Name:Professor Hawthorne Rausch Convention:NWO (Barrabi) Methodology:Ivory Tower

Skills:Boat handling(2) Debate(3) Diguise(4) Escapeology(2) Firearms(2) Melee(4) Hypnotism(3) Interrogation(3) Meditation(2) Style (3) Security(2)

Knowledge:Academics(4) Area knowledge(3) Bureacracy(3) Investigation(3) Police proceedure(2) Vice(5) Cryptography(2) Mathematics(5) History (4) Criminology(3) Vampire Lore(2) Garou Lore (2) Wyrm Lore(3)

Backgrounds: Allies(4) Cloaking,(4) Genius,(3) Destiny,(3) Hypercram,(3) Influence,(3) Library(3) Node,(3) Resources,(5) Laboratory,(3) Military force,(3) Contacts(2) Spies,(4) Information Network(3)

Adversarial Backgrounds:Enemies(5) Infamy(3)

Merits:Blase,Confidence,Refined,Concentrate,Eidetic memory, Lightning Calculator, Natural leader,Poker face, Danger Sense, Black Market Ties(5) Holdings(4) Police ties, Underworld ties, Lawyer (1)

Flaws:Demusure(Intellect) Sadist, Cannibal, Wyrm Tainted, Hunted,

Equipment: Rausch's diverter mechanism is secreted within his walking stick (along with an envenomed stabbing spike,) His Probability generator is in his ring. His temporal adjuster is within his pocketwatch. He has spares of these Foci in some cached locations.

Other Notes:

Appearance: Long and lean with fine tapered hands. Hawthorne has the face of an angel. blond haired with bright blue eyes that betray only his intelligence.

Clothing Tendencies:Because of his frame, the professor often has to have his suits custom made. He is somewhat vain about his appearance and his clothing and will wear nothing but the best unless he is in disguise.

Known to: is known by and hunted by the NWO in London. Has a serious reputation as the most serious criminal in the empire. The only reason why he isn't dead is because he's very tricky and very well protected.

Ongoing Projects: The ongoing destruction of the empire and all life as we know it.

Circle and Influence:Deep and pervasive in criminal circles and it also extends into various areas of regular life.

House:Owns a number of homes in various parts of the country and a couple of places elsewhere.but calls the Labyrinth under Limehouse his home.

Library: Somewhat extensive with many texts on demonology, diabolism and wyrm lore.

Quintessence source:Owns a large indian rug which is a potent node.

Magickal style :While much of his magick is prop-related, his main ability is with hypnotic suggestion, neuro-linguistic programming, rhetoric, and subliminal programming.

 Story:Hawthorne was a smart child. Born into a family of privilege that had technocratic ties. It was assured that he would become a powerful servant of the technocracy. Interested in History and Economics, he became a member of the Ivory tower and learned potent secrets of technomancy. His interest turned towards crime and criminology. He studied with some of the finest minds of the Syndicate and was becoming a serious force to be reckoned with in the very new NWO.

He went along one night on a raid with some syndicate enforcers to root out a nest of Nephandi. He was the only one to return. Telling a horrible tale of their destruction.

Only problem was, it was a lie. When Hawthorne first laid eyes on a Nephandi Caul he was absolutely caught. It was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen in his life. He willingly gave his soul in service to the power of darkness. The Caul in turn gave him a vision of the future to come and his role in it. A role he was happy to serve .

The betrayal of the NWO was one of the most crippling of history. He went to Limehouse and set up shop and so far the technocracy and the hermetics have yet to root him out.