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- BASIC INFORMATION
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Name: Aleksander Kharzenti (Human) Vruktal'gritzhevdaun (Demon)
*Aliases: Robber Baron of Fairfax
Age: Aleksander: 34, Vruk: Ageless, age unknowable
Gender: Male
Race: Human possessed by Demon
Class: Possessed Warlock/Capitalist: In human form Aleksi is just a capitalist. He uses his wealth to buy out all the competition in fairfax and manipulates market power to make himself a monopoly in several industries. Outside of his entreprenuerial skill and charisma, he doesn't really have any combat usefulness. He has a sword inside of a cane that he has been trained in the use of, and he is also an excellent shot with a dueling pistol, but neither are very useful for anything more than a one on one honorable engagement. He has considerable wealth, but not much political power in a kingdom like Albion. He and other middle class capitalist moguls have a secret society dedicated to turning albion into separate merchant republics. Whenever Aleksander would normally feel anger, the demon known in short term as Vruk completely takes over his body and Aleksi is forced to stay a prisoner in his mind. Vruk cannot be defined as a person, it is an entity that has existed long before humans and other living races. Vruk is a force, a power, a manifestaton of rage, malice, and spite. Aleksi's vitality limits Vruk's power considerably, but his magical strength is still supreme and unnatural. Vruk can conjure horrible lesser demons from his realm to smite his foes, or he can use his infinite willpower to manipulate nearby entities. He also has devastating offensive magic that can maim, kill, infect, or otherwise destroy individuals or groups of people.
- PERSONAL
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*Sexuality: Aleksi is straight, Vruk loves killing things.
*High Concept: A refined gentleman with a love of wealth; he also happens to be possessed by rage incarnate that compels him to destroy others physically or emotionally.
Character Alignment: Aleksi: Lawful Neutral Vruk: Chaos Evil
*Relatives: Aleksi has no blood relatives. If someone is angry, then they are a child of Vruk.
*Organizations\Affiliations: The City of Fairfax Merchant's Guild; The Golden Eye; The Unseeable Demon Realm
Personality: Aleksander is a cultured entrepreneur. He is calm, tasteful, philanthropic, loves a pleasant conversation, and politically minded. Unlike his fellow capitalists, Aleksander is a paternalist, which means he believes wealthy (males) people are responsible for taking care of the poor and society in general. Of course, because of his economic disposition, 'taking care of the poor' means getting them to work for you and paying them very little. As a rather realistic man he is more worried about his business interests and the interest of his city than fairy tales about heroes and all that. When Vruk takes over, this all changes. Vruk hates literally everything that lives. Vruk is difficult to reason with and usually just tries to kill anything nearby. Aleksi has never been able to exercise control over Vruk, and he gets little warning when Vruk is about to take over. Although Vruk is so brutish and resentful, its parasitic nature has made it somewhat resemble Aleksi over the years. It is more talkative than it used to be and does enjoy tea after homicide.
Backstory: Aleksi was born to a pair of nomadic gypsies. On reflecting about them, he has called them "uncultured savages" and thought of them as "unambitious peasants". He was raised in the city of Fairfax after his parents were arrested and executed for selling foreign drugs which were strictly outlawed at the time. This was at age 3, when the locals thought he could still be raised into a status of "decent laborer". Aleksi grew up in a city orphanage and lived in quite a volatile time in Fairfax history. For all his life the city had been industrializing, crazy economic and philosophic ideas were overturning the old ways and Fairfax still wanted nothing to do with the kingdom of Albion. Although conditions in the orphanage were rough, Aleksi did learn to read and he saw that as his way out of the poor life. Through his preteen years he worked in a local textile factory. Chld laborers were paid almost nothing of course, but the manager of the plant did find Aleksi to be a peculiar little boy and showed him about the middle management life when he could. Aleksi realized how much money the plant manager and the owner made because they paid the workers so little, it was at this time Aleksi's capitalist ideals took root.
How Aleksi came to get the money to purchase his own shop is unknown. It certainly must have involved theft or some form of extortion. This is also the time when Aleksi became first possessed. As a teenager, Aleksi operated a shoemaker's shop and employed children from the orphanage. Though he lacked respect because of his age, he was an intelligent and assertive business man whose capitalist ideology and forward economic ideas propelled him to great success early on. By the age of twenty four Aleksander was the owner of three merchant stalls in clothing, two shoemakers, and a boot factory. His wealth management and self-education made him a local icon and he published a book about capitalism and thrift that sold thousands of copies. During this time Aleksi also spent a chunk of his wealth covering up violent murders of random citizens and business rivals all over the city of Fairfax.. The underhanded nature of the market in Fairfax at that time made it almost organized crime. Massive underground textile wars were taking place that involved sabotaged business deals, corporate espionage, theft, arson, and even murder. In the ashes of the conflict Aleksi emerged victorious, and by thirty years of age he was the Clothing Baron of Fairfax, or also the Robber Baron.
Aleksander was feared and respected. His intellect, wit, charm, ruthelessness, and shady reputation made him the most famous man in the city, and quite well known around the kingdom. It was during this year he also co-founded the Golden Eye Society, an elitist secrey group that pulls strings within the kingdom to organize something nasty in the future.. Vruk was also rapidly changing alongside of Aleksi. Now with such a monopoly in Fairfax, Aleksi turned his ambition outward to other cities and onto the kingdom at large. He had become quieter, more refined, he represented the cultured elite. This made Vruk change as well, it became less frequent in its control, less mindlessly violent, more sadistic and torturous in nature. Aleksi had a massive manor built outside of the city on a ten acre plot of land in the forest, it came completely fenced in and gated with a dozen mercenaries for personal security. He became a collector of magical oddities, including a blue amulet which was rumored to have once been possessed by a hero from Fairfax hundreds of years ago.
- PHYSICAL
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Appearance:
Weapons & Armor: He wears no armor other than his fine suits. His weapons of choice are the gold coin and the factory, though if he must, he has a sword in his cane and a dueling pistol.
Items & Personal Belongings: Seal of Membership; Most of the Fairfax textile industry and mining industry; a massive collection of magical novelties; many fine suits; many crates of excellent tea; a small turquoise gemstone in his breastpocket
Skills & Abilities: Excellent businessman, charismatic, persuasive, intelligent, wealthy, good at bartering, massive source of magical will, the backing of the Golden Eye Society, decent with the cane sword, excellent pistol shot.
Spells & Magic:
- Vruk can conjure physical manifestations of rage known as lesser demons into the physical world. These are black misty creatures that spread terror around then and screech with a voice so foreign and loud that it can drive weak people insane.
- Vruk can wield a fiery whip that he uses to scorch and decapitate.
- Vruk can amplify his willpower, terrifying and suppressing nearby entities that cannot resist. Those that do resist still feel extreme anger.
- Vruk can target enemies and infect their minds with rage, making them lose control and attack the nearest entity with primitive savagery.
- Vruk can manifest spheres of pure will and blast them at a target in waves of smaller spheres or in a massive magical blast that devastates everything it touches.
- Vruk's existence inside of Aleksander can sustain his body for far longer than it would be possible normally, however, if Aleksi's body is pushed past a certain point, Vruk will retain control until he is healthy, which will weaken Vruk's offensive abilities and force him to stay dormant for a long period of time after.
- Vruk can make Aleksi's body levitate.
- Vruk can envelop Aleksi's body in sheer magical willpower, making him appear to be a large demonic entity pulsating with power and rage. In this form he can crush enemies with his strength or torch them with a stream of magical fire, this fire leaves permanent wounds. These demonic wounds may heal slightly, but the scar will essentially be a first degree burn forever.
FLUFF (Optional)
*Hobbies: (What does the dark lord do in his free time, when not vying for supremacy over the world?)
*Quote\s: During a debate against an advocate of making poverty illegal:
It is not the fault of the poor that they are in the wretched condition currently in place. Go to the slums of Fairfax, speak with the people there. They are victims of a system that has generated their desperate lives; better that we employ them, give them an honest trade so that they might eke out a meaningful existence. Aleksander Kharzenti |
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