Abraham Marchant

The patriarch of the Marchant family. While not of noble birth, he came from an affluent family that allowed him to pursue higher education at an early age. He was a genius, a visionary inventor according to his peers, though deeply troubled from a vision he had in his youth. He believed that he would have an heir with angelic blood who would commune with Ignatius and bring about a new age of prosperity, as well as bring about a Kingdom of the Sun. 
== Biography ==
Born to a wealthy merchant family, Abraham Marchant was recognized for his genius intellect and after his general education was sent to pursue higher education. Although his talents for magic where not nearly as impressive, he studied arcana, learning the ins and outs of how magic worked in order to invent. Most of his inventions came to him in “visions” which he believed where sent to him by the god Ignatius. In the summer of 1422 AV, Abraham Marchant got severe heatstroke, in which caused him to have his most well known vision. In this vision, he found an age of prosperity and a Kingdom of the Sun, heralded by an angelic paladin who bore the Marchant family crest. 
Upon surviving his heatstroke he immediately set about, what he took as a vision of the future, into a reality. 
===Building the Marchant Family ===
Abraham Marchant quickly rose to power on the island of Tonia, marrying the only heir to the island's previous noble family. After a few years his wife passed, leaving him with three children, Ishmael, Zimran, and Jokshan. This didn't slow down his inventing, nor did it slow down the family from gaining more members as he attempted time and time again to create this angelic heir. 
Abraham had a total of sixteen children with various consorts (and while the consorts never took the family name they were seen as very popular figures among the island of Tonia). These children were Ishmael, Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Abel, Cain, Ishbak, Shuah, Jacob, Naphtali, Reuben, Simeon, Judah, Levi, and Joseph. 
=== Mary===
During a masquerade ball, he met a woman who immediately swept him off his feet, immediately seeking to win her affection. Once he received it they became inseparable, and he believed her to be an angel, though she was anything but. Their union brought about his seventeenth and final child, Isaac Marchant. Finally he had his aasimar son, though all was not well. 
Unbeknownst to the public, Mary revealed herself shortly after to be the Demon Lord Misery and staked her claim on Abraham Marchant’s soul. Though she did truly give him a child of angelic blood, she did so to invoke misery. A gift from the gods certainly, but not the gods he would have wished. 
Despite this, he raised Isaac to be the paladin he dreamed of, sawing down his demonic horns and working to craft wings for him. 
=== The Fall ===
lol I’ll write this later
== Personality ==
A very charismatic individual, though in that way that all cult leaders are described as charismatic. He seems to be a kind and righteous individual to those on the outside, though inside he is rife with manipulation tactics and a need for control. He’s incredibly power hungry, but he knows he can’t fight for power and take it by force.
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