Divine Strife:Anthony Fortunato
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Anthony "Tony" Fortunato , Divinity of Gamblers
Divine Origins
Occupation: Executive
Archetype: Trickster
Dominion: Patron
Theology: Order of Meksheneth
Derived Traits
Initiative 1
Strength 1
Movement 7
Free Time 2 (from working 1)
Wealth 8 (from working 4)
Health 5
Psyche 6
Skills
Athletics 1, Crafts 2, Deception 3 (bluffing)a, Discipline 1, Empathy 2, Fighting 1, Fortitude 0, Influence 3, Intuition 0, Knowledge 3b , Marksman 3, Medicine 1, Might 0, Perception 2, Perform 3, Speed 1, Stealth 2 (Sleight-of-Hand), Tech 3, Travel 1.
a Divinely Skilled
b Including Choice of a Game
Manifestations
Aegis 1, Beckon 1, Journey 0, Minion 3, Puppetry 1, Oracle 1, Ruin 0, Shaping 1, Soul 2 (Figment)
Truths
“The god of gamblers bluffs are unparalleled”: (Divinely skilled from the dominion), always succeeds when bluffing (deception) and scores 1 extra success in contested roll
“May the hare luck always be with the gambler”: Beast Form: The god of gamblers can transform in a 'lucky' animal, Tony's totem animal is a rabbit. He can spend 1 fragment to transform into a rabbit, gaining +2 Stealth and +2 Speed for the scene.
Blessings
This is my town: +1 bonus to checks dealing with matters pertaining the town (Archetype)
Fake it until you make it: (reskinned "Brown nose"), Gain +1 Empathy to read someone and figure out what they want to hear.
Divine Inheritance: Gain an extra +2 level of relic and wosrhippers, can use the worshippers ability once per session without straining the bond.
Curses
Coming in on Saturday:: Gain 1 Pantheon Die when no one is around to delegate to, and the character is forced to do a terrible job at an important task themselves.
What a Fun Game!: Gain +1 Pantheon Die when the character does something for the fun of it, but it causes more trouble that they imagined (archetype)
Let's see what you got: people tend to want to challenge him due to his dominion, gain +1 pantheon dice when this causes problems.
Family Loyalty: has a 3 point individual bond representing a watcher whose purpose is to report on his ward's activities to the Order and sometimes give instructions from the higher ups. He also only has 3 free points to spend on bonds\attachments instead of 5.
Bonds
Viola Hensen (I) 2 Tony's Mother, the young man would do anything to keep her safe, while the two used to be closer, Tony is doing his best to keep her away from troubles and him assuming his father's mantle after all the efforts she had taken to keep him away had strained the relationship somewhat. (Nurturing)
Mr. House (I) 3 is Tony's "Watcher" he is the emissary sent by the order to keep him in check (see the Order Curse), has a rocky relationship with Tony that he sees as a bit of an usurper, replacing the ward that he had mentored for so many years, yet he is loyal to the theology and plan to see his ascension succeed in the "proper way" no matter if his Anthony likes it or not. (conflicting)
The Family Business (G) 3 Tony has inherited the casino business from his father, it's a vast and bureaucratic organization, that has been built through generations by his predecessors.
The Lucky Hare Casino (L) 3 a bar, bowling alley and casino that is the main location owned by the Fortunato business in town, it was his father's most recent project and now Tony's responsibility. Is there something still undiscovered hiding beneath all the glitter?
Worshippers and Relics
The Staff W 2 : (Temple Guardians) they masquerade as the employees of the Lucky Hare, they are tentatively accepting of their new patron. They perfom cerimonies masqueraded as games of chance and using the glittering trappings of the casino as a displays of devotion.
The Hopefuls W 2 : (Faithfuls) they are the new worshippers that flocked to Tony since his ascensions, mostly down gamblers preying for their lucky break, stock brokers, crypto-investors and other professional risk takers
Relics
Stolen Fire of Prometheus R 2: (works like the Eternal Flame Relic), it was kept in the family vaults, order legends says that it has been taken from the titan Prometheus himself in ancient times. Rank 2
Appearance and Background
Gender: male
Age: 27 years
Appearance and Demeanor: [text]
Background: Tony is the lovechild of a powerful businessman Benedict Fortunato, a wealthy casino owner with a sketchy reputation and questionable morals. During his youth, however, Tony had very little contact with his father, primarily thanks to his mother, Viola, keeping him as far as possible from the man influence. With little to no support from the wealthy side of his family, money was always tight, but his mom has always done her best to keep food on the table and Tony safe, despite her boy's natural talent for finding and causing troubles.
Tony grew up pretty much as a free spirit, always exploring new possibilities, hopping from hustle to hustle, living off his wits and sometimes, even showing the kind of 'creativity' that would have made his father proud, although always with the aim of helping his mom keep the family afloat. Content with his existence, even when he got into his twenties, Tony found himself unable, or perhaps, unwilling to find a stable path.
Fate, however, already had plans for him.
An unknown party organized a hit on his father and not only managed to take down the man, but also his designated successors. While the police was unable to find the culprit, attributing the hit the many enemies that the businessman had made during his career, the truth had more 'occult' roots. Tony's father was a divinity, in fact, the god of gambling, belonging to the Order of Meksheneth and the assassination was a matter of godly intrigue. Still, regardless of the motives, the act left Tony the only potential inheritor of his bloodline. A prospect that was not exactly enthusiastically accepted by the higher ups of the local branch of the order, whose loyalty to tradition had grown to the point of fanatic reverence, but there was little they could do, unwilling as they were to interrupt a line that has gone unbroken for centuries.
To complicate things, when Benedict's spark was transferred to him the dominion was twisted, making Tony into the patron of gamblers rather than gambling, shedding the more malign and addictive, but useful for running the business, portions of his father original power.
At first, the young man enjoyed his newfound wealth, generously sharing the spoils with his family and friends and indulging in luxuries that he had only dreamed about being able to afford until not long before.
This was not going to last. It took him only a few weeks to find the rotten core buried beneath all the glitter, how his family business was sucking entire communities dry. When he decided that he wanted no part of it, his handler Mr. House, who had been nothing, but polite before, spoke plainly to him for the first time. To put it simply, he was going to have to play his part in the grand scheme of things, or else... The relationship with his handler has been rocky in the past few weeks, although sometimes, Tony wonders if the older man is just acting out of grief for the loss of his former wards, rather than due to a genuine disdain.
Tony is still young and pretty idealistic, even now that he is aware that he has no other alternative, but to somehow run the family business in the way his superiors in the order had planned, he has convinced himself that he can outsmart his handlers (how hard could it be, right?). Perhaps he could apply a few of the tricks he had learned on the streets in this new world, work from the inside and reform his father's organization and turn it into a force of good. A task, of course, it's easier said than done.
