Tomás the Red-Handed Bastard

Byzantium: Nightmares Undreamed Of

Tomás, the Red Handed Bastard

aka Bloody Tomás, Red Tom, or just The Bastard Neutral Fighter Level 2 (2000/4000)

Appearance: Medium height lithe man. Longish greasy semi-curly black hair pulled into a messy bun with a slightly crooked hawkish nose. He is often seen sweat stained clothes of browns and grays. Tomás tries to keep his face shaved save for his thin mustache and goatee. Besides that his hands are red, blood red. Wearing gloves is only a short-term fix as the curse upon him causes them to slowly turn crimson and drip over time.

Motivation: Tomás fights the incursions to free himself from the bloody curse.

Attributes

Primary Attributes: Ferocity and Health

Charisma	Dexterity	Ferocity	Health	Intelligence	Willpower	Social Class
4 (-2)	13 (+1)	15 (+1)	13 (+1)	7 (-1)	11 (+0)	10

Combat

• Hit Die d8
• Initiative: +1
• AC: 13
• Dispostion: 8/8
• Psychic Armor: 0

• Saber Attack +2 to hit
• Weapon 2 Attack +Y to hit

Restrictions

As a Fighter, Tomás has no restrictions.

Skills

Fighters are skilled at foraging, hunting, labouring, scavenging, soldiering, and keeping their equipment in good working order. Tomás has as of late picked up on hiding and moving quietly as well as picking locks.

Special Abilities

• Armour does not count as encumbering items to you, as long as you are wearing it (but shields do).
• When you attack an enemy, if your attack roll is a miss, you still inflict your damage as normal, and if your attack roll is good enough to hit, you inflict your damage twice, as if you had made two successful attacks.

Spells

• Imbuement: Aura of Intimidation - Constantly surrounds him. Normal people are cowed in his presence, either having heard of him, or are witness to his curse, or simply able to read his body-language and that of those around him and able to tell that he's not someone to be approached lightly. This aura enables him to not have to suffer fools as much as others might (though the truly persistent ones always find a way to overcome their fears and approach anyway), but it also requires some extra effort for him to cross the boundary his fierceness commands and make a different connection. Perhaps the greatest boon of the wide berth people tend to give him is that he can ascertain fairly quickly who is unordinary, because they seem inured to his effect on lesser people.
• Spells - none

Equipment

Limits - Enc. Items: 5/5 | Small Items 11/13

• Worn
  • Saber (r)- Semi well kept, emblazoned with a scratched out emblem of DiTerlo’s School of the Art.
  • Bronze Dagger (s) - Stolen from a wizard (rip). Dark bronze, straight pointed cross-shaped blade, handle/pommel shaped into a hooded skeletal figure.
  • Sling (t) - on belt
    • Bag of shot (t) - oooooooooooo
  • Hand of Glory (t) - Fake Hand of Glory, real forepaw of a master thief raccoon named Durante.
  • Leather Armor - Light (AC 13)

• Backpack
  • Flasks of Oil (s) - ooooo
  • Vials of Acid (t) - ooo
  • Crowbar (r)
  • Hand mirror (s)
  • Torches (s, per half-dozen) - oooooo
  • Tinderbox (s)
  • Bag o’ Thieve’s Tools (s) - Contains: Caltrops, candles, dog treats, flint and tinder, gloves, lockpicks, mask,

slippers, tiny mirror.

• • A small collection of hand-painted pornography (t) - Meant for a peer of Carnegie. Painted with a mixture of hand-blood and ink. Various shades of red.
  • Animal trap (2) -
  • Chainmail shirt (light armour, 1) -
  • A wanted poster you tore off a signpost (t) - was a reward for Carla’s lost cat but last I looked it had changed.. not sure what it shows now.
  • Sealed clay jar (s) - stolen from a wizard

• Coinpurse
  • 95 cyphers

Notes

• Family
  • Father: Herman vanDermötten - An elected alderman of the city. Reluctantly owes his success to a criminal element.
  • ’Mother’: Carla vanDermötten - Ambitious and cunning. Involved Herman with criminal org with intent to raise their station.
  • Half-Brother: Wolfhard vanDermötten - Loving brother who secretly visits Tomás often.
  • True Mother: Mademoiselle Gisele Boutet - Recently reconnected with. Madame of a brothel.

• Friends
  • Carnegie Solomon - Proprietor of The Lucky Foot, an occult shop in Byzantium. Tomás came to Carn after he was cursed, they’ve been friends ever since.

Carnegie is a huge black-tailed jackrabbit (7’ tall standing up) with a taste for exotic tobacco. He’s also a vampire. He and Tom never broach that subject though.