“Do not rush, watch, listen. The key to avoid conflict, is to understand it.”
Human name: Kain Baskerville
Title: The Spider of Patience
Age: 27
Height: 1,90 metres tall (Or 6’2’’ feet)
Occupation: Tavern Owner/Bartender
Main Personality Traits: Calm, careful, centered.
Main Personality Weaknesses: Finds difficult to express himself, thinks too much before acting.
Overall Personality and Mannerisms: Calm, focused, centered and always in control. Those few words are more than enough to describe Kain Baskerville, someone who waits for people to take their own time and tries to understand before judging. Whether in social occasions or when working, Kain takes a formal and serious attitude and has a great difficulty in properly expressing what he feels, according to the man himself, feelings are still very mysterious to him as they make people break their limits and perform unthinkable attitudes. Unless needed, it is hard for the male to talk, prefering to show what he means with actions, however, quite paradoxically, he also tends to deliver long and grand speeches whenever explaining something or asking favors. Despite everything, he’s that one person anyone could ask for help and he would do so, regardless.
Appearance: Usually seen wearing a bartender outfit, Patience has a doubtful sense of fashion. The embodiment of patience skin is pale as snow, matching with his white colored hair, both entering in contrast with his bright cyan eyes.
Fighting skills: The Sin of Patience often rathers not to resort to violence, trying to solve problems with dialogue as much as possible, however when needed, he displays his master level skills as a martial artist, fighting mostly with his bare fists and legs, he’s also a really good observer and can follow an enemy’s rhythm after moments later the beginning of the fight, granting him a great maneuverability and dodging skills.
Special Ability: Kain is able to conjure bindings of all kind from simple strings to giant metal chains for various purposes, he calls this ability The Web of the Spider.
Non-Combat Related Skills: Kain’s a pretty skilled cook, being able to cook plenty of plates, surprisingly good taking care of children, great piano player, pretty damn good at cleaning and also has a great memory.
Hobbies: In his spare time, Kain enjoys playing card games and chess, he also has an enormous collection of books and enjoys trying to make new drinks to serve in his bar, The Limbo.
Likes: Food in general, cooking, coffee, good drinks, games, books and people.
Dislikes: Excess of sugar, unnecessary conflicts, not being in control of situations.
Backstory: The story of this man dates way back before the virtue of patience had awakened within him. This is not the story of the Spider of Patience, this is the story of Kain Baskerville.
The Baskerville family was one of the three noble families of the country of Britannia, a country located in the same continent as Reever, famous for its strict law system and very effective and famous Army. Said law system was administered by the Baskervilles, a family known for its long running legacy of judges and prosecutors, Kain himself knew the whole legislation of the country in the age of 14 years old by heart, being able to recite each and every law as needed. Ever since he was young he had visited law courts, watched his father judging and condemning criminals, something the young child always looked up to, being very proud of his father and his heritage as a whole.
And so Kain grew up like that, being tutored to become his father’s successor in the courtroom, a guardian of law, a paragon of order, a judge. However, the circumstances he found himself inheriting such position were very tragic, very very tragic.
The King of Britannia, a kind man named Aegon, loved by many, but far too nice for his own good, with a very strict politic about investigating criminals until their guilt was 100% assured and then, they would take their punishment. That angered some villagers, knights and nobles. The Ravenloft family, the ones responsible for the military in the Kingdom and another one of the most important nobles around, saw this as an opportunity to strike a coup d’etat and take the King down. Unfortunately, they succeeded. Aegon Vessalius was no more, and the new king was Aster Ravenloft, the heir of the family crowned king at the age of 20.
His first decree was to execute the king and all of their men, that including Johann Baskerville, Kain’s father, and the one asked to take the head of the courtroom was his oldest son, Kain Baskerville, the youngest judge to assume the courtroom, being only 16 years old. Scared but with nowhere to go, Kain listened to advice of his father, if he didn’t accept the offer, it would be considered treason and he would go down again, Johann said with a smile in his face “Keep the legacy running.” and attending the last wish of his father, Kain sentenced them all to death, fighting as much as he could to fight the tears back.
The following years were spent sure were very unhappy, Aster was a tyrant, the very kind that Kain would be glad to condemn, and yet, he did his dirty work. The Courthouse was not all that pleasant as well, bribed jury, people who did nothing wrong being sent to the guillotine right away just because the king said so, and of course, Aster himself was present during most judgements, dictating what should or should not be done there, taking very irrational measures.
Not only the courthouses were terrible, the kingdom as a whole was, they became a military nation with little to no concern to anything else, development, technology, infrastructure, and even healthcare for its people, it was about the weapon industry, the training of warriors, the reinforcement of the defenses, but who were they defending? Aster even had the idea of banishing magic items, saying magic and all the ones who meddled with it would bring doom to the country, saying magi-scientists were all witches and warlocks who forged pacts with demons. Being already aware of his own ability, Kain wondered what would happen to him if Aster found out he himself had magic abilities.
A life full of regrets and sins, Kain was little by little feeling more and more empty, more and more he was losing hope in humanity, many were the people he sent to the guillotine, few were the ones who actually deserved. Sadness filled his heart, not a single day he wouldn’t wish that the entire kingdom would burn down, and that’s when he met her, Elise.
Elise was a local owner of a bar, who was a moving ray of sunshine, long black hair, blue beautiful eyes, fair skin and a radiant smile. Back in the days, Kain would come everyday to her bar to drink his sorrow away, worried about him, Elise decided to sit down and talk to the male. Many were the times the two sat down so he could speak his heart out, and as the days, months and years passed, she began talking about her own problems as well, the two fell in love and eventually, when Kain was 22, they got engaged and finally, he was happy again. Despite all the problems, the two of them could face the problems together, his long wait was gone.
It was too bad, however, Elise’s brother was a transporter, he brought articles of magi-technology to the Kingdom and sold them for enormous prices, and in one specific day, he was found. The whole family lived together and as such, Elise was treated as an accomplice, and almost as in a sadistic choice, Aster picked Kain to preside the judgement. And once more, he had to condemn someone he loved to the guillotine, and for once, the ever so serious judge Kain Baskerville, lost his composure and cried during the judgement, cried his heart out. And so he went home and cried, cried, he cried for days until later on...when the tears dried out.
After Elise’s execution, his heart became hollow, he was the cause of both the death of his family and of the woman he loved, as well as the death of many other innocents, his feelings began to vanish little by little, he became a machine, a hollow purposeless shell of a man whose fate was to keep murdering innocent people. Too much for him to bear, so much, he had to run away. A revelation came to his mind, revealing his purpose, a reason to really exist, the virtue of Patience called him, while still prior to his true awakening, he had a feeling, a feeling that he needed to leave Britannia, and he knew the perfect way to do so.
Little by little, he planned, he joined those who were not satisfied with the current king, and boy, there were many, many were the man. They created a distraction in front of the palace, and silently, Kain sneaked into the palace, made his way towards Aster and gave him his final judgement.
“Aster Ravenloft, for usurping the throne, disturbing the courthouse and causing the death of many innocents, I, Kain Baskerville by the authority granted to me, thereby sentence you to death. Goodbye..”
After that was done, the Kingdom was returned to the Vessalius and so, Kain decided to leave, giving his position to an uncle, since he himself had no children.
Finally, Kain moved way from Britannia and marched forward to the Kingdom of Reever, a more open and welcoming place, where as a homage to Elise, he opened his own bar, the limbo. There he would serve everyone equally well, listen to their stories, be patient to all and not judge before he had everything straight.
He is the Spider of Patience, and as such he has his duties, but as well, he is Kain Baskerville, a man who has gone through a lot. And with the weight of that experience on his back, he strives to become a better person to atone for his crimes.
