Dregus-Logoterite Arkan
Beliefs:
1) The Church must prevail through faith, not through mere demographics. The clones are nothing compared to the womb-born.
2) The nobility must be brought back to their faith. We need their strength to break the anarchists.
3) All wars are battles between ideas. Men and material are only expressions of the underlying ideology.
Instincts:
1) Talk my way out of trouble (start a Duel of Wits whenever physically threatened).
2) Let someone else do the dirty work.
3) Always have a back-up plan.
Lifepaths:
Born to Rule, Coeptir, Propagandist, X-O, Student, Devoted to Fire, Cotar, Dregus
Age: 44 (41 + non-native setting + setting switch)
Stats:
Per 5
Wil 5
Agi 4
Forte 4
Pow 2
Spd 3
Steel 7 (soldier, Wil > 5, competitive, killed)
Hes 5
Skills:
Administration 4
Archotare-Wise 2
Bureaucracy 4
Church Law 3
Cotar-Wise 2
Divination 3
Doctrine 4
Etiquette 4
History 2
Media-Wise 3
Oratory 2
Parish-Wise 2
Propaganda 6
Regulations-Wise 2
Research 2
Signals Tech-Wise 2
Suasion 6
Temple-Wise 3
Tithe-Wise 2
Unit-Wise 2
Traits:
Call-On:
Well-Read (open)
Character Traits:
Crusader
Paranoid
Wise
Dice Traits:
Clever Bastard
Devoted to Fire
Dregutai
Keeper of the Fire
Mark of Privilege
Scut Work
Your Eminence
Resources 8d
Propaganda Tools - Colour: The church maintains an extensive multimedia broadcast system that the Dregus can use at will. The Dregus himself is a frequent and popular guest on multiple news and discussion programs.
Consolidated Broadcast Control Centre - It's a Signals test with an Obstacle of 3 to broadcast anything on Lankar-Sors without going through the church's system. Colour: The Church operates the networks, the datacentres, the relays and antennas under license from the League. It's extremely difficult to avoid using their networks on-planet.
Circles:
Base Circles 2
Relationships:
Duke Redav - the Duke and Arkan both support the church and the nobility uniting, and work to build bridges whenever possible.
Inquisitor Cormyn Bane (complicated) - Arkan outranks Bane, but is not actually his superior. Doesn't stop him from trying to use the Inquisitor as his hound though.
Cotar-Doctor Emlyn Grange (complicated) - They don't see eye-to-eye on the role of clones in the church. Arkan thinks Grange is an amoral psychopath fixated on mutilating the human soul on the genetic level.
Affiliations:
2d The Ecclesiarchy (from Dregutai)
1d Devotees of the Fire
1d The Forge Cathedral (the Archotare's personal headquarters / megachurch, located in the capital)
1d The old Darikahn nobility
Reputations:
2d Spokesman of the Church (from Dregutai)
Physical Tolerances:
Superficial H3, Injured H5 Maimed H7, Mortal H9
Appearance:
Arkan was once a physically impressive man, but has gone to seed. He usually wears a purposefully-stereotypical cotar's uniform that makes him look like someone's fond memory of a creche-priest. He exudes paternal warmth.
Background / Reputation:
Dregus-Logoterite Arkan was originally Count Arkan, heir to House Cresus, the last of the Dunedin conquering families. He has graciously extended his hand to the Darikahn remnants in the spirit of fraternity.
To the general populace he is "Father Arkan", a church insider who stands up for the little guy against the bosses, struggling for fairness and justice without sacrificing his traditional values.
Inside the church, the most popular and lurid rumour, never repeated in his presence and even then said only in jest, is that he barehandedly crushed the previous Dregus-Logoterite's throat and replaced him with a clone to cover the act.
Notes:
Arkan is the Vaylen figure of note for the Usurpation phase. Think of him as a more ambitious Mr. Rodgers. He's also the "nicest" of the Vaylen Figures of Note - he's not an outright bastard like Piers, nor a worm like Wencelas.
