Tek
Vampire Tengu Warmage2/Vampire Paragon1
Tek is the last scion of a noble line which fell to infernal vampires.
It's fortunate, then, that he happened to
become a vampire in that terrible ordeal.
The Daihane (Long Feather) administered a sizable mountain range, with many subjects. They were known for their peak monasteries which taught arts spiritual, martial and sorcerous.
Tek had just finished his initial training as a Senso Mahotsukai (War Wizard), ready to represent his family in battle, enforcing the rule of his father and protecting their honored subjects, when the hordes of Lorukan, vampire devil lord, struck.
Tek battled fiercely to defend his father and his family's honor, hacking with a prized nodachi which usually hung in their front room to show their wealth and power, blasting the enemy with his wand of fire in his other hand.
Ultimately, the fiends won, as Tek bled out into the snow in front of his family's shrine.
Tek's next memory was awakening in a strange shrine, shrouds hanging all around to plunge the room into darkness. A dutiful servant had carried his body away to an independent shrine away from the mountain, using half remembered stories from childhood and the aid of more knowledgeable priests to guide him through his transformation into an undead beast.
One would think that Tek hated the undead for his family's death at the hands of vampires, but he's really rather pragmatic about it. The dead have nothing but time, and lack many weaknesses of the living. He draws on the magic of his old heritage, and stands as a promise that he will, with time, and study, rise his family's banner once more. He'd certainly like to raise his father with it, but also understands that the old man was a bit more traditional about these things, and so might take some convincing, or simply be better left dead. The fact that a bunch of zombie and skeleton tengu were waiting outside the shrine to follow him when he finally recovered also helped this philosophy.
Once he'd recovered, the servent presented Tek with his family's prized nodachi, found clutched in his hand in a death grip, an enchanted parasol used by a vampire Tek felled that he could now use to protect himself from the sun, and his father's Kitsune-Blessed (Fey-Blessed) Lamellar armour, now rightfully his own. Altering the clan mon only slightly, Tek renamed his clan the Akumahane (Devilfeather) clan, embracing the horrible night it was nearly entirely wiped out as simply the next era of his clan.
Background: Royalty of a Fallen Nation- +2 leadership, people generally well disposed to you. Assassins and ninja pursue, some people particularly unfavourably disposed to you.
Traits: Outlander (Lore Seeker)- Magic Missile, Cause Fear and Entangle are +1 Caster Level and +1 DC
Signature Spell- +1 Caster Level for Magic Missile
Natural Born Leader- Cohorts, followers, or summoned creatures under your leadership gain a +1 morale bonus on Will saves to avoid mind-affecting effects. +1 Leadership rating
Drawback: Attached (Family Nodachi)- Whenever the object of your attachment is either threatened, in danger, or in someone else’s possession, you take a –1 penalty on Will saves and a –2 penalty on saves against fear effects. If the item is destroyed/lost/etc, exchange for the Doubt drawback.