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[BCOLOR=#cc99ff]Age:[/BCOLOR] 403 (appearance: 20)
[BCOLOR=#cc99ff]Gender:[/BCOLOR] Female
[BCOLOR=#cc99ff]Appearance:[/BCOLOR] Ophelia stands about 5' even, with wheat gold hair and pale grey eyes. No matter she is among the oldest vampires of the coven, she remains among the most human-appearing of all her brethren.
[BCOLOR=#cc99ff]Coven Position:[/BCOLOR] Culler of the Living, Liberator of the Damned
[BCOLOR=#cc99ff]Special Abilities:[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=#cc99ff]Dark Succor: [/BCOLOR] Ophelia has a near-hypnotic manner when she wishes, that brings a preternatural comfort and calm to both living and immortal alike. This is an ability far beyond the predator skills of the average vampire to calm prey. Ophelia has the ability to impart a sense of tranquility and serenity to even the most volatile, violent, rage-maddened, terrified and panic-stricken mortals and immortals alike.
[BCOLOR=#cc99ff] Beloved: [/BCOLOR] Ophelia radiates a loving, warm serenity capable of beguiling any mortal, male or female, and a great many immortals as well. She uses this ability to make the final moments of her prey a tranquil, dream-like state spent with the one most loved during life, whether a parent, lover or child. Ophelia also uses this ability to bind influential mortals to her, who are instrumental to the political machinations within the coven's borders and ensuring her peoples' blood supply remains flowing.
[BCOLOR=#cc99ff]Merciful Death:[/BCOLOR] No matter her diminutive stature, Ophelia is capable of short bursts of speed and strength far superior to any mortal's ability (as well as that of many of her own kind), snapping a neck easily with her bare hands when she must. It is this skill that allows her to make the mercy-killing of the Damned swift and painless as possible, as well as enforce the feeding rules that have kept the existence of the Sanguinosa Covenus a secret from the mortal world for centuries. However, the use of this ability is an enormous drain on her reserves, sapping her strength for several hours unless she feeds thereafter.
[BCOLOR=#cc99ff]Bio:[/BCOLOR] Ophelia was born Anneke Dries in 1612, raised in what become the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam on the tip of what is now Manhattan Island. Her short mortal life and the truth of how she was turned is a story that no more than a handful of immortals know, despite whispers of a jealous husband, a dark-skinned lover and a child long lost to the ages. What remains common knowledge is she spent the first decades of her immortal life in the wilds of New York, mad as the Hamlet-inspired namesake granted by her vampiric savior William Kidd in the late seventeenth century.
Ophelia now resides in an elegant, meticulously kept early nineteenth century row house in the West Village. Skillfully crafted portraits of men, women and children that span centuries are hung throughout her home, each one a hand-painted 'angel' created by Ophelia herself. The oldest of these, alone ensconced in Ophelia's private rooms, is of a handsome, smiling Lenape man, standing alongside a fair-haired little girl with his laughing brown eyes.
Her current duties are twofold: she scrupulously maintains the human blood supply of the Sanguinosa Coven through a vast network of hospitals, hospice services and blood banks; and euthanizes the Damned – vampires made from children or infants, or adult mortals whose bodies rejected the vampiric transition, leaving them not much more than pain-ridden, pitiful creatures trapped between life and death. Ophelia also rigorously enforces the laws concerning the coven's blood supply (and has for centuries), ensuring the legends of vampires remain exactly that – legends, myths, fun and spooky stories told around Halloween time or the subject of hackneyed novels, and nothing more. She brooks no deviations among the coven members who hunt outside the proscribed tenets within their borders, enforcing the rules with a genuine and ruthless brutality.
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