Demetrius Abelard

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Full Name: Demetrius Abelard
Age: 6 years (objective time), 24 years (subjective time) (3/21 at approval, experienced a one year timegap)
Race: Transhuman
Birthplace: Titan Research and Execution Installation, Titan
Status: Active
Faction: Power Wielder, Tier 2 (1,000 ~ 10,000 PL)
Approval Date: April 13, 2012

Appearance

Abelard looks well-crafted. His body is without flaw, reasonably muscled, and fair to gaze upon.

He customarily wears the traditional flowing robes of the mage-duellist whose style he practices, or an Empirical skinsuit when on duty space-side.

Powers and Resources

Abelard studies the path of the mage-duellist. He wields spells and knowledge of formidable strength and complexity, smoothly flowing from one school of magic to another in an interlocking chain that binds the destruction of those who stand against him to inevitability.

Abelard is a member of the Black Chamber, a secretive order of arcanists that serve Empirical Industries in lieu of Alothin's former might. As some of their technologies are derived from magical knowledge, and require magic for the manufacture, if not for the operation of it, having a group of engineer-sages serves their purposes well. The Black Chamber also studies techniques of battle, and has devised an internal ranking scheme for their members. Abelard holds the title of Provost in the Black Chamber.

As a loyal servant of Empirical Industries, and more directly, of Alothin, he has earned the title of Emperor's Trusted, rendering him a member of the 'clergy' of the Ogrish faith, and thus enabling him to lead Ogrish troops into battle. A small unit of Ogres is permanently attached to his command, and part of his responsibility is to train and care for them, so they may become strong in the service of the Emperor and his Exemplar.

His continuing loyalty to Empirical Industries has further garnered him a team of engineers who are capable of developing and producing powered-grade equipment for him and his forces. While these engineers do not directly enter combat themselves, the devices they produce are nonetheless a powerful force multiplier when wielded in combat by powered fighters.

Abelard has been indoctrinated into the arts of naval warfare -- he holds the rank of Fleet Master in the Empirical Spacefleet, and commands from his flagship, Starwarden.

Biography

While Cardinalian records will show otherwise, as they consider him a citizen of Cardinal, Abelard was secretly birthed on Titan, a moon of Saturn, in the Titan Research and Execution Installation -- and not the twenty-one years ago that his identification would claim, but a mere seventh of that. However, in that dark place, wrapped in the womb of Empirical's most secret projects and most secure facilities, time has been known to be a servant of the masters of that place, instead of an irresistable tide. While three years passed for the world outside, Abelard experienced his full twenty-one, without resorting to strange medical treatments to accelerate the aging process. Nor was he the only one in training there, though he met few of his cohort. In the House of Shadows, he studied the arts of combat. In the Ogrish shrines he learned their religion -- and the truths and half-truths that underlie it.

And in the Labyrinth of Man, he learned what it is to be human -- and to be more than human. There, he was tested, and not found wanting. And with that final approval, he was dispatched to Earth, to serve as the Emperor's Trusted to some of the first Ogres who would be permitted to land in Cardinal, after the Null, and to form a key piece of the newly-founded Black Chamber.