El Dorado
Miguel Esconsada de Villareal
History
Miguel Esconsada de Villareal was born into one of Brazil’s oldest, wealthiest families. Rather than growing up to be first a spoiled brat and then an immature and grasping adult, Miguel adopted his father’s ideals of charity and helping others by becoming a responsible and compassionate young man.
At age 21, Miguel was due to come into several trust funds set up by his relatives — money that would instantly make him one of the wealthiest men in the hemisphere. But somehow, the whole thing made him feel... cheated. What did it prove to the world that he’d inherited money? Nothing! What kind of an inspiration was he? None! He wanted to show people what he could do, to make a name for himself for something other than his money.
To the complete shock of his family, Miguel gave all of his money away. All of it. About half he spent on rain forest preservation, the other half on various building projects to benefit poor rural communities in Brazil and the rest of South America. Without a penny to his name, Miguel left his family’s luxurious life behind to show what he could do.
But he wasn’t just going to go into business. Serving mankind was one thing, but not having any fun while he was doing it — what was the point? So by day he worked to build his new businesses from the ground up, and at night he studied martial arts, electronics, criminalistics, and the other arts and sciences of the crimefighter. When the time was right, he adopted the costumed identity of El Dorado, the Gilded One, after the legendary South American tribal chieftain. Before long the gangs and cartels of Rio, greater Brazil, and Colombia learned to fear the name.
After a few years of corporate progress and anonymous crimefighting, Miguel launched stage two of his plan. He revealed his identity to the world and pledged to devote both sides of his life to the betterment of the human condition. The resulting publicity windfall pushed the earnings of his already-successful company, Sonho da Ouro, into the stratosphere, and within a year he was richer than he’d ever been.
Since then, El Dorado’s carried on with a career that mixes high-level philanthropy with traditional costumed adventuring. Sometimes he fights crime, sometimes he organizes charity projects throughout South America, sometimes he gives inspirational speeches or helps other organizations with fundraising. By some estimates his efforts alone have increased the quality of life of South America’s poor by as much as 20%, and he couldn’t be happier — but it’s not enough, so he has no plans to stop.
Recent History
Be it due to a business venture or a desire to keep criminals away from Tlamanih, El Dorado has setup a temporary residence in downtown Neo Tlamanih. He has recently appeared on the news promoting his contributions to a public Naval Elevator near Jonacatepec.
Personality/Motivation
The term noblesse oblige practically defines El Dorado. In his eyes, he was given the world at birth, and it’s his responsibility to do something with his personal and financial gifts to help others. After all, how much money does one man need? How much puffery should one man’s ego get? Fame and wealth aren’t worth much if one doesn’t use them to help other people and live a life one enjoys. The same goes for his athletic and intellectual skills, which he loves applying to the more visceral task of defeating criminals.
Powers/Tactics
El Dorado is a highly-trained martial artist, detective, acrobat, and businessman. There are few subjects he can’t master if he puts his mind to it, and it just so happens he’s chosen to become a superhero, business mogul, and archphilanthropist. He’s primarily studied Jujutsu and Karate, and augments his fighting skills with a wide variety of small gadgets and weapons (including a billy club balanced for throwing).
El Dorado fights with cleverness and zeal. He prefers to observe and learn about his opponents rather than jumping right into battle.
Appearance
Miguel Esconsada de Villareal is a handsome man in his late twenties with brown hair and dark eyes. He normally wears extremely expensive custom-tailored men’s suits in everyday life, but when circumstances require him to battle injustice and evil he dons his El Dorado costume: a shiny gold skintight bodystocking beneath an emerald green classical-style tunic belted in place with a gold belt that holds various pouches and containers for his gadgets. The bodystocking leaves his hands bare, and he wears green boots that match his tunic. He doesn’t wear a mask.
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