Quintus Xavier Lucius Ruthermont
Birth Date: Dragon Age 9:03, 3rd Month of Drakonis, 30th Day
Birth Place/Home-town: Minrathous, Tevinter
Relationship Status: Single
Sexuality: Pansexual
Occupation: Slaver
Class: Rogue - dual Daggers, technically he was born an Altus Mage, but beyond learning basics and how to control magic, he rarely uses it and isn't great at it. He hates magic, sees it as weak. About the only magic he's good at is minor elemental and healing spells, when he even bothers.
Nickname/Alias: The Shepherd, because he sees himself as a shepherd and his slaves as his flock, his possessions. He thinks being a slaver is a good thing, best thing in the world in fact. He really doesn't understand why people don't just want to be his slave voluntarily.
Alignment: chaotic evil
Loyalty: Technically he has ties with the Venatori, especially through his employee/assassin Siren, but as he's opportunistic he really only cares about being rich, powerful and the slave trade. So he tends to play both sides of the fence.
Personality
Some might call him a narcissistic pig, others might call him a control freak, some might even say he has anger management issues, it really all depends on who you talk to. He's a smooth charismatic talker. He enjoys the finer things in life, having lots of money, having lots of people fear him, because to him fear is far more enjoyable than respect. He only drinks the best wines. He enjoys dominating people, kidnapping people to become slaves and whipping them into shape. He has this whole ritual for new slaves they have to go through before he sells them, which involves breaking their spirit. He's vindictive, he's malignant, he's pretty evil. He can procure things for people, especially anything illegal. He has great business sense, though he's a bit of a disappointment to his father because as the oldest son he's supposed to inherit the Magister title for his family, but he has no desire to do so. He sees himself as already more powerful than any Magister as he helps run the heart of their life blood, the slaves.
History
He was born to a powerful Altus family in Minrathous, Tevinter. Growing up he wasn't like most boys, especially most mage boys. He preferred getting dirty, fighting hand to hand, picking on anyone that he saw as weaker. He had little interest in magic or learning to become better at it. As long as he could control his magic and do some basic stuff, the rest he found boring and turned up his nose at.
He focused more on what he considered real worthwhile fighting skills. Fighting with dual daggers, throwing daggers, hand to hand, learning the art of poisons, and cures. He had a particular fondness for poisoning someone with one thing, something that would have them in pain and agony, and then later give them the cure, just so that they would know he was in control.
He joined the slavers at 18, and quickly worked his way up, eventually building a name for himself outside his Altus family. He bought his first slave when he was 23 years old, a woman who now goes by the name Siren and has become one of his most trusted assets, and occasionally has side benefits with -wink wonk-
He owns many slaves himself, and provides a lot of slaves for the Imperium. He's known to have one of the most rigorous routines he puts new slaves through before selling them off. His slaves are often the most beaten, downtrodden, broken slaves in Tevinter. Though he has many that work for him and he has more than enough money to sit back, enjoy life, and run things from the top, he is very much a hands on Boss, he doesn't ask anything of his employees he wouldn't do himself. He also is addicted to the thrill of the hunt for new slaves, as well as the process in breaking them.
Abilities
Dual Daggers, Throwing Daggers, hand to hand combat are where he's superior skills lay. He's average with a bow but generally prefers to be up close and personal with his intended victims, feels the thrill more intimately that way.
Although he's technically an Altus mage, he's always seen magic as weak. Sure it seems powerful, but it lacks a certain up close and personal touch. He figures anyone can lob a spell from a distance and kill or maim, but to do so up close, to be inches from their face when they realise they are about to die, to smell the fear and sweat and blood dripping off them, that is a feeling that he doesn't get when wielding magic. Therefore the extent of his magical abilities generally is controlling his magic, some minor elemental magic, a bit of healing magic. He doesn't use it enough to be good at it or rely on it.
He's a smooth charismatic talker, if loving himself and thinking his shit smells like roses is an ability, he has it in spades. He's one of the best slavers around, and people have to pay top money for his services and slaves.
Current Problem
Missing slave, one of his most prized slaves escaped. He's very not happy about this, VERY. NOT. HAPPY. If anyone knows the whereabouts of a slave that goes by the name Sway, he'll pay any amount for this information.
