Dario Blackmore

Dario Blackmore, once known as Dario Saxonbury, is a half-giant vampire. Originally adopted by his cousins, the Saxonbury family, he quickly turned on them.

## Appearance

Dario, as a half giant, is seven feet tall, much taller than the average human. He has thick blonde hair and green eyes. He has a permanent wound in his abdomen from Heidi.

## Personality

Dario is incredibly vain and self-centered. Devious and tricky, he fights with underhanded tactics and scoffs at honor. Though powerful and violent, the idea that someone could be as powerful, or more powerful than him sends him into fits of rage and cowardice. Ever loud and boisterous, Dario can often be heard gloating over his victories. He lacks a moral compass.

Dario possesses a lust for life, even as an undead creature, and often indulges in hedonistic pleasures.

## Biography

Dario was born as the bastard son of a jotun from Jotunheim and Delia Blackmore. His birth killed his mother, so he was adopted by her sister, Daniela, and her husband Harry Saxonbury, and raised alongside his cousin Heidi. Dario and Heidi were constantly in conflict in their youth.

In a bid to gain more power, Dario tried to trick Harry into leaving the Saxonbury estate to him instead of Heidi, however Harry did not budge. Dario killed him in a fit of rage, then had to scramble to hide the body, inciting Heidi's suspicion. After investigating, Heidi found out about his treachery and forced him out of the Saxonbury house. She spares his life but warns him against ever going after her or her mother again.

After about a week on the street, Dario encountered an older vampire, Ozzy von Krovavich, who takes a shine to him and decides to turn him into a vampire instead of draining him of blood. Once he gets a handle on his vampire powers, Dario kills his vampire master and returns to the Saxonbury household to fight Heidi.

Dario killed Daniela, which only enraged Heidi. Heidi also previously enlisted the help of a skilled monster hunter, Jonathan Harkstoker. With his help, they managed to severely wound him. This time, Heidi had no intentions of sparing Dario, so he scrambled to escape her wrath and went into hiding.

While hiding, Dario found an ancient dark tome in a hidden library called the Grimdark Library, from which he gained strange magic powers that seemed to derive from his own perception of himself. In the library, he met the librarian, Grigori Igorovich, who is mesmerized by Dario's power. Flattered by his loyalty, Dario turned Igorovich into a vampire and bestowed a part of his own power upon him. Dario is later joined by Roderick Hyde, the lone survivor of his coven's massacre. Dario also kidnapped Starling March, a noble he took a shine to, and turns him into a vampire.

One night, Dario came across the lich Zav'ida Zistal. Zav'ida was intent on having Dario join her as her minion. Dario refused, and Zav'ida fought him. Her power turned out to be greater than Dario's. He begrudgingly agreed to join her after her display of strength.

While working for Zav'ida, Dario kidnapped people from the streets of Lycia, drained them of all blood, and left them to be found by the townspeople. Dario also took over a part of the Acid Snakes by compelling some of their ranks to join him, including Vilius Vessar, whom Dario charmed into being one of his minions with the intent to eventually turn him into a vampire.

## Relationships

### Enemies

* Vilius Vessar: Vilius was formerly Dario's thrall by way of enchantment magic. Dario seemed interested in turning Vilius into a vampire and is implied to have made sexual advances toward him. He was quite angry after Vilius was rescued and his connection to him was severed.
* Heidi Saxonbury: Dario has a bitter relationship with his cousin/adoptive sister, Heidi Saxonbury. He treated her rudely, and incited her suspicion when he killed her father, Harry. Upon finding out his involvement in the murder, Heidi fights him, and Dario fights her without restraint. Dario was angry when Heidi spared him, viewing it as an insulting act of pity. After becoming a vampire, Dario once again seeks out Heidi and kills their mother, but Heidi once again possesses superior strength and Dario is forced to retreat. Dario spends the rest of his life stewing in his hatred of Heidi and her descendants.

### Allies

* Bruna Gugino: Dario is partnered with Bruna Gugino when they begin working for the lich Zav'ida. Dario does not get along well with her due to Bruna's vicious insults and low opinion of him. However, he is willing to work with her.
* Grigori Igorovich: Igorovich is Dario's most loyal minion and the one Dario seems to trust the most and be the closest to. He personally turned Igorovich into a vampire and bestowed some of his own power to him, making Igorovich a warlock of his. Dario is shown to actually listen to what he says most of the time.
* Roderick Hyde: Hyde is Dario's minion, though their relationship is volatile. Dario does not appreciate Hyde's attempts to take charge and how he sometimes refuses to follow orders. Dario takes a unique pleasure in ordering Hyde around.
* Starling March: March was Dario's minion, taken because Dario saw his beauty and turned him into a vampire to preserve it.

## Abilities

### General Abilities

* Vampiric Abilities: As a vampire, Dario is stronger, faster, and more durable than humans, at the expense of being weak against sunlight and holy magic.
* Magic: Due to absorbing dark powers from an eldritch tome, Dario can channel divine magic from within himself to wield powerful and destructive magic.

## Trivia

* Dario is based off Dio Brando, a villain from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Likewise, his relationship with his old archenemy, Heidi Saxonbury, was based off Dio's own enemy Jonathan Joestar.
	+ Heidi's ally and husband shares his name with Jonathan Joestar, as he was named after him, as well as the author of *Dracula*, Bram Stoker, and the main character of that novel, also named Jonathan.
* Dario is, so far, the only cleric not to have an explicit religious connection due to his divine patron technically being himself. Although clerics like Ben Whiskey and Carrie Darkmore do not worship their deity, they are still connected to her.