Locke

Shadow Name: Locke
Real Name: Kliment Kuzentsov
Concept: Human Rights Champion and Scientist
Virtue:Hope
Vice:Lust
Path: Obrimos
Order: Free Council
Legacy: Tamers of Fire

ATTRIBUTES:
INT 4 WIT 2 RES 4
STR 2 DEX 3 STA 2
PRE 2 MAN 2 COM 3

SKILLS:
Academics 3 (research), Medicine 3, Politics 2, Science 5 (Physics, Biology)
Athletics 4 (swimming), Brawl 3, Survival 3 (Meteorology)
Animal Ken 3, Persuasion 4

MERITS:
Language 3 (Russian, native speaker), Technophile 1, Artifact 5 ("Every Door Key"*), Striking Looks 4, High Speech, Status 2 (Free Council), Status 2 (Consilium)

Artifact: Every Door Key

• A highly adorned metal key, which in practical use it could open no door, as it is made in the Atlantean symbol for the spell that powers it. Locke keeps it in a dark blue glasses case in his pocket.

ARCANA:
Forces 4 (favored), Life 4, Prime 2

ROTES:
Wrath of the Inferno Balm of Flesh Arrow Storm Rend the Weave

WILLPOWER 7
WISDOM 7
GNOSIS 4
MANA 7/13 (Max 4 Mana/Turn)
SIZE 5
HEALTH 7
DEFENSE 2
INIT MOD 6
SPEED 10
ARMOR

MAGICAL TOOLS: Locke focuses his will through an immaculatly cleaned golden writswatch that he wears on the left-hand, which he favors. It's an analog watch, with the symbol for the Free Council at the 12, Atlantis as the 6, and the 10 arcana in alphabetic order. On the back is a personal engraving in Russian, which translates to "A Son Never Forgets"

STYLE AND NIMBUS: during casting, the quiet and calculated Locke changes. A match is struck and the Fire inside is quickly lit. He makes wide stances for air as his body begins to sweat. The immediate area around him warms as he becomes particularly focussed in his casting, and becomes too hot to touch. It is therefore appropriate that his most powerful Rote allows him to become a walking persona of his own passionate flames.

APPEARANCE: Locke is a thin, lean individual, keeping his blonde hair cut short. He wears thin, square, reading glasses that he started wearing in high school. Locke carries two glasses cases, one black for his glasses, and the other navy blue for the Every Door Key. Ever the polite professional, Locke dresses conservativly and in a business manner whenever he's not out in the field, preferring dark suits. When he is on the job, he tends to wear worn jeans and short-sleeved shirts.

BACKGROUND:
Locke, Born Kliment Kuzentsov in the outskirts of Stalingrad shortly before the fall of the USSR, was brought to the United States with his family for a better opportunity of life. His father Dimitri taught him early the benefits of his adoptive country, especially education and religion. Kliment, who went by the Americanized Kyle, found much more interest in the former than the latter. Always a curious and eager mind, he always looked for more information than his teachers could give.

Even through his collegiate years and his eventual awakening, the more he understood how the universe worked, the less he understood why. It wasn't until he went to religious studies before the why became clear. The universe worked the way it did because it was willed that way by something beyond the mortal world. He also saw that those who had the desire and understanding could do the same.

The exact moment of his Awakening was sudden and violent, as he was struck by an environmental anomaly of lightning. Scientists and doctors couldn't understand why it happened or how he survived, but Kyle knew all too well. Because he willed it to happen.

Kyle quickly joined the Free Council for being the only one willing to openly share its mysteries and offer the free exchange of ideas. He took the name Locke, to reflect the name John Locke, one of the great Enlightenment Thinkers. Locke also was chosen to become a Tamer of Fire, an ancient legacy bestowed on those worthy of being a Hero. Locke takes up the mantle in a more docile manner. Having seen the potential someone can rise to with the right opportunities, Locke fights a campaign to give everyone a fair chance at their dreams and to reach their potential, and is passionate advocate for equal human rights. He also continues to work in the realm of science, trying to discover if, and what, Magic has to do with evolution.