Barr

The Hybrid

### Alias

Barr Edwardson, Barr Everwinter, Barr Marius, Barr Williams, Blood Lord, Bluey, Magician, Riamsu, Slimey

## Arrival

    Dr. Marius had been infecting living samples of himself with the Plague and then testing chemicals on the samples to see what would happen. Most of the time, the samples died horribly, but some survived only to be discarded as contaminated. This lack of concern for life is what fills Barr's earliest memories. After Dr. Marius took him as the last sample and left him in a growth chamber (to make more samples, although Barr believes it's because Dr. Marius loved him), Barr eventually outgrew his container and broke out of the lab to wander the rooms of Slatium as a child. He was eventually found and brought to Cape Oolong by Dwight Rosenthal.

## Struggles

    Barr's early time in Oolong was spent with Aubrey Williams, his second father. During this time he learned to make armor, and for a while used most of his time to mine ores and expand the Cape Oolong mines. However, Barr's happiness was cut short after several events. His father Aubrey died horribly after falling down the ladder to the mines that Barr had made. Soon after being comforted by Vin, Barr found out that they had been the one who had searched his house under orders of Fiore Castillo to find copies of bloodmagic books. After a violent conversation (during which he shot Valerie Raxson in the leg after she got between him and Vin Elkenfar), his hopes of learning the secrets of bloodmagic ended with him handing his books over in tears.

## Fangs

    Barr had hated alcohol before then and didn't feel like he needed it because he'd had Aubrey, but after everything that'd just happened he went to the tavern and got drunk. Unfortunately for him, this was when Val and Shadow came in with a warrant for his arrest. Barr was completely unaware of the situation, but kept slipping out of Val's attempts to get a hold on him while Shadow pleaded with Val not to arrest Barr. When Val finally did get a hold and pinned Barr to the ground, Barr turned to bite Val in the leg. There was a huge struggle, and by the end Val had lost a chunk of her leg and Barr had been shot and stabbed several times. It was at this point that Barr accidentally revealed a pair of still-growing fangs.

## Prison

    While Val received medical attention by Vin in the clinic, surrounded by all of her friends,  Barr (still somewhat drunk) quickly bled out and went delirious in prison in front of Mark Edwardson, who had been instructed not to open the cell. However, on the verge of death, Barr came back after his cells used Val's blood to regenerate. What followed was an week-long period of insanity, tears, grabbing visitors and attempting to bite them through the bars, ripping apart the bars (even after they'd been reinforced), and writing indecipherable entries into a journal. Eventually Barr came to his senses after overhearing a conversation about putting him out of his misery. To prove he was sane, and truly didn't want to hurt anyone, Barr cut his lips and let them heal shut.

## Rehabilitation

    Barr was moved to house arrest, where he slowly starved for another week. Although people visited him often at first, the visitations became fewer and less frequent. To make matters worse, some citizens wanted to surgically remove Barr's fangs and open his mouth, even though Barr refused. He felt as though he had done too much and was too depressed to keep going. After being let out for some fresh air, Barr attempted suicide by jumping off the wall over the gates of Oolong. His attempt failed due to his legs absorbing much of the impact and some quick medical attention administered by Vin. Barr recovered in the hospital for several days.

## Slime-bending

    Mark Edwardson was going to perform the surgery by himself, but was stopped at the last moment by Architect Fuar, who suggested training Barr in the ways of manipulating his slime as other slimeborn had done. After several more days and training sessions, Barr was able to unseal his mouth by himself painlessly, but still didn't want to remove his fangs, even though they tempted him to bite people. Barr had some major character development at this moment, because it was at this point he refused to change himself to make others love him even more, which had been a hallmark of Barr's time in Oolong up to this point. Fuar and the others agreed to let Barr make his own decision.

## Acceptance

    Barr was surprised by how eagerly every welcomed him back, despite the fangs. He soon settled down again, this time with Mark as his new father. He moved into a new house, founded the Cape Oolong Younglings Club with Gooper, and made lots of close friendships, particularly with Aegerus Raxson (Gooper), Soran Raxson, Astras Everwinter, Melkor, and (eventually) even Val. Barr then fell in love with Elora ElistAddan, the drow daughter of Nendra. He became a peaceful olive farmer... but his life of suffering was far from over.

## Relapse

As the days passed Barr became somewhat bored. He struggled with his mature fangs, feeling that he wasn't acknowledging them as a part of himself. Barr gave into his temptations and started drawing blood directly from animals. What followed was an uncontrolled addiction to blood which made Barr feel alienated and nearly disrupted the animal business in Oolong. The addiction was brought under control by Melkor (who also had fangs) after he forced Barr through several trials designed to test his willpower in the face of blood. Barr lost his taste for animal blood after he tried goblin blood for the first. Although the addiction was resolved as a natural way of feeding, violent incidents continue to occur whenever Barr is faced with fresh human blood, which he finds to be the only kind that truly satisfies.

## Cult

    After burning his way into the Oolong vault, Barr retrieved the set of books on bloodmagic which he had failed to read in the past. Soon afterwards he fled Oolong to the mountains in the north, where he started a base of operations: The Crimson Circle. As he studied the books and made copies of them, he found many friends joining in alongside him, including Melkor, Astras, Gooper, Lucy, and Elka, as well as many others who were not directly a part of the cult. During this time, Barr frequently met with outsiders at secure, underground meeting rooms. He made great strides in his knowledge of brewing and developed a taste for alcohol.

## Dissolution

The Crimson Circle met it's end soon after King Yehudah of Thalendor happened to discover the cave system while exploring the nearby bandit camp with Aeder. At this time, Melkor was captured by Thalendor, Astras kept his cover in Oolong, Gooper was already in Oolong's prison, Lucy was sent to Silvalin, and Elka followed Lucy. Barr managed to escape to the Nether region, but he turned himself in to Oolong after visiting to throw a fireworks show. After warning them of the trial, Barr was put on probation and was not allowed to leave Oolong without at least one other citizen. The trials were cancelled for all members of the cult except Melkor.