“ | Robert Arden raised its head in surprise and for one moment our eyes locked and I knew I had made a terrible mistake. The woman looked at her monstrous companion and, seeing his now open mouth, screamed her terror even louder. | „ |
~ Trevor Herbert describing his confrontation with Robert Arden. |
Robert Arden a minor antagonist of the Rusty Quill horror podcast The Magnus Archives, serving as the secondary antagonist of Mag 10: Vampire Killer. He was a predatory creature that preyed on human blood, called a vampire by Trevor Herbert. Disguised as a human, he lived in Manchester in the late sixties, picking up women at club with hypnosis and taking them home to eat them. He was eventually killed by one of would-be victims and vampire hunter Trevor Herbert.
Appearance[]
Robert Arden appeared as just a regular young man. However, like all vampire, he kept twelve shark teeth, and a long, snakelike tongue concealed in his mouth.
Personality[]
Being a vampire, Robert Arden had an animalistic intellect, single-mindedly focused on feeding as quickly as possible. That said, he seemed to have some understanding of how humans thought, and was able to manipulate them uses his hypnosis.
Biography[]
Robert Arden was living in a flat in Manchester in the late sixties. One night, he met a woman at a club and, using his hypnosis, convinced to come back to his flat with him. On the way, he was met a young homeless who asked for money, to which Robert Arden blankly stared at him. He arrived at his flat and was preparing to feed, when the young homeless man from before through a rock through the window. Robert Arden jumped through the broken window and overpowered him easily. He began to try to suck the blood from his neck, but the heroin in the young man's blood stopped him. Before Robert Arden could properly react, the woman he had picked up at the club began stabbing him from behind. The young man grabbed a piece of wood and stabbed the vampire in the heart before lighting him on fire with a lighter, killing him.
Powers and Abilities[]
As a vampire, Robert could not speak, instead communicating through hypnosis, which his human prey did not notice. He seemed supernaturally strong and had the ability to use her tongue to suck all the blood out of a person.
Trivia[]
- Robert Arden was the second Magnus Archives villain to be killed, shortly proceeded by Sylvia McDonald and followed by Diego Molina.
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