Leopold
08-15-13, 10:46 AM
The Raven (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ0kIuoCXQY)
Lord Leopold Winchester
3084
“Old gods, new gods, no gods...it’s about time they realised the only person to tell me what I do is me…and the wife.”
Alias: The Raven
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Height: 5’8”
Weight: 145lbs
Eye Colour: Black
Hair Colour: Black
Religion: Old Faith
Alignment: Lawful Good
Occupation: Merchant
Intelligence: Above Average
Literacy: Above Average
Updates are in red.
History: If you were to ask Leopold Winchester of Scara Brae what his greatest accomplishments were, you would find him short of the words required to describe them modestly. From an early age, his head for numbers, haggling and trade earned him a foothold in the mercantile on goings of Corone’s capital city, Radasanth. Though gifted with a small measure of wealth as the last descendent of the Winchester family, he did not squander it like the rest of the dubious noble houses. Instead, he turned it to opportunities he could not pass up; investment, re-sale and property. By twenty-four, he had turned his family’s dwindling coffers into four estates. Two were lost at age twenty-six to the first outbreak of the civil war, and the remaining two sold upon his parent’s death on the eve of his twenty seventh-birth day.
Suddenly free from the stagnant underbelly of Corone, Leopold cut his wealth from the skeleton of Radasanth and retired early to Scara Brae. There, he found a friendlier climate, and put his considerable expertise and understanding of Althanas’s volatile trade market to good use. He invested in membership to the Merchant Circle, one of the many guilds of the considerable Guilds-man Ring. He very soon became a master, one of each guild’s ruling council, second in power and influence within that industry to the Guild’s Van. That power allowed him to establish the Winchester name and heraldry in the noble circle of Scara Brae, and he debuted as a bachelor aged twenty-nine.
The morning after his investiture, whilst sat in a small polite bar on the north side of Scara Brae. He was wearing his usual golden threaded waistcoat, over coat, hat and tails and smoking a cigar in a pensive mood at the end of a long night of celebration. He caught sight of a young red headed woman, resplendent in the morning sun and wearing an equally radiant crimson dress. The leather lattice work down the front and the heavy basket of goods tucked neatly under a strong arm placed her as a young debutante of one of the more to do households. Leopold had studied the women of the city long enough to know the wheat from the chaff.
His heart skipped a beat. He stubbed out his cigar and ran out with a wheeze into the morning sun. His tall, lanky form was pallid and sickly in the morning light, his cheeks drained of life, colour after a few too many cut-crystal decanters of port, whiskey, and quite possibly gin; he could not remember. Despite his dishevelled appearance, he ran after the woman, expecting to catch her gently on the arm and ask at the very least her name. By the time he turned a corner and came out onto the building site of Market Square, her basket, buxom cleavage and lofty and joyful laugh were absent from the city streets.
Leopold was understandably heartbroken. Love was something he had never experienced, too busy as he was ensconced in his monetary world and the languishing existence of a noblemen with too many responsibilities. What he did not know then, was that he had just laid eyes on his soon to be wife. Fate denied their meeting for a full turn of the moon before they crossed paths at a noble sway in the upmarket district of Mrs Rochester’s residential district. Ever since their first fateful meeting, when she had been equally enamoured by his chiselled young looks, smart dress and equally smart tongue, Ruby has pledged herself through thick and thin, and even death to be dutiful and loving to Leopold.
In the last five years, as his wife has come and gone and he has suffered heartache in her long absence, their love has only grown stronger. However, his business has suffered and his money drained by the resurgence of conflict in Corone, at the Queen’s unruly behest, Leopold has doubled his efforts to ensure the Winchester legacy remains a strong, powerful possession to leave a name for itself through the history of Scara Brae. Though somewhat more portly and considerably more wise in understanding his wife’s trials and tribulations, he is too stubborn, and too secretive with the full extent of his business dealings, legal and otherwise to lay low whilst the world steals from his velveteen pockets.
History Level Two: A knife in the gut is a horribly undignified way for a man to die. The fact it happened in the pursuit of justice (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?25294-Dread-Sovereign-(Closed)&highlight=dread+sovereign) made the ordeal even more intolerable. Leopold Winchester, as consequence, has become a sullen, sulking individual. It is a sure-fire way to knock a man’s confidence, taking everything from him with a simple, almost innocent thrust. Since his adventure in Radasanth, and the successful capture of the murderer Monserrat, Leopold has remained below the radar.
People are still talking about his refugee work (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?24129-To-Steal-Faith-From-The-Faithless-(Closed)&highlight=Mr+Winchester) in Knife’s Edge, his business’ success in Underwood, and his recent endeavour to break the very fabric of reality in the wilds of Berevar (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?23980-By-Rook-Wrath-and-Ruin-(Solo)&highlight=Mr+Winchester). Whilst the social and economic elite of Scara Brae are all abuzz about the Man with the Waistcoat, the man that used to be he sits in a drunken fog, brooding about having to start again.
Trying to tell people he is the very same Mr Winchester they conversed with a few weeks ago, when you look ten stone lighter, and like a beleaguered soldier, is anything but easy. Mrs Winchester insists a simple explanation will do away with all his worries, but Leopold is anything but reassured. Magic is inherently not to be trusted, especially in Scara Brae, where edicts prohibit its practice in the streets. There is, thus, only one path for the merchant. He must leave Scara Brae, for the time being, and work his business to greater prosperity from behind the scenes...provided it doesn't involve giants again (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?24370-A-Tale-In-Shrink-(Closed)&highlight=tale+in+shrink).
Personality: Kind, subtle, and eternally optimistic, Leopold is an endearing counterpart to Ruby’s ball busting. He splits his personality between work and home, instantly able to fall into and out of homely demeanour and mercantile stoicism. He is controlling, confident, and friendly. Though clandestine needs rule his life, he is honest beyond all reproach. That does not mean he does not have a deceptive streak.
His logical mind can inhibit emotion outside of his marriage. This can make him a difficult person to get to know. He is relatively down to earth for a noble. His history with his family and their fall from grace has severed his ego from his purse, allowing him to rise as a hard working merchant making it in life through skill and guts, as opposed to birthright.
Skills:
Sharpshooting: Leopold has unnerving accuracy with flintlock pistols, though his own has long since rusted and fallen into disrepair. He can still shoot with adept accuracy, should he find himself handling a gun.
Logistics: Leopold’s ability to perceive shape, distance and time in relation to spaces is adept. He can handle figures, quantities and dimensions with adept skill, and tackle complex logistical problems.
Calculation: Leopold is an adept haggler, who possesses adept knowledge of the trade rules and regulations of Corone, Scara Brae, and Fallien. His connections allow him access to the black market.
Cartography: Leopold has acquired considerable experience of the geography of places his ships and wagons travel. He has adept knowledge of Scara Brae, Alerar, and Corone’s, and can plot courses through these regions with accuracy.
Subterfuge: Leopold can utilise charisma and disguises to conceal his identity with above average skill. Though no master spy, it allows him to trade where he cannot, or travel openly through hostile territory.
Abilities:
Raven Call: Leopold can conjure a sphere of shadow equal to the size of his fist. It strikes with concussive, anti-matter, which makes no sound. It strikes at X2 strength. Useable twice per post, up to three times per thread.
The Aerie: Leopold can conjure and exile items into a space he calls the Aerie. It has no physical properties or presence. It cannot be or accessed by anyone except Leopold. He cannot store perishable, magical, or living items in the vault.
Old God: (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?23980-By-Rook-Wrath-and-Ruin-(Solo)&highlight=by+rook%2C+wrath%2C+and+ruin) Leopold is immeasurably old, born of Berevar’s hopes and dreams. He does not age physically. When he succumbs, he reincarnates, and he is 50% resistant to magic that is directly from The Tap.
Inventory: Leopold has a large merchant empire, and as such has access to common household items and trinkets. This includes a schooner that acts as The Winchester Rose Trading Company flagship, called the Contra.
Isabella: Leopold possesses a flintlock pistol. It has fallen into disrepair since Leopold inherited it, and it has remained rusted and out of use over the mantel of the dining room.
Davina: (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?25506-Rook-You&highlight=rook+you) A single-edged, black shafted steel spear enchanted to inflict double damage against beings with natural wings. The spearhead detaches as a cavalry sabre, and it is masterwork, forged beneath Salvar’s moonlight.
Aerie Contents: Candles, Sextant, World Map, Sea Charts, Account, Ledgers, Quill & Ink, Assorted Work Clothes; Gold Threaded Waistcoat, Three Piece Suits, Cobbled Top Hat, and Silver Tipped Walking Cane, Woollen Blankets, and Wedding Ring. Cutlery, Gold Leaf Stem Wine Glass, Several Large Cushions, Ruby's Spare Clothes, Assorted Small Foreign Change, Il'Jhain Outsider Pass, Alerar Merchant Signet Ring, Guild Membership Scroll, Travel Documents for Corone, Cooking Pots & Pans, Liquor Cabinet Contents, Sovereign Ring.
Lord Leopold Winchester
3084
“Old gods, new gods, no gods...it’s about time they realised the only person to tell me what I do is me…and the wife.”
Alias: The Raven
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Height: 5’8”
Weight: 145lbs
Eye Colour: Black
Hair Colour: Black
Religion: Old Faith
Alignment: Lawful Good
Occupation: Merchant
Intelligence: Above Average
Literacy: Above Average
Updates are in red.
History: If you were to ask Leopold Winchester of Scara Brae what his greatest accomplishments were, you would find him short of the words required to describe them modestly. From an early age, his head for numbers, haggling and trade earned him a foothold in the mercantile on goings of Corone’s capital city, Radasanth. Though gifted with a small measure of wealth as the last descendent of the Winchester family, he did not squander it like the rest of the dubious noble houses. Instead, he turned it to opportunities he could not pass up; investment, re-sale and property. By twenty-four, he had turned his family’s dwindling coffers into four estates. Two were lost at age twenty-six to the first outbreak of the civil war, and the remaining two sold upon his parent’s death on the eve of his twenty seventh-birth day.
Suddenly free from the stagnant underbelly of Corone, Leopold cut his wealth from the skeleton of Radasanth and retired early to Scara Brae. There, he found a friendlier climate, and put his considerable expertise and understanding of Althanas’s volatile trade market to good use. He invested in membership to the Merchant Circle, one of the many guilds of the considerable Guilds-man Ring. He very soon became a master, one of each guild’s ruling council, second in power and influence within that industry to the Guild’s Van. That power allowed him to establish the Winchester name and heraldry in the noble circle of Scara Brae, and he debuted as a bachelor aged twenty-nine.
The morning after his investiture, whilst sat in a small polite bar on the north side of Scara Brae. He was wearing his usual golden threaded waistcoat, over coat, hat and tails and smoking a cigar in a pensive mood at the end of a long night of celebration. He caught sight of a young red headed woman, resplendent in the morning sun and wearing an equally radiant crimson dress. The leather lattice work down the front and the heavy basket of goods tucked neatly under a strong arm placed her as a young debutante of one of the more to do households. Leopold had studied the women of the city long enough to know the wheat from the chaff.
His heart skipped a beat. He stubbed out his cigar and ran out with a wheeze into the morning sun. His tall, lanky form was pallid and sickly in the morning light, his cheeks drained of life, colour after a few too many cut-crystal decanters of port, whiskey, and quite possibly gin; he could not remember. Despite his dishevelled appearance, he ran after the woman, expecting to catch her gently on the arm and ask at the very least her name. By the time he turned a corner and came out onto the building site of Market Square, her basket, buxom cleavage and lofty and joyful laugh were absent from the city streets.
Leopold was understandably heartbroken. Love was something he had never experienced, too busy as he was ensconced in his monetary world and the languishing existence of a noblemen with too many responsibilities. What he did not know then, was that he had just laid eyes on his soon to be wife. Fate denied their meeting for a full turn of the moon before they crossed paths at a noble sway in the upmarket district of Mrs Rochester’s residential district. Ever since their first fateful meeting, when she had been equally enamoured by his chiselled young looks, smart dress and equally smart tongue, Ruby has pledged herself through thick and thin, and even death to be dutiful and loving to Leopold.
In the last five years, as his wife has come and gone and he has suffered heartache in her long absence, their love has only grown stronger. However, his business has suffered and his money drained by the resurgence of conflict in Corone, at the Queen’s unruly behest, Leopold has doubled his efforts to ensure the Winchester legacy remains a strong, powerful possession to leave a name for itself through the history of Scara Brae. Though somewhat more portly and considerably more wise in understanding his wife’s trials and tribulations, he is too stubborn, and too secretive with the full extent of his business dealings, legal and otherwise to lay low whilst the world steals from his velveteen pockets.
History Level Two: A knife in the gut is a horribly undignified way for a man to die. The fact it happened in the pursuit of justice (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?25294-Dread-Sovereign-(Closed)&highlight=dread+sovereign) made the ordeal even more intolerable. Leopold Winchester, as consequence, has become a sullen, sulking individual. It is a sure-fire way to knock a man’s confidence, taking everything from him with a simple, almost innocent thrust. Since his adventure in Radasanth, and the successful capture of the murderer Monserrat, Leopold has remained below the radar.
People are still talking about his refugee work (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?24129-To-Steal-Faith-From-The-Faithless-(Closed)&highlight=Mr+Winchester) in Knife’s Edge, his business’ success in Underwood, and his recent endeavour to break the very fabric of reality in the wilds of Berevar (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?23980-By-Rook-Wrath-and-Ruin-(Solo)&highlight=Mr+Winchester). Whilst the social and economic elite of Scara Brae are all abuzz about the Man with the Waistcoat, the man that used to be he sits in a drunken fog, brooding about having to start again.
Trying to tell people he is the very same Mr Winchester they conversed with a few weeks ago, when you look ten stone lighter, and like a beleaguered soldier, is anything but easy. Mrs Winchester insists a simple explanation will do away with all his worries, but Leopold is anything but reassured. Magic is inherently not to be trusted, especially in Scara Brae, where edicts prohibit its practice in the streets. There is, thus, only one path for the merchant. He must leave Scara Brae, for the time being, and work his business to greater prosperity from behind the scenes...provided it doesn't involve giants again (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?24370-A-Tale-In-Shrink-(Closed)&highlight=tale+in+shrink).
Personality: Kind, subtle, and eternally optimistic, Leopold is an endearing counterpart to Ruby’s ball busting. He splits his personality between work and home, instantly able to fall into and out of homely demeanour and mercantile stoicism. He is controlling, confident, and friendly. Though clandestine needs rule his life, he is honest beyond all reproach. That does not mean he does not have a deceptive streak.
His logical mind can inhibit emotion outside of his marriage. This can make him a difficult person to get to know. He is relatively down to earth for a noble. His history with his family and their fall from grace has severed his ego from his purse, allowing him to rise as a hard working merchant making it in life through skill and guts, as opposed to birthright.
Skills:
Sharpshooting: Leopold has unnerving accuracy with flintlock pistols, though his own has long since rusted and fallen into disrepair. He can still shoot with adept accuracy, should he find himself handling a gun.
Logistics: Leopold’s ability to perceive shape, distance and time in relation to spaces is adept. He can handle figures, quantities and dimensions with adept skill, and tackle complex logistical problems.
Calculation: Leopold is an adept haggler, who possesses adept knowledge of the trade rules and regulations of Corone, Scara Brae, and Fallien. His connections allow him access to the black market.
Cartography: Leopold has acquired considerable experience of the geography of places his ships and wagons travel. He has adept knowledge of Scara Brae, Alerar, and Corone’s, and can plot courses through these regions with accuracy.
Subterfuge: Leopold can utilise charisma and disguises to conceal his identity with above average skill. Though no master spy, it allows him to trade where he cannot, or travel openly through hostile territory.
Abilities:
Raven Call: Leopold can conjure a sphere of shadow equal to the size of his fist. It strikes with concussive, anti-matter, which makes no sound. It strikes at X2 strength. Useable twice per post, up to three times per thread.
The Aerie: Leopold can conjure and exile items into a space he calls the Aerie. It has no physical properties or presence. It cannot be or accessed by anyone except Leopold. He cannot store perishable, magical, or living items in the vault.
Old God: (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?23980-By-Rook-Wrath-and-Ruin-(Solo)&highlight=by+rook%2C+wrath%2C+and+ruin) Leopold is immeasurably old, born of Berevar’s hopes and dreams. He does not age physically. When he succumbs, he reincarnates, and he is 50% resistant to magic that is directly from The Tap.
Inventory: Leopold has a large merchant empire, and as such has access to common household items and trinkets. This includes a schooner that acts as The Winchester Rose Trading Company flagship, called the Contra.
Isabella: Leopold possesses a flintlock pistol. It has fallen into disrepair since Leopold inherited it, and it has remained rusted and out of use over the mantel of the dining room.
Davina: (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?25506-Rook-You&highlight=rook+you) A single-edged, black shafted steel spear enchanted to inflict double damage against beings with natural wings. The spearhead detaches as a cavalry sabre, and it is masterwork, forged beneath Salvar’s moonlight.
Aerie Contents: Candles, Sextant, World Map, Sea Charts, Account, Ledgers, Quill & Ink, Assorted Work Clothes; Gold Threaded Waistcoat, Three Piece Suits, Cobbled Top Hat, and Silver Tipped Walking Cane, Woollen Blankets, and Wedding Ring. Cutlery, Gold Leaf Stem Wine Glass, Several Large Cushions, Ruby's Spare Clothes, Assorted Small Foreign Change, Il'Jhain Outsider Pass, Alerar Merchant Signet Ring, Guild Membership Scroll, Travel Documents for Corone, Cooking Pots & Pans, Liquor Cabinet Contents, Sovereign Ring.