, so she isn't quite so proper anymore. ;)
Any questions, just ask. I don't bite. Much. ;)
In life (the late 1800s), Mina was a schoolmistress, teaching etiquette and decourum. She was a proper Victorian era woman. What she did not know was that she was the reincarnation of Elisabeta, wife of Vlad III the Impaler (aka Count Dracula), who committed suicide by throwing herself from a castle tower after being given false news that Vlad was dead. The church damned Elisabeta as a suicide, causing Vlad to become enraged and renounce god, which somehow transformed him into a vampire.
Over 400 years later, Jonathan Harker came to Transylvania to complete real estate transactions for Dracula. While he was there, Dracula saw a picture of Harker's fiance Mina and realized she was his lost love. He imprisoned Harker and traveled to London, where he met and began to seduce Mina, helping her to remember her past life. When Mina realized what Dracula is, she was repulsed, but she still loved him and asked him to make her like him. He tried to refuse at first, but then gave in and bit her, beginning the vampiric transformation.
Of course, this didn't sit well with Harker and Van Helsing. They pursued Dracula, using Mina to track him. Dracula was sorely wounded in a battle at his castle, and he asked Mina to give him peace and deliver the killing strike. She did so, and everyone believed she has been restored to human form. Only . . . not so much.
As a vampire, Mina possesses great strength; she is much stronger than she looks. She can hypnotize humans (only with player permission, of course!). Nocturnal animals such as wolves and rats and bats obey her commands, and she also has some control over the weather (summoning mists or storms). She can shape-change into a wolf, bat, or fog. She casts no reflection but does have a shadow that sometimes seems to move about of its own accord.
Sunlight is not fatal, but Mina is less powerful in daylight. She is, however, repulsed by garlic, crucifixes and wafers of the Host and can only cross running water at low or full tide. She is also unable to enter a place unless invited to do so, though once invited, she can approach and leave the premises at will. Being undead, she is immune to conventional means of attack, the only ways to definitively kill her being shooting with a sacred bullet, decapitation and stabbing through the heart with a wooden stake.
And, of course, Mina requires blood to survive. She can eat and drink if she wishes (and indeed has a great fondness for absinthe), but it is not necessary. Without blood, she will start to physically age at an accelerated rate.
Mina can create other vampires if she so wishes. The transfer of the vampiric curse is done via biting the victim's neck, and the transformation is gradual.
Mina has been a vampire for just over 100 years. She's caught up with modern technology, so she isn't too out of her element when confronted by a computer or such. As the years passed she learned to embrace her more hedonistic side, so she isn't quite so proper anymore. ;)
Any questions, just ask. I don't bite. Much. ;)