Editing Savino Villanova (section)

=20 Questions=

 1) Savino Villanova was born and raised in Vodacce, on the island of Diona.
 2) Tall, dark, and handsome. Well, more olive skinned than dark, black hair tied back, waxed mustaches and beard. He dresses in the blacks and purples fashionable in Vodacce; generally, he looks exactly like the young spare son of a Merchant Prince offshoot, which he is.
 3) He has a tendency to drop words of Vodacce into casual conversation, and is fond of sweeping, dramatic gestures.
 4) Ambition. He's a climber, looking for wealth, status, and power. He's read his Scaroveche, although the truth is that he's not actually ruthless enough to embody its principles. 
 5) The very butcher of a silk button, a duelist, a duelist, a gentleman of the very first house of the first and second cause. He can plot and he can fight, but in the heat of the moment, he tends to act first and plan around the consequences later.
 6) Savino loves, loves, loves the opera. He hates beer and ale, always taking wine in preference.
 7) Savino, again, is a man who tries to lay out subtle plots despite his hot tempers. He is quick to call for a duel in response to a real or imagined slight. He's also been seen to openly weep during opera.
 8) A certain amount of healthy paranoia is a survival trait in Vodacce, but in Savino's case, he becomes distinctly uncomfortable at the prospect of being alone. Give him revels, courts, even a fight where he knows who and where his enemies are. Just spare him the silence.
 9) What does he want? Everything. Being the youngest son of a lesser offshoot of one of Thea's most powerful noble houses puts him above the vast majority of the population, but perpetually aware of how many people are still above him.
 10) Savino is well aware of Vodacce's nature of treachery and the costs of the families' perpetual fighting, but he still, truly and entirely, loves his nation. 
 11) The Calligari and Villanova family have been feuding for decades. Savino regards them and their servants with contempt. (Perhaps he killed a Calligari in a duel, as one more reason to spend time out of the country?)
 12) Loyalty to the Villanova family is a tricky prospect. He's a Hero obligated to the wishes of one of Thea's most infamous Villains, and fighting between the family is very nearly as bitter as between them and the family's enemy. Savino's first loyalty is still to the ideal of his family, the name and legacy, even while his siblings plot fratricide for their father's position.
 13) Savino is not a stranger to affairs in court or liaisons with the peasantry, but is not currently romantically entangled, and as the youngest son, his family has yet to search for a suitable match.
 14) Savino has three legitimate brothers, three recognized bastard brothers, and one sister. His father has spent his life pitting them in competition with one another over every piece of recognition or acknowledgement, partially to prepare them for life as nobles of Vodacce, largely to prevent any of them from creating an alliance against him.
 15) Savino's father would regard him well for his skills, but ultimately, not likely to be the one to inherit his position and estates. Too enamored of foolish ideals to be the one to thrive.
 His mother would regard him as her best success in raising a son better than the family she was married into.
 16) Savino is no gentle, nor does he pretend to be one. He admires those who are, in truth, but Vodacce is a hard place for high ideals.
 17) Despite the Vaticine Church's issues with his family, Savino is publicly and devoutly an adherent. He's rarely seen without an elaborate golden cross on a chain around his neck. This does not deter him from making deals with or use of sorcery, however, or particularly deter him from sin--the hypocrisy being one his country has long embraced.
 18) Savino is a member of the Duelist's Guild, which is probably wise on his part.
 19) Again, Savino has little issue with praying at a church that condemns sorcery, and then mingling freely with sorcerers outside the doors. With a beloved mother and sister who pull the strings of fate, he can hardly do otherwise.
 20) I would advise Savino to take the advantages he's been given and work on making himself happy and comfortable, rather than looking enviously at every step above him and taking risks to climb them. He would not listen.