Basic Info
Age 35, looks 45. Jacob has worked a lot of jobs. He was a carnie in the Carnivale Macabre. He's been a thief, he's done time in prison. But his most marketable skill is bartending. That and magic.
Personality
Not optimistic about his future, Jacob is a drifter, sans any real hope or enduring direction. Once upon a time he was a dreamer and a hopeful romantic, back before life beat him down, a long, long time ago.
Abilities
Jacob is a Pyrotechnical warlock. He can control fire and smoke. Plus he does a few other small tricks.
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I have been a warlock for a thousand years, or so it seems these days. Born into a family of wiccans, and raised to live, breath, and take sustenance from magic since before I can remember, sorcery is in my blood, literally and figuratively. After fledging from my serene homeland, I traveled the world over, searching for something that continues to elude me. I am not aware of the target of my search, only that it is out there, waiting to fulfill my life - to complete me. Along the journey, my magical skills have grown and my wits have sharpened, but all the while I have become increasingly sardonic and melancholy.
After the law came a little too close for comfort in Mississippi, I drifted west to northwestern rural Louisiana. Vampire country. Vamps plus all sorts of other menacingly curious people and creatures � the fae, shifters, wolves, witches � basically the whole damned Piggly Wiggly shopping list of freaks, misfits, and monsters. Plus all the people who live on the edge: meth addicts, drug dealers, the desperate, poachers, and others who were just plumb crazy. A lot of solitary folk here, too, people who like to keep to themselves. Off the grid socially and ethically. The sum total equates to something like Deliverance meets The Werewolf versus Dracula (Jacob is a fan of really bad old movies). And so I came to be a bartender at a vampire club called Fangtasia. And that�s where this story begins anew.
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