Barbatorem
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Vital statistics
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| Position | Bound | |
| Age | Unknown | |
| Status | Other | |
Physical attributes
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| Height | Unknown | |
| Weight | Unknown | |
A demon of the first choir, the Choir of Darkness, it is a demon that specializes in attacking other practitioners and can slip through their defenses. It does not kill, but leave the victims in a state where they cannot function without outside help of some kind. It is a feared demon within Jacob's Bell.
It is currently locked away in the Thorburn Manor.
History
Named after the fact that in the Middle Ages barbers were surgeons it is a demon which was named by Rose Thorburn Sr. after being summoned using burning hair, rotting boar carcasses with the name on it, and her infant firstborn (he was not harmed) and bound in the 1950s as one of Roselyn Thorburn's proudest achievements.
Appearance
No fixed shape. All previous forms only having death, mutilation and a lack of hair in common - and a bladed instrument. Current form of an old, severely malnourished potbellied Middle-Eastern or Indian man. Balding with scraggly, sparse long uneven hair and brown skinned, with a burning hair smell. Carries a pair of shears.
Abilites
The demon itself was named for its abilities and its shears, as such it has medical knowledge as well as capablities related to blades:
- For two cupped handfuls of flayed flesh from its practitioner, it can ensure that blades never go dull.
- For enough blood that it would make the practitioner pass out, it can do medical treatments with skilll beyond the current age.
- It can extend the lifespan of others at a cost of them smelling like it.
- It cannot kill directly, but it can leave victims in a state where they cannot function without help perminantly.
- It can mutilate the soul to prevent practitioners from using their arts as well as potentially barring them from the afterlife.
- It can bypass normal defenses of practitioner's demesnes but it cannot enter a non-practitioner's home.
- It can move between reflective surfaces, such as glass and metal and as a result should not be looked upon directly lest it enters the eyes and never leave.
- It can curve out the reflection of a person.