Relic
Name: Gabriel Scarlatti.
Nickname: Relic? We might think of something more evocative.
Age: By date of birth, he would be 74.
Age apparent: His mask would have trouble not getting carded in a bar.
Gender: Male.
Sexuality: Pansexual.
Occupation:
Languages: English, Italian and Mandarin.
Seeming: Ogre/Fairest.
Kith: Stonebones/Treasured.
Court: Autumn.
Keeper: The Lady of Midnight and Shadow.
Faction: Garten Flüchtlinge.
Wyrd: 3.
Glamour Pool: 15.
Willpower: 5.
Concept
I am stone. Stone is cold. Stone is hard. Stone is heavy. Stone is hard to break.
I am broken stone. I am damaged. I am hollow. I am bleeding. I am smiling.
I am a statue of a beautiful devil. I am entrancing. I am wicked. My piercing crimson eye reflects a secret smile.
I wear a cloak of feathers. Feathers are light. Feathers are soft. Feathers help birds to fly. Druids used cloaks of feathers to try to ascend from the earth to the sky. I cannot fly. How many birds died to make this cloak? Yet one still sits tamely on my shoulder.
That is who I am.
Appearance
Height: Mien: 7' Mask: 5'10"
Weight: Mien: 819 lbs. Mask: 163 lbs.
Eye Color: Mien: Crimson. Mask: Green.
Hair color: Mien: Silver. Mask: Platinum blond.
Hair Style: Mien: Long, straight, very fine. Mask: Jaw length with long bangs.
Complexion: Mien: Cracked grey and white marble. Mask: Peaches and cream, lightly freckled.
Body shape: Tall and slim.
Clothing: Mien: Wears a cloak of myriad bird feathers over either his bare skin or lacquered black armor that resembles dragon scales or an insect's carapace. A matching mask/helm sometimes covers the deep cracks in his head and face and his missing eye. Mask: Impeccable Ivy League clothes or suits.
Mien (Description): A beautiful statuary form somewhat larger than life, Relic's smooth skin is carved of the purest marble. The hair is of spun silver, long and plausive. The overall effect is of androgynous beauty, a wicked smile, and carved horns and broken stumps of wings that somehow give the instant impression that they are perfect this way, that to allow this creature to ascend to the heavens would be an unimaginable mistake. Over time, certain surfaces of the statue's skin have become blackened and cracked, sometimes showing the hollow darkness beneath the stony flesh. When Relic is able to move, these places often drip with a virulent ruby colored blood the same color as his remaining eye's gleaming iris.
In his occasional guise as true Fairest and Knight of the Lady's retinue, called upon typically when his cruelty and wit were desired, the Masqued Knight wore black armor that glistened in contrast to marble white skin and hair and a masked helm that covered the ruined portion of his face.
Mask (Description): Relic's mask appears virtually identical to his form before he was Taken. A slender youth with the long limbed grace of the mid to late teens, his soft fair skin is free of blemish except for faint freckles on the upper part of his cheeks. His platinum blond hair is worn to the base of the jaw with long sweeping bangs framing his face, his eyelashes are equally pale, giving his jade green eyes a faraway effect. His lips and cheeks always seem faintly flushed, and his clothing is impeccable.
Personality
Virtue: Diligence.
Vice: Wrath (Sadism).
Gabriel is a soft-spoken and polite person. He blends effortlessly into upper crust events and never seems to bat an eyelash or to blink under pressure. He has a quick wit and a solid, dependable nature. Though he can seem cold and withdrawn, there is a loneliness about him that makes it clear his lack of many emotional attachments is not due to personal choice. However, Gabriel is also a beautiful monster who hides his capacity for cruelty beneath his cool, unruffled mask. He is moody, tragically incapable of trusting others or believing that he can be loved, and capable of deliberate sadism.
Your Story
Passions/Goals: To regain power, to get his life back, to stop feeling quite so hollow and cold. Without even the consideration that he might find freedom or enjoy such a thing, Relic has a passion for entangling other people in his own net. However, he must constantly fight his own nature, for it is far, far too easy to fall into the easy patterns of his early existence and personality and to become, more and more what the Lady wants him to be.
History
The Scarlatti family are among that top percentile, the richest and most influential people in the world. This power lingered since the eighteen hundreds and was at its peak when Gabriel was born, the firstborn and only son of his illustrious father. From birth, expectations for Gabriel were high, and they only grew impossibly higher. Whenever Gabriel failed, or did something that didn't live up to his family's vaunted image, he felt the disapproval in icy silences and cuttingly sarcastic lectures. So he learned to excel, and each achievement became nothing more than the expected, leading him to rise higher and higher underneath the weight of his parents' pressure.
He was sent to the finest school in the country, a boarding school for young men, and became its top student, reknowned both academically and in athletics, especially in fencing. He was ruthlessly schooled in world economics, politics and business by his father and grandfather, and in social etiquette as well. Gabriel was an exceptionally good looking boy, and many journalists of the time had marked him in the future as one of the country's most eligible bachelors.
The pressure on Gabriel had long ago caused him to crack a little. He hid his stress under that mask of the perfect young heir, but he often needed a way to express his deep feelings of anger, hurt or frustration. This anger tended to be unleashed on his friends and especially those who crossed him. The angelic top student was a monster behind closed doors, the master of subtle and creative cruelty. By the time he was fifteen, most if not all of the school lived in fear of him.
It was this contrast: beautiful and cruel, diligent and capricious, that drew the attention of the Lady of Midnight and Shadow. (To Be Continued...)
Relationships
Family:
Friends:
Co-Workers:
Lovers:
Enemies/Rivals:
Other PCs:
Pledges
Vows:
Oaths:
Corporals: Commendation
(Should discuss vows to Autumn or particular Witch or Warlock)
Merits and Flaws
Attribute Merits
Physical
-I am hard as stone. (Enduring 3)
-I am strong as carved rock. (Strong 3)
Social
-I am entrancingly beautiful. (Captivating 2)
-Though others know I am deadly, they still fly into my arms. (Persuasive)
-I am a consummate actor. (Manipulative)
Mental
-I am very intelligent. (Smart)
Attribute Flaws
Physical
-Stone rarely moves quickly. (-1 Quick)
-I find it difficult not to crush delicate things. (-1 Dexterous)
Mental
-I am damaged. (-1 Resolute)
Skill Merits:
-I was trained harshly in matters of business and politics
-I could have been an olympic fencer (x2)
-I know how to find dirt on other people
-I'm a paragon of etiquette
-I speak fluent English, Italian and Mandarin Chinese (x2)
Skill Flaws:
-I never learned to drive
-I never learned to cook
Background Merits:
-My family is extremely rich, high-profile and influential (Can function as Merit or Flaw)
-I possess a cloak of feathers that can make everyone except me capable of flight.
-I have a companion known as Nightshrike who often does my bidding or brings me gifts.
Background Flaws:
-My Fetch is extremely rich, high-profile and influential
Rare Abilities:
Seeming and Kith Abilities
Blessings: (+) Spend Glamour to improve Strength, Presence and Persuasion
(+)As an instant action, once a day, spend a Glamour, gain Armor equal to Wyrd. While activated, all Dex rolls suffer -1.
Curses: (-)-1 to avoid losing Clarity.
Frailties:
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If I am hurt or humiliated, I am compulsively driven to pass that feeling on to another person in the next 24 hours.
Contracts
Contracts of Omen
@ Vision of Strife
Contracts of Reflection
@Reflection of the Past
Contracts of Separation
@ Tread Lightly
Contracts of Vainglory
@ Mask of Superiority
Contracts of Stone
@ Might of the Terrible Brute
@@ Ogre's Rending Grasp
Contracts of Spell-bound Autumn
@ Warlock's Gaze
@@ Barrow-Whisper