Peter Morrey / Pierre Armand de Morande
Age | 34 |
Species | Sable ferret |
Pronouns | He/him |
Size (Extra Small, Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large) | Medium |
Build | Slim |
Rank | Chief Financial Officer of Armory EXIM Security Company; high-ranking Alkamarian spy |
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
Peter Morrey is simultaneously attractive, well-groomed, and completely forgettable, a combination that has led him to exceed in both business and espionage. His coloration and pattern is extremely typical for sable ferrets, dark brown and whites with a mask around the eyes, and he tends to dress with an eye toward the standard for whatever space he's in, favoring conservatively-cut formal attire in business spaces and slightly worn long coats, button-up shirts, and dark trousers when on the street, dressing up or down as needed to fit in. His demeanor can shift from that of a slouching ruffian to that of a refined gentleman in moments, maintaining his cover wherever necessary.
PERSONALITY:
HISTORY:
Pierre was conceived during the events of the Winter War, when the Coalition of Allies, a group of nations opposed to the Vulpine Imperium's expansionist warmongering, collaborated to invade the Imperium, including its largest port city of Bully Harbor. Pierre's mother, Annette, was a shopkeeper's daughter in the Trenches who stayed during the invasion to tend to her ailing father. When the so-called Raulish Flame detonated, destroying half of Bully Harbor in a matter of moments, their shop was at the outer edge of the blast, the outer wall of the shop sent crashing down and with it Annette's father, still in his bed, was sent to his death. Annette, by chance, was in the surviving half, and stumbled, dazed, out into the street to wander in the soot and snow. She was beset upon and nearly assaulted by Vulpinsulan looters, taking advantage of the evacuation of the city and chaos of the invasion to seize anything they wanted. It was only the timely intervention of Alkamarian troops that rescued her from a terrible fate and brought her into the protection of the unit's commander, Lieutenant Maurice Gérard de Morande. Maurice and his troops escorted Annette to their camp in the former Slups, where she was given the lieutenant's personal attention. Annette swiftly discovered that, contrary to the Imperial propaganda, the Alkamarian troops were courteous, civilized, and generous, especially with her. She also learned that the Raulish Flame had not been a Coalition weapon; rather, the Coalition surmised that the Imperium had destroyed its own city, including many of its own soldiers and civilians, in order to halt the Coalition's progress.
Over the course of the Winter War, Annette and Maurice grew increasingly close, Annette taken with the lieutenant's quiet strength and gentle care for her well-being. Soon they were sharing a tent, and by the time that spring came around and Fyadorian troops, summoned at the request of the Imperium and House Ryalor, arrived to rebuff the Coalition's invasion, it was clear that Annette was carrying Maurice's kit. Facing a choice between remaining in the Imperium without him and being branded an Alkamarian collaborator and a harlot, or going with Maurice and leaving the nation of her birth behind, Annette chose to go with Maurice, sailing with him to Alkamar and a new life.
Immediately there were problems for the pair; Maurice was a minor noble, the nephew of a don, and was expected to wed within his social sphere. The pair had to fake a noble background for Annette, claiming that she was one of the Volsci family, a noble house that had fallen into poverty in the years leading up to the Winter War. Maurice and Annette were hurriedly wed by the captain of the Alkamarian naval vessel bearing them home in order to avoid the scandal of Maurice returning with a femme bearing his kit out of wedlock; even so, the family de Morande were far from enthusiastic about his choice of bride, and never truly accepted Annette as one of them. By the time their son, Pierre Armand, was born, Maurice and Annette had been relegated to the outer fringes of the house, any prospect of Maurice ascending to his uncle's coveted position as don ruined by his romance.
Despite the scandalous circumstances surrounding his conception and birth, Pierre had a largely happy kithood. His parents were utterly devoted to him and to each other; despite his family's approbation, Maurice remained deeply in love with Annette, and she with him, giving Pierre an idyllic family and upbringing - as well as seven younger siblings. Pierre was always the apple of Annette's eye, and, despite the estrangement between her and her home country, she raised Pierre was as much understanding of the Imperium as she could give him, perhaps out of quiet longing for a home she would never see, perhaps so that she could remember it with any sort of fondness. By the time that Annette passed away from complications of childbirth when Pierre was 14, Pierre could speak Vulpinsulan with remarkably close to a native accent and understood its customs about as well as anyone who had never seen its shores possibly could.
Following his mother's death, Maurice sunk more and more into grief for his wife, his attention devoted to the care of the youngest of the kits, including their newborn. Pierre, being the oldest, was sent away to boarding school, where he discovered that, in addition to being well ahead of any of his classmates in mastery of the Vulpinsulan language, he had a knack for interacting with nearly anyone, discovering exactly how to approach them and seem approachable in turn. Swiftly he became one of the most popular students in the school, and while he did not graduate top of the class overall, or even in the top ten, he was still lauded by his teachers and his classmates for his leadership potential. His extended family, who had kept away from Maurice and Annette's kits given the improprieties surrounding their marriage, noticed Pierre's achievements and offered to pay his way through le Université de Alkamar, with the hope of grooming him to take his great-uncle's place as don one day. Pierre accepted their offer, throwing himself into advanced language classes and courses in Vulpinsulan social studies. Maurice, hearing of his son's studies, explained it to the family as Pierre's way of feeling closer to his mother since her death. Pierre, however, viewed it a different way: he was striving to understand what exactly it was about the Imperium that had kept his mother's love for it alive, even after she fled it to preserve her life and that of her unborn kit. By the time he graduated he was no closer to an answer, but he was proficient enough in his field to attract the notice of la direction chargée de la sécurité d'Alkamar contre les menaces étrangères, or the Directorate, the major espionage branch of the Alkamarian government, who recruited Pierre fresh out of university. He was trained in spycraft, particularly in methods of establishing deep cover, and within a year was introduced into Bully Harbor under the cover identity of Peter Morrey, an unassuming clerk from the Trenches.
The next century was spent cultivating not only a successful business and cover identity as head of a start-up maritime insurance office, Armory EXIM Security Company, whose success was, unknown to its customers, largely due to the list of its insured ships being passed along to the Alkamarian navy and the various privateers it contracted with as no-hit vessels. Peter began to branch out into investments in other areas as well, including recruiting mercenary companies to provide security for high-value naval convoys. This necessitated branching out into investments in weaponry and personnel, which necessitated complex banking and accounting, building the network ever further. In this capacity Peter was able to identify promising, talented, and disillusioned recruits for his network, many of whom viewed themselves as unrecognized by the Imperium for their genius. By promising these recruits more fair treatment under a future regime - even going so far as to suggest that ministry leadership roles might be in play - Peter was able to flip several prominently-placed officials into working, knowingly or unknowingly, for Alkamar.
Now effectively the spymaster for a vast infiltration of the Imperium and its ministries, Peter is focused on his ultimate goal of bringing down the Imperium as it currently stands and paving the way for an Alkamarian invasion, one he believes will finally civilize the Imperium in Alkamar's image - and prove what the Imperium lost when it let his mother go.
STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES:
Peter has a mastery of flattery that borders on the sycophantic, and a talent for manipulation that fully reaches the level of the sociopathic.
POSSESSIONS/REAL ESTATE:
Offices for Armory EXIM Security Company in the Northern Warehouse District
A moderately-sized apartment in the Trenches
A collection of outfits appropriate to each level of society
A hidden cache of one-time ciphers for use in sending messages back to Alkamar coded into shipping manifests
SKILLS:
Offices for Armory EXIM Security Company in the Northern Warehouse District
A moderately-sized apartment in the Trenches
A collection of outfits appropriate to each level of society
A hidden cache of one-time ciphers for use in sending messages back to Alkamar coded into shipping manifests
SKILLS:
Physical | Mental | Social |
|---|---|---|
Rapier [Proficient] (2) | Vulpinsulan Language and Culture [Seasoned] (4) | Managing Informants and Assets [Seasoned] (4) |
Calisthenics [Novice] (0) | Spycraft [Seasoned] (4) | Deception [Proficient] (2) |
Free Running [Trained] (1) | Vulpinsulan Literature [Novice] (0) | Genuine Connection with Others [Novice] (0) |
Skill [Rank] (Points) | Introspection [Novice] (0) | Romance [Novice] (0) |
Total Points in Category: 3 | Total Points in Category: 8 | Total Points in Category: 6 |
