[hider=Olivier Terrent the Fifth] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/QY4idTi.png[/img] [url=https://safebooru.org//images/3120/1cd294d96e9e5d88b08310e420f6adca32543981.png?3246743]More[/url] / [url=https://safebooru.org//images/3120/da2d51398ce2a36e044026dd69df0a319be9a9bc.jpg]Photos[/url][/center] [b]Name:[/b] Olivier Terrent the Fifth [b]Title(s):[/b] None [b]Gender:[/b] Male [b]Age:[/b] 41 [b]Previous Alignment(s):[/b] Clocktower (Deamonology Branch) [b]Motivation for the Holy Grail:[/b] To repair the damage to his circuits and insure his child has a better future. [b]Personality:[/b] Despite being dealt a bad hand in life, Olivier doesn't resent his father, or family. Rather, he resents his lot in life specifically. A cosmic, unnatural force that he can blame all his problems on. Fate. His successes are acquired through hard work, diligence, and study. Despite having had help, he considers himself a self made man. One who conquered the trials of fate. But he doesn't wish that kind of life on his successor. After all, while he does not resent his father, he understands that his father's mistakes have put a greater burden on him. Perhaps if he father had not made his poor choice, then Olivier himself would be further along. Still, that is life, and nobody knows for sure how it turns. Olivier is as such, not a cruel person. What he is though... Is hard. Uncompromising, and harsh on the realities of life. Still, it is the goal of a father to insure that his heir has the best life possible. So, Olivier's quest is one to correct his poor lot in life, and to insure that his family wants for nothing. A real father-figure. What he cares about outside all that... Well luxury for one. the accumulation of wants, while insuring he has his needs met. Sure, he would never deny another of their needs, but if their wants or needs worsen his wants or needs, he will take the best route possible to insure his wants and needs come before theirs. Selfish? Maybe. But he has to make sure his family comes first. [b]Biography:[/b] A thousand years ago, the Terrent Family officially formed under their head of family, Thadeus Terrent. A wealthy aristocrat, he sought magecraft for the status it would bring him and to insure that his crops would grow better than that of neighboring lords in other parts of Rome's territories. A self-made man (or so the records claim), he managed to gain providence amongst his peers and stature befitting his talents. Nobody in the Terrent family questions this. It was not until his son, Thadeus Nigelious Terrent (TNT) that the family actually gained great notoriety within magical circles. It was Thadeus Nigelious who developed the family's founding motto, and developed most of the land and resources that the family would fall upon in following generations. Nigelious' heir would follow as an unimportant footnote, but his grandson Olivier Terrent the First would set about gathering demons. These demons he placed into a cauldron, and then sealed up, never to be opened. This would become "The Demon's Cauldron" which members of the Olivier family have been using ever since to produce more demons, or to study in the hopes of reaching the Root. While the bloodline has risen with Olivier Terrent the third, and fallen with Percival Terrent the seventh, there is little doubt that the Terrent Family is perhaps the most important name in Daemonology at the Clocktower. Unfortunately, in the 1800s, Olivier Terrent the fourth was met with tragedy. He lost control, and his body was taken over by a daemon. This daemon took over his life, slept with his wife, and wasted the family's fortunes on frivolities. The daemon which had isolated itself from the rest of the family, was eventually discovered by another member of the Clocktower. This damaged the family's reputation in the eyes of the Clocktower, and Olivier's child Christopher Terrent would spend many years of his life dedicated to desperately fighting the family's damaged reputation. But Christopher was not a great mage himself, and while his son was a greater mage than he, none of the family showed any particular greatness or talent that might undo the damage in a single generation. Until, Thomas Terrent had an idea. His child, Olivier Terrent the Fifth was about to be born. He had an idea. A horrible idea, but if it succeeded it would rock the Clocktower. He attempted to have a daemon possess his child in the womb, so that upon being born human and daemon would exist within equilibrium. This plan failed. While not going into the details, Olivier Terrent was born with a magical system ravaged by the failures of the experiment. His magical circuits damaged beyond repair, and yet he wondered if the daemon had actually been properly purged... He was a proper heir of course, but the damage to his circuits followed him. He had a more fragile magical constitution than his colleges, and while he was talented enough to raise above the others in his classes, he would never be able to overcome his own damages. Forever fighting the fact that his results would always be shallow. He understood the theories. He had found work-arounds for his issues. And yet he was haunted by it. Today... He expects to be a father with an heir of his own. His wife wants a child. But he fears the damage will spread to his heir. He fears... That he will be the broken chain that brings his family to ruin. But as he contemplated this... A magical crest appeared on his hand. A crest that declared... Join the Holy Grail War. Perhaps he shall fix himself there. [b]Elemental Affinity:[/b] Earth & Water [b]Magic Circuit Switch:[/b] ??? [b]Number of Magic Circuits:[/b] Very Low [b]Quality of Magic Circuits:[/b] Very Low [b]Magecraft:[/b] - [b]Daemonolgy[/b] - What is a daemon but an elaborate curse? The Terrent family, realizing how their bloodline was too weak to properly match other mages of higher magical talent, sought out ways to control daemons so that the daemons could properly educate, or operate on their behalf. This allows Olivier to create daemons using the left behind wishes of those that die, and transform them into those that follow the Terrent family. It is such that that Terrent family are more concerned with the contracts they forge with these nameless daemons, than actual magecraft. Olivier himself is quite good at writing contracts and maintaining control over various daemons and their needs. He is often seen followed by various daemons using corpses as disguises. - [b]Poppetcraft[/b] - A doll made to represent a person, for casting spells on that person or to aid that person through magic. Poppets are made from roots, or clay. Olivier creates poppets that act as contract holders, or to curse others. These poppets can be used to take the karmic punishment of a curse from him, or to punish others. Olivier has managed to create several poppets that can take away his pain. These poppets will eventually break depending on the degree of pain and the length. Some injuries can even be transferred over to poppets as well. - [b]Black Magic[/b] - The magic of those said to drift further to the dark side of things. Though that is a major exaggeration. It's a particularly broad field of magecraft, covering such subjects as flying brooms, necromancy, possession, etc. It's one of the keys to proper sympathetic magecraft. [b]Magic Crest:[/b] 700 Years [b]Equipment:[/b] [hider=Mystic Codes] [u][b]The Demon's Cauldron[/b][/u] - A cauldron is a powerful mystery. Where one makes a potion, or where one makes a stew. Long ago, it is said that Olivier Terrent the First placed a hundred demons into the cauldron, where they began to cannibalize each other. Gnashing fangs and claws ripped and tore, but he saw none of it. For he bound the cauldron tightly in chains, and no matter how much it howled or screamed he never opened it. And nobody in his family has since. This cauldron bubbles forever in a loop of cannibalizing demons, thus forever trapped in a self-perpetuating cycle of curses. It is possible to siphon curses from this cauldron, applying them to objects or creating smaller daemons that are offshoots of the original dreams and curses that manifested the originals. Under normal circumstances, this cauldron would never leave the family's estate. But because of the grail war, and the realization that it might be impossible for Olivier to handle the burden of a servant properly, he has taken the cauldron with him. While the cauldron is remarkably durable, it is also quite volatile. If destroyed, Olivier believes the demons inside, which have been in a cycle of self cannibalism for hundreds of years, could have potentially become something far worse than whatever was originally placed inside. [u][b]Demon's Coat of Arms[/b][/u] - Olivier has been collecting and summoning demons for quite a while. As a result, his clothing is actually made up of many demons. Some even living inside his body, which he uses to connect his damaged magical circuits. This clothing possesses the traits of many demons, which can be manipulated at a whim by connecting to Olivier himself. As such, the reaction time of the demons can be said to be beyond even Olivier's and will move his body for him in case of danger. The sheer breadth of demons involved in this coat is actually quite startling. Reportedly, some of the demons feed off the lesser curses that Olivier keeps with him that he collected from the Demon's Cauldron. [u][b]Demon's Ritual Knife[/b][/u] - A knife created by Olivier himself. This knife exists to recreate the phenomenon of demonic possession within a target in an instant. Originally used on animals or such to study the affects of demonic possession without properly birthing a demon. The victim is often mutilated beyond repair. Even a nick from the blade can cause spontaneous mutation in whatever limb it strikes. [u][b]Bag of Hexes[/b][/u] - A bag filled with the clippings and hair of sinners and men and women sent to the gallows. Even some recent ones of people executed by electric chair. These trimmings amplify sympathetic magecraft. If the trimmings or toenails of another are placed in the bag, curses towards them are amplified. [u][b]Poppet Making Kit[/b][/u] - Making poppets is time consuming without the right materials. As such, Olivier has gathered the right materials in advance. This composes a suitcase, filled with materials for roughly a hundred new poppets to be made. Upon learning the name of another, he can link the poppet to them. Thus, any damage done to the poppet can be reflected upon the victim. [/hider] [/hider]