Maurice Soult

### Relatives

Penelope Soult (Mother) Sebastian Soult (Father) Aimee Soult (Step Mother) Rose Beauchamp Soult (Daughter)

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

Michael Fassbender

Maurice Soult is a Kemiya of the Edwards Line of Kemiya's. He is currently ranked number 1 in the world is the Prodigy of the 39th Generation of Kemiyas and CEO of the Fortune 500 company, Kemiya Commodities. He is the richest man on earth and is rumoured to be able to cause an economic collapse, with the flick of a wrist

**Distinguishing Marks**: Alchemic symbol of Gold on back of right hand. Gold Transmutation circles on both palms.

**Other Skills**: Speaks Fluent French, proficient in Spanish. Masterful Melee combatant. Above Olympic level gymnast, reflexes, stamina, speed, balance. Extensive knowledge of alchemy, chemistry and Magic

**Weakness**: Pride. Damaged hands

**Race:** Human/Pure Kemiya

**Character Info**
Maurice is a high class individual, preferring to dress in no clothes worth less than £1000. He often attends fancy parties and flaunts his enormous wealth thanks to his Gold Kemiya skills. But whenever Maurice is not out and about having fun, he’s a cunning businessman and can be a ruthless killer. He is such a powerful Kemiya hailing from one of the most powerful lines known to the Kemiya, He loves to fight but prefers to take care of skirmishes in seconds. He only takes warriors (Especially Kemiya) seriously. He is in fact so powerful compared to other Kemiya he has a wrist band with a magic rune on it to suppress his full power unless he wishes to break it, releasing his full capabilities. In more recent times he sees himself above killing but yearns for a true challenge from another Kemiya's His transmutations can happen in micro seconds and his attacks are deadly. Like most Kemiya's he loves women and will be gentle to ladies unless they are opponents in combat. He is also honourable and noble, despite numerous victories over other Kemiya's he’s always granted the final request and has been gracious in victory. And like most Kemiya's can heal almost any wound within 36 hours

**Theme Tune:** Muse – Time is Running out

**Powers**

**Gold Manipulation:**
He can manipulate the 8 gold rings on his fingers into almost any shape or form he desires to almost any size due to the alchemic symbol of Gold on the back of his right hand. This `Personal Piece` is considered unbreakable due to his power of control. He can maintain focus on a maximum of 2 different gold pieces by touch, or one gold piece though sight and make it near unbreakable by magical or physical means unless the touch or focus are broken, or if a force over 100 tons is applied. He can't make his Gold any mechanical weapon or any object that requires non Gold components, like a lighter.

**Gold creation:**
He can also create Gold from all forms of matter, solid, liquid or gas, due to the transmutation circles on his palms and can maintain them as gold for any length of time and can reverse the process on any gold he transmutes. Metals are the easiest forms of matter to transmutate and control.

**Soul Sensing/Feeling:**
Maurice can sense the souls of other people to tell if they are weak or strong. He can sense other magic users and other Kemiya’s. This unique ability allows a Kemiya to find his destined apprentice, one who has a dormant Kemiya ability. Maurice can detect distortions within the soul, possessions, evil etc. Maurice has advanced his ability to feel the emotions of another person like an empathic and even see into a person's soul, much like a telepath can see into a person’s mind. He can literally enter the world of another person’s soul, shaped by their emotions. This ability takes time and is not suitable in a combat situation and is only possible with the recipients consent.

**Chaos Darkness:**
Maurice has the ability to give up control of his body to his inner darkness, a dark and entirely evil entity, separate from his soul to be granted a great increase in all aspects of physical ability and raw power. While in this form he fights as a berserker, can ignore all wounds and is temporarily immune from telepathy. The longer he stays in this form the harder it will be for him to return to her original form and if he does, the pain from wounds caused will hit him at once

**Ferrum Tergum:**
If Maurice unleashes his spiritual pressure to its 2nd level, he can make his skin, as harder than steel, meaning his resilience is increased greatly. A force greater then 100 tonnes must be used against him in order to break the skin, he can even use his bare hands to block energy based attacks. The technique works like a shield, the more the skin is struck, the defence will wear down. If Maurice's spiritual pressure decreases it will also weaken the technique

**Other Powers:**
Like all Kemiya’s Maurice can use alchemy not only to create and manipulate Gold but to break apart almost any solid material by severing the molecular bonds. Maurice can also exhert his spiritual power in the area around him. Those near him will feel a great pressure on their bodies making it hard to breathe or even stand but given Maurice pure raw power anyone near him could end up being incapacitated or maybe even killed if weak enough. This is mainly used as an intimidation tactic as it is not painful, just uncomfortable. Maurice can also put his spiritual power into his gold and use it to cut through solids and even liquids at distance and even break solid materials apart. Maurice can also put his spiritual power into his Gold and use it to cut through solids and even liquids at distance and even break solid materials apart. Given Maurice’s ability to transmute materials he can touch an object and know its exact composition and molecular structure so long as the elements are man made

**Fighting Style:** Since Maurice is the strongest of all Kemiya’s, and as such had near mastered all forms of combat. He primarily attacks his opponents with such brute force and power he can end fights within moments but he prefers to hold back while still striking hard, but not too hard. Like Musica he uses Form 6 but hasn't mastered it to the same degree. Maurice's Form 7 attacks are the strongest of all Kemiya’s and can level blocks without a break of sweat

**History:**

**Childhood Tradegy**

Maurice was born into a medium class family in Calais. His father was a fisherman and his mother was a wine retail Manager. Maurice's mother, Penelope was unfortunately killed in a car accident when he was 2 years old. Maurice's father was devastated at his loss as was Maurice. A good friend of Penelope's, Aimee Vallis comforted Maurice's father during his grief, and helped Sebastian through his grief until he asked Aimee to marry him. One day when Maurice was 9, the family decided to sail to England for a day trip. On the way home a storm blew in and the boat was battered badly as Maurice’s father called for the English coast guard. The boat capsized and his father drowned but the coast guard arrived too late and Maurice’s mother was washed away. Maurice was the only one saved from the wreckage

**Taken and Trained**

While in the hospital they were spotted by a gold Kemiya and kidnapped Maurice. He managed to convince him to stay with him and that he would teach him both the act of Gold Alchemy, since he had potential. His name was David Jennings an alchemist from the Edwards line. Maurice learned alchemy and trained day in and day out but Maurice’s potential was immeasurable, prompting Jennings to create a Gold suppressing Rune band, so that it would make sure Maurice could control his power and not become Midas himself. David was always hard Maurice. After training with David for 4 years Maurice passed his release fight and headed out into the world. But he didn't venture far. He spent the next year travelling around Britain

**The Destruction Begins**

Maurice returned home to France in early 1997 and travelled south to Marseille, with Maurice taking on an Iron Kemiya, defeating him easily. He spent a few weeks in the city, enjoying the party life. Maurice headed further south to Spain to Madrid, where Maurice killed another Kemiya in the city. They made it as far south as Gibraltar, where Maurice took on another Kemiya. Maurice was beginning to see he was a cut above most others.

**The Kemiya's Who Would Be Royalty**

Maurice had heard a Kemiya had come to Paris, a strong one. Seeking a challenge Maurice took a flight back to Paris in 1998. They arrived in Paris in December 1998 and immediately began to search for the powerful Kemiya but Maurice came across a young Kemiya, a girl named Catherine at the Louvre Musuem. They spent the weekend together, even had dinner at the Effiel Tower. The night culminated in a night of extreme passion. The next morning, Maurice awoke to find she was gone. At first Maurice was distraught and was unable to sense her at all. Maurice spent the next few months looking for her, searching in France, Germany and even Austria. After a while, Maurice finally realised that it was for the best. He felt fate had intervened and that it was time to move on

**A Horrific Accident**

In mid 1999, Maurice had given up his search and decided to head to Italy. He was driving through the Mount Blanc tunnel when he sensed another Kemiya. He stopped and got out of his car and attacked the other Kemiya's car. Both Kemiya's went at it, Maurice getting a hard fight from a more experienced Kemiya. During the fight a Flour and Margarine truck was damaged and caught on fire. It wasn't long before the fire was out of control. Maurice took his chance and killed his opponent. He took the Kemiya's car and managed to escape back to Italy later hearing that his actions killed 38 people. A day he has never forgotten.

**More to Learn**

Maurice made it to Italy, taking on another Kemiya in Rome. He left Italy in mid 2001. Maurice headed to Africa, travelling south taking another 6 Kemiya's. He came back to Algeria, fighting another Kemiya in extreme heavy rain. His opponent was swept away in a mud slide while Maurice managed to escape. He headed East to Eygpt, taking on and defeating Rupert Kimble, a top 5 Kemiya. Thus cementing himself on the World Stage

**Reputation**

Maurice came to South Korea in 2002, attending the World Cup to support his nation but was horrified when his team failed to even make it past the first round, or even score a goal. He travelled Japan, but found no competition was near. He learnt that his movements were being followed and no Kemiya dared challenge him. He travelled to Moscow, finding a Kemiya brave enough to challenge him but was soundly defeated. He came back to Europe in 2005, hearing of another rising star, Julia Morceau. He was present at her fight on the Monaco racing circuit, but decided not to make his presence known.

**The Highs and Lows**

After arriving in New York he came across a Silver Kemiya, Kevin Musica and engaged him several times but always emerged victorious, not even going to his power release to defeat him. Maurice opened up his own commodities company, Kemiya Commodities Corporation in 2006. He gathered up a small group of weaker Kemiya's as his security and Shane Wiseman as his number 2.

**Seeing the Future**

Matthew challenged and defeated Shane Wiseman in 2011. Maurice congratulated Matthew on his victory and  welcomed Matthew as his new number 2 and cast Shane out. But Shane quickly returned after Maurice was put in a coma for 3 months thanks to a car accident. Maurice returned and made his presence felt immediately, suspending and exiling Shane for 5 years and suspending Matthew for failing to protect his company and his own position. In 2013, Maurice decided to reward the top 7 Formists with an Onyx ring, to hide their Spiritual Pressure

**Structuring the Race**

In 2013 Maurice began to see himself as a father figure to his race. He began to issue decrees that he insisted all Kemiya follow. Failure to do so was a punishable offence. He invited Musica to act as his right hand and enforcer. Maurice sought out Shane Wiseman and finally confronted him and defeated him again, declaring him disqualified from the game due to his tainted magic obtained from a Witch. In 2014 Maurice later found himself drawn a young witch who was in fact sent by Shane Wiseman, who was in fact controlling him. Sophia Curtis, Musica and Bernard Fitzroy came to stop her, but Maurice ended up injuring Sophia. Feeling shame for hurting her and his weakness, he left New York to return home, leaving Musica in charge

**The Rebellion**

Maurice returned to New York in early 2015, learning that Oliver had in fact gained control after tricking Musica. Musica was relieved of his duties and renamed the company Kemiya International. He recieved word of Shane Wiseman making moves but still couldn't find him. Shane Wiseman was still on the loose and had gathered a following of other Kemiya's to help him overthrow Maurice. Another Kemiya, Francois Banki approached Shane with an offer to help him. Shane made several moves against Maurice, even capturing Musica and placing him in a magically induced coma but he was saved by Eliane La Croiux. It culminated in a Kemiya Battle at the Metz Stadium in . Maurice duelled Francois but Francois revealed only the prodigy could kill him as he wished. Maurice, seeing the death around him, ended the battle. Shane once again managed to escape. Maurice pardoned those who wished to be pardoned but some loyalists still remained loyal to Shane

**The Kings own Future**

Maurice's business was doing great and the Kemiya population seemed to be thriving. While on vacation in Belize, in mid 2015, Maurice saw a thief stealing another man's wallet. The man gave chase but was struck down by a car. Maurice saw the man's 6 year old daughter and recognised her as his destined apprentice. He took the girl home with him and trained her. Her name was Robin Tannis. Maurice trained Robin for 3 years. Robin was a little slow on the uptake but Robin graduated in early 2019. A few months later, Maurice heard of a Kemiya who was sensed in Ohio. He came to the special institution and found a young Kemiya named Tess Jones. He broke her free and trained her for less than 3 years before she too graduated. During her training, he declared all Kemiya's training apprentices are to be left alone but they also must leave all other Kemiya's alone. He also learnt of Rachel Kane's return. After Tess left in 2022, Maurice created the position of Kemiya Generals, to over see different continents and to settle issues to take the load off himself. The North American General, Mike Castle learnt from a young Kemiya that he was travelling with a Witch who was French and had a mother named Catherine whom he had met in 1998. Maurice then realised he had a daughter. Maurice by this stage had began to get out and date again. One night he found himself drawn to a woman but she was in fact a Siren. She led him back to his apartment where she planned to kill him but he was saved by a Kemiya and a witch, coming face to face with his daughter for the first time

**Seeing things on the ground**

Maurice was glad to have a daughter but she seemed to have little interest in reconnecting. Maurice offered her everything she wanted, but Rose just wanted to stay with her Dominic. Maurice warned Dominic to keep her safe or he would answer for it. Maurice was a upset by the ordeal, but Oliver suggested he take some time off, to get back out into the world. Maurice agreed and set off in late 2022. He came to Paris then to Calais to finish where his family lived. He travelled to London and hung out with some of the richest men in the country and even attended the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. Maurice headed south to Italy and even indulged in a fight with another Kemiya. It wasn't much of a challenge for Maurice but he did reconnect with his combative spirit. He took a cruise to Greece, meeting a young woman along the way. In early 2023, he got word that Roy Barragan was causing many Kemiya deaths. Maurice, despite hating the interruption to his vacation ordered a team of Kemiya be put together to hunt Barragan down, including Bella Midnight and Musa Anwar. Maurice then heard Musica had captured and killed a Shane Wiseman loyalist. Maurice was furious Musica had killed him but was told he didn't give anything up, despite the torture. Maurice moved on, deciding to find his daughter. He managed to catch up with her in Vienna. Maurice explained he had no idea she was even alive. Rose was still bitter but did warm up to him slightly but she wasn't ready to be his daughter. Maurice accepted her decision and returned to New York in early 2023 to resume his duty. He then placed a bounty on the head of Seth Jackson for the murder of his mentor and excommunicated him. Not long after he met a young woman who had just arrived in New York, a Dutch Kemiya with royal ties named Baroness Matilda De Houtman

**Pursuit of the Enemy**

Maurice learned that Shane had reappeared and immediately sent Kemiya's to kill him, but all missions failed. Maurice was soon informed that Shane had formed an alliance with Roy Barragan. Maurice sent Oliver, Musica and Jenny Serov along with a few other Kemiya's to kill Shane and Barragan. The next Maurice heard was that Shane and Barragan had escaped, but that Musica's darkness had evolved. Maurice ordered Musica be left alone and ordered Oliver to keep tabs on Shane and Barragan.