Harold's Stats

Abilities

Agility 6

Harold's movements are by nature slow, but studied and graceful. Nevertheless, he can be quite quick when so inclined.

Charisma 8

Harold has a savage and vicious charisma, full of passion and darkness. His half-smile and heavy gaze, alternately smouldering and listless, make those around him want to satisfy his every whim (at least, until they gain a fuller appreciation of exactly how twisted his whims can be).

Dexterity 9

Harold has the long, slender fingers of an artist or a pianist, and can employ them to great use. His ability to control his fine motor movements is phenomenal.

Fortitude 4

Harold may be a rebel, but he is far from being a fighter, either physically or mentally. He abhors pain (his own, at least), and is rather weak-willed.

Intelligence 6

Harold has no dearth of intelligence, but this intelligence tends to express itself through wit and banter rather than any more concrete displays of intellect.

Perception 6

Harold is not so much unaware of what goes on around him as unconcerned by it. That said, he is still constantly on the lookout for anything which may prove aesthetically or emotionally exciting.

Strength 4

Harold has never willingly lifted anything heavier than a paintbrush. However, he is well-fed, and so not entirely powerless.

Wits 7

Harold possesses a quick and creative mind which adapts itself well to new situations and concepts. He occasionally has a difficult time slowing his thoughts down to the pace of his words.

Spheres

Animism 2

Animism, dealing with the realms of the spirit, is a sphere in which Harold has very little interest or ability.

Cabalism 3

Often considered one of the more profane spheres, Cabalism is a natural fit for Harold. He knows a number of minor magics, but lacks the industriousness required by the more arduous, and powerful, spells.

Chaos Magic 3

Harold possesses a mind at once analytical and dynamic. Pattern and chaos fascinate him. Only his lack of industry prevents him from mastering this sphere.

Metempsychosis 4

Harold approaches this sphere less as a scholar or a mage than as a sensation junkie. His proficiency is gained through experience and enthusiasm, not study. In fact, Harold's "enthusiasm" for the sphere is so overwhelming that it has become a matter of concern for the family. Harold is enthralled by the feeling of yielding his consciousness to that of another's. It has in fact become a sort of addiction. Metempsychosis provides him with a quick and simple access to a million different lenses through which to view the world, a way to garner a million different experiences from a single event. To him, it is the fastest and surest path to the completion of his tacit quest for fulfilment and self-expansion. Those around him realize that the danger of this "hobby" consuming him grows every day.

Necromancy 3

Harold is fascinated with the concept of death, and particularly, the afterlife. He is concerned less with the physical elements of this sphere, raising corpses and whatnot, than with its more intellectual, or metaphysical, aspects.

Sympathetic Magic 1

Harold is, in a slight distortion of the term, quite a rugged individualist. The idea that all things are interconnected, and that an action on any one thing affects all other things, is almost completely alien to him. He finds particularly revolting the concept that who he is is therefore, in effect, controlled in part by the actions of others. He learnt what little of this skill was required to please his father, and then completely ignored it.

Skills

Academics 5

Though Harold lacks the constitution of a true scholar, he does occasionally dabble in the study of the past. Ultimately, his knowledge extends no further than his interest.

Alchemy 4

Harold is a competent, if lacklustre, student of the sciences, and can employ his knowledge to some practical use if absolutely necessary.

Artistry 9

Though few outside of the county know of him, Harold is quite a brilliant artist. Though competent in many diverse media, Harold's forte is painting. His paintings are stark but surreal, generally depicting some bizarre variation on natural form. Though he does dabble in the grotesque, his paintings are just as likely to be sublimely beautiful as disgusting or disturbing.

Carousing 8

Harold is very fond of laughter, and very, very free with other people's money whenever he can get his hands on it, which is fairly often. He is also, however, very sadistic, and this is most obvious when he's really enjoying himself.

Command 5

Though he can occasionally be quite frightful, Harold is generally too listless to be very intimidating.

Grace 7

Harold loves social interplay, of any sort. Though he affects to be off-put by its more vulgar forms, in fact, he enjoys nothing more than a good row. Harold observes all the social niceties, knows just how far he can push them, and always emerges from any verbal fray, if not unwounded, at least looking like the innocent party.

Intrigue 8

So far as Harold is concerned, the words person and plaything are synonymous. To discover motives and purpose, to disguise his machinations behind bland words and actions, to set man against man, such is how Harold spends much of his leisure time. Manipulation is to him an art as valid as any other medium, and one at which, just as all others, he excels.

Investigation 5

Harold is fairly intelligent, and as such, he can connect the dots, provided they are not placed too far apart. However, he is no detective; his fine mind is too easily sidetracked, and wont to explore its own avenues of interests, rather than take a path which may be shorter, but more banal.

Mechanics 4

While Harold may enjoy tinkering, he has no formal training whatsoever and doesn't understand any mechanical principle more complicated than a lever. Aside from which, he's always worried that one of his precious digits may be crushed in a gear or some such.

Melee Weapons 6

Harold very much enjoys the regular fencing that takes place around the Hearthstone residence. Although he has some fair technical skill, he definitely lacks the constitution and discipline required to persevere through a match lasting any more than five minutes or so; he approaches the martial arts as dilettantishly as any of his many other hobbies.

Stealth 5

Harold is light and capable of silent movement if so inclined.

Occult 5

Harold finds the occult to be a very interesting subject, but doesn't pursue it with anything like the rigour that would be required to master it. Still, he certainly does know a thing or two.

Unarmed 3

There is nothing Harold finds so reviling as the idea of ever having to engage in fisticuffs. He never has fought unarmed and never intends to. Still, when faced with stark necessity, instinct does often have a great role than fashion.

Woodsmanship 2

The surest way to utterly destroy Harold would be to leave him alone in the forest for more than ten minutes. He thinks of the wilderness as nothing but a hindrance to the mobility of any truly civilized person.

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