SKILLS
ALERTNESS - Expert: Lucciano's senses are on par with those of a wild animal. He notices almost anything and everything in his environment.
ANIMAL KEN - Expert: Normally animals shy away from vampires, but Animals love Lucciano. He understands them on an innate level.
ATHLETICS - Competent: Lucciano could easily have been a professional athelete. He is skilled in acrobatics, tumbling, and tight-rope walking.
BRAWL - Expert: Lucciano is an expert in both hand-to-hand combat and using his natural weapons in combat.
ETIQUETTE - Expert: Lucciano not only knows which fork is which, but he knows the background of many of the ettiquettes as he lived through their creations. If the right people came to dinner, Lucciano could end wars....or start them.
INVESTIGATION - Competent: Lucciano is determined when he accepts to work a case. He is intelligent, aware of detail and doesn't mind doing research and following up on all leads. He is an expert at Shadowing suspects and searching crime scenes.
LARCENY - Competent: Lucciano is a skilled thief, familiar with all types of sleigth of hand, tools to break into banks, cat-burglery. As a young man, centuries ago he used his larceny skills for a living and broke into a coffin...which leads to today. Today he uses his knowledge to help determine points of entry in crime scenes, testing security systems and helping solve crimes. It's his larceny background that gives rise to his ties with the gangsters and Italian Mafia.
LAW - Expert: Lucciano has helped behind the scenes in creating and passing several laws. He is an expert in law, both knowledge, application and loopholes. He could find loopholes in the Devil's contracts.
LEADERSHIP - Expert: Lucciano could be a beloved dictator of a nation, but he's content with having connections in the local military, law enforcement, and aristocrats.
STEALTH - Expert: Lucciano is an expert in stealth. He is seen only when he wants to be seen. Ninja's have nothing on him.
STREETWISE - Expert: Lucciano has had years to help build and learn about the cities in the area. He knows every rotten little hidden hole of the city, and also knows how to get on every guest list and RSVP list. Having him turn up at an event is considered a "success".
SURVIVAL - Expert: Lucciano is an aristrocrat now, but it wasn't always so. He knows how to survive in almost any condition...and has adapted a lot of his hunting techniques in the wild to more urban settings.
POWERS
ANIMALISM - Enhanced: Feral Whispers: By maintaining eye contact with an animal. Lucciano can "talk" with an animal gathering information or giving it simple commands.
Beckoning: Can call forth a single species of animal to come to his aid or do his bidding. If he chooses rats for example, all rats within earshot come to his aid, but cats do not. If he chooses cats, all cats within earshot come to his aid, but rats do not. He can only choose one animal type at time.
Quell the Beast: As a master predator, Lucciano can force his will over those of lesser nature, human, beasts, etc...keeping them from suffering any strong emotions, Fear, Love, Rage, Hope, Faith. The human can still think, but has no emotions making them very complacent and calm.
Subsume the Spirit: Lucciano is able to totally dominate an animal and use it's eyes and ears as his own. He "rides" the beast, sharing and feeling everything it does, where it goes, who it sees. He can "push" the animal so that it goes wherever he wants.
FORTITUDE - Enhancd: Strength: Can easily lift up to 650 lbs and crush skulls like grapes.
Dexterity: His movement are liquid and hypnotic--almost superhuman.
Stamina: Lucciano's constitution is truly Herculean. Lucciano has supernatural hardness to his flesh and is able to shrug off major wounds. He is able to withstand greast amount of damage with little to show for it. Melee weapons that hit his skin have a tendency to break and hitting him with bare hands/feet/fists will often leave the attacker with broken bones.
KOLDUNIC SORCERY - Enhanced: Lucciano has had years and centuries to track down and practice an occult branch of blood magic called Koldunic Sorcery. He currently is fluent in "The Way of the Earth" and "The Way of the Wind". He is trying to research even more obscure version called "The way of Fire" and "The Way of Water."
Way of the Earth: Lucciano is a master of the Kuldonic sorcery associated with the Way of the Earth. He began his lessons learning how to have the Earth grasp and grow up the legs of his foes. Eventually learning to have the soil itself grow hungry and pull people down into it's grasp. Having mastered the ability, he can strike an area with his fists and his anger flows through the soil to any target in his line of site. Entire neighborhoods can quake, wooden structures collapse and even concrete and steel buildings can crack. The anger errupts inflicting damage on the target and the tremors last for a full minute.
Way of the Wind: Lucciano is a master of the Kuldonic sorcery associated with the Way of the Wind. The way of the wind studies began with the sorcerer learning to send messages to people he knows upon the wind itself. As his power increased, his words on the wind could freeze a man's blood, make him sleepy, his words effecting the target that as the wind reaches him. His next application of power growth was learning to ride upon the wind itself, leading him to look like he is flying. When riding the wind, his form blurs as he moves upon the wind current. Finally, as he mastered the ability, he can churn his anger into the sky itself churning great storm clouds, lightning strikes, gale force winds, tornadoes and hurricanes. It takes six hours to channel a storm and the storms vengeance only lasts an hour.
OBFUSCATE - Enhanced: Cloak of Shadow:Lucciano is adept at hiding in shadows, as long as he remains still and silent in a darkened area he can go unnoticed.
Unseen Presence: Lucciano is strong enough that he can move around and shadows seem to alter and flit about to help him remain unseen. Others tend to move unconsciously to avoid contact with him when he is using this power.
Mask of Many Faces: Lucciano can blend his ability to shapeshift into any mammal form to also mimic the looks of anyone person.
PROTEAN - Enhanced: Eyes of the Beast: Lucciano can see perfectly well in pitch blackness not requiring a light source at all. His eyes tend to glow red when using this power which unnerves mortal humans.
Feral Claws: Lucciano can grown long, beastial claws. These claws are wickedly sharp easily able to rend flesh, carve stone and rip metal with little trouble.
Earth Meld: Lucciano is able to meld into the earth and stone, helping him when he caught as dawn approaches and not near his lair. He does not move within the earth or burrow, but he is able to rest safely away from the sun when needed.
Shape of the Beast: Lucianno is able to take the form of animals. He usually chooses a wolf, rat or bat, but may take other shapes as desired. He has been seen as a stag traveling great distances and also a a bird soaring high above the clouds. While he is in animal shape, he is able to use any of his other vampiric abilities.
Mist Form: Lucianno is able to disperse his body into a heavy cloud like form. In this form, he can seep through cracks in the floor, through key holes, open windows and the like. He is immune to physical attacks, but can be forced to move in a direction from wind attacks.
Control Earth: Lucciano's powers of the earth have grown so that he can now move within the earth, taking someone with him. Lucciano has grown in power so that not only can he move in the earth, burrow through stone, and even pull people into the ground with him...he is able to shake the ground with an earthquake tremor, raise sections of the earth 20-30 feet high, throw massive rocks and make asphalt roads into rivers.
VAMPIRISM - Basic: As a vampire, Lucciano feeds on blood to survive. Lucianno's bite is not only pleasurable, it is orgasmic. It's also highly addicting. By drinking blood, he fuels his various powers, including the ability to regenerate his health. As long as he has a steady supply of blood donors, he heal nearly any wound in a day's sleep and all wounds within 24 hours.
ADVANTAGES
CHARM Charisma: Entire cultures could easily follow his lead, a graceful and eloquent smooth talker.
Manipulation: A politician and tactile manipulator, he can be very persuasive or very seductive.
Appearance: People go out of their way to meet Lucciano, he has a style and fashion that speaks of wealth and power. He is not easily forgotten.
HERD Lucciano has a very high charisma and an aura of leadership, which in turn has people seeking him out. He has a group of followers from which he can feed without anyone knowing.
INFLUENCES Lucciano has influence with the Law administration, local military and Italian mafia style gangs.
INTELLECT Perception: Always on the watch, Lucciano is quick to detect moods, textures and changes in his environment. He is very discerning and his senses border on the supernatural.
Intelligence: Although Lucciano is intelligent, he is stuck in often in his past and does not keep up with the times. He struggles with modern technology and anything technical including firearms.
Wits: Lucciano is surprisingly full of common-sense and very practical. He responds on an instictive scale often thinking faster than he can react.
RESOURCES Has made investments for centuries, which have paid off. Lucciano has wealth at his fingertips.
WEAKNESSES
MAMMALS Lucciano is limited in beast forms to only mammals. He can change shape into any magical or mundane mammal, but not a bird, a fish, an insect, or anything not a mammal.
NOCTURNAL While sunlight does not cause the vampire to burst into flames, it does tend to make him much weaker, almost human. It is during the day hours that he is most vulnerable and thus tends to hide during the noon hours. Early mornings, Late evenings and overcast rainy days tend to not affect the vampires powers.
NO REFLECTION Lucciano is an old world vampire that does not cast a reflection. He can not be seen in mirrors, photos, or security cameras.
TECHNOLOGY Lucciano has a weakness with keeping up with Technology. He does not drive, use ATM machines, self-check out lines, firearms, or mostly any modern technology.
