Viktor Belmont

**Dr. Viktor Belmont,** perhaps better known by his alias **the Good Doctor**, is an indeterminant humanoid known in the realm for both his service with the Black Coats, having founded the School of the Megabat, and for his advances in medicine. As someone from Kirkgaard, he is of the Daytreader culture. His work with biomancy to cure vampirism with medicine caught the attention of the primary biomancy enclave under Dr. Heinrich Branson's leadership where he worked for years, greatly advancing the field before their destruction at the hands of Lady Katarina Steele and the Star-touched.

The Good Doctor was referred to in the events of *SteamSpell.* Throughout the first season of *WovenRealm,* Constance makes references to the Good Doctor with him appearing in player NPC piloted cutscenes. In the events of S3E5 'Eternal Trust,' the physician of Eternal Trust was revealed to be the same wicked biomancer as Dr. Belmont.

As an NPC, the Good Doctor is payed by GM Puddins.

## Character information

### Class

* Black Coat
* Physician

### Places

* Eternal Trust, Higard
* Kirkgaard, Duskwind Vale

### Connections

* Biomancer Enclave
* Eternal Trust
* Queen Cor Skyheart (client)

## Stats

### Backgrounds

* Black Coat
* Biomancer

## Description

### Appearance

As the Good Doctor, Belmont dresses in a style akin to the plague doctors complete with a beaked mask and the brimmed hat and long black coat of the Order of Hex Templars. He walks with the aid of a sleek, black cane tipped with a silver bat and wears a concealed repeating pistol on his belt. The Good Doctor does not remove his mask around others with only those who are close to him allowed to gaze upon his face.

### Personality

When masquerading as a physician, the Good Doctor will take on a kindly yet serious air. Deep down, he is an ambitious, cunning, and cruel individual taking a very Machiavellian approach to advancing medicine. He sees most people as disposable and as tools to be used to further his own goals. Even when he was an active Black Coat, Viktor Belmont was renowned for his hatred of the vampire lords of the Vale, and it would seem his quest to end the curse of vampirism drove him down the descent into evil. Dr. Belmont is confident, planning contingencies for all manner of outcomes. He is the type of person who does not show his hand unless he is certain of victory. He is prideful, verging into the realm of vainglory. He thinks himself better than others and superior in intellect to most folk, including his fellow biomancers.

## Biography

Viktor Belmont was born to the same Belmont family that once lorded over Kirkgaard before the arrival of the Dreadlords on an undetermined day, at least 50 years ago. As a Belmont, he carried on the proud family tradition since the Sunless Era of serving in the Black Coats as a Hex Templar. He became renowned for his animosity toward vampire-kind and fought them utilizing a unique style of combat he developed to utilize his family's heirloom, the Vampirekiller Whip. During his service in the Black Coats, his talents were so great that he formed a school specialized in the hunting of vampires in 2S 1825. After founding his school, instead of returning to his family's estate in Shiverdelve, Belmont stayed in Kirkgaard where he disappeared from public life.

Belmont turned his focus toward medicine, a field that always fascinated him while serving as a Black Coat. Part of the training Megabat Coats receive includes medical training due to Belmont's esoteric manuals. While deep in his studies of medicine, Belmont sought a method to cure vampirism, and during these studies he came across the science known as biomancy. In order to further his research, he adopted the persona of the Good Doctor so he could still masquerade as Belmont whenever it suited him, and when he devoted himself to the strange medicine, he found success in creating a medicinal cure for vampirism. It is this feat that caught the attention of Dr. Heinrich Branson.

Offered a chance to finally end the oppressive rule of the vampire lords of Duskwind Vale, Belmont jumped at the opportunity to further his research and his medicine. Many of Branson's later work was actually the result of research conducted by Dr. Belmont. Project Minerva in particular was the results of his own work, but the Good Doctor was not given the credit by Branson. During the twilight years of the Enclave, before it was wiped out, the Good Doctor's research took a great fascination with the idea of Clairvoyance. During his time with the biomancers, Viktor Belmont came to know the Black Coat deserter Juan Muertos, who he had served as a mentor to, teaching him new combat techniques, particular with chain whips. Muertos, in return, gave Belmont a fascination with firearms. Dr. Belmont's greatest achievement, if his research notes were to be believed, was the greatest goal of a biomancer; creating life where there was none originally - *Abiogenesis.* When the biomancers met their end at the hands of Katarina Steele and the Kovithian Inquisition led by Carnifex von Zeppenstein, the Good Doctor evaded them and went into hiding to continue his research.

Through his connection to James Prospero, the disgraced banker turned member of Eternal Trust's commune, the Good Doctor was put into contact with the commune's leader Mother Superior. Although he does not subscribe to their beliefs, the two created a symbiotic relationship with the Good Doctor's research focusing on bestowing Clairvoyance and Mother Superior having a place where he could safely conduct his research without a need for finding subjects. There are members of the commune who work closely with the Doctor, especially the medical staff and specially selected scholars who handle his research.

### *WovenRealm*

Throughout Season 1 and 2, Constance refers to her physician back in Eternal Trust, who she describes as a 'Good Doctor.' In season 1, a player piloted NPC cutscene between the Good Doctor and Mother Superior took place where he scolds her for sending Constance out without consulting him first, referring to her as 'his life's work.'

The Emerald Caravan finally met the Good Doctor in S3E5 'Eternal Trust' where they learned of his true identity as well as the truth to his twisted medicine.

## Notable Items

* Belmont Cane
* Orcish Eagle (pistol)

## Trivia

* Dr. Viktor Belmont was also a character Puddins played as in Chromatic Chimera's *City of Mist* actual play webseries *Dead Winter.* As a Rift, he carried the mythos of Abraham van Helsing.
* The Good Doctor was referenced in *SteamSpell* as an ally of the Biomancers.