welcome THEODORE PALAIOLOGOS. you hail from BYZANTIUM and have been risen to the position of an EMPEROR. you are a member of the house of PALAIOLOGOS and will go down in history as the DOOMSAYER. though you are MACHIEVALLIAN & INSATIABLE, you are blessed with being ERUDITE and GREGARIOUS.
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━━ BASIC INFO.
NAME: theodoros NICKNAME: theodore, theo AGE: thirty-five PLACE OF BIRTH: palace of blachernae, constantinople IMPERIUM: byzantium GENDER: cisgender man PRONOUNS: he/him ORIENTATION: homosexual RELIGION: greek orthodox, somewhat of a mystic PARENTS: konstantinos & helena SIBLINGS andronikos, sophia LANGUAGES: greek, latin, arabic, french ( fluent ) italian, german, farsi ( conversational ) english, mandarin ( learning ) EDUCATION: private tutoring with the professors of the pandidakterion TITLE: basileus rhomaíōn, see also: autokrator, kyrios, despotes INTERESTS: theology, philosophy, wargames, mathematics, alchemy HOBBIES: reading, writing, horseriding, going on long walks LABEL the doomsayer
━━ PERSONALITY.
mbti. infj-t enneagram. 1w2, the activist instinct. sp/sx character inspo. rhaegar targaryen, a song of ice and fire / kendall roy, succession / paul atreides, dune / hektor, the iliad / rodion raskolnikov, crime and punishment
erudite, gregarious, perceptive, dutiful
machievellian, insatiable, melancholic, secretive
━━ SNAPSHOT.
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known most everywhere as the emperor of a kingdom yet to realise it has already fallen, the basileus of the roman empire is a man out of time. the clock is running down on him and his empire, and yet he ( poor fool that he is! ) tries to save the imperium that was his birthright. charming and conciliatory, he has made great strides in establishing links towards the successor kingdoms of his empire’s former western half — setting aside orthodox pride over the great schism if only to stave off the bleeding of byzantium. one might almost be tempted to ask what the basileus might sell off next, if only to further exact an assurance for the salvation of his people.
in truth, the basileus might have been a man better suited for the monastery than the rooms encrusted with porphyry. as a child, he always had his nose stuck in some crumbling tome, his mouth always firing off incessant questions to counfound the philosophers who would claim their didactic lineage all the way to aristotle. yet his perception also gave rise to a profound insight when he was young: he was the inheritor of a kingdom about to die, and this changed him greatly. he could never be the sort of warrior that would stem the ottoman tide, but there is one thing he can do, and that is to shift his focus from the finer intricacies of the celestial hierarchies to the far more material hierarchies of this earth — a change that he still grieves for in his heart.
━━ TIMELINE.
1397. theodoros is born.
1398. his brother, andronikos, is born.
1403. his sister, sophia, is born.
1432. he arrives at the court of king charles of france.
━━ PLOTS.
possible betrothal connections, prior overtures he’s made, trading contracts he’s in the process of securing, religious brethren he’s trying to mend the schism for, etcetc — is it obvious i forgot to write this part and just put it in haphazardly at the last minute upon noticing my lapse?
