Tony Santoro
The Rogue Botanist
An amateur botanist who despises the impact of people upon the land and who likes nothing better than to wander the wilderness, studying and documenting the flora of Rifts Earth. He will gladly share his knowledge with anyone willing to listen to his wildly entertaining stories and weather his colorful language.
(Note: This character is named after and inspired by the online persona of the Youtube channel "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't")
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
A wiry man in his mid thirties, he bears the signs of a life surviving in the wild.
Identifying Characteristics
He has covered himself in tattoos, some of which are actually magic tattoos given to him by an Atlantean Alchemist skilled in tattoo magic.
Magic Tattoos:
- Left Arm - Thorny Rose - Heal
- Right Arm - Vine of Thorns - protection from poison
Special abilities
See Tattoos above. Each Tattoo activation costs 1 power point.
Without an Arcane Background, he has a total of 5 power points.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Originally a citizen of Chi Town who got a job hauling freight between coalition states. Having never left the city sky rise before, he marveled at the wild lands he crossed. During his sleepovers between hauls, he would wander the countryside with an inexhaustible curiosity about the things he saw. His co-worker Jack, a coalition dog who failed out of the Dogboy military program would often go with him and the two became fast friends.
After much searching and contacting some underground markets, he eventually obtained some old Earth books on botany and taught himself to read.
One day he took a walk and never came back. With his books in his bag and Jack at his side, he has been walking the wilderness ever since.
Education
Self-taught
Employment
unemployed, self-sufficient. He has become a bit of a curiosity himself and people have been known to purchase his services as an investigator or researcher on the subject of plants. He is on the Coalition Wanted list, but the reward is not sufficient enough for skilled Headhunters to be interested nor for unskilled headhunters to try crossing Jack.
Morality & Philosophy
With the words "Stop Humanity"blazoned across his backpack, he does not cut a subtle path. He is equally dismissive of DeeBees and anyone who would dare to encroach upon the balance of nature, which he holds to be so much greater in scale and scope when compared to the minor issues of people, companies and countries.
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