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<blockquote data-quote="Rhialto" data-source="post: 2980117" data-attributes="member: 630"><p>The Three-Headed Serpent is a secret faction within the Council of Nine that seeks to overthrow Larisa. Its members are Supreme Enchanter Morcel Gallinfrax, Cassandria Africe, the Grand Diviner, and Heorn Lorcan, Master of Abjurations. Each of the three has their own reasons for opposing Larisa, and their own designs.</p><p></p><p>Morcel Gallenfrax, the founder and nominal leader of the group, is a short, plump, ugly man, with a warty face, a far cry from the stereotypical sauve Enchanter. Some say that he became a wizard because of his ugliness, and chose enchantment so that rather than hide his looks, he could force others to accept them. Ill-tempered, domineering, and brilliant, Morcel long had a rivalry with Larisa for the seat of Supreme Enchanter, and was generally held to be the greater magician, but Larisa's superior skill at politics held him back. Gallinfrax found bowing to a woman he viewed as an inferior like drinking gall, and gaining the seat after Larisa cast it aside once obtaining the position she had truly been aiming for turned a long-sought reward into ashes for him. Morcel formed the Three-Headed Serpent out of a deep desire to humiliate and humble Larisa. It is his ambition to prove her weakness as a magician, and force her to resign.</p><p></p><p>Cassandria Africe is a beautiful young woman, always dressed in the finest silks, and always looking for new ways to enjoy herself. Her brilliance as a Diviner is matched only by her decadence. It is rumored that she has used her spells to seek out the most exotic, esoteric pleasures imaginable, trafficing with fiends of the outer voids and sinister sorcerer-kings from Aleasana's distant past. She is opposed to Larisa both because her politics have made dealing with other cities problematic, cutting her off from many of her favorite habits, and because Larisa is keeping her under a closer, and closer watch, looking for a good excuse to dismiss her from her chair. </p><p></p><p>And finally, Heorn Lorcan, Master of Abjurations, an respectable-appearing older man, with greying hair and beard. While he plays the concerned elder worried about Larisa's warmongering to the other members, in truth Heorn's ambitions are the grandest of the three. Viewing Abjuration as the mightiest school, for its power is to destroy the effects of the others, wrongfully viewed as weak by others, he hopes to become Archmage and set the Abjurers over all the other wizards of Altania forevermore. As opposed to Cassandria and Morcel (who in truth Lorcan views as puppets), he has little against Larisa in truth, though he is willing to pretend that he does in order to gain his goals. </p><p></p><p>Presently, the Three-Headed Serpent seeks to undermine and humiliate the Archmage while remaining loyal to Altania. However, their plotting continues, their plans grow more and more extreme. It may be that that the Serpent will move into outright plans of assassination and terrorism soon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rhialto, post: 2980117, member: 630"] The Three-Headed Serpent is a secret faction within the Council of Nine that seeks to overthrow Larisa. Its members are Supreme Enchanter Morcel Gallinfrax, Cassandria Africe, the Grand Diviner, and Heorn Lorcan, Master of Abjurations. Each of the three has their own reasons for opposing Larisa, and their own designs. Morcel Gallenfrax, the founder and nominal leader of the group, is a short, plump, ugly man, with a warty face, a far cry from the stereotypical sauve Enchanter. Some say that he became a wizard because of his ugliness, and chose enchantment so that rather than hide his looks, he could force others to accept them. Ill-tempered, domineering, and brilliant, Morcel long had a rivalry with Larisa for the seat of Supreme Enchanter, and was generally held to be the greater magician, but Larisa's superior skill at politics held him back. Gallinfrax found bowing to a woman he viewed as an inferior like drinking gall, and gaining the seat after Larisa cast it aside once obtaining the position she had truly been aiming for turned a long-sought reward into ashes for him. Morcel formed the Three-Headed Serpent out of a deep desire to humiliate and humble Larisa. It is his ambition to prove her weakness as a magician, and force her to resign. Cassandria Africe is a beautiful young woman, always dressed in the finest silks, and always looking for new ways to enjoy herself. Her brilliance as a Diviner is matched only by her decadence. It is rumored that she has used her spells to seek out the most exotic, esoteric pleasures imaginable, trafficing with fiends of the outer voids and sinister sorcerer-kings from Aleasana's distant past. She is opposed to Larisa both because her politics have made dealing with other cities problematic, cutting her off from many of her favorite habits, and because Larisa is keeping her under a closer, and closer watch, looking for a good excuse to dismiss her from her chair. And finally, Heorn Lorcan, Master of Abjurations, an respectable-appearing older man, with greying hair and beard. While he plays the concerned elder worried about Larisa's warmongering to the other members, in truth Heorn's ambitions are the grandest of the three. Viewing Abjuration as the mightiest school, for its power is to destroy the effects of the others, wrongfully viewed as weak by others, he hopes to become Archmage and set the Abjurers over all the other wizards of Altania forevermore. As opposed to Cassandria and Morcel (who in truth Lorcan views as puppets), he has little against Larisa in truth, though he is willing to pretend that he does in order to gain his goals. Presently, the Three-Headed Serpent seeks to undermine and humiliate the Archmage while remaining loyal to Altania. However, their plotting continues, their plans grow more and more extreme. It may be that that the Serpent will move into outright plans of assassination and terrorism soon. [/QUOTE]
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