Murhder is a former member of the Black Dagger Brotherhood in the series of the same name by JR Ward. He's mated to Dr. Sarah Watkins and they are main characters in the seventeenth book of the series, The Savior.
Biography[]
Murhder was a member of the Black Dagger Brotherhood who became Xhex's lover in the early 1980's. In 1985, Xhex went to the sympath colony to meet her blooded relatives on her father's side. Thinking his lover had been kidnapped, Murhder went to the colony to rescue her, learned of her sympath half, and ended up a prisoner himself. Rehvenge negotiated for their freedom, but she'd already been sold to a human laboratory, RSK BioMed, for experimentation and so only Murhder was freed. Since she couldn't feed, she grew weaker and weaker over the course of a couple of months until one of them took pity and set her free. She returned to burn the place down while it was empty and kill the one who'd tortured her.
Murhder allowed everyone to believe he was the arsonist to protect Xhex. He sought out other pharmaceutical companies who might also have been conducting experiments on vampires, looking for the female vampire whose face appeared to him in the shard of glass he'd picked up in the Sanctuary years earlier. He burned down four facilities and killed the scientists inside in retribution for the evil they were committing. At the last facility, he broke in and found an emaciated and weak male vampire and a sickly, pregnant female vampire - the very female he'd been looking for. Before Muhrder could get them out, guards arrived and began firing upon them. The male Vampire is killed and Muhrder is wounded. Forced to leave the pregnant female behind, as his injuries were too severe, he left the building. At some point, Muhrder went back to the company, only to find the female had been moved and the staff who worked on her experimentation were gone as well. Enraged, Muhrder dragged the remaining scientists outside and spent hours torturing them for information. Only when he learned that none of them knew the location of the female did he finally kill them. The Brotherhood was forced to clean up the mess of the bodies and erase memories of the incidents and alter the facts the media investigations revealed about the perpetrator. Wrath determined that Muhrder was mentally unstable and too dangerous to trust, most likely as a result of his torture at the hands of the sympths, and so the King made the decision to kick Muhrder out of the Brotherhood. Muhrder agreed was not right in the head and left to go south. He retreated to the Eliahu Rathboone Mansion in South Carolina, where he lives on the third floor. Curious tourists continue to book place, which has been converted to a bed and breakfast, for its scenic and historic setting, and Muhrder is able to seduce female guests by clouding their minds and feed from them to fulfill his blood needs. Since a painting of the original owner hangs in the study matches his appearance, there are rumours that the B&B is haunted.
Personality[]
While he's not likely to strike anyone who doesn't deserve it, he's still unpredictable with questionable morals. He doesn't like it when males don't appreciate the females in their life and take them for granted.
Physical Description[]
He has deep-set eyes, permanent scruff on a heavy jaw, and smells of gunpowder and sex.[1] His eyes are the colour of sunrise and he keeps his black and red hair long.[2]
Skills[]
- Unknown
Abilities[]
- Unknown
Relationships[]
Nathan[]
Sarah Watkins[]
Xhex[]
Trivia[]
- Member of the Survivors' Club