ABATRAX & THE BITCHES is a hardcore harsh noise punk band based in the small town of Rottingbranch, Norif. The line-up consists of three life-long weird girls and friends, Abatrax Dune, Vara Navoline and Rowdy.

Abatrax, the lead vocalist of the band, is a pale, fat transbian vampire lady who collects and creates collages out of roadkill and miscellaneous dead animal parts she finds in the forest surrounding her home. She staples her favorite pieces to her walls, creating a unique, sickly aroma of death for every room.

Her father, Dendris Dune, was the leader of a toxic cult of personality built around the idea that he would soon transcend his physical form and become a god, and rule over all of Erikian. While at university studying necromancy, Dendris would amass a handful of followers, and be promptly kicked out for disturbing lessons and just generally being an all-around douchebag. Upon being expelled from university, several of his followers would follow him into the forests of Norif to continue their esoteric practices, one of these followers being Babylon Feraned, Abatraxes mother.

Dendris had concocted a vast mythology to accompany the arrival of his future child, predicting that they’d be the one to unify the material and immaterial realms and facilitate his rise to godhood, planning to kill the infant as sacrifice to the entity depicted as all-powerful in many necromantic texts, Lebihpravitalefni, who would grant him any power he wished.

Instead, while camping deep in the forest one night, refusing to facilitate the death of her newborn child, Babylon would hack Dendris to death with an axe in his tent, and throw his remains into the campfire, where Lebihpravitalefni would consume his soul instead, the two other followers that remained at this point, a young woman named Knifra Dinamede and an unaligned genderless person named Pescil Silros, would flee the scene and move overseas to Torrane.

Babylon, however, would remain in Norif, relocating to the small town of Rottingbranch, where she would keep in frequent contact with Lebihpravitalefni, as well as other powerful entities, who granted her fortune, with which she bought a vast, but secluded, mansion for her and her child, the only such building in the town.

Abatrax was raised to never stray outside of town or communicate with really anyone, a product of Babylons anxieties of losing her child. Nevertheless, Abatrax was an adventurous child, and would quickly befriend Vara Navoline, a girl from town around her age with a keen interest in music.

Vara is a thin, dark-skinned transfem vampire, who dresses exclusively in a leather trenchcoat, her favorite bands t-shirts, shades and ripped up jeans. She also collects swords, and was from a young age considered a prodigy in music and computer programming, but really shes just autistic. She has long dreads which she routinely dyes purple, and never leaves home without the scabbard which houses her favorite sword behind her back, which shes affectionately named Lizzy.

She was raised by a loving mother (Fang) and father (Fora) She is the backing vocalist, guitarist, and noise producer of the band, and handles all the electronic synth work for the band as well. Her friendship with Rowdy predates her friendship with Abatrax by a bit, having met Rowdy scavenging for food in the outskirts of town a year or so before meeting Abatrax.

Rowdy is a genderless zombie girl who retains only the upper-half of its body in its current form, she is hesitant to talk about her past at all, but aimlessly wandered into Rottingbranch as a young girl, and has lived here ever since. For quite awhile, she’d sleep in the forests surrounding the town, before Vara introduced her to Fang, who agreed to have her stay at their home. When Vara moved into her own place, Rowdy followed along with her. He is the drummer for the band, and also contributes screeched and screamed vocals.