REAL NAME: NICODEMO DARQUE
ALIASES: Master Darque
ABILITIES: Necromancy.
KNOWN ASSOCIATIONS: Sandria Darque.
Nicodemo and Sandria Darque were born in 1812, in Louisiana. The mother died after a difficult childbirth, but despite the loss, they were perfect in their father's eyes.
They grew up on their father's plantation. He wanted them to learn the art of magic from a young age, and while he was their teacher, the twins also learned from the slaves.
Nicodemo was terribly studious and couldn't understand that Sandria, who claimed to be studying just as much, preferred playing with her pet rabbit instead. The pet was accidentally killed by Nicodemo in a fit of frustration. The spell for resurrection left them with a hellish beast, and their father intervened. A lesson was learned nonetheless: life comes from life, magic requires an exchange.
All this training was in lieu of helping their father reach Lyceum, a place beyond all that's known where everything could be learned. The ultimate price to pay was Sandria's life. Nicodemo confronted their father, killed him, and managed to resurrect his sister.
Soon after they left their childhood home to become traveling mystics. It's at this point that Ivar the Timewalker recently informed of having met them in 1882.
At some point during the US Civil War, Sandria tried to leave her brother, after he became a nihilistic. She fell in love with a soldier, Marius Boniface, and she was giving birth to their baby when Nicodemo attacked them. As the baby was born dead, Sandria used the sacrifice to bond Marius to the Shadow Loa, a spirit of the voodoo known for being the breaker of chains. The bond would be inherited from generation to generation, until the present day.
With the help of Ninjak and Punk Mambo, the current Shadowman, Jack Boniface, imprisoned the twins inside the Ring of Solomon. They dwell in its pocket dimension, the Soulside.
OTHER DETAILS: The twins have a complicated relationship, but most of all, they are each other's best match in necromancy.
