Cal Tharaldson

* **Name:**Calvin Gary Tharaldson
* **Position:**Senior Vice President for Development, Goldmark-Craig-Schlossman Property Management .
* **Metatype:**Human  (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **DOB:**6/2/2010, in Fargo  ND (now RRDMZ )
* **Education:**Bachelor's in Business from Concordia College Moorhead
* **Family:**Karen [Gardiner] Tharaldson (wife, Fargo RRDMZ), Hunter Tharaldson  (son, Grand Forks, RRDMZ), Jessica [Tharaldson] Schafer (daughter, Fargo RRDMZ), Kent Schafer (son-in-law, Fargo RRDMZ), Madison [Tharaldson] Foster (sister, Winnipeg, Region 1, RRDMZ), Glen Foster (brother-in-law, Winnipeg, Region 1, RRDMZ), Olivia [Tharaldson] Hector (sister, Fargo RRDMZ), Ethan Hector (brother-in-law, Fargo RRDMZ), Emma [Hector] Turcotte (neice, Fargo RRDMZ), Leonard Turcotte (nephew-in-law, Fargo RRDMZ), Captain Aiden Hector UCAAF (nephew, Grand Forks AFB ), Ava [Hector] Kingfisher (neice, Wahpeton RRDMZ), George King Fisher (nephew-in-law, deceased)

Cal Tharaldson was born as one of the heirs of one of the largest real estate empires (and one of the largest fortunes) in North Dakota. However, the vicissitudes of the Awakening were not to be kind to that empire. The lands of North Dakota were steadily eroded, starting with the Second Ghost Dance and ending with the Third Ghost Dance War . At the same time, a rival local consortium (what would becomethe Group ) backed one of their rivals (the future GCS) in eroding their business locally, taking over territories and eventually buying them out entirely.

Cal reached the top position in the family business just in time to oversee its buyout by GCS and integrated into the Group. This is only one of the disappointments experienced by a man who thought he'd be stepping into the role of the richest and most powerful businessman in the state, back when North Dakota WAS a state.

So something that's well known here in the Shadows, and kept silent everywhere else, is that his first son, Hunter Tharaldson, expressed as an Ork , and this is back around 2050, when things were even worse for Orks then they are now. And, despite expensive attempts by Cal and his wife Karen, remained an Ork (anybody else remember the old 'Racial Correction Treatments' they used to advertise? Even a little much for hoods like us). Hunter fell into the orbit of his aunt Flo  and joining the Underberg Family as their mob lawyer.

However, just because the insatiable beast of twenty-first-century capitalism and a century-plus trend of constant consolidation ate up the company he thought he'd be running by now doesn't mean that old Cal has given up on the dream. And he's more or less achieved it. A born salesman and a ruthless businessman with a lifetime of real estate experience, he's clawed his way to the top of the company that absorbed TMI, becoming Senior Vice President of Development, second only to the disinterested Company President Rachael Schlossman-Martin , which means he effectively runs things within GCS. Which doesn't mean he isn't always hungry for more.

At exactly 12:01 AM on January 1, 2076, Calvin Tharaldson was attacked in his home by assailant or assailants unknown as part of the infamous Murder Minute and while he survived, he currently is in a coma at the Center.

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