Richard Braughtagan

==Stats==
*Name:Richard Braughtagan
*Occupation: Advocate for the homeless
*Age: 46
*Demeanor:  Curmudgeon
==Background==
Richard Allen Braughtagen was a preacher in the small New Mexican town of Long Reach. He served there for several years until two figures arrived within weeks of one another. The first; antiquarian Jonas Stark moved into the old Gladesdale house, where a series of murders had been committed years earlier. The second was the new town librarian Brian Took. Shortly after a plague of murders and disappearances put the town into a state of fear. People began moving away and Braughtagan was about to do the same when Brian Took and a couple of other townspeople asked him for help. Brian , it turned out was a member of something called the Arcanium. He was convinced that Stark was a Vampire leader of a pack called Sabbat, and that he was turning and killing the townspeople for some sort of satanic ritual. Braughtagan believed none of this but decided to humor them and speak to the supposed vampire.
What happened next still haunts his dreams. The man turned into some sort of demonic creature before there eyes and tore through each of the others. When the preacher tried to use a cross to hold the beast back, it laughed and tore it from his hand. It then fed him some of his own blood, and left him amid the blood and carnage. The man fled and didn't stop until he reached L.A.. 
He began drinking heavily after that, living in various shelters and allyways. One night in 1970 he saw a man in a bar and knew. Somehow that he was another Vampire. Braughtagan followed the man out and shot him in the forehead. The "Vampire" fell. Dead. 
After that he cleaned up, began working at the shelter he used to use and has created a small network of like-minded people. He has learned many things about the undead and he uses this knowledge to disrupt their feedings and when possible, destroy them. The blood he was fed somehow granted his his new Sight, and made him immune to many of the undead's powers of control.
What he knows:
There are several types of Vampires.
Type =3 Able to venture out into the sun, can be killed by conventional means. Are often in positions of power. Derives supernatural abilities by feeding on the blood of type 2 or 1 Vampires. 
Type =2 Vulnerable to the sun and fire. Do not age and feed on the blood of mortals. Easy to provoke into anger and use their influences to control much of Las Angeles through their access to Type 3's.
Type =1 Unholy in appearance and demeanor. Hideous to behold and immensely powerful. These creatures rule from the shadows.
Category:Mortals
Category:Hunters
Category:Los Angeles