Name: Michael R. (full: Michael Rauco; demeanour of being addressed: 'The Master')

build in terms of height and weight, alongside a well toned, kept fit body. His skin tone is on the light side, and as distinctive body marks one can see a scar tattoo covering his whole back, depicting a raven in flight, courtesy of his mistress. In terms of facial traits, there is a general sharpness to them, and, alongside the clean tone of the skin, it gives off a vibe of nobility. The eye colour is a deep brown, almost pure black, the hair taking on the same colouring. He wears his hair long, just below the shoulders in length, and face shaven clean.

In terms of attire, he has multiple 'usual' outfits, although it is not too surprising to see him dressed in a different way, depending on the situation. As such, for 'casual' clothing he sports a pair of pants made of light cloth and a shirt of the same material, both black, as well as a black, silver-lined half-mask if he is not within private quarters.

His 'business' attire, worn at meeting with important clients and subordinates, or other such official businesses, consists of a soft cloth shirt and though, heavy-duty cloth pants, both black, military-styled leather boots, reinforced with steel at the toes and heels, and a long, black leather duster coat decorated with veritable silver lining and the specific mask-and-stiletto insignia of his 'empire'. On his hands, he wears leather gloves, same monochrome tone as the rest of his attire, the ends of the left one ending in roughly 30-cm long blades (the passing from the glove to the claws is made in a highly aesthetic manner, looking like the glove veritably changes into the blades, not as if blades are just affixed to it), split in the middle like a cat's claw and filled with poison. At his belt hangs a highly decorated rapier, with a guard designed to look like a spider's web. In this outfit, he wears a mask identical to that of the casual outfit, only reversed in colours.

In the end, he can also be occasionally seen in the 'work' outfit, a fine mixture between a surgeon's garb, a chemist's and that of a dark ages plague doctor. As such, it consist of a dark lab coat (filled with basic surgical tools), thin, surgical rubber gloves, as well as tight, but unoppressive clothing underneath. The mask on his face is made in the shape of a traditional plague doctor mask, painted black, but the interior of the beak is modified to act as a proper gas mask.

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gist, Michael is very adept at concealing a vast majority of his real personality traits, fully embracing the status of a psychopath in charge. Thus, to the layman, and anyone that generally does 'not need to know the truth', he will simply appear a sadistic, sin-obsessed madman. And, in all honesty, it's hard to not see someone as that when he's running a business as profaned as his 'Sin Empire': torture, drug dealing, assassination, brainwashing, and most about anything that comes to mind when someone speaks the word 'crime'.

Upon actual contact with him, from merely a madman, he changes into being terrifyingly lucid, proving a perfect assessment capability and logical thought. Such, the madman earlier is suddenly possessing a lot more power, as he's proven to bear the full intellect to actually keep the business running, and to fully abuse its power as needed. In general, this is the way clients see The Master.

A layer below that, shown only to respectable, long-time clients and people closer to him personally, is a man that lives for pleasure, and that wishes the same for all of mankind: freedom in expressing the carnal. As such, the only reason he resorts to actually selling things in his empire is due to the fact you need money to be able to flourish, but as any good drug addict, in a vast majority of cases there's no better deal in town that what the Empire offers. This is a personality that resonates strongly with most not-so-innocent people that do indulge themselves in carnal pleasures.

Even below that, a side only shown to few trusted subordinates, he actually cares for the good of mankind. Using sin to get the money, the money to conduct research that no other organization ever could, due to the human rights. This is the personality seen by specially-recruited scientists, given full leave from any form of ethic and morality in their experiments, with the objective of sacrificing the few for the many: finding cures for cancer by human experimentation, borderline bioengineering, and many other disciplines that the normal world would consider 'forbidden'.

At the same time, he is able to finely craft another layer at will, tailored to charming a single person into his web. As such, he can appear to have virtually any trait needed, and to explain his sins in respect to those traits, be them justice, fairness, saint-ness or anything else.

But lastly, deep down, his real self, only known by him and his mistress, he is protective and possessive. A natural tendency towards exaggerated protection of what he cares of, taken to machiavellic extremes: an impenetrable fortress, ran by near-limitless money, protected by unfalteringly loyal indoctrinated soldiers, able to eliminate any threat before it can attack. That is the way he himself sees his empire, a finely crafted and tuned tool of personal safety. The drastic measure is due to an innate paranoia, as well as several events of feeling utterly powerless, after which discovering his true potential in charming people.

In more typological terms, he can be classed ENTP by the Myers-Briggs type indicator.

Particular personal interests: scifi, avant-garde technology (especially biocybernetics and AI), sociology.

Fears: loss of control (although perfectly able to recover from it and react lucidly), an abnormally strong phobia of coffee (although kept internal, showing no outward signs), any form of harm to his mistress (to the point her safety takes precedence over everything; if the only way to save her from harm consists of methodically crumbling his own empire and then suiciding, he will do it).

It should be noted that he is in fact quite tolerant with people, actually lacking all forms of prejudice, as well as easily ignoring personal traits (he is unbothered by stupid people, fanatic ones, or evil ones, for example), but has a really strong disgust towards hypocrisy. He is willing to overlook anyflaw of someone, as long as that someone is either conscious of his flaw, or unconscious but not condemning it.

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, but not really trained for performance)

-Surgeon level anatomical knowledge (learnt mostly from his mistress), and decent fine-motion skill, although not exceptional

-Absolute mastery in all subdomains of psychology, ranging from full analysis of a person, to speed-reading, to speed-manipulation, to fine-tuned indoctrination and brainwash techniques.

-Innate cunning and intellect, but not inhuman or genius level

-Although not an ability per se, the Empire of Sin: a global-level crime organization, with ties almost everywhere and impossible to conventionally bring down (as well as unprofitable to; the Empire provides many governments and police type organizations with various benefits, monetary or otherwise). Notable sub-organizations include the Inquisition (the Empire's informational network, responsible with espionage, blackmail, under-the-hand negotiation and, of course, forced extortion), the Famine's Scales (charged with the maintenance of the black market of the Empire, from keeping it hidden to the deals themselves), the One Legion (the Empire's private military force, mainly consisting of brainwashed ex-mercenaries as the primary force and indoctrinated child-soldiers as the reserve, on their way to maturing into proper killing machines), Cornucopia (the branch responsible of production, be it drugs, weapons, tools, slaves or any other physical good required), and the Ivory Tower (the research groups, performing all forms of experiments that couldn't be done in legal means). As the man in charge of this titanic Empire, the Master can direct a tremendous force against any open enemy, if given the time to rally it.
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Organization name: The Empire Of Sin
Organization purpose: Inward: To give extreme power and control to the Master
Outward: To advance society through unethical research

Organization specialties: Informational Networks, Political Manipulation and Black Market, Private Army, Private Research
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Empire strongly advertises itself as a means to bring an end to capitalism, and generally help people, but in ways disregarded by the law. Thus, drug addicts and vendors, assassins, and the whole of the ‘bad’ world sees The Empire as the organization to join and rise in, while normal people fear what is the world’s largest and most powerful criminal organization.

In itself, though, the Empire has multiple other purposes, the first of which is known only to the Master and Mistress, and that is control. Through the Empire’s power, they can protect
themselves against exterior harm, being a hunter, not prey. At the same time, another of the empire’s goals is the obtaining of knowledge to help improve humanity. It sounds awfully idealistic for an organization as the Empire (but this is not to say the Empire isn’t idealistic; it is, just not also ‘morally correct’), but it should be kept in mind that the leadership of the. Empire is also human, so anything benefitting the race on a whole will benefit them as well.

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zed branches, owing to its size, and while The Master still remains supreme emperor, each branch has its own inner leadership, with the three commanders making up the Council of Sin. The branches of the Empire are as follows:

the most powerful branch, having a twofold purpose: for one thing, it is the informational network of the Empire, but for another, it is the leading branch for all others. As such, the lower agents of the Inquisition have to do with espionage and assassination, while higher-ups deal in organizing the activity of the whole Empire. In general, a person without ‘Inquisitor’ in the name will deal in covert ops, while someone with ‘Inquisitor’ will be commanding the empire.

Riffraff: The Inquisition mainly used unaffiliated riffraff for passive information gathering, and sometimes causing minor ruckus when needed

Shadows: The Shadows are the lower ranks of the Inquisition, responsible from everything between espionage and information gather to political assassination and coup d’état. They range from ‘rather skilful’ to ‘trained assassins and spies’ to ‘insanely refined silent killers’, and usually work in small, 3-4 person groups. They are the first to be feared by someone against the Empire, as the enemy that will come in the night to end a bothersome individual.

re apprentices to be raised in the job. They do not take individual jobs, and always operate under a Shadecaster. A normal individual will usually spend a year or so as Shade before becoming Lesser Shadow. They can only take espionage jobs.

Lesser Shadow: They are virtually Shades that have proven that they can work alone, and while they will still form groups, they can do it without a higher-ranking attendant present at all times, and on special occasions take individual jobs. They mostly work as spies, but can very occasionally get some more aggressive jobs.

Shadow: The main bulk of assassins and spies are Shadows. They represent well-trained and competent agents, although undistinguished. They take grouped and single jobs, and will focus more on espionage than assassination.

Shadecaster: A rank equal to the previous Shadow, a Shadecaster had exhibited teaching ability and/or leadership. They overseer Shade groups and help in their training and operation in the field, so their jobs are usually just the espionage Shades get. In other terms, Shadecasters are still considered full-fledged Shadows, should they need to take a job as one.

Greater Shadow: They are Shadows who proven themselves particularly skilful. They are more likely to receive aggressive jobs than others, as well as jobs requiring more finesse. A Greater Shadow will very rarely work in a group, preferring to take individual jobs.

Shadowmaster: The Shadowmasters are the leading rank of the Shadows. They have their ‘Shadow retinues’, groups of 5-10 Shadows working under them. They do