Henri Blanchard
AFFILIATION: Loups du Gévaudan (Wolves of Gévaudan)
AGE: 32
GENDER: Male
HEIGHT: 5'8”
WEIGHT: 158 lbs
HAIR: Red
EYES: Pale Green
MAGIC DISCIPLINE
Curses: A (17)
ELEMENTS
Aether: B (9)
Earth E (0)
Fire: C (4)
Water: B (9)
Wind: C (4)
Mana Affinity: A (17)
Mana Reserve: D (1)
MASTER-SERVANT MODIFICATIONS
+1 Endurance
-1 Luck
Henri is physically resilient but an uncomfortable person to be around.
Possessions
- Backsword
- marksman pistol
- shuko, enhanced with extended blades on top suitable for combat as well as climbing.
SIGNATURE SPELLS
Marqué pour la Mort
(Marked for Death)
Using a combination of water and wind magic to bund and twist this curse onto it’s target, Henri makes them more susceptible to his attacks, Through the flow of mana, Henri can also spot special weaknesses particular to the individual targeted, and can impart this knowledge to his servant so long the mana flow between them is active.
Cécité, Surdité
(Blindness, Deafness)
A curse that tangles the sensory input to an individual’s brain, making them blind and deaf to Henri’s presence. The more latent mana in the area, the more people he can affect or the stronger his affect against a single target can become. He uses his skill with water to redirect and confuse the energy flow. He remains the source of the flow and once out of sight or hearing of the target, the spell’s effect on that sense ends. This ability is negated by a servant’s presence detection.
Escalade d'araignée
(Spider Climb)
Utilitarian spell that allows him to scale any surface that will allow his physical form to pass over or through. His curse travels through his hands into the surface he is touching, making it warp and alter into something suitable for him to climb with ease. The curse is in his hands so once he let’s go of the surface the magic is drained out and the surface returns to normal. He uses fire and earth to infuse, expand, and warp the surface.
Yeux écrasés
(Crushing Eyes)
Through intense focus, Henri can manipulate in individual’s energy or mana flow, choking it and causing the person to suffer a reduction in their abilities or skills, or their mental state, making them weaker relative to the nature of the curse. Magic resistance does not affect the mana flow from Henri, but can mitigate the affects, forcing Henri to put more mana behind the curse or to abandon it if the cost becomes too great. It is possible to extend this ability to multiple people, but it is very inefficient and Henri has no ability to make the effect stronger, only add an additional target, and any magic resistance negates the effect immediately.
Biography
Henri was born looking like he had already died. His appearance as well as his general discomforting vibe meant that he was often avoided by other people. Apathetic from the beginning, Henri never really bothered to put much effort into correcting any social perceptions of him and slid easily into a youth of unpunished (and largely un-caught) juvenile delinquency. As he got older, he shifted from petty crime and self-interested behavior to theft, burglary, and in general getting whatever ever he wanted through whatever means he deemed practical, He was already accomplished in infiltration with a few murders to his name when he joined the
Loups du Gévaudan, a secret agency in magus society that specializes in intelligence, infiltration, and assassination. Indifferent as ever, he became an operative without too much thought into why he was doing what he was doing, just that he was good at doing it.
Not from a wizard family by birth, Henri acquired his crest through from the agency’s personal collection reserved for it’s agents and operatives, dutifully retrieved and reused as necessary. Henri’s Crest comes from a line schooled in curses, which he finds come to him easily with his now sociopathic regard for the rest of humanity. He developed a specialty in assassination, removing the targets given without any concern over how they may have attracted the Agency’s attention. His grail mark appeared suddenly and for no discernable reason that he could tell, but as with other endeavors in his life, Henri is now entering the Grail war merely because the opportunity presented itself.
Henri’s wish for the grail is entirely self-serving; in brief, everything he can get for himself by way of wealth, fame, and leisure, beholden to no other person or group.