Dmitri (The Wandering Stranger)

A man out of time.

Sir Leopold George Rákóczi (a.k.a. The Friendly Stranger)

How old am I? Simple. Take a box exactly 10 meters in height, width and depth. Put in one sesame seed of 40 mg every 1000 years until it is filled. That's how old I am.

Dmitri (a.k.a the Comte de Saint Germain) is an immortal time-traveler who has appeared in many historical events, under many assumed names. A friendly and intelligent individual, this shapeshifting immortal has influenced human history in more ways than one.

Divine Domains

Adventure

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Due to his shapeshifting abilities, his physical condition can never be accurately described.

Body Features

Varied, depending on transformation.

Facial Features

Undocumented

Identifying Characteristics

A birthmark in the shape of a cross on his nape.

Physical quirks

Odd posture, walked with left leg first.

Special abilities

Changing shape and appearance, time-travel, learning new things rapidly.
A quote from Cyril Bolognyanov (another fellow time-traveler who frequently pursued Dmitri across spacetime and had tried to assassinate him previously after Dmitri had an affair with his wife) goes as follows:

"'How shalt we ever arrest him, for he dost not haveth a singular shape, but his appearance changes! Sometimes he is ruddy like a Germanic man, sometimes he is white like a Greek, sometimes he is red as an Indigenous American, sometimes he is wheat-colored like an Oriental, sometimes he is pallid like ascetics, sometimes he is a sprightly youth, sometimes an old wizened man!!! 'Tis confusion indeed!!!!!"

Dmitri also changed his clothing to match with each timeline he was currently in. Most of his clothes he purchased, and a few he had to either steal, barter or make on his own.
It is said that when he shapeshifted into the form of an infant, he retained all of his former knowledge and wisdom of adulthood. However, it would take him years to grow back into a man. The younger he became, the longer it would take for him to age back.

Apparel & Accessories

Depends

Specialized Equipment

Violin, harmonica, flute, trombone, pan-flute, bass-drums, guns, swords, daggers, potions, spells, transmutation, alchemy.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Dmitri claimed to be a son of Francis II Rákóczi, the Prince of Transylvania. This would account for his wealth and fine education. The will of Francis II Rákóczi mentions his eldest son, Leopold George, was believed to have died at the age of four. In reality, the son survived and his identity was safeguarded as a protective measure from the persecutions against the Habsburg dynasty. At the time of his arrival in Schleswig in 1779, Dmitri told Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel that he was 88 years old. This would place his birth in 1691, when Francis II Rákóczi was 15 years old.
At the age of 20 he left to study Greek and Latin studies, and also learned the skill of the violin, which he showed off at every available time. After an encounter with an alien in 1716 (it sodomized him) he developed the ability to time-travel. Using this ability he traveled back in time to 1479, settled in Drinkstone, Suffolk, and changed his name to "Robert Bacon" (because pork was his favorite food) and later married Eleanor Isabel Cage and had a son, Sir Nicholas Bacon (28 December 1510 – 20 February 1579) an English politician during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, notable as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and the father of the philosopher and statesman Sir Francis Bacon.
After years of solitary bliss with his wife, he faked his death in 1548 and time-traveled to 22 January 1561 to witness the birth of his future grandson, Francis Bacon. Changing his name to "John Walsall", he graduated from Oxford and tutored Francis Bacon, unknown to his grandson.
After giving Francis Bacon a formal education, he time-traveled to 1532 and changed his name to "Sir Francis Walsingham", after which he was appointed as the principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England from 20 December 1573. Under his new alias, he sought help from his older grandson Anthony Bacon (the older brother of Francis Bacon) who acted as his intelligence-reporter until 1571.
In 6 April 1590 he faked his death and time-traveled to 1533 where he changed his name to Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Lord of Montaigne. Under his new alias of "Montaigne", he maintained close relations with Anthony Bacon until he faked his death on 13 September 1592 and time-traveled to 1534 and changed his name to Antonio Pérez, and later became a Spanish statesman and secretary of king Philip II of Spain. He went through much scandal, including the murder of Juan de Escobedo, secretary of Don Juan of Austria. Arrested and released for a period of time, on the night of 23 November he disguised himself as a shepherd and in heavy snow he crossed the Pyrenees into the Kingdom of Bearn-Navarre. He first went to Pau in Béarn where Catherine, sister of Henry III of Navarre (IV of France), governed. He spent the rest of his time trying to make a living off the sale of the secrets he knew, but he failed to make an impression on Queen Elizabeth I and her chief minister William Cecil. In 1593 he arrived in England as a guest of Anthony Bacon (his grandson) and he was admired by the Essex circle for his knowledge of Tacitism. It was the printer Richard Field who printed Perez' "Pedacos de Historia o Relaciones". He was a guest of Francis Bacon's on the famous Night of Errors at Gray's Inn when the throng of disorderly people nearly prevented a performance of "A Comedy of Errors." He was the target of several unsuccessful assassination attempts, originating with the Spanish Government: Patrick O'Collun and John Annias, executed in 1594 for conspiracy to kill the Queen, initially confessed only to an attempt to kill Perez, and the royal physician Rodrigo Lopez, who was executed for the same crime, was a party to a separate plot to kill him. Perez was recalled to France by Henry of Navarre, now Henry IV. He remained there for most of his days, except for several travels to England.
He faked his death in 1611 and time-traveled to 9 April 1626, where he bade his grandson farewell before he died of pneumonia. After this, full of grief, he time-traveled to 1712, changed his name to "St.Germain", and after some time (through many odd-turns in his life) he appeared in the French court around 1748. In 1749, he was employed by Louis XV for diplomatic missions.
In March 1760, at the height of the Seven Years' War, St. Germain traveled to The Hague. In Amsterdam, he stayed at the bankers Adrian and Thomas Hope and pretended he came to borrow money for Louis XV with diamonds as collateral. He assisted Bertrand Philip, Count of Gronsveld starting a porcelain factory in Weesp as furnace and color specialist. St. Germain tried to open peace negotiations between Britain and France with the help of Duke Louis Ernest of Brunswick-Lüneburg. British diplomats concluded that St. Germain had the backing of the Duc de Belle-Isle and possibly of Madame de Pompadour, who were trying to outmaneuver the French Foreign Minister, the pro-Austrian Duc de Choiseul. However, Britain would not treat with St. Germain unless his credentials came directly from the French king. The Duc de Choiseul convinced Louis XV to disavow St. Germain and demand his arrest. Count Bentinck de Rhoon, a Dutch diplomat, regarded the arrest warrant as internal French politicking, in which Holland should not involve itself. However, a direct refusal to extradite St. Germain was also considered impolitic. De Rhoon, therefore, facilitated the departure of St. Germain to England with a passport issued by the British Ambassador, General Joseph Yorke. This passport was made out "in blank", allowing St. Germain to travel in May 1760 from Hellevoetsluis to London under an assumed name, showing that this practice was officially accepted at the time.
From St. Peterburg, St. Germain travelled to Berlin, Vienna, Milan, Ubbergen, and Zutphen (June 1762), Amsterdam (August 1762), Venice (1769), Livorno (1770), Neurenberg (1772), Mantua (1773), The Hague (1774), and Bad Schwalbach, going under a variety of aliases including "Marquis de Montferrat", "Comte Bellamarre", "Chevalier Schoening", "Count Weldon", "Comte Soltikoff", "Graf Tzarogy" and "Prinz Ragoczy".
In 1779, St. Germain arrived in Altona in Schleswig, where he made an acquaintance with Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel, who also had an interest in mysticism and was a member of several secret societies. The count showed the Prince several of his gems and he convinced the latter that he had invented a new method of coloring cloth. The Prince was impressed and installed the Count in an abandoned factory at Eckernförde he had acquired especially for the Count, and supplied him with the materials and cloths that St. Germain needed to proceed with the project. The two met frequently in the following years, and the Prince outfitted a laboratory for alchemical experiments in his nearby summer residence Louisenlund, where they, among other things, cooperated in creating gemstones and jewelry. The prince later recounts in a letter that he was the only person in whom the count truly confided. He told the prince that he was the son of the Transylvanian Prince Francis II Rákóczi, and that he had been 88 years of age when he arrived in Schleswig (although this is uncertain, since his time-traveling may have altered his biological age).
At a certain point, St.Germain realized he had stopped aging. His time-traveling had stopped his biological-clock. Faking his death on 27 February 1784, he time-traveled to Ancient Rome in 753 BC where he changed his name to "Numitor" and had twin sons Romulus and Remus, who founded the Roman civilizations. He stayed within the area until 476 AD under many assumed names, and left when the Empire collapsed. Under the new alias of "Dmitri", he traveled to the Château of Vertamboz and had a child with a local woman, naming the child "Claude Louis Comte de Saint-Germain". He left in 1778 and time-traveled to America during the Gold Rush where he became a notorious gunslinger known by the locals as the "Bullet of the West". After 20 years of civil-conflicts, arrests and murders, he traveled to a completely separate dimension known as Heimland, where he would stay for 200 years during the time of the Old Folk and then leave in 1 AE when they vanished. During his time in Heimland, he entertained the locals with his skills and, after learning the local languages, started to produce machines in the Fortress-of-Sienna until 1 AE.
After this, it is unknown where this mysterious immortal went. He has most likely changed his name, and it is uncertain where this man out of time may end up next.

Gender Identity

He

Sexuality

Unknown

Education

It is said he was educated from a young age among the Transylvanian nobility. He was formally educated in Italy by the last of Medicis, Gian Gastone, his alleged mother's brother-in-law. He was a student at the University of Siena, and excelled in advanced mathematics, Western and Oriental music, literature, cosmic sciences, material biology, medieval alchemy, theological work and chemical anatomy.

Employment

Working under many assumed names, he has worked for rich monarchies, spies and royalty of most European nations.

Accomplishments & Achievements

He has served under many powerful individuals.

Failures & Embarrassments

He has been arrested many times, and has occasionally associated with the wrong people.

Intellectual Characteristics

Polymathic

Morality & Philosophy

Intellectual Christianity.

Personality Characteristics

Motivation

Dmitri always had an innate desire to explore and learn. It is said that he has witnessed the Kennedy Assassination, WW2, the invention of the television, the battles of the English Vikings and many more events.

Savvies & Ineptitudes

He was a courtier, adventurer, inventor, alchemist, pianist, violinist and amateur composer.

Likes & Dislikes

Likes: Playing the violin, practicing alchemy, learning foreign languages, faking his death.
Dislikes: stupidity, fascism, cats, rainy days, chewing-gum.

Virtues & Personality perks

Patient, ambidextrous, first to act.

Vices & Personality flaws

Easily angered, very religious.

Personality Quirks

It is said that he developed the ability to shapeshift sometime later in his lifetme. He could change into an elderly man, a handsome youth and even a small baby.

Hygiene

Although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of men, he kept his cigars in his coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe-end of an old Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very center of his wooden mantelpiece. He had a habit of preserving valuable documents, thus month after month his papers accumulated until every corner of the room was stacked with bundles of manuscript, leather-bound codices, velum scrolls and massive books of mathematics, physics, history and sciences with lacquered covers.

Social

Religious Views

He believed very strongly in God and believed that his powers of time-travel came through him.

Wealth & Financial state

He is known to charge clients for his expenses and claim any reward offered for a problem's solution, such as investigative work, spying-operations or forensic studies. However, he would refuse to help even the wealthy and powerful if their cases did not interest him. He keeps his remaining money (gathered from his rich inheritance) in a small hidden location situated somewhere in-between Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Miami.

* Footnote: In the end, after many years of tedious study, Dmitri could speak Afrikaans, Abkhaz, Acehnese, Afar, Ainu, Akkadian, Albanian, Aleut, Algonquin, Alsatian, Altay, Amharic, Amis, Anglo-Saxon, Apache, Arabic (Algerian), Arabic (Cypriot), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Lebanese), Arabic (Modern), Arabic (Moroccan), Arabic (Syrian), Arabic (Tunisian), Arakanese, Araki, Aramaic, Armenian, Assamese, Assiniboine, Assyrian / Neo-Assyrian, Atikamekw, Azerbaijani, Babine-Witsuwit'en, Brahmi, Balangao, Balinese, Bari, Bashkir, Basque, Batak, Bavarian, Bella, Bemba, Bengali, Berber, Bhojpuri, Biloxi, Blackfoot, Bongo, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Bhutanese, Czevetsaracovlakian, Cambodian (Khmer), Canaanite, Cantonese, Cape-Verdean Creole, Casiguran-Dumagat-Agta, Catalan, Cayuga, Cebuano, Chaldean Neo-Aramaic, Cham, Chamorro, Chang, Chechen, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Chinese, Chinook, Chinook-Jargon, Chipewyan, Chippewa, Chitimacha, Choctaw, Chukchi, Chuvash, Cocopah, Coeur d'Alene, Comanche, Comorian, Coptic, Cora, Cornish, Corsican, Cree, Creek, Crimean-Tatar, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Dzongkha (Bhutanese), Daunjau, Esperanto, Estonian, Etruscan, Farsi (Persian), Faroese, Fiji-Hindi, Fijian, Finnish, Flemish, French, French-Guianese Creole, Frisian, Ge'ez, Genoese, Georgian, German, Gitxsan, Gondi, Gothic, Greek, Greenlandic, Guadeloupian-Creole, Guarani, Guinea-Bissau Creole, Gujarati, Haitian-Creole, Hakka, Hani, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Herero, Hiligaynon, Hindi, Hittite, Hmar, Hmong, Hmong-Dau, Hmong-Njau, Hungarian, Iberian, Ibibio, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Jersey-Norman French, Jewish Neo-Aramaic, Jicarilla, Kalmyk, Kannada, Kanuri, Karelian, Karuk, Kazakh, Khitan, Khmer, Khorasani-Turkic, Kickapoo, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klamath, Lampung, Lao, Lithuanian, Livonian, Loma, Lombard, Low-German, Lusitanian, Luxembourgish, Lydian-Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Mali, Maltese, Maldivian, Manado-Malay, Manchu, Mandarin-Chinese, Manipuri, Manx, Marathi, Marshallese, Marwari, Mauritian-Creole, Mayan, Megleno-Romanian, Menominee, Merriam-Mi, Meroitic, Mescalero-Chiricahua, Mohawk, Mohegan, Moldovan, Mongolian, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Naskapi, Natchez, Nauruan, Navajo, Ndebele (Northern - South Africa), Ndebele (Northern-Zimbabwe), Ndebele (Southern), Norn, Norwegian, North-Frisian, Northern-Paiute, Northern-Pomo, Northern-Sámi, Northern-Ndebele, Northern-Sotho, Northern-Thai (Kam-Mu'ang), N’ǁng, Oji-Cree, Old-Church Slavonic, Old-English, Old-Norse, Old-Nubian, Olu'bo, Old-Turkic, Omaha, Oneida, Onondaga, O'odham, Pali, Pashto, Pawnee, Pennsylvania-German, Persian-Creole, Phoenician, Phrygian, Picard, Polish, Pontic-Greek, Pomo (Eastern), Portuguese, Potawatomi, Punjabi, Quapaw, Quechua, Romani, Romanian, Romansh, Sumerian, Salish, Samaritan, Samoan, Sanskrit, Santali, Sardinian, Sarnámi-Hindustani, Scots, Scottish-Gaelic, Seneca, Serbian, Serrano, Seychelles-Creole, Southern-Sotho, Sierra-Leonean Creole, Silesian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Skolt-Sámi, Slavey (North), Slavey (South), Slovak, Slovene, Somali, Soninke, Southern-Ndebele, Southern-Pomo, Southern-Sotho (Sesotho), Southern-Sámi, Spanish, Saint-Lucian Creole, Sumbawa, Sumerian, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss-German, Syriac, Suriyani-Malayalam, Tahitian, Tai-Dam, Tai-Lue, Taiwanese, Tajik, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Tlingit, Tocharian, Tokelauan, Tongan, Torres-Strait Creole, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Venda, Venetian, Vietnamese, Wallisian, Walloon, Welsh, Western Neo-Aramaic, West-Frisian, Western-Rote, Wichita, Wu-Chinese, Xamtanga, Xârâcùù, Xhosa, Xavante, Xhosa, Xiang, Xibe, Xixia-Yao, Yapese, Yaqui, Yiddish, Yoruba, Yupik (Central-Siberian), Yurok, Zaghawa, Zulu and Zuni.

Divine Classification

Immortal, Shapeshifter, Time-traveler

Alignment

Undecided

Honorary & Occupational Titles

Wanderer, Stargazer, Old Sport, Cosmic Geezer, Great A'Tuin,

Circumstances of Birth

Unknown

Circumstances of Death

Unknown

Current Residence

Unknown

Gender

Male

Eyes

Aluzarin blue (original form)

Hair

Titanium white (original form)

Height

Unknown

Weight

Unknown

Quotes & Catchphrases

"Que sçay-je?"
("What do I know?", said when he witnesses a tragedy)
"The greatest sin is stupidity."
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”
"A man's greatest gift is the knowledge of his gift."
"I may be immortal, but life is too short to be boring."
“An unexamined life is not worth living.”

Known Languages

Over his incredibly long life, he spent most of his time pursuing linguistics. Apart from *many languages of Earth, he also educated himself in the Language of the Old Folk as well as Lowtalk and Lowertalk and the six Languages of the Forests.

Character Prototype

Clint Eastwood