Rutherford Kane

***Rutherford Kane*** is a Deuteragonist, Antagonist and love interest to Dorian Laplace. In his lifetime he was an arcane engineer who pioneered the industry and brought arcane tecnology to the households of the common man. The first CEO of the Paralax Group and the secret leader of the Aegians; his genius paved the path for Kane to become one of the most powerful men in all of Gildore.

Upon the disappearance of his husband Dorian Laplace; Kane set out to find his husband and bring the gods to their knees for the suffering they brought upon Dorian.

### Aliases

* Kane
* Father of New Age of Technology
* Ruth
* Abbai Sho'hal
* God

### Relatives

* H. Rutherford Caine(Father)
* Kunujak(Mother)
* Dorian Laplace(husband)

## Profile

### Physical description

Kane towers at 230cm tall and bears a strong and muscular build and silky raven black hair. Although human, he does have blood of True Giants which contribute to his immense stature. Kane is also described to be very handsome as his face was a major aspect which caught Dorian's interest.

> As my brought my gaze upon him I felt my body freeze in an instant as my heart started beating with such power that I could hear it. I rarely was impressionable with physical attraction, yet I can't deny what borderline overwhelming feelings washes over me as I look at the unequal beauty of the man in front of me.
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> Dorian Laplace

When Kane was alive, he had a darker skintone as well as dark brown eyes due to his norhtern ethinicity. Due to his upbringing with the Sindarians he had longer hair during his lifetime akin to the high elves as he braided it daily according to the Myrwan tradition.

After Kane passed away and became a vampire he gained blood red eyes with black scleara. He also cut his hair shorter to accomodate his armor better. As Kane started to accumulate blood curses, he manifested their physical properties as arcane rune-like tattoos all over his body.

### Personality

Kane for the most part has a very quiet and reserved personality as he is prone to fits of rage when provoked. Due to his enormous size and deadpan demanor he often come across as very intimidating and threatening to most people as he is not affraid to put people in their place if he deems it fit. Kane is prone to a lot of hatred and shows little love or care for most things as his cynical view makes him an overall very bitter person. Despite seeming like a large and uncaring goon, Kane is very intelligent with an IQ of at least 200 as the test he took to enter university had a maxed out score of 200.

Kane shows care or affection for few things and one of them is his husband Dorian. Kane has a tendency to get overwhelmed over his own love and affection as he has a hard time truly expressing how much he loves and cares for his husband. He is will to do and sacrifice anything in order to make his husband happy. Behind close doors, Dorian is the only one who sees this loving and caring personality of Kane as he is very intelligent and philosophical in their conversations.

## Biography

### Birth in Winters Maw

Kane was born to the Kuak tribe in the frigid Winters Maw to the native Kanujak and the Gondolian explorer H. Rutherford Caine after an affair which led Caine to leave Kanujak and the tribe. During her pregnancy, she would unknowignly ingest blood of True Giants in her tribal ritual soup she consumed which led to Kane's inhuman size and strength. His birth was filled with ill omens as his size killed Kanujak during labor due to his grotesque size, he was born during the 13th month of the leap year as well as during the the night of Ynmar the Dead Moon. He was found by the traveling Eidan Thornsfeld who took him back to Vysrynn in the Gondolian Dynasty.

### The Sindarians

Eidan was a member of the Sindarians; a syndicate consisting of high elves with high ambitions to stop the forced integration of elves and humans and reinstate the old segregation. Both him and Kane were outcasts there, Eidan for being a dark elf and a Thornsfeld, and Kane for being a human; yet both of them had their uses. Despite being born large, Kane grew up at a normal size for most part until his adolescence; with his development being lacking and incomplete as his limbs, hands and face was grossly unproportional, yielding him the nickname "The Freak" by sindarian members.

The Sindarian leader, Harenor Thyssel, was a practitioner of hemomancy, an old esoteric magical practice a small subgroup of elven scholars studied centuries ago before the gondolian crown banned it as it was deemed as an "immoral practice". Thyssel however noticed that Kane had blood of True Giant in his veins; a borderline impossibility given the whole line of True Giants were extinct as even the modern living giant kin had little to no traces to the magical properties that blood of True Giants had. When Kane reached adolescence Thyssel took the opportunity to not only teach Kane about Hemomancy, but also subject him to blood enhancement; a process where the arcane properties are boosted up to ten-folds to that of the original power. Especially since it was done early during Kane's puberty, it caused a hormonal influ which caused a surge in the muscle and bone development. This caused Kane to grow very large and muscular at an alarming rate as within a month he reached well over 2 meters, yet the growth was not over. The proportions evened out as he grew more and more over the next years as in the end Kane ended up with a large muscular stature and incredibly deep voice.

During his years with the Sindarians, one of the only people who were kind to Kane was a high elf named Kaeta Icosius; a Myrwan highborn who abandoned her position in order to rebel against her father. She taught Kane Myrwan elven and often combed and braided his long hair in the styl eof the myrwan tradition.

When Harenor Thyssel passed away, there was a major power struggle in the higher commands of the Sindarians as the future for the syndicate was uncertain. In the midst of the tension, many lies surfaced and truths were revealed. The Sindarians had taught Kane to detest the crown and the elite as they were the cause for their suffering as they were the root to all injustices in Vysrynn. This confusion also caused the death of Icosius which trigged Kane, Eidan and a few others to rise up against the misleading commanders. Upon a swift and merciless battle the Sindarians were without a leader or vision and ultimately was disbanded.

Kane and Eidan went their separate ways.

### University of Vysrynn

Kane took his time and the funds that he had from his days with the syndicate to contemplate what he truly wanted; it did not take him long to figure out his love for problem solving through logical and practical means. He wanted to study the Arcane and the technology that the world could use from it. Although he had a basic education from the Sindarians, he had no credentials to apply.

Kane booked a meeting with the academic coordinatior for the Imperial Academy of Arcane Arts. Although he had no credentials nor anything to guarantee that he would be admitted as the academy was at the time amongst the most prestigious universities in all of Gildore. The coordinatior managed to schedule a few exams to test Kane's abilities in logic, problem solving and general knowledge. Upon concluding all three exams, it was quickly noted that Kane had completed all of them with 100% score within 20 minutes each. The coordinator and test monitors was not convinced as he could of cheated; thus they gave Kane three more exams they prepared on the spot. Yet again, Kane aced every single one without any hessitation in his answers to even the most abstract topics. With this Kane was accepted to the academy with a full scholarship as this sent rumors throughout the faculty and school of this newcoming genius.

Kane's year during university was fairly uneventful; he passed each course with flying colors and impressed everyone he worked with with his in-depth understanding of the topics and the nature of the arcane. He got a job as a dishwasher at the Bloated Bass for a while before becoming a cook as one of the chefs quit after a disagreement with the owner. This was how Kane discovered his love for cooking. In his final year Kane met Anatoli Sokolov, an Astorian exchange student whom the two had a mutual respect for each other within the subject of arcane technology. Both of them graduated with cum laude and the option to continue their studies with scholarships, to which both of them declined as the two had other plans.

### The Kane Cell

During Kane's last month of his thesis work, Kane had a conceptual revalation; crystaline visium was a dangerous crystal which had a long history of unfortunate accidents which had caused the crystal to become unused due to its danger. It was incredibly toxic, carcinogenic, and unstable as it is explosive and shock sensitive. The magical properties of the energy stored also made the crystal and its effect very unpredictable and thus very difficult to treat. Yet Kane had a new idea of a

## Dorian Laplace

The meeting and the relationship between Kane and Dorian proved to be a major turningpoint in Kane's life as his views and ambitions were drastically influenced by Laplace.

> I’ll let you know, that you are a special man Mr. Laplace! In the many years I've worked with him, he has never, not even once, smiled. And for you to get that out of him the first time interacting with him! You are indeed a very special man!
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> Eidan Thornsfeld

### Meeting

Kane met Dorian under a false name in the Bloated Bass; the inn from where the Aegians operated from as Eidan would pose as an innocent bartender and Kane as the inn's manager under a false moniker. Dorian would often visit the inn as the cheap food and calm atmosphere helped him in focusing on his work.

It was not until the start of the series of murders later known by the Beauford Butcher where Dorian would eventually learn about Kane's true name and allegiance as he was investigating the underground queer brothel The Spotted Leopard where he was caught and sent to the Hidden Bunker where he faced Kane. Kane promptly released him and apologiesed for the lament caused by his men and answered and resolved all of Dorian's questions unconditionally. Since that encounter Kane and Eidan sought to help Dorian to solve the mystery of the cryptic messages from the Beauford Butcher.

### Marriage and Relationship

Dorian is the only man Kane ever has loved romantically in his life as his aversion for most people resulted in Kane lack emotions or care to most people. Yet Kane, on multiple occasions, gets overwhelmed over his own emotions for Dorian due to the indescribable amount of love he has for him. Dorian is the only person, outside of Kaeta Icosius, who Kane ever truly express his true self and emotions due to the safety he feels around Dorian. The would often discuss, debate and argue over idealogical, political and philosophical views to which they would often agree, yet challenge each other as a healthy exercise of scrutiny and critical thinking. Kane also loves to cook for Dorian as a way to show his love and appreciation physically.

The two promptly got married after Dorian's arrest and pardon which was resulted after the Night of the Blue Bloodbath. Their marriage seal was for legal reasons to tie them and for Dorian to gain protection by Kane's name and estate. Despite gay marraige was illegal in the Gondolian Dynasty at the time; Kane recieved an exemption by the High Court of Vysrynn after threatening the lives of the council members and the safety of their families.

### Night of the Blue Bloodbath

Kane was out of town during the night of Dorian's arrest as Eidan recounted that stopping this was impossible despite how he could predict it after Dorian published "The Bloodstained Banner" a poem criticising and condeming the bloody and opressive history of the crown and the clergy which lead his arrest as his room in the Bloated Bass was stormed by the elite law enforcement.

As Kane heard the news of his partner's arrest, he immediatly travelled back to Vysrynn in a fit of rage. The police holding Dorian custody