NAME CHARACTERS OF HAUNTS The haunt faction isn't divided per say, as the main shared goal of the haunt is appeacing their Goddess, and gathering sacrifices. Each group of haunt is lead by higher ranking, or very renowned haunt, known as the Lord/Lady of Tears. While haunt have multiple sub-races, their worship, devotion, appeacing, care, and singing to the Crying Mother is the same only their method of warfare and method of sacrificing to Thajjin, differ between these groups. These are three major characters from Haunt faction, currently. The most devoted, emotional, capable, strongest and renowned among the races of Ragnarock, from their raids and battle against the races are the Lords and Ladies of Tears.
Name: Xirk Wallow Title: The Gravekeeper of Moria. Faction: Morian Gravediggers. Weapon: Base-Blade. Weapon Name: Class: Melee Warsinger-Basist. Territory: Moria. Appearance: Male haunt, as is common for their race he has blue skin and black hair, with a average humanoid physique, his unique traits are he paints black marks and tears around his eyes giving the resembling of wallowing, his black hair is spiky, has black colored eyes, multiple piercing on his faces some spikes on his eyebrows and lower-lip, wears a long-sleeved black tight fitting shirt with a large white gothic style cross on both the front and back of his chest, and the center of these crosses are a blue coffin with black tear dripping off them, a small black wooden and metallic coffin strapped to his lower back sideways, a couple pair of thick black cuffs on his wrists, his index and pinky fingers on his hand have a silver armored claw linked by a small copper chain, long white pants with a frontal trail of black studs down the pant legs, and a pair of three-spiked blackish-blue boots. Background: He is one of the first Lord of Tears to be blessed by the Soulful Maiden. To become one of those Lords and Ladies one most be favored by Thajjin, and when they suffer a near death experience, she weeps and her tears fall upon the haunt, granting them with great power and authority amongst their kind. Xirk Wallow, was once a average haunt, taking great admiration and inspiration from his beloved Goddess of Metalcore, he paints tears and smeers on his face, earning him his name and moniker. One if not the greatest base-player among his race, he played such emotion griping melodies of Metalcore that it's said that even when the Crying Mother, was about to weep, she'd calm down and listen to his music and offerings of Metalcore, and stay her tears for another day. But in the moments that even his singing and playing of his base, weren't enough to appease the Soulful Maiden, he went on raid with his fellow haunts, in one of these raid Xirk achieve the greatest achievement that all haunt clamor for. This raid was against the human, attacking and raiding a human port-town, as he fought alongside his haunts and rounded-up humans to be used as sacrifices to stop their Goddess from crying more in sadness. When the port-town was then invaded and attacked by Nightbourne, one of their greatest enemies. They fought against the nightbourne, and as Xirk was forced to take command, after their leader was killed from intensive damage, he proved that his tactics and soulful warsinging of Metalcore were exemptionary that Thajjin started to focus her sight on the haunt. When a great nightbourne that resemble a white pale, humanoid horror wielding a bone-made mace, was admist the nightbourne attacking them. That pale horror was too strong and unrelenting for the haunts to defeat, even with Xirk's leading them, seeing clearly that the battle was going in favor of their enemies, Xirk stood alone and began to play such a grime and cold melody of Metalcore, enhancing the emotions of the human captives, and his fellow haunts, but also drawing in the full ire of all the nightbourne and nighttouched in the area. Making him the main target of the enemy, while the rest escape with the latest offering to appease and stop the Soulful Maiden latest woe. With a base-blade at hand, Xirk fought his final stand, even faced off with the Pale Figure on his own, but even with his superior connection with Source of Emotion, he didn't matched the Nightbourne's physical strength and durability. He was destined to die that battle, but to his surprise half of the haunts that fled, returned for him, at first he demanded that they go back but they refuse to leave without him, without their leader. Together they fought the nightbourne for days, taking out a number of nightbourne but at the large cost of their own. As Xirk was still locked in mortal combat with pale nameless nightbourne, as he was struck on the back and buried under rubble of the debrie of the devastated port-town, this saved his life but also prevented Xirk from fighting and dying alongside his haunts. Sometime later he crawled out his prison of rubble, finding many of his followers dead, as it rain he found his weapon instrument, and he used it to cut a piece of each fallen haunt to honor later, once he return to the Weeping Isle, home of the Haunts with a black coffin strapped to his back. All haunts were shocked and grateful that Xirk returned to them, he went to the southern region of the island, called Moria, there he performed a special funeral and burial rite for all that fell in the battle with the Nightbourne. As he sung, and performed the last rites, the raindrops turned into black tears that only fell on Xirk, ascending him as the first of Lord of Tears, enhancing his power and opening the path of his fate. Changing his clothing to mimic the humans' ritemasters and still carrying his famed coffin to take parts of the fallen to return them home and perform the last rites for them, cause of this he was named the Gravekeeper, and one of the most respected haunts in their race. Leading a group known as the Morian Gravediggers, joining larger raid for offering to the Crying Mother, not only acting as the reinforcements or muscle of those raids, but also the Corpse Collectors of the fallen haunts, a position of great respect and honor among the Haunts. Xirk, has another reason to keep raiding and fighting, and that is to find the Nightbourne that killed his followers long ago, and slay it in their names.
Name: Raven Hexx Title: Bride of Melancholy. Faction: The Black Lovers. Weapon: Spectral Latern. Weapon Name: Blue Flame Guide. Class: Warsinger-Vocalist. Territory: Lament Gardens of the Mother. Appearance: Female haunt, as is common for their race her has blue skin and black hair, her unique traits, she paints her face bone white with black marks on her eyes, and small vertical stripes on her lips, styling her hair in a very long and spiky ends, she dresses like a white and black wedding dress with a black transparent veil, skulled black roses attached on various spots of her dress and hair, and a pair of knee-high white leather high-heels. Background: The renowned Bride of Melancholy, or as other calls her the Primary Wife of Thajjin. Her name is Raven Hexx, she is a very powerful warsinger, with a voice and style of singing Metalcore that drew many female haunts to her. To listen and join in her singing and worship to the Soulful Maiden, Thajjin, it was her beautiful warsinging and making new songcraft of Metalcore, this devotion to the Metal of Emotion and of the Haunts, brought admiration as well respect from all the other haunts, especially those that follow Raven. Eventually on fullmoon lit night, she heard the beautiful hymns of her Goddess, it was as if the Soulful Maiden was calling out to her and Raven followed Thajjin's song. Guiding her across the Weeping Isle, until she found a hidden cavern that lead into a garden of shining trees with dark indigo leaves and black flowers, as these hidden garden was feed by a giant pool of black tears, as she was admiring the beauty of this sacred place, shaking occurred on this hidden garden. Forming from the wall at the edge of the pool, was a beautiful statue in likeness of the Goddess of Metalcore, Thajjin, presenting a blue flamed latern to her. She walked over to the statue and took the latern, feeling the power of Metalcore flow through every fiber of her being, and for several days Raven stayed in that place, until the twelfth day, she returned to her followers. Dressed as a human bride with white and black, and also painting her face like a skeleton, holding her Metal-blessed latern, she declared that she'd has given absolutely everything to Lady Thajjin, akin to a maiden giving herself to another like a matrimony. They were mesmerized by her oath to their Goddess, and declaring herself a bride, the first bride of Thajjin, and all her sisters followed Raven back to what she name the Lament Gardens of the Mother. Where they performed the same oath and ritual as she did with the Crying Mother, becoming the sacred brides of Thajjin, a sisterhood called the Black Lovers. Unlike other haunts, these women are the devoted attending handmaidens of Thajjin, and enforce her will, and because of this they don't go on raids, but instead on command of their Goddess they set out to fight targets, or protect favored haunts of their Goddess, or eliminate threat and heretical concerts of other the Gods. With Raven Hexx being their leader, and most devoted bride, she is very powerful combining her warsinging with the power of her Latern, even able to conjure blue gheists of fallen brides to fight her enemies. Raven has been responsible for destroying many threats, eliminating temples and concert that desecrate the ears of their Lady Goddess, for Metalcore appeases and brings joy to the Soulful Maiden, for these actions and grand deeds earned her the moniker of the Bride of Melancholy. Many that have fought with or against her, have mentioned that she always starts a battle throwing a bouquet of black skulled roses, and declaring the battle to her dearest Goddess. This made many of other races, actually believe she is a lover, a wife to a Metal God, but this doesn't offend, for Raven all that matters its Thajjin and Metalcore's will be enforced and done.
Name: Manson Jayce Title: The Red Marked Faction: Redtears. Weapon: Base-Axe. Weapon Name: Crashing Scarlet. Class: Melee Warsinger-Basist. Territory: Marillyn. Appearance: Male haunt, has blue skin but instead of black hair, his hair is bright red like blood, his hair is styled in a semi-long straight, black and reddish-violet marking around his eyes, rare eyes of the color of yellow, a couple of black piercings on his ears and the ridge of his nose, bare-chested and showing his scars on his body, reddish painted fingernails, as for his wear a three layered pointed shoulder guard on his right, his arms have multiple leather bands wrapped around the majority of his arms and hands, a black belt with several small placks resembling blacktears, red and black long pants with some studs at the skin area of the pant-legs, and a pair of red shoes with a trail of holes on top of them. Background: A very unique haunt. His tale began as any haunt, born from the tears and waters of the Crying Mother. Possessing a dark view and grimer emotions than the usual haunt, but strangely the one name Jayce, wasn't born with incredible singing capabilities, he was more capable fighter. When he was allowed to leave the Weeping Isle, he took it and joined raids, but strangely he prefers to fight and take down warriors and warsingers of other races, than worrying about collecting captives to offer to the Goddess of Metalcore. As he participated in more and more raids, his skills in combat grew, along with inspiration from base players that he has meet on raids to the mainland, and feeling a strange connection with the instrument, he looted a weapon instrument from a slain dökkálfar, a base-axe that he named the Crashing Scarlet, for it color and the brutal sound it causes when it strikes a enemy. Jayce's infamy grew, but also a division amongst his fellow haunts, as he was very strange to them, while others started flock to Jayce. A warrior and grimmer soul that refuse many of his emotions, for only those that make him a stronger fighter and his warsongs triggered a battle earge, that haunts have never felt before. Not that he cares, as long as he can serve the Soulful Maiden in a way that only he can, than he is contempt. But it was during a raid onto a human city, they were meet not by humans, but instead dökkálfar that have come to avenge those that his race has taken and killed. A massive army the like that they never faced, Jayce, was there and saw that their raiding force weren't enough to face such unsomantable army, that he took upon himself to take command and channeling all the power of Emotion to play a warsong of such anger triggering songcraft, that all the gathered haunts, were overcome with anger and strength that the dark elves were overwhelmed. The haunts even outnumbered, they devastated the dark elves, soaking in soo much blood that it stained them, Jayce included now those that have bloodstains on their body, for him it was his hair. For his actions he earned the respect of his fellow race, and he was even honored by his Goddess, something that he believed that he'll never earn, as black rain fell on that battlefield, ascending him into a Lord of Tears. He became Manson Jayce the Red Marked, the greatest warrior of the haunts, and Lord of Tears of the Redtears haunts that add red to their bodies to honor him and those bloodstained that make part of such a group. Manson's primary task is the defense of the haunt race in general, and even fighting in wars so they will never be ambushed like that battle with the dökkálfar again. Finally the most battleborn of the haunt, has found his calling and the reason he has such a darker output of emotions then the rest of his kin, it was needed to face against those that dare to harm or challenge the children of Metalcore.