Name: Neferata Lahmia
Age: 5500 (approximately -- after a certain length of time, you stop counting.)
Race: Vampire (Lahmian, see history)
Significant Relationships: Ravenlock (old enemy), Taima (more recent, more hated enemy), Karinyé Allore (new leader of the Lahmian Clan, also enemy)

Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 117 lbs
Hair Colour: White blonde.
Eye Colour: Grey.
Physical Description: Neferata was once a very beautiful and alluring creature, as are all of her kin -- even those less than appealing before their transformation were made beautiful after it. She retains that natural beauty, but in her fall from grace, she has become something more twisted. Her features are almost permanently contorted into a hateful scowl or snarl, and her once elegant garb is tattered and bloodied. Her long platinum blonde hair is regularly tangled and knotted on the days she is too embroiled in her loathing to take care of it. Her beauty now is savage, feral and terrifying - far from the serenity and elegance she once displayed.

Personality: Neferata's malice and bitterness have grown tenfold since her defeat at the hands of the Patronus during the Orsa of Terminus wars. Her subsequent exile from her clan and the insanity brought about by a curse from Taima have shaped her into a twisted and paranoid creature. She barks at shadows, spectres of the Dragonborn that ruined her, and screams at the air in rage. Prone to fits of violence against people or objects, her self-imposed hermitage in her old estate is all that keeps her being an extremely dangerous threat to civilians. When she hunts, it is with a savagery unbefitting her former self, leaving victims broken and drained where before there would have been barely a mark to alert them in the morning that anything had happened.

Skills and Talents:

• Agile and capable of reacting swiftly.
• A very capable sword/shield, dagger and bow fighter.
• Relentless when provoked - with nothing to lose.

Abilities:

• Arcane Magic: Neferata was a sorceress in life, and remains so in death. She has control over the lores of Fire (self explanatory), Shadow (similarly so), Life (nature), and the Heavens (Lightning).
  
  
• Necrotic Magic:
  
  • Raise Undead: Neferata can call spirits of the dead to aid her in battle, these can take the form of zombies, skeletons, ghosts or hellhounds.
  • Gaze of Nagash: Neferata can fire dark magical energy from her eyes, like superman but more evil.
  • Malediction of Nagash: Neferata can lay an aura of paralysis on an enemy, slowing them down and weakening them or completely stopping them, depending on their strength.
  • Hand of Dust: Neferata can age an enemy with physical contact, the effect beginning where she touches them and spreading outwards.
  • Drain Life: Neferata can drain the very essence of a being upon physical contact with them.
  
  
• Vampiric Powers:
  
  • Levitation: Self explanatory
  • Alluring Gaze: Neferata can fix a human with her gaze and hypnotise him or her with her beauty, paralysing them and reducing them to her will.
  • Regeneration: Neferata's (regular) wounds heal themselves in seconds, and she can only be killed by a wooden stake through the heart or decapitation.
  • Mist Form: Neferata can become ethereal, meaning she cannot physically attack or be physically attacked. She can attack with magic in this form, and be attacked with magic, but only magic. Repeated use of this power is draining, and wounds suffered while ethereal are not regenerated till she returns to physical form.
  • Speed: Neferata is gifted with superhuman speed.
  • Mantle of Darkness: Neferata can become invisible.
  • Shapeshifting: Neferata can shapeshift into a bat, a rat or a wolf.
  
  Equipment:
  
  • Shortsword
  • Dagger
  • Mithril Mail (looted from the dwarven holds the Lahmians looted from the dwarven mountain they took over)
  • Bow and arrow.
  • Small kite shield.

History: The Lahmian Sisterhood were once citizens of the city-state of Lahmia, set in the ancient realm of Aramaea. When a new Queen came to power, Neferata Lahmia, all seemed wonderful -- her people loved her.

A decade into her reign, however, a powerful necromancer named Ketahr came to power nearby in the desert realm, and turned on Lahmia as one of his first targets. He cursed the city, killing all of the males, the elderly and the young, and turning the women into what he intended to be his own personal harem of beautiful vampiresses. But Neferata, a sorceress herself, was having none of it, and with their new powers - under her banner - the Lahmians drove him away from the city. By then the tragedy had attracted the attention of the other Aramaean rulers, and they deemed the city of vampires an unpalatable threat. Their magic and armies were too strong even for the newly born powerful clan of vampires. After their city was destroyed, the Lahmians fled with her people to the mountain known as 'The Silver Pinnacle'. After driving out the mountain's goblin inhabitants, Neferata established a new court, where she ruled as the leader of a Sisterhood of enchantingly beautiful vampires who used secrecy, cunning and intrigue where others would use brute strength, to sway the political powers of the human kingdoms to do their will. The talons of the Lahmians reached all levels of human society and they took an active interest in human affairs. No one could guess how many eccentric noblewomen, widows of princes and dukes, and high-born ladies who shunned the light of day and locked themselves up in tall towers and opulent palaces, were in truth the Undead and part of Neferata's brood.

In modern times, however, Neferata has fallen far. In an effort to regain power, she made a deal with a dark entity known as the Sealed One. In helping him return to the world he would grant her and her people unparalleled strength and influence. He was defeated, however, and in her war for him Neferata brought death and division to her clan. A curse was laid upon them in the dying breath of the Patronus warrior Taima, one of insanity that would strike without warning. It would not affect every Lahmian, but enough would succumb that trust was impossible and their numbers remained low.

Karinyé Allore, the leader of the faction that had initiated a civil war against Neferata when she had put them into the service of this Sealed One, returned on the eve of her defeat to claim victory. Their Queen's defeat at the hand of the Patronus had swayed those loyal to her towards Allore's cause and left any remaining loyalists outnumbered and defeated. Neferata and those who still stood with her were exiled.

Neferata now dwells alone in the remnants of her estate, brooding and loathing all around her, her mind plagued by insanity.



Lahmian Vampires: Neferata's subjects are powerful in their own right, and each possess all of the vampiric powers listed above, combined with the 'Drain Life' necrotic spell, but no other magic.