Post by nocturne on Jul 26, 2012 22:46:03 GMT -5
Name: Abraham Escune
Age: 44
Occupation: Doctor (no longer licenced)
Manifestation: Manifestation of Heart
Escune's manifestation was to manage the flow of manifested energies. In his role as a doctor, he was especially adept at detecting and localizing Manifestation. Now, he is capable of limited manipulation of other manifested person's abilities, either to enhance or to diminish.
Personality: Formerly a driven, ambitious doctor, the events that stripped him of his license and his purpose for being have embittered him. Unlike most Manifested persons, he is completely unable to discharge his abilities without the presence of others using their abilities, which makes him especially dependent on others. He distrusts Doctors, knowing the back-room politics that go on out of sight of the majority of the population.
Skills: Extensive medical knowledge (once a top-flight Doctor), endurance (comes from long marathon healing sessions and extensive hiking and backpacking to reach distant enclaves and asylums outside of the Capitol). Limited knowledge of the Broken Sky Event physics.
Equipment: Escune is legally prohibited from practicing as a Doctor, but has salvaged some of his medical equipment. He does not directly have access to the advanced drugs and countermeasures that contain Manifestation.
Background: Abraham Escune was one of the rising stars of New Lancaster's Institute. His ability to contain Manifestation was noted at the highest levels, and his name was often mentioned as one destined for administration of the Institute itself.
However, like any human organization, the Institute is rife with political infighting, manipulation, and intrigue. While Escune himself was dedicated to his duties, others within the institution saw opportunities for advancement among the political Elite of New Lancaster.
Easiest to understand was basic corruption: families that could pay or provide materiel goods to the Institute were given preferential treatment and access to the highest skilled Doctors. But even more insidious was the Institute's Database of Expressed Manifestation (DEM) -- the list of all persons Manifesting abilities, and their capabilities. The Institute could become a "talent warehouse" for special skills to those who could afford its services.
Escune himself knew little of this second layer of corruption (though he himself tended some of the Elite Families).
His infection came as a result of an attack by Purgers, who lured him in while he was tending an especially advanced case. He was captured and used as a vessel to expel Manifested energy. Several Doctors known to him were present during his attack, but he remembers little ofwhat happened.
Only his skill allowed him to survive the experience, but he could not hide the result of the attack. he was stripped of his license and is closely tracked as a high-order threat. He suspects that he was targeted by rivals in the Institute who felt he might "object" to their clandestine operations.
Appearance: (picture will follow when I figure out how to link to existing images).
Escune is a fit man in his mid-forties, tall but lithe. His eyes are copper-colored, ranging from a dull brown to a firey amber depending on mood and surrounding light; his hair is black turning to salt-and-pepper on the sides. He still has ample money and some material goods due to his previous status as a Doctor, but he is cautious with his expenses because he is incapable of working due to his condition. His Manifestation is not noticable unless he removes his shirt; the skin on his chest around his heart has turned dark and mottled, like porphyry, the fissures running like tiny veins of opals.
Age: 44
Occupation: Doctor (no longer licenced)
Manifestation: Manifestation of Heart
Escune's manifestation was to manage the flow of manifested energies. In his role as a doctor, he was especially adept at detecting and localizing Manifestation. Now, he is capable of limited manipulation of other manifested person's abilities, either to enhance or to diminish.
Personality: Formerly a driven, ambitious doctor, the events that stripped him of his license and his purpose for being have embittered him. Unlike most Manifested persons, he is completely unable to discharge his abilities without the presence of others using their abilities, which makes him especially dependent on others. He distrusts Doctors, knowing the back-room politics that go on out of sight of the majority of the population.
Skills: Extensive medical knowledge (once a top-flight Doctor), endurance (comes from long marathon healing sessions and extensive hiking and backpacking to reach distant enclaves and asylums outside of the Capitol). Limited knowledge of the Broken Sky Event physics.
Equipment: Escune is legally prohibited from practicing as a Doctor, but has salvaged some of his medical equipment. He does not directly have access to the advanced drugs and countermeasures that contain Manifestation.
Background: Abraham Escune was one of the rising stars of New Lancaster's Institute. His ability to contain Manifestation was noted at the highest levels, and his name was often mentioned as one destined for administration of the Institute itself.
However, like any human organization, the Institute is rife with political infighting, manipulation, and intrigue. While Escune himself was dedicated to his duties, others within the institution saw opportunities for advancement among the political Elite of New Lancaster.
Easiest to understand was basic corruption: families that could pay or provide materiel goods to the Institute were given preferential treatment and access to the highest skilled Doctors. But even more insidious was the Institute's Database of Expressed Manifestation (DEM) -- the list of all persons Manifesting abilities, and their capabilities. The Institute could become a "talent warehouse" for special skills to those who could afford its services.
Escune himself knew little of this second layer of corruption (though he himself tended some of the Elite Families).
His infection came as a result of an attack by Purgers, who lured him in while he was tending an especially advanced case. He was captured and used as a vessel to expel Manifested energy. Several Doctors known to him were present during his attack, but he remembers little ofwhat happened.
Only his skill allowed him to survive the experience, but he could not hide the result of the attack. he was stripped of his license and is closely tracked as a high-order threat. He suspects that he was targeted by rivals in the Institute who felt he might "object" to their clandestine operations.
Appearance: (picture will follow when I figure out how to link to existing images).
Escune is a fit man in his mid-forties, tall but lithe. His eyes are copper-colored, ranging from a dull brown to a firey amber depending on mood and surrounding light; his hair is black turning to salt-and-pepper on the sides. He still has ample money and some material goods due to his previous status as a Doctor, but he is cautious with his expenses because he is incapable of working due to his condition. His Manifestation is not noticable unless he removes his shirt; the skin on his chest around his heart has turned dark and mottled, like porphyry, the fissures running like tiny veins of opals.
