Vena
Vena was the main antagonist of the
Smugglers of magic campaign. He was the leader of the Red revelers gang.
Vena is an arrogant and stuck up man, seeking nothing but his own power, advancement and enjoyment. For the most part Vena sees other people as nothing but tools for furthering of his plans or entertainment. Vena his lovers (Nua, Yuren, Letya and Mariette) might be the only exceptions to that. He is incredibly smart and scheming, always having plans upon plans. Vena his schemes have for all his life gone well and because of that he does have a strong superiority complex, not really seeing faults in his plans coming because typicially he doesn't need to look out for them.
Vena was a powerfull vampire. Even compared to other vampire's Vena had a lot of magical abilities granted through his undead nature. He had the basic super strength, speed, regeneration and walk-climbing that comes with being a vampire. Addtionaly he had the ability to turn invisible, and to manipulte blood. His blood manipulation allowed him to create obscuring mists, attacking spikes or even try to freeze people in place. Vena also had the ability to shapeshift into a bat, human form (which he typically used) and his monstrous true form.
Vena his true form he didn't like to use because he felt it was incredibly ugly, but the body was far stronger. In this form Vena had large batlike wings attached to his arms, even more speed and strength and monstrous claws on his hands and feet. His face shifts too to have sharp fangs, batlike features and a batlike nose.
Vena was born in Dracha, in a workers village. In his teens he figured out the truth that his town and the country was being ruled by Vampires. Instead of trying to fight against it Vena managed to convince people to make him a vampire. These early days were also the time Vena started presenting as a man opposed to his sex assigned at birth.
He had ambition and quite quickly rose among the ranks of Dracha, but when he reached too far by allying with Human hunters trying to kill vampires, he was found out. His plan was to not get killed himself and thus only take out competition, but he was discovered.
Vena fled across the sea and ended up in Bersail, there he joined and within a couple years took control of the Red revelers when they'd existed for only a couple decades.
You can read the details of Vena's involvement in the
Smugglers of magic campaign summaries.
In short Vena was working together with the Holy Cleansings witchhunters in the city to try and gain control of the cities underworld on his own. Manipulating the witchhunters to not target the Red revelers. Then try and use that to eventually take control of the city all together.
Additionaly he also sent Lady out, and kept manipulating her. That manipulation of Lady backfired on Vena. Lady eventually tried to fight against him as he didn't recognize her. Lady managed to manipulate Vena back and got him enslaved by tricking him with a scroll of bond magic. When Vena temporarily broke out of the contracts bonds, he escaped the prison the party had placed him in and found and tried to kill the party. He however failed and was killed.
Species
Conditions
Life
372 AC
655 AC
283 years old
Circumstances of Death
Killed by the Smugglers of magic, final blow dealt by Irial
Children
Gender
Man
Aligned Organization
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