[hider=Collin Maclir][b]Name:[/b] Sgt. Collin Maclir, Tower
[b]Age:[/b]35.
[b]Gender:[/b]Male 
[b]Race:[/b]Human

[b]Description:[/b] The towering Scotsman comes in at a staggering six foot three inches and weights close to two hundred and thirty pounds of hardened muscle on a stocky frame. Collin barely qualifies as handsome from behind his brown close cut beard though no one can accuse him of being on the front of any magazines. Much like his beard the ex military man wears his hair in a flat top cut close to his head leaving little purchase for hands, claws, or other less easily described appendages. 

Not one for suits Collin preferes slacks and a leather jacket complete with a dull colored berrett whenever he is out as a civilian or looking to blend in. The jacket largely serves to conceal his service weapon which rides on his right hip most of the time. 

No one is sure what Collin looks like in dress clothes, not even Collin which is largely due to the fact that any sort of formal function is an opportunity to put on his army dress uniform as he is still officially a reserve member of Her Majesty’s Army. Though Tarot has made sure that he will never be called out for any sort of operation until he retires or his killed. 

On operation Collin wears grey and blue fatigues with a single adornment; the roman numeral sixteen on his left shoulder. Over this he wears a varying set of gear though of late he has been using Flak jackets akin to SWAT gear on operations in Loom largely due to the local and weapon options of those who are opposed to the Bureau.
 
[b]History:[/b]
Born in Scotland to an ex army officer and her husband Collin was the oldest of three children, with a younger brother and a younger sister. The young Maclir led a relatively ordinary life until the age of seventeen when his parents agreed to let him join the army. This choice in career was expected of the oldest child who planned on carrying on his family's tradition of military service. Spending a year in infantry Maclir quickly distinguished himself as an excellent soldier and was reassigned to one of the countries finest special forces units: SAS.  During his time with SAS, Maclir distinguished himself as a member of a black operations unit which saw actions in the middle East, South Pacific, and South America. At the end of six years with SAS, Maclir was offered a position as an operator with SRR, the finest reconnaissance and black operations company in the British military. 

During Maclir’s time with SRR he served another six years as a commando doing reconnaissance in dozens of countries across the world. With what he saw and what he did Collin returned home less and less and his family drifted further and further from him. 

The end can suddenly for Collin Maclir, an operation known as Sullen Twilight. Officially the operation was never sanctioned and there are no records of it ever occurring. A black bagger mission, Sgt. Maclir was assigned to a joint mission between MI6 and SRR. The six man team was tasked with recovering an asset from a village in Morocco. Maclir’s team went in to secure the target and what happened next is only known by the single survivor: Maclir. Maclir still refuses to speak about the operation to this day. 

After a month of recovering the in the North of Scotland, Maclir was approaches by a woman calling herself Priestess. Four days later Maclir had moved to a new location in Scotland, The Citadel, headquarters for the British based mercenary group known as Tarot. Tarot had an opening that they had been looking to fill and Maclir’s recent tragedy had caught their attention. Sullen Twilight had gone sideways because the SRR team had contacted a supernatural threat. Tarot was aware of the outcome of the mission and approached Maclir as their organization specialized in handling the supernatural. 

After settling in to Tarot Maclir proved himself once again and for the next four years operated as a solo and team operator on behalf of Tarot in countries across the world on behalf of governments, corporations, and private individuals handling supernatural problems. Once again Sgt. Maclir would face down a decision, Operation Molten Blade. Collin, now known as Tower, was dispatched by Tarot to a rural portion of Ireland just outside of Trinity college, it was here that he and the operators: Hierophant and Chariot. The three were to eliminate a demon named Vaasriel who had been killing and consuming civilians. The police assumed it was a serial arsonist but the three operators knew it for what it was: A slag demon. When Collin and his team caught up to the beast it had just killed a young woman who they later learned was the wife of a professor at Trinity college who was away on a dig in the Nile delta. The team destroyed the demon and returned to Tarot. Six months later Tarot was on the brink of being outed by the unaware professor who was digging into his wife’s murder. With the blessing of the organizations leader: Magician, Collin extended an offer to Dr. Finch, the husband of the woman Vaasriel had murdered. Sure enough Dr. Finch agreed to assist the organization in exchange for their help in finding who murdered his wife. Feeling responsible for the death of Kathleen, Dr. Finch’s wife, Collin vowed to help Thomas come to terms with the world they were living in. In direct opposition to this Magician ordered Collin not to reveal the nature of the world to Thomas. Until now Collin has managed to do just that; however much to Collin’s dismay, with his new posting to Loom, Dr. Finch moved to Loom as well. Now with the professor dogging his every step and with the questions about what research Tarot has him doing Collin has grow increasingly pressed in his position as the new Tarot liason to The Bureau in Loom. 

[b]Abilities/Skills:[/b]  

[i]Ex-SAS:[/i] Sgt. Maclir is an incredibly well trained soldier having served with distinction in Her Majesty’s Royal Army for well over a decade. As a result of this training and experience there are few who come close to Collin’s combat marksmanship, urban combat, and stealth reconnaissance skills. 

[i]Physicality:[/i] Not only is Collin big but his frame carries almost no excess weight. With his transition from a military to a private contract organization, Collin has become less burdened by the day to day needs of the job. As a result of his new found freedom the ex-SAS soldier has begun devoting increasingly large amounts of his time to combative training resulting in fantastic health for a thirty-five year old male of his size. 

[i]Malleus Maleficarum:[/i] With his transition to Tarot, Collin has received thousands of hours of training in dealing with supernatural predators and antagonists. This includes exploitation of weaknesses, proper unit tactics, and in depths analysis of background of supernatural targets. This also extends to Tarot’s armory which has an extensive collection of anti-supernatural gear as well as fields more than its fair share of supernatural items. Collin has extensive training on each piece of Tarots supernatural equipment as such items are only rarely cleared for requisition by operators. Magician has the final say in such matters. 

[i]Counterinsurgency/Counterintelligence:[/i] During his time with SRR, Sgt. Maclir received a significant about of training in Counterinsurgency tactics as well as urban reconnaissance as part of an undercover team. This training was also paired with mandatory training on working alongside MI6 operatives who were more often than not the assigned handlers for missions giving Collin a solid background in field based counterintelligence. While Collin rarely has a call to use most of this training it has made him quite effective at concealing what exactly he is whenever he is on scene for intel collection on potential Tarot operations. 
[i]Anti-personnel Operator:[/i] For all his time doing more delicate work Collin specializes in wet work. Tarot hired him based on his proficiency for clearing hostiles from operational zones as part of securing assets, extracting assets or eliminating high value targets. To this day Collin is still one of the best at what he does which may be one dimensional to many however his country trained him as a killer and now he is paid quite substantially to put those skill to work handling the supernatural. 

[b]Notable Belongings:[/b]

SA80A3- On the high end of British standard issue rifles the SA80A3 is the current iteration of the Royal Marine Standard issue rifle. Collin keeps the rifle in excellent working condition though it has been rare of late for him to operate on mission with this particular piece of gear largely due to the fact that Tarot has only sent him on mission with Bureau cleaning crews to observe and provide as needed fire support.  

UCIW- A highly compact rifle built on the AR-15 frame the NATO round chambered rifle serves as Collin’s primary firearm on mission in Loom. With a significantly shorter frame and barrel than most rifles the UCIW is ideal for operating within buildings and on the streets of Loom.

Browning HP- Collin’s primary side arm is the Browning High Powered pistol chambered in 9mm. Rarely used though always present the handgun almost never leaves Collin’s hip unless he is dispatched on a mission that requires a more concealable firearm. 

Combat Knife- Another rarely used piece of equipment Collin’s knife serves as more of a comfort than anything else as most of Tarot’s targets tend to be targets one should not engage in hand to hand combat with. Regardless of this fact Collin’s knife has had one modification made to it: it is now sports a layer of silver which is maintained between missions as it deteriorates from use. 

Ammunition- Courtesy of Tarot, Collin has access to a large variety of ammunition for use on missions though of note is Silver Nitrate rounds which are specifically for use against demons. 

The Citadel- The home base for Tarot, a massive imposing fortified complex that extends several stories above and below the earth. It has been almost a year since Collin last returned to the Citadel however this fortress is the training ground for all of Tarot’s twenty-two solo operators as well as a host of other operational staff and team based operators known as Knights. Codenamed for the Major Arcana the Citadel’s operators currently stand at a count of twenty with the only two vacancies being: Temperance and Empress. The entire operation is run by the enigmatic Magician who, much like her codename, is one of Tarot’s mages. The solo operators of Tarot are drawn from the world's best special forces units from across the globe as well as from paramilitary agencies. To date Tarots roster boasts members draw from: SEALs, JGSDF, Mista’arvim, Australian SASR, Sa’ka, GGK, OKK, and GAFE to name a few. Currently Collin is one of two British operators employed by Tarot however the other is a MI5 agent who is a part of Tarots operational command as opposed to a solo operator.[/hider]