DATE OF TRANSFORMATION: Approximately 1850, at around age 17
SOURCE OF TRANSFORMATION: Nahuel
PLACE OF ORIGIN: Mapuche territory, considered to be Central and Southern Chile and Southern Argentina, particularly concentrated in the Araucania Region HAIR COLOR: Black
EYE COLOR: Red/black (vampire)
HEIGHT: 5‘0?
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: She is short and slight, with an olive tone to her pale skin. She wears her long hair in a braid.
SPECIAL ABILITIES: She does not possess a quantifiable supernatural ability.
FAMILY/COVEN RELATIONSHIPS: She is Nahuel‘s aunt. Her sister, Pire, is Nahuel‘s deceased mother.
PERSONAL HISTORY:
Huilen was a member of the Mapuche tribe in the mid-1800s. Her people made their living farming and raising livestock.
Pire was the beautiful one, and Huilen was the strong, capable one.
Huilen‘s closest friend and confidante was her younger sister, Pire. Only twelve months separated them, and they were like fraternal twins in many ways, having their own shorthand language between them. Pire was the beautiful one, and Huilen was the strong, capable one.
Because they were so close, Huilen knew immediately when something changed in Pire‘s life.
However, Pire did not confide in Huilen immediately. Joham had asked Pire to keep their liaison a secret, and such was her infatuation with him that she refused to answer Huilen‘s pleas for information. Eventually, though, Huilen saw the bruises on Pire‘s skin and was able to guess most of what had happened. Huilen was sure that Pire‘s lover was the blood-sucking Libishomen of their legends. Pire refused to believe her or to try to leave Joham, though Huilen did not stop begging her sister to do so.
This situation did not last long. It was less than a month before Pire realized that she was pregnant. She told Joham, who was very pleased. He told her he had to go away but would return soon, and urged her to run away until the child was born; they both knew that she would be in danger if the truth were known. However, Joham was only truly worried about the safety of the child.
Huilen was a good hunter and protector, and they did well on their own.
Pire turned to Huilen for help. Huilen knew that their people, even their own parents, would insist on the child‘s immediate death, though this would mean Pire‘s death as well. Huilen and Pire left their people and took to the wild. Huilen was a good hunter and protector, and they did well on their own. Pire‘s appetite for raw meat and blood confirmed Huilen‘s fears about the child Pire carried, but again Pire refused to hear anything negative about her lover or her child.
Even when the fetus was strong enough to break her bones, Pire loved it and made her sister swear to protect it if Pire did not live. She called her unborn child Nahuel, for the jaguar, because of his strength.
Pire did not survive the birth. Huilen, having sworn to care for the baby, truly meant to honor her sister‘s wishes despite her own feelings toward it. But the baby boy bit Huilen as she tried to pick him up out of her sister‘s body. The pain of transformation hit her immediately and quickly incapacitated her. She was only able to drag herself a few feet from Pire and the baby before collapsing.
When Huilen recovered, she found the boy curled up against her side, fast asleep. She did not understand how a newborn child could have crawled even those few feet, but when he woke she quickly learned that Nahuel was amazingly developed and capable. She did not mean to love him — she blamed him for her sister‘s death — but Nahuel was adorable and endearing, and he resembled Pire quite a bit.
Huilen‘s appetite had changed, but not her hunting prowess. As a newborn, she became a terror in the area, and several tribes picked up and moved to avoid the new jungle demon. Huilen hunted for Nahuel until he was able to hunt for himself.
Both Huilen and Nahuel were totally unaware that they‘d had a visitor in that first week after Nahuel‘s birth. Joham, knowing that there was no way Pire would survive the birth, sent his oldest daughter, Serena, to take the child and raise him until he was old enough to live on his own. Joham did not like the bother of dealing with a child. Serena found Nahuel as instructed, but was unsure how to proceed because of Huilen‘s existence. She knew better than to engage with a full vampire, and she mistook Huilen for the child‘s mother, though she had no idea how the transformation could have come about. She went back to report to Joham but was unable to find him for a few years. When he heard the unexpected news, he went to check on Nahuel himself. That contact was the first Nahuel and Huilen were aware of.
Joham was thrilled to have a son, excited and intrigued by his son‘s ability to create a full vampire, and ready to join forces with him. However, Joham‘s total lack of concern for Pire‘s fate quickly turned Huilen and Nahuel against him.
Huilen was happy when Nahuel showed no interest in Joham as a father figure and sent him away.
Huilen was happy when Nahuel showed no interest in Joham as a father figure and sent him away. Whenever Joham visits, Huilen is civil but unforgiving.
JOHAM
NAME: Joham
DATE OF BIRTH: 1560s
DATE OF TRANSFORMATION: Early 1600s, at approximately age 40
SOURCE OF TRANSFORMATION: An unknown female vampire PLACE OF ORIGIN: Portugal
HAIR COLOR: Black
EYE COLOR: Red/black (vampire)
