Dr. Isoc Gate

## Dr. Gate

**Dr. Isoc Gate** is the Head Doctor of the Order of Ultra-Science and was introduced in Asphodel. (Played by *The\_Broker*)

## Biography

As a child, Isoc Gate was tormented frequently by dreams in which a hag-like figure knelt on his chest and glared down into his eyes. He came to memorize that terrifying visage and it led to his interest in the mortality of the Homini body.

Born into the Order of Ultra-Science and under the tutelage of then-Head Doctor Liektir, Gate excelled in his studies. Compelled by his childhood nightmares, he majored in studying physical arts. As a part of this, he decided to strengthen his body through additional manual training. In-between classes, Gate would exercise with the few other doctors who also felt the need to exert themselves in places other than the experiment rooms or at the mansion supply dock. Gate particularly admired the giant Dr. Sasha, from whom Dr. Gate learned fist fighting. Their friendship lasted for only a few years as Dr. Sasha eventually succumbed to a recurring heart issue.

Driven by both his childhood nightmares and Dr. Sasha’s death, Dr. Gate began to research the Eldar races’ “Bonding”. He felt intense jealousy towards this process, especially as the Homini would be put into the ‘lesser’ position as he saw it. At best, Dr. Gate felt Homini were mere bystanders to the Eldar races’ personal conflicts; at worse, the Homini were slaves to the Eldar races. Dr. Gate believed that the Order of Ultra-Science’s greatest secret, The Core, held the key to unlocking Bonding between Homini. Dr. Gate was inspired by witnessing the Core’s Heartlimb (a chunk of the Core that sloughed off from the main body, almost akin to a large branch snapping off from a tree) regain a form of mobility. He believed that the mixture of Homini, Sheolfolk, and Elysians could be somehow reversed engineered back to Homini and give them the gift of bonding.

Dr. Gate began scooping out parts of the Core and produced from these piles of flesh what could only be described as grotesque, misshaped, hunchbacked things. None of these figures were identical, but all of them were disgusting mix-and-match humanoid forms. Some had faces and fingers all over their bodies, others were composed mostly of limbs combined and twisted into a skeletal shape. Dr. Gate came to dub these things “Hags”, as he was reminded of his childhood nightmares. These Hags were mostly kept in various empty rooms throughout the mine shaft, and Dr. Gate and a few very brave doctors would perform various experiments to see if they could not induce bonding between the Hags. The Hags seemed only interested in eating flesh that was not alike themselves (in other words, non-Hags.)

Although none of Dr. Gate’s experiment team was killed by the Hags, there were some injuries from the ravenous Hags. In addition, one particular doctor, Oldburn, slowly went crazy from being around the Hags. He became very attached to the Core’s Heartlimb, or “Princess” as he so lovingly referred to it as. Dr. Gate initially tried to see if this mental state was the beginning phase of Homini-to-Homini bonding. But in the end, he concluded that the former-doctor Oldburn had simply gone insane. To this day, all experiments involving the Hags have been failures.

Back before he had begun to experiment directly with the Core, he dealt with a situation he found to be completely wasteful: the Order’s practice of occasionally ‘adding’ kidnapped people to the Core in order to enlarge it. Hearing that a local tribe, the Bryyo tribe, had been the Core’s latest addition was the last straw for Dr. Gate. His first order upon leadership of the Order being passed to him after the death of Dr. Liektir was the immediate cessation of all additions to the Core. Many other doctors of the Order were not happy with this order. In particular, Dr. Oswald was the loudest opponent in stopping the additions to the Core, and she was not alone in this opinion. She was charismatic enough that her apathy towards general science was mostly ignored by her followers. In the end, the only reason that Dr. Gate’s order was obeyed was due to not wanting the Core destroyed completely. For the time being, Dr. Gate was more concerned with doing proper experiments with the Core to worry about anything from Dr. Oswald.

The one figure of the Bryyo tribe that had not been pushed into the Core was Bria. She had been the only member of her tribe that the Order of Ultra-Science had deemed intelligent enough to join their ranks. Gate knew that despite the Order trying to keep her in the dark in relation to what became of her tribe (the usual story of Sheolfolk raiders carrying them off), Bria wasn’t fooled. Though Gate lacked the empathy she had for the ones tossed into the Core (her tribe among them), he knew she also hated that wasteful practice carried out by the Order of Ultra-Science. Feeling that Bria was a bright enough young woman, Dr. Gate wanted to show her his vision of the future of the Order as best as he could.

Though his experiments with the Hags were seemingly going nowhere, Gate would soon receive word that could possibly hold the answers he had been seeking for most of his life...

## Personality

Serious and hands-on, Head Doctor Gate always tries to be a part of the various experiments in the Order of Ultra-Science. In addition, he prefers to assist in manual tasks (such as unloading the purchased supplies brought by the occasional ship) that other high ranking doctors would delegate to the younger doctors. If an experiment ends in failure, Dr. Gate will try to do absolutely everything he can to make something useful out of the failure before he would ever consider completely destroying the results.

### *Strengths*

Intelligent, a genuine desire to strengthen his fellow Homini, detests wasteful practices in his organization, skilled fist fighter.

### *Weaknesses*

Distrusts the Eldar races, low social skills, his empathy isn’t the greatest, not the sanest individual (although his sanity is far higher than the average member of the Order of Ultra-Science).

## Relationships

* **Dr. Liektir**: Former leader of the Order of Ultra-Science and mentor, deceased
* **Dr. Oswald**: Rival
* **Dr. Sasha**: Fellow doctor, exercise partner, and dear friend, deceased
* **~~Dr.~~ Oldburn**: Former member of Gate’s experiment team, now insane
* **Dr. Bria**: Apprentice of a sort