Marquis

*"So many questions....so little answers"* Sebastopol

Dismas Hauterive, callsign "Marquis" is a Stalker residing in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone around the year 2019. First a Free Stalker, he entered the Zone with the goals of creating a gun-running company, he would later on get kidnaped by Monolith forces and get posessed by a Monolith Inquisition leader, Smog the Seer, Grand Inquisitor. Later rescued and brought back by Mikhail Nord and Cannabis, Marquis would gain Psy abilities and become a Psy-Stalker part of the New Generation, also named The Phsykers. He would also develop connection to another Zone entity/anomaly named the Void from wich he would develop Void powers

### Life before the Zone

Before entering the Zone, Marquis was a mercenary operating around the world, it is known he has operated in unamed African countries, in South East Asia and Singapore, eventually in Eastern Europe. The connections he made during this time enabled his to have a very consistent network of criminal organisation from which he could pull favours. It is known he was born and raised in France, where he eventually lost his family in a housefire, both parent, brother and sister. It has been known during the Void Lockdown & Mechanical Heart arcs that the many trauma of his past led to many suicide atempt outside and inside the Zone, ammounting to a total of 12.

### The Zone

During his time in the Zone, he quickly met people he got to know and eventually stick around for a while , these people being Mikhail Nord, eventually known as Eclipse, and Cannabis. After falling into the hands of the Inquisition and being freed by said frien, he would later be gravely wounded when the mercenary Dark attacked the Clear Sky base, resulting in Marquis almost dying in an explosive blast. He would be in a coma in the Infirmary and eventually abandonned and left for dead when the base was overrun by zombies. He would survive for some time and regain the use of his legs, clearing the base and making various modifications, including building the cooking shack, creating the secret laboratory etc...

He would get the visit of Cannabis, as it was the only person who didn't forget about him and didn't leave him for dead, the both of them eventually teaming up. Around this time, Marquis would start to see aparitions of a black female silhouette, revealing itself as a Zone entity, the Void. Later on with considerable efforts, the entity would materialise in a physical body, under the name of Encre. They would, as time goes on develop a loving relationship, allowing Marquis to get back on track and recover his sanity after the Swamps Massacres.

### Death

After the Mechanical Heart events, Marquis developed a heavy hatred for Eclipse, for murdering Encre, Cannabis and himself during the events of the Duga Radar . He would keep the broken and traumatised Encre, in the place known as the Library. The Library would get attcked by Eclipse, Cannabis as well as Encre's siblings, Spatha and Yaga. A fight broke out in the Library and as Marquis stood defeated, everyone present was taken into the place known as the White Retreat, a physical manifestation of Marqui's mind. After a standoff and Eclipse pushing his anger too far, Marquis would try to kill his friend, only to get shot to death by Yaga. His corpse would get cut in half by Eclipse and left as it was.

#### The Client

The death has led to an event where a man sharing a similar feature to Marquis and paying an old contact of Marquis would leave the Zone soon after the Marquis died. The Client would travel around the world and eventually be burned alive by neo-fascists, skinheads and militia members in Mariupol as he was returning to the Zone.

### Nicknames

* The Venomous - Renegades
* The Gunmaker - Igdim

Played by Sebastopol