Captain Franciso de Torres y Benavides

## Francisco Torres

Catholic Proapostolic Vicar

Catholic Church

Proapostolic Vicar

Captain Franciso de Torres y Benavides: Theologian Inquisitor of Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in New Spain, Proapostolic Vicar under Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, and Witch Hunter of Southern America.

## Appearance

Franciso de Torres is pale, he does not tend to spend his time unproductively under the sun's scorching eye. While ashore he keeps his facial hair to a neat goatee, while on voyage it tends to grow out stubble. His hair is unkempt, greasy, long for a man, and swept to the sides keeping it out of his eyes. Brown eyes match his hair except for the grey which has begun to grow from the roots. He tends to wear black representing his role in the inquisition, under ornate, mostly decorative gold trimmed armor. Of average height, he is on the less muscular side though lean, keeping him slim. His eyes seem semi-permanently darkened by circles surrounding them.

## Personality

Torres to most of civilization is seen as a kind missionary teaching the willing the word of God. However to those who are not God-fearing Catholics he is usually a horrid presence. A sadistic man, angered by the existence of heretics. He espouses the evilness of witches, even to those who do not understand him.

## History

Born to noble parents in Valencia Spain, taught to be deeply religious from birth he grew up reading the bible every night, and reciting it every morning. Once of age he went to Universitas Complutensis in Alcalá, his studies tended to take multiple sleepless days on end. But he never got a low score, he refused to ever slow down, meaning nobody else was able to get close to him, in any capacity. Francisco graduated a Master of Canon Law and Theology. With these degrees he moved back to Valencia to be anointed a priest by Archbishop Andrés de Orbe y Larreátegui. He immediately began training under Archbishop Larreátegui putting his skills to the test as an Inquisitor of The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Spain, seeing as the Archbishop was also Grand Inquisitor. He acted as a titular Priest, his main focus being as an Inquisitor, searching Iberian countryside for signs of heresy. Use of unholy magics, rituals of satanic origin, he found many things through his journey's, bringing proper death to the undead by a Man who defied God's given death. After this excellent it was organized for Torres to go somewhere more in need of his help, New Spain.

A Titular Bishop on a mission to Honduras was ambushed and killed, needing a replacement they were willing to make Francisco de Torres Proapostolic Vicar of Honduras, and Theologian Inquisitor of the Mexican Inquisition. Through funds of the Church a crew and a ship was bought to permit Franciso Indepecence in his investigations. He received a 16 gun Sloop, a crew, and a group of retired devout soldiers, he chose to name this ship Poderes de Dios after the Angels that implement the natural order unto God's world, something he knew he was honoring with his work. 2 months later he arrived in Truijio and began using the Authority of the Inquisition to teach locals the way of God. When they attempted to attack him, and obvious demonstration of their opposition to God himself, he taught them his wrath. His crew has changed as years went buy, multiple converts have joined the ranks, acting as translators and scholars on mesoamerica as a whole. As the decades passed he has learned many things, alchemy and perfuming has allowed him to make the water and air itself deadly to man.

Interested in his talents Truylos De Velasco has offered Francisco De Torres a commission to join his fleet through the Caribbean as his interest in the unnatural as increased.