Scarborough Maximiter

Min. Maximiter in his hoverchair

**Minister Scarborough Maximiter** was a Mage Prince, secretly of the Ascensionist Faction, and an elder statesman of the Milgravian government. He served as Secretary of State, outliving three generations of Semokkus before perishing in a failed attempt to demonically possess Petra Keith in order to receive the gift of youth from the dark angel Varal.

## Personality

Born on Milgar to a powerful but declining lineage of Mage Princes, Maximiter was consumed from an early age by a hunger for power and control. Later in his life, this motivation shifted into a desire for immortality and ascension to godhood.

Maximiter was both a psion and an expert in the occult, skills which he leveraged to great effect in his subtle masterminding of Milgravian politics. Over the course of his fifty-year tenure as Secretary of State of Milgar, Maximiter transformed the role of Secretary of State from one consisting simply of inter-factional diplomacy to being a position of immense power, carrying with it the role of head of the governor's cabinet in addition to other responsibilities and privileges.

Maximiter generally saw the people around him as nothing more than means to an end. The story of the callous manipulation and eventual psionic domination that transformed the capable duelist and military officer Lou Tenant into Maximiter's subservient minion provides but one example of this pattern.

In his later life, Maximiter's reduced mobility and fragile body led him to use a hoverchair to get around. He also suffered from a form of necrosis eating away at his body, a condition likely caused by his soullessness.

Maximiter owned a familiar, a pet turtle named Donatello.

## History

### Early Life

Maximiter did his best to keep his early life history obscure and vague. It is known that he performed exceptionally well academically, before launching a promising political career. His soullessness is believed to have resulted from occult experimentation, possibly while still in his youth.

### The Milgravian War of Succession

*See also: Mage Imperium I*
In the lead-up to the Milgravian Succession War, at age 114, Secretary of State Minister Maximiter had already served in the government of Milgar through three generations of governors from the ruling House Semokku. In addition to his public office, Maximiter also secretly served as an occult expert and psionics advisor to the inner cabinet (using Court Demonologist Dominique Ilaz as a front). In this capacity, he both benefited from and made annotations and improvements to a powerful occult tome in his possession, The Codex Exilium.

While the political situation on Milgar gradually deteriorated, Maximiter himself grew more and more fixated on his quest for immortality and godhood, seeing it as a race against time before his physical body finally failed him. Seeking to gain more time, he made a contract with Varal, an angel of Valdos, to restore his youth in exchange for Varal gaining possession of the heir to the Milgravian government, Petra Keith. The situation grew more and more desperate, and Maximiter ultimately died without securing his objective, even after giving over his loyal bodyguard Lt. Tenant to possession by Varal.

## Media

File:Scarborough maximiter character sheet.pdf

## Trivia

* Maximiter's pet turtle Donatello had a cloacal circumference of 1 inch