Viscount Taviny zaKozrad
Quote: “A pleasure to meet you at last. Please help yourself to some wine. You may pour a glass for me and I will drink first if that puts you at ease.”
“We have much to discuss. Please, let us talk first, they will be opportunities for swordplay later if that is your desire.”
Description: zaKozrad is slender and not unathletic but not overly tall (5’9″/1.75m), he carries himself with a noble air. His black hair is worn in whatever the current style is in the local court and his dark eyes are alert.
He wears suitable clothes (with a mail shirt underneath when practical) tending to dark color. He is always armed when local custom allows and when it does not, he has at least a knife or two concealed.
Background: While from a minor noble family, his mother was successful in court and she raised her son to build on her success, imparting her skills and ambitions to the boy. Well educated among the children of the nobility, he is a social chameleon, finding friends and allies among all the classes and looking down on no one due to the circumstance of their birth. zaKozrad is a loyal servant of the High King of Laccini, seeing to advance his nations cause (and his own) by whatever means necessary.
Presenting this Character: zaKozrad is charming and stylish, well read and philosophical but most of all, an obvious villain. He represents a Kingdom known for its expansionist agenda and use of necrourgy, he leans into all of the classic villain tropes. His role is to focus the attention of the rivals to his kingdom by being the obvious, and even comic if that is required, villain. His plots are obvious, overly convoluted and almost always not quite illegal. Such as helping a local noble build up their private army or providing necrourgic magical support to a faction.
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