Bolonius

About
Bolonius was an agent of the Snake Crest, a scientist with a long and twisted history that led him to his current position. Originally a ranger, he was made headmaster of the secret Ranger Academy in the town of Osric in Hamlet. There, he oversaw an abusive and often lethal training regimine for young rangers for several years before the school was shut down. From there, he reimagined himself as a toxicologist, and found employment in the hospital-town of Horatio, where he became widely respected for his work on poisons and antidotes.

Bolonius' life took another turn when his daughter, Ophelia, contracted genfluenza. Unable to cure the disease and desperate, Bolonius infected her with the zombie virus instead, knowing it would preserve her body until he had found a cure for death itself. To this end, he aligned himself with the Snake Crest, who had him refine their formula for Adan's Blood, which might be able to revive his daughter.

Unfortunately for Bolonius, Ophelia had become a zombie seed, and was causing other zombies to spring into being. This attracted the attention of Aster and his family, including Bolonius' former protege, Gurigura. After a series of confrontations, the White Knight exasperated the scenario by using the newer Adan's Blood on Ophelia's body. This drug caused her to become a living embodiment of lust, and she raped and killed her father.

While dead, Bolonius got a partial revenge on his Snake Crest handlers by making sure that the government of Hamlet got their hands on his newly-developed cure for the zombie virus, which proved instrumental in stopping his daughter.

Personality and Appearance
As headmaster of the Ranger Academy, Bolonius wasted little time with politeness or even subtlety, rigging the academy with deathtraps to punish inadequate or disobedient students. Setting aside the murderous bent, he did not seem to have changed in the present, where he maintained an aura of aloof professionalism. Even in matters concerning his daughter (or her corpse) were handled in a matter-of-fact, systematic manner, always knowing he could recover his own.

Bolonius' only real signs of happiness came in regards to his daughter, whom he loved and possibly lusted after, and toward Gurigura, his prized pupil. He seemed happy to be ultimately overcome by the both of them, in their turns.

Abilities
Bolonius' had a reputation as the strongest of all rangers, maybe of all knights, though the supernaturally enhanced knights of the Snake Crest ultimately supplanted him. His exact rank is unknown, though whatever his rank he would have had the power to kill members of species under Mother Eve's blessing, and could marry at least two people, though he is only known to have married one, Ophelia's mother.

Bolonius was considered at the forefront of both toxicology and research. After his death, other research doctors were said to have given up on certain medicines, unable to proceed with their studies without him. His cure for the zombie virus ended a plague nearly as old as human history after the death of the Archfiend Adan.

Trivia

 * Bolonius is named for Polonius, a character from Shakespeare's Hamlet and father of Shakespeare's Ophelia. Besides the name of their daughter, the two characters have very little in common. Evenicle's Bolonius is a genius scientist and doctor, while Shakespeare's is a bumbler, full of empty platitudes made to make him sound wiser than he truely is.