Benicio Lorelei is a human blood hunter and a member of the Lorelei family. He was played by Sam Riegel in "Liam's One Shot: 'Song of the Lorelei'" (Sx36).
Description[]
Appearance[]
In the human form Benicio looks like a man of dark skin (although lighter than those of his two oldest siblings) with a soft purple hue (sign of his drow ancestry), dark eyes and short black hair with a streak of white. He has several scars on his face, with one going through his left eyebrow, and more scars and burns on his torso and arms. He wears green clothes, with vine patterns on some of his garments. Benicio has features in common with his brother Lawrence, but they are not identical twins: beyond the style and personal aesthetics of each one, the younger twin has a less pronounced jaw, and has scars that the older twin lacks; furthermore, they both have distinct white hair patterns.
In his werewolf form, Benicio is mostly covered in white fur on the right half of his body and black on the left. His arms get bigger, stronger and ropier, but they are mostly scar tissue and skin, lacking large areas of fur due to prior burning.[5]
Personality[]
Benicio had an itch for danger from an early age. He jokes and plays pranks on his siblings.
Biography[]
Background[]
Benicio and Lawrence's birth tragically caused the death of their mother, Rosalind. They were raised by their father, Lord Haldur Lorelei, and they only knew their great-aunt Katerine as a mother figure. Benicio had an itch for danger from an early age and was impatient to undergo the Taming, enter his adult life and flex his power.[6]
Benicio's love of trouble led to him burning both his arms up to his shoulders in an attempt to prank Lawrence by sabotaging one of his explorations of alchemy. Benicio took one lesson from this experience: "Fire bad".[7]
"Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36)[]
Once Lawrence was reunited with his siblings in Deastok after a long time apart, they left to go to Castle Lorelei. When they saw their home in the distance with no lights but open doors, they approached with suspition, with Benicio leading the way. When they finally entered the Lorelei siblings discovered the carnage that had taken place in their home. They started to investigate until Aurra caught their father's scent, and began to track him down the keep. When they arrived at his office, they found Haldur's severed hand and a note stating that he was in the crypts. Soon after Lawrence inspected the office for signs of violence, deducing that their father had his hand cut off in that room, causing his siblings to wonder who it could have been, and why Haldur didn't fight.
When they inspected the other rooms they discovered their great aunt Katerine dead, with signs of having been killed while fighting.[8] Lucius proposed to bury her, and Aurra suggested doing it in the woods.[9] Although Benicio protested, Lawrence supported the plan, and they ended up agreeing that the two elder siblings would take care of Katerine's body, and then rejoin the rest. The three younger siblings checked their own rooms and Lucius', noticing that someone had been sleeping in their beds, breaking or sullying Lawrence's books (although leaving Benicio's paintings of women of Marquet untouched), and, even leaving some weapons in Portia's room, leading them to suspect the intruders were still there. They passed by their father's room, noting that it was the only one that seemed intact, and when they went to Aurra's they detected a strange smell, almost spiced, and found a dagger with "Silent Message" written in Elven on the hilt; Larry translated the inscription and kept the weapon, after which they went to the courtyard to meet Aurra and Lucius.
When the Lorelei siblings reunited again, the three youngest showed the firstborn the dagger, and Aurra recognized its scent, comparing it to that of a guest their parents had hosted part of the summer when she was six, adding that the individual (possibly an elf in disguise, according to Benicio's own theory) had not given her a good feeling. The siblings continued exploring, prepared for a confrontation; while they were in the forest, Benicio took the opportunity to play a prank on his twin, telling him that the full moon was transforming Larry's hands to distract him before making him slap himself with them. At the family mausoleum, they found three humans who had camped there. A small battle ensued, in which one of the humans raised some of the Lorelei skeletons as undead, and the three youngest Lorelei siblings showed off their hemocraft as they fended off the skeletons. After the battle was over, having interrogated Ray, one of the intruders, before Benicio finished of with his glaive (she said that she and the other two intruders were working for the mysterious elf and were supposed to weaken the Lorelei siblings), they ended up taking a short rest. During that break Portia berated her older siblings for their decision to bury Katerine in the woods, away from the rest of House Lorelei, and Benny supported her, saying he wanted to be buried in the correct place. Aurra, however, defended her decision, saying that the old woman deserved a natural burial, and Lucius pointed out that half of their deceased ancestors were wandering the Cyrengreen Forest as undead anyway (an effect of one of the intruder's magic).[10] During that same pause the youngest sibling asked Lucius if he had promised chastity as a cleric, to which he pointed out that his goddess, Sehanine, was the goddess of secret romances, prompting Portia to clarify that Lucius had an active love life, to the surprise of Benicio.[11]
The siblings finally entered the crypt, proceeding cautiously in the darkness. Along the way Aurra informed them that she heard someone breathing up ahead, while Lucius re-inspected the elven dagger with Lawrence, deducing it might be from Xhorhas. Benicio impatiently asked them to continue, saying that he wanted to finish so he could celebrate later, and Aurra criticized him, saying that they had lost Katerine and that their father had been mutilated, so there was no reason to party.
They eventually reached an area with torches where they encounter a chitinous armored drow who has a flail wrapped around Haldur Lorelei's neck. The twins changed into their werewolf forms, and the battle began: Portia, being the quickest, took Benicio and teleported with him next to the dark elf, whom she attacked; Benny pulled his father away from their enemy roughly, but since the captor had the flail on Lord Lorelei's neck, its barbed edges tore his throat and he began to bleed profusely, which alarmed Aurra, who immediatly went to heal him. Haldur catched his breath and yelled "Stop!", but the battle raged around him. The Kryn agent tried to attack Benny with his Spiritual Weapon, without success, and then summoned the Iron Woe: the reanimated grandmother of the siblings, Lady Geneviève, as an undead figure with a lupine head, darkened bones, inky energy coursing through her body, and the remains of Lorelei green drapes covering her skeleton.[12] The siblings attacked their undead enemy, and at some point the Iron Woe managed to fend off Aurra (who had attacked it in direwolf form), and expelled dark energy around itself, radiating anger, pain and sorrow; however, Portia and Benicio resisted the magical effect. This allowed them to keep attacking their undead grandmother despite the emotions of longing and heartbreak that surrounded her, and Larry joined them, though even with his older brother's magical assistance he was unable to shake the fear of the Iron Woe. After Aurra and Lucius weakened the Iron Woe with their magic Portia attacked the undead werewolf again, and it responded by giving her a near fatal swipe with its claws. That's when Benicio stepped in and finished off the undead Geneviève Lorelei with his glaive, putting their grandmother again to rest.[13] Soon after the drow, badly wounded, tried to escape, and Aurra casted Wind Wall to catch him. The force of the current in such a closed space caused the enemy to be hit mercilessly and die.[14] Immediatly after Benny used his Blood Curse of the Fallen Puppet to make the corpse try giving Lawrence a wedgie, without success.
The siblings brought Haldur to his chambers, where he explained the whole situation and the truth behind his own mother's death, as well as the identity of the drow as his own father and Geneviève's former lover; he told them to learn from such a dark incident in their family history, asking them to help him seal the tomb again in the coming weeks,[15] and expressing how much he loved his children.[16] After such intense events he fell asleep, leaving Benicio and his siblings thinking about the future of House Lorelei.[17]
Relationships[]
Lawrence Lorelei[]
Official art of Lawrence Lorelei from "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36), by Kendra Wells.[art 3]
Benicio and his twin have a friendly relationship, although when they interact they still maintain the dynamic of their childhood and adolescence, with Benny playing pranks on his older brother.
Character Information[]
Notable Items[]
- Glaive[18]
Abilities[]
Feats[]
- Polearm Master[19]
Werewolf abilities[]
- Keen Hearing and Smell
- Resistance to non-magical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage dealt by non-silvered weapons.
Blood Hunter abilities[]
- Blood Curses
- Blood Curse of the Fallen Puppet[20]
- Blood Hunter Order: Order of the Lycan
- Hybrid Transformation
- Crimson Rite (1d6)
- Extra Attack
- Hunter's Bane
Appearances and mentions[]
- Specials
- "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) (first appearance)
Quotations[]
- Benicio: (while his siblings talk about the clues they found in the castle) Guys, you're making too much of it. There's just some bad guys out there, we're going to kill them, then we're going to have the party that I was promised.
Aurra: Too much of it?
Benicio: What? Huh?
Aurra: Katerine was murdered, our father has lost a hand, and has been taken.[23]
Trivia[]
- He might be named after the actor Benicio del Toro, who plays Lawrence Talbot in the movie The Wolfman, according to Sam and Travis's Twitter post.
- His name derives from Benedict, which in turn derives from the combination of the Latin words bene (good) and dicte (speak). In a certain way, his name is ironic, since he is the bluntest of the siblings.
- While the chance of conceiving twins is not necessarily genetic, Benicio and Lawrence have another case in their close family, as their paternal grandfather had a twin brother himself.[24]
References[]
- ↑ See "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) at 0:15:20. Liam implies that the twins had underwent the Taming and were already adults.
- ↑ Portia is at least seven years younger than Aurra, and Erica Luttrell stated that her character was around 23 in human years, but she had lived at least three more years as a wolf in the woods, making her at least 26 years old. The twins were born when Portia was still very young, presumably less than 3.
- ↑ See "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) at 1:06:09.
- ↑ Benicio has access to two Crimson rites
- ↑ See "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) at 2:51:34.
- ↑ See "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) at 12:18.
- ↑ See "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) at 15:34.
- ↑ See "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) from 0:58:36 through 1:00:49.
- ↑ See "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) at 1:02:35.
- ↑ See "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) at 2:30:42.
- ↑ See "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) at 2:32:02.
- ↑ See "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) at 3:10:54.
- ↑ See "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) at 4:14:20.
- ↑ See "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) at 4:20:00.
- ↑ See "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) from 4:23:00 through 4:24:34.
- ↑ See "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) at 4:24:40.
- ↑ See "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) at 4:25:00.
- ↑ See "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) at 0:33:45.
- ↑ See "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) at 2:12:15.
- ↑ See "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) at 4:00:29.
- ↑ See "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) at 1:35:20.
- ↑ See "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) at 2:35:33.
- ↑ See "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) at 2:47:52.
- ↑ See "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) at 4:23:00.
Art:
- ↑ Official art of Benicio Lorelei from "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36), by Kendra Wells (source). This file is a copyrighted work. Its use in this article is asserted to qualify as fair use of the material under United States copyright law.
- ↑ Official art of Benicio Lorelei as a werewolf, by Kendra Wells (source). This file is a copyrighted work. Its use in this article is asserted to qualify as fair use of the material under United States copyright law.
- ↑ Official art of Lawrence Lorelei from "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36), by Kendra Wells (source). This file is a copyrighted work. Its use in this article is asserted to qualify as fair use of the material under United States copyright law.