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Name: Marius-Gwynn Esteban Christopher Castamir
Age: in his late seventies
Marital Status: widower
Occupation: owner of a large international multiline corporation
Former Occupations: a playboy heir, later a husband and father,
later still a recluse monk for awhile in a monastery.
Education: traditional Darkovan education of a minor comyn son,
later Terran education in an equivalent of a high school and a
university. Speaks several languages, among them Casta and several
dialects of Cahuenga.
Residence: mountain retreat on the slopes of Bernina, overlooking
the Silvaplaner See in the Engadin valley in the Swiss canton of
Graubünden, not far from Sankt Moritz. Has also town residences at
Geneva and Zürich.
Income: lives on the interests of his investments and his shares of
the profits of the companies he owns.
Politics: not really interested in politics, although tends to lean
towards the liberals
Abilities
~Unarmed Combat: average, but his skills are rusty after
decades of not needing to use them
~Armed Combat:
Antique Weapons:
was taught to handle
sword and other traditional Darkovan weapons in his youth, but see
above
Guns/Lasers: can probably use a
gun/phaser/laser/whatever if need be although he would prefer not to
~Vehicle driving: drives a personal ground transport
vehicle as well as the next guy, although he has a chauffeur who
usually does the driving. The same goes with personal air transport
vehicles and the like. He does like to drive for fun, though, and he
owns a couple of antique ground vehicles called automobiles or just
"cars".
~Computer use: This is the 6th millennium or something, for
Aldones' sake... is there still someone in the world who cannot use a
computer???
~Interpersonal Relations: used to be rather wild in his
youth and had many friends and acquintances. After the death of his
wife he began to withdraw from the society and is now something of a
recluse, living in his country house in the Alps with only a couple
of servants to help him.
~Weaknesses: Used to be quite an arrogant bastard and that
still shows sometimes, but after he was widowed, he changed and is
nowadays almost the opposite, almost fears crowds and large open
places. He has had some health problems brought by the age; of course
70 years isn't really that old at this time and age but he has chosen
not to take rejuvenation treatments.
~Appearance: Middleheight, silvery white hair and true
Comyn grey eyes, six fingers in both hands. Lean, rather sinewy,
still surprisingly strong and agile, although he seldom needs to show
this.
Romantic relationships: None after the death of his wife
Friends/Contacts: Not many... only some very trusted, very old
friends both on Terra and on Darkover as well as on other planets of
the Federation. Some family friends, of course, but the relationships
aren't very deep or affectionate. The same goes with his three
children and their families; the children have become rather distant
during the years. Apart from these, and business contacts of course,
keeps especially well in touch with the old Danvan Hastur back on
Darkover, who is a distant relative of his, as well as with the
monastery of St.Lawrence-of-the-Snows at Nevarsin where he received
his traditional education.
Hobbies: Reading, drawing, meditating, collecting art and
information, mountaineering
Special Equipment/Vehicles/Expensive possessions:Owns houses and
apartments in several big cities, such as London, Paris, New York,
Tokyo, but nowadays only seldom leaves his country house. Collects
art, of course.
Other Information: Exile in 4th generation. His great-grandfather
fled Darkover for some obscure reason around the time when the Terran
Empire first left Darkover. Finally he ended up in Switzerland and
slowly worked his way up from a small business entrepreneur to the
head of an international multisector company. His son and grandson
followed in his footstep, of course,a nd Marius after them. Marius
was something of a playboy in his youth, but finally married a Terran
woman (as had his father and grandfather done earlier). They had
three children, two daughters and a son. The marriage wasn't
particularly happy, although neither of them blamed each other. After
a 25 years or some, they finally had grown so apart that they were
contemplating having a divorce, but before they could decide
anything, the wife was killed in a tragic aircar accident of which
the children blamed Marius. Despite all, Marius was so devastated by
her death that he retreated into a secluded monastery for a few
years. After that, he returned to Darkover for awhile, where he
likewise spent some time in the Nevarsin Monastery. After his return
to Terra, he has spent most of his time in his country house in
Switzerland where he sits all days and sometimes nights surrounded by
all kinds of advanced equipment that collect and bring him all kind
of information all over the Federation.
E-mail: MariusCastamir@hotmail.com
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