Seth Kalmus

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> ### Name
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> Seth Kalmus
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> ### Birth
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> December 13th, 1883 in Monkey Island, South Carolina, the Humanworld
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> ### Age
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> 101 (at death)
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> ### Death
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> 1984 in Foxtail Island, Basilius County, Avalon
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> ### Killed by
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> Old age and liver failure
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> Physical Information
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> ### Gender
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> Male
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> ### Hair color
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> Bald
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> Brown
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> ### Relative(s)
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> * Bithiah Kalmus (younger sister) †
> * Benerib Kalmus (niece) †
> * Bakemut Kalmus (niece) †
> * Sinuhe Kalmus (niece) †
> * Tuya Kalmus (great grandniece) †
> * Tetisheri Kalmus (great-great grandniece)
> * Nefertari Kalmus (great-great-great grandniece)
> * Ziggy Kalmus (great-great-great-great grandnephew)
> * Lourdes Gandillon (great-great-great-great grandniece)
> * Atreus Gandillon (great-great-great-great grandnephew)
> * Sekhmet Kalmus (great-great grandniece)
> * Meritamun Kalmus (great-great grandniece) †
> * Shai Kalmus (great-great grandniece)
> * Satiah Kalmus (great-great grandniece) †
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> "Listen here you young sapling, I may be an old drunk but I'm also dead and got a lot of time on my hands"
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> ― Seth threatening (\*&\*) after they insulted him
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**Seth Kalmus** is one of the guardian spirits of the Kalmus family. Seth is the brother of Bithiah and had no children.

## Personality and Appearance

Seth when appearing as a ghost is a small man with dark brown skin that even in death was weathered and heavy calloused hands. He had black hair but out of frustration one day began shaving it and only wore it bald and brown eyes that are thin with thick eyebrows.

Seth is an easily anger man but according to his sister, was in reality was teddy bear but due to their harsh life Seth took the "anger black man" role in a way to protect him and his sister. He was a doting and protective figure to his descends and was always ready and willing to help when given even the smallest offering.

## Abilities and Skills

* **Mystiokinesis** - Much like other members of his family, Seth was more of a seer then a witch but was still in the same category.
	+ **Divination** - Seth in life and death can employ divination, a method of reading the future, the present and the past and/or provide help to a problem at hand by using an occultic, standardized process or ritual.
* **Spiritual Symbiosis** - Unlike ghosts or psychopomps, Seth is a spirit a more guiding figure to protect the living. With the consent of the living and the death they can become one and utilize spirit magic.

## Etymology

* Seth means "placed" or "appointed" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament he is the third named son of Adam and Eve, and the ancestor of Noah and all humankind. In England this name came into use after the Protestant Reformation.
	+ Seth is also from *Σήθ (Seth)*, the Greek form of Egyptian *swtẖ* or *stẖ* (reconstructed as *Sutekh*), which is of unknown meaning. Seth was the Egyptian god of chaos and the desert, the slayer of Osiris. Osiris's son Horus eventually defeats Seth and has him banished to the desert.
* Kalmus means "sweet flag" in Estonian. Sweet flag is one of the many names of Acorus Calamus which is a species of flowering plant with psychoactive chemicals.

## Trivia

* Seth is of African, Creole, Estonian and Irish descent.
* He speaks English and Gullah.
* He practices Voodoo and identifies as a Catholic.
* His favorite offering meal is fried chicken with black-eyed peas and a slice of sweet potato pie.
* Seth also loves some good Jack Daniels.