Katerine Karthspire

Katerine Karthspire is a former vampire and void hunter. In her early years she was a conscriptian in the Ishgardian military, recognized for her ferocity in battle earning the nickname "Katerine The Red". She would have her first and only child Casmina out of wedlock. Unable to leave her military career, and without a father to help raise her daughter, she left Casmina within the care of her parents, taking on the guise of Casmina's older sister. Katerine would eventually witness first hand the brutal nature of Tepes. She retired from military service and took up the mantle of a vampire and void hunter. One day however, there was an unfortunate incident during one of her final hunts, she was turned into one of the very creatures she swore to destroy. Her change from Elezen to Kindred, saw a new brutality in her methods, creatures of the night came to fear her, and called her the "Kin Slayer." While the natural born denizens of Eorzea avoided her because of her vampiric nature. Living for Epochs without aging a day eventually took their toll on her. She tracked down her own sire, an elder kindred, and in a fierce battle she prevailed in ending their life. Now without purpose she aimlessly wandered about Eorzea, slaying whatever creatures the void spat out into the world. The seeds of self hatred and doubt had already been long implanted in her. She devolved into a spiral of self medication with alcohol, becoming a shade of her former self. She would eventually be approached by a member of a Free Company, who offered her a chance at redemption, and to rid the world of the scourge of Rose Tepes. Finding purpose once again, Katerine immediately joined the Noble Phantasms, offering them her expertise and knowledge of vampires and creatures of the void whenever necessary. She has recently found newfound comfort with her affliction, often times embracing the beast within, to great effect against her own kind.

"You were dead the moment you underestimated me."
- Katerine Karthspire