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SEBASTIAN
RADCLIFFE
Profession:
Profession: Academic
Organization: Aegis Kai Doru
Organization:
Mental Attributes: Intelligence 5, Wits 3, Resolve 3
Mental Attributes:
Physical Attributes: Strength 2, Dexterity 2, Stamina 2
Physical Attributes:
Social Attributes:
Social Attributes: Presence 3, Manipulation 3, Composure 4
Mental Skills: Skills: Academics 5 (Linguistics), Computer 3, Investigation 4 (Research),
Mental
Occult 3 (Lycanthropes), Politics 2, Science 2 (Lycanthrope Biology)
Physical Skills:
Physical Skills: Athletics 1, Brawl 1 (Self Defense), Drive 1, Larceny 1,
Stealth 1, Survival (Urban) 1
Social Skills: Empathy 1, Expression 3 (Scholastic papers), Persuasion 1,
Social Skills:
Socialize 1, Subterfuge 1
Merits:
Merits: Contacts (University), Eidetic Memory, Encyclopedic Knowledge,
Professional Training 3, Relic 1 (See Kirkstede’s Lenses below), Status (Aegis
Kai Doru) 3
Willpower:
Willpower: 7
Morality:
Morality: 6
Virtue: Hope
Virtue:
Vice: Sloth
Vice:
Initiative:
Initiative: 6
Defense:
Defense: 2
Speed: 9
Speed:
Health:
Health: 7

Some rogue hunters break away from their former lives, None of Sebastian’s training in the brutal and fierce ways
going missing and presumed dead or AWOL from their cells of the werewolf did anything to prepare him for Lisebethe’s
and/or organizations. Others retain a covert double-life, con- subtle manipulations. In short order, he was completely under
tinuing their Vigil alongside their cellmates while also engag- her thrall. He reports to her not only on the activities of him-
ing in other “projects” that their team knows nothing about. self, his cell and its lycanthropic targets, but also whatever
else he learns about the cells of Aegis Kai Doru. Lisebethe’s
Sebastian Radcliffe control of Sebastian is so encompassing that he doesn’t even

Quote: “I didn’t use to believe in love at first sight. Then I realize he’s being used — he fancies himself in love with a de-
met her.” lightful goth-girl who cares enough about him to take a genu-
Background: Sebastian’s Master’s thesis on pre-Babylo- ine (if sometimes naïve) interest in his research and work.
nian dialects was enough to garner him the attention of the Appearance: Sebastian is a slightly overweight man in
Aegis Kai Doru. After brief training, he joined a cell that was his mid-20s. He’s spent his entire life in academia, and has
investigating lycanthropic society, specifically their rituals little in the way of physical skills beyond basic self-defense

and language. It was exciting work. Over several years (and taught by the organization. His vision is naturally good, al-
with the unwilling assistance of several werewolf captives), though he’s taken to wearing the Relic glasses whenever he’s
the team believed it was coming closer and closer to cracking doing research. He tends to wear jeans and button-down shirts
the cryptic tongue that the lycanthropes used to communi- with the tails untucked to better hide his “spare tire.”
cate amongst themselves and in their profane ceremonies. Since meeting Lisebethe, he’s begun to take more care
To aid in their work, Sebastian was given a Relic — a with his appearance, cutting his normally scraggly hair into a
pair of glasses that, when worn, allowed the mind to read neat, short style and making certain his socks match and his
faster, retain more of the information read and draw conclu- shirt is clean. He tries for her, but doesn’t really have a great
sions from it more quickly and accurately. Unfortunately for fashion sense.
Sebastian, not long after he began using the Relic, the glasses’ Storytelling Hints: Sebastian is has no idea that he is ut-
former owner woke from a centuries-long slumber and sought terly under Lisebethe’s supernatural influence. She has exerted

to reclaim her former possession. her vampiric dominance over him, and uses her supernatural
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