Stories featuring Nanami of the Third Ring
About Nanami of the Third Ring
Appearance
Petite, Black Hooded Cape, Black Suspended Dress, Sharp Teeth, Red Eyes
Character Background
Nanami of the Third Ring is one of the oldest members of the Illuminati. She was once a human girl over five hundred years ago, who helped her local village using knowledge she gained from her ability to see the Hidden World. But after a jealous priest would call her a blasphemous witch, she would be burned at the stake. It was then she would make a pact with an Elder God, that would turn her into a Third Ring Vampire.
* World Lore: Earth is not alone, as there is another world parallel to Earth, referred to by the people of Earth who are aware of the parallel world as the Hidden World. The Hidden World is not bound by traditional science and the laws of physics. It's a world bound by the supernatural, shifting to subconscious desires. Within the Hidden World are beasts of myth, creatures of legends, and unnatural anomalies that defy all reason.
The Hidden World can technically be accessed at any point on Earth, but only those who can see the veils can enter the Hidden World. And for about Ninety Percent of all humans, they cannot perceive the beings or even the Hidden World, their minds far too closed off to the full scope of the world, to see beyond the limited visuals most humans see.
Even some Supernatural beings, who were originally human, lack the awareness to perceive the Hidden World; hence, ghosts remain bound to Earth, or some monsters do not know of the Hidden World.
The Illuminati Organisation was founded centuries ago, during the early 1200s AD, in the Holy Roman Empire, long before it became Germany. At that time, the order consisted of a few knights, witches, and wizards who knew of the Hidden World and its many dangers. Despite their best attempts to use this knowledge to help guard the Holy Roman Empire, most of their non-Christian members would be tried for heresy and or blasphemy and burned or executed. The remaining members then swore to secrecy and worked to gain connections with the high nobility and royalty, becoming a major political player in Europe for the next few centuries, until modern day.
* Background: Nanami was originally born in England, the Whales region to be more exact. Her father was a meager barley and oat farmer, growing the grains for the local lord. While Nanami went by another name at the time, her human name is one she has forgotten. Nanami was born to see things most other people could not: phantoms, gouls, and shadow beasts lurking just out of people's sight. Nanami would eventually meet a traveler who also saw the Hidden World, and introduced her to the Hidden World and both its wonders and horrors.
Using her ability to see secrets most others could not, Nanami would become a healer, using herbs, minerals, and self-made concoctions to help heal her fellow villagers. Making her a time staple member of her village. Until a priest who was selling shoddy healing means, could not cope with nanamis' much more effective medicines, would declare her a witch and seek ot have her burned at the stake. After Nanami tried to ask the man who showed her the Hidden World for help, he showed his true colors, to set her up to fail, so he can help the priest burn a witch, then profit when the people need mercenaries.
As she was being burned, Nanami would beg to be saved from whatever would and could help her from the hidden world. A voice called to her and promised her salvation, but at a great cost. She would agree to the contract and become a Third Ring vampire. She would escape after she killed both the priest and the traitor. Running far from Whales, and leaving the English idlands, into France, where she would happen on the Illumanite, who would take her in.
* Abilities: As a Third Ring Vampire, Nanami is bound not to a demon or a deity curse but to an Elder God. Unlike Second Ring Vampires, or even First Ring Vampires, Nanami can alter her form into aberrations, grow eyes that can sap magic, and mutilate her body into biological weapons and horrors. Similar to the Elder Gods who grant her powers and Imortality, she can twist the minds of her targets, alter their perceptions, and even attack their minds directly.
She is naturally adept at the use of magic, and its corrupted form, Miazma, as she has mastered the use of Dark Magics, including Necromancy, Blood Magic, and Demon Sumoning, as well as Elemental magics.
But Unlike Sedond Ring Vampires, she cannot rapidly regenerate, absorb souls, or use her blood to transform.
And unlike First Ring Vampires, she cannot phase through to different worlds at will, form black wings, horns, and command demons as mere summons.
* Personality: Nanami used to be very closed off, from being betrayed by both someone she had thought she could trust and her own village, believing the words of a random priest over one of their own. She had, for a time, felt resentment towards humanity, but after being taken in by the Illuminati, she would slowly and gradually soften, and even form a few close bonds with several past members. Having been born in the early fifteenth century, she lived at the height of Medieval Europe, in the Welsh region of the Britina Idlands.
Nanami now takes her role as the oldest and headmaster of the Illuminati very seriously. Making it her immortal life's goal to protect humanity from the threats of the Hidden World and its countless Cognitive Hazards that would threaten the minds of the common human. While she also guides the Illuminati to study the Hidden World and, perhaps one day, use science to master and utilise its twisted horrors in favor of Humanity, only to its detriment.
Nanami likes cold, quiet nights, a large, dark room, and a heavy, thick book to read. She is not strong at understanding the new, more modern tech, as it confuses her, and she dosent like machines, as she feels they lack any real human soul, and are too cold to the touch. She still writes using a feather and an ink jar, despite pens being a thing, and prefers candlelight to electric bulbs. Most of the current members of the Illuminati refer to her as super granny because of her strict adherence to tradition and resistance to technology for her own personal use.
She has little to no understanding of anything more advanced than a printing press, and she can't be made to care about a thing called the internet, as it sounds like hogwash to rot the brain.
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