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lycanthropic / Sharisper#0002
OVER 18? Yes
CURRENT CHARACTERS: N/A (Currently also apping Dabi from My Hero Academia)
CHARACTER
NAME: Harrowhark Nonagesimus
CANON: The Locked Tomb
CANON POINT: Gideon the Ninth, post-Chapter 31
BACKGROUND: Ten thousand years ago, in an event still largely shrouded in mystery and vagaries, mankind nearly went extinct. In order to save the human race from this looming inevitability, the man who would become the first necromancer, Emperor, and God enacted an enormous event of initiating necromancy known as the Resurrection. In this event the star Dominicus and all of its nine planets were revived in death, converted from thalergenic to thanergenic planets—ones that steadily produced death energy required in necromancy. From these planets the first Eight Houses were made and the Ninth many years after, though it was never really intended to be a permanent House of their necromantic empire. At first the Ninth had but one duty: to guard what lay within the Locked Tomb until death. But in defiance to this mortal order, the Ninth House lived, propagated, and eventually came to worship with cult-like fervor that which they safeguarded. After so many years, nearly all have forgotten this secret origin of the last House—now they are Nine, and they wage a holy war of expansion and death on behalf of their God and Emperor, the Resurrector, the King Undying, and Necrolord Prime.
Harrowhark Nonagesimus’ birth was, in itself, a war crime. Her parents, the Reverend Father and Mother of the Ninth House, faced a dire situation: they had already suffered several failed pregnancies and time was not with them. They not only needed to produce an heir, but they needed to produce a necromantic one and one which they could preferably pin the hopes of their dwindling House upon. In order to do this, they committed an atrocious necromantic sin—at the time that Harrowhark was conceived, nerve gas was pumped through the vents where two hundred of the Ninth’s next generation, ages one through nineteen, slept. The thanergenic bloom from that horrific mass execution bore fruit. Harrowhark was born not only with necromantic ability but with prodigious potential. And she was born to a House where she and two other youths made up their entire generation.
The truth of her existence was not kept from her. Harrowhark knew from a very young age that her life—and the future of her entire House—had been mortgaged on the deaths of two hundred children. This knowledge festered in her like a wound that would not heal. For her first ten years of life Harrow ravenously consumed all necromantic knowledge she could get her hands on. She tested what she learned on the unfortunate Ninth House indentured servant Gideon Nav, her only peer in age and sole survivor of the gas which had claimed the lives of all the other Ninth children.
When she had her fill of that, she set her attention to the Locked Tomb.
When Harrowhark began to try to enter the Locked Tomb, she had already decided she wanted to die. She was “tired of being two hundred corpses,” disgusted with the monstrousness of her own existence. She wanted to look upon what lie within the tomb to see “if it was worth it” to continue to exist; if not, she planned to climb all the stairs out of Drearburh and walk through the airlock. It took months for Harrow to open and enter the Tomb, bypass the network of complex and deadly necromantic wards, cross the salt water moat, and make her way into the crypt proper. When she did, she found that the horrible secret which lay buried in the Locked Tomb was, in fact, a girl. Upon seeing her face, Harrow decided to live—she decided that she would live forever, if she could, just in case she woke up. She fell in love with a Body which had been laid to frozen sleep for ten thousand years.
Gideon Nav had witnessed Harrow entering the tomb this final time and in an act of childish revenge informed Harrow’s parents of her transgression. When called to them, they listened to her story, called their cavalier primary to their bedroom, and tied four nooses. Their cavalier dutifully hung himself when commanded, as did the Reverend Mother and Father in their fear and in their shame for what Harrow had done. Harrow did not. Gideon found her a short time later sitting on the ground among their hanging bodies, stunned in the face of the wide-reaching consequences of her actions.
Unwilling to allow the death of the Reverend Father and Mother to place their House in political jeopardy of being absorbed by another, Harrowhark performed a complex and forbidden form of necromancy to preserve and puppet their bodies silently through their daily motions. Only a chosen few of the House were aware of the deception. For seven years this proceeds until Harrow receives a letter from the Emperor himself: it calls the scions of the Houses and their cavaliers primary to the House of the First, where they will undergo what is necessary to become Lyctors—the immortal hands of the King Undying himself. Seeing this as an opportunity to secure salvation for her dying House (and to perhaps live forever for the Body of the Tomb), Harrowhark prepares to go… and after the disappearance of the very underwhelming cavalier primary, Ortus Nigenad, Gideon Nav is trained to serve as her cavalier primary in his stead—with her freedom from the Ninth House leveraged as a reward.
Upon arrival to Canaan House on the First, the eight (nine, technically) House heirs and their cavaliers are given no instructions on how to achieve Lyctorhood. Harrowhark wastes no time, mapping the premises, discovering a secret lab hidden beneath a metal hatch, and testing her skill at the necromantic trials sealed within. Though she first attempts these trials alone, she soon learns that they are impossible without the aid of a cavalier. Her history with Gideon is a long and fraught one, but they soon work together in order to solve the trials and obtain the keys that are awarded to those who first succeed at them. These keys open doors to Lyctoral labs which provide the complex theorems behind the trials—and, perhaps, pieces of what it means to become a Lyctor.
The necromancers’ quest for immortality, as one might expect, goes awry. Starting with the Fifth, paired necromancers and cavaliers begin showing up dead under mysterious and brutal circumstances. Mysteries continue to pile up and compound as the picture of Lyctorhood becomes clearer and more of those within Canaan House wind up in the makeshift morgue. At Harrowhark’s canon-point, though she has many thoughts and theories on the matter, she still doesn’t know exactly how one achieves Lyctorhood. She still does not know who exactly killed necromancers and cavaliers or for what reason. But she has learned one thing: despite her best attempts to do so, she cannot do this alone. She and Gideon Nav bare their souls and secrets and reforge their brittle relationship into the complex and codependent relationship of necromancer and cavalier:
“One flesh, one end.”
SUITABILITY: Losing her innate powers as a necromancer will be a devastating loss for Harrow. This is not only an art which she has dedicated nearly her entire life to mastering the intricacies of, but it is also a cornerstone of her identity: her being the Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House, someone who shoulders the future of her home and her people, was something that was contingent upon her being born with necromantic potential—and that potential was bought with the lives of two hundred of her House’s future generation. Her mastery of her magic is something Harrow wields to keep the demons at bay, so devoid of that to fall back on, she will be dealing with both demons within and without in this game. My plans for her and her bakeneko spirit are for them to learn to work together and combine what they know both in theory and experience in order to create their own necromantic art. Harrow will most likely want it to closely resemble what she was able to do previously, but the bakeneko’s own limitations and personalization will push and pull at that in creative ways. It will be a unique experience to play her so thoroughly outside of her element.
QUESTIONNAIRE:
YOUKAI: Bakeneko
INVENTORY: Her journal, a long needle used for writing in blood, a small case full of alabaster face paint and charcoal grease paint, her Ninth prayer rosary, a spare set of Ninth House vestments.
SAMPLES:
SAMPLE 1
SAMPLE 2
NAME: Vee!
CONTACT:
OVER 18? Yes
CURRENT CHARACTERS: N/A (Currently also apping Dabi from My Hero Academia)
CHARACTER
NAME: Harrowhark Nonagesimus
CANON: The Locked Tomb
CANON POINT: Gideon the Ninth, post-Chapter 31
BACKGROUND: Ten thousand years ago, in an event still largely shrouded in mystery and vagaries, mankind nearly went extinct. In order to save the human race from this looming inevitability, the man who would become the first necromancer, Emperor, and God enacted an enormous event of initiating necromancy known as the Resurrection. In this event the star Dominicus and all of its nine planets were revived in death, converted from thalergenic to thanergenic planets—ones that steadily produced death energy required in necromancy. From these planets the first Eight Houses were made and the Ninth many years after, though it was never really intended to be a permanent House of their necromantic empire. At first the Ninth had but one duty: to guard what lay within the Locked Tomb until death. But in defiance to this mortal order, the Ninth House lived, propagated, and eventually came to worship with cult-like fervor that which they safeguarded. After so many years, nearly all have forgotten this secret origin of the last House—now they are Nine, and they wage a holy war of expansion and death on behalf of their God and Emperor, the Resurrector, the King Undying, and Necrolord Prime.
Harrowhark Nonagesimus’ birth was, in itself, a war crime. Her parents, the Reverend Father and Mother of the Ninth House, faced a dire situation: they had already suffered several failed pregnancies and time was not with them. They not only needed to produce an heir, but they needed to produce a necromantic one and one which they could preferably pin the hopes of their dwindling House upon. In order to do this, they committed an atrocious necromantic sin—at the time that Harrowhark was conceived, nerve gas was pumped through the vents where two hundred of the Ninth’s next generation, ages one through nineteen, slept. The thanergenic bloom from that horrific mass execution bore fruit. Harrowhark was born not only with necromantic ability but with prodigious potential. And she was born to a House where she and two other youths made up their entire generation.
The truth of her existence was not kept from her. Harrowhark knew from a very young age that her life—and the future of her entire House—had been mortgaged on the deaths of two hundred children. This knowledge festered in her like a wound that would not heal. For her first ten years of life Harrow ravenously consumed all necromantic knowledge she could get her hands on. She tested what she learned on the unfortunate Ninth House indentured servant Gideon Nav, her only peer in age and sole survivor of the gas which had claimed the lives of all the other Ninth children.
When she had her fill of that, she set her attention to the Locked Tomb.
When Harrowhark began to try to enter the Locked Tomb, she had already decided she wanted to die. She was “tired of being two hundred corpses,” disgusted with the monstrousness of her own existence. She wanted to look upon what lie within the tomb to see “if it was worth it” to continue to exist; if not, she planned to climb all the stairs out of Drearburh and walk through the airlock. It took months for Harrow to open and enter the Tomb, bypass the network of complex and deadly necromantic wards, cross the salt water moat, and make her way into the crypt proper. When she did, she found that the horrible secret which lay buried in the Locked Tomb was, in fact, a girl. Upon seeing her face, Harrow decided to live—she decided that she would live forever, if she could, just in case she woke up. She fell in love with a Body which had been laid to frozen sleep for ten thousand years.
Gideon Nav had witnessed Harrow entering the tomb this final time and in an act of childish revenge informed Harrow’s parents of her transgression. When called to them, they listened to her story, called their cavalier primary to their bedroom, and tied four nooses. Their cavalier dutifully hung himself when commanded, as did the Reverend Mother and Father in their fear and in their shame for what Harrow had done. Harrow did not. Gideon found her a short time later sitting on the ground among their hanging bodies, stunned in the face of the wide-reaching consequences of her actions.
Unwilling to allow the death of the Reverend Father and Mother to place their House in political jeopardy of being absorbed by another, Harrowhark performed a complex and forbidden form of necromancy to preserve and puppet their bodies silently through their daily motions. Only a chosen few of the House were aware of the deception. For seven years this proceeds until Harrow receives a letter from the Emperor himself: it calls the scions of the Houses and their cavaliers primary to the House of the First, where they will undergo what is necessary to become Lyctors—the immortal hands of the King Undying himself. Seeing this as an opportunity to secure salvation for her dying House (and to perhaps live forever for the Body of the Tomb), Harrowhark prepares to go… and after the disappearance of the very underwhelming cavalier primary, Ortus Nigenad, Gideon Nav is trained to serve as her cavalier primary in his stead—with her freedom from the Ninth House leveraged as a reward.
Upon arrival to Canaan House on the First, the eight (nine, technically) House heirs and their cavaliers are given no instructions on how to achieve Lyctorhood. Harrowhark wastes no time, mapping the premises, discovering a secret lab hidden beneath a metal hatch, and testing her skill at the necromantic trials sealed within. Though she first attempts these trials alone, she soon learns that they are impossible without the aid of a cavalier. Her history with Gideon is a long and fraught one, but they soon work together in order to solve the trials and obtain the keys that are awarded to those who first succeed at them. These keys open doors to Lyctoral labs which provide the complex theorems behind the trials—and, perhaps, pieces of what it means to become a Lyctor.
The necromancers’ quest for immortality, as one might expect, goes awry. Starting with the Fifth, paired necromancers and cavaliers begin showing up dead under mysterious and brutal circumstances. Mysteries continue to pile up and compound as the picture of Lyctorhood becomes clearer and more of those within Canaan House wind up in the makeshift morgue. At Harrowhark’s canon-point, though she has many thoughts and theories on the matter, she still doesn’t know exactly how one achieves Lyctorhood. She still does not know who exactly killed necromancers and cavaliers or for what reason. But she has learned one thing: despite her best attempts to do so, she cannot do this alone. She and Gideon Nav bare their souls and secrets and reforge their brittle relationship into the complex and codependent relationship of necromancer and cavalier:
“One flesh, one end.”
SUITABILITY: Losing her innate powers as a necromancer will be a devastating loss for Harrow. This is not only an art which she has dedicated nearly her entire life to mastering the intricacies of, but it is also a cornerstone of her identity: her being the Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House, someone who shoulders the future of her home and her people, was something that was contingent upon her being born with necromantic potential—and that potential was bought with the lives of two hundred of her House’s future generation. Her mastery of her magic is something Harrow wields to keep the demons at bay, so devoid of that to fall back on, she will be dealing with both demons within and without in this game. My plans for her and her bakeneko spirit are for them to learn to work together and combine what they know both in theory and experience in order to create their own necromantic art. Harrow will most likely want it to closely resemble what she was able to do previously, but the bakeneko’s own limitations and personalization will push and pull at that in creative ways. It will be a unique experience to play her so thoroughly outside of her element.
QUESTIONNAIRE:
● Your character finds an injured okami deep in the woods. Its leg is broken, trapped under a fallen tree, but it’s clearly in good health otherwise. They know this type of youkai is able to discern the morality of their past actions, and can turn hostile to them based off that judgment. What do they do?The first part of this answer is whether or not it is even possible for a waif like Harrow to lift the tree from the okami. If she still has enough power to be able to do so, she would consider it, though knowing that it might judge her for past transgressions (which, though others might not see them as grievous or as inexcusable as she does, she still weighs quite heavily) might give her pause. In the end Harrow would most likely act to save the creature, if not just to leave a loose end of a powerful creature that might hunt her down for her negligence if it ever freed itself.● Your character's worst enemy asks to meet alone by moonlight in a remote location, to discuss temporarily banding together against a larger threat. How do they respond to the invitation?Meticulous nearly to a fault, Harrow would respond in kind, needling with questions about the veracity of the individual’s identity, the location, the so-called “threat,” all so that she could decide whether or not this was a credible offer or some attempt to manipulate or deceive her. If she thought that the other individual was who they said they were, and if she thought that the meeting would be relatively safe, and if she thought that the information that might be discussed was worth the risk, she might agree, but only if she was able to make many of the terms of the arrangement herself. She would most likely not go unarmed or alone, for example. From a dwindling House of few resources, Harrow is not one to completely turn away from an offer, even if it might seem odd at first—but she is incredibly shrewd, cautious, and will be almost overbearing about the whole proceeding.● Your character has the option to lead a rampaging oni away from path where it would find and attack a lone, inhabited farmhouse. However, the only road they can distract it down leads to the city, where it will inevitably do more damage. What do they choose to do?The answer to this question is contingent on whether or not Harrow feels as though it is within her power to slow or subdue the beast herself. If bereft of powers, materiel, or opportunity, she would most likely not bother—it is simply beyond her means. But if the situation fits within her broad scope of her understanding of her own power, she would most likely act not necessarily to lead the beast one way or the other but to subdue it altogether. If that were impossible, she would try to slow it while moving ahead to try to evacuate the single homestead (as that would be easier than evacuating an entire city).● A shrine of a powerful god offers your character a unique boon crafted to overcome the biggest challenge they’re currently facing. In return, it only asks to be able to possess your character for a 24 hour span of its choosing, which they will not necessarily get warning for. How do they feel about the exchange, and more importantly, do they accept it?Harrow would turn down this offer. Firstly, as someone who is deeply devoted to her Emperor and God as well as the Body of the Tomb, becoming indebted to another god would be deeply sacrilegious to her. Secondly, the greatest difficulty she was facing at the time of her canon-point was the necromantic puzzle of becoming a Lyctor, one of God’s servants—if she could not solve such a problem on her own, she would not feel worthy of accepting the mantle.
YOUKAI: Bakeneko
INVENTORY: Her journal, a long needle used for writing in blood, a small case full of alabaster face paint and charcoal grease paint, her Ninth prayer rosary, a spare set of Ninth House vestments.
SAMPLES:
SAMPLE 1
SAMPLE 2