Vampire Hunting

Career

Qualifications

While vampire hunting is open to anyone, only the more able become well-known and live to tell many tales. The well-known vampire hunters are known for their strength, skill at fighting, stealth, skill of disguise, and other various skills and perfected tactics that make their hunts easier for them.

Career Progression

While there is little progression, more well-known hunters are often paid more and are required to pay less for tools that they may buy from specific blacksmiths.

Payment & Reimbursement

Vampire hunters are paid in various amounts depending on the bounty and their popularity as a hunter. However, bounties are never lower than $5.

Other Benefits

There aren't many other awards socially, as the work is illegal, however being a famous hero among other hunters and being a feared criminal among other werewolves is another. Sometimes the fear of the well-known hunters is great enough to call off their criminal bounty.

Perception

Purpose

Vampire hunting used to be considered a sort of bounty hunting, and was very popular before The Treaty of Claws and Fangs. It originally helped with "lessening the population of vampires" and was supposed to remove the threat of such beings entirely. Now it is no longer considered needed, but it is still a job taken upon by those that still believe that vampires shouldn't exist.

Social Status

From outside the job, those that are open about vampire hunting are often shunned, threatened death, or killed if provided proof that they work this job. Inside the community of vampire hunting, hunters often praise each other, team up together, and look up to others. Some may do whatever it takes to be the best.

History

In the earlier years, vampire hunting would have almost been a must-have. Vampires, as the werewolves at the time saw them, were pests that needed to be exterminated for the benefit of the world. However, such thoughts have died down since the Treaty of Claws and Fangs, and the practice of hunting vampires is considered immoral and illegal.
Since the changes to the profession, not just werewolves can be vampire hunters. More than half of the hunters are human, and there are some reports that exiled vampires are hunters as well.

Operations

Tools

Most vampire hunters tend to carry with them a bag of wolf's-bane and a weapons' belt with iron and poisoned daggers. Some hunters carry small firearms with silencers.
Hunters also tend to have iron armor, either bands around their neck or plates under their clothes.

Materials

A bag of wolf's-bane is a must-have, and an assortment of iron accessories is usually worn for protection.

Provided Services

Mainly, vampire hunters are assassins. All the client or anyone who arranges a bounty or commissions a vampire hunter has to do is prove that there target is a vampire and pay the hunter when they finish the task.

Dangers & Hazards

There are dangers of suffering the consequences of death for both breaking a treaty and being killed by vampires. The "lucky ones" tend to be turned into the horrible vampire-werewolf half-breed, or are used as exchange tokens. The ones used as exchange tokens tend to be killed as well for breaking the treaty.

Type

Illicit

Legality

While this profession is considered legal in the western hemisphere, it is strictly illegal in the eastern hemisphere because of The Treaty of Claws and Fangs. Vampire hunting is looked down upon in the western hemisphere because it actively looks for vampires to hunt, while the treaty allows for killing of vampires in the western hemisphere if one were to come across one.

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