Kingston Sparks

Character: Kingston Sparks	Nature: Mercenary/Scientist	Clan: Kiasyd
Player: Bruce	Demeanor: Loner	Generation 9th
Chronicle: London - PB	Concept: Antiquarian	Sire: Kassiym Malikhair
Allegiance: Sabbat	Lair: []	Pack: Fresh Fish
Birth: 1850	Weakness: Allergy to Iron	Embrace: 1906
---	Cameo: Guy Fawkes Night	Progeny: Messiah Humbert
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	ATTRIBUTES
Physical	Social	Mental
Strength ●●○○○	Charisma ●●○○○	Perception ●●●○○
Dexterity ●●○○○	Manipulation ●●●○○	Intelligence ●●●●○
Stamina ●●○○○	Appearance ●●●○○	Wits ●●●○○
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	ABILITIES
Talents	Skills	Knowledges
Alertness ●○○○○ ()	Animal Ken ○○○○○ ()	Academics ●●○○○ ()
Athletics ○○○○○ ()	Crafts ○○○○○ ()	Enigmas ●○○○○ ()
Awareness ●○○○○ ()	Etiquette ●●○○○ ()	Finance ●●○○○ ()
Brawl ●○○○○ ()	Firearms ○○○○○ ()	Investigation ●○○○○ ()
Empathy ●○○○○ ()	Larceny ●○○○○ ()	Law ●○○○○ ()
Expression ●○○○○ ()	Melee ●○○○○ ()	Medicine ○○○○○ ()
Intimidation ●○○○○ ()	Performance ○○○○○ ()	Occult ●●●●○ (Arcane Objects)
Leadership ●○○○○ ()	Ride ○○○○○ ()	Politics ○○○○○ ()
Streetwise ●○○○○ ()	Stealth ●○○○○ ()	Science ●○○○○ ()
Subterfuge ●○○○○ ()	Survival ○○○○○ ()	Theology ●○○○○ ()
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Secondary Abilities	Backgrounds	Merits & Flaws
Haggling ●●●●○ (Curios)	Allies ○○○○○ ()	Dual Nature - 2pt (mental)
Area Knowledge ●●○○○ (London)	Contacts ●●○○○ ()	Arcane Collector - 4pt Kiasyd (m)
Linguistics ●●●●○ (Ancient)	Domain ○○○○○ ()	Eldritch Giantism - 2pt Kiasyd flaw
---	Fame ○○○○○ ()	---
Disciplines	Generation ●●●●○ ()	---
Dominate ●○○○○ ()	Influence ○○○○○ ()	---
Mytherceria ●●○○○ ()	Mentor ●○○○○ (Kassiym Malikhair)	---
Obtenebration ●●○○○ ()	Resources ●●○○○ (Arcane Curiosities - the shop)	---
---	Retainers ●●●●● (ghoul servants)	---
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Health Levels	Humanity	Virtues
Bruised (0) - { }	●●●●○○○○○○ ()	Conscience ●○○○○
Hurt (-1) ---- { }	---	Self-Control ●●●●●
Injured (-1) - { }	Willpower	Courage ●●●●○
Wounded (-2) - { }	●●●●●●●●○○ ()	---
Mauled (-2) -- { }	---	---
Crippled (-5)- { }	Bloodpool	Kingston Collection
Incapacitated- { }	○○○○○○○○○○	Kingston's Notes
Final Death	○○○○○○○○○○○	Kingston's XP

Sobriquet

Kingston has few friends and is a little too serious for nicknames.

Appearance

Originally short, bald, pudgy and myopic, Kingston was not much to look upon. Now after the Embrace his Fae blood has significantly lengthened his bones and given his face a sharp, angular caste that is distinctly goblinoid. It also touched his eyes with a fiery glint, tinted his skin a metallic bronze that is almost orange and sharpened his ears with indelible fey delicacy. In life a heavy set man, from a sedentary life as opposed to gluttony, Kingston is now tall and imposing in his habitual black attire and bowler hat, as if a kobold grew tall and imposing with the aspiration of aping a man of means in dress and manners.

Behavior

Kingston Sparks is distinctly Dickensian. Kingston's best analog would be Ebenezer Scrooge. But that is an imperfect comparison for where Ebenezer is a man of little imagination, the same cannot be said of Kingston. Mr. Sparks is every bit as acquisitive as Scrooge, but the game of negotiation is one of two twin pleasures that motivate Kingston. The second of those drives in an almost scientific curiosity about the occult world; this is a side of Sparks that most never glimpse. This combination of merchant and arcane experimenter make for a exotic mix and give Kingston an almost infernal character, as if Old Scratch were willing to walk the nocturnal byways of London striking deals with unsuspecting mortals and jotting down each pact in crimson ink in black ledgers and chuckling to himself. Kingston is possessed of a dark ironic sense of humor and honor that disdains the breaking laws and deals.

History

Kingston Sparks was born the bastard son to an unwed teenage girl given to flights of madness. The small minds of a small English village neither understood nor forgave his mother's sins and the boy child inherited the stain of these failings by the nature of his blood. Born as Kingston was in the middle of the Nineteenth century the situation was a terrible scandal that might have ruined the boys life before it was begun, but for the timely intervention of his maternal grandfather who adopted the boy and brought him to live with him upon a small farm outside of Buntingford, Hertfordshire.

Kingston grew quickly on his yeoman grandfather's farm. Days began at sunrise, there were always chores and then a long walk to school in all seasons, followed by long hours in a one room school house and a long walk home. Kingston never suffered the slings and arrows of local judgement because his grandfather invented a story about his daughter and her husband dying in a carriage accident abroad and he cemented this fiction with a funeral for two in the Buntingford cemetery and hosting a rousing wake at a local inn. The truth was far less pleasant. Kingston's mother was taken to Bethlam Royal Hospital where she would reside until her death.

Kingston's childhood passed like a warm summer day. The death of his grandfather brought that day to a close. Kingston had just turned twenty-one years old and inherited the farm and its attendant lands. Kingston might have become a yeoman farmer himself had he not found his grandfathers papers revealing the nature of his birth and his mother's incarceration in Bedlam. The young man made a fateful decision when he sold his property in Buntingford and moved to London. The "Big Smoke" was a thrill for a country boy fresh off the farm, but Kingston adapted quickly, taking lodgings and finding work initially in labor and then in service to a pawnbroker.

Kingston's first visit to Bedlam was a terrible shock, the Asylum was a rambling series of buildings many in poor condition with slanting walls, uneven floors and a leaky roof. The patients both mild and severe often wandered loose and mixed without restraint while more criminal patients were confined to cells. Kingston's mother was so confined and his first meeting with her would change him forever.

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Basics

Gender: Male

Type: Adult

Nationality: British

Location: Buntingford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Language: English

Life & Times

Age: 55

Birth date: November 23, 1849 (11:43 AM)

Physical

Height: 172 cm / 7 ft 2 in

Weight: 82 kg / 245 lbs

Handedness: Right

Blood type: A+

Future Outlook

Death date: November 5th, 1906 (1:37 AM)

Lifespan: 55

Cause of death: Exsanguination