the watchful garnet

torturer, antagonist, villain

25

Male

thin knife like goatee and mustache

oiled and slicked back

Blonde

5'8"

180lbs

a small triangular scar below his left eye, his left eye also appears to be made of garnet faintly glowing in a menacing way

athletic, like barely contained motion

fair

stanzgarian

his real eye is a sickly green, his left is a solid garnet no whites

hatred for talarans and the northern legion remnants, wishes death on house Drachenbär, sees all none stanzgarians as lesser people especially the beast folk, Orcs, and Fengalin

arcanium poisoning

a hawkish stare, always judging others, cruel and exploitative

removing the Drachenbär line from stanzgar, gaining power enough that he no longer needs allies amoungst his family

sees others as stepping stones on his rise to greatness, cruelty to those beneath him, misogyny

a powerful and intuitive mage, expert sword duelist, oration

torture, calia's experiments, dueling, subtle insults, abusing his power

cruel, capricious, power hungry

tapas

Giant river snake

rapier and dagger

his magic garnet eye

forest green

political hostage, noble, formerly interrogator

openly does as the Drachenbär house says, privately does whatever he can to destabilize the new regime

worships the Stanzgarian pantheon, privately worships the stanzgarian god of dominance and power something frowned upon even by the priests of stanzgar, further more worships the god of secrets AND paid the price to for the god to keep his secrets hidden from all others

acts as a banker and financier

fall

born in to royalty Philipe grew up spoiled and believing all the less savory things his family preached his whole life, not helping matters, Philipe was a savant with blade and spell, even his one failing a duel at school that cost him his eye he managed to turn into boon with a magical replacement eye that gives him several unnatural abilities, by the time Darius took the capital Philipe had already left and distanced himself from his family, even bankrolling several of rebellion leaders, this resulted in him being positioned to be under less scrutiny as time went on

extremely high

age is at the signing of the treaty of unity
will only speak in stanzgarian seeing other languages as little more than mongrel tongue, any love interests this man has are not normal, he wants to own and control them, he's likely incapable of love in the traditional sense
his hatred of his father is because his father failed and lost his life

his eye can see through walls, fabric, magical glamours and other substances, also hides him from scrying, and causes others to ignore him when he desires