Spectors

### **Overview**

Spectors are warriors trained and magically enhanced to be the governments' personal wardens against the supernatural and demonic presences across the continent. To relate them to something in the modern world, they are the Green Berets or Navy Seals of the supernatural world, highly efficient and deadly.

Spectors can be men or women, but all are orphaned children selected at the age of thirteen by The Spectral Agency. These are individuals who show signs of affinity for combat, leadership, tactics, or simply high intelligence.

#### **Brief History**

There was a time when demon hunting was left in the hands of mercenaries and very desperate bounty hunters. At times they were successful, but more often then not, lack of knowledge and training resulted in the evisceration of said mercenary or bounty hunter. Eventually, the state decided that with the rising number of reports involving monsters, spirits, and demons, something must be done. They implemented a plan called the Spectral Initiative, this plan set up the Spectral Agency and begain selecting highly skilled officers from the military and enhancing them. These soldiers were also tasked with gathering information on any demons, monsters, or spirits, they would face. The purpose of these first Spectors was to buy time, the state was working on a training system to put out the best possible warriors they could, and they realized that years of training directed specifically towards the supernature would be neccessary. The first series of Spector trainees would only be subjected to four years of training, though again this would proved to only be a stalling tactic. The third generation was produced with a full eight years of training and they proved to be beyond the capabilities of the first two, they easily dispatched most monsters they came upon. However, it was during the third generation that the need for ambrosia was discovered, this generation had gone through more enhancements then the last two and their bodies had passed its threshhold and was beginning to feel the effects. By the fourth generation, the problem was under control but ambrosia was required in two doses daily, it wouldn't be until the seventh generation that the process would be fine tuned to the point where the liquid was only required once every few days. Though this would lead to longer lives and for the Spectors, it also diminished their abilities since their enhancements had to be scaled back to ease up on the body, it is still believed that the third generation of Spectors was the most powerful.

### **Training**

Spectors will undergo eight years of training at the Spectral Academy in the capital city, during these eight years they will learn everything they need for success in the field.

* Swordsmanship and Archery
* Hand To Hand Combat
* Basic Combat Use Magic
* Basic Chemistry
* Demonology and Supernatural Studies
* Strategy and Tactics

After they graduate from the Spectral Academy, they will accompany a senior Spector for three years for field training, during this period they will learn the practical applications for everything they have learned during their training. After all of this, they will have become full-fledged Spectors.

### **Enhancement**

Spectors undergo a long training period at the academy, during this training they undergo several rituals that permanently augment their speed, strength, stamina, and reflexes. This is necessary for the creatures they will be facing, if one should come across a bebelus in the wild, the average human faces certain death.

These augmentations, while very useful and of the utmost necessity for a Spectors success, come with a heavy toll. Spectors must regularly consume a concoction called ambrosia that will stabilize the energies flowing through their bodies. Should a Spector neglect consuming the ambrosia, his body will soon begin to break down from the inside and the death will be slow and very painful if they continue to go without the liquid. Fortunately, as the methods for creating Spectors have become more efficient, the regularity at which they must take the ambrosia has decreased, these days a Spector really only needs to take ambrosia every couple of days to maintain their well being.

#### **Weapons, Armor, and Other Equipment**

* Bastard Sword: Silver blade
* Recurve or Crossbow: Silver broad tipped arrows or bolts
* Seax Knife: Silver blade
* Liquid Fire Vials: a special liquid that when mixed with water, becomes an incendiary projectile
* Holy Water: carried in a flask
* Talismans: to guard against all manner of curse or other magical assault
* Ambrosia Vials

#### **Organization Structure**

The Spectral Agency is set up in a fairly basic hierarchy. There are teams of ten Spectors in a region, five of which are senior level agents, these ten report too a handler and a coordinator. The handler deals with disciplinary issues and problems that arise in the field, while the coordinator receives requests for assistance in the region and dispatches the agents as necessary. The handler and coordinator both report to a liaison, the liaison relays messages from the council and reports back to the council when needed. The council is the main administrative body that oversees the whole organization and reports directly to the crown.