Quintus Falto
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Background
Roman, got involved in a cult thing around the time Caesar was coming to power, got yanked out of time for a while, came back to reality a hundred years ago or so.
Publicly, he's a classicist from the Vatican who's joined Dev U's faculty as an assistant professor.
Personality
Serious about his work -- more so than most Classics professors, that's for sure. Sophisticated and mannered; seems like the sort of type who's probably from old money and went to a school with little embroidered patches on the jackets and a headmaster instead of a principal. Usually, he's pretty charming and amicable; at worst, his sarcasm starts to get more bite than humor. Get enough drinks in him, though, and he sometimes gets kind of quiet and angsty and starts calling things "contemptible".
Powers and Abilities
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His primary skill is a remarkably profound knowledge of the occult, including an unusual depth of familiarity with Christian lore, both the orthodox and the mystic. He also has quite extensive contacts in this field, mostly at the Vatican. He has internalized enough of the Church's anti-demonic wards to give him an uncanny resistance to most forms of hostile magic. Over time, he has built up considerable proficiency in a number of languages to supplement his native Latin.
On the mundane side, he remembers enough of his time in the legions to know the basics of "primitive" weaponry and hand-to-hand combat, and he's trained in the nowadays much more useful study of firearms.
He does drink a little more than he should, although his immortal liver is holding out so far. He's never been any good at art; it's hard to say if this is a natural lack or if he's just spent too much time amongst hard-nosed joyless types that it's been crushed out of him. He's very much in the debt of the Vatican, and given their possession of his secrets he doesn't want them to have reason to make his life difficult. Last but certainly not least, while he's not exactly notorious himself, the Church and its demon-hunting sub-organizations are, and if he's identified as a member a lot of demons would want to "transubstantiate" him into a red smear.
People
Phillip Harget: A professor of mythology at Devilshire University. He's collaborating with him on research regarding the sudden de-supernaturalizing of Devilshire. He respects Phillip's family: there are far too few established and dignified families in America these days. He does think he himself is too shy and modest, and he's not yet convinced of his scholarly know-how.
Recent Events
| “ | There are a lot of ghost stories and superstitions floating around an old town like this. They practically seem to be making little construction paper Black Hounds in primary school. But it's a strange day when the latest ghost story is that there are no ghosts anymore. | ” |
| —Quintus to Phillip, Powerless | ||
Came to Devilshire. Taught some courses on mythology and classical religion. Monsters! He taught a course on monsters. It was very educational.
Powerless: He decided to take a chance on talking with Phillip about this.
Trivia
- While the producers of Devilshire have been fairly satisfied with Raoul Bova's work so far, he has demonstrated a troublesome tendency to pull his shirt off whenever they're not looking, which has slowed down shooting on several occasions. He also likes dogs. And rocks. He really loves the rocks.
