Character Attempt #1<br/><br/>{Almost Certainly Not His Real} Name: "Professor" Lucius Thorne<br/>Concept: Magician on his own private Stage<br/>Tradition: Hollow One<br/>Essence: Primordial<br/>Nature: Thrill-Seeker<br/>Demeanor: Gallant<br/><br/>STR 1  DEX 3  STA 2<br/>PRC 3  INT  2  WTS 3<br/>CHA 3  MAN 4 APP 3<br/><br/>Talents: Alertness: 2 Streetwise: 1 Seduction: 3 Sense Deception: 2 Style: 1<br/>Skills: Crafts: 1 Etiquette: 1 Performance: 2 Escapology: 2 Misdirection: 2 Fast-Talk: 2 Hypnotism: 1 Lock-Picking: 1<br/>Knowledges: History: 1 Cosmology: 2 Enigmas: 1 Occult: 1<br/><br/>Backgrounds:<br/>Arcane: 5<br/>Avatar: 3<br/>Destiny: 3<br/><br/>Arete: 3<br/>Resonance: Dynamic<br/>Willpower: 8<br/><br/>Spheres:<br/>Mind 3<br/>Spirit 3<br/><br/>Merits:<br/>Stormwarden (5)<br/>Misdirection Aptitude<br/><br/>Flaws:<br/>The Bard's Tongue<br/>Amnesia, + 2 pts of secret flaws<br/><br/>Lucius is a man in his early twenties, slightly taller than average, slender, with his build usually concealed by the overblown costuming favored by his Tradition.  He has black hair with a clear white stripe starting just over his right temple, and usually slicks the whole mass of it back with some kind of pomade.  His features are sharp, his fingers call to mind stereotypes of surgeons and pianists (and he's just as sensitive about them,) his eyes are a piercing near-black.  As "the Professor," he styles himself as an early twentieth-century stage magician and mystic, reminiscent of Houdini or his contemporaries.  He has the skills to back that up, as he can generally perform sleight-of-hand and various other tricks without need of any true Magick.<br/><br/>He is primarily motivated by his love of wonder and the sense of fulfillment he gets from seeing and doing things beyond mundane conception.  He dresses his motivations up, however, under a lot of ironic or exaggerated speeches about mysticism, etc.  It can be difficult to tell when he's just acting the part and when he's really engaged.  He's socially sophisticated, often able to read people, and mercurial in the face he presents to the world.  Overally, he's gentle, entertaining, pretty much harmless, but occasionally infuriating.  The fact is, the smoke and mirrors are partially there to distract from his big secret:  He has no idea who he is or where he came from.  He has no ID, no credit cards, no missing-persons report as a clue.  Whoever he is, or was, there wasn't even anyone to report him gone.<br/><br/>His earliest memory is at most a few months ago.  He met The Devil on the crossroads outside of the city.  A man in a red tuxedo and waistcoat, with small horns and a pointed tail.  The devil told him that since he was one of his favorites, he'd give Lucius a second chance.  He handed the confused Lucius a hundred dollars and a bus ticket, and disappeared in a puff of dust as the bus nearly hit blindsided the stunned young Mage who had been standing dumbfounded in the middle of the road.  After some fair amount of profanity, the driver admitted he'd prefer to have him on the bus than under it, and Lucien found his way into town.<br/><br/>Since then, he's drifted into the radar of the local mages, and he's found he knows a little bit about how to get along with them - although not why he knows this.  He's living hand to mouth, having to run scams, couch-surf, and otherwise scrape by without any real source of income or place to permanently stay.  It's a tough position for him, because he just can't seem to get focused on the now without some kind of grounding.  People are starting to get curious about who the new guy is, since he isn't moving on, and Lucius quite honestly doesn't know how much longer he can put them off with amusing misdirections.