Languages: Afrikaans (native), English, Portuguese, French, [+1]German, Arabic

Relic: Niels' sorcerous specialty lies in crafting Relics. As a result, he often has a few useful minor trinkets in his possession, selectively chosen for a situation. These seldom exceed 1 or 2 levels of potency each, and tend to focus on one of a few effects.(subject to ST discretion).
-Temporary Attribute/ability enhancement
-Concealment - self or objects
-Specialized weaponry/ammunition
-Countermagic

Foci:
Enchantment [Int+Occult, diff 4+level] - Markings/Engraving
Mana Manipulation[Man+Occult] - Lenses, Reflective surfaces
Telepathy [Int+Empathy, diff target WP] - meditative ritual

Paradigm: Niels is largely unaware - or perhaps just unwilling to admit - that a lot of his magical workings stem from native African artistic and spiritual thought. In his hands, the tradition and much of the mysticism have been stripped away, replaced by a healthy dose of scientific method and experimention. Or, more often, no more than an investment of personal willpower.

Sphere Association:Prime
Paradigm Style: Open - The workings of others can easily be adapted to oneself
Avatar Essence: Pattern - Building from the Universe's existing foundation.
Hooks:As Sharp As Knives - Knowledge and power are obtained by those who are willing to go and carve their own place in the world. Maggots from Flesh - No cause arises independantly; there is always a foundation events build themselves on, however hidden or obscure

Want alle vlees is soos gras, en al die heerlikheid van die mens soos 'n blom van die gras. Die gras verdor en sy blom val af. maar die woord van die Here bly tot in ewigheid.

For all flesh [is] as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:But the word of the Lord endureth for ever.
-1 Peter 1:24-25

Freebies:
15+10(History)+7(Flaws)+7(ST Award) = 39
8: Talents
4: Skills
10: Knowledges
3:Secondary Knowledges
4: Backgrounds
3: Willpower
7: Merits
Total: 39

XP:

strength [wiry] 12 XP),dexterity [precision] (12 XP), , intelligence [problem solver] (12 XP),wits [hair trigger] (12 XP), alertness 4-5, athletics 3, awareness 4 [the unseen] (6 XP), brawl 3 , dodge 5 (6 XP, 8 XP), expression 3 (2 XP, 4 XP), intimidation 4[interrogation] (8 XP), streetwise 2 (2 XP), subterfuge 4 [concealed motive] (6 XP)
crafts 5 (6 XP, 8 XP), drive 3 (4 XP), meditation 3,Firearms 4 (6 XP) , melee 3, performance 4, stealth, survival
academics, enigmas 4-5, investigation 4 [counter-forensics], law [International], linguistics 3, medicine 2, occult 5, science 3
Lores: Vampire, Shifter
enchantment 5 (28 xp )6 (35), alchemy, SB&W (material, technological) 1(10) ,2(7 XP), Fortune, Divination?

BA (Mil) - South African Military Academy, Saldanha, Cape Province (Western Cape), South Africa
South African Military Intelligence College,

Major, PF (ret) - South African Defense Force (SADF),
South African Military Intelligence Division (SAMID) 1986-1994
      - (32 Battalion) 10 Signals Unit, SWA/Namibia/Angola
      - 1 Military Hospital, Pretoria
      - 1 Reconaissanse Commando, The BLuff

Comoros Islands
Executive Outcomes 1994-1999
Sierra Leone
E.Timor Police Force
BUrkina Faso, Eritrea

FN Five-seveN

If I retreat, kill me. If I die, avenge me. If I advance, follow me. - motto of the Ossewabrandwag

September 25, 1969
Cornelius Herbert Groenveldt
Sun: Libra | Moon: Pisces | Mercury: Libra | Venus: Virgo |Mars: Capricorn | Jupiter: Libra | Saturn: Taurus | Uranus: Libra | Neptune: Scorpio | Pluto: Virgo | Node; Pisces

likes: classical piano, sugar, overheard conversation, list-making, chiropractors, green olives, Joseph Conrad, dark beer, sweet martinis, T.S.Eliot, Charlie Brown, white wine, seafood,redheads,pretentious nicknames, Chuck Taylors, cocktail onions, ivory,Humphrey Bogart, cheesecake, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Clint Eastwood, Germans, tasteful diamonds, Albert Camus, chocolate bridge mix, movies with nazis, rich foods, Pink Floyd, origami, The Doors, freshly laundered shirts, unattainable women, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Billy Joel, 600-count Egyptian cotton sheets, tailored pinstripe suits, cinnamon, carved bone, the murmur of crowds, tennis, women who wear stockings with seams,

dislikes: boredom,maggots, being owned, sloppy drunks,the word 'love', hospitals, the idle rich, Italians, pears, people who lack ambition, cloying emotional attachment, meat that's too rare, pretentious mixed drinks, claustrophobic spaces, being underground, social obligation, situations that grow complicated with human emotion,