Supernatural Antagonists: Those Who Shall Not Be Named

Written by Harry

The supernatural world has more shades of gray than a foggy night on the coast. If humans think supernatural characters have nothing to fear, they’re quite mistaken.

It would be easy if supernatural characters could actually tell the difference between themselves and the so-called bad guys - but they can’t. Antagonists often don’t appear any different from any other character.

In the case of Kindred and Forsaken, the shades of grey between good and bad become even more blurred. Read on.

The Bad Guys Don’t Always Wear Black

The Forsaken and the Kindred have to deal with adversity from within their own Tribes and Covenants and also with outside forces as well:

The Pure: This group of werewolves feels that the Forsaken are traitors. In the mythology of the Uratha (werewolves), the story tells that Father Wolf, the patron totem, was killed by his children because he was too old to carry on. The Pure believe that Father Wolf was murdered and that the only way to save the earth is to purge Forsaken from the face of the land.

Bale Hounds: The enemy of my enemy is my friend. In the case of the Pure and the Forsaken, this common enemy would be the Bale Hounds.

Bale Hounds are werewolves who have fallen from grace. They have allowed their bestial side to consume them and want nothing more than to drag the rest of the race into the darkness right alongside. They uphold no oaths and have no loyalties.

Since they are indistinguishable among other werewolves, they easily infiltrate the ranks of both the Forsaken and the Pure Tribes to increase numbers. They’ll pretend as long as they have to in order to bring new recruits to the dark side. They feed on negativity and the decay of humanity.

Bale Hounds believe that newly changed cubs never stand a chance and that older, wiser werewolves eventually have to let their guard down.

Belial’s Brood: These Kindred have literally embraced damnation and claim a bloodline straight from hell itself. They let the Beast within run wild, and the only Prince they answer to is Satan himself.

VII: While the Brood may be misguided and destructive, the VII are outright dangerous to other Kindred. This group believes they are the ones to seek vengeance for crime committed against some obscure king ages ago. It is rumored that once the taint of the Damned is purged from the earth, the VII will once again be saved.

The VII are tricky, too. Their abilities include a trait that they don’t suffer from the frenzy that sometimes takes a vampire when meeting another undead for the first time. VII also have the ability to look at anyone and know immediately whether that individual is a vampire or not.

Probably the most frustrating of their abilities or defenses is that whenever anyone attempts to read the minds of a VII, the reader only sees the Roman numeral representing number seven.

If forced to speak the truth and reveal what they are through supernatural means, the VII are hard-pressed to come up with a definitive answer themselves.

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