Blades For Blackbird/Characters/Cadiz

Background

Here's Francesco Cadiz's original background:

[7thsea] Lucian2 says, "My idea is that I had a Ussuran mother, who had left Ussura and married my father in Castille. She never told him, but she had been a sorceror. At some point in my growing up years, a crisis triggered me shape-shifting, horrifying my dad, and my mom ran away. I grew up and joined the church, never using my powers, but eventually travelled to Ussura to do missionary/doctor work, to try to find my mother (who my dad has long forgiven), and to try to work out for myself if this sorcery is truly evil or not."

From there, he went on a series of adventures, seeing a lot of horrifying and wonderful things, eventually deciding to embrace his sorcery alongside his faith, making him somewhat of an outcast from both the Church and from Ussurans. Adventuring life has hardened and toughened him--he now travels with groups as the 'muscle', often for free, when it's for a cause he believes in.

He never did find his mom.

Skills

• Great (+3): Brawn, Academics
• Good (+2): Athletics, Community (the Church)
• Fair (+1): Stealth, Will Community (other)
• Average (+0): Reflexes, Science
• Basic (-1): Fingersmithery, Nature, Riding, Sailing, Weapons (all)

Aspects

Ussuran Shapeshifter

Signifier: Piercing green eyes that look vaguely cat-like, and wild hair that never seems to stay combed.

Cadiz was born a shapeshifter but did not discover his ability until he was a young man, in a crisis where he lost his mother. He has gathered the spirit skins of a cat, a horse, a lynx, a bear, and a dragonfly, and can generally shift to one form and back once a day:

Heretic Priest

Signifier: Cadiz wears the vestments of the Church of the Prophet, but there are patterns woven among them that are recognizable to a Ussuran as being Northern Orthodox, and wears a small silver pin in the shape of a Cyrillic 'M'. When asked about it, he gives a different story every time.

Cadiz spent a lot of time wrestling with his two heritages: his religious upbringing, and his shapeshifting abilities that the church claimed were evil. He has concluded that the two are actually perfectly in sync with one another, and his philosophical skills and ability to argue circles around people are, as a result, legendary. Not that Church priests usually actually agreeing with him; they just can't find a counter-argument. But there are a small but growing number of people out there with slowly-changing views, thanks in part to encounters with Cadiz.

Consequences

▢ ____________________ - Minor Consequence: -2 (until combat ends)

▢ ____________________ - Moderate Consequence: -4 (until end of scene)

▢ ____________________ - Severe Consequence: -6 (until adventure ends)