Ayana Bishop

Name	Ayana Bishop
Race	Human
Type	Zombie Hunter
Faction	The Night Stalkers, BDA
Premiere	Desideratum: Blood Bonds
Relative(s)	Arion Bishop

Ayana Bishop

"Please tell me you have something to give the Baron! Rum, smokes?"

Biography

Pre-Desideratum: Blood Bonds

Ayana was born two years after her brother, Arion Bishop, in Opelousas, Louisiana. Their parents moved from Haiti, and their grandparents remained behind. Their grandfather was a bokor, a type of voodoo priest and their mother was a caplata, a type of priestess. Little did they know that their family had run afoul of the daughter of the famous Marie Laveau, Heloise. Always in her mother’s shadow, Heloise desired to become even more powerful, which led her to consult spirits outside the loa.

Soon, she was on a mission to collect the souls of bokors, stealing their magic to become stronger. She traveled to Haiti and soon after, many bokors were found shriveled and desiccated. At this time the Arion was around twenty years old with Ayana recently eighteen. Being adults now and witnessing their mother handle all manner of strange monsters in the bayou, they told her that they wanted to help. They came with her, but misery followed. Their grandfather had been drained before they even arrived on the island, and their mother, livid, swore revenge. She tracked Heloise down in a graveyard and the pair fought. In the end, as they watched, Heloise sucked the life and power from their mother, but their mother had cursed herself, expecting to lose to the evil woman. Heloise absorbed the poisonous curse into herself and it unleashed the trapped souls of all the bokors that she had devoured.

Having lost this accumulated power because of their mother’s actions, Heloise turned on the siblings, but the spirits of the bokors protected the pair until they were safely away. Now it was Heloise that swore to kill the two Bishops. She followed them back to Louisiana and sent hordes of zombies after them. The pair survived attack after attack but could not manage to kill Laveau. They turned to the loa, and while not as powerful as their mother or grandfather, the spirits did listen. Their last fight with Heloise ended in a sound stalemate and she fled, now seeing that the Bishops were a true threat. Abandoning her vengeance, she decided it could wait until she gathered more power.

She began moving across America, looking for power to again consume. If she could not have the power of the bokors, she would take from any magic user that she could find. After defeating and absorbing the soul of a necromancer, she found herself intrigued. There were forces more powerful than the loa- demons, and Ah Pwash reached out to her. The Bishops tailed her, always harassing her and interrupting her plans, but in Portland, she found a vast ripe graveyard in which to raise a massive army, and her new ally in the Outer Darkness helped with that. The more she used his power and shadow magic, the more it consumed her sanity until all Heloise could imagine was summoning the demon lord into the world and watching as he scoured all life from it.

The Bishops followed her to Portland and for months they tried to attack her stronghold in Lone Fir Cemetery, but she had a seemingly endless supply of dead to reanimate. During this time, because of the monsters in the area, the Bishops happened to stumble upon Roy McCoy, who told them about Sanctuary. They took up his offer, and found it to be a great base of operations. However, after watching Heloise kill anyone that ever helped them, they refused aid from the other Night Stalkers, choosing to train for days and plan an attack on their own.

Desideratum: Blood Bonds

In Desideratum: Blood Bonds, Ayana is one of the Night Stalkers. She and her brother are a prominent part of the graveyard hunt. They are seeking to defeat Heloise Laveau. When they finally made their move, they found that Heloise’s power rivaled even the loa spirits like Baron Samedi. They wound up defeated and bound to be sacrificed as the final souls that would bring Ah Pwash into the Physical World. But as Heloise gloated over her victory, Absinthe Van Gothen arrived and fought her. The demonic magic proved even too great for the Van Gothen to handle, and soon, she found herself on the ground with Heloise prepared to land the death blow, but the fighting between the two had given the Bishops enough time to loosen their bindings, and they killed Heloise, saving Abby and the world. After that, they promised to aid Abby in her fight against the vampires.

Appearance

Ayana is an adult woman in her twenties of Haitian descent. She has a strong physique from her time spent training.

Abilities

• Strong Physical Attacks
• Expert Marksman

Notes and Trivia

Ayana is able to be transformed in several of Sanctuary's Bad Ends.