Lavrentiy Fyodorovich Karamazov

Lavrentiy a week after being 'killed' in an assassination attempt

### Relatives

Bogdan Fyodorovich - Brother; telepathicYekaterina Fyodorovna - Sister; cryokinetic

Valentina Petrovna Karamazov - Wife; shapeshifter

Anastasia Lavrentiyovna - Daughter; technopathic

Vasili Lavrentivich - Adopted son; mundane

### Affiliation

Dynasties (New Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

## Physical description

### Eye color

Grey

*"My father always said that to collect is to prepare. To keep all of these is to ensure that should the light of dawn grow dim, we shall remain here... hidden from whatever horrors might occur. So that is my responsibility, Khalid. To protect the people of this island and all the knowledge that has been stored in these vaults..."*

- Lavrenity to Khalid Islamovich Magomedov

Lavrentiy Fyodorovich Karamazov (Лаврентий Федорович Карамазов) is the Lord of Sakhalin Island and the Head of the Karamazov House. Known as the Collector, he seeks out the most valuable artifacts and keeps them for safekeeping within the expansive vaults beneath his quiet realm.

## **Personality**

Eccentric and utterly incomprehensible, Lavrentiy is often seen as an insidious presence, with valuable things sometimes vanishing whenever he is around. Otherwise, he does not seem to be malicious to either other metas or his mundane constituents. In fact, the people under his House would say that he rules with a fair hand, if he could be called the ruler to begin with. Much of the actual administration of his realm falls to his younger brother Bogdan, who is more or less just as lenient as he is.

The most well known facet of the Collector is… well, his collection. Many rumors abound on how he has the very first telephone in his vaults, as well as many other priceless artifacts of Earth's history. It is said that Lord Karamazov has a case of kleptomania, but in truth, he only takes away these things because he wants to. Nothing more, nothing less.

Despite all this, Lavrentiy is intensely protective of his two children, one of whom is an adopted mundane (though no one knows this…). Those who discover that Vasya is merely human tend to get into rather... unfortunate accidents. There is nothing Lavrentiy wouldn't do to ensure the safety of those close to him, something that would at first seem odd for someone with such unrelenting eccentricity and kleptomania.

While he is indeed very protective of his inner circle and family, the same cannot be said to anyone else. Lavrentiy has been noted to speak with thinly veiled suspicion, perhaps intrigue. His gaze is often distant, cutting right through others like a cold dagger of indifference. Whether this is because he has a mind that constantly wanders, or is simply aloof cannot be determined, but the answer is likely a mix of both. After all, between the constantly hidden paranoia and kleptomaniac madness, he is by no means normal by metahuman standards.

## **Abilities**

**Dimensional Compression:** Lavrentiy has the ability to compress the molecular bonds of inorganic objects up to the size of a main battle tank, thereby allowing him to resize them at will. Upon being resized, they will automatically vanish into a pocket dimension that is accessible to him at all times, out of which Lavrentiy may be able to expel them later on, whether forcefully or with care. He usually opts for the latter, as forceful ejection could damage his collectibles. Once ejected, the objects immediately return to normal size. He can also place organic entities inside, but only if they’re already dead.

**Telekinesis:** Lavrentiy has enormous telekinetic ability, being able to control and manipulate inorganic objects with a combined weight of about three tons. It is a line of sight ability, and gets weaker by distance.

**Body Doubles:** Lavrentiy is able to jump into clone bodies that he had psychically bonded with upon his present form being terminated. These clones are kept in vaults deep beneath the estates of the Karamazov House, and the only way to ensure he does not return is to seek and destroy each of these vaults. These vaults are heavily sealed, as six out of the ten also double as doomsday fortresses for both his House and the constituents of his realm in case *someone* ends the world.

## **Biography**

In another life, Lavrentiy Karamazov might have been a criminal, one of the elusive thieves the world has known and sought. In another timeline, he might not be a lord at all, for such was his lack of ambition. He only seeks to collect and know. Of course, that is not the case. Lavrentiy was born as the first scion of the Karamazov House, heir apparent to the throne that the ageing Fyodor Karamazov would soon leave behind. Because of the hereditary nature of their succession, there was just no doubt that Lavrentiy was going to be the ruler of Sakhalin Island. He was eccentric, however, and some thought that he may be unfit to rule due to… certain fits, one might say. Born with the ability to shove objects inside a pocket dimension, he had quite a knack for carrying valuables away, such as when a prized painting’s disappearance in a Chinese art gallery coincided with the visit of the Karamazov house. No one could ever pinpoint just who did it, though brooding suspicions that were never proven were, in fact, correct. Like father, like son.

Another decade passed, and Fyodor Karamazov, the Curator, passed on to the next life at the ripe age of 90. Lavrentiy, the casual, bored figure that often skulked around in the dark corners of the palace, arose to take the position as Master of Sakhalin. Lavrentiy would prove to be an effective, if not detached, ruler. He never appeared in public, preferring to keep to himself and his collection, giving commands to the ministers to effect whatever he had in mind. In fact, he never addressed his subjects directly, with his siblings and ministers acting as mouthpieces. For this reason, he would be known as the Silent Lord. However, he would be known as the Phoenix Lord by those that had killed him only to see him return in a new body, and the Collector by most, for it is well known that he keeps many valuables within those vaults...

## Relationships

### Khalid Magomedov

Lavrentiy considers the Dagestani mafia lord to be a friend and confidant. It is to Khalid that he shares some of his doubts and fears that would seem atypical to someone so massively... strange. While his father Fyodor Karamazov may have simply viewed the partnership between the Magomedovs and Karamazovs to be business and not much else, Lavrentiy has gone a few steps further into cementing their camaraderie with one another.

### Vasili Lavrentivich

The 12 year old adopted mundane scion of House Karamazov is jealously protected by his foster father from any prying eyes. The official story as of yet is that Vasili has latent superintelligence, explained away by being such a great piano prodigy. Anyone outside the inner circle of the Karamazovs and Magomedovs that happens to discover this truth have the tendency to die in car crashes and bear attacks. Either way, although Lavrentiy may be highly eccentric and random, but the fact that he will do anything for his children is absolutely undeniable.