| Carmilla Countess Mircalla Karnstein, can also be recognized as Carmilla. The Countess appears as a young woman, no elder than 20 and of magnificent beauty. She is above the average height of women, slender and very graceful. He complextion is rich and brilliant; her features are small and beautifully formed; her eyes are large and dark; her hair is brown, soft, fine and shoulder length. She speaks in a sweet low voice. She admits three things: - Her first name is Carmilla - Her family is very ancient and noble - Her home lies in the direction of the west. Carmilla cannot travel the far distances required; She is delicate in health and somewhat nervous. Whenever she goes out for a walk, she seems to feel exhausted and must return to the Castle or sit to rest on one of the garden benches. Local gossip says, she has been seen wandering the forests at night, like a lost soul. Carmilla is a very sensous creature, she falls desperately in love with a girl and wishes for nothing but to die with her. She kisses her cheek, she draws her breath very near her neck and holds the girls hands tight against her own heart. Carmilla's most cherished and loved victims recieve the nightly visitations of what appears to be a large, black cat, pacing back and forth in the bedroom of the restlessness of a caged beast. As the room grows darker, the cat springs onto the bed and the victim feels a stinging pain, deep into her breast. Carmilla can turn into a black cat or become invisible. While still alive is 1698, she had been attacked by a Vampire and became one herself. Baron Vordenburg, lover and killer, suspected her of Vampirism. His greatest fear was that her beautiful remains would be profaned by the outrage of execution. Wishing to spare is beautiful Mircalla from such a horid faith, he journied to the Castle of Karnstein and pretended to remove her remains and changed the position of her grave. Upon the Baron's death, he realized that he left a diary, which he hade made tracings and notes to guide the future Vampirehunters to the spot where the grave had been placed. The diary also contained a confession of the deception that he had practiced. The village surrounding the Castle, was abandoned after the death of the Countess. Those who have served the Countess during her life, took it for granted that she had been killed again as a Vampire. Since this was a deception, Carmilla continued to kill hundreds of women until her coffin was found, a stake driven through her heart and her remains were burned and thrown into a nearby river. |