Name: Xavier Lee-Harding Desouk III
Age: 25
Birthday: March 15th
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Category: Citizen
Career: Arms Dealer/Artificer
Appearance Description:
Xavier stands out in a crowd. Standing at a modest 5’11 and weighing roughly 140 pounds, he’s lean and relatively tall. While not covered in muscle mass, his body does have notable definition. His black hair is cut short, and his skin is dark. However, his eyes are misleading as they are an iridescent silver.
He can often be found wearing khaki slacks and a black vest with a dark red tie around his shop. When out and about he opts for expensive coats and jeans. Although when running “Errands” he’s often seen wearing a trench coat, combat boots, a fedora, and custom jeans with several holsters, pouches, and pockets sewn into the lining to store various items and weapons.
Personality Description:
Xavier likes money. He also likes the nice things that such money can buy. Due to this, Xavier has almost no qualms when it comes to the acquisition of large sums of money. While not merciless, he won’t hesitate to get rid of annoyances and other things he deems “bad for business.”
When conducting day to day transactions in his shop, he’s often charming and witty, doing his best to close the deal. However when he drops the act, he has a proclivity towards thrill seeking, and being more laid back than his alternate demeanor would suggest.
When running errands, he often has a one track mind, and no room for incompetence. He also becomes increasingly impatient if he’s kept from something he wants. While Xavier does have violent tendencies at times, he’s recently started going to anger management classes in order to avoid hiring a new shop assistant every three months.
Species Abilities: N/A.
Powers:
Artifice: The ability to create items from existing pieces and parts via magic. An item cannot be created out of thin air. The components must be there for artificing to be attempted. The faster Xavier tries to create an item, the more of a drain it is on him. Creating something as large as a great sword instantly from the required parts would render him unconscious for a few weeks. Xavier often creates things part by part over many days to avoid magical exhaustion.
●Elemental transfer
○The desired element must be present in some form for Xavier to imbue the
desired object with it.
●Improvement
○Xavier can improve a weapon beyond what is normal as long as the components
used to create the item are from this universe/Plane of existence
●Reverse Engineer
○Xavier can deconstruct an object and learn about the inner workings of it as long
as it is from this dimension.
●Infusion
○Xavier can infuse effects into potions or items/weapons. However he must either
have the required components to do so, or the person who’s ability he wishes to
infuse present.
●Mechanical Ritual
○A complicated ritual that takes months of preparation and a week to complete,
the result is a powerful item. The ritual requires several rare and dangerous
artifacts dependant on what the intended end result is. The consequence for
casting the ritual will end with Xavier falling into a three week long coma and
being bedridden for weeks afterward.
Any items created by this route are simply very powerful. They can not destroy the world/universe/multiverse. Medium sized buildings ( A grocery store) are about the extent of these objects relative destructive scale.
Eyes of the smith
Allows Xavier to detect magical energy and artifacts by distinguishing them as different
colors. People who are heavily involved in magic will tend to radiate and glow, which
might have the added effect of Xavier squinting in their presence.
Biography:
Xavier Lee-Harding Wilhelm Johannes-Franz Desouk the third was born a rich boy into a family of artificers.
His family is heavily involved in the arms trade, both legally and illegally further. Dealing both in conventional and magical weaponry. His early life was spent learning how to turn a profit from even the most miserly of buyers. Along with staying one step ahead of the competition, and several steps ahead of the police. Xavier’s father often drilled him endlessly in business practices and for his eventual role as CEO of the company.
The family arms trading business was disguised as Desouk and Son’s Trading Company. A mundane hunting shop in Austria. However, there were several other stores that existed all over the world, each going by an alias. Xavier’s father racked in a considerable amount of money, however it was when Xavier became a teenager that things went south.
Xavier liked shiny things, along with an expensive lifestyle. His habits were beginning to put a strain on the family funds, and his father’s nerves. Finally, after an incident involving a credit card, several Rolls-Royce’s a penthouse suite in Downtown LA, and a brand new Casino. Xavier’s father decided it was time for his son to learn how to manage expenses.
At the tender age of Nineteen, he shipped his son off to a family friend in Manta Carlos. Xavier then majored in Business and Economics while being forced to take several classes on money management. Although to no one’s surprise, Xavier continued living his extravagant lifestyle, and was subsequently cut off from the family funds, and his savings account.
Xavier’s father told him that, while he loved him, the debt collectors and auditors weren’t worth it. Xavier was told to make his own fortune, and in the event his father hadn’t somehow passed away by the time Xavier was sixty, he could have his inheritance back.
Needless to say, once Savier was out of College, he decided to go explore for a bit. Taking his knowledge of business and artificing with him. In Brazil, he challenged an odd old man to a chess match and won. The man then gave him a potion called the “Eyes of the Smith”. Upon drinking it, Xavier’s eye’s changed to their now present silver color, and he gained the ability to see magic.
In France, he “appropriated” a peculiar metal hammer from a museum to use in his experiments. After gathering some interesting items and contacts, and more than enough enemies. He returned to Manta Carlos and used the last of his money to open a small shop in the shadier part of town.There, he fills orders for all sorts of people, the well intentioned, and ill at heart alike. His next goal is to expand his shop, and become the best supplier of magical and non magical weapons in the world, after he takes his father’s company, of course.
Additional Information: Xavier is the current owner of “Darkheart Artifacts” located in the underground.
Age: 25
Birthday: March 15th
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Category: Citizen
Career: Arms Dealer/Artificer
Appearance Description:
Xavier stands out in a crowd. Standing at a modest 5’11 and weighing roughly 140 pounds, he’s lean and relatively tall. While not covered in muscle mass, his body does have notable definition. His black hair is cut short, and his skin is dark. However, his eyes are misleading as they are an iridescent silver.
He can often be found wearing khaki slacks and a black vest with a dark red tie around his shop. When out and about he opts for expensive coats and jeans. Although when running “Errands” he’s often seen wearing a trench coat, combat boots, a fedora, and custom jeans with several holsters, pouches, and pockets sewn into the lining to store various items and weapons.
Personality Description:
Xavier likes money. He also likes the nice things that such money can buy. Due to this, Xavier has almost no qualms when it comes to the acquisition of large sums of money. While not merciless, he won’t hesitate to get rid of annoyances and other things he deems “bad for business.”
When conducting day to day transactions in his shop, he’s often charming and witty, doing his best to close the deal. However when he drops the act, he has a proclivity towards thrill seeking, and being more laid back than his alternate demeanor would suggest.
When running errands, he often has a one track mind, and no room for incompetence. He also becomes increasingly impatient if he’s kept from something he wants. While Xavier does have violent tendencies at times, he’s recently started going to anger management classes in order to avoid hiring a new shop assistant every three months.
Species Abilities: N/A.
Powers:
Artifice: The ability to create items from existing pieces and parts via magic. An item cannot be created out of thin air. The components must be there for artificing to be attempted. The faster Xavier tries to create an item, the more of a drain it is on him. Creating something as large as a great sword instantly from the required parts would render him unconscious for a few weeks. Xavier often creates things part by part over many days to avoid magical exhaustion.
●Elemental transfer
○The desired element must be present in some form for Xavier to imbue the
desired object with it.
●Improvement
○Xavier can improve a weapon beyond what is normal as long as the components
used to create the item are from this universe/Plane of existence
●Reverse Engineer
○Xavier can deconstruct an object and learn about the inner workings of it as long
as it is from this dimension.
●Infusion
○Xavier can infuse effects into potions or items/weapons. However he must either
have the required components to do so, or the person who’s ability he wishes to
infuse present.
●Mechanical Ritual
○A complicated ritual that takes months of preparation and a week to complete,
the result is a powerful item. The ritual requires several rare and dangerous
artifacts dependant on what the intended end result is. The consequence for
casting the ritual will end with Xavier falling into a three week long coma and
being bedridden for weeks afterward.
Any items created by this route are simply very powerful. They can not destroy the world/universe/multiverse. Medium sized buildings ( A grocery store) are about the extent of these objects relative destructive scale.
Eyes of the smith
Allows Xavier to detect magical energy and artifacts by distinguishing them as different
colors. People who are heavily involved in magic will tend to radiate and glow, which
might have the added effect of Xavier squinting in their presence.
Biography:
Xavier Lee-Harding Wilhelm Johannes-Franz Desouk the third was born a rich boy into a family of artificers.
His family is heavily involved in the arms trade, both legally and illegally further. Dealing both in conventional and magical weaponry. His early life was spent learning how to turn a profit from even the most miserly of buyers. Along with staying one step ahead of the competition, and several steps ahead of the police. Xavier’s father often drilled him endlessly in business practices and for his eventual role as CEO of the company.
The family arms trading business was disguised as Desouk and Son’s Trading Company. A mundane hunting shop in Austria. However, there were several other stores that existed all over the world, each going by an alias. Xavier’s father racked in a considerable amount of money, however it was when Xavier became a teenager that things went south.
Xavier liked shiny things, along with an expensive lifestyle. His habits were beginning to put a strain on the family funds, and his father’s nerves. Finally, after an incident involving a credit card, several Rolls-Royce’s a penthouse suite in Downtown LA, and a brand new Casino. Xavier’s father decided it was time for his son to learn how to manage expenses.
At the tender age of Nineteen, he shipped his son off to a family friend in Manta Carlos. Xavier then majored in Business and Economics while being forced to take several classes on money management. Although to no one’s surprise, Xavier continued living his extravagant lifestyle, and was subsequently cut off from the family funds, and his savings account.
Xavier’s father told him that, while he loved him, the debt collectors and auditors weren’t worth it. Xavier was told to make his own fortune, and in the event his father hadn’t somehow passed away by the time Xavier was sixty, he could have his inheritance back.
Needless to say, once Savier was out of College, he decided to go explore for a bit. Taking his knowledge of business and artificing with him. In Brazil, he challenged an odd old man to a chess match and won. The man then gave him a potion called the “Eyes of the Smith”. Upon drinking it, Xavier’s eye’s changed to their now present silver color, and he gained the ability to see magic.
In France, he “appropriated” a peculiar metal hammer from a museum to use in his experiments. After gathering some interesting items and contacts, and more than enough enemies. He returned to Manta Carlos and used the last of his money to open a small shop in the shadier part of town.There, he fills orders for all sorts of people, the well intentioned, and ill at heart alike. His next goal is to expand his shop, and become the best supplier of magical and non magical weapons in the world, after he takes his father’s company, of course.
Additional Information: Xavier is the current owner of “Darkheart Artifacts” located in the underground.
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