The locket is old, and made of silver. It’s case is adorned with an engraved rose, and inside is a faded painting of a young woman. Opposite the picture is an engraving saying “All my love. E.”
Looking closely, what at first glance appears to be rust around the edges of the picture, turns out to be a red-brown residue that flakes off. It is dried blood...
Possibilities
1 The woman in the locket was slain by vampires, and the locket was made by her widowed husband Ezra Thorne shortly after her death. Grief stricken, he became obsessed with destroying the monsters that had murdered his bride, and became a vampire hunter.
The locket bleeds when vampires are near - and as they grow closer it becomes awful to touch. Using the locket, Ezra Thorne became a successful and feared hunter of vampires.
2 The locket is haunted by the spirit of the woman in the picture. Her name was Alice Thorne, and she married her one true love, Ezra. They were due to be married, but the night before the wedding she was murdered. On the anniversary of her death, the painting of Alice cries tears of blood.
The only way that Alice’s spirit will rest is when the locket is placed in her one true love’s grave.
3 The woman in the picture is a deep one hybrid - before the Change. She is now a deep one, and is living off the coast of Innsmouth.
The locket has since been enchanted and now grows warm in the presence of deep ones. It has been used by the enemies of the deep ones in identifying hybrids before the Change; they then kill them.
The blood in the locket comes from the enchantment that has been placed upon the locket. The enchantments needs refreshing periodically, and the ritual that creates it requires a few drops of the caster's blood.
© Steve Hatherley
Looking closely, what at first glance appears to be rust around the edges of the picture, turns out to be a red-brown residue that flakes off. It is dried blood...
Possibilities
1 The woman in the locket was slain by vampires, and the locket was made by her widowed husband Ezra Thorne shortly after her death. Grief stricken, he became obsessed with destroying the monsters that had murdered his bride, and became a vampire hunter.
The locket bleeds when vampires are near - and as they grow closer it becomes awful to touch. Using the locket, Ezra Thorne became a successful and feared hunter of vampires.
2 The locket is haunted by the spirit of the woman in the picture. Her name was Alice Thorne, and she married her one true love, Ezra. They were due to be married, but the night before the wedding she was murdered. On the anniversary of her death, the painting of Alice cries tears of blood.
The only way that Alice’s spirit will rest is when the locket is placed in her one true love’s grave.
3 The woman in the picture is a deep one hybrid - before the Change. She is now a deep one, and is living off the coast of Innsmouth.
The locket has since been enchanted and now grows warm in the presence of deep ones. It has been used by the enemies of the deep ones in identifying hybrids before the Change; they then kill them.
The blood in the locket comes from the enchantment that has been placed upon the locket. The enchantments needs refreshing periodically, and the ritual that creates it requires a few drops of the caster's blood.
© Steve Hatherley
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