Race: Vampire
Sex: Male
Real Name: Cian Macrae
Nickname: Cian
Birth Date and Location: 12th January, 1896 – Thorburn, Nova Scotia
Died: 16th February, 2005 – Los Angeles (Read About It)
Position: NONE
Group Affiliation: NONE
DESCRIPTION:
Cian has a light, wiry build, which suggests weakness. He stands only 5'5". Despite this, he is exceptionally strong. Cian's toughness is no less exceptional than his strength. He can ignore the most extreme pain and has continued to fight (well) in situations were he has suffered extensive tissue and skeletal damage. It can be said that he exemplifies his clan (Scottish, not vampiric) motto: Fortudine (With fortitude).
His hair is a light brown colour and he keeps it very short. His eyes are of a similar colour. Cian is marked with numerous scars, the most obvious of which is the scar bisecting his right eyebrow and the scar along the right side of his head. The most notable of his scars, although few living beings are aware of them, are the scars on his left leg and abdomen, which he received in the First World War. Cian also walks with a slight limp in his left leg.
BACKGROUND:
Born as a second generation Canadian in 1896, Cian lived an uneventful life as the son of a coal miner, and eventually as a coal miner, in Thorburn Nova Scotia. In 1911, at the age of 15, Cian himself began work in the Pictou coalmines.
In 1914 the First World War began. Cian, as a youth in the early 1900s, was under the influence of the rampant spirit of nationalism, which characterised the time. At the first opportunity, Cian terminated his employment at the coal mine and enlisted. Cian managed to suffer no serious injuries through the course of his first two years of service. This longevity allowed him to attain the rank of sergeant by early 1917. Ironically, it was mere days after this promotion that shrapnel from an exploding German shell caused extensive tissue damage to Cian's left leg and abdomen. These injuries, although they ultimately resulted in little more than brutal scars and a slight limp, kept Cian from the front until the September of 1918.
In 1918, following the conclusion of the war, Cian was transported back to Canada by a troop ship, which made port in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Although the nationalist spirit which had initially enticed Cian to enlist had been thoroughly dampened by his war time experiences, he chose to remain in the Canadian military as opposed to returning to Thorburn and the coal mines which waited for him there. Throughout his post-war military career, Cian found himself transferred to bases throughout Canada. Within less than a year of service at a base in Halifax he had been assigned to after his return to Canada, he was transferred to an Ontario base. Were he served until mid 1919, when he was transferred to a New Brunswick base.
After a little less than a year in New Brunswick, Cian was targeted by an elderly vampiress as a candidate for initiation into her bloodline. After months of observation, the vampiress decided that Cian would make a valuable addition to her clan and embraced him on June 8th, 1920. Shortly after Cian's embrace, his sire was called away on clan business. This business called for the utmost stealth and speed on the part of the vampiress, forcing her to abandon her childe. Left without a role model and with his recently acquired vampiric abilities/handicaps Cian found it necessary to rely on his instincts and natural inclinations. This resulted in the deaths of several officers and a handful of especially dissident subordinates. After these murders Cian made his way west through Quebec and into Ontario. It was in Montreal that Cian first met other vampires, one of which attempted to take on Cian as a sort of adopted childe. Cian, however, saw the elder vampire's efforts to instruct him as attempts to control him, and killed the elder vampire for it. The elder vampire's clan, upon hearing of his death, attempted to avenge it. Cian succeeded in destroying all but one of them.
Cian encountered other supernaturals on his western migration. In all of his dealings with them, Cian did not hesitate to kill entities he thought were mistreating him in any way. This tendency to kill even vampires and demons earned Cian a great deal of resentment from the circles he was known in. This resentment often resulted in Cian being strongly compelled, one way or another, to leave their sphere of influence.
By 1925 Cian had been driven out of most of Ontario. For the next ten years he travelled through the Prairie Provinces and northern territories, living as he had in Quebec and Ontario. The next five years Cian spent in the central and eastern United States. In 1940 Cian made his way across the Atlantic by way of a merchant marine vessel which sailed from the Boston seaport to England, planning to participate in the bloodshed of the Second World War. Cian rampaged throughout Europe until 1946, when he chose to return to North America. Cian's return ship again took port in Halifax.
During his time in Europe, Cian had become bored with mortals who could not defend themselves and the weak supernaturals whom he found reasons to kill. Cian desired a challenge. Upon his return to Canada Cian visited many of the circles of influence he had been compelled to leave before the Second World War. Here he found old enemies who committed substantial means and effort to trying to kill him. Cian moved from city to city, gradually exterminating his old enemies and any new victims who crossed his path, spilling their blood to satiate his desire for a decent fight.
This path of destruction and wholesale slaughter eventually made it's way out of Canada and into the United States, where Cian continued to seek out and kill any being which could offer him serious harm.
Cian finally met his match in Tempest, who dusted him in a heated battle which nearly cost Tempest his own immortal life.
ITEMS:
Cian carries a pair of M1911A1 colts (they're .45 colts) whenever it is possible for him to do so. They are his weapons of choice and he is exceptionally skilled with them.
Cian always carries a skean dhu at his left leg. The knife is secured by a strap, which its sheath clips to. The skean dhu is a family heirloom, which Cian has carried with him since before the First World War.
Cian also owns a plain short sword (1'6" blade) and a 12-gauge pistol grip shot gun. These weapons are usually kept in a navy blue Samsonite suitcase, which Cian uses for the transport and storage of his weapons, and are only brought out for the purpose of a major confrontation.
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