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"Si ce n'est pas une nouveauté? Je suis à peine revenu et j'ai déjà plus de travail à faire?" Maria a pensé en traversant la rue principale sombre et boueuse d'Iredele sur son chemin vers le temple. Bien sûr, avec le dernier du groupe précédent ayant rencontré cette disparition il y a quelques semaines, c'était plus qu'à temps pour... euh, du sang frais à apporter dans le Monde des Rêves gaspillés.
Maria a dit qu'elle entra dans la salle pas si sacrée, en s'assurant de jeter quelques pièces rouillées sur la boîte d'offrande alors qu'elle franchissait le seuil et marchait entre les rangées de bancs abandonnés vers l'escalier menant au sous-sol. Une fois arrivé à l'endroit d'où venaient les nouvelles présences, Maria poussa la lourde porte ouverte avec une facilité presque préternaturelle, conduisant probablement n'importe qui par elle à trébucher sur le sol en pierre sinistre et évalué la situation avant de prendre toute action.
"Vous voulez tous arrêter, s'il vous plaît?" Maria a tiré sur Dark Titania et a tiré un coup d'avertissement près des pieds du vieil homme "Qu'est-ce que quelqu'un comme toi fait ici? Si vous ne voulez pas mourir pour de vrai, éloignez-vous d'ici." Maria a donné une lueur glaciale au vieil homme, en s'assurant pour lui qu'elle ne bluffait pas.
Avec cela résolu (ou alors elle cependant), Maria se tourna vers les nouveaux chasseurs, rechargea son arme avant de le ranger à nouveau et attendit leur réaction avec les bras croisés sous son buste et son dos inclina contre le mur, bloquant leur seule sortie du sous-sol.
Name:
Maria E. B'thory.
Gender:
Female.
Age:
Unknown, but she looks to be around her early to mid twenties.
Appearance:
Maria stands at a mean height of around 1,60 meter and has a moderate build as well, though Maria's curves are remarkably well-shaped, specially her bust. Maria has an extremely pale complexion, almost veering on gray and waist-long bleached-blond hair that matches her skin's lack of coloration. Actually, the only place you'll find any color on Maria (outside of her clothes) is on her burgundy colored eyes wherein lie her slitted pupils.
When it comes to garments, Maria prefers to wear a mix-and-match dress of Victorian design, along with a corset to support and oomph her bust and sturdy boots. Maria however, has a passion for belts and wears them in excess as any other fashion item, along with her most prized possession, her huntress hat decorated with a lovely crimson rose and ribbon.
Magic:
Maria can use magic with some degree of expertise on every field, favoring blood manipulation over the other two paths because it's much more available and less risky to use than either fire or shadow. However she doesn't rely on magic very much, preferring to trust her weapons in pretty much any situation.
Weapon:

- Vampire Killer: A special whip that was bestowed to Maria a long time ago. It has the power to destroy evil and a simple touch of its business end is enough to send most dark dwellers back to hell.
- Dark Titania: Maria's trustworthy gun, it's a break-action single shot pistol, capable of firing high caliber ammo (equivalent to early 9mm ammo). The only type of cartridge that Maria carries around is mercury filled cold-steel ammo that causes critical damage when it hits beings of the darkness. However, this is a relatively slow to reload and costly to maintain weapon, so Maria only uses it when she's sure that it'll not be wasted.
- Pandora's Box: Actually not an artifact of mystic powers (perhaps?), but rather a nickname that Maria gave to the mysterious case that she's always lugging around. The contents of Pandora are known to none but Maria. All who had ever witnessed Maria unlock the case have different reports about what is inside of it and Maria makes no effort to confirm or deny any of them.

Personality:
Maria is, for the lack of a better term, unique. A woman who really loves her way of living and despises those who make the hunters' lives a laughing stock. She has her little quirks, like any woman is allowed to, being a teaser who knows how to weave her words to get the desired reaction out of most persons. At the same time she has her guard low (and can be even naive) when it comes to things that catch her curiosity, like the rare times when a hunter brings trinkets from the outworld to Iredele.
Maria also can be quite introspective, enjoying to read every dusty tome that she can put her hands on and owning pretty much the biggest library on the World of Wasted Dreams. Maria likes to think, sometimes digressing into philosophical spiels, even practicing some of the knowledge found in her books. Over the time she became a quite efficient alchemist and these day can even produce many of her own necessities, thus she moonlights as an alchemist when the monster slaying business isn't going well.
Lastly, Maria has a soft spot for the younger generations and so will usually take on the task of teaching the idiosyncrasies of the World of Wasted Dreams to neophyte hunters. However, she knows all too well that theirs is a merciless world and won't take any hard blows when one of the fledglings she's overlooking ends up as food for the beasts they were supposed to slay. That is, unless it's one of those very few cases when someone manages to gains more than Maria's sympathy as a fellow huntress.
Bio:
Maria's history is quite long, so she usually doesn't bothers people with it. All that is needed to know is that she arrived in the World of Wasted Dreams a very long ago, in fact, she was one of the first hunters to ever set feet on this cursed land. She has seen all the ups and downs of this world and over the time has grown quite fond of it. Maria won't get in the way of anyone embarking on the fool's errand that is trying to escape this realm, however, she'll not follow them as well.
Some say that Maria had a lover on the Outworld (how she likes to call all that is not the World of Wasted Dreams) and that said lover had been taken by the clutches of death, which is perhaps the reason why the seasoned huntress doesn't want to go back.
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