Rafal Devereux | Slytherin | First Year

STATISTICS

STA: 5 | EVA: 8 | STR: 2 | WIS: 7 | ARC: 3 | ACC: 10

ABILITIES

Year 1 - DHAMPIR I

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EFFECTS:

SUNLIGHT SENSITIVITY - Dhampirs have a sunlight sensitivity, they have a -1 evasion against any light-based spells or attacks.

FANGS - Dhampirs have normal human teeth, except for one detail. Where the normal human has their canines, Dhampirs have gaps, like someone with their teeth knocked out. Beneath the gums there is a pair of retractable fangs.

Effect: Unsheathing their fangs is considered to be a free action. The dhampir gains an attack called Bite. A bite attack is an attack where the Dhampir sinks their teeth into their opponent. This does not have to be the neck.

A bite requires an accuracy roll against an opponent's evasion. The damage done by the bite is equal to their strength score. The Dhampir gains back 25% (rounded down) health back from their bite. They cannot exceed their maximum health via bite. This takes 1 full action to perform.

Damage Equation for Bite: 50 + strength x 10

CLAWS - The fingernails of a dhampir reflect the claws of a vampire and the rounded fingernails of a human. They grow faster than the average human’s and are more pointed. They are not sharp, coming to dull points. They are far more deeply rooted than a normal fingernail, and far stronger.

Effect: Much like the bite, the vampire digs their claws into a target using their accuracy against their opponent's evasion. Rather than gain some of what the opponent has lost, the opponent continues to bleed from the deep wounds the Dhampir inflicts with their dull claws, losing an additional 5% of the total damage done by the attack each round for 4 rounds. This takes 1 full action to perform.

Damage Equation for Claw: 60 + strength x 10

MAGICAL MENACE - The vampire portion of the dhampir is not a caster-capable race. While magical and a part of the wizarding world, dhampirs find casting spells to be a bit more difficult. As such, they lack the control other wizards might have. This is represented by a -1 accuracy and a +1 critical failure chance when casting a spell.

Natasha Devereux was born on a dark and stormy night of the twelfth month of the year, to a great pure blood family in northern England. The Devereuxes were what one would call, "old money", and as such possessed many of the elitist views which were typically associated with it. As their only daughter, a lot of pressure was placed on Natasha from a young age - etiquette, academics, appearances - everything had to be perfect. Her parents had both been very well-accomplished during their time at Hogwarts, and insisted upon Natasha doing the same, pushing her to always do better.

This resulted in Natasha’s growing resentment, and when the time came for her to go to Hogwarts, she did her best to be the opposite of what they wanted in a daughter. Getting into Gryffindor, breaking rules on a daily basis, bottom of the academic barrel - it all drove her parents mad. But perhaps the biggest blow was when after graduating, Natasha got into a relationship with a young man named Alexander, who held an unnaturally corpse-like complexion. That, amongst other factors, gave them the suspicion that he was in fact, a vampire and informed their daughter as such. She simply waved off their concerns, certain they were just upset that she had shunned the appropriate pure-blood suitors they had presented her with.

However, their suspects soon turned out to be correct. When Natasha found out she was pregnant, Alexander told her the truth of his nature, and left to her chagrin. Unbeknownst to her, his abrupt departure was due to the work of her family, guilting Alexander into believing that a vampire would only bring trouble to Natasha and his unborn child. Angry and unwilling to be subject to the patronization of her family, Natasha scrounged up some money and left for Wales, settling into a small one-bedroom apartment and work as a waitress.

Natasha had never wanted a son at nineteen, especially a dhampir who reminded her of the love who had in her mind, abandoned her. She was never abusive in any way, but Arafat at times felt that the causal indifference was worse. Natasha wanted to get into the showbiz, and was always adamant that her big break would come despite all the signs pointing to the opposite. Thus they were never particularly comfortable financially, and Rafal developed a rather cynical view of the world from a young age.

Natasha decided not to tell her son or anyone about his true parentage, in hopes of leaving that unpleasant part of her life behind. As far as Rafal was aware, his father had left the moment he found out his mother was pregnant, and never looked back. His unnaturally pale skin and tendency to burn in the sun was impossible to hide, but Natasha simply chalked it up to a skin condition. Rafal never found reason to question what he’d been told his entire life, and the Devereuxes' private nature discouraged anyone from prying too much into their lives, so that no one suspected at all that anything was ever amiss.

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