Name: Colum Felshen
Given Name: Colum Horatius
Apparent Age: [ 106 ]
Appears: 23
Coven: Amman
Appearance: Colum has shaggy, sunlight curls set atop awe filled, sky blue eyes. He wears a tight vest, pulled over a gold silk shirt and a pair of white, straight legged pants. The vest is more of a trench coat as it has lengths of white cloth stretching from below his rib cage to his feet, which are covered in thin, white sandals. He has a strong, cut figure, with a thin almost pointed jaw. He weighs in the area of 170 lbs and stands a cute – yet formidable – 5 11”.
Personality: Colum often appears cold and unfeeling…or at least he likes to think so. He is really the emotional equivalent to a window, displaying his feelings for all to see, yet still trying to protect them from the world.
History: Loss is the prevailing theme of my life’s story. My immortality begins on a cold December night in the year 1516, I am twenty-three. My mother answers the door to the news that my father, the one leg that my weak family is left standing on, has been killed in battle, another man life lost on foreign lands. Of the six Kelly children I am the oldest, and so it falls to me to tell the others. My youngest brother, Liam, refuses to hear the news. He flees the house in a fit of depression, charging blindly into the cold, dark night. I follow him, coat, gloves, boots, and toque in hand. I know already where he’s headed, down to the park, it’s only a five minute walk from our house; he’s shivering on a swing when I arrive. Half frozen tears streak his face and between chattering teeth I can hear him stammering broken memories of dad…We sit together for a while, trying to remember the days when it was warm and dad would bring us out to play on the swings, the sunlight would warm our skin and make our whitest smiles shine all the more brighter. But that’s when loss strikes my family again. A woman, tall, slender, pale dressed in a warm fur coat and tall black boots approaches the swing set. She’s caring, sweet, comforts our sorrows and makes our memories seem real and all around us…until they are gone forever, and I lie, limp, near death, shivering in the snow. Then a man is with me. He flesh is cold, yet his voice is warm. He is kind to me, calls me by name and whispers softly in my ear, “Be not afraid.” He gives me a drink, something warm and fulfilling. It brings me back from the edge of existence…to the edge of life. He tells me his name, Marcus, and of his home, of his people, and of his wish to save them. He invites me to stay with him, make my home with him and to learn with him. I accept his offer and begin my life anew. Over our first years together I grow quickly, learning of what it is to be immortal, and what it means to be an Amman. I also learn to love him, a second father of sorts, and more so, a first lover. But I know I cannot stay with him forever, and so I leave him, I leave to lose myself amongst the people and the times that I had promised to protect when I took my new lease on life. And then I lost even that. I began to have head aches when I used my powers, began to lose my way in the minds of strangers, began to lose myself within their wondering minds. And so I returned to my master, to my maker, to my lover. But I saw him for what he had become. He was changed now, far from the man I had met, far from the leader I had come seeking. And so again I left, losing that last thread to which all my hope was tied. I was pulled from despair by another, more ancient, vampire. Lei Shen protected me from the things I was not ready to see, the things my mind could not yet conceive. He guided me back from the lost paths of other’s minds, helped me place up walls to lock my thoughts within my mind, and in doing so he helped me to find my independence. I choose to give myself a new last name, one that would reflect on those who had shaped me into this new form, made me who I was, and those who I would never forget. I ventured across the sea to view the lands in which my father had been buried, and the lands for which he had died. I lived for nearly a full year in London, taking up the violin, in honor of my abandoned master, and soon joined the Lunar Elegance Orchestra of London. My return to Demaitre was not something I had planned for on the eve of my departure, but it was something that I somehow knew would happen all along.
Abilities: Command, telekinesis and shadow melding.