Approved Answered Faction NPC - Alítheia, Dullahan - Sevástien Velardi

[Vicissitude]

: Nightwalker - Chimerism

: Nightwalker - Full

Sevástien Velardi

198
6’7’’
Male
Human

Details

Alítheian Podestà
Dullahan Councilman

: Skills

Theorems:
Ensorcelling: Master
Mysticism: Grandmaster
Familiary: Master
Animism: Master

Personal Arcana:
Rusalka: Narimeide (Ascendant)
Nightwalker: Master (were-crow)
Syphon: Master
Apparation: Master
Exodus: Master
Fulgur: Expert (lightning)

Combat & Conditioning:
Whips: Master
Meditation: Grandmaster
Resistance: Master
Fitness: Master

Body:
Acrobatics: Journeyman
Swimming: Journeyman
Flight: Master
Riding: Expert

Mind:
Acting: Expert
Security: Grandmaster
Stealth: Expert
Tactics: Grandmaster

Science:
Chemistry: Apprentice
Medical: Apprentice
Physics: Novice
Psychology: Master

Mercantile:
Business: Apprentice
Economics: Journeyman
Espionage: Master

Trade:
Music: Journeyman
Painting: Expert
Writing: Master

Details

: Further Details

⛦ ⟡ Appearance ⟡ Personality ⟡ History ⛥

• 
  Sevástien has a long, rectangular visage with high cheekbones hollowed by age, a broad, aquiline nose, prominent, arched brows and deep-set eyes, his thin lips always pressed into a permanent frown. This face framed by long, gray hair receding into a prominent widow’s peak and often donning a dour expression leads him to have a harsh, authoritarian and oftentimes even malicious aura. Cutting an imposing silhouette, he is quite tall for a human with broad, muscular shoulders and strong arms made to look even larger by the armor and coat he is commonly seen wearing.
• 
  A quiet man, when Sevástien does speak he commandeers the attention of everyone in a room. He is cold, cunning, calculating, and cruel, operating as a master tactician for both Alítheia and Dullahan with ruthless efficiency. To many, his motives are nebulous, but every strategy or stratagem proposed by him has ended up a victory, even if it didn’t initially appear that way. For this reason, his mere presence begets immense respect by everyone around him– he knows this, and he uses it to his advantage in every possible way, further enforced by his consummate competence with Rusalka.
  
  Believing that all men are pawns for greater causes, he is not very empathetic towards people as individuals in a general sense; everything and everyone may be a disposable means to an end in his eyes, with this principle especially applied to those who do not bear the banner Alítheian. He is a bit softer on his Blighted brethren, believing them worthy of such esteem should they prove themselves to both Nihilos and him, but his general distaste towards displaying any sort of affection tends to make this not readily apparent to any of them.
  
  Note on Rusalka:
  Sevástien tends to utilize Rusalka to modulate and rule by the iron fist of fear. However, he is intelligent enough to see and respect the use cases for the other emotions he is capable of swaying and, when relevant, will use them instead.
  
• 
  Born to a political family in Chevalier, Sevástien was groomed from his youth to serve as a councilman. His family otherwise had deep roots in Dullahan’s military, and so naturally, this was the direction he took. That being the case, the man is a brilliant strategist rather than a soldier; though he served his early military stints with a clean record, he excelled the most as a tactician and rose through the ranks mostly for this reason. Once he racked up enough esteem, he was seen as an easy choice for a spot on the council, much to the joy of both his family and him as an individual.
  
  Since then, he has served with a shining record of marked excellence, only enhanced by The Stranger’s Blighted gifts. He had no initiator; rather, he heard whispers, he had nightmares, and then the ancient stygian darkness made him an offer: his soul for power. Naturally, his collectivist mindset and loyalty to his nation made him believe that such an offer was worth it. For despite his education to loathe Arcana, he was not daft enough to believe that one could compete in the vast multi-Planar cosmos without it. He firmly believed he and his people needed the edge, and for this reason was he fully willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good.
  
  Being granted a Blight by Nihilos Itself is seen as one of the greatest honors possible to achieve within Alítheia. As such, his rise to power within their ranks was similarly meteoric. He was a natural fit for the role of Podestà, ruling over Dullahan’s curse-marked with a harsh but efficient hand.

 

[Mayhem]

Approved.