Rowena Muninn

Born December 29th, 1965 to Audyn and Beatrice Muninn, **Rowena Muninn** was once a part of the Muninn Clan line of hunters. After a tragedy during the Christmas of 1981, Rowena was orphaned, blinded, and taken in by distant relatives to heal and recover.

However, Rowena did not quite recover from the emotional turmoil she had been put through, and dedicated her life henceforth to eradicating the 'monsters' that plagued humanity for the greater good, although that quickly spiraled into much darker motivations.

Many decades later now sees Rowena as a quiet and retired woman, trying her best to live as out of 'sight' as she can to make ammends for the horrors she committed.

## **Pre UA**

For the first sixteen years of her life, Rowena trained under the guidance of her father, her aunts, and her uncles. This was mostly done alone, as her younger cousins were still learning the basics of how to hunt as a Muninn.

During a Christmas party, in the dead of night, a manticore attacked the gathered Muninn Clan and seemingly killed all of them, save for Rowena. Although she had survived the attack, Rowena did not come out unscathed; alongside the loss of her sight, Rowena had to deal with the loss of her entire family.

She was picked up and tended to by Amaya Hoshizake, a distant cousin, who had been attempting to visit and discovered the great tragedy far too late. Once it became apparent that Rowena would not allow her injuries to stop her from becoming a hunter and taking down the manticore that had ruined her life, Amaya trained her in basic Hoshizake arts in secret.

She began to allow Rowena to accompany her on hunts three years later, though again, it was kept secret from the family. Together they scared, threatened, or killed various magical creatures of increasing power and strength.

Their actions came to a head during one dangerous hunt, where Amaya was sent out to destroy a newly made Vampire on the outskirts of New York. Upon entering the dilapidated mansion, Rowena and Amaya were ambushed by a total of three Vampires, and Amaya was put under the charm of the Vampire named Eve.

Rowena fought her cousin and begged for Amaya to come to her senses. It seemed to work, and they fled the mansion, but when Rowena woke in the morning she discovered that Amaya had lied to her and had gone back to Eve. Rowena followed once again, only to discover that not only was Amaya still under Eve's thrall, but she had become a Vampire as well. Brought to the brink, Rowena killed Amaya, Eve, and all but one of Eve's other Vampire servants; greatly injuring the last one, Rowena told him to warn the other covens around New York that the "Bloodletter" was coming after them, and let him escape.

Returning to the Hoshizake clan with the heads of Amaya and the other Vampires, Rowena was allowed to hunt with the family while retaining her name; however, the legacy of The Blind Bloodletter was born during the years she hunted attached to the Hoshizake family. Rowena killed brutally, without mercy or remorse, and was eventually told to leave the Hoshizake family and allow the Muninn clan to be marked as extinct; Rowena agreed and continued her savage hunts as a mercenary for hire, until she was approached by the STAR collective and given a job.

Rowena worked happily with STAR and amassed an even more brutal headcount, even including magical children. Although as the years passed, and Rowena's guilt began to grow, wasn't until 2010 that the Blind Bloodletter was put to rest for good; Rowena aided the captured dragon "Opulent" for short, and escaped STAR. She vowed to leave her hatred and bloody history behind to try and make up for her horrible acts.

## **UA 1**

Rowena lived in Harrisburg during the events of UA 1, though she remained as off radar as she could lest the vampire Thorn catch wind of her and make an attempt on her life.

## **Powers, Traits, Abilities, and Equipment**

Though human, and up in years at that, Rowena has remarkable agility and sharp wits.

Like all Muninn hunters, she has an incredibly strong bond with her silver fox Freya, to the point of mental communication and even seeing through Freya's eyes. She can also understand the voices of plants and animals, and speak to them as well. The Muninn clan's close connection with Nature also allows her some degree of elemental manipulation; Rowena can manipulate the elements of earth, wind, air, and fire with varying degrees of success, though she does not consider herself magical enough to be a witch.

Rowena's training with Amaya afforded her excellent hand to hand combat skills, archery, and staff work.

## **Trivia**

* The Muninn clan's connection to Nature, and how deep it goes, is considered a deep secret. Rowena herself has never recorded just what she is capable of in official Hunter records, out of both instinctual need to keep her family secrets Secret, and petty spite.
* She has a soft spot for animals and, if allowed, will drop everything to pet a dog. Let her pet a dog. She's so sad.
* Though she can be chillingly cold and even cruel, Rowena wants nothing more than to prevent people from taking the path that she did so long ago.
* She doesn't not expect to live much longer now that the Mirrorside Initiative knows where she lives, and that the magical community knows the face attached to the moniker of The Blind Bloodletter.