A story that travels through time, from ancient Mexico to Dark Ages Europe to modern day Los Angeles. A story of vampires, demons, the precious knowledge and artifacts of the arcane. The Instruments of Darkness.

Sunday 12 February 2012

Character bio: Sofia Ambrosetti aged 15

art by Stephane De Canvea


Sofia grew up in a run down part of Inglewood, LA to a poor Italian family with little hope for the future. Its a story we have all heard before, of inner city hardship and domestic violence and her story is no different. Her father abused her from a young age and she went through high school a unruly and angry teenager with emerging mental health issues.

Unknown to her a vampire had picked her out from the crowd and over the course of her life he slowly tried to drive her into insanity. Under age sex and drink turned into hard core drug use and homelessness. Her life spiraled and spiraled down to the depravity and violence of LA's streets.

Violence is all a cycle and the undead benefactor vows to full-fill its prophecy. 


 This isScarlet Murphy at 13 years old, a punk that grew up in LA's Venice Beach area amongst the gangs, drugs and violent crime. Falling into a Neo Nazi movement from a young age Scarlet was exposed to the harshness of life growing up around violent family members and quickly fell foal of the drugs that where so readily available to even the young teenager.

By the age of 16 she was selling drugs on the streets of Venice Beach and got caught up in turf wars between the Neo Nazi biker gangs the 13 Tribes who fought a constant battle with Latino bikers of  the Cult of Camazozt.

Known on the street as the Cult these Hispanic leather clad bikers where notorious for their brutality and their worship of the vampire bat god, Camazotz, the bat of death and where said to perform human sacrifice and the drinking of human blood.

Every year the Day of the Dead saw street violence soar, the skinheads of the 13 Tribes fighting street to street, gun battles raged, violence spilling over large areas of LA's suburbs.

Unknown to most these rival gangs are lead by members of the Undead and that mortals like Scar are caught in the middle of a war that they cannot hope to escape.