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* [[WIDEVANIA_Lore/Lord Tepes|Lord Tepes]]: Known in legend as Vlad the Impaler or more commonly, Dracula, is the Lord of all vampires. He has grown weary of the game of politics since the war, choosing to stay isolated in his mountain castle overlooking the town of Widevania. Despite being disliked by Bathory and many Old Blood Vampires, Tepes is loved by New Blood vampires and many other creatures of myth. Many races have legends of the great Lord Tepes that led them from ruin and starvation in Sumer to Europe and its prosperity in ancient times. Tepe’s characterization is not that of a good man nor an evil man. He is simply a man who finds himself at odds with many facets of the status quo and an overwhelming desire to protect his people, all of his people despite their lot in life. He is cold in many respects, but his overall actions and machinations are that of deep affection for his subjects, as well as a hope for their future inhabiting a world with humans.

* [[WIDEVANIA_Lore/Lady Bathory|Lady Bathory]]: A Vampire Lord whose erratic and violent behavior has done the Skazochnyy no favors with public opinion. Her atrocities as well as those of her army during The Siege of Paris during the war is still a black mark against the Skazochnyy in many human minds. She currently rules over a similar Oblast to Widevania in Bulgaria, which strangely seems to be flourishing, not subjected to the same budget cuts and seeming grudge from the Premier. Bathory has always hated Tepes, seeing him as an empty crown and the reason for the Vampires fall from power. Bathory is powerless in many respects. Her actions are mostly her slavery to her desires, and she is easily pulled into schemes as a useful idiot, punching far outside her weight class. The newfound prosperity her fiefdom has found itself in has done nothing to curb her ego and lust for power and blood. Native to Hungary, Bathory fled to Bulgaria in the 17th century when it was discovered she had been abducting and exsanguinating young virgin girls.

* Mikhail Ivanov: The current Premier of The Soviet Empire, a relatively unknown politician whose rise in power came as a shock to many. He is one of the primary critics of Widevania, going as far as to say it should be shut down, and its citizens neutralized or sent to gulags. He is a constant background antagonist as he cuts funding to the oblast. He is very popular in social circles of The Soviet Empire, being young with a beautiful wife, Alyona Ivanov, both of whom love throwing lavish parties for the elite. Mikhail’s machinations are far more aggressive than previous Premiers, seeking to finally crush the final hold outs that still resist the control and influence of the Empire. The self image he sees in the mirror is the second coming of Stalin, a man of great power and personality to finally unite the entire world under the red and yellow flag of the Empire.

 

* Nicolae Ceausescu III: The current General Secretary of Romania who was appointed in the wake of his fathers sudden, and frankly suspicious, death. He, along with Ivanov, despise Widevania and the Skazochnyy. An egotistical child, he seeks to personally regain lands he feels rightfully belong to Romania. He is generally not a narrative force, but mostly a mouthpiece for the regime, relaying messages from Moscow to Tepes and Rahn.

* [[Taylor Rahn]] - The current governor of the Widevania Oblast. While most know him by the name Taylor, his real name is Taylarahn Tepes, “adopted” son of Lord Tepes. Originally he was a Sumerian child, killed by the vampires not long after their arrival on Earth. Lord Tepes, seeing the bloodshed his people were causing, banned the wide scale hunting of humans. It was by happenstance that the child’s dead body was placed in The Chalice Macabre, rising as the first New Blood vampire, accidentally revealing the Chalice’s power to create new vampires. Believing himself to be Lord Tepes true born son, Taylor chose to distance himself when he learned the truth sometime after the war. Taylor served as a Polkóvnik (Colonel) in the Soviet Army during the war and was present at The Fall of Berlin as well as The Paris Massacre at the hands of Lady Bathory’s forces, forced to turn on his own people for the first time.

* [[Evie]] - The Headmaster of the Widevania Town Library. Originally conscripted as a young-adult to Oda Nobunaga’s army, he was cut down and left to die during the assault on Nagashino Castle. In a near-death state, he awoke to what seemed like a nine-tailed fox nursing him back to health, paralized with fear he let the Yokai do its bidding and cooperated fully. As discovered upon recovery, this Obake had shuttled his soul to the body of an Oni to prevent death, as his human body was irrecoverable. After a century or two of rediscovering himself in his new hornier, redder, and more effeminate form, he heard musings of a place in Europe more opening and welcome to Yokai (or as they called themselves Skazochnyy). After an arduous migration across Asia, Evie settled into the town known as Widevania. As the 20th century came and went and the tech of the 21st century accelerated, the Internet’s obsolescence of Libraries became more apparent, so he decided to join the Widevania Vtuber Project.  

* [[Doctor Coathanger]] -