Michel Boreas Prud'hon, an intense and laconic Franco-American literature professor in his early 30s, currently doing research work, tutoring and occasional lectures at NYU; his libertine lifestyle and tendency to take long holidays in order to travel have done his career no small amount of damage, which he manages to just about offset with occasional flights of brilliance.
Michel is not given to talking much about himself or for forming close friendships; he spends a lot of time wandering idly about, lost in thought, or engaging in long and involved conversations which reveal nothing about himself but a lot about everyone else. He smokes heavily, drinks only slightly less heavily, and is almost always externally calm and unemotional; his manner often verges on the dismissive or indifferent.
As a Noble, Michel is the Duke of Empty Places, taking the following attributes:
As a Noble, Michel's appearance varies between a small green praying mantis to a short, stick-thin Kgalagadi Bushman with a fixed, vague stare; between the two forms is a mantis-headed, skeletal human-type thing with four arms. Generally, however, he appears more or less identical to his original human form: wiry, with dark eyes, unruly hair and more wrinkles than he should have at his age.