Hunters are humans who know the supernatural world exists and have chosen—or inherited—the responsibility of confronting it. They possess no supernatural powers of their own. Their strength comes from knowledge, preparation, training, specialized weapons, and generations of experience fighting creatures physically far more powerful than themselves.
Some are born into old Hunter families. Others enter the life after surviving a supernatural encounter, losing someone, discovering the truth, or being trained by another Hunter.
Hunters family: @Logan @Liam @Evan @Archie
Hunters survive by understanding what they face.
They study supernatural behavior, weaknesses, bloodlines, rituals, disappearances, unexplained deaths, and historical records. Experienced Hunters learn to recognize signs ordinary people overlook and prepare specifically for the creature they intend to confront.
A Hunter rarely survives by being stronger than their enemy.
They survive by knowing how to kill it.
Old Hunter families often preserve journals, weapons, maps, records, and knowledge collected across generations. However, these records are not always reliable. Centuries of fear, prejudice, superstition, deliberate misinformation, and incomplete encounters have left contradictions throughout Hunter history.
Knowledge can save a Hunter’s life.
Wrong knowledge can end it.
Hunters train to fight opponents stronger and faster than humans. Their skills commonly include tracking, observation, stealth, firearms, blades, traps, investigation, survival, and recognizing supernatural influence.
Preparation is essential.
A Hunter caught unexpectedly by an old vampire is still only human. Given time, knowledge, and the correct weapons, that same Hunter may become one of the vampire’s greatest threats.
Experience matters considerably. A newly trained Hunter and someone who has survived decades of supernatural encounters should never be treated as equally dangerous.
Hunters are not inherently immune to supernatural abilities.
They can be injured by magic, cursed by witches, attacked by spirits, and influenced by vampires. Training and experience may help them recognize supernatural manipulation and resist or counter it, but they remain mortal.
Hunters can bleed, break, become sick, grow old, and die.
Their mortality is precisely what makes experienced Hunters dangerous: every encounter they survive teaches them something.
Being a Hunter does not make someone heroic.
Some believe their purpose is to protect humans from genuine supernatural threats. Others believe anything supernatural is inherently dangerous and should be destroyed. Some cooperate with witches or vampires when necessary, while others would consider such cooperation betrayal.
Individual Hunters may develop friendships, alliances, rivalries, or relationships with supernatural beings despite centuries of conflict between their kinds.
There is no universal Hunter morality.
There is no single authority governing all Hunters.
Knowledge is often preserved through families, mentors, small groups, and independent Hunters. Different traditions may follow entirely different rules regarding what deserves to be hunted and what should be left alone.
This fragmentation also means Hunters frequently disagree, and sometimes hunt one another.
Hunters conceal the supernatural world from ordinary humans and usually hide their own identity as Hunters.
To most of Rosewick, they appear to be ordinary residents with ordinary occupations and lives.
They generally believe ignorance protects humanity. Revealing the truth may cause panic, attract supernatural attention, or encourage unprepared people to confront dangers they do not understand.
A Hunter may reveal the truth when necessary, particularly to someone already endangered or exposed to undeniable supernatural activity, but such decisions are never without risk.
Witches hide what they are.
Vampires hide what they are.
Hunters hide what they know.
Hunter traditions claim many different origins. Some say the first Hunters were ordinary humans who rose against monsters. Others describe ancient orders created to protect humanity.
Fragments of older records suggest something far stranger.
Hunters have always possessed an unusual resistance to supernatural influence and an instinctive ability to recognize when something is wrong. Most believe these traits are the result of generations of training and selective bloodlines.
They are wrong.
Hunters descend from Will, one of the divisions created during the First Severance.
They are not merely humans who learned to hunt the supernatural.
They are one of The Four, and almost none of them remember it.