The Species of Dance With the Devil

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These are the accepted and approved races of Dance With the Devil. While these are not set in stone, more races can be added if you, the members, would like more races to choose from for your characters. We are keeping things simple and having these races for now, but if more discussion and more interest in other races are wanted, we the staff will more than happily grant the races after discussing what would be allowed and disallowed. If you have any questions feel free to PM Owl Always Love You and Spider for any questions or concerns.

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Humans

human being
noun

1.
any individual of the genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens.
2.
a person, especially as distinguished from other animals or as representing the human species: living conditions not fit for human beings; a very generous human being.
Origin:
1855–60

The humans on Dance With the Devil are exactly what their definition defines. While there are different subgroups of the humans on the site, they are all equally the same. The all belong to the Genus Homo and are all Homo Sapiens. Anything else that may make them different is only of their genetic makeup or how they were brought up. There are a few different groups among the humans and they will all be defined here.

Humans
This is the most simplest of the group. They are normal beings in the town and know next to nothing on the supernaturals. They live the normal human life and go about their life as if nothing were to happen to them. They are the bait of the vampires and the friends of everyone else. They are the victims of werewolf mauls and vampire serial killers. These are the humans of White Pines.

Hunters
These are the humans that hunt the supernatural. Some grow up following their parents' footsteps, others are raised in the communities dedicated to taking out the supernaturals. But most of all these the ones people come to if a supernatural problem has gotten out of hand. Even the Supernatural Council come to the hunters to make sure the problem is sorted out before trouble arises. Hunters have a higher stamina than a normal human. This meaning their vision is slightly better, they can run a little bit faster, and they can lift a little more than normal, but this is all slightly more than the normal human. A werewolf and a vampire can still take them out.

Psychics
These humans are a bit on the weird side. Let's just put it this way. They have a way with ghosts. And the other side. They also tend to be neutral parties when it comes to picking sides, but that's how the Council has crafted them out to be. Simply because they could give the opposing side the low down on where enemies are hiding if they are hiding, aka the vampires. But Psychics have a way with speaking to the ghosts.

Witches
These humans may perhaps be the most powerful of the subgroup of Humans, but don't get cocky with these witches. Their powers don't develop well until they are nearly an adult. To even know that they are a witch, once puberty hits they may show some signs of it developing, but they don't come into their powers well beyond the end of puberty and into the early stages of their adult life around the age of 20 years or so. There are two sub groups of Witches. The White Witch and the Black Witch. This meaning White Magic and Black Magic. Both have their own abilities, but even then they are still limited to what they can do. They can use nature to work with them, but they are limited to what they can use. Not everything will work with them, especially if one tries to rock as armor, it won't work.

Necromancers - BY PERMISSION ONLY PM Owl Always Love You and Spider for permission to create a necromancer.
Necromancers are very different than witches and should not be confused with witches. Necromancers have only one specific power and that is able to raise zombies or control the dead. They keep along the same track of life style with humans and the lifespan, but they are able to raise the dead, zombies in this case or weak vampires, if they have enough power to do so. But most of all Necromancers start off small. They don't have full control of their powers until they are well into their adult lives after puberty. They may have small occurrences when they are children with a house pet coming back to life or along those lines, but to bring back a human of any sort is well into their teen years and beyond. Even at that age they still can't raise a human corpse.

Each Necromancer is different and their powers vary, if they are given enough guidance they may become stronger with age or they may stay the same throughout their life. The stronger the necromancer the older the dead the body they can bring back. This includes vampires as well. The older the vampire, the stronger the vampire is to avoid being held down by a necromancer. A necromancer cannot control an Original Vampire. This is because the Originals are held down by a different vein of magic and are much to old to be controlled by a necromancer.

Abilities

White Witches
- Can use nature to channel their magics. (This means the trees, animals, plants, the elements. Rocks or mountains cannot be used)
- Has the ability to calm animals, control them.
- Cannot create or control weather.

Dark Witches
- Can use nature to channel their magics, but take on the darker side of nature.
- Has the ability to channel the underworld or the spirits of dead witches call upon their powers.
- Has the ability to channel the elements.
- Cannot create or control weather.

Psychics
- Can sense the dead and communicate with them.
- Can foresee small events, a death in the family, an accident happening. Anything that foresees with a NPC. You will need permission from the player to foresee something for said character.
- Have the ability to block someone from reading their mind. This be a vampire or another psychic.
- Have the ability to sense things around them that may include danger, but cannot pinpoint where the event will happen or when. This also includes who will be involved, all that is know that something will happen.

Necromancers
- All necromancers are capable of sensing, summon, raising and commanding
the dead. They can sense the dead in the graves, feel old they are, and
even try and sense how old vampires are.
- Necromancers cannot locate vampires.
- All necromancers can see and communicate with the dead.
- Not all necromancers can summon the dead. This meaning, the older the person/zombie being summoned the stronger the necromancer must be. New necromancers can summon zombies who have been recently dead, but cannot summon a zombie as easily as twenty years dead, unless someone is helping them.

Hunters
- Hunters are normal humans, but are more flexible than the normal human. They even be stronger and faster after going through rigorous training to be able to catch up to their prey that they hunting, whether it be a vampire or a werewolf. Anything of the supernatural.
- Hunters still heal at human speed. There is nothing that can fix the healing process unless a witch or vampire helps with the healing.
- Above all else, hunters are just that, they are normal humans. They will age the slow death of a human unless bitten or turned, but they will always be a hunter.

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Vampires

vam·pire

[vam-pahyuhr]
noun

1.
a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
2.
(in Eastern European folklore) a corpse, animated by an undeparted soul or demon, that periodically leaves the grave and disturbs the living, until it is exhumed and impaled or burned.
3.
a person who preys ruthlessly upon others; extortionist.

The vampires of Dance With the Devil are creatures of the night. They live by the moonlight, not the sun. They rise when the sun goes down and head to darker depths when the sun rises. They do not sparkle if they are caught in the sunlight, they burn. They have a mass amount of strength, speed, sight and hearing. They are the strongest species on the site.

All vampires hail from one of the four Original Vampires that currently live in White Pines, but only three Originals have created vampires, the fourth one is very meticulous on her turnings. So if one needs a bloodline to choose, Amethyst Grey is not the vampire to choose as the Head of your bloodline. The Originals are also vampires that can walk around in the sunlight, with such gifts given to some vampires, day-walking can be something other vampires can do if they have the gift.

To Kill A Vampire

• Killing a vampire can be tricky, especially when one doesn't know what to use or how to do it. All vampires can be killed by Fire. Even the Originals.
• A wooden stake to the heart. It must be a wooden stake and it must be through the heart. Anywhere else and the vampire will not die, it will heal from its wound and survive.
• Sunlight. It can be quite deadly to a vampire if they are tied up outside and have no way of getting indoors to escape the sunlight, but be warned, an Original cannot die by the sun, they are day walkers.
• Decapitation is another way to kill a vampire. Cutting their head off will also be the final straw for an Original, if you're fast enough to kill them. Otherwise stick with a wooden stake.
• While silver may be used to harm them, a large amount of silver may end up killing a vampire, one will need quite a lot to take the vampire down, especially if it doesn't seem to affect them as much with a little portion. Otherwise the silver will just weaken a vampire, and another method of killing them can come into play.
  

To Create a Vampire

• A vampire must remove all of the blood from their victim to begin the process, while the victim may not be willing, this is the only way to start the process.
  
• After the blood has been drained from the victim, the vampire must give the victim the vampire’s blood. This is to allow the victim’s body to ready itself for the change of their cells dying off and the vampire blood taking over the cells of the body.
• The fledgling of the vampire must stay with the vampire for the first two nights, whether in a dark enclosed place or buried in the ground to allow the turn to finally take place. Older vampires may not have to stay as long with their fledgling, but must still do the process of lying with their victim.

Vampire Powers/Abilities

• Normal Vampire Abilities - Increased Strength, Speed, Sight, Smell
• Day Walking - this requires having a sire/dame who has this ability to teach them. Not every vampire is gifted with this and the only ones who have it by default are the original four vampires. But this ability allows a vampire to mingle during the day and avoid the harsh rays of the sun without having to worry about bursting to flames.
• You may come up with your own, this is all that we have without going into too much detail on what vampires can and cannot have as abilities.

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Werewolves

were·wolf
[wair-woolf, weer-, wur-]
noun, plural were·wolves [-woolvz]

(in folklore and superstition) a human being who has changed into a wolf, or is capable of assuming the form of a wolf, while retaining human intelligence.

Werewolves are people who can shift into a wolf during the full moon. This shift is forced upon the person when the full moon has reached it's peak in the sky and the werewolf have lost control of their senses. In other cases, werewolves may also be able to shift at other times not just at the Full Moon, but only the strongest of werewolves have been known to do that. The weakest and newborn werewolves cannot change at will. Children who are werewolves don't see their first change until they are well into their teens, this is to help with the development process and protect the child from any damage that may occur if they were to change during a child. During puberty, the child will see some change and may start to feel weird during the Full Moon, but it may be months or years until they finally shift into a werewolf during the Full Moon stage.

Ways to Become a Werewolf
- Being Born as one.
- Bitten or scratched from a werewolf in wolf form. When the werewolf is in human form, there is no possibility of contracting lycanthropy.

Abilities
- Heightened senses; Strength, Speed, Sight, Smell, Hearing.
- Werewolves who can shift at will, have mastered the change and experienced the moon change. New Werewolves cannot change at will until they have been a werewolf for a couple of years.
- Must shift during the Full Moon. There isn't a way to get around this.
- Alphas can force a werewolf to change forms. (A form of showing dominance and inflicting punishment.)
- Immortal once they have been infected by the lycanthropy virus.
- When alone, a werewolf can tell when another werewolf is close by, but not who the werewolf is.

Weaknesses
- Silver. Any amount of silver can harm a werewolf. It burns until the object is removed that contains the silver. Healing is human slow as the wound laced with silver will hurt for quite some time before healing process begins.
- Fire. While it is not really considered a weakness, fire can still burn them greatly enough that they may not fully recover with the same effects as silver.

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Shifters

shift·er
[shif-ter]
noun
a person or thing that shifts.

Becoming a shifter is neither bitten or exposed, but born as one. This is the only group on the site where you must be born as one. How one's animal is decided is based on their parents. If their parents were the same animal, they would be the animal of their parents. If the parents are two different animals, than the offspring is one of the animals from their parents. This is not a choice of where one can choose the animal they want, unless they were orphaned and nothing can be found about their lineage.


Abilities
- Can shift at will. They are not bound to the moon like werewolves.
- Their sense are heightened; smell, strength, sight, sound, taste and touch.
- Shifters also have enhanced healing. They do not heal at human speed.
- While shifters may be able to shift into any form, they are not immortal like their werewolf brethren.
- After every shift, the shifter may feel exhausted and sleep deprived. This meaning that they will need a couple of hours of sleep before they can shift again or do anything with their day to day lives.

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Demons

de·mon
[dee-muhn]
noun
1.
an evil spirit; devil or fiend.
2.
an evil passion or influence.
3.
a person considered extremely wicked, evil, or cruel.

Demons may be a patriarchal group, but in recent times they do not follow this suit. Their ways have become loosen and they are more willing to work within their realm and Earth to provide an equal harmony to both demons and humans. While they share their knowledge of what they know, they enjoy learning new information and take pride in understanding how it works or what is brought to them.

Demons are often times very secluded in where they go. They may either stay within their realm or come to Earth to mingle with everyone within the boundaries of the world. While they don't believe what the humans call their realm Hell, it is far from it. Their realm is very comparable to Earth, but in some ways the beauty of it is far better than one can see. But demons are very secretive about their world and avoid sharing it with others.

Abilities
- Honor Bound. This means that once a demon has made a promise, they are required to hold that said promise. If they break it well, let's just say they will most likely provide more services to make up for the broken promise.
- All demons have this natural ability of seduction, that make them as alluring as vampires, but more prominent and willful than a vampire. Seducing someone is one way a demon will attempt to corrupt the unwilling.
- Demons are gifted with incredible strength. They can life double their own weight, but they are still weaker to even the weakest vampire. They are still a threat to everyone else.

Exceptions
- None at this time.