Argento

Basic Skills

First Aid, Basic Sword & Shield, Roman Legion Tactics, Extensive Tracking skill, Great Strategist - Extensive Experience, Calvary, Professional Ancient World Soldier

 

Special Abilities

Reduced Sleep Requirement - 4 hours at most.

Glamor & Mind Compulsion - Nicholai is only minorly gifted with the ability to compel the mind of his victims and allow himself to pass as a normal person. This can be used up to three times a day, lasts until he stops concentrating on it.

Specialty - Ice Manipulation - Nicholai can form up four small ice formations or a two medium sized ice formation, or a single large formation per use. This ability takes a second to activate and can be used up to three times a day.

 

Equipment

Nicholai still carries with him a US Model 1841 Rifle, a Colt Walker Revolver, and a Walker Colt Paterson Revolver. He has an archaic Gladius, Scutum (Shield), and set of Lorica Segmentata - Roman armor.

 

Family

He was the last heir of the Cromwell family line when he entered the Roman Legion.

 

History

His maker met his end cut down by a Roman General armed with a silver sword. Nicholai was spared as he was in Roman Dress. Though shortly after that turn of events the man formerly known as Nicholai drove the Persians off the ruins of that battle field. No one went looking for him as he disappeared into the woods. Nicholai began to wander, blood lust leading him from village to village.

 

Eventually, his military training and will power helped him to settle into the new life. He avoided villages for as long as he could making quick meals of those travelers he meet upon the roads between towns. He became a shadow who would pick off those who tried to cross the vast Roman Empire, and he slowly slipped through out time.

 

Spending centuries contemplating just what use this new gift he had could be used for... and in time he decided. He began to join armies, fighting in war after war..... Feeding on the blood of rival armies as his own decimated theirs. Mindful never to influence the outcome too strongly of the various wars he took part in.

 

Eventually, as the new world was settled he moved on to there, exploring the new world so to speak and finding himself again. The bloodlust which had ruled him so completely was slowly becoming a secondary concern. In the America's he fought in war after war claiming the great western plains.... his last major engagement though was The Mexican-American War, after which he truly thought he had himself under enough control to settle down.

 

Settling himself quietly into a small town, he became the town recluse. A minor time private investigator whose fee was the oddest payment, a willing draining from the client of their blood. This strange fee slowly drew notice from those who were hunting down the Vrykolakas and they attacked the town. The battle was bloody and in the end, the city was burnt down for paying such unreasonable fees to a creature pretending to be a man and claiming to provide a service.

 

Following the incident, Nicholai once more accepted the hatred of the man. The lack of blood lusting helping to keep himself in line. Being extremely careful with his travels and to ensure the only thing those who had hunted him down before could find was a line of willing victims. Though occasionally he still did slip up and drain a willing target to death, that was simply a risk they take. Following one such event, he was caught and offered a final chance, a trip to Argento to start anew, arriving in the early 1800s.The former soldier in this new land had to temper his bloodlust due to the small collection of available food sources, finally settling into a quiet life after stumbling into James De Kirkie on the edge of the Towering Heights. Spending about six months on the mountain range with the strange-seeming hermit before returning to civilization proper.

 

Nicholai has found himself rather taken with the region and finding an unlikely ally with the Priores, he settled into a quiet life on the outskirts of Maplewharf. Though not one of the residents believe Nicholai when he spoke of the odd fox upon the mountain. Through their refined teachings, he was able to rein in his bloodlust further and this led to him helping them form the Peacekeepers. Nicholai was allowed access to ancient records kept in Maplewharf which referenced an organization of the same name which served a similar purpose prior to the lasting peace from 1330. Also referenced in these stray documents is a Daemon by the name of Raiden De Takeshi. The Priores spoke only of the creature as a legend and told stories of what the man had done, before leaving the region and as far as they know never returning. Though as Nicholai spent his time digging through these various records he found notice of a return by the Daemon in the 1500s, and a death certificate as well as a location far to the east in the Towering Heights Range.