Born in the port city of Castere, Yoru was a child of Zadora, raised in a land of faith, duty, and seafaring tradition. Her parents were respected alchemists, their skills valued for both healing and warfare. The people of Zadora, ever pious, believed that science and faith could work hand in hand, and Yoru grew up with an insatiable curiosity—seeking to understand the world through the lens of both divine and arcane knowledge.
As she matured, Yoru became a physician in service to both the crown and the church, her work saving lives in Zadora’s thriving cities and remote fishing villages alike. She was well-known for her skill in crafting potions that cured ailments beyond the reach of ordinary healers. Though magic was not the heart of Zadoran culture, her knowledge of alchemy and medicine was respected, even by the clerics who relied on divine intervention.
But ambition led her down a dangerous path.
One evening, a dying nobleman was brought to her—a man who bore no injuries, yet wasted away as if life itself abandoned him. Despite her best efforts, his condition worsened. She sought every cure, every elixir, every tincture in her arsenal, but nothing prevailed. Desperate, she turned to forbidden texts—fragments of knowledge hidden in the underbelly of Castere, in whispers shared by outcasts and alchemists who delved too deep. It was there she learned the truth.
Her patient was not a man at all. He was a vampire.
Too late, she realized her mistake. The creature awoke, ravenous, his willpower shattered by his illness. In his final moments, he lashed out—not to kill, but to survive. His fangs tore into her, his cursed blood mingling with hers. The infection took hold.
Amongst pain and suffering, Yoru did not die that night. But nor did she remain the woman she had been.
She fled Zadora, knowing her homeland’s zealous faith would not tolerate what she had become. To them, vampires were monsters, abominations against the gods. Even the mercy of Zadora had limits. If she were discovered, she would be hunted, her name erased from history.
Now, she walks a path between life and undeath. An adventurer by necessity, Yoru seeks a cure for her condition—or, if that is impossible, a way to control it. Armed with her alchemy, her knowledge of medicine, and the remnants of her humanity, she wanders the world, seeking redemption in the only way she knows how: saving lives, even as she battles the hunger that gnaws at her very soul.