Thread: Sanguine Character Profiles

Name Kalmus Logosi Age 34 Gender Male CrewPassenger Passenger Appearance Kalmus Background The Logosi monks follow three basic principles. First, the Principle of Inevitability. Within the circle of being, what comes before determines what comes after, without exception. Second, the Principle of Reason. Reason, or Logos, exists, in a formal sense, outside of the circle of being, allowing one to understand the circle from an external viewpoint. Third, the Principle of Power. Knowing and changing what comes before, through Logos, allows control of what comes after. The Logosi therefore believe the will to be illusory, an artifact of the soul's inability to perceive what comes before it. The soul, in the Logosi world view, is part of the circle of being, and therefore as much driven by prior events as anything else. In other words, men do not possess self-moving souls. Far from a given, such a soul is an accomplishment for the Logosi. The soul men are born with is too obtuse and clouded by animal passions to be anything other than a slave of what comes before. The whole point of the Logosi ethos is to overcome these limitations and so become a self-moving soul -- to attain what they call the Absolute, or the Unconditioned Soul. But unlike those exotic orders and cults devoted to various other forms of enlightenment, the Logosi are not so naive as to think this can be attained within the course of a single lifetime. They think of this, rather, as a multi-generational process. Quite early on they recognized that the instrument itself, the soul, was flawed, so they instituted a program of selective breeding for intellect and dispassion. In a sense the entire order became a kind of experiment, isolated from the world to maintain control, with each prior generation training the next to the limit of their capabilities, the idea being that over generations they would produce souls that could climb further and further from the circle of before and after. The hope was that eventually they would produce a soul utterly transparent to Logos, a soul that would climb completely over the inherent slavery of causality of being genuinely self-moving. Kalmus is a 9th generation Logosi, a creature with a mind designed to pick up and process the most minute of tells, deciphering complex action patterns with an eerie, inhuman accuracy. Clairvoyance, some would call it. Almost as if it's less terrifying to think of it as magic than to consider it something that's actually possible because of hints and whispers that are already written - that we are all slaves to our present and our pasts until the day we die. WeaponsGear Much like his crafty, cunning way with minds, Kalmus fights with the understanding that the world is his weapon, from makeshift clubs and daggers to his environment as a whole. NotesMisc Kalmus, or Kal, is a soft-spoken, gentle enigma of a man. His words are short and poetic, often possessing multiple meanings that only become understandable in hindsight. He dislikes confrontation, but will openly refute what he considers stupid, naive or sentimental and leave it at that. He travels light and carries little to no belongings, content to watch and spin the wheel as he plays the strings.