Amongst all of the supernatural world, there is none more desired and coveted than the children of the phoenix. They are the rarest of all the ethereal beings, born only once every century and gifted with magical ability beyond comprehension.

Like the legend of the phoenix, their tears can heal even the gravest of physical injury and their mere presence can lay to rest even the most unsettled of minds. They are a being of immense purity of heart, rarely unable to see the good in another's soul. But, what is less known, it is actually their voices that contain the most potent of their magic. Each of the phoenix born manifest their gifts in various ways, whether it is elemental or physical.

Unfortunately, they are also a cursed being. If another ethereal creature were to consume their blood, they would become invincible, their strength magnified a hundred fold and their own abilities intensified. If their loyalty is gained, fortune will soon follow and power will be secured for the individual who has captured not only the phoenix born, but also their heart and mind.

They are hunted upon coming of age, at eighteen, when their powers become matured and they are finally of use to any that chose to obtain them. They are unable to hide amongst regular society, their physical traits making it impossible to look akin to ordinary humans. Characterised by golden eyes that seem to burn with the intensity of the sun and twin scars, caused during puberty when their wings first take form. Their wings are the most beautiful sight to behold. Ranging in colouring, from the purest of white to midnight black, they each shimmer and glitter with the rarest of jewels encrusted into the feathers.

Upon death, their wings are often torn from them, pillaged of the precious gems that grace the angelic feathers, and sold on to the highest bidder or too the black market. Those who seek to harm these creatures, to gain profit from their death, feel nothing for the life they so mercilessly extinguish. To them, the the children of the phoenix are nothing more than quick money.

Only one is born every century and they are taught from an early age to accept their fate as the world's most hunted individual, to understand that they will never find true peace in this existence. There is only one fact in this, often, very short life that they can be sure is true:

They are merely born to die.