Nagarajan Asokavardhana

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Tall, slender and elegant, Nagarajan has a manner about him that mesmerizes the unwary, like a cobra entrancing a bird. He effects a smoothly polished demeanor at all times, favoring traditional clothing in modern colors and styles, wearing his hair cut short and close to his head. As with many of his bloodline, his eyes have turned a vivid golden hue as a side-effect of the sorceries he practices.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

A true and ancient elder of the Hiranya Naga, Nagarajan is in all ways the precise opposite of Dhanavati. Positively serpentine in his cold-blooded political calculation, he has assessed the Alliance’s chances of achieving its objectives as being thin at best, but considers the possible rewards for enabling its attempts, and manipulating ts failures, worth the risks. Few things, after all, have been chieved by those who refused to dare and what Asokavardhana desires is nothing more or less than the unification f the brahmin caste beneath his own enlightened rulership and the severe diminution, if not outright elimination, of the kshatriya as an independent political force. If he can get the Europeans he despises, and the irresponsible idiots he cannot control, to destroy each other, so much the better.

The time is riper now than it has ever been to achieve the greatest of all our goals. We need only have the courage to pursue them.

Ethnicity

Mekhet

Aligned Organization

The Southern Cities Alliance

Abilities:
Cutting a Deal (dice pool 9): Anyone can bargain, but it takes a true master to enter into an agreement that requires losing nothing. Nagarajan is such a master.
Research (dice pool 7): Nagarajan takes his role as a brahmin teacher very seriously, and that means he needs to know the answers to his students’ questions (preferably off the top of his head).
Solving Enigmas (dice pool 8): Negotiation and the acquisition of knowledge meet in Nagarajan’s ability to think laterally, reasoning his way out of any situation and solving puzzles that stump other, less flexible Kindred.