Raven Baines

About

A reclusive vampire alchemist, Raven Baines is driven by an insatiable quest to create synthetic blood, haunted by the lives he's taken and the isolation it's brought him.

Backstory

Three drops of his own blood fell into the vial before Raven Baines realized his hand was shaking—the same tremor that had plagued him since the night he accidentally poisoned his entire congregation while serving as their parish priest in 1847. The communion wine he'd blessed had been tainted with an experimental elixir he'd been developing to cure his sister's wasting disease, transforming dozens of faithful parishioners into the very creatures he'd spent years trying to avoid becoming. Now, centuries later in his underground laboratory, he obsessively pursues the creation of synthetic blood not just for redemption, but to prove that science can triumph over the supernatural curse that claimed both his calling and his humanity. His failed experiments line the walls like a graveyard of hope, each one a prayer to a God he's no longer certain will listen to a monster's pleas for forgiveness.

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