Sean McKinley

Sean was an average man, living an average life, with an average family. A loving wife, two beautiful children, a house in the suburbs. What more could you ask for?

He had everything he wanted, until his wife was about to pull into the drive way, a drunk driver came from nowhere, and Sean lost everything. Everything, including, he thought at the time, his mind. In his anger, and terror, something inside Sean Awakened. The drunk suddenly lost control of the car, hit an exposed gas pipe, causing it to explode, before flipping the driver out of the car and into the powerlines overhead. Amazing what can happen when a car gets going fast enough...isn't it?

Sean soon learned what he was, when he was paid a visit by a beautiful young woman named Angelique. She told him he was a Will-worker, as was she. Something inside him told him to leave her, to run. Sean had always thought that voice was his conscience. He chose to ignore it this time. Angelique offered him everything, including his wife and children. All he had to do was give himself to her. He was about to accept, when his "conscience" told him to look at her again. He looked at her again, but this time, did not see the lovely young woman, but a horrid monster.

Sean lashed out in fear, again tapping into a power within himself, nearly destroying the demon, as windows shattered and the pieces of broken glass began to tear into Angelique's flesh. She did not bleed, but she ran. Sean fell to his knees, fear taking over. How could anyone do such things with only a thought?

When he looked up, he saw Death standing before him. It was the classic image, a skeleton wearing tattered robes, carrying a scythe. Sean prepared himself to die, but it wasn't his time. The Reaper spoke in the same voice that had always guided him before, telling him to go to India. He would find someone there that could help him.

Sean left the next day, forgetting everything he owned, and only bringing the clothes he had now been wearing for a week. Once in India, he found what he was looking for, but it was not a man, it was an animal, the Bengal Tiger. At first, he was simply drawn to statues and pictures, but he decided to find a real one.

As he walked alone into the forests, he felt something, something he had never felt before. He did not find what he was looking for, it found him. As the tiger pounced at him, he gave in, allowing it to maul him, but for some reason, it left him, still alive. He struggled to make his way to a hospital where he lay for weeks. After being released, he walked out, and bought a plane ticket back to the States. That's when he realized he was being followed.

Once back in the States, he was approached by a man. Again, the voice came to him, telling him to trust this man. Sean went with him, and was introduced to a new life. He learned that he had in fact died in India, what this man called the "Little Good Death", it was his introduction into the Tradition of Mages known as the Euthanatos.

He was different after the attack, he had a whole new understanding, he saw things, not just in terms of life and death, but a also in every shade in-between. He understood, now, why his family died. For every life, there most be a death. He realized, at the exact moment his family died another was created. There was nothing he could do to stop it from happening again, he could only make room in the Circle of Life and Death for other to have what was taken from him. People were living when they should be dead, kept alive by unnatural means by doctors that did not understand that for every life, there must be a death.

Sean set out again, this time knowing what he was after, he gave the "Good Death" to those whose time had come. He put them to rest, freeing their Avatar to re-enter the Circle.

Since then, Sean McKinley has roamed from city to city, making certain no one else would have to endure what he had. But the world is such a big place...

Eventually, Sean found his way to Ashland, where he found that the Circle was not maintained here. Vampires wandered the streets, killing humans that had not yet reached their time. It was time for him to get to work, and he has his work cut out for him....

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