Pelor Mitternacht

**Dr. Pelor Mitternacht** Ph.D is a sedanian scientist specializing in bioengineering, biology and is the pioneer of the field extradimensional studies, but is most well known outside of scientific circles as a super criminal. He began his career at The Hollow Corporation as an assistant researcher under the renown scientist Dr. Naani Devadasa but has since made a name for himself in many facets of the scientific field. He is currently eluding an arrest warrant with the InterDimensional Police and his whereabouts have been unknown for more than 6 years.

## Early Life

Born to Sumara Amon, a mage, and Leopold Mitternacht, a known con artist and drug cooker in Burim, Mawae. Mitternacht had no siblings but was fascinated by biology at an early age, spending much of his time outdoors, exploring local flora. Encouraged by his father's "scientific" endeavours, he hoped to become a scientist himself and accordingly, read everything he could get his hands on.<br> Self confessed, he had few friends and as he grew older his relationship with both of his parents grew frostier. When Mitternacht was 12 years old, his father died in an explosion in their garage, presumably while concocting methamphetamine. Mitternacht ran away from home at 13, citing physical abuse at the hands of his mother a year after suffering severe burns to his back and neck from the explosion that killed his father.<br>

From there, he came into the temporary care of an old family friend, Osiris Hollow, who nursed him back to health and sent him to live on a small island called Adithi with trusted associates. Mitternacht remained there until he was 17, until Oz's brother Montgomery Hollow Sr., offered him an internship at The Hollow Corporation as an assistant researcher, noting his natural talents. .

## Early Career

Mitternacht began working for The Hollow Corporation on a paid internship, working directly underneath noted scientist and bioengineer, Dr. Naani Devadasa. Assigned to work within the now famous Sigma Team (along with Dr. Serik Nabiyev and Dr. Mayeda Ebrahim), he rose through the ranks quickly and soon became the youngest bioengineer ever on staff at The Hollow Corp. at the age of 21. He worked with Sigma Team for 12 years until finally managing to secure funding for his theories in extradimensional studies, at which point he headed his own team, though kept Dr. Devadasa and Dr. Ebrahim on the project.

## Personal Life

### Addiction

Mitternacht struggled with drug addiction for a great portion of his adult life and despite many attempts at rehabilitation, found himself relapsing often. Having moved away from street drugs sometime in his 20s, he continues to abuse prescriptions and suffers occasional hallucinations both auditory and visual as well as black outs. He's most well known for his PCP addiction. These addictions caused a great deal of strife in his life, both personally and professionally, and some experts suspect this is in part why he turned to crime.

### Relationships and Marriage

Past a short romance with a young man named Anubis on Adithi while in his teens, Mitternacht has only had one significant romantic relationship. Very early into his career, Mitternacht became involved with his boss, Dr. Naani Devadasa, and what started as a passionate sexual affair grew into a long-term partnership both professionally and romantically. They moved in together 3 years after they met but despite their strong feelings for one another, the relationship got rockier as time went on. Suspicions of Devadasa's infidelity and rumored criminal activity and Mitternacht's drug use fuelled vicious arguments, sometimes leading to physical abuse and/or separations but they consistently reconciled until 6 years ago when Mitternacht disappeared without a trace. They are legally married and have a son together.

### Family

During one of those separations, suspecting Devadasa of an affair during a recent business trip, Mitternacht had a single night affair with a young woman named Noa Aalders he met at a club in a drunken haze. Nearly two years later, Devadasa and Mitternacht having reconciled, she left them with a 14 month old son, (Elysium Mitternacht) he didn't know he had and vanished. Devadasa legally adopted the boy and as Elysium grew, he was much closer to him than his biological father.<br> Elysium left home at 16, citing that one of Mitternacht's drug binges "frightened him....[he] was lying on the kitchen floor, bleeding and said he would call the police on [Devadasa]...". Elysium held various jobs before gaining entry to a prestigious theatre school, where he began to write music and stage plays. <br>Eventually, he would become known for his play *Graviora Manent (Heavier Things Remain)* and for many of his choral compositions, while playing the cello in his spare time. According to him, he hasn't spoken to his father nor Devadasa since the day he left home.

## Criminal Activities

The common censuses among criminologists and criminal historians is that Mitternacht's descent into crime was precipitated by his drug abuse and possible financial problems, though many point to his troubled childhood and the early death of his father. <br> Criminal historian Gideon Ardoks, in his bestselling book *Sunset on Fotis*, suggests that the failure to be taken seriously by the scientific community while presenting his initial theories on extradimensional studies may have embittered him towards his colleagues and disillusioned him. Ardoks insists that *"Mitternacht, while extremely bright, came to realize he may not be able to handle the pressures of academia and this, in turn, causes him to distant himself from [the others]."* He contends that while Mitternacht "did not work alone, the chaotic nature of his most famous crimes suggest an intensely troubled mind and a destructive nature most likely gone unchecked since childhood.". <br> Other sources claim his Amon lineage made it "impossible for him to resist the call of darkness" and that it was "only a matter of time before he changed for the worse." speaking on the widely disputed claim that the Amon bloodline is inherently corrupt.

### Known Crimes

His list of known crimes is tremendous, making him one of the most notorious interdimensional villains in history. Most prolific is grand larceny and over the years, Mitternacht has stolen tens of billions of dollars worth of laboratory equipment, chemicals and supplies, as well as the thieving data from many secure databases. He has also been convicted of the destruction of a celestial body, but other criminal allegations include mass murder, the assault and attempted murder of a police officer, corporate espionage and drug possession among others.

### Convictions and Arrested Record

Despite his staggering record of indictments, Mitternacht has only been arrested a handful of times and was only convicted 4 of those times, twice on drug possession charges, once for grand larceny and the final time for destruction of a celestial body (described in the biography *Sunset on Fotis*). After being incarcerated briefly in Adir Penitentiary, he managed to escape with the help of an unknown party (or parties) and has eluded the InterDimensional Police since.

## Involvement in the Shadow War

Pelor was recently recruited by Eos, a small and secretive organization bent on preventing a second Shadow War. He is positioned as their Lead Scientist, making use of his expertise in transcosmology.

## Scientific Legacy and Career

Despite his poor reputation in the scientific community, not only as a criminal but as a junkie as well, Mitternacht has contributed greatly to the fields of exobiology, organic chemistry and bioinformatics. He also produced much of the seminal work in extradimensional studies, a science he refers to as 'transcosmology', which studies the nature of alternate realms and the creatures therein. While his theories were initially poorly received by the community at large, overtime a growing interest produced more research and proved many of those theories to be correct. Mitternacht, in a rare later lecture, stated that "transcosmology is too important a field to dismiss, considering what it could teach us in relation to almost every other field" and is still considered the father of the obscure, but growing science today.<br> Mitternacht holds a Ph.D in Medicine, but isn't legally licensed to practice.