Jio Frando's Questionnaire

1. What town or city do you live in? Why do you live there instead of anywhere else? Describe your home.

Link Answered before Jio Frando's first Contract.

I live in Malá Strana, Prague. A place of quiet alleys, ancient stone, and haunting charm. Its cobbled streets whisper old secrets, making it the perfect home for one such as I. The shadows stretch long here, and the nights fall heavy, just as I like them. My apartment is modest, yet every corner is arranged with precision, reflecting both discipline and purpose. I remain here not by chance but by choice; Prague is steeped in forgotten power and hidden truths. I do not seek comfort, I seek ascension. This city is my crucible. Here, under moonlight and silence, I forge the legend of Jio Frando, future Vampiric Lord. A perfect being.

2. How do you get your money right now? What do you spend it on?

Link Answered before Jio Frando's first Contract.

I earn my money by selling information, manipulating people in power, and offering "special services" to those desperate enough to seek the unnatural. But my most lucrative work comes from dealing trauma, literally. I have the ability to implant psychological scars, and one of my most effective is the trauma of opioid addiction. I lace the painkillers I give them with elephant poison. Fast, excruciating, untraceable. I feed them what they think is relief, only for them to find out its death. The money I make goes back into perfecting my methods, expanding my reach, and feeding the fear. Pain is my weapon. Addiction is my curse to give.

3. Describe your Ambition. What are you striving for? How far would you go to achieve this? Would you kill for it? How close to death would you come for it?

Link Answered before Jio Frando's first Contract.

My ambition is to become the ultimate Vampiric Lord, a being feared not just for strength, but for control over the human soul itself. I strive to rule the night, to carve my name into the fabric of fear, and to make the world tremble beneath the weight of my presence. I would kill without hesitation for this goal. Man, monster, or anything in between. Death does not scare me; I court it. If I must crawl through blood, burn under sunlight, or stand on the edge of annihilation, so be it. Power demands sacrifice, and I will give everything. My body, my sanity, even my soul. This is not ambition. It’s destiny. The darkness chose me, and I will not fail it.

4. What was the most defining event of your life (before signing The Contract), and how did it change you?

Link Answered before Jio Frando's first Contract.

Before I signed The Contract, the most defining moment of my life was watching my mother die by my father's hand. He was a full vampire, she was human, and I was the cursed result of their union. One night, he drained her dry, not out of hunger, but to teach me what love costs. I was thirteen. I didn’t cry. I watched. That night burned away what little innocence I had. It taught me that power isn’t given. It’s taken. Stolen in blood and silence. Since then, I’ve trusted no one, loved nothing, and vowed never to be weak. That night didn’t just change me. It created me. It made me Jio Frando.

5. Name and briefly describe three people in your life. One must be the person you are closest to.

Link Answered before Jio Frando's first Contract.

Renka Virell – The person I’m closest to, though she’d deny it. A black-market apothecary with a silver tongue and hands that can craft poisons as easily as cures. She supplies me with what I need, sometimes without asking why. There’s tension between us, a kind of unspoken loyalty built on mutual use and fragile trust. She sees through me more than I’d like.

Father Malrec – A vampire hunter turned priest, now drunk and disgraced. He once tried to kill me. I spared him. Now he’s my informant—half out of guilt, half out of spite. He teaches me things he shouldn’t, hoping I’ll damn myself beyond redemption. He may get his wish.

Elias Dorn – A rival half-blood obsessed with purity and strength. He believes I’m a mistake that should never have existed. We’ve fought before. We will again. Next time, one of us won’t walk away. How can one with the powers of a vampire wish to hunt his own?

6. How was your childhood? Who were your parents? What were they like? Did you attend school? If so, did you fit in? If not, why not?

Link Answered after Contract 1, Passing the Hours

My childhood ended the night my father killed my mother. He was a full vampire; she, a human. Their love made me—a cursed half-blood, caught between two worlds that hate each other. At thirteen, I watched him drain her, not from hunger, but to show me the price of love. That moment didn’t just break something inside me—it erased it. My father was cruel, powerful, and cold. My mother was kind, soft-spoken, and foolishly hopeful. I never attended school. Creatures like me didn’t belong in places like that. The other kids would have sensed the difference. I would have seen it in their eyes. Instead, I learned on the streets, in shadows, from blood and silence. Pain became my tutor. I didn’t fit in because I wasn’t made to. That night didn’t just mark me—it forged me into something else. I became Jio Frando, and I swore I’d never be weak again.

7. Have you ever been in love? With who? What happened? If not, why not?

Link Answered after Contract 1, Passing the Hours

I’ve never been in love. Not truly. Love, to me, has always been a weakness—a weapon others use to control or destroy. I learned that the night my father killed my mother, not out of rage, but to teach me what love costs. Since then, I’ve kept my heart locked behind walls of steel and silence. I’ve had moments—fleeting connections that might’ve become something more—but I never let them. I couldn’t afford to. In my world, love is a liability, and liabilities get you killed. So no, I’ve never been in love. And I don’t think I ever will be.

8. What are your worst fears? Why?

Link Answered after Contract 2, Monastery

Tonight, the moon hangs low, sickly and bruised behind the veil of clouds. Even the stars seem to avert their gaze. I sit at my desk, quill in hand, fingers cold despite the flickering candlelight. And though my body longs for rest, my mind churns with the weight of a fear I dare not name aloud. But here, in ink, I will allow it life.

Elias Dorn.

A name that slices like a blade across my thoughts. My mirror and my curse. We share the same cursed blood, yet he dares to wear it like shame and righteousness, as if hunting me cleanses his own tainted soul. He calls me a bastard child, a stain. But it is not his hatred that haunts me.

It is the possibility… that he might succeed.

That I might fall before I ever taste the throne of blood I have carved out in my mind. That I will be nothing more than a footnote in his crusade, a warning told to other half-breeds who dared to dream beyond the leash of men and monsters. That the night will never be mine to command, that I will die before the world learns to tremble at my name.

I fear failure.
I fear obscurity.
But most of all, I fear him.

9. What is (are) your most prized possession(s)? What makes it (them) so special?

Link Answered after Contract 2, Monastery

Tonight, I polish the blade as I do each week—ritualistically, reverently. Dracula’s Tooth. Its silver gleam reflects the candlelight and the shadow in my eyes. This rapier is more than steel and edge. It is the last whisper of my father, Gojo Frando.

He wasn’t a good man in the ways that most would understand. Cold. Distant. But there was a fire behind his silence, an intensity that burned through generations. He gave me the rapier before he vanished into the dusk one final time. Not with words of comfort—just a look, and the weight of the blade in my hands. That was how he said, “Survive.”

The weapon bears ancient runes etched along the fuller—Vampyric script, sharp as the fangs I barely control. It hums when it draws blood, thirsting as I do. It was forged not for defense, but destiny.

Dracula’s Tooth is special because it connects me to the bloodline I was born to eclipse. It reminds me of who I am—half-monster, half-legacy. And one day, when I strike Elias Dorn down, it will be this very blade that ends the hunt and begins my reign.

Let the world remember the name carved by this rapier’s bite.