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« Last post by Raven Tepes on January 04, 2026, 11:03:21 pm »
"It's not easy being the daughter of the King of Hell while your mother is an assassin vampire. On one hand, I have gotten anything I ever wanted with the best education the Devil can buy. On the other hand, I have all of the combat skills of a trained killer. Can you please imagine that?"
~ Talia Morningstar
My bedtime stories were written in brimstone and velvet. Talia Morningstar once said. The Devil taught me chess, patience, and how power should never be wasted on cruelty alone. While other children feared the dark, I learned to warm my hands in it. Hell was my playground, Lucifer my father, and love… love was the one sin he never forbade.
My teenage years smelled like steel and old blood. Talia remembers. While others learned dances and heartbreak, my mother taught me how to move without sound, how to strike once and never apologize to the dead. She never hugged me after a lesson, but she always watched to make sure I stood back up. From her, I learned that survival is an art, and mercy is a choice you earn with strength.
On a busy night at the Lux, Hell doesn’t roar… it hums. Talia says. The bassline feels like a second heartbeat, the air tastes like perfume and bad decisions, and everyone walks in pretending they’re not already damned. I pour drinks, read sins in their eyes, and keep the dark fire leashed under my skin. It’s not a job, it’s crowd control for souls. Dad runs the club. I run the night.
Name: Talia Morningstar
Nicknames: Tally Cat, Tally, Kitten (Father's nickname)
Age: 23 years old
Species: Hybrid (Half fallen/half vampire)
Gender: Female
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 132 lbs
Organization: Lux
~ Rank: Bartender
Family:
~ Grandfather: Jehovah
~ Grandfather: Toshiro Darkfire
~ Grandmother: Elizabeth Darkfire
~ Father: Lucifer Morningstar
~ Mother: Karasu Darkfire
~ Little Brother: Jordan Morningstar
~ Aunt: Muriel
~ Uncle: Amenadiel
~ Uncle: Gabriel
~ 2nd Cousin/Like an uncle: Kindron Darkfire
~ 2nd Cousin/Like an uncle: Hei Darkfire
~ 3rd Cousin: Kendrix Darkfire
Darkfire Abilities:
Base Abilities:
- Darkfire Elemental Affinity/Elemental Manipulation: In the world, few supernaturals have such an understanding of manipulating elements as the Darkfires do. The Darkfires would hone this elemental power over the years they've been alive, and develop techniques and abilities that would help them to be able to best use their elemental power to battle their opponents in much the same way clans like Lasombra would perfect their use of shadows. In battle, Darkfires utilize elemental affinities they are born with to manipulate elements. The Darkfires learned a lot about elementals from their training, and learned even more when the Darkfires have studied how other supernaturals use elemental powers. The Darkfires are among the top elemental users in the world, and have had many years to practice and hone their elemental power. The Darkfires are known for their elemental powers above all else, and most are able to utilize their elemental powers in unique ways. The most unique way of using this is through spirit mastery training that the Darkfires use to create new elementals using their positive and negative spirit energy. Of course, the Darkfires do also have their physical combat training they are also known for (such as swordsmen training or assassin training depending on the Darkfire), but the elemental power they possess is what the Darkfires utilize in training just as other vampire clans train their abilities. However, not all Darkfires have the same affinities, and some may even develop unique affinities, such as some Darkfires who might not be able to create holy or dark elementals, but instead create combined elementals (like one Darkfire who combines fire and ice instead of a spirit-based elemental). Some Darkfires with unique abilities may even develop certain unique affinities over the years depending on their abilities, such as a demonic Darkfire may gain demonic elementals. For the most part, the Darkfires main power is elemental manipulation, and even with some elements being unique and having unique effects, the elements are still countered just like one would expect. When used, most elements are used in specific ways, and those with enough knowledge of how elements work can use their knowledge their advantage to counter certain elements (for example, a wind user could counter a fire user by creating a vaccuum environment around flames to put them out).
- Darkfire Spirit Mastery: In order to train in the Darkfire elemental abilities, a Darkfire must first master their own spirit energy, as their positive or negative spirit energy are usually vital in creating Darkfire elementals. Before training can even begin, the Darkfire must learn a few different things. The first is that they must learn how to tap into their positive and negative spirit energy, and the second is that they must learn how to manage their own unique balance. Most Darkfires must learn this before they can move on to other abilities. Depending on the Darkfire, Darkfires will often have varying amounts of soul energy, as well as having different balances, making it imperative that the Darkfire trains and learns about their own spirit. By tapping into their spirit, they eventually learn to utilize their negative spirit energy to create dark elementals and their positive spirit energy to create holy elementals by combining their spirit with their elemental power to create their Darkfire elementals. However, it isn't just about creating elementals, as Darkfires learn to focus and balance their spirit during training in order to help master their bodies to train them for battle since the Darkfires also use this to help focus their mind and body as well. This requires heavy meditation, and the ability to focus inward. Thanks to this training, Darkfires typically are very inwardly focused, and learn to master their spirit as the first step in their training. Depending on the Darkfires, every Darkfire typically has a different balance, so each Darkfire must find that balance, and learn what affinities for combinations they have. Depending on the Darkfires, there are some that are special cases, such as Father Hei who had only positive spirit energy after his holy purification, or Kendrix Darkfire who has mastered turning his spirit into angelic and demonic elementals as a result. Depending on the spirit energy, some elementals can have different effects depending on the spirit energy used. Many Darkfires who advance in this can also sometimes start learning spirit user abilities if they so desire, depending on if they can find a teacher who will teach them how to use spirit user abilities. Typically though, most Darkfires don't become spirit users, if only because most understand that they must master their own Darkfire power first before seeking new power. This requires focus and discipline, much more so than any other clan, so the Darkfires are usually very controlled and able to control their emotions more easily in order to avoid unbalancing their spirit.
- Darkfire Positive/Negative Spirit Balance: In order to train in the Darkfire elemental abilities, a Darkfire must first master their own spirit energy, as their positive or negative spirit energy are vital in creating Darkfire elementals. Before training can even begin, the Darkfire must learn a few different things. The first is that they must learn how to tap into their positive and negative spirit energy, and the second is that they must learn how to manage their own unique balance. Most Darkfires must learn this before they can move on to other abilities. Depending on the Darkfire, Darkfires will often have varying amounts of soul energy, as well as having different balances, making it imperative that the Darkfire trains and learns about their own spirit. By tapping into their spirit, they eventually learn to utilize their negative spirit energy to create dark elementals and their positive spirit energy to create holy elementals by combining their spirit with their elemental power to create their Darkfire elementals. However, it isn't just about creating elementals, as Darkfires learn to focus and balance their spirit during training in order to help master their bodies to train them for battle since the Darkfires also use this to help focus their mind and body as well. This requires heavy meditation, and the ability to focus inward. Thanks to this training, Darkfires typically are very inwardly focused, and learn to master their spirit as the first step in their training. Depending on the Darkfires, every Darkfire typically has a different balance, so each Darkfire must find that balance, and learn what affinities for combinations they have. Depending on the Darkfires, there are some that are special cases, such as Father Hei who had only positive spirit energy after his holy purification, or Kendrix Darkfire who has mastered tuning his spirit into angelic and demonic elementals as a result. Depending on the spirit energy, some elementals can have different effects depending on the spirit energy used. Many Darkfires who advance in this can also sometimes start learning spirit user abilities if they so desire, depending on if they can find a teacher who will teach them how to use spirit user abilities. Typically though, most Darkfires don't become spirit users, if only because most understand that they must master their own Darkfire power first before seeking new power. This requires focus and discipline, much more so than any other clan, so the Darkfires are usually very controlled and able to control their emotions more easily in order to avoid unbalancing their spirit.
- Darkfire Nature/Spirit Connection: This is the second connection that Darkfires gained during the time the Darkfires spent among the werewolf alchemists. Similar to other creatures with a strong nature connection to the world, the Darkfires specialize in their connection to both nature and spirits, as they learned to tune to the spiritual realms despite their dark natures. Through their training and diving into spiritual power, they eventually developed a strong connection to the world's elements through their nature and spirit connections. Thanks to this, the Darkfires are able to not only sense the planet's life energy and the life of what's around them, but all Darkfires are able to sense spirits as well, similar to moglins and those with special spirit sense training. This allows them to see and interact with spirits, in which some of the Darkfires have even learned spirit arts from spirits. These spirits are normally invisible and not able to be interacted with by most people, even most who think they know all the spirits often find they don't know how just how deep the spiritual plane goes and how many spirits live in this world. This may seem simple, but this lets the Darkfires connect to the world much more than most who connect to nature (though most nature connections may be stronger than theirs, as the Darkfires aren't that strong in their nature connection as other creatures like werewolves), as they aren't just connected to nature, but are able to also interact with those spirits for another way to interact with nature. Darkfires that have this connection understand the importance of the world's forces, and can see not only the flow of the planet's life energies, but also how the spirits impact that balance. Darkfires trained in this learn this aspect in some way and apply this to their elemental abilities in order to enhance their knowledge of the elements. This can eventually lead to Darkfires learning spirit arts, to which some have tried to learn spirit arts that could benefit their use of elemental powers, as there are plenty of spirit arts that are elemental in nature. While this isn't a necessary power for the Darkfires, many do still learn this ability as a means of enhancing their knowledge of elements, as spirits can grant special knowledge. There isn't too much offensive use of this in fights, as this training is more about learning new things about elements. The best this can do is help Darkfires come up with new ways to use their elemental abilities.
- Darkfire Elemental/Spirit Balance Mastery: The Darkfires create their elementals by using elemental and spirit power, which they must find their balance by figuring out their affinities. For example, many Darkfires start out with an affinity for dark flames. Once a Darkfire figures out their affinities, the first step is to balance their elemental power and spirit together, where they are able to fuse these elementals passively. This is the next basis of the Darkfire training after learning elemental and spirit power, in which a Darkfire has to then fuse both sets of knowledge together to find their own balance. Not only does this teach them how to make their Darkfire elementals, but this also balances their power to strengthen their abilities. Through discipline and focus, a Darkfire uses this to keep their power in balance so that their power can be more effective, as balance is necessary in order to keep one's power flowing properly. And as Darkfires practice this balance, they will often find ways to do this that will increase their elemental and spirit power, as maintaining this balance effectively can lead to the Darkfires gaining stronger elemental and spirit power over time as the Darkfire hones their mastery of this aspect of their training. Different Darkfires have many ways of focusing, but using their disciplined mind is often the most common way Darkfires use to maintain this, and is why the Darkfires are among the most mentally disciplined despite some of the Darkfires being darker in nature than other groups or clans. Another method many Darkfires will use is meditation, in which they will meditate in order to balance themselves (which is equally as effective for those that don't have as much mental focus as some Darkfires). No matter the method though, this is a very necessary training, as Darkfires cannot use their full power without finding their balance. If a Darkfire is unbalanced in their elemental and spirit power, then they will have difficulty focusing their elemental power, and will have severely weakened elements. Some Darkfires who can't focus this properly have even been known to create explosions of elemental and spirit energy when trying to use their elementals as the powers cannot be focused properly. There are major enemies that also do try to unbalance this kind of balance in the body, mind and spirit (For example, Malice Al Zalam has the ability to unbalance this kind of training) and those enemies are particularly dangerous to the Darkfires as they can be weakened to the point their Darkfire elements no longer work. The biggest weakness of the Darkfires is lack of focus, as this can, at worst, completely keep Darkfires from focusing their elemental power safely.
- Darkfire Elementals: Finally getting to the actual elementals, each Darkfire can start out with up to two elements, and older, more experienced Darkfires can sometimes learn a third or a fourth depending on the Darkfire and their experience. There are also rare Darkfires that will be born with three or four elements (usually born with both a holy and dark variation of one or two elements), but this is very rare. Darkfire elementals work by fusing positive or negative spirit energy to their elemental power to create specific elements. Negative spirit energy fused to an element will create a dark elemental, which will have some darkness type properties to it, and positive spirit energy fused to elements will create holy elementals which will have positive power properties. Each element is different, and some even have unique abilities depending on the Darkfire, such as holy flames might be able to heal others using holy power. Each Darkfire has two usually to start with, and as they get older and more experienced, they may gain one or two more through training and focus eventually. It is also possible that some Darkfires can use elementals to create different elementals, such as some wind users who create lightning or water users that create ice. The elements used by the Darkfires are usually of the six main elements which correspond to the Darkfire's elemental affinities. Among the elements one can use are fire, water, ice (often combined with water affinity), lightning, wind and earth. Darkness and light are very rare affinities, and often seen as redundant in the clan since the spirit energy often acts as the light or dark in the Darkfire elementals. For the most part, these elements can be used just like their main elementals, and can be used creatively by Darkfires to battle enemies and utilize their Darkfire techniques. For example, fire can be used to create explosive attacks, burn enemies, and even melt objects. This is the main power of the Darkfires that they are usually known for, and this is the power they use in their Darkfire skills. However, these elementals are still based supernatural elemental power, which means that the Darkfire's skills are not very useful against those that can counter their elemental abilities. For example, fire can be countered by certain water and ice manipulation. It is also possible to block supernatural elemental power using energy manipulation, where certain energy manipulators (like mana users or chi users) can use their energy to block attacks.
- Darkfire Unique Variations and Abilities (usually most prevalent in hybrids): Depending on the Darkfire, some Darkfires have unique spirit power that can be used. Depending on the Darkfire, the Darkfire can learn to add certain affects from their spirit to their elementals. For example, angelic or demonic Darkfires might have special spirit effects, depending on their natures. Angelic Darkfires might have pure holy positive spirit that will grant a light based spirit power-up, or a demonic Darkfire might gain a demonic stronger spirit power-up due to demons having much more potent spirit energy. This depends on the spirit that the Darkfire possesses, and a Darkfire may have some unique powers or none depending on what other abilities they possess. This is most present in hybrids in the Darkfire clan, usually Darkfires that are born of supernaturals (such as a chi user Darkfire who used chi elementals). However, there are a few effects that are common among Darkfires that even full Darkfires can learn. The first is that some Darkfires can learn corrupted elements as a means to try and counter users of the same element. The corrupted element art uses a Darkfires spirit energy not to turn the element into a dark/holy element, but instead uses the spirit energy to corrupt the element and create a corrupted element instead using a vampire's cursed nature. This is an art that some Darkfires have learned to counter other elemental users, specifically those of the same element that the Darkfire cannot normally damage. There are also certain effects that can be done with positive and negative spirit energy that may or may not be unique among Darkfires depending on their abilities. For example, advanced users of positive spirit elements might be able to manipulate the positive nature of flames to heal others, or manipulate the negative nature to poison enemies with negative spirit energy depending on the power and knowledge of the Darkfire. Typically, this is dependent on the Darkfire, and is unique for each Darkfire depending on what they learn. This is a purely option training, and usually only used by those that have special extra skillsets that can combine with the Darkfire skills. Typically all of these effects can be countered like normal elements, as long as one keeps in mind the unique nature of the elements created. For example, corrupted flames are still able to be dodged or blocked like normal flames, but cannot be absorbed by flame users or the flame user will take internal damage when they try to absorb this flame (bypassing elemental immunities).
- Specific Limited Elemental Variations: Depending on the Darkfire and their elements used, some can use other versions of their elements, depending on the element they use. This is most common in earth and wind users, as earth users could specialize in many different types of earth, with some earth users being able to use plants, some specializing in metal, some in crystals or some in sand manipulation. Each element has it's own specific uses, depending on what the user wants to learn, as each element can be broken down and may have unique manipulations based on the element. For example, some lightning users may only use magnetism, giving them magnetic manipulation, or earth users being able to generate specific types of earth. This is a rare case among Darkfires where some Darkfires cannot use every part of a certain element. For example, there was one Darkfire who could manipulate metal, but no other earth element. While this does limit a Darkfire, this often leads to these limited elementals being more powerful or may lead a Darkfire to having more elemental abilities. For example, a Darkfire born with three elements could have a magnetism power, a metal manipulation power and then a normal elemental (with magnetism and metal both being limited but a Darkfire can have both limited powers). The limited elementals are also typically stronger than normal elementals, and can still be turned into dark/holy elementals, or rare combinations of elements depending on how the powers are manifested. For the most part, most Darkfires see this as a problem with their elemental power, but some Darkfires can make the best of this with knowledge and creativity. For example, a Darkfire who could manipulate magnetism might still be able to create lightning by converting magnetic energy. This mostly just depends on the Darkfire's affinities. Of course, as one might expect, these elements are still countered like normal elementals. Usually, the only advantage this grants is slightly stronger elementals, or granting Darkfires more elementals but in specific variations.
- Darkfire Advanced Elemental Training: Once reaching a certain level, Darkfires are able to learn advanced elemental abilities, which comes once they master the basic elemental abilities. Depending on the element and their training, almost every element has advanced abilities that can be learned, as elementals can do more than just be used to throw an element around. Using this advanced training usually takes time and requires a certain level of mastery of the basic elements. This also requires a little scientific knowledge of elements, such as lightning users learning how the magnetic properties of lightning work and manipulating lightning to make use of those magnetic properties. By learning the science of how elements work, Darkfires are able to apply that to their powers and learn how to use their elemental powers beyond just blasting opponents or throwing around elements. Depending on the element, every element has advanced elemental training, such as wind users can learn to generate plasma, or earth users might be able to learn how to generate lava manipulation by absorbing fire attacks into their earth manipulation. These abilities are usually different ways to use elements, and most can be passive, such as fire and/or ice users typically learning to adapt to almost any extreme temperature, or lightning users being able to manage their own magnetic field. This power just depends on the Darkfire and their knowledge. Of course, as one might expect, the Darkfires still have their weakness to counter elements, and any advanced powers they use are still countered using counter elements or other abilities that can counter elementals. It is also worth noting that some of these advanced training powers use more energy than normal, such as using elements to absorb other elements may take more power to maintain control of one's elemental manipulation due to it needing to control other elements as well (like an earth user would expend more power trying to create lava since it would have to absorb and control a heat element). Other abilities can be countered in other ways (like wind users can use wind to fly, but users can still find ways to hit a Darkfire that is flying around).
- Advanced Darkfire Training: Elemental Condensing: When using elemental power, sometimes normal elementals just don't pack enough of a punch. For this problem, the Darkfires learned an art of condensing matter into smaller space by smashing the molecules together to condense energy into a smaller form. This technique is a battle technique that the Darkfires utilize in their attack and defense, where they utilize this to create more condensed elementals. Typically, this requires not only a mastery of elemental power, but also requires a mastery of changing the form of energy as well as changing the form of matter. However, when used properly, this can create much stronger elemental abilities, where the Darkfires can condense their elementals to strengthen their attacks. In addition to the elementals themselves being stronger, the effects of the elementals also become much stronger, as the condensing of the elemental also has effects on what the elementals can do. For example, a condensed explosive dark flame attack will explode with far more force than normal, due to the explosion being concentrated by the condensing of the dark flames. Any elemental can be used, and the effects depend on the elemental used. Darkfires can even control how much the elemental is condensed, allowing more or less condensing to control how much power is put into their attacks. This is an advanced art, and Darkfires do have to be skilled with more than just elemental energy to use this effectively. It is also worth noting that the Darkfires who use this also have to expend more energy and concentration in order to use this, as using this will often require concentration to utilize this effectively. The more energy they condense, the stronger the attack they create at the cost of more condensing also costing more elemental power in order to use. And if a Darkfire doesn't do this correctly, their elemental condensing could literally explode in their face, as not doing this correctly could cause an explosive reaction. As one might imagine, dodging these elements are still the same, but blocking is more or less what is different, as this is designed to be used against stronger opponents. One can still block this if they are strong enough, but with the condensed energy and amplified effects, the attacks are much harder to block.
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