BLOODHUNTER
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Identity: Asterion
Callsign: Bloodhunter
Species: Skiageist, ShadowghostType: WraithSex: Male, he/him
deep garnet essence
Proportions: 6'5" & 285lbs
Bond: EdenCollar: Silver
Runes: Crimson
He should be dead. By all accounts Asterion's life had ended, and yet here he was. Still alive and breathing. Well . . . sort of. He wasn't actually alive, he didn't bleed and he didn't need to eat. He didn't need to breathe either. He needed to sleep, but even that wasn't a particularly accurate word for what he did when he disappeared from existence for a few hours. A gleaming silver collar sat about his throat, matching the pair of bracers wrapped around his forearms. Blazing crimson runes glowed along his forearms, shoulders, sides, and thighs, pulsing gently though to what beat is unclear.
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Spirits. Specters. Ghosts. Shades. The Skiageist has been called many names; in modern times, the most common name is shadowghost. Trapped. That's how many would describe the shadowghosts. Dearly departed who wound up bound to this plane through a combination of enchanted collars and powerful runic magic. There's a short window after death where one becomes a specter, parts filling with color as their essence flows from one stage to the next - from life to unlife, to death (though a restless death, perhaps). Once their essence manifests the window to bind them is even shorter. By placing an enchanted collar about their neck and then imbuing them with powerful sigils you bind them to you and your will. When a shadowghost is bound it can never leave this plane, it is trapped here until such a day as the collar and the sigils are removed.
above image is the inspiration for Asterion