SPARTACUS
aka Nikandros Thrace
Accursed
Fraternity of the Dark Horse
Description
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 175 lb.
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Short simple brown
Clothing: Black or midnight blue casual
Comportment/Cadence: Confident
Distinctions: He keeps his beard well-trimmed, sometimes reduced to stubble
Supernatural Qualities: His faintly pleasant and upbeat expression barely masks a sorrow of ages; indeed, he blends into crowds and clutter well
Accoutrements: Light jewelry, concealed weapons
Traits: Appearance 3; Arcane 2
"Blood and honor: it speaks to the man still."
History
Date of Birth: August 10th, 93 BCE
Home: Arsus, Odrysae, Thrace (Bulgaria)
Family: Haemon and Sida Ars (parents), Pheidon (older brother), Thera (older sister); birth name: Nikaner Ars
First Death: Preordainment (A Thracian auxiliary to the Roman military, after mutinying against Glaber's poor command, he was captured, enslaved, and sold into gladiatorial combat in the city of Capua, where he excelled famously and took the Latin name of Spartacus, but eventually led a revolt that saw the end of his enslaver, Glaber, and his owner, Batiatus, and which turned into the Third Servile War, carving a bloody path across Rome in his gradual flight out of Italy; in the end, Rome could only defeat his ragtag band of ex-slaves by bringing home all their legions and using overwhelming force, and even then, they could not slay him even though his army was crushed; Spartacus himself escaped over the Alps and deep into Germania, and with the rebellion a failure, laid down his sword at last and chose to become a farmer and live a solitary life of peace, his survival forever a mockery of Rome's failure to truly control men; he died of old age with a small measure of sardonic amusement after hearing of Octavian's rise to imperial power), 22 BCE
Mentor: Hades
The Test: Trial by Wit (his consciousness stirred in Elysium, a just reward for such a heroic warrior, yet Hades still appeared before him, dark god offering him a choice: retirement in well-deserved eternal bliss with his wife Vara, taken and murdered by the Romans, or a return to the world as a beacon of hope and ruiner of empires: he was shown the future of the world all the way up through the Endtimes; after a "night of eternity" in the arms of his beloved and reflection on what his soul compelled, he took up the offer of Hades, becoming one of the rare Accursed Reborn Dead)
Comrades: Vara, Alaric, Gaiseric, Ragenard Fyreless, Abu I-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad Ibn Rushd al-Hafid, George Gordon Byron, Ixion the Laster, Buenaventura Durruti, Kevin Mallon
Key Event #1: War (no sooner than did he return from the dead than did he realize the world already began to change: over 400 years had passed, so long did he apparently linger in the arms of his wife; he immediately explored the world, learning Rome had shifted to a new monotheistic religion but was politically and militarily weaker, so he sought out and provided direct and strategic aid to generals and kings among the so-called barbarian hordes, namely Alaric I of the Visigoths and then Gaiseric of the Vandals)
Key Event #2: War (he quickly learned that the mortal tyrants had monsters behind them: Kindred sent assassins after him as if he were just any other mortal military leader, but among his "barbarian" friends counted Garou, including a Fenrir chief named Ragenard Fyreless; Spartacus himself simmered with fury in these first decades of defiant and brutal life, for he never forgot Hades' vision of the Endtimes, and imperialistic fools unwittingly calcified the world towards that doom)
Key Event #3: Awe & Wonder (he eventually fell in battle, fighting honorably to the bitter end alongside his werewolf compatriots; he returned to Elysium to regenerate, and the spirit of Vara welcomed him again, with Hades providing occasional motes of wisdom and guidance)
Key Event #4: Awe & Wonder (that time in Vara's arms helped resettle his spirit, and he returned to life with the desire to expand his mind rather than plunge angrily back into warfare; he studied in Spain and Northern Africa among the Arabs and Moors during the so-called Dark Ages, even befriending "Averroes"; the study of philosophy, religion, and lore helped give him a stabler center of peace and inner harmony and made him even more introspective)
Key Event #5: Treachery (but this better understanding of the world and its supernatural machinations helped Spartacus realize that Hades was a fraud; in his last death cycle in the 13th-century, he fell upon Hades and destroyed him -- exposing that he was no god, not the true Hades; he did not destroy "Vara", who was not his wife's true spirit, but turned his back on whoever that deceiver was forever, and he never saw her again)
Key Event #6: Awe & Wonder (Spartacus then sought out enclaves of Cabiri to ally with, exchange lore, and support one another; amazed by his story, Ixion the Laster welcomed him among the ranks at least unofficially)
Key Event #7: Awe & Wonder (throughout the Renaissance period, he worked with Cabiri, openly sharing his knowledge of Elysium and the inner workings of empire, and they invited him to help vet candidates to "discover" the Spell of Life "on their own"; his judgment especially ensured no "Bane Cabiri" faction ever emerged; this developed an enmity with the few Shemsu-Heru whose paths he crossed)
Key Event #8: War (he continued to train and prepare for the Endtimes but he rejected modern firearms, and developed magical shielding to force melee combat where he excelled)
Key Event #9: War (he occasionally took part in rebellions in the world whose cause he believed in, such as the Greek War for Independence, where he befriended Lord Byron, and even through the 20th-century against fascism, especially the Spanish Civil War, fighing with the republicans against Franco's brutal dogs; he later perished against the Nazis, fighting in Vichy France with the Resistance; curiously, he avoided most Communist rebellions, perhaps out of embarrassment by Karl Marx's romanticization of the Spartacus legend, but he also disagreed with the ideology--he disagreed with most modern ideologies, in fact, including capitalism and republican liberalism, even if he counted both republicans and Marxists among his allies)
Key Event #10: War (later he fought with the IRA against the British who foolishly insisted on keeping the remainders of their empire; his contemporary anti-imperialist revolts inevitably brought him to the US, where he offered aid to the disparate groups like the Black Panthers and AIM, but was largely rejected, so sadly he joined the futile riots that accomplished little; still, he clearly exposed that contemporary commandos like the SAS, police SWAT, et al, weren't particularly great fighters if they couldn't rely on their firearms)
Transition: Shift in Purpose (he returned from a death cycle brought on by burning himself out just in time for the crux of the Endtimes, and he sought out key heroes to ally with and, if necessary, protect even at the cost of another life cycle or his very soul)
Significant Others
Names: Sennu Hotep-beset, 2012
Nature: Companionship
Sennu
Weakness
Kill 'Em All
Nikandros -- Spartacus -- never submits. And he rarely ever settles for peace if it permits tyranny to persist. He'd rather kill every single last one of the enemy than ever surrender to their malevolence and cruelty.
Likelihood of Corruption
Low.
Despite his eternal belligerence, he has an unshakable moral center.
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