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Raziel Aimery
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« Thread Started on May 12, 2006, 11:12pm » | |
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Name: Raziel Aimery
Age: 784 (some of which spent in hibernation)
Race: Vampire
Physical Description:
Raziel stands at approximately 6' and is the picture of vampire elegance with pale aristocratic features and glossy blue-black hair that goes past his shoulders. He is somewhat muscular--broad-chested with wide shoulders, but is otherwise lean.
He seems to associate bared skin with vulnerability and prefers to keep his body well covered, usually in black clothes, cloak, and gloves. When meeting new people or entertaining those he does not know well, he usually wears a full-face mask.
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Special Abilities:
Lord Raziel retains the abilities of his vampire heritage including strength, speed, and heightened senses about double those of a human his size. He has the ability to change form into a black wolf, but rarely does so.
His unique vampiric power is that of a technopath. Raziel can grant what he calls "auto-intelligence" (A.I.) to machines. This gives the machines the limited ability to respond to stimuli and made decisions to carry out their assigned function.
Thus, gun turrets can be set to automatically fire upon detection of certain types of enemies and clockwork automatons can perform many of the functions human servants would. While these intelligent machines can adapt and make decisions, they are incapable of going against their "programmed" purpose (assigned by Raziel) and even the most human-like of his clockwork androids have no capacity for true emotion.
Personality:
Lord Aimery is extremely reclusive and withdrawn. Centuries of unlife and isolation have made him paranoid of assassins. He prefers to deal only with his predictable clockwork servants rather than erratic mortals and conducts most of his business through a clockwork middleman rather than face to face.
Extended isolation has left him more than a little out of touch with his emotions. He recognizes a nagging discontent in himself but does not identify it as lonliness and prefers to ignore it, surrounding himself with his unfeeling and predictable servants.
Raziel has no special fondness for his fellow vampires, seeing them as threats and competetors rather than simpatico. He bears them no ill will, however. He draws no distinction between mortal and Forsaken, but rather thinks in terms of mortal vs. vampire. He tends to look down on all non-vampires, seeing them as little more than industrious worker ants with life spans too short to be worth investing his interest.
Raziel respects talent more than bravado. He is calculating and coldly analytical, difficult to stir to anger, but truly terrifying when provoked. Rather dominant, he places strong importance on control of all things and dislikes surprises. He usually wears an analytical or dispassionate facial expression.
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Occupation:
Lord Raziel is ruler of The Citadel. He earns income through heavy taxation of its citizens and repays them with security and his centuries-long wisdom in ruling.
The once-small city originally went by a different name and Lord Aimery supplied it with weapony for a princely fee. Over time, his involvement with the town grew stronger until he was supplying all of its weaponry. The townsfolk began to turn to Raziel for other technological advice, and in exchange for tithes, he provided his imput on everything from city-wide sewage systems to new ways of fortifying the walls surrounding the city. Raziel's "pet project" city thrived and before long, he was collecting tithes and exchange for help so often he assumed a role of ruler of the city and renamed it The Citadel.
Over a hundred years later, the city thrives more than any other on the frontier under Raziel's watchful eye. His taxes are cripplingly steep, but the standard of living is still higher in the Citadel than anywhere else. The city is also unusually safe from invaders thanks to his AI war machines and auto turrets that guard its thick walls. Even the notorious Black Sun pirates have never launched a successful raid against the Citadel.
The townspeople have varied responses to Raziel's leadership. Most are displeased with his unreasonably high taxes, but feel the security and high lifestyle are worth the sacrifice. Some distrust him because he is a vampire while other radicals have formed a small religious cult in his honor.
He has sycophantic followers who praise his every decision as genius and eagerly uphold his law. Others are infuriated by his iron-fisted rule and single-minded directives and struggle to find a way to assassinate him. Direct rebellion is rare and usually put down immediately by Raziels' forces. After all, as a vampire he is not about to be "voted out" of office and as an immortal, he will rule the city for the entire forseeable future. There is also the very real possibility that he could reprogram his security machines to attack the very citizens they were designed to protect if they try to revolt.
He uses his funds to continually improve the Citadel. He ultimately hopes to rebuild his empire into the former glory of technology from before the Cataclysm. To that end, he lusts after lost technology and spends some of his funds on expeditions and research to find it so that he might resurrect the metalic skeletons of the past.
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Faults and Weaknesses:
Raziel is a control freak and can't stand to be surprised by unexpected circumstances, especially those he does not know how to respond to.
Outside of technological innovation, he is something of a traditionalist and will use "tried and true" methods rather than experimental to a fault. He is rather inflexible and does not take kindly to suggestion from others, considering it an insult to his intelligence.
Although he considers humans to be simple creatures and knows many tricks to control and manipulate them, he does not understand them nearly so well as he thinks he does and often underestimates his mortal subjects.
Although he is trained in basic gunplay and swordfighting, he is not especially adept at combat and relies on his technological defenses and clockwork bodyguards to protect him.
History:
Little is known of Raziel's history. He was alive before the Cataclysm, but in hybernation underground when it happened. He awoke later than other vampires and used the backbone of his technological forces to rebuild his empire and eventually the city of The Citadel itself.
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| | Re: Lord Raziel Aimery
« Reply #1 on May 15, 2006, 1:10pm » | |
Hehe, he sounds like an awesome, cruel dictator 
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| | Re: Lord Raziel Aimery
« Reply #2 on May 15, 2006, 6:20pm » | |
Quick question: Raziel probably wouldn't like smugglers much, would he? ^_^
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| | Re: Lord Raziel Aimery
« Reply #3 on May 15, 2006, 7:43pm » | |
Thanks, Libby! 
Quote:| Quick question: Raziel probably wouldn't like smugglers much, would he? ^_^ |
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Hmm... I'd imagine he wouldn't want criminals in his city any more than any other politician. However, I think this is more of a shade of grey than black or white.
He would not appreciate Joline smuggling goods in and out of the Citadel as she would be ducking the taxes and tariffs merchants would legally need to pay. As long as she's working on the small scale, I doubt he would go out of his way to bring her down (much like overlooking small time drug peddlers in favor of taking down the large scale drug lords) If she keeps it under her hat, I don't imagine there would be a problem.
If she went around mouthing off or flaunting her profession, he'd probably crush her to save face and uphold his reputation.
The fact that she's a smuggler in itself wouldn't bother him any (assuming she didn't do it in his town, ye ken?) so if she didn't peddle in the Citadel, she'd have nothing to fear about confessing that she does in other cities.
If you can think of a scenario in which her skills would be useful for him to sic her onto another town or something, she may even be seen as an asset.
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« Reply #4 on May 15, 2006, 7:55pm » | |
She smuggles between cities, not within. She could, but there's no profit in that.
The only thing I can think of that would be useful for him would be message delivery and espionage. She can do it, but smuggling's just more fun. Also, her contacts with the underworld in other towns might be useful - I can't imagine her liking the big drug lords very much and she probably avoids the big-time ones and delivers for the small-time businesses (Joline Dowell, upholder of the cottage industry!) so hmmm...
Maybe he could hire her to spy on a upcoming drug lord?
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| | Re: Lord Raziel Aimery
« Reply #5 on May 15, 2006, 8:36pm » | |
Quote:| She smuggles between cities, not within. |
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Right. I guess what I mean is that there'd be no harm in her admitting to smuggling between any 2 city states (Kyrne and Warstein for instance) as long as the Citadel was left out of the loop (not likely, I know. heh)
Raziel isn't typically interested in the mundane tasks of city maintanence and quelling crime and has relegated such tasks to humans and clockworks. Drugs in his city wouldn't be abundant, but nor would they be his greatest concern.
His real passions lie in attaining lost technology and data about it or any of the lost cities. His hubris drives him to build up his empire, not fuss with what he already has. Clearly, he is good at maintenence since the city is prospering, but he wouldn't go out of his way to micromanage mundane details and drug lords.
The promise of information or artifacts of lost technology would probably be the best way for a small-timer like Joline to bend his ear, if she were so inclined.
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| | Re: Lord Raziel Aimery
« Reply #6 on May 15, 2006, 8:43pm » | |
Makes perfect sense. I see Joline staying out of the eye of anybody in power (except nobles who deal with her, but they would be far and few in between) and she'd probably run the other way if she saw Raziel coming towards her. Not that that would help, heh.
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« Reply #7 on May 19, 2006, 4:05pm » | |
Unpleasant for Joline would be to run into a hungry Raziel =D
Just a thought.
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« Reply #8 on May 19, 2006, 6:50pm » | |
Quote:Unpleasant for Joline would be to run into a hungry Raziel =D
Just a thought. |
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I've currently written him as paranoid and reclusive, afraid of assassins. He rarely leaves his manor so it's not likely he and Joline would ever meet.
Someone suggested making him more of a "Jack the Ripper" type in terms of his feeding habits, though, so maybe he goes into town incognito?
I haven't worked this out fully as I'm still brainstorming his feeding habits.
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« Reply #9 on May 19, 2006, 7:12pm » | |
Why would he go into town? Couldn't he just get his clockworks to kidnap people? O_o I'm sure he'd want to get rid of non-tax-paying bums!
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| | Re: Lord Raziel Aimery
« Reply #10 on May 19, 2006, 7:55pm » | |
Heh. Raziel wouldn't deign to feed from lowlife bums and certainly not in person. He usually doesn't even hold official business meetings with high-ranking mortal officials. His clockworks filter out the human interaction and bring him reports from outside, then report his corresponding decrees.
The way I have it thus far, he collects blood "donations" from willing Citadel citizens (especially upper class). The donor reports in and opens up a vein, clockwork gathers it in a goblet and gives it to Raziel fresh. I'd imagine some of the volunteers are disappointed to find that they're not actually getting their necks sucked, but Raziel won't lower himself (or expose himself to hunter attack) to do such a thing with lowly mortals.
There are enough fans and followers hungry for power, attention, or just getting close to his celebrity that he would never need to take blood against their will.
If he feeds from a neck in person, it would be a purely emotional decision on his part with only someone close to him. Or in the possible future Ripper scenario, to fulfill some dark urge.
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« Reply #11 on May 19, 2006, 8:00pm » | |
*nodnod* Good call, you've got that 'loneliness ignored' angle to him, after all, and it might drive him out to do something primival.
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