Alvearium Animus

Background
Alvearium is not a typical person, they were synthetically created by 2 scientist dead set on creating artificial life. Alvearium was their first, and only, successful attempt at that. A side effect of this was having to inject Alvearium with a "medicine" they had created. During their early years they were brought up as human, it was not until they found research notes of themselves hidden away that they realized what they were. Alvearium found these notes after their parents went on a research trip, they had told Alvearium to keep using the "medicine" they had created for them, but they didn't listen, they were tired of all of the injections. once Alvearium confronted their Parents they denied everything, they said that those notes were for a separate unfinished project long ago. Alvearium was infuriated by this, but before they could say anything they began to feel dizzy, nauseated, and fatigued, and eventually they fainted. Once Alvearium awoke they realized something awful, they remembered what they read in the notes written by their parents "Human genes incompatible with other species, we must resort to using the genes of the stalkers of the night; vampires." As they looked down they saw what they had done, not only were their parents dead, but the rest of the staff at the research facility too. emergency sirens and lights were going off, they were covered in blood, and they had just committed mass murder; with nothing left to do, Alvearium decided to go into the off limits section of the lab; but before that, In a panic, Alvearium decided to take one of their parent's lab coats, and the other's glasses to commemorate them in some way. Alvearium remembered their parents talking about a failed portal that could theoretically let you travel across the world, but they never finished it; they decided that this was the only way left for them. as they rushed to the portal they could hear faint talking from the soldiers guarding the lab, so they began to run faster. once they had made it to the portal room, Alvearium opened the door, they rushed to the control room and began reading the notes. *slam* *slam!* *SLAM!* the guards were attempting to break through the emergency doors, and Alvearium knew they didn't have much time until the guards were successful. Alvearium kept reading research notes, page after page, but nothing helped. *SLAM!* *SLAM!* *CRACK!* they had broken into the lab, Alvearium had a few minutes, max. In a panic they decided to go straight to the activation room they turned every lever and pushed every button they saw, sparks formed in the the metal frame, and lightning flew, but nothing else. frustrated, Alvearium cried out "it'd be easier to build a portal to the nether without equipment than turn this on!" that's when they got an idea. quickly, Alvearium ran to the storage room and ordered the system to deliver large obsidian rocks into the portal room, once the system was done they ran back as fast as possible, they could hear the guards footsteps now. As they ran into the room they quickly began filling the metal frame with the obsidian, once this was complete they ran into the activation room and turned everything on. Sparks flew once more, lightning thundered, and then nothing. As Alvearium was about to slam their fist into the panel they heard an earsplitting *BOOM!* As they looked over to where the portal was they saw a glowing white light with shimmers of every color possibly imaginable. *march* *march* *march* unfortunately, Alvearium had no time to marvel, or even wonder, about this portal or where it lead to, they just ran to it, and jumped in.

Early Days
After Alvearium arrived in Kylorne they explored for a while, hoping perhaps it was still their home world, but they were not so lucky. Once Alvearium realized that they weren't likely to ever return to any part of their world, they began to try to assimilate into the civilizations of Kylorne. Alvearium had heard rumors of two cities harboring people like them, one a land of vampires, the other, a land of undead. Ultimately, Alvearium decided on joining both nations with Carpe Noctem housing their home, and a planned research facility in Araxis. Alvearium, not wanting to be helpless, decided that they would go out and gather materials, and after many nights they returned with precious gems, metals, weaponry, and armor. while setting up their temporary residence in a rock, Alvearium was visited by the lord of these lands, Marquis Sanguis & a fellow doctor --although of different study-- Dr. Tancred. They were most polite and offered a tour to the dirtied Alvearium Animus, who accepted. They showed Alvearium around and taught them of vampire history, which was most enlightening to the Doctor. After the tour, Dr. Tancred expressed a need for candles, wishing to be useful, Alvearium offered their assistance, to which Tancred agreed. The fellow doctor explained that to acquire wax, Alvearium was going to need bees. At this information, Dr. Tancred gifted a beehive to Alvearium, to which they were very thankful of. After Tancred left to attend their studies, Alvearium built a large structure made of planks & stone over the course of a multitude of nights to house the bees. This structure was also meant as a sort of research facility, as the bees fascinated the doctor. Once finished, Lord Sanguis & Dr. Tancred visited the now exhausted Alvearium, they had a lovely chat and then headed off into their own directions. After this event, Alvearium decided to found House Animus in order to find like-minded people willing to follow their beliefs and convert to vampirism.

House Animus
House Animus was founded after Alvearium Animus learned of the history of Carpe Noctem and it's vampires, learning that the most noble vampire families were ones of not only purer blood, but earlier generations. They also learned that typically, vampires of purer blood had strange and powerful abilities, with a limited few being able to control undead hordes. Hearing this, Alvearium founded House Animus, seeing as they were not only the first in their bloodline, but also possessed certain unnatural abilities. Through haphazard testing on weak-minded animals Dr. Alvearium Animus discovered something; when injected with Alvearium's blood, they could telepathically communicate with the animals, and the connection was seemingly unaffected by range, or physical objects. They also realized --with the addition of a rat and a maze-- that not only could Alvearium see through the eyes of the animal, but vice-versa as well. Alvearium came to the conclusion after further testing that this was likely due to their mushroom genes mixing in with their vampirism; therefore, causing these strange, almost hive mind-esque effects to occur. Alvearium theorized that this could be a very beneficial ability to have if applicable to humanoid/stronger-minded subjects, but at the current moment, they had no one to test it on.

Physical Information
Alvearium is a mixture of many species, but the prevalent ones are Vampire, and multiple types of mushroom; mainly ones acquired from the hellish plane of the nether. Their hair is dual colored; blue & red on the right and left sides respectively. They always seem to have strange stains on their lab coat. If you look closely their eyes dimly glow yellow.

Synopsis
Alvearium Animus is a very strange person, they are a scientist who seems to be oddly obsessed with studying and discovering the secrets of the nether, though Ironically, they hate the heat. they constantly seem to be wearing a lab coat with odd stains and glasses. Alvearium is quite short standing at 5'0". their relatively short hair is split into red and blue on either side respectively and their eyes seem to almost glow an eerie yellow. Alvearium's personality is of one who has immense dedication to what they do, almost to a fault. They seem to always be distracted or thinking about something else, because of this, they seems to be quite accident prone. Alvearium is a risk taker, they don't like to do anything the "boring" way, this has caused multiple accidents in the past. Overall, they are quite the exiting person to be around and are not short of energy in any sense, though they tend to only speak when required. They were raised by two scientists who claimed to have found Alvearium. Alvearium's hobbies include gardening, exploring the world, research & study, and generally dangerous activities. Their race is not officially known fully because of odd results during some testing, though they appear to be a humanoid.