#( also I'm on the fence about using ''cathayan'' since it refers mostly to chinese Wan Kuei and well... HE IS chinese after all. )

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          Wan Kuei ( “vampire” ) verse Complete Sheet!

   ( firstly created as Mo Dao Zu Shi x World of Darkness crossover, but very adaptable to any fantasy setting. )

BASIC INFO

Nᴀᴍᴇ:  Kuanda Yu  ( 宽大玉 )

Aʟɪᴀꜱ:  Jade General  ( Yù Jiāngjūn -- 玉将军 )

Bɪʀᴛʜ ᴅᴀᴛᴇ:  June 6th, ≅ 740 CE  ( Gemini )

Bɪʀᴛʜᴩʟᴀᴄᴇ:  Youzhou ( modern Beijing, Hebei province ), China

Sᴩᴇᴄɪᴇꜱ:  Wan Kuei ( 万鬼 ), an amalgam of supernaturals like vampires, ghosts & wraiths. Loosely inspired by the Jiangshi myth. They feed on the energy of the living, which can be obtained from flesh, blood and, in some cases, even from breathing. While somewhat similar, they rot under sunlight instead of burning like vampires would and are unable to pass their curse forward or form blood-bond.

Fɪʀꜱᴛ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ:   ≅ 760 CE, during the rebellions against Tang Dynasty

Oᴄᴄᴜᴩᴀᴛɪᴏɴ:  Soldier / General; Ancestor  ( the formal leader of a Court or a region among the Kindred of the East );

Aʟɪɢɴᴍᴇɴᴛ:  Chaotic Good ( Makes his own way. Has little use for laws and regulations. Follows own moral compass, which may not agree with that of society )

MBTI ᴛyᴩᴇ:  ISTJ  ( Logician )

ABILITIES ( Dispiplines )

Bᴇᴀꜱᴛ ʙᴏᴅy ( ●●●○○ ):  allows them to dominate, control, or make use of the beasts of the field.

Bʟᴏᴏᴅ ꜱʜɪɴᴛᴀɪ  ( ●●●●● ●○○○○ ):  Derived from godbody of water used by the first Wan Kuei, allow them to control and alter properties of their and/or a target’s blood. 

Gʜᴏꜱᴛ-ꜰʟᴀᴍᴇ ( ●●●●● ●○○○○ ):  Ghost-Flames are not real flames, instead they are spiritual fires fueled by Qi. To access the energy, a Kindred learns to handle the searing pain involved in channelling the spiritual energy through their body.

Iʀᴏɴ ᴍᴏɴᴛᴀɪɴ  ( ●●●●● ):  drawn from its strength and rage, it grants the Wan Kuei the ability to resist all kinds of damage ignore or resist injury, even from magic, fire, and sunlight.

Oʙʟɪɢᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ( ●●○○○ ):  overwhelms another person’s mind with the Wan Kuei’s will, forcing victims to think or act according to the Wan-Kuei’s decree ( will not be used unless otherwise plotted! ).

Pᴏᴛᴇɴᴄᴇ ( ●●●●● ●○○○○ ):  this discipline defines the superior strength that Kindred possess. Allows them to leap great distances, lift massive weights and strike opponents with terrifying force.

Note¹:  Almost at a Bodhisattva level on the modern nights, this sheet is loosely based on the sheets of Lucita de Aragón & Sascha Vykos. However, in the first centuries of his life, he only possessed Ghost Flame 2, Iron Mountain 2 and Potence 3.

Note²:  The majority of these Disciplines relies on “strength” and “stamina” attributes. I have also included “potence” which is not a discipline described on the original KoE corebook for I refuse to use any kind of “exoteric” power. 

CHARACTERISTICS

Dʜᴀʀᴍᴀ :  Thrashing Dragon                •    Rᴀɴᴛɪɴɢ:  8

Nᴀᴛᴜʀᴇ:  Adjudicator                             •    Dᴇᴍᴇᴀɴᴏʀ:  Bravo

Dɪʀᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ:  South ( known for their vicious tempers, south-aspected Wan-Kuei are the dynamos of society, challenging old beliefs. Although their fellows often consider them insufferable, they are tolerated by their Elders for their formidable intellects and fighting prowess. )

Rᴀɴᴋ:  Ancestor                                    •    Sᴇᴄᴛ:  Laughing Rainbows

Aʟʟᴇɢɪᴀɴᴄᴇ:  His own Court first and foremost, but more open to negotiations and deals with Camarilla due to conflicts with the Sabbat.

Disclaimer: Conceptually I’m trying to add my own twits on White Wolf’s World of Darkness’ universe, in order to avoid any kind of problematic themes and contexts. I do acknowledge that, while seemingly innocent world-building for entertainment, the Kindred of the East supplement has a lot of problems, and I’ll do my best to avoid any kind of controversial inconsistencies.

PRELUDE

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Ever since he can remember, Yu has always felt that people around him were prone to being weaker, sometimes mentally sometimes physically, sometimes in various aspects combined. This, in one way or another, was perhaps one of the reasons why the young man, in addition to nourishing a certain arrogance and distancing, also developed a strange sense of responsibility towards other people, even in a relatively simple peasant community ----------------- or at least that's how he remembers it. Right at his early years of living, social disparities and disregard for simple people from the lower classes began to arouse the fury of this already hot-blooded and short-tempered young man.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Thanks to his physical strength and willpower, it was not long before the young man was noticed by an important general who was on the rise at the time, looking for new strength and willing men to join the rebellion against those who held power ------------------ just to take power for himself. However, the beautiful words and a cause for which he was able to fight quickly ignited a flame in the young Yu's heart, causing him to quickly join the rebel forces against the empire. Proving to not only be a promising soldier, battle after battle, conflict after conflict, the young man was soon able to ascend to the prestigious position of a General, using his cunning on the battlefield and his strength to crush enemy forces without failing. His strength and performance on the battlefield quickly became a reason for both fear and fascination, granting him the nickname “Jade General”, who fought with all his soul’s power.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ However, the glory wouldn’t last as long as he expected and soon the general who first noticed him began to grow paranoid and to become a potential threat to his own allies. And one of them was young Yu himself, who was from time to time victim of attacks within the rebel forces. Still, due to his loyalty and even bluntness, he was unable to see the real reasons for these attacks, how could he have known his beauty, strength and charisma could be a problem for his superiors to ascend to power? Until finally the very general he trusted so much ended up handing him over to the imperial forces on a suicide mission, where Yu ended up being captured and tortured for days until finally meeting his first death. Little did any of his opposers that, instead of having him dead, this only caused him to accumulate too much resentful energy, and instead of going to the spiritual world, his souls actually got back to his body, making him reborn as a completely different creature a fallen warrior Wan Kuei. 

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ At first, he rose from the pool of war cadavers like a ferocious corpse, devouring living creatures on the way, and after a few comings and goings, he was finally able to regain some consciousness just to realize that he had become the same monster his enemies feared so, having to run away from his own thirst for blood, even if he wanted to continue walking among mortals. He did try to go back to his family, but after the rebellion, his family was forced to either flee to a safer place or they were killed during the war; He was never able to find out which. After realising there was no chance of finding again them, Yu eventually gave up and sought for high priests and cultivators for help and little by little start to understand empirically the idea of becoming an actual living corpse and all its implications; Rotting under sunlight, the conjuration of chi-fueled magic. Things that no mortal would be able to do. 

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Weeks became months, months, became years, years became centuries in a blink of an eye, and since no answer was obtained he decided to move forward and to travel to other places for answers, only for Yu to realise he had awakened in a completely new world, full of creatures that only mortals would only dream about --------------. or rather, have nightmares about.

#❖┋( long post ) ． #❖┋ 𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖊⠀•⠀⌜万鬼⌟⠀———⠀( Wan Kuei | vampire ) ． #❖┋1O𝖙𝖍⠀•⠀⌜咎落ち⌟⠀———⠀( ooc ) ． #( just in case. ) #❖┋( fav ) ． #( not bad for a character whose initial concept was simply ''male Ming Xiao'' huh? ) #( becoz that's how creative I am. ) #( but I'm fairly satisfied. this verse IS a complete OC concept in itself. ) #( should I make a google doc for this sheet and link to his verse bio??? It could help I suppose. ) #( this sheet is a work in progress. to be honest I should have made it years ago when I first created this verse. ) #( I'm also REFUSING to use the term ''Kuei-Jin'' because I realized how inconsistent and awful it was. ) #( we don't mix chinese and japanese characters just to look cool. ) #( also I'm on the fence about using ''cathayan'' since it refers mostly to chinese Wan Kuei and well... HE IS chinese after all. ) #( anyway this is also a small plea to WoD fandom I REALLY WANNA play this lad. ) #( altho I RECOGNIZE he's a little overpowered... but ONLY on MODERN NIGHTS. ) #( but if anyone has any insights about this I'M ALL EARS. ♡ )