Appearance

Russel is a man in his mid-30s with messy black hair and a thick figure. He's covered in various scars and has permanently tired looking eyes. He wears practical clothes for his line of work, which include jeans and flannel shirts, with a preference for comfort over style. He's abov-average height at almost 6ft. His family are Demon Hunters with a bloodline that makes them immune to curses such as lycanthropy, but he left said family before he was 18. He doesn't tend to fight as his job growing and supplying alchemical ingredients to the Guild doesn't call for it, but that doesn't mean he can't fight at all.

About

For generations his family has held a bloodline that grants them immunity from curses, such as lycanthropy and vampirism, amongst others. They used to be a line of hunters known for their prowess in bringing down werewolves, dabbling with othims but mainly lycanthropes. Further back down the line, werewolves were more notorious for being feral due to the nature upon which they turned, although nowadays werewolves are much more cautious, with less and less people becoming feral due to close-knit communities and the large amount of help available.

However, what was once a proud and noble bloodline has turned into something akin to severe racism. While they don’t hate werewolves, they use them. The current generations are trained to capture werewolves, feral or not, in order to extract things from them for ingredients or to perform horrific experiments on them. Females are preferred due to being a lot stronger and with the option of breeding them to bear them more wolves, but they used the males as well. They didn’t make brilliant test subjects, but ingredients could still be harvested. Both male and female werewolves were used to keep the bloodline strong by breeding with members of the family to continue their strong curse immunity.

To the outside world, they were simply a family of hunters that specialised in werewolf hunting. They took any job involving a feral wolf, but no one seemed to notice the usually high amount of ones they ‘couldn’t save’. No one knew that they pretty much shot them on site, or captured them if they were a little saner.

It was a family rite that at the age of 18 that they would be taken hunting for werewolves to be ‘initiated’ into the family and taught the ways of harvesting ingredients.

Russell grew up in that lifestyle. When he turned 18, he refused to do the intiation rite and managed to run away, leaving behind his younger sister Rowan. He never spoke to them again, and never looked back. He's not managed to find out what happened to his sister.