Jasper Brennan **

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As a child, Jasper lived in an old mansion with his father, James, and stepmother, Cora (?), and attended one of the best schools in the area. His father, who he had been told was a pilot, never spent a lot of time at home since he was often travelling for work, so he usually stayed with his stepmother. James never talked much about his job to or around Jasper, but between the odd conversations he overheard sometimes between his parents, often starting with his stepmother asking if James had found anything ineresting while he'd been gone, the way he would sometimes return with strange, unexplained injuries, and other things that didn't make sense here and there, Jasper often felt that there was more to his father's job that he knew.

When he was thirteen, everything changed. His father took a boat out one day with his friends ____ and _____ Crimson. Their daugher, Arlo, was supposed to stay with Jasper and Cora, but she snuck out and got onto the boat. Neither James nor the Crimsons were heard from again. After their disappearance, Cora became overprotective and paranoid. She bought another house (not selling the first one), made Jasper change schools, and rarely let him leave the house alone for anything besides school- to which she usually insisted on driving him to and from.

At 18-19 he was finally able to get a job and move back into their old house. He had become somewhat obsessed with learning the truth about his father over the last few years and had hoped that returning to their old house would help him find answers, but he was unable to find anything too useful.

At around 23, Jasper finally got the chance to look around the old Crimson house. Though it had been abandoned for a decade, someone had been there and had left the door ajar. At first he found nothing too interesting, but when he went upstairs he discovered that the theif was still there. With a knife to his throat, she demanded to know who he was and why he had followed her. It was too dark for Jasper to see her well, but she seemed to recognize his name and relaxed enough to lower the knife when he explained why he was there. While she was trying to talk him into leaving, they heard more people entering the house and the thief lead Jasper to a hidden room behind a bookcase before they could be seen.

The room was pretty much exactly what he had been looking for, a strange combination of an office a library and a museum, full of display cases and booksheves with a map covering one wall and a large desk at the center, all faintly illuminated by a streetlamp on the other side of a stained glass window. They didn't have much time to look around since one of the people downstairs caught the house on fire, but the thief stuffed some things from the desk and shelves into a duffle bag before they escaped out the window.

Running back to his car in the light of the streetlamps, he was finally able to get a better look at the theif and was shocked to discover that she was Arlo Crimson.

Unsure if anyone saw Jasper or his car when they were leaving but knowing that everything that happened at her house would only make him more determinted to learn the truth, Arlo reluctantly agreed to stay at Jasper's house for a few days while she went over the papers from the house, but still wouldn't talk much about what happened when she was gone. After awhile Jasper learned about Arlo's powers and they returned to the island Arlo had been trapped on. The trip didn't go quite the way either of them expected and they soon find themselves in a lost world of magic that's slowly being torn apart by a vampire-like plague and centuries of conflict between the worlds magical and non magical inhabitants.