Born in 1476, Jamila was a quiet, gentle and kind girl who grew up the daughter of a successful merchant who specialized in selling the pots & pans that blacksmiths would commission him to sell in other villages, towns and cities. But Baynit Shafrat, Jamila's father, did more than sell cookware. He also made large sums of money and favors selling information and passing information from government officials, other merchants and even underground rebels against those governments or merchants.

Growing up with her father, her mother having died from tuberculosis when she was a child, young Jamila watched carefully as her father taught her who to trust, who to look for, how to change techniques when talking to different cultures, and how to get the information from people who did not want to give it.

Jamila grew and became a partner with her father and together they managed to become the most sought-after information brokers in the three kingdoms. Somehow, they managed to keep their identities a secret from their contacts, never giving their real names or even where they come from.

But playing both sides of any conflict, even a minor one between merchants, is dangerous business and danger finally caught up with Jamila's father when another merchant, from another kingdom, happened to travel through and stop at the same tavern that Hillina's father was meeting with a rival merchant. Before Baynit could talk his way out of this situation, the traveling merchant stabbed Baynit in the chest and then attacked and killed the other merchant.

Jamila, who had avoided this meeting in order to meet with a suitor she had been exchanging letters with over the last year, had no idea any of this was going on until the next morning, waking up after a romantic love-making with her suitor, she went to go find her father.

Grief stricken that she had not been there to defend her father, Jamila left the kingdom and her suitor, in order to seek revenge on the merchant who killed her father.

Several weeks later, on the same day she realized that she was pregnant, she accomplished her mission and killed the merchant who had taken her father from her.

From there, Jamila began to train orphan street children to spy for her as she set up a network that spanned several countries to gather information. On one trip, through România, Jamila, seven months pregnant at the time, was heading back to her rented villa, when she was attacked by Count Drakul Morbius, The Living Vampire.

Left for dead, with her throat torn out, the vampire venom surged through her system and into her child. The unborn baby completely absorbed all the deadly venom and, dying, passed on an immunity to the effects of vampire bites. Her body, now as powerful as the undead, healed itself as best it could, closing her throat, but leaving her with no voice.

Silently wailing for the loss of her child, Jamila vowed to use her new powers to hunt down and destroy all vampires, werewolves, and other creatures of darkness.

From then on, she became known as Almaeisha Almawt, the Living Death.

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Vampire Physiology:

Because she was pregnant when she was bitten by a vampire, Almaeisha Almawt was saved from complete death when her baby died, passing on an immunity to the effects of vampire bites, the ability to "smell" supernatural creatures, a greatly prolonged lifespan, and sensitivity to bright light; to its mother. This affected her on the cellular level, altering her skeletal and cardiac muscle system. Her skeleton is more dense, more efficient and faster, allowing her to produce short and fast bursts of excessive force. Although this requires a lot of stamina, her cardiac muscle system has changed as well accordingly. It provides the skeletal system enough nutrition to allow her body to perform for several hours of maximum combat before fatigue begins to impair her. Her hardened and thickened skeletal system supports her superhuman strength, somewhat contributing to her enhanced durability.

Having been bitten by Count Drakul Morbius, The Living Vampire; Almaeisha Almawt gained various superhuman physical capabilities similar to those of vampires.

Constitution: Tireless: Almaeisha's altered tissue allows her to sustain physical trauma to a certain extent. She can withstand powerful energy blasts, exposure to temperature extremes, and great impact forces without being injured. This also contributes to her healing factor, making her more resistant than a normal human.

______Regenerative Healing Factor: Almaeisha, like a true vampire, possesses an accelerated healing ability that allows her to heal mild to moderate injuries with much greater speed and efficiency than ordinary humans. She is capable of healing from severe slashes and puncture wounds within a matter of minutes to hours depending on the severity of the wound. Requin Tigre himself stated that her regeneration was almost on par with his. However, she is not able to regenerate missing limbs or organs.

_____Immunity To Vampire Vulnerabilities: True vampires have numerous and very particular supernatural vulnerabilities, most of which Almaeisha is totally immune to. For instance, Almaeisha is unaffected by direct exposure to sunlight (see Weaknesses), whereas most vampires are either rendered comatose during the daylight hours or are quickly incinerated when exposed directly to sunlight. Vampires are also highly allergic to silver, supposedly because of the metal's mystical purity. As a result, silver blades or bullets can kill vampires. If not killed, and merely injured, it will take a vampire much longer to heal than if the injury had been inflicted by another material. Almaeisha herself could be injured by a silver weapon, much as an ordinary human would, but her healing powers would be able to heal it as if it were an ordinary wound. Almaeisha is also immune to the effects of religious icons, such as crucifixes, whereas vampires are rendered almost powerless when confronted by them.

_____Prolonged Lifespan: Although not a pure vampire, she does have the advantage of being a hybrid. This includes a Pseudo-Immortality, greatly enhanced lifespan.

Contaminant Transferal: Almaeisha can take any kind of ingestible or even metaphysical ailments coursing in the system of another living being, or willingly introduced into her system and pass it along in the same way vampires transfer their mitochondria pathogen that turns others into their thralls.

Dexterity: Graceful: Almaeisha's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete. She can leap several feet into the air and is able to move, jump, climb, flip, and run at incredibly fast speeds without difficulty or exhaustion. She can perform above-human parkour feats and virtually always land on her feet.

Sorcery:

_____Transformation: Almaeisha seemingly possesses the ability to change to and from human form to a more monstrous state of being by force of will.

_____Wing Manifestation: Almaeisha's transformed state comes with the added proclivity of bat-like aviary appendages that enable her to fly around at roughly 150-160 mph (241-257 kph).

Speed: Land: Superior: Almaeisha can run and move at speeds greater than even the finest human athlete. She can also accelerate her movements to cover short distances in an instant, faster than the human eye can see, but she is not as fast as a pure vampire. Her reflexes are similarly heightened. She moves so fast that everything else, when compared to her, appears to be moving in slow motion. Her peak speed is somewhere between 111 and 115 mph (178-185 kph).

Stamina: Superior: Almaeisha's musculature generates less lactic acid (i.e. muscle fatigue) during physical activity than the musculature of an ordinary human. She can exert herself at peak capacity for roughly 24-hours before fatigue begins to impair her.

Strength: Superhuman: Almaeisha has incredible strength allowing her to lift about 1 ton and can leap hundreds of feet through the air, with sufficient strength to rip the head from another vampire.

Superhumanly Acute Senses: Almaeisha's sense of sight and hearing are heightened to levels comparable to those possessed by true vampires. She can see objects with perfect clarity at much greater distances than ordinary humans. She retains this same level of clarity even in near-total darkness. Her hearing is similarly enhanced, allowing her to detect sounds that an ordinary human cannot hear and enable her to hear sounds an ordinary human can hear but at greater distances. Almaeisha is also able to sense the presence of supernatural beings or forces whereas an ordinary human would be oblivious to them.

_____Sense of Smell: Superhuman: Almaeisha possesses an incredibly pronounced sense of smell, easily able to discern what is human and what is not even from a good distance away. Bastaphra likened Almaeisha's olfactory senses to her own.

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Expert Vehicular Driver: She is an expert at operating most vehicles and some aircraft.

Fighting: HachidanQo': After training with various private instructors, her main form of combat is a mixture of Boxing, Capoeira, Escrima, Jeet Kune Do, Hapkido, Jujutsu, Shotokan Karate, Kung Fu, and Ninjutsu. She is also proficient in Krav Maga.

_____Expert Marksman: She can throw most projectile weaponry with great aim and is well-versed in the use of firearms.

_____Expert Swordsman: Training under various samurai sensei, Almaeisha has become proficient with katanas as well as with her Soultaker Blades.

_____Weapons Proficiency: She is practically proficient in every form of weaponry known to man. Her specialty is the use of edged weapons, though her ranged attacks show she is also an expert marksman.

Intimidation: She is well-known and feared among vampires and other supernatural beings who are hesitant about ever facing her in combat or invoking her anger.

Multilingual: She is fluent in Arabic, Chinese, English, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Romanian, and every known Sign Language across the globe.

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Almaeisha Almawt has one weakness shared by all vampires. The thirst for fresh blood. However, early in her vampiric life, she saved the Hidden Cities of the Kattilandore from being discovered. There the Order of the Red Room of the Inhumans All-Caste gifted her with specially forged weapons, the Soultaker Blades, that would grant her the ability to gain vengeance on all vampires. A side benefit of the Soultaker Blades, are every person (monster, demon, human, undead) the blades take down, the blades will transfer their life-energy into her, slaking her thirst and quenching her desire for fresh blood.

Pregnancy: Due to the loss of her baby, and the change to her body, Almaeisha can never again get pregnant.

Red Sun Radiation: While she is not affected by normal (yellow) sunlight, Almaeisha is vulnerable to sunlight from a red star, which is able to burn her skin. Longer exposure to red sunlight can be fatal. Interestingly, this means that at sunrise and sunset, when the sun looks red, the radiation/light spectrum is the same as a Red Star and can be fatal to her.

Electronics: While she is able to understand and drive/fly vehicles, she finds today's technology to be beyond her. Computers and smartphones are confusing to her and she shows no desire to learn how to use them.

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Motorcycle

Costume Specifications: Synthetic fabric which has been augmented to be highly resistant to damage from small magic and high temperatures. Microscopic gecko-pads on her costume allow her to scale walls and cling to ceilings.

Personal Weaponry: Almaeisha Almawt's gauntlets have wrist cartridges containing various tools of the trade: employs silver, garlic, sunlight, ultraviolet rays and anticoagulants; Holy-Water pellets, a sonic transmitter (useful against werewolves) and spring-loaded silver cable (laced in garlic).

Special Weaponry: Various automatic weapons and firearms (loaded with silver bullets, garlic-filled hollow points, etc.), and the Soultaker Blades. She also uses a device often referred to as the Death's Sting that is capable of emitting highly potent electric shocks with a maximum of about 30,000 volts that can burn even a vampire.

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Soultaker Blades: The Soultakers, twin blades, were forged in the 14^th century by the Order of the Red Room, whose swords were said to be Blessed and make those who were wronged commit vengeful acts. They sometimes take the souls of those they kill, sending them to their final judgement.

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Mute: She is mute. When she was bitten by Drakul Morbius, it was in the throat, and he ripped out her larynx so she could not scream. Though she has healed, her larynx did not regrow and she wears a scarf or high-necked outfits to hide the terrible scar.

Media: Almaeisha enjoys watching police procedural television shows, reading police procedural novels and is a huge fan of the movie I Am Legend. She does not like the books written by Anne Rice and thinks they are only good to read if you have difficulty falling asleep. Her favorite calming music is Enya.

Relationships: She once had a relationship with a past incarnation of Royal Hawk during the American Revolutionary War. She also had a horrible relationship with Savage Immortus, when he went by another name, Jack the Ripper. She has had a one night stand with Hellion, a fling with Quartermaster, and a one night stand and short-term relationship with Shutdown. She is also rumored to have had a relationship, at some point, with Qiánfëng and Krasnaya Zima.