Professor Enrique Alejandro de València y Villanueva
Oct 27, 2016 15:55:31 GMT
Post by Prof. de València y Villanueva on Oct 27, 2016 15:55:31 GMT
Professor Enrique Alejandro de València y Villanueva
Brawn 2
Finesse 2
Resolve 2
Wits 4 (+1 Castille, +1 Heroic trait)
Panache 3 (+1 Heroic trait)
Backgrounds
Professor:
Earn a Hero Point when you use knowledge from an obscure text to solve a complicated problem.
Alquimista:
Earn a Hero Point when you improve another Thean's life through Alchemy.
Advantages
Tenure (Professor): You can eat and sleep at any university. You can access most university libraries. Gain 2 Bonus Dice for social Risks against characters who are in an institution of higher learning or who respect such an education.
Team Player (Professor): When you spend a Raise to create an Opportunity, you can spend a second Raise to activate the Opportunity on behalf of another willing Hero (she doesn't need to spend her own Raise).
Alchemist (Alquimista): Spend a Hero Point to produce an elixir or potion that provides an immediate benefit. Using the alchemical concoction requires a Raise during an Action Sequence or a Dramatic Sequence.
Cast Iron Stomach (Alquimista): Spoiled or raw food never negatively affects you. You still gain sustenance.
Spark of Genius: Natural Science (3pt Heroic Advantage): When you make a Risk and call on your field of study, spend a Hero Point to gain additional Raises equal to your Wits.
Direction Sense (1pt Heroic Advantage): As long as you have a point of reference, you are never lost.
Linguist (1pt Heroic Advantage): You speak, read and write all Théan languages. Even the dead ones.
Skills
Aim 3 (+3 Heroic Skill)
Convince 3 (+1 Professor, +2 Heroic Skill)
Empathy 2 (+1 Professor, +1 Alquimista)
Notice 3 (+1 Alquimista, +2 Heroic Skill)
Perform 3 (+1 Professor, +2 Heroic Skill)
Scholarship 3 (+1 Professor, +1 Alquimista, +1 Heroic Skill)
Tempt 2 (+1 Professor, +1 Alquimista)
Theft 1 (+1 Alquimista)
Virtue: Temperate
Activate your Virtue to prevent any magical effect (Sorcery, Artifacts, Monsters, etc.) from affecting you.
Hubris: Curious
You receive a Hero Point when you investigate something unusual, especially if it looks dangerous.
Languages:
All (Linguist)
Wealth:
0
Secret Society: Los Vagabundos
Favor: 0
Backstory
The bookish son of a clergyman, Enrique Alejandro de València y Villanueva rose to become the youngest Distinguished Professor of Natural Sciences at Universidad de San Cristobal after authoring numerous manuscripts, including papers describing an improved astrolabe for use aboard ship, alchemical mixtures that improve crop yields, a study of the geometry used in the architecture of Vaticine chapels, and many others.
Ever since then, Professor de València y Villanueva has made it his special interest to find ways to apply the sciences for the betterment of the common man. His techniques have met with some success in Castille, and now he has come to Montaigne with the idea that he might apply to l'Empereur or the other Montagnard nobility for a grant to try and apply some of his techniques there.
What makes your character a hero?
Professor de València y Villanueva does not see himself as a hero; rather, he is a problem solver. When Enrique perceives a problem, he turns his keen intellect to analyzing and finding a solution for that problem. Among the problems he perceives are poverty, starvation, ignorance, corrupt noblemen, the strong preying upon the weak, insults to beautiful women, and other such injustices. An enlightened, well-educated person should not tolerate such things... and these beliefs lead him to take action.
Some might call him a busybody as a result. Others might call him a hero.
Who or what will oppose your character?
Professor de la Cuesta, a fellow alchemist and professor at Universidad de San Cristobal.
He is not quite as intellectually brilliant as de València y Villanueva, but makes up for it by being a better politician and much less scrupulous. He is not above stealing his colleague's work and passing it off as his own, and he takes every opportunity to use his knowledge and his alchemy to help himself, rather than others. Most recently de la Cuesta managed to use his political influence to steal away a royal research grant that would've otherwise been won by de València y Villanueva on the merits; this, among other reasons, has prompted de València y Villanueva to travel to Montaigne in search of funding.
Cardinal Martínez del Aldana, a high ranking cleric, a distant cousin of the King, and an important official in the secret service of Castille.
Martínez takes a dim view of de València y Villanueva's visit to Montaigne to spread his scientific techniques, as it represents a possible national security threat. He rarely leaves Vaticine City but he controls a vast network of spies. It's whispered that only seven people have to die before Martínez has the best claim on the throne of Castille; but a cardinal cannot inherit, obviously, so this shouldn't ever matter, right?
Doña Sofia Maria de Castanos, a Castillian noblewoman, femme fatale and spy.
Sofia and Enrique were students at university together fifteen years ago, and once had feelings for one another, but this ended when her family married her off to a much older and richer Castillian nobleman. Years later, Sofia's husband has become decrepit and bedridden, giving her the freedom to live a life of adventure and intrigue. This has led to Sofia becoming a spy for Cardinal Martínez.
Baron van Doorn, a Vendel merchant prince and frequent guest at the court of Montaigne.
Van Doorn has worked hard to establish mercantile concessions in Montaigne, and de València y Villanueva's alchemical treatment to improve crop yields directly threatens the profits from grain imports arriving on Vendel shipping. A successful businessman, van Doorn certainly will not allow some bookish Castillian to ruin his business venture.
How will your character die?
1. Died by own hand setting off explosives to delay enemies pursuing Our Heroes.
2. Killed by soldiers while defending advanced irrigation system from being burned
during a war.
3. Killed in a duel of honor triggered by accusations of academic plagiarism.
Brawn 2
Finesse 2
Resolve 2
Wits 4 (+1 Castille, +1 Heroic trait)
Panache 3 (+1 Heroic trait)
Backgrounds
Professor:
Earn a Hero Point when you use knowledge from an obscure text to solve a complicated problem.
Alquimista:
Earn a Hero Point when you improve another Thean's life through Alchemy.
Advantages
Tenure (Professor): You can eat and sleep at any university. You can access most university libraries. Gain 2 Bonus Dice for social Risks against characters who are in an institution of higher learning or who respect such an education.
Team Player (Professor): When you spend a Raise to create an Opportunity, you can spend a second Raise to activate the Opportunity on behalf of another willing Hero (she doesn't need to spend her own Raise).
Alchemist (Alquimista): Spend a Hero Point to produce an elixir or potion that provides an immediate benefit. Using the alchemical concoction requires a Raise during an Action Sequence or a Dramatic Sequence.
Cast Iron Stomach (Alquimista): Spoiled or raw food never negatively affects you. You still gain sustenance.
Spark of Genius: Natural Science (3pt Heroic Advantage): When you make a Risk and call on your field of study, spend a Hero Point to gain additional Raises equal to your Wits.
Direction Sense (1pt Heroic Advantage): As long as you have a point of reference, you are never lost.
Linguist (1pt Heroic Advantage): You speak, read and write all Théan languages. Even the dead ones.
Skills
Aim 3 (+3 Heroic Skill)
Convince 3 (+1 Professor, +2 Heroic Skill)
Empathy 2 (+1 Professor, +1 Alquimista)
Notice 3 (+1 Alquimista, +2 Heroic Skill)
Perform 3 (+1 Professor, +2 Heroic Skill)
Scholarship 3 (+1 Professor, +1 Alquimista, +1 Heroic Skill)
Tempt 2 (+1 Professor, +1 Alquimista)
Theft 1 (+1 Alquimista)
Virtue: Temperate
Activate your Virtue to prevent any magical effect (Sorcery, Artifacts, Monsters, etc.) from affecting you.
Hubris: Curious
You receive a Hero Point when you investigate something unusual, especially if it looks dangerous.
Languages:
All (Linguist)
Wealth:
0
Secret Society: Los Vagabundos
Favor: 0
Backstory
The bookish son of a clergyman, Enrique Alejandro de València y Villanueva rose to become the youngest Distinguished Professor of Natural Sciences at Universidad de San Cristobal after authoring numerous manuscripts, including papers describing an improved astrolabe for use aboard ship, alchemical mixtures that improve crop yields, a study of the geometry used in the architecture of Vaticine chapels, and many others.
Ever since then, Professor de València y Villanueva has made it his special interest to find ways to apply the sciences for the betterment of the common man. His techniques have met with some success in Castille, and now he has come to Montaigne with the idea that he might apply to l'Empereur or the other Montagnard nobility for a grant to try and apply some of his techniques there.
What makes your character a hero?
Professor de València y Villanueva does not see himself as a hero; rather, he is a problem solver. When Enrique perceives a problem, he turns his keen intellect to analyzing and finding a solution for that problem. Among the problems he perceives are poverty, starvation, ignorance, corrupt noblemen, the strong preying upon the weak, insults to beautiful women, and other such injustices. An enlightened, well-educated person should not tolerate such things... and these beliefs lead him to take action.
Some might call him a busybody as a result. Others might call him a hero.
Who or what will oppose your character?
Professor de la Cuesta, a fellow alchemist and professor at Universidad de San Cristobal.
He is not quite as intellectually brilliant as de València y Villanueva, but makes up for it by being a better politician and much less scrupulous. He is not above stealing his colleague's work and passing it off as his own, and he takes every opportunity to use his knowledge and his alchemy to help himself, rather than others. Most recently de la Cuesta managed to use his political influence to steal away a royal research grant that would've otherwise been won by de València y Villanueva on the merits; this, among other reasons, has prompted de València y Villanueva to travel to Montaigne in search of funding.
Cardinal Martínez del Aldana, a high ranking cleric, a distant cousin of the King, and an important official in the secret service of Castille.
Martínez takes a dim view of de València y Villanueva's visit to Montaigne to spread his scientific techniques, as it represents a possible national security threat. He rarely leaves Vaticine City but he controls a vast network of spies. It's whispered that only seven people have to die before Martínez has the best claim on the throne of Castille; but a cardinal cannot inherit, obviously, so this shouldn't ever matter, right?
Doña Sofia Maria de Castanos, a Castillian noblewoman, femme fatale and spy.
Sofia and Enrique were students at university together fifteen years ago, and once had feelings for one another, but this ended when her family married her off to a much older and richer Castillian nobleman. Years later, Sofia's husband has become decrepit and bedridden, giving her the freedom to live a life of adventure and intrigue. This has led to Sofia becoming a spy for Cardinal Martínez.
Baron van Doorn, a Vendel merchant prince and frequent guest at the court of Montaigne.
Van Doorn has worked hard to establish mercantile concessions in Montaigne, and de València y Villanueva's alchemical treatment to improve crop yields directly threatens the profits from grain imports arriving on Vendel shipping. A successful businessman, van Doorn certainly will not allow some bookish Castillian to ruin his business venture.
How will your character die?
1. Died by own hand setting off explosives to delay enemies pursuing Our Heroes.
2. Killed by soldiers while defending advanced irrigation system from being burned
during a war.
3. Killed in a duel of honor triggered by accusations of academic plagiarism.
