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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davies" data-source="post: 8791155" data-attributes="member: 30538">Simon Legendre<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-X2rsmdv/0/a7499141/M/simon-M.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />According to the best guess that Argus has been able to make, the man who has been using the name "Simon Legendre" since his arrival in the United States in 1986, claiming a birthdate in 1882, was really born Richard Christophe in Port-au-Prince in 1934. In his early twenties, he became associated with Luckner Cambronne around the same time that the latter rose to the attention of François Duvalier, and was recruited into the paramilitary force that Cambronne led, officially known as les Cagoulards and later the Milice Civil. Because of their tendency to cause unexplained disappearances, the group became associated with a figure in Haitian folklore who kidnapped naughty children to carry them off in his satchel -- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonton_Macoute" target="_blank">Tonton Macoute</a>.Despite his claims to have been deliberately sought out for his supposed occult powers, the aforementioned best guess suggests that those powers developed in 1959, and that Christophe reportedly viewed the Voudou practices of both the leadership of his organization and the ordinary citizens on whom it preyed with cynical contempt. His only gods were wealth and power, and his ability to bend the wills of other mortals to his own afforded him many opportunities to gain both.Following the death of Duvalier in 1971, Cambronne was sent into exile in Miami, where he was murdered in 1977. Legendre has supposedly claimed responsibility for this, but there is no evidence that he had visited the United States prior to his emigration. (He had applied for a tourist visa in 1967, but withdrew the application shortly after the conviction of Angelo Anselmo.) Regardless, he has also claimed to have acted as the true leader of the Tontons after the fall of Cambronne and the marginalization of Roger Lafontant.If that is the case, he was a somewhat inept leader, unable to prevent the assassination of Jean-Claude Duvalier and his entire family by Pythonian assassins, and unable to then win the civil war between pro- and anti-Python militias that promptly broke out in the aftermath. On the other hand, he personally survived and was able to escape to the United States, supposedly providing "crucial information" to the CIA concerning the pro-Python government that eventually seized control of Haiti. Settling in New Orleans, he gradually began to build a criminal empire through the use of his domination and through good old fashioned violence and terror. There Legendre has remained ever since, challenged first by the Sylph (whom he defeated through means he found almost embarrassingly easy) and later the Veil (a significantly harder nut to crack.) While resembling an extremely elderly man, quite possibly even as old as he claims, he retains the strength and agility of one much younger, and frightening levels of endurance and durability. His primary ability remains his ability to exert psychic dominance, though he has claimed to be able to perform far greater feats of magic as threats.Those were bluffs, until recently. In the aftermath of recent events, Legendre awakened with an even greater ability to dominate and the power to see through the eyes of those whom he mastered, but also with the conviction that the lwa were real, aware of him, and willing to be persuaded to support his efforts. This change in his approach has resulted in the Veil seeking assistance from the Powerhouse and becoming a member of the group, such that Legendre has drawn down even greater opposition. That does not frighten him, for he is certain that his friends on the other side will grant him everything he needs to triumph ...Simon Legendre -- PL 13Abilities:STR 2 | STA 5 | AGL 2 | DEX 3 | FGT 4 | INT 3 | AWE 2 | PRE 4Powers:Domination: Perception-Range Cumulative Affliction 13 (Resisted by Will; Dazed, Compelled, Controlled), Concentration Duration, Check Required (Expertise: Magic DC 18), Subtle; Remote Sensing 6 (all; 60 miles), Medium (controlled target); Senses 1 (communication link with dominated subject) - 91 pointsLongevity: Immunity 1 (aging); Protection 3 - 4 pointsAdvantages:Benefit 4 (crime lord, millionaire), Chokehold, Connected, Contacts, Fearless 2, Improved Hold, Ritualist, Well-informed.Skills:Close Combat: Grab 4 (+8), Deception 6 (+10), Expertise: Criminal 9 (+12), Expertise: Magic 7 (+11), Expertise: Streetwise 8 (+11), Insight 8 (+10), Intimidation 8 (+12), Investigation 6 (+9), Perception 6 (+8), Ranged Combat: Guns 6 (+9), Persuasion 6 (+10).Offense:Initiative +2Unarmed +4 (Close Damage +2)Grab +8 (Close Grab 2)Domination -- (Perception Range Will 13)Defense:Dodge 6, Parry 8, Fortitude 5, Toughness 8, Will 9.Totals:Abilities 50 + Powers 95 + Advantages 12 + Skills 37 + Defenses 15 = 209 pointsOffensive PL: 13Defensive PL: 8Resistance PL: 7Skill PL: 7Complications:Greed--Motivation. Elderly Appearance. Weakness (scent of khus syrup.)Note: Prior to recent changes, he was PL 9, he did not have Ritualist, his Expertise: Magic was INT-based, and his Domination power took the following form:Domination: Perception-Range Cumulative Affliction 9 (Resisted by Will; Dazed, Compelled, Controlled), Concentration Duration, Subtle; Senses 1 (communication link with afflicted subject) - 47 points</blockquote>

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