Character Base

• Character Name: Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy (Regis is fine)
• Age: 428
• Canon (Date/Year Released)/Canon Point: The Witcher books (1996/2014 in English) and games (2016); the end of the Blood and Wine DSL
• Items Coming Along:
+ bag of herbs
+ journal
+ small kit of surgical tools
+ a set of straight razors
+ the clothes he's wearing

• Content Warnings for Character: blood, vampirism, addiction, violence, injury/near death

Character Background

• History: here
• Core Relationships:

Geralt of Rivia: the taciturn, stubborn, and yet ultimately compassionate and generous witcher whose appearance changes the course of Regis's life. He becomes Regis's closest friend and they see humanity in each other that others are willfully blind to.

Detlaff van der Eretein: the vampire who nurses Regis back to health after being all but destroyed by a mage. Detlaff uses his own blood to help Regis recover, creating a deep bond between them; in turn, Regis is determined to help his friend find a way to exist in and adapt to the world of humans so that he is not so isolated.

Character Personality Through Key Moments

(2+) Positive Experiences:

Selfless, Supportive
As a higher vampire, Regis has every reason to avoid too much contact with people who might someday learn what he really is. While there is little danger of him actually dying, it is inconvenient to pick up and move every time locals decide to show up with torches and stakes. Despite this, he has a selfless approach to his relationships with others, including complete strangers.

He joins Geralt on his mission to find his ward, Ciri, and in doing so becomes a valuable member of the hanse for his ability to tend injuries and, as it turns out, his willingness to rescue the group whenever there is need. Not long after he joins them, he sticks his neck out for a young woman who is being accused of dark magical practice. She is given impossible tasks to prove her innocence, and Regis steps forward to act as champion of her virtue. To complete the first task, he takes a red-hot horseshoe from a fire to deliver it to the priest making accusations. Suffice to say, rather than believing this to be a sign of her innocence, the accusers react poorly. Thankfully other dangers arise before they can think to attack Regis or the hanse.

Despite Geralt's threats that he will have to kill Regis if the vampire doesn't leave, Regis continually returns to tend to the hurts of the hanse. Ultimately Geralt comes to trust him and turns to Regis for advice and help, or when he just needs an ear for his doubts and frustrations. Regis becomes a voice of reason within the group and, more than once, makes sure that they do not abandon their mission.

Regis makes the ultimate sacrifice after they find Ciri. In order to save Yennefer and Geralt, he attacks the sorcerer Vilgefortz. In retaliation, the mage obliterates Regis, leaving no trace of him that Geralt can find. When Yennefer asks if Regis was human, Geralt says that he was "the epitome of humanity."

Regis survives Vilgefortz's efforts to destroy him, and when he and Geralt meet again years later, it is because Regis sweeps in to save his friend's life, sustaining an intense injury in doing so.

Loyal
Regis's loyalty becomes a central point in the plot of Blood & Wine. Detlaff, who rescued Regis after the incident with Vilgefortz and nursed him back to health, is caught up in a conspiracy and has been committing high profile murders. Regis refuses to believe that his friend has turned and sets out to prove that there must be some underlying motivation to Detlaff's sudden violence. He refuses to let Geralt act unilaterally, in part because there is no way for Geralt, experienced as he is, to truly defeat a higher vampire. But it is his loyalty to Detlaff that motivates Regis's side of the investigation, and it is his insistence that something must be wrong that convinces Geralt.

When they uncover the circumstances of the conspiracy, Regis's loyalties are tested. In the final confrontation between Geralt and Detlaff, Regis is forced to choose a side. The decision weighs heavily on him, but, after seeing the brutality and Detlaff is willing to inflict on innocents, sides with the witcher. In his loyalty to Geralt, Regis accepts that he may well be anathema to his own species.

(2+) Negative Experiences:

Addiction
In his younger years, Regis developed an addiction to blood. As drinking blood isn't necessary for survival among higher vampires, it is treated more like alcohol. In order to fit in and feel more comfortable among his peers, Regis indulges. He finds that he is no longer so shy when he has been drinking blood and seeks it more and more. Eventually, even small amounts of blood could make him lose control and crave more and he isolates himself from his friends, not caring if they join him or not on his hunts. His addiction also ends a relationship: in his grief, he descends further into drinking.

His habits eventually head to disaster. He goes out to fetch blood while already intoxicated and crashes into a village's well. The villagers do their damnedest to kill him: they behead him, stab him with stakes, and pour holy water on him before burying him. While none of that could really kill him, Regis spends fifty years regenerating underground. And it gives him a lot of time to think. Even in recovery, Regis is constantly aware of the effort it takes to resist falling back into that addiction. Sometimes it is far more tempting than others.

Remorse
When it becomes evident that Detlaff cannot adapt to the world he lives in, Regis sides with Geralt against him. As a higher vampire, Regis is the only one capable of killing Detlaff, and he breaks his sobriety to do so. The first blood he ingests in decades is that of the man who saved his life.

After killing Detlaff, Regis is left to mourn both the loss of his friend and blood-brother, and the loss of his position among his peers. His choice makes him unwelcome among his peers, as killing another vampire is taboo. Not only this, but he did so while siding with humans. This decision will force Regis to leave the place he has settled and whatever small social circle he managed to cultivate.

In the end, this event serves to compound Regis's lonely position: he is too close to humanity to truly fit in with his brethren, but he is not human, and so will never fully be accepted by them.

Deer Country Attributes

• Canon Powers: Supernaturally fast and agile, he can also assume the form of a giant bat, become invisible, and use his gaze to mesmerize victims or put them to sleep; he is invulnerable to sunlight, fire, and silver, and has unbelievable regenerative powers which allow him to return to life even after beheading, dismemberment, or incineration. He is also capable of growing long, vicious claws.
• Blood Type: Vileblood
• Omen: a raven
• Blessed Day: September 21; the autumnal equinox in some worlds, it represents a time of balance in change, things that Regis values and has strived for. It is also in September that he meets Geralt and his gang, who altered the course of his life.
• Patron Pthumerian: Never Mind
• Blood Power Manifestation: Regis will be able to use his canon abilities and will explore what applications Vileblood has, particularly through the creation of poison and alchemy. Because it would be fun and terrible, corruption will take the form of vampirism/the consumption of blood - something Regis has been resisting for a long time.

Writing Samples

One: PSL
Two: Meme

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• Player Age: 25+
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