Jacques Eventreur
(a.k.a. Jacques the Ripper, The Pale Devil)
Jacques Eventreur is an extremely talented magi working out of the Patras College. He is known for being cruelly efficient and even sadistic by some. Jacques had an extremely rough childhood, growing up extremely poor. His village was wiped out by an orc led goblin invasion. Jacques was the only survivor but the incident ignited a passion and hatred for demons. He used this passion alongside his love for fighting and adrenaline and found that being a Magi was the perfect fix for him. He was involved in the Celtsian Civil War from its onset at the young age of 10 and received much of his training and experience in the rebel camps or with hands on experience in their guerilla hit and run tactics. Jacques grew up amidst the chaos, combat, and bloodshed of war. He eventually gained infamous levels of notoriety during the latter years of the Celtsian Civil War when he singlehandedly changed the outcome of many skirmishes and committed multiple key assassinations of VIP's, all under the orders of the resistance militia leader, Roger Doleracs. Roger was the brain of the resistance and Jacques served as the all too eager hand and blade. Jacques' brutality, gruesome efficiency, and merciless tendency of leaving few to no survivors led to him becoming a horrific boogieman of sorts. Survivor eye witnesses only bolstered the stories of him, claiming he moved silent like a ghost and was able to slice through armored soldiers as if they were made of paper, leaving nothing but dismembered corpses and bloodstains. Some soldiers and officers claimed he was a demon conjured by the rebels or the ghost of a fallen peasant seeking revenge. Regardless Jacques' deeds earned him many titles and nicknames: the two most infamous of which are "The Pale Devil" and "Jacques The Ripper".
Jacques has a strange and rare manus known as vibration manus. Jacques is able to oscillate/vibrate his body or anything he is physically touching. Concentrating and infusing this manus into his sword oscillates the blade at near unperceivable levels and allows the blade to slide in between the molecules of the material it is cutting. Essentially allowing him to cut through any material with little resistance. Jacques' master and adoptive father Roger Doleracs trained him in the art of stealth and to be a master level swordsman and grappler in order to get the most use out of his manus. Jacques poured himself into his training and as his skills grew so did his lust for combat and the high he felt in battle. He quickly became a master level fighter and was widely known, praised, and feared as one of the most dangerous magi in Patras and all of Celtsia.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Jacques had a very harsh a childhood. He was born in the small village of Pinarbe, located in the northeastern region of Celtsia only a short distance from the border of Terresant. Life was average for the first 6 years of his youth. His parents were poor farmers and had issues bearing children. they worked hard and they got by for the most part. Jacques was a head strong child, and showed little fear in exploring even at a young age, something his parents were not fond of. He had only one friend growing up, a docile child by the name of Martin Barnes who lived in the same village. Jacques had defended him from being bullied when they were young and the two became friends from then on.
Things hadn't been too harsh and Jacques was a happy child until corruption began to spread through out the ruling families of Celtsia. A new duke had taken over the local area, Duke Molony, and with his new rule came new and increased taxes. Jacques family which had been barely getting by suddenly fell to shambles. The home went into a state of disrepair, his father became injured from overworking himself in the fields and Jacques had to do all that he could to help. Jacques mother then fell sick while pregnant. The duke taxed the small village so heavily that they had no money left to pay their guards to defend the village in case of attack from demons or bandits, something Duke Molony assured was impossible. One day a local Magi named Roger Doleracs came strolling through the village looking for children with great potential as perspective students. Jacques was the only child to stick out to him but despite Roger's desperate attempts to recruit Jacques, his parents refused. Roger promised them a better life for Jacques, one not limited in potential. Jacques' parents wanted the best for him but his father was still injured and his mother had fallen sick while pregnant. Jacques was needed at home and was forbidden from leaving with Roger. Jacques overheard all of this being discussed and felt a strong resentment towards his parents for this. A feeling he would soon regret.
A few nights later a large attack was made on their small village by a large tribe of goblins led by 5 orc chieftains. The village was defenseless to the attackers and their savagery. Savagery the likes of which Jacques had never seen before. Jacques was frozen with fear, unable to move, cry, or shout. He watched in horror from atop one of the largest trees in the village as the villagers who fought back, including his father, were brutally killed. The remaining village folk, mostly women and children, were congregated into the center of the town and then ravaged and executed as well as devoured. The orcs then set all the buildings ablaze and left the following day. Jacques had been in the tree for over 24 hours before finally working up the courage to climb down and make a run for it into the woods. He had a run in with a lone goblin who after a short squabble managed to injure Jacques with a dagger before Jacques was able to lose its pursuit through the dense forest. After nearly 4 days of no food or water and a minor injury that was slowly becoming severe with time, Jacques made it onto an open road and began stumbled along it. After a lifetime of trudging along he finally collapsed with nothing left to keep him going.
He awoke by a warm fire, his wounds treated and Roger Doleracs looking at him. He was rescued and Roger explained to him how the gods work in strange ways. Roger explained his philosophies on the greater good and how even the worst of tragedies may yet have a silver lining. The horrific tragedy that had befallen Jacques could now serve as the foundation and coals to reignite Jacques' purpose in life. His family and village were gone and with nothing to go back to he had no reason not to train with Roger and with those skills he could prevent what had happened to him from happening to others. And after seeing firsthand the horrors demons can commit he had an even stronger desire to become a magi. An inferno was ignited within Jacques, a rage and drive he had never known. He would become strong and slaughter any demons he came across along his way.
From that point on Jacques trained astutely. The first came tempering the body and mind. He meditated and strengthened his endurance while Roger taught him in the art of stealth, assassination, and harnessing ones Od for 2 full years. At the age of 10 things changed drastically once again, the Celtsian Civil War broke out. Suddenly Jacques was living and training at the resistances' camps. Roger made use of Jacques' small size and innocent appearance. Jacques served as a spy and informant for the resistance and quickly built a name for himself among them for his deviousness, quick thinking, and resourcefulness. He eventually would begin performing small scale guerilla attacks on the loyalists encampments. Jacques' skill with a blade was also impressive. But all this success in war and combat led Jacques down a dark path. He grew to enjoy and love the art of war. Both for the pride and satisfaction he felt in his skills and for the adrenaline and high he felt when his life was on the line.
Once his vibration manus was fully harnessed and understood, it was able to utilized. Roger bought him a long thinner bladed sword made of pure Obsidium, the only material with a strong enough structure to be able to withstand the intense vibrations without falling apart from Jacques' manus. Jacques was approximately 13 when this happened and he went from a well trained soldier and spy to an elite assassin in the span of months. No longer did his small size or weaker body due to his age hinder him in combat. He could now take on full grown adult soldiers with his body enhanced by proper od control and his manus allowing him to slice through anything. Jacques saw incredible success and with a few major assassinations and Roger's success in the battlefields the civil war would soon draw to a close.
With the end of the Celtsian Civil War Jacques returned to Patras and continued working as a Magi where he mostly resides to this day when not actively hunting demons or seeking contracts.
Employment
A professional and College recognized Magi.
Accomplishments & Achievements
The assassination of many high profile nobles and lieutenants and the killing of hundreds of soldiers through out his many battles during the Celtsian Civil War.
Intellectual Characteristics
Jacques is a naturally quick thinker and very resourceful. Able to find many unconventional solutions or uses for things to overcome his obstacles. He is distrustful of others whom he does not closely know and has felt betrayal before.
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