Dante Selim

Dante was a PC featured in The W.I.Z.A.R.D campaign. He was a half-elf who died in the attack on Mearls College of Magic and was brought back as an undead. A good portion of the campaign was dedicated to attempting to bring him back to life.

As a PC, he was played by Malik.

## Appearance

In life, Dante was a fairly attractive young adult half-elf. He had pale skin, shaggy black hair, and emerald green eyes. He had a small amount of facial hair.

He wore a white button down with a green and pink striped tie, a beige trenchcoat, black slacks, and beat up red sneakers. He also often wore his arcane focus-- black rimmed glasses.

After he died and was brought back as an undead, Dante's body began deteriorating as he lived in it, his skin sluffing off. He didn't heal from injuries. He lost his left arm after Mattie accidentally hit him with chromatic orb, and his hair turned white after Plato brought him back for a second time.

## Relationships

### Plato Selim

Dante is perhaps the most important person in Plato's life, largely due to the fact of how Dante always made sure to attempt to understand and defend Plato, even when Plato lacked the skills to communicate that back. The two of them shared many common interests and enjoyed reading infernal comics together.

When Dante died in the attack on Mearls College of Magic, Plato became obsessed with bringing him back to life, as he was one of the few people Plato loved, and he could not live with losing Dante. The devotion to this goal became self-destructive, to the point of Plato turning to darker and darker magic to assist him in this journey. Eventually Plato used the Hand of Vecna to gain the power to complete his journey.

Under the influence of the Hand of Vecna, Plato began to see Dante more as a prized possession than a friend, which lead to him trying to manipulate and control him more, up until he died.

As Dante became more entrenched in his madness and disillusioned with life, he became less fond of Plato and his continuous poor decisions, though never told him off in any way. Dante hoped that his own death would allow Plato to realize his mistakes and improve himself.

### Niko Pardoe

Niko and Dante had a complicated relationship. They certainly cared about each other, but it wasn't unusual for Niko to leave for several weeks at a time without telling Dante.

In addition to that Niko more or less pulled Dante into a less than savory circle and profession.

### Maddie Celeste

Maddie developed romantic feelings for Dante that she was never able to tell him about, though it is quite likely that he noticed. It was stated that while it wasn't out of the realm possibilities in the future, Dante would have declined her advances and let her down easily, as he wasn't quite broken up with Niko.

Maddie and Dante's relationship started a little poorly, as Maddie wanted to help Dante, despite him telling her and the rest of the party to stop messing with his life. She delved too deep into his mind and angered him, though eventually he did realize how hard she was trying to help. Despite their clashing personalities, they did consider each other good friends.

### Kuro Hideyoshi

Dante would often leave the party at night where he had secret meetings with Kuro. Neither of them were particularly interested in prodding at each other's personal lives, so instead they bonded over smoking together and practicing sword play.

When Kuro learned of Dante's passing, he didn't react but took Dante's rusty scimitar as memento much to Athena's bemusement.

### Dr. Gautier

Dr. Gautier was Dante's main professor and academic advisor. Dr. Gautier had no fondness for Dante and would often try and catch him doing something that he wasn't, though much to his dismay, this never came to be. Dante in turn was a poor student would while clearly understanding and excelling at the content, didn't bother doing much more than just barely passing any of his classes.

## Trivia

* Dante is one of three PCs to die in the game they were introduced in, the other two being Socrates and Diogenes Chantol.