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Background
Kaecilius the Zealot, formerly Kaecilius the Master, was born Kaecilius Nielsen in the late 19th century. He inherited some property, married a neighbour's daughter, Adria, and started a happy family in Copenhagen. His 8-year-old son contracted a virulent disease and died despite their best efforts. Adria fell into deep depression and drowned herself in the Nynhavn Canal, suffering the same disease. Kaecilius was a broken man and wandered far in search of answers, until finding Baron Karl Mordo. Through Mordo, he found a prospect to heal.
He spent nearly five decades (as humans reckon) at Kamar-Taj, but the true time was much longer. The Ancient One guided Kaecilius to find an answer and meaning in his loss. Ambitious and cynical, he tried to overcome despair by mastery of the Mystic Arts. Through them he sought more than peace. The hope of restoring his dead family drove him in every breath, and the Ancient One knew it.
Still, he excelled as a student and then a mentor to younger teachers. He accepted hazardous missions to reclaim grimoires, magical items, and tomes as a chance to further his skill. Other Masters didn't miss his risk taking and his preference to do things his way.
Kaecilius harboured suspicions about the Ancient One, and his growing desperation to find a cure to restore Adria led him eventually to learn about the Book of Cagliostro. That it remained in Kamar-Taj under the Ancient One's care was unthinkable, and he made several attempts to read it. The librarian barred him every time. Discovering that it contained rituals to contact Dormammu and allow immortality, banish death, or restore life was too much. His mind broke.
Kaecilius' charisma brought many allies and he called upon them, founding a cult in the shadows of Kamar-Taj among other mystics and mages upset by the Ancient One's apparent heresy keeping these blessings from them. He led them into the library, murdered the librarian, and liberated rituals to establish the Zealots as the foremost human servants of Dormammu who would open the way to Earth for the one.
Let the world shake. He is now a committed servant, the high priest to the One, and he will banish death once and for all from earth.
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Traits
- MYSTIC ARTS: Kaecilius trained for over 40 years with the Ancient One in Kamar-Taj. He ranked among the most powerful Masters of the Mystic Arts before his defection, and he particularly excels in channeling extradimensional power from the Dark Dimension of Dormammu. Dormammu's immense power fuels the majority of his spells and shields. Effects that thwart Dormammu similarly weaken Kaecilius, leaving him with only the ambient magics and powers of his location for a resource — he is still powerful, simply not on the same scale. His dark arts typically require sacrificial fuel or complex rituals to involve, and are not suitable for casting on the fly or improvising in a battle situation.
- Kaecilius' powers allow him to warp reality to limited degrees, such as teleportation, conjuration of objects and substances, forming force weapons, and manipulating the physical elements.
- SHIELDS: Kaecilius has a strong affinity for forming shields made of pure force. These can deflect most physical and magical attacks. They do not protect against psionic spells or powers. Ephemeral beings, like ghosts or astral forms, cannot pass through his shields. Sustaining them is easy but he cannot perform other spells without diminishing the effect of his shields.
- DARK ARTS: A special subcategory of magic, Kaecilius knows powerful rituals to directly draw upon the Dark Dimension's energies. He and his cult need special preparations to make themselves vessels suitable for the corruptive power. Once used, the ritual allows him to store a pool of dark energy that he can manipulate space and time. These distortions can include temporary pocket dimensions created by folding the space-time continuum, warping time, and toying with the laws of physics. These effects take a toll on all living creatures exposed to them, including Kaecilius. Effects include disorientation, physical collapse, insanity, and even death. Dormammu requires extensive sacrifice and preparation for these rituals, including blood sacrifice or whatever suits the Dark Lord's whims of the moment. The effects can cause permanent damage to the world and the dimension in which these arts are practiced.
- DIMENSIONAL TRAVEL: Kaecilius can use a particular artifact, a ring of his own devising, to travel between dimensions. He can also use it to project his spirit out of his body for up to a full day with no ill effect. Travel to distant dimensions or remaining outside his body longer requires rituals to "power" the ring for such a purpose.
- MAGICAL CRAFT: Kaecilius is skilled in the mundane crafts needed for any enchanter, alchemist, and potion maker. This includes the forging of metals, making of weapons, butchery, alchemy, and herbalism. Subsequently, he is capable of sustaining himself without magic, should he need to attend to the mundane.
- MASTER OF MYSTIC ARTS: Kaecilius studied magic under the Ancient One at Kamar-Taj. He has a deep background in magical theory, matter manipulation, and teleportation, and his proficiency in the astral realm is second only to the greatest masters of the mystic arts.
- MASTER OF DARK ARTS: He knows much of dark, other dimensional powers from reading the Book of Cagliostro and other forbidden grimoires about the Dark Dimension, Dormammu, and forbidden summoning.
- COMBAT: He has mastered Tibetan martial arts in Kamar-Taj. As a martial combatant, he can wield two curved scythes or spectral force blades effectively against multiple opponents and prefers to use ambush techniques.
- LANGUAGES: He speaks English, Danish, Tibetan, Sanskrit, and Latin.
- SAILING: Kaecilius is an accomplished sailor, and can handle most craft up to racing yachts. Preferring sailboats, he can tie dozens of mean knots.
- RELIGION: Having scoured religious and monastic texts for rituals to the Dark Dimension, Kaecilius is proficient in most eastern religious traditions.
- BOOK OF CAGLIOSTRO: The Zealot's translation of a forbidden ritual from the Book of Cagliostro allows him to channel the Dark Dimension into himself and his followers, allowing a variety of special benefits from Dormammu. The ultimate cost of this transgression is transmutation into a Mindless One.
- CONVICTION: Kaecilius believes utterly that Dormammu is the salvation from beyond death, the only means to bestow true immortality on the worshipful. Dormammu alone can restore his dead family to him. No amount of reasoning will convince the Zealot otherwise. This conviction makes Kaecilius resistant to any mind control that would inspire him to betray his master.
- RING OF KAECILIUS: Kaecilius possesses a ring that allows him to focus magic for the purpose of traveling between dimensions or projecting his spirit from his body for extended periods of time. Should he lose his ring, there are rituals that will allow him to summon it to him. For the particularly gifted, this connection can be used to summon Kaecilius to the ring instead.
- SCYTHE BLADES: He wields two identical, curved scythe blades, his signature weapon. These additional act as a magical focus honed on reaping, sacrifice, and blood for his dark rituals. The blades are mystically reinforced, resistant to breaking by mundane spells or materials, and potent when used for his martial spells.
- ZEALOTS: The cult to Dormammu supports and follows Kaecilius unquestioningly, thanks to a healthy amount of fear and control. He leads a small, devoted group that converts the willing. He can command them up to the point of death to serve their god's bidding.
- ANACHRONIST: Kaecilius has been out of the world long enough studying at Kamar-Taj that he's not up on the latest technology, news or social developments. His bearing and social values are more like an Edwardian gentleman than a 1960s businessman.
- ARROGANT: Kaecilius is full of himself. He is so utterly certain of his own rightness and supremacy that he often neglects to see his own shortcomings, which can be used against him.
- FAMILY: Rage at the premature deaths of his wife and son fuels the Zealot. Playing on his family can stir him to impulsive actions or utterly malicious sadism, and it's never certain. His family is his core weakness.
- FRAGILE: Kaecilius' psychological distortions and rigid thinking make him fragile, after a certain point. If pushed too far, forced to face the contradictions in his thinking or faced with his failures to protect his family, Kaecilius' mind can break entirely. This madness can take many forms but will ultimately leave him unable to function. His minions — or even Dormammu — will eventually collect him and remove him to where he can recover. Each breakdown brings Kaecilius closer to his fate as a Mindless One.
- PSYCHOPATH: The death of his family left Kaecilius detached, cold, and deluded that Dormammu will usher in a wondrous new age free of death. He loathes time and death passionately, seeing them as destructive forces standing in the way of life. He uses his convictions to justify remorseless deeds, like murder.
- ZEALOT: The downside to Kaecilius' conviction is his fanatical devotion to Dormammu. His absolute faith paints everything in black or white. One is with him or against him, an irreconcilable enemy. Those who block Dormammu claiming Earth deny humanity the greatest gift and must be subdued, nullified, or destroyed. He lives utterly for Dormammu and his faith. He channels his energies completely into weakening the influence of the Masters of the Mystic Arts.
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