Name: Mathos Sandoval
Age: 35
Birthday: May 15
Gender: Male
Species: Undead (Revenant)
Category: Citizen
Career: Criminal
Appearance Description
Face claim made using ArtBreeder created by Joel Simon.
Mathos is a strong looking man of Southern European descent with olive skin and sharp features. His smoke grey eyes are hard, twisted into a constant near-glare. He keeps his hair neat and well manicured, which starts a light, almost platinum blonde near his bangs and fades down to nearly black as it merged with his short, well kept beard. He dresses well, with a slight high class goth style to his dress.
Personality Description
Mathos is a cruel man to his core, who enjoys the suffering of others. This isn't to say that he's an unfeeling monster: he is fully capable of love, remorse, and mourning. But he takes these things to extremes, becoming possessive, vindictive, and occasionally violent. His love and affection are twisted, callous things that no sane person would want.
More than anything, Mathos craves power and import. He wants authority and respect and will lie, cheat, steal, and kill to get it.
Above the blackened, rotting core of his personality is a bright, shiny veneer of charm and respectability. He hides his true nature well in public, gaslighting those who have seen him at his worst into wondering if they were perhaps mistaken in some way.
Active Abilities
Practical Witchery - In life, Mathos was a witch. Even in death, he retains his knowledge of magic. He can perform simple magic at will, allowing him to perform mundane tasks such as opening doors and heating coffee using magic rather than machines or physical labor.
Cursecrafting - As in life, Mathos' affinity for magic is bound up in curses. A curse can be as mundane as a bad hair day or as terrible as hereditary misfortune and untimely death. However the more potent a curse Mathos wants to inflict upon someone, the more power he has to put into it. Curses require both a target and a connection to said target (usually a personal affect of the target, specific criteria for the curse to follow (including duration, potency, and qualifications for breaking said curse), and magical energy (which takes time to accumulate, from minutes to years). Cursing a bloodline with early baldness is a fairly standard feat that would require a vial of the intended target's blood and a week to gather the necessary energy. Cursing someone to stub their toe once in the next month would require nothing more than a discarded coffee cup and a few minutes' worth of energy.
Passive Abilities
The Crowd - Mathos has a crowd of spirits, collectively known as the Sluagh, surrounding him. These evil dead are shackled to him and passively protect him from curses and mind reading by interfering with the magic around them. They also prevent damage that would be done directly to his soul by being a physical barrier to such attacks.
What is Dead May Never Die - Mathos cannot be killed by mortal means: meaning that physical wounds from mundane sources nor poison or disease can end him. If he is struck down by any of these, his body will self-immolate and turn to ash. From there he will be remade the following night in a dark and forgotten place. Reviving in such a way drains all but a fraction of the magical energy that he has accumulated for his curses. He can only be permanently put down by a ceremonial knife ritually blessed and wielded by a blood relative, or else by having his unfinished business resolved.
Agonizing - Mathos' fingernails are like subtle claws and can pierce flesh rather easily. Any scratches he gives a person hurt far, far worse than they should - akin to the feeling of being burned by a brand.
Weaknesses
Forest Shamed - Because of his turning away from his Druidic heritage, Mathos can be bound and sealed by Druidic practices. For example he cannot pass the wall of a circle of standing stones and his magic cannot penetrate them.
Biography
Tomas del Bosque was a plague on his family until the day he died. And then he did die and the family thought that they were rid of the shadow he cast.
His soul, unfit for any afterlife, into an entity called a Sluagh. A crowd of restless evil souls, acting as one entity to prey mindlessly on the living.
Not one to be left to fade into obscurity, he fought against the mindless terror that the rest of his crowd wanted to inflict. He dominated and asserted his will. And eventually, with enough power, he took physical form again.
With a new body and a new identity, he began worming his way back into Manta Carlos society to take back what was his and get revenge on the people who had wronged him in the first place.
Resources
Mathos has a small brewery that he uses as a front for his more illicit activities. He has money and a secluded home from this business and his work with the Black Wings gang.
Additional Information
This character sheet was written by @Kada for @Zora
This is a re-application of Tomas del Bosque and is a continuation of that character.
Age: 35
Birthday: May 15
Gender: Male
Species: Undead (Revenant)
Category: Citizen
Career: Criminal
Appearance Description
Face claim made using ArtBreeder created by Joel Simon.
Mathos is a strong looking man of Southern European descent with olive skin and sharp features. His smoke grey eyes are hard, twisted into a constant near-glare. He keeps his hair neat and well manicured, which starts a light, almost platinum blonde near his bangs and fades down to nearly black as it merged with his short, well kept beard. He dresses well, with a slight high class goth style to his dress.
Personality Description
Mathos is a cruel man to his core, who enjoys the suffering of others. This isn't to say that he's an unfeeling monster: he is fully capable of love, remorse, and mourning. But he takes these things to extremes, becoming possessive, vindictive, and occasionally violent. His love and affection are twisted, callous things that no sane person would want.
More than anything, Mathos craves power and import. He wants authority and respect and will lie, cheat, steal, and kill to get it.
Above the blackened, rotting core of his personality is a bright, shiny veneer of charm and respectability. He hides his true nature well in public, gaslighting those who have seen him at his worst into wondering if they were perhaps mistaken in some way.
Active Abilities
Practical Witchery - In life, Mathos was a witch. Even in death, he retains his knowledge of magic. He can perform simple magic at will, allowing him to perform mundane tasks such as opening doors and heating coffee using magic rather than machines or physical labor.
Cursecrafting - As in life, Mathos' affinity for magic is bound up in curses. A curse can be as mundane as a bad hair day or as terrible as hereditary misfortune and untimely death. However the more potent a curse Mathos wants to inflict upon someone, the more power he has to put into it. Curses require both a target and a connection to said target (usually a personal affect of the target, specific criteria for the curse to follow (including duration, potency, and qualifications for breaking said curse), and magical energy (which takes time to accumulate, from minutes to years). Cursing a bloodline with early baldness is a fairly standard feat that would require a vial of the intended target's blood and a week to gather the necessary energy. Cursing someone to stub their toe once in the next month would require nothing more than a discarded coffee cup and a few minutes' worth of energy.
Passive Abilities
The Crowd - Mathos has a crowd of spirits, collectively known as the Sluagh, surrounding him. These evil dead are shackled to him and passively protect him from curses and mind reading by interfering with the magic around them. They also prevent damage that would be done directly to his soul by being a physical barrier to such attacks.
What is Dead May Never Die - Mathos cannot be killed by mortal means: meaning that physical wounds from mundane sources nor poison or disease can end him. If he is struck down by any of these, his body will self-immolate and turn to ash. From there he will be remade the following night in a dark and forgotten place. Reviving in such a way drains all but a fraction of the magical energy that he has accumulated for his curses. He can only be permanently put down by a ceremonial knife ritually blessed and wielded by a blood relative, or else by having his unfinished business resolved.
Agonizing - Mathos' fingernails are like subtle claws and can pierce flesh rather easily. Any scratches he gives a person hurt far, far worse than they should - akin to the feeling of being burned by a brand.
Weaknesses
Forest Shamed - Because of his turning away from his Druidic heritage, Mathos can be bound and sealed by Druidic practices. For example he cannot pass the wall of a circle of standing stones and his magic cannot penetrate them.
Biography
Tomas del Bosque was a plague on his family until the day he died. And then he did die and the family thought that they were rid of the shadow he cast.
His soul, unfit for any afterlife, into an entity called a Sluagh. A crowd of restless evil souls, acting as one entity to prey mindlessly on the living.
Not one to be left to fade into obscurity, he fought against the mindless terror that the rest of his crowd wanted to inflict. He dominated and asserted his will. And eventually, with enough power, he took physical form again.
With a new body and a new identity, he began worming his way back into Manta Carlos society to take back what was his and get revenge on the people who had wronged him in the first place.
Resources
Mathos has a small brewery that he uses as a front for his more illicit activities. He has money and a secluded home from this business and his work with the Black Wings gang.
Additional Information
This character sheet was written by @Kada for @Zora
This is a re-application of Tomas del Bosque and is a continuation of that character.
