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Character Reference: Our Villains - The Drainers

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The Drainers:

1. Guilt - Skyld
Embodiment of the corruption of guilt from hurting, killing and destroying the lives of others.

2. Hatred – Raseri and Hevn
Embodiment of the corruption of hatred. There are two creatures for this: Raseri represents pure unadulterated consumption from rage, and Hevn represents the slow build of pure hatred for another being.

3. Depression - Fortvilelse
Embodiment of sadness, where an individual is so consumed by sadness they are unable to drag their self from the pit of despair until it eats at their heart and mind.

4. Enslavement / Tormentors – Trelaskygge
This scary being embodies the two strands of slavery – the pure cruelty of the tormentors, and the inability to fight back and crushed soul of those enslaved.

5. Fear – Frykt and Forstummet
Two embodiments for fear: Fykt represents the sheer terror one would openly display – such as anxiety attacks, screams of fear, physical displays of being scared – these tend to be big bouts of intense fear that instantly consumes. Forstummet embodies the corruption of fear over an intense period of time, where you are that terrified that you become unable to speak, think coherently, afraid to move without consequence. As such the corruption of fear for so long can kill off the light of the soul, and leave people easily manipulated. Or it can then breed an outburst of unadulterated rage, then placing them at the hands of the other Drainer.

6. Shadow  - Dauing
The only reason Dauing is last on my list, is because it was the last to be added to the Drainers, this represents the pure corruption done by Shanider himself, which pulls and builds upon the insecurities of individuals until it consumes their mind. They this will result in a response/outburst which makes them fall into one of the other Drainers field of action. When a person is directly affected by Shanider, they have an extra boost of power  - where their insecurities are enhanced, their actions as a result of this are also enhanced too. They are formidable opponents.
These are explained more, or their creation is explained more in the Origin exert I'll be uploading!! But the Drainers are the ultimate and original embodiments of evil. The visual creations, which have been drawn by Icemaya and with only a rough idea from me went onto create a range of beautiful beasts which she called the Drainers! It was from their designs that a light bulb just pinged in my head and I was able to really develop their characters, names, story and ideas, they are the original beasts created by Shanider the twin of the darkness, the shadow caster! 

I wanted to show respect to May for creating their designs, and decided to use Norwegian words as their names, (me and google translate had a wrestle for a while with this one) and then May corrected my lacking in bilingual errors XD! Except Trelaskygge which is a two word combination! 

There's one thing to remember, they may all resemble a strain of emotion that Shanider himself felt, but don't work separate, they work in a team - so an individual may start being corrupted with one feeling and blossom into different zones. These guys are silent but incredibly deadly. 

These shpooookeh characters belong to Me and Icemaya for our collaborative story! 
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My Critique:

Positives:
I feel like if I saw this guys in action, I'll have nightmares for days. I love how each one represents a different concept and how they affect the people. One that really stood out to me was Forstummet. Not someone I would want to mess with. Also, in general, I like how for some, you had two different drainers for it so it would fully cover the concept.

Negatives:
I really didn't see anything wrong. I feel like Dauing could have a better title than Shadow, such as corruption maybe. I just feel like shadow is a little too generic and doesn't fit with the others. Other than that, everything looks good. The characters are interesting and sound cool. I'm just curious, but do they have personalities, or do they just corrupt people without thought?
It's been a pleasure reading this :D