Character Info

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Name: Asher Davies
Age: 37
Occupation: Occult detective
Abilities: Medium who can connect with the departed/ghosts in limbo/the undead (zombies, vampires), vast knowledge of the arcane/supernatural, decent physical fighter if he has to but he'll never overpower anyone and often has to rely more on his wits/knowledge than brawn. He's a trained mage but uses magic sparingly as it both calls on his demon ancestry and requires a good bit of energy.
Identifying features: Symbolic and script tattoos on his arms and back that are imbued with warding magic. Some scars that come with the job, though most are covered by clothes. Only one is on his face, running across the left corner of his mouth. It's faded but present. He also gets patches of dry skin, almost scaly, especially in the cold.
Family: Father (Bernard Tolvar, demon mage big into the family business of putting the magic guild first), Mother (Miranda Davies, human, whereabouts unknown), younger sister (Abigail Davies, now human, loving pain in his arse), niece (Ellie Bakir, 13, so far seems human.)
Pet: Re-animated raven familiar rescued from a necromancer named Shish Kabob. Bob for short.

History: Asher grew up in London, a perfectly normal childhood for those whom ritual sacrifice was a thing that happened. He doesn't remember much about his mother before she disappeared, and perhaps a part of him becoming a detective was wanting to solve that mystery. His father is an ambitious member of his witches circle, those who are still touched slightly by ancient demon blood and wish to restore themselves to full power. Bernard was keen to adopt his children into the fold should they show a talent for it - and thankfully they did, or else he might have had no use for them. As it was, he gave them everything he could in hopes they would use their abilities to help cement their family's legacy. When a dangerous coup attempt within the guild put Abigail's life at risk and drained her power, Asher at 16 took her and ran, leaving their father behind to reap what he'd sowed. Bernard survived and some years later found them, but to say the family dynamics are now strained wouldn't be a stretch. Family, can you ever truly cut ties with them? It's complicated.

Since hitting the streets, Asher and Abigail used what connections they could to survive while staying clear of the demon bloods. Asher took on a series of odd jobs, including one for a bookstore owner with a knack for reading a person's story before it ended. Asher ended up helping keep them alive a year into his apprenticeship, leading to a mutually beneficial relationship and starting Asher out on his career path. What goes bump in the night that normal law enforcement fails to solve slips through the cracks into his hands. By now he's amassed a decent reputation around the world in the field, enough to where he's never wanting for work but also has more than a few enemies. Abigail has settled down for a career in litigation and tries to put as much of the magic world behind her as she can. She wishes her brother would do the same.

Personality: Curious by nature and willing to accept the surreal because what isn't sounds more suspicious to him. A lover of books and knowledge, drop him in a library and you have to drag him away. Asher is a bleeding heart when it comes to people in need, but lingering after he's helped someone isn't his niche. He's a wanderer and has never really set down roots well. Commitment is a scary word, he only really tried it once and it didn't end well. His ghost ex still sometimes haunts him, quite literally. A touch over-protective and a lot stubborn for what he believes in. He's reserved but not above muttering irreverent dark humor remarks under his breath.


NPCs and secondary characters in his history that can but don't have to come into play are listed below. In the forever longshot that someone would be interested in going a step further and playing one of them, I'd entirely welcome hashing out details.

* A ghostly ex who isn't yet able to pass on.
* A werewolf best bud where one owes the other a life debt.
* A mage who runs an antique shop but hoards the good stuff for those that can buy it (cost might not be money).
* A dryad botanist with a side organic drug business and a slight eco-terrorist past.
* An opportunistic but cursed succubus/incubus who is a frenemy with benefits.
* A demon Asher helped free from a hell dimension who he now feels responsible to try and help become a productive member of society. Said demon in turn tries to be helpful in sometimes not the nicest ways. Asher wants his dad killed, right?
* A mystical tattoo artist who's put several designs on him that act as warding spells.
* A shapeshifting muscle for hire with a military experiment past. Good drinking buddy, even better for helping sniff out trouble.
* An agoraphobic descendant of the Three Fates who designs online Sims-esq games and who nudges Asher in the right direction when the pull of destiny gets too great.
* The mystic bookstore owner/librarian who took him in and started him on his detective path.
* A vampire informant who feeds off Asher in exchange for information. Can also share a psychic bond as a vampire is of the undead variety.