<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=50995.msg2401035#msg2401035">Quote from: Chea on 31-10-2009, 19:47:36</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I got my character set up in the character thread, she's a Human-Dark One hybrid. Wait....does that mean she wouldn't have a soul, or would she? She doesn't know she's half Dark One and has no knowledge of the Dragon-Dark One conflict (or that they exist) so technically she's currently neutral. It'll be interesting to see how she'll get dragged into this, there're so many interesting characters!  ;D<br/><br/>But I need to know more about Dark Ones, what kind of ablities are they capable of? Are they sensitive to light like sterotypical vampires? Do they have a thrist for blood?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Okay to start off, Dark Ones are Vamps, just as Reign and Duchess clarified. But with that being said there are differences.  Katie MacAlister, the author who wrote up the whole Dark One and Dragon world that this game is based on, made a few differences from the normal conceptions of what a dark one is.  Most of which is written down in the game wanted thread.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Dark ones: <br/>Beings that are likened to vampires, but they are damned and cursed to be born without a soul.  To save it, they have a "beloved" someone who was born as their mate, once they fully "connect" with their beloved, through a few rituals, their soul is redeemed, and they are bound together.  Only in this way can a dark one redeem their soul. <br/><br/>Dark ones are very closely organized, if something happens, you can be sure that word will spread like wild fire.  They tend to keep details about themselves private, and you will almost never see a dark one who is not very well off. <br/><br/>(I was searching for more information on them , because it has been a while since I've read any of the books, so I am rusty when it comes to information about them, and it seems like there will be a handbook, with all their information going up soon, I'll link it if it ever does come out.) <br/><br/>Beloveds and Dark ones have a very special bond,  once bound a Dark one can only feed from their beloved, blood from anyone else is poison to them.  And the Beloved will live as long as their Dark one, never aging.  So one cannot live without the other.  I'm changing the one cannot live without the other to...a dark one cannot live without their beloved...but if the dark one dies, the Beloved will continue to live...unprotected.  And the Beloveds are usually something other than another Dark one...but I don't think they have to be something else.<br/><br/>The seven steps of joining(between a Dark one and their Beloved):<br/><br/>1. Marking- when you can communicate with your partner without talking i.e reading each others minds.  Also this can be done from any distance...any except the Akasha(purgatory) and the court of Divine blood(heaven)...But surprisingly it works in Abbadon(Hell).<br/>2. Protection from afar-kinda self explanatory, but if I find a better explanation for it I'll update this.<br/>3. Exchange of body fluids- This can be through spit, blood etc.<br/>4. The Dark one entrusts their life to their mate, giving them the means of their destruction.<br/>5. Second exchange of bodily fluids, again it could be any bodily fluids, blood, cum, etc.<br/>6. When the Beloved to be helps the Dark one overcome his darker self.<br/>7. A blood exchange , followed by a sacrifice the would be Beloved would have to make to offer something in recompense for the Dark ones soul.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Dark Ones where originally written with only males being born without a soul, but that was changed for this game.  They do live off of blood, but again, once they join with their beloved, they can only drink from their blood, and all other Dark Ones will know that someone is a beloved by their(not so appealing) smell, that only they can smell.  They can be in sun light...for a few moments, before getting severe burns.  They obviously have supernatural strength, and some psychic abilities, but not too much.<br/><br/>Okay, now for the part no one likes to hear from the GM, While I like your character Chea, the only cross breeds that will be allowed are Dark One/Dragons.  There wouldn't be any human/Dark Ones made, since it wouldn't benefit the Cooperative.  And you are either born a Dark One, or human, no in between there.  Everything else about your character is great.<br/><br/>Sorry about the late reply btw, it's been a...hectic weekend, to say the least lol.