Desinarim

Desinarim is a Mastigos Apostate (former Adamantine Arrow) from Chicago, Illinois.

Overview

Quote: "The Seven shall bring about the Marriage of the Stars and the Sea. They are here among us now! The Golden Key shall pronounce the day of our doom!"

Desinarim always knew things others didn't and saw things invisible to other people. He knew when his grandfather was going to die, but no one believed Desinarim when he announced it to his family. In fact, they punished him for telling wicked lies. When his grandfather died right on schedule, his family seemed to think it was somehow his fault and forbade him from ever saying anything like that again.

Because of their prohibition, which he dared not defy, they had no warning when his mother drove her car into a tree or when his father had a heart attack at work. He could have warned them, but they didn't want to hear the bad news. After his parents' deaths, Desinarim was raised by his grandmother and several aunts and uncles. By that time, he was well into his teens and listened to no one but himself - and the voice in his head that showed him the future.

After high school, Desinarim attended Smith-Constant Vocational Institute in Chicago's Old Town to study emergency medicine, but dropped out when his inner voice told him he wouldn't need to study healing.

One night, soon afterward, Desinarim awoke from a very vivid dream of the end of the world. His inner voice was screaming "Wake up! Wake up!" and he Awoke.

Soon after his Awakening, he was approached by a member of the Adamantine Arrow. Little more than a month after joining the order, however, he began spontaneously predicting the end of the world according to certain signs that only he had been given. He became so disruptive to his cabal's group workings that he was voted out of the cabal and, later, out of the order.

By that time, however, Desinarim didn't care. His voices told him everything he needed to know. Desinarim seems to have no trouble learning rotes and more advanced uses of magic even without the resources of an order behind him. He claims that his inner voice teaches him as he sleeps. And his magic works.

Description

Sometimes, Desinarim looks like a normal man in his middle 20s, with short dark hair, light brown skin that indicates a mixed-racial heritage and pale brown eyes that glow with an inner intensity. He wears whatever clothing he happens to grab when he wakes up, whether it is suitable for the weather or the occasion. At other times, Desinarim disappears for long periods of time from his home. He wanders the streets of Chicago, letting his hair grow out and not bothering to shave. The longer he wanders, the more like a prophet he looks and the more dire his predictions are. When he returns, he bathes, shaves and gets a haircut and becomes a normal-seeming young man once more.

His Nimbus changes according to whether or not he is in his wild phase. Under normal circumstances, his Nimbus is pale green outlined in gold and white. When he is in his "mad prophet" stage, his Nimbus gleams bright orange and howls.

Stats

Dedicated Magical Tool: Brass flute
Real Name: Delroy Joliet
Path: Mastigos
Order: Apostate (former Adamantine Arrow))
Mental Attributes: Intelligence 3, Wits 3, Resolve 2
Physical Attributes: Strength 3, Dexterity 2, Stamina 3
Social Attributes: Presence 4, Manipulation 3, Composure 3
Mental Skills: Academics 2, Medicine (Emergency Medicine) 2, Occult (Doomsday Omens) 4
Physical Skills: Brawl 2, Larceny (Gaining Entry) 3, Stealth 3, Survival 2
Social Skills: Animal Ken 1, Expression (Extemporaneous Predictions) 4, Streetwise (Finding Food and Shelter) 3
Merits: Danger Sense, Iron Stomach, Toxin Resistance
Willpower: 6
Wisdom: 5
Virtue: Fortitude
Vice: Wrath
Initiative: 6
Defense: 2
Speed: 10
Health: 8
Gnosis: 3
Arcana: Life 2, Mind 3, Space 3, Time 2
Rotes: Life - Pulse of the Living World, Purify Bodies; Mind - Misperception, Psychic Assault; Space - Correspondence, Scrying; Time - Temporal Eddies, Glimpsing the Future
Manna/per turn: 12/3
Armor: 3 ("Misperception," Mind **)
Magic Shield: None

References

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