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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 2978421" data-attributes="member: 3448">This is still a work in progress-- mostly I’m posting this for feedback on whether this is a good starting point.George McGinty-- the Self-Made Man-- Dominus of Good Fortune and SerendipityMortal history:  George McGinty was born in 1930 in a small town (but not rural) in the upper south (maybe Arkansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, or even Virginia).  He grew up poor, receiving no real education, but he found jobs as World War II drew the adult men of his community away.  He worked hard and developed skills of leadership and management.  Enlisting at 18, he spent six years in the Army, distinguishing himself in the Korean War through conspicuous heroism.  Despite his lack of education, he mustered out as a 1st Lieutenant, with the Medal of Honor, a Silver Star, and three Purple Hearts.  He returned home to the same town he grew up in, and used his savings from his military pay to start a new store.  He made a modern convenience store, selling at low prices and doing a big business.  With his new prominence in town, he became close to the wealthiest locals, eventually marrying the daughter of one of the handful of lawyers in the county.  His father-in-law loaned him money to expand his business, and he was soon overseeing a large chain.George was a pillar of his community, and fairly typical in his attitudes.  For many years a Dixiecrat, he finally switched his registration to Republican in the 1960s, but his politics never really changed.  He believes in the virtues of hard work, and that God helps those who show a willingness to put their nose to the grindstone.  He is vaguely racist, but not in a terribly active way; he just embraced the values of his community and then let stereotypes and contempt for those “who just weren’t hard workers” replace the more open racism of his youth.  He attends church regularly, a Southern Baptist, but without deep piety or thought.  Mostly, the church serves as part of his social life.George and his wife had three children, two sons and a daughter.  He cares deeply about all of them, although he thinks that his oldest son looks down on him because of the education that he got that George never had access to.  But his youngest son from this marriage is the biggest disappointment in his life.  He has been a wastrel, involved in drugs, counter-culture, and living off his father’s money.In the early 70s, George sold his business to Sam Walton, making a fortune in the process.  With his new found liquidity, he kept a significant stake in Walmart but also invested heavily in tech stocks, based on a tip from his older son, and his fortune continued to grow.  George’s marriage fell apart at this point; George still mostly blames his wife, although it was really his actions that brought it on, and he fairly quickly remarried a much younger woman.  He feels that his first wife ruined their younger son by continuing to give him access to the family wealth despite his wasteful ways.  Over the ensuing decades, he went through a succession of trophy wives and girlfriends.  He doesn’t approve of divorce in general, but in his case it’s different, especially because so many of them turned out to be golddiggers.  He had a couple more children along the way, but they were less part of his life than his children from his first marriage (partly because his later marriages were so much shorter).EnNoblement:George was an old man, but still vigorous and active when he was ennobled.  (He had spent the last several years flipping real estate and building his fortune ever larger.)  He was apparently enNobled because his life embodied his Domain:  throughout his life, he was always in the right place at the right time, and caught every lucky break imaginable.  While he’s glad that this has fended off death a little longer, he’s also horrified by his Domain.  It embodies everything that he didn’t believe in.  Good fortune?  The hard-working make their own good fortune, or so he always believed.  But his Imperator says that all of his success was simply serendipity?  Impossible.  (Of course, the truth is in between.  George worked hard and was talented, but he also benefited greatly from good fortune and lucky timing.)  He’s fairly hostile to his Imperator because he doesn’t like what his enNoblement says about himself, but he can respect his fellow Nobles, especially to the extent that they accomplished things as mortals.Mechanics:I’m still very fuzzy on this.  I’m picturing him as bimodal, with strong Aspect (representing his strong sense of self and personal determination) and strong Domain, with weak Realm and Spirit.  Maybe:Aspect 3Domain 3Realm 0Spirit 1Is Realm 0 a bad idea?  If I take Realm 1, I have to have either a lower score in one of his strengths, or essentially no Gifts.  Likewise, I’d almost rather have Spirit 0, but that just seems like a bad idea all around.Gifts:  Not sure here either.  Does he need to have one of the reduced aging ones to have been revitalized?  I don’t really picture him as functioning as old as he actually is.  Continuous Domain would be great, but I’m not sure I can afford it.Allegiance:  Could be Light.   Could conceivably be Wild.  Would work well if the Imperator is an Angel, which George clearly is not in line with (although not to the point of Fallen Angel allegiance.)  I’m sorta thinking that Wild may embody his capitalist values well.The rest:  to be filled in later.Thoughts?  Comments?  Is the Domain too broad (or alternately too abstract)?</blockquote>

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