Gideon Kindle

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Contents 1 Description 2 Face 3 Aspects 4 Motivation 5 Relationships 6 Skills 7 Stunts 8 Gideon's Powers 9 Azazel's Powers 10 Stress 11 Focus Items 12 Enchanted Items 13 Rotes 14 Notes 15 History 16 Kindle Investment Group 17 Sea Cliff House

Description

Good looking man in his 50s, greying at the temples, genial and self-deprecating.

Face

Something's Rotten in Frisco (City Threat)

Aspects

• DIABOLIST MASTERMIND
• LUST FOR POWER
• CHARMING, BUT EVIL
• FULL-TIME PHILANTHROPIST
• COLLECTOR OF RARE BOOKS
• THE PUPPET-MASTER
• HOST OF AZAZEL

Motivation

Wants to achieve power, wealth, and immortality by any means necessary

Relationships

• Mentor to Solomon and Robin.
• Rival collector of books with Tolliver.

Skills

• Lore +6
• Resources +5
• Conviction +4, Discipline +4, Scholarship +4
• Presence +3, Deceit +3, Rapport +3
• Contacts +2, Intimidation +2, Athletics +2 (+4), Alertness +2
• Endurance +1, Guns +1, Craftsmanship +1, Empathy +1, Investigation +1

Stunts

• High Quality Workspace (Resources)

Gideon's Powers

• Evocation (Air +2 control, Spirit +1 control, Fire) -3
• Thaumaturgy (Diabolism +1 complexity, Psychomancy +1 complexity, Crafting +1 strength) -3
• The Sight -1
• Soulgaze 0
• Refinement -5
• Sponsored Magic (Hellfire) -2
• Spent Refresh: -15

Azazel's Powers

• Human Guise 0
• Supernatural Sense -1: See in the dark
• Supernatural Speed -4: Always first for initiative, Athletics checks +2 (+4 for sprinting), move two zones without -1 penalty
• Mythic Recovery -6: Recover from all physical consequences before the beginning of the next scene, never need to sleep, clear a mild physical consequence as a supplemental action thrice a conflict
• Mythic Toughness -6: Armor:3 against physical stress, six additional physical stress boxes
• The Catch (Holy Stuff) +2
• Spent Refresh: -15

Stress

• Physical: 3+6, Armor:3
• Mental: 4
• Social: 4

Focus Items

• Silver SS ring (+2 offensive air control and power) (4 slots)

Enchanted Items

• Protective Eye of Horus Amulet (Epic (+7) block or Armor:3)
• Tattoo of angel on his back (Lengendary+1 (+9) block on any attempt to detect his diabolical influences) (3 slots)

Rotes

• Palpatine Lightning (Weapon:8 Legendary (+8) hellfire-boosted air attack, 2 stress, requires ring)
• Flaying Winds (Weapon:5 Legendary (+8) hellfire-boosted air attack on a zone, 1 stress, requires ring)
• Electrical Travel (Legendary (+8) hellfire-boosted air sprint, 1 stress, requires ring)
• Spell Flaying (Weapon:6 Legendary (+8) hellfire-boosted air counterspell, 1 stress, requires ring)
• Lightning Shield (Fantastic (+6) hellfire-boosted air block for three exchanges, 3 stress, requires ring)
• Force Lance (Weapon:4 Superb (+5) spirit attack, 1 stress)

Notes

He always goes first, with his ring he can channel Fantastic (+6) power (Epic (+7) if he's hurting someone with hell-lightning) with Legendary (+8) control, but he only has a Great (+4) defense. He usually doesn't wear his ring when he's not doing evil, so he is only bringing Great (+4) power with Fantastic (+6) control, but likes that it gets people to underestimate him. He owns a Fantastic (+6) arcane library specializing in Diabolism and has a Good (+3) arcane sanctum.

He lives in a chateauesque mansion in Sea Cliff. 68 years old (looks 50).

History

Gideon was born Helge Potthast in 1942 to Heinrich Himmler and his mistress, former secretary Hedwig Potthast. His sister, Nanette Dorothea Potthast, is two years younger. After the war, in the summer of 1945, their mother took advantage of Himmler's connections in the Lebensborn program to relocate to a maternity home in Norway. Eventually, she married a man named Edward Kindle in 1948, bores him a son (Edward Jr) in 1949, and they moved to the United States in 1953. All paperwork in the States lists Kindle as their father and his first name as Gideon (after Edward's father), while his sister became Dorothy. As a child, he has a fascination with the Nazis and popular theories about Nazi occultism lead him into an interest in the occult. Managing to acquire a common ritual at the age of 18, he bargains with a demon (Belial) for magical ability. The White Council notices his newly-acquired ability and brings him into the fold. Shortly after, in 1961, Kemmler is brought down for the last time. Stories of his past exploits are easy to come by and he spends a lot of time researching him. By the 70s, he is a full member of the White Council and takes on Robin Wheeler as his first apprentice. His attempts to get a working version of the Darkhallow ritual end in 1985 when the group of young diabolists he's been manipulating try it and fail. He abandons the Kemmlerian approach and instead researches other paths to power, eventually coming full circle to diabolic means and the Blackened Denarii.

Kindle Investment Group

His father was a wealthy industrialist in Norway who made a small fortune during the second world war as part of the Nazi war effort. After the war, his marriage to a woman associated with Lebensborn and his own Nazi ties led to him selling his factories and taking his wealth with him to the United States. He invested his considerable wealth in new silicon transistor technology and a number of Stanford-based technology start-ups in the 1950s, resulting in the family acquiring a massive fortune. Edward Sr died in 1979 and Edward Jr took over the operation of the family business. Gideon consented to this and was happy instead to spearhead the family's considerable philanthropic enterprises. Currently, KIG owns shares of most major high-tech firms in Silicon Valley. Edward Jr lives in Mountain View with his family.

Sea Cliff House

This small but well-positioned home overlooking the Golden Gate belonged to Hedwig "Hedy" Kindle, who lived there until her dead in 1981 (at age 69) with daughter Dorothy.