Day 04: Xavier Sanz

 

The last FiveEvil character for now.

Name: Xavier Sanz

Habit: Always fiddling with something.


Flaw: Still needing to prove something


Belief: Audacity is the true mark of spiritual aristocracy


Relationship: Enki, I went to university with him when Hector was a pup. 



1st Description: Generational Capitalist. +4 to Deception and Persuasion


2nd Description: Hobby Occultist. +2 to Knowledge/Recall and Insight. 



STRENGTH 9 (-1)

  • unchecked

    Athletics 

  • unchecked

    Intimidation

INTELLECT 12 (+1)

  • unchecked

    Investigation

  • unchecked

    Knowledge/Recall +3

CONSTITUTION 8 (-1)

  • unchecked

    Grit 

  • unchecked

    Survival

WISDOM 16 (+3)

  • unchecked

    Insight +5

  • unchecked

    Perception

DEXTERITY 11 (0)

  • unchecked

    Agility

  • unchecked

    Stealth

CHARISMA 13 (+1)

  • unchecked

    Deception +5

  • unchecked

    Persuasion +5


HIT POINTS: 9


Xavier is 85 years old, but he looks at least a decade younger. He attributes this to adaptability and moderate exercise. To his inner circle he would add that he performs certain rituals to contain and replenish his vril. 


Xavier’s father (Xavier Sr.) was a textile merchant who threw in with Francisco Franco. It was a no-brainer, really. The alternative was bolshevism and foreign riff raff. That decision served him well, and Xavier inherited a tidy fortune. He has managed to multiply that fortune many times through investing in Asian sweatshops and fast fashion. At the dawn of the 21st century, Xavier Sanz was a billionaire. 


Xavier has a secret shame. It has nothing to do with the way he has earned his money, nor the son who committed suicide. It is about the cult film Châtiment. 

Xavier considers himself a willworker, an initiate in magick, and a connoisseur of transgression and power. That was why he invited a select group to attend a viewing of Châtiment. The film had a reputation as a repository for occult power, and watching it would be a show of power in its own right. To his great shame, Xavier chickened out exactly seven minutes and forty-three minutes in. Xavier was not the man of unshakable will he’d considered himself to be. He had limits, like anybody else. 

The film was lost in the mayhem that broke out, possibly destroyed by some small-minded prig. 

Since then, Xavier has hoped that a new copy would become available, but it is only very recently that he has hired an unsavory character he only thinks of as “The Swede” to use all necessary means in the search. Châtiment will not get the better of him. 



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