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Mikhail Mao

Wild Talent

Political Advocate, Ceremonial Mage, Time Traveler

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Memories of the Mark of the Obsidian Obelisk

Talent: Occasionally hears the past instead of the present. Activation condition unknown. Temporal range unknown.

Edges: Educated, Wealthy, Reputation (Age of Storms/Business)

Appearance: Mikhail Mao is a slightly portly, gentle-eyed man approaching middle age. He wears a fine wool suit and carries a brass-topped cane which he does not use to support his weight. He speaks rapidly, yet thoughtfully, and his movements are slow but efficient.

Elevator Pitch: objectivist/libertarian would be philosopher-king or guardian. his modus operandi is fraying the ties that bind institutions together by advocating the supremacy of individualism. he's a sophist and social darwinist, a bit of an andromedan nietzchean without the physical power. common-born ceremonial mage Mikhail Mao, w. talent who hears the past on triples & at GM discretion, can't tell when the when is he is hearing, & is unable to finagle it with time magic.

Business Ventures:

• Smuggling
  • Arms Trafficking, specializing in enchanted items
  • Money/Goods Laundering
  • Formerly: Fence for OrderOfSather
• Private Military & Security Services Subcontracting
  • summoned monsters
  • unsavory mortals
• Library Services
  • document preparation
  • magical research
  • legal research, specializing in magical law
• Publishing
• Temporal Speculation?

Favorite Books:

• Long Wei, Bajldaanism
• Carther Vendale, "Treatises on Royalty"
• Rasmus Albion, "Leadership, vol 1: Allies and Influence"

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other. They say in a single breath: "God and the liberty of man," "God and the dignity, justice, equality, fraternity, prosperity of men" — regardless of the fatal logic by virtue of which, if God exists, all these things are condemned to non-existence. For, if God is, he is necessarily the eternal, supreme, absolute master, and, if such a master exists, man is a slave; now, if he is a slave, neither justice, nor equality, nor fraternity, nor prosperity are possible for him. In vain, flying in the face of good sense and all the teachings of history, do they represent their God as animated by the tenderest love of human liberty: a master, whoever he may be and however liberal he may desire to show himself, remains none the less always a master. His existence necessarily implies the slavery of all that is beneath him. Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty — by ceasing to exist.

-- Mikhail Bakunin, God and the State

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

-- Mao Zedong