Satella Vanlyre

**Satella Vanlyre** is a noblewoman of the Sarum Empire, and is said to have been present at its foundation. She is in fact a Vampire with several centuries of life under her belt.

## Background

Satella is not just any Vampire, she is the primogenitor of her bloodline. She obtained the gift of vampirism from a fragment of a forgotten god in an ancient lost ruin. To obtain her vampirism, she sacrificed her fire magic, offering up everything she had accumulated about it: her knowledge, her mastery, her spells and so on.

Fire magic is no longer part of her arsenal, but she has flourished in the new arts that her vampirism has given her: blood magic.

She is the living embodiment of the word 'survivor'. On several occasions, she has lost everything she had built up, be it her family, her friends, her status, her wealth, her reputation, but she has never let herself be broken. At every turn, she forged ahead against all odds, facing whatever the world could throw at her. She always picked herself up and kept moving forward.

## Appearance

Satella is a slender, white-skinned woman with red eyes and deep black hair. She wears high quality clothes that make her look good in any situation, always with a touch of red throughout, if not the whole garment. Some jewellery decorates her body, the decorations changing according to the situation.

## Personality

Satella is an clever and cunning person, able to convince and manipulate people to her advantage. She is charismatic and knows how to draw attention to herself.

She has few scruples when circumstances demand it, her personal history being marked by several losses that could have been avoided if she had chosen to be decisive and ruthless in certain decisions. She knows, however, that this is by no means an attitude to be employed constantly. There is a time for everything, sometimes ruthlessness, sometimes mercy.

She genuinely cares about the people with whom she has developed a sincere bond and almost always takes their feelings into account when she is about to take an action that will have repercussions.

Satella is a good winner in the sense that she knows how to take advantage of a victory by maximising the benefits that flow from it. But her real strength is that she's even better in defeat. She knows how to accept reality when she loses, question herself and get back up stronger. Loss has always been a part of her life, but she has never let it get the better of her. Satella is a woman who learns from her failures and comes back stronger than ever.

## Abilities

* Vampire Primogenitor

Her status as a primogenitor has given her abilities that go beyond those of other Vampires. Her regeneration, strength, agility, reflexes and durability are all far superior to those of the average Vampire.

Vampires have a much longer lifespan than humans and other sapient creatures. The only drawback is that they have to feed on blood to stay sane. Primogenitors do not have this limitation. Not only is their life expectancy not only increased but considered limitless, but not drinking blood will only weaken them rather than drive them mad.

* Blood magic

Satella is a true maestro when it comes to blood magic, using it to fight in many ways. The red liquid serves as a deadly weapon that slices, whips and pierces her opponents as she manipulates it.

She tends to resemble and condense blood into the shape of a weapon, be it a sword, whip, spear or scythe, and fight hand to hand with it.

Satella has also touched the path of blood sacrifice, allowing her to enhance her body or her magic in exchange for her life force.

Having pushed the magic of blood to the limit, Satella has developed a personal version that has become her signature, even becoming part of her name: bloodfire. Scarlet flames, fuelled by blood.

* Mind magic

Satella's path when it comes to mind magic takes the form of a spear. A relentless weapon with overwhelming force and breaking through all barriers that try to stop it. Make no mistake, the way she uses this magic is not primitive or a simple reckless assault.  On the contrary, each of her mental strikes is precise and surgical in its action, her assaults simply have one goal: to destroy the mind of her prey.

* Beyond the End

Satella awakened a transcendence during the final battle against the demons. Her transcendence was awakened at a time almost unheard of in history: after her death. Beyond the End temporarily brings its user back to life and binds them to the entity that ended their life. If Satella succeeds in dominating her killer by killing them in turn during this second chance, her death is revoked. If she doesn't, this time her death is permanent. During this temporary rebirth, she gains a huge increase in all her stats and acquires the equivalent of 10% of her opponent's stats.

Her Unbreakable Will ability has reduced the number of ways she can awaken such an ability, and one of the few ways was by dying in combat.

## Story

* Wounded Garden

For Satella, it's clear that Aiden's Path is driving his existence to influence everything in its territory, and extremely visibly so since he was reborn. Now that his main body has been severely wounded to the point of near death, the Vampire believes that a change is about to take place within the territory. Now, Aiden's realization that he can still die despite everything he's put in place will push him to change his strategy. Until now, he's been constantly striving to create a self-sufficient corner of paradise that can withstand all the waves and subsist independently. And he's succeeded. The Lands of Cyhen are a truly independent little paradise.

But the truth is that outside dangers will always find a way to infiltrate. Right now, it's the demons. Satella believes that Aiden will choose to direct his blade outside, and this will have an impact on the Lands of Cyhen. Heroes will rise, new magics will be created and struggle will become a prominent thing. The little paradise will gradually prepare for war and overflow beyond its territory. The Garden has been wounded, and will arm itself to counterattack.

## Trivia

* Her theme songs are : Rise by Katy Perry, Look What You Made Me Do by Taylor Swift and the Lucian remix of Here by Alessia Cara