Character Sheet: Alan Sangiban
Appearance
Prelude

Journal Entries:

Character Name: Alan Sangiban (a.k.a. Sangiban the Alan)
Player Name: Scott Couchman
E-mail Address: greydeath@compuserve.com
Chronicle: Santa Cruz/Immortal
Race: Alanic (pre-Germanic heritage)
Nature: Caregiver
Demeanor: Judge
Apparent Age: mid to late twenties
Actual Age: Approximately 1680 years old
Born: circa 420 AD
Sex: Male
Concept: Reformed Warlord/Ex Holy Man

ATTRIBUTES:
Physical: Strength-2, Dexterity-4, Stamina-3
Social: Charisma-3, Manipulation-2, Appearance-3
Mental: Perception-3, Intelligence-3, Wits-4

ABILITIES:
Talents: Alertness-3, Athletics-2, Brawl-3, Dodge-3, Subtefuge-2
Skills: Drive-1, Melee-3, Music-3, Stealth-2
Knowledge: Finance-1, Linguistics (Alanic [native/free], English,
French, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese)-5, Occult-2

ADVANTAGES:
Quickening-3
Backgrounds: Arcane-4, Resources-3

Willpower-7

MERITS & FLAWS
Dark Secret, Nightmares, Curiosity

APPEARANCE:
Sangiban appears to be in his mid to late twenties. His California Driver's License states that he is currently 27. He has a lithe build and is about six feet tall. Sangiban is clean shaven. His coarse hair is dark brown intermixed with dark red. Sangiban wears his hair short but fashionable, in a side part. His skin is relatively pale and his eyes are a deep brown.
Sangiban's tastes are simple. He tends to wear canvas pants and loose shirts or coarse sweaters. He prefers sneakers, but does occasionally wear dress and deck shoes. Colors vary but are usually muted. For sword camouflage, he wears the stylish duster as opposed to the more common London Fog. He has black and grey dusters. He also has the short coat for more active movement. He currently wears no jewelry.

STUFF, ETC.
Sangiban has a beat up black mustang convertible. He rents a house right on the beach. Due to his "inheritance" from Pei Jen Lo's (see prelude), he isn't hurting for cash. He has started discussions with some archeologists and anthropologists about certain relics from old deserted temples, and various unknown battlefields from "some unknown Alanic warrior" that he just happened to find a scroll about. This should help boost his income. More for fun than profit, he will play drums or guitar for anyone who will let him.

WEAPONS
His primary weapon is a Chinese Gim sword. It is a thin, single handed, double edge sword. The blade is 27 1/2" long. It has a solid brass pommel in two sections shaped like a plum flower, hardwood handle with solid brass guard and ferrule. He does have a spare that he leaves in his apartment (they were a set). The Gim belonged to Pei Jen. As backup, Sangiban wears 12-inch flat guardless daggers strapped to the inside of each forearm. He does not use firearms.

FIGHTING STYLE & PSYCHE
Over a millenium ago he fought with pure strength, relying on his constitution and muscle to get him through. After so many years of inactivity, he can no longer rely on those traits. He has come to rely on speed and dexterity to see him through. Sangiban used to be a berserker, but now tries to maintain control in his fights, adopting the calmer styles of the Orient. In a duel to the death, the victor determines honor (i.e. there is almost nothing that would be considered "dirty"). Exceptions would be involving innocents or henchmen in the fray. The modern battles of Immortals are for Immortal eyes only. Hostages and the like are dishonorable conduct. Sangiban realizes that most people on the street are no martial match for an Immortal and therefore will try avoiding lethal force in dealing with them.
Sangiban tries to be a hero. He will often walk the street as a vigilante, protecting the innocents from the Darkness of the city. He is still trying to atone for his actions from over 1300 years ago, but now he tries by making the world a little safer. Like most people, he cannot be directly classified by an emotion. He does have a dry sense of humor, he is struck by mood swings, he is often melancholy. To honor Pei Jen's last words, he is trying to improve his "sour disposition" from the past millenium by maintaining a more dynamic personality and living his life a little more.

NOTES:
The languages are the languages he has currently used. He has spoken many more over the centuries but lack of use has caused him to forget them. Alanic is his birth language, and the language he spoke for nearly 300 years. This ancient language he has managed to remember. The occult skill he picked up from the diversity of the religions he went through, picking up information about the World of Darkness around him. From the drums of his war years to the bells and organs of his medieval years to the wind and string instruments of his Asian excursion, Sangiban has always enjoyed music. Afraid to get close to others, he never stayed with any instrument very long. Currently he prefers drums and electric guitar. He likes the sounds of jazz and blues, but also likes the harder rock. He never got into the Punk scene, or the free jazz, but will listen to most other types of music. He is very good at reading music and following the flow, but excels in jazz, where he can put extra feeling into the music.
His Arcane comes from the centuries of trying to hide from people. The ability took on its more mystical quality in his time spent in the Orient. His resources come from the estates of his friend Pei Jen, who left Sangiban his fortune.
The Dark Secret is actually a couple of instances. The primary one would be his disgrace for killing one of the Pure Immortals. This ties into his guilt and Nightmares. Probably many Immortals have heard of his change from evil to good, but few would know the reason. The other part of the Dark Secret would be a time in a Catholic Monastery where another Immortal burnt the place to the ground, slaughtering the Monks, just to get to Sangiban. Sangiban refused to fight, even to protect the monastery and the lives of the monks. He forced himself to die in the flames, so the other Immortal would not sense his Quickening, then ran when he regained conciousness. There would be stories of the massacre and of the Immortal Monk who ran instead of embracing his fate. Sangiban's Nightmares come from his time as a Warlord, and as dreams do, those nightmares sometimes incorporate current occurrences. Sangiban has always been curious of things around him, which made his exile from the world that much harder. Now that he is trying to live again, this trait is in overdrive as he strives to learn.

PRELUDE:

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