Khor His Eminence
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The Mun
- Name: magistrate
- Contact
- Email: magistrata@gmail.com
- GChat: magistrata@gmail.com
- AIM: draegonhawke / third corvid
- LJ: http://draegonhawke.livejournal.com/
The Character
- Name: Khor, His Eminence
- Age/Birthdate: Somewhere in his early 40s. More than that is somewhat unclear – Razuin wasn't big on birthdays.
- Canon: Original
- Canon Entry Point: Post-death
- Journal: http://tatueldi.livejournal.com/
- Card: Ten of Swords (Reversed)
- Card-Related Abilities/'Card Tricks':
- Can read, speak and write English when in contact with card
Defining Abilities and Attributes
Moral sadist. Masochist, though that requires some qualification. Those things combined give him a somewhat-freakish pain tolerance. Not bad in a fight, though nothing superhuman. Has, on the other hand, a nearly superhuman tolerance of certain street drugs, and a tendency to get pseudo-sentient cities talking at him in his head. (Or to interpret them like they're talking. It's hard to tell.)
Personality
Khor has always been defined almost primarily for his disdain for both authority and "the way things are supposed to be" - an attribute which only seems to have become more pronounced since he took office as Razuin's His Eminence. Ascerbic and arrogant, Khor nonetheless recognizes ability when he sees it in his peers, and does enjoy the company of certain people. He's much more likely to scoff at codes of social conduct than at things that don't seem to fit. Change is good, to his mind. Change is the opposite of stagnancy. He's had enough of stagnancy.
Khor isn't so much of a take-charge type as he is a take-action type: he's a firm believer that if you want something done, you'd be better off doing it yourself. As the ruler of Razuin he still employed his Officer of the Security training frequently, beating the streets and acting as a vigilante. (One shouldn't be allowed to be a vigilante in a nation one rules, but Khor's never been one to care.)
Sardonic but remarkably even-keeled for the most part, Khor is still capable of flying into manic fits of violence, euphoria, or rage, though rage for him more often manifests as a slow, smouldering burning of bridges. Never one to look back, Khor regards his past mistakes with wry acknowledgement and has more than likely never apologized to anyone. For most of his life his disdained any sort of mysticism – magic was in the same category as the Gods, and he killed the Gods, godsdamnit – but that began to change after meeting someone who may have been an incarnation of Razuin itself, Arda. At the time of his death, he'd found some peace with the idea that magic was something far older than the Gods or the Razuin he knew. He still went down fighting.
Background
Born to a working family of the district Minmadj (of the ever-changing spelling), Khor grew up with a number of siblings, most of whom he couldn't stand. The one sibling he could stand was his older brother Alsen, who formed the model for the cynical and sardonic nature Khor would grow into. Alsen crossed the despotic government of Wolv His Eminence and was taken in to be "rehabilitated" (read: tortured), and upon regaining his health and autonomy commit suicide before Khor's eyes.
Khor lost himself on the streets of Razuin following that, and was found by a young Officer of the Security in training by the name of Jun Nissen, who brought Khor into the Security and soon into a rising revolutionary force. Years later, when the revolution finally occurred, Khor was in the thick of the battle which did manage to kill Wolv and overthrow his government. The revolutionaries suffered massive casualties, however, including the man who was to take Wolv's case. Nissen maneuvered Khor into the position of His Eminence, initially intending that he would be little more than a figurehead. However, Khor grew through force of personality into a powerful (if widely-contested) leader.
In the latter half of his rule, with discontentment rising in Razuin, he met a possibly-woman he named Arda who seemed to know too much about the city and its inhabitants, but who was too shattered to provide reliable insight. They fell into a relationship which crested as Khor learned that one of his brothers had joined the insurgency against him – on the same day Khor executed his brother, Arda tricked Nissen into defecting to the Insurgence and vanished. Driven mad by the betrayal, Khor delved into the mystery of who Arda was, uncovering much about the past of Razuin in the effort. Finally, in an act of not-quite-surrender, he faced Arda alone and managed to fatally wound her, but was fatally wounded himself in the process.
His body was tied to the Obelisk in Memory. Arda's body was never found.
