character :: Miseria Van Yorke
There are worlds where lines are drawn not in the sand, but in stone - each person is either good or bad, with not an in between. Miseria grew up in this world; one of many sons branching from a prominent figure in the world’s oldest Light Coven family. He is a Van Yorke - and with the name came great strength and pride. Like all Van Yorke children, he was expected to begin cultivating his basic Light abilities far younger than any other child from other families; and then to begin creating new and dangerous new powers before his debut.
The debut of a new Van Yorke teenager brought attention from the entire coven, including lesser families who were in awe of the old bloodline. This day, should the young man or woman bring pleasure to the eldest of their family lineage, a young Van Yorke would expect to walk out of the meeting with the key to a new abode and a partner from which to start their own families with. Miseria was no exception of the excitement and hope of an excellent debut - and at the end of that afternoon, after a wild and vicious display of his special abilities granted to him by sacrifice and hard work; he walked to his new home knowing who he would be sleeping next to that night.
Miseria would spend the next few years of his life abiding by every single dark desire of his family. Being powerful and feared, now even more so when paired with his mate whom flaunted a strange control of his powers, he earned quite a reputation of being a "fixer" - someone sent about to repair any perceived slights against a family likely to gain notoriety. One day, he received the orders to retrieve his rogue half-brother that had fled the family in disgrace, and now spent his time gallivanting about covens and spreading lies about dearly kept Van Yorke secrets.
Once out in the world for the first time, Miseria was faced with the harsh realization that his suspicions about his family and his life were true. He wasn’t stupid, of course, he knew what the Van Yorkes were and what set them apart from all other witches. After all, for all these generations since the discovery of magic, the Van Yorke coven had only grown in power and wealth solely because of these less than savory traits. They were, as his mother put it to him one rainy afternoon, the sacrifice they must all make in order to be the most powerful family in the world. Of course, she had tried to drown him in the family fountain just hours prior to that conversation, but she had her own cross to bear. No, Miseria met with his half brother Moros - and when the time came that unfolded the perfect opportunity to kill the man that had struck such confused turmoil in his perfectly ordinary life…he turned the tides of the battle and fled with him instead.
This is true worship.
