Surlent Trakad
Co-founder of the OmniSent.
Race: Human Nationality: Baronian Appearance: 5` 10", dark hair, dark eyes
History: Born to a family of merchants in days long before the Great War, Surlent grew up learning the ways of trade and nobility in the advancing nation of Baron. When he came of age, he trained in the arts of political maneuvering, and quickly became a master of his field. A masterful political interpreter who worked for Baronese courts, he was renowned in many worlds for his abillity at the Game of Houses.
As the Dark Wrath set into Baron, however, he became dissatisfied with his life. He also found he became unwittingly stuck in the country, a valuable tool to be used in this time of conflict. His opportunity arose, however, when a young sixteen year old girl wound into his office one day offeirng him his own way out -- to help manage a spy network against the Dark Wrath. Surlent used his vast resources to create the OmniSent, a spy organization which fed information directly into the Grand Army.
After the Grand Army managed victory in the Great War, Celpo hit squads were sent to wipe out all traces of the Dark Wrath. Among those traces was Rudra, who was born a Baneling, and Lord General Roland, who at one time served as a general for the Dark Wrath. They were put to the gallows, but survived. Their new mission became clear -- the Grand Army, though responsible for the vitory over the Dark Wrath, was growing to be a potentially dangerous, uncheckable force.
The OmniSent expanded its web and sold information in order to accumulate wealth. It was during this time that Surlent learned much of the Grand Army, and some of their more unsavory actions, many (but not all) of which revolved around the Celpo. This lead Surlent to take a very cynical stance when it came to the Grand Army.
When the OmniSent at last stood forward into the public eye, Surlent did everything he could to convince his partner, the now adult Rudra, to pursue a direction that would cut the Grand Army down. While Rudra saw the necessity of putting control into the Grand Army, she didn`t see that it was yet their place to suggest such a thing.
When the OmniSent made its intentions clear to the world, it also asked every nation and every person to adopt a pacifict stance. This askance was met with outrage from many leaders in the web, first among them the King of Guardia at the time, King Doan. It was around this time that Roland, whose hatred for the Grand Army was many times that of Surlent himself, coerced Surlent into helping in the assassination of King Doan in order to clear the way for Rudra`s pacifist order. Surlent reluctantly agreed, and then desparately tried to cancel the plan in its final moments, but it was all for naught. Doan lived, but it sent shockwaves through the OmniSent.
When Rudra discovered of Surlent and Roland` conspiracy, she rushed to Doan`s bedside for apologies, but never made it back again. Presumed dead, Surlent found himself the sole operator of OmniSent operations, although Roland secretly manipulated his strings from behind. Overcome with guilt and insecure without Rudra to remain the voice of the organization, Surlent became a puppet figurehead while Roland manipulated the OmniSent from behind. When Surlent finally worked up the courage to rally against Roland, first by contacting King Doan, he was killed by one of Roland`s most trusted assassins, Proan. Roland later pinned the assassination as an act of treason and killed Proan himself, although in truth the murder was ordered from the beginning.
Personality: Shy nearly to a fault, Surlent is a man of few words. Throughout the OmniSent`s entire existance, he worked as a co-operator for the organization. He was the OmniSent`s political analyst, but Rudra always served as the voice and drive.
Surlent was a master at the Game of Houses, the art of reading intentions and meaning from words and actions that most people were never aware were there in the first place. In the Game, he was matched by few. He had a slouched, shady look to him, so that he usually appeared shorter than Rudra herself, but few things got by his eagle eyes.
Surlent was instilled with a strong sense of right and wrong, which was why he became a part of the OmniSent, but despite his best efforts he was outmaneuvered by Roland in the end, unable to see the tricks he was trained to identify being worked on himself.
