Khromat Vista

The Syndicate (Former)

### Occupation

Owner of The Forgotten HemisphereSecond in command of the Assassins Faction (Former)

## Appearance

Typically he wears dress shirts matched with khaki pants for both casual and work wear as there isn't strictly a dress code (other than to wear clothes) set in place in the Hemisphere (although the staff eventually collaborated and decided to wear similar outfits so that they would be more easily identifiable during work). Khromat currently wears an black eye patch with a symbol on it after losing his right eye (see Werewolf Encounter). He often carries a small flask on him despite being known for avoiding the consumption of alcohol.

## Personality

Due to his upbringing, Khromat tends to talk in a bit of a posh manner and remains polite when possible. Customers at his bar tend to know him on a friendly basis but during assassinations he's known to act unnervingly detached, most likely due to centuries of work for the Syndicate along with his upbringing. Despite his old career in assassinations, he understands how assassinations are generally considered immoral, but doesn't seem to care. Occasionally Khromat makes questionable decisions, such as deciding that violence would be allowed within the Hemisphere as long as there were no fatal injuries, out of curiosity and perhaps boredom.

## Magic

Khromat has an affinity for air both naturally and due to extensive training with the element during his Syndicate years, as he found that it was the most adaptable element at his disposal. He habitually uses it for everyday tasks in his apartment, but tends to minimize his use of magic during assassinations or in public. While his preference for air allows to exercise more powers and control over it, he still remains proficient in the other three.

## Backstory

**Currently a thought dump, nothing's solid.**

### Childhood

The Vistas had completely normalized training their children and Khromat picked up magic along with physical training fairly quickly. His younger sister on the other hand was praised on her craftiness and was easily his equal in magic. Any initial doubts towards the future careers of the two were quickly erased, as examples of hesitance on the job resulting in death was shown to the children while the morality of assassinations was put in a more materialistic light.

While the two never had a childhood home since they continuously moved to different locations for security purposes, they usually stuck with the same group of other children and a few of the adults in the family. However, the parents of the two Vista siblings were only ever introduced in a formal setting when they were ten, as close attachment would form bias and weakness while an overall loyalty to the bloodline was far more preferred and therefore encouraged by separating the children from the adults early on. Khromat still formed ties with his mentors and a few of the other children that trained in their group, but since competition eventually grew to curry favor with the adults, they relationships were more like that of friendly classmates then friends.

In their teenage years, the dynamic of the siblings became apparent and much to the surprise of the family elders, the two siblings never gained any serious animosity except for a few petty squabbles before even those gradually died off. The two were still far too young to be risked in any assignment, but the elders of the family eventually changed their lesson plans for the children and instead of the original private lessons, the siblings were trained to make up for each other's faults while gradually fixing their own. As was traditional, the training continued well into their adult years when they began taking small-scale assassinations both as partners and independently.

### Adulthood

For the first twenty or so years, Vagari and Khromat generally stuck together, rising through the ranks slowly as their reputations grew with each new assignment. Rather than shooting to the top in a blaze of risky glory as some of the other Syndicate leaders succeeded in doing, Vagari instead began gaining control with the intricate web of assassins that made up the faction, until her skill for assisting in the planning of more complex assassinations and organizing the collaboration of the faction with others became recognized, so did her temper. Khromat on the other hand largely supported his sister in her endeavors as he took assignments and solo assassinations became more common as his sister became more occupied. He became known for taking most assassinations requested over the years, but despite working practically flawlessly with his sister, working with a group far less efficient than Khromat going solo.

### The Linden Genocide

Sometime in the late 1800's, Khromat given an assignment to dispose a few members of a powerful sorcerer family, the Lindens, who had managed to do what was originally thought of as impossible; break into the massive compound of the Klinike faction, although their actions were discovered soon afterwards. In retaliation the Klinike sought to dispose of the main offenders behind the charge which included most of the heads of the Linden family, who had retreated into a hideout in America immediately after the incident.

The Lindens, had a fatal flaw that was later concluded to be the main cause behind the complete annihilation that occurred inside the hideout. They expected that their actions would initiate frontal assault against them, as they had rightfully assumed that they would be attacked. The mansion that served as a hideout was heavily fortified and most of the bloodline had managed to reach the hideout without being killed. While this managed to keep the mercenaries hired to destroy the base at bay, the Linden family was kept trapped inside with the adults alternating between taking care of the children and defending the base.

The story, however, becomes wildly fabricated and unclear after the facts stated above. While the conclusion that all of the Lindens were killed is agreed upon in all of the story variations, how Khromat managed to infiltrate the mansion and the speed and method used in order to kill the victims varied. The bodies were all found charred and burnt, although not from magic, and were eventually disposed before anyone could categorize the injuries. Some versions claim that they were burnt by Khromat while others assumed that the mercenaries that had been attacking the mansion from the outside had cremated the bodies after discovering them once the defenses of the mansion shut down. The children, along with a few accompanying adult bodyguards, had been found in a secret room meant to be the most secured in the fortress, dead, but the bodies were dispose promptly afterwards although the corpses of those in the room were not found burned like the others.

Eventually the incident became known as the Linden Genocide as all of those inside the hideout had been killed while the rare few that had instead hidden elsewhere had either been found killed before the genocide or were picked off soon afterwards. Collaborating evidence only managed to conclude that the entire bloodline had died out, the vast majority of which was attributed to Khromat.

### Retirement

The details are unclear but most members in the Assassins faction, which Khromat was previously the second in command of, speculate that Khromat offered to retire after the relationship between him and his sister, Vagari rapidly deteriorated.

### Post Retirement

He spent two years traveling the world, taking jobs sporadically, although he didn't necessarily need to. Khromat was reportedly hard to track down during this time and was said to appear in random areas for no particular reason other than curiosity.

### The Forgotten Hemisphere

Khromat purchased the Forgotten Hemisphere two years after his retirement from the Assassins Faction and began hiring individuals too injured to return to their positions in the Syndicate or previous members that simply want a chance at a domestic life, as staff members in the bar. Occasionally he send them off for errands but for the most part the bar itself serves as a source of income for Khromat and occasionally as a meeting place for Syndicate matters when needed. He seems quite attached to the bar and eventually renovated the top level into a living space for himself. Approximately a year before the Werewolf Encounter he decided to take in a puppy after initially being called in to assist with a break into a facility and by happenstance, happened to infiltrate the building through a room where wolfs and dogs were being interbred in order to provide guard dogs. While he initially referred to the animal as either "pup" or "dog" during the first few months when it was in his care, the staff of the Hemisphere eventually began bouncing between names for the dog until they eventually settled upon "Sable". The name was accepted by Khromat and Sable became the greeting dog of the Hemisphere.

## RP Plot

### The Werewolf Encounter

(Rose werewolf fight, walking to antique shop, right eye clawed out, went to Melissa, yada yada.) WIP

### The Loose End

(Raven killed in Ruins because she was too risky and needed to be disposed.)

### Teleporter Chaos

(Nequita. Nothing like watching a small feral child murdering people to lift your spirits)

### Syndicate Civil War (SCW)

After hearing about a couple of rumors and the unusual influx in the Mercenary Faction activity in Roarhaven, Khromat tipped off Zashe about the possible coup against the Lady, the leader of the Espionage faction. A few days later Alwa arrived to attempt to prompt Khromatt into providing her more information, but while Khromat appeared fine answering any questions she asked, he refused to tell her everything he knew, Instead, he insisted that he would let her know the bare minimum that was needed, as he planned to remain neutral unless absolutely necessary.

## Relationships

### Vagari

In the past they appeared close, to the point that they were infamous within the Syndicate for working together seamlessly, but as time passed, problems slowly arose within the faction, eventually leading to Khromat's retirement. During the short time period directly before his retirement, however, the relationship between Vagari and her brother had soured. Rumor is a member of the faction overheard the two talking about an incessant habit Khromat had developed after the Linden Genocide shortly before Khromat's retirement.

### Haze

Khromat knew of Haze pre-retirement and approved the decision of promoting Haze to second in command after he retired. While the two haven't seen each other in years, after meeting up again in the Hemisphere they began trading friendly banter, and of course trading stories of assignments (in private of course.) Haze often calls Khromat "old" which he doesn't seem to mind, probably since Haze is well known for his incessant teasing of almost everyone he meets.

### Zashe

While friendly, the two aren't necessarily close, seeing that Zashe from the Espionage Faction. The relationship between the two was mostly that of business partners, but once Khromat retired the two met up again at the Forgotten Hemisphere and shared a drink in a casual manner. However the visit was cut short when Khromat used the opportunity of Zashe's visit to warn him of the rumors about a possible war in the Syndicate.