Alaric MacDoevid

• Age: 27
• Marital Status: unmarried; many nedestro offspring
• Occupation: renegade telepath
• Residence: unknown
• Laran: Alton gift, catalyst telepathy
• Politics: Wishes to see the downfall of the towers; has an especial hatred for Neskaya Tower
• Abilities
  • Unarmed Combat: excellent
  • Armed Combat: excellent
  • Horseback Riding: good
  • Interpersonal skills: Good (oozes Alton charm)
  • Laran strength and training: He is exceptionally strong in his laran. He was secretly trained by his father and mother. Many of his talents are self taught or gained from raping the minds of other leroni.
  • Weaknesses: He has an unreasoning hatred of the towers. He also believes that nobody is as intelligent or as powerful as he is.
• Friends: He has no friends although many may think him a friend.
• Hobbies: experimenting with laran skills, spying, sword work
• Other Information:
  Alaric is the oldest child of Danilo Alton. His mother had Syrtis ancestry and was a serving wench in Danilo's home. Alaric was conceived one midsummer when Danilo was 15.

  At an early age, he found joy in tormenting animals and younger children. When he was twelve, his father brought him to live with him and his wife, Marguerida MacAran; they were members of Neskaya Tower. Alaric convinced his father to teach him rather than sending him to a tower for training.

  Alaric's Alton gift was stronger than his father's. He was able to overshadow his mind and control his consciousness. He impregnated Marguerida; she gave birth to fraternal twins, Marja and Kieran. Danilo was thought to be their father. Alaric convinced everyone that the male twin had been stillborn; in fact he took him away to raise him on his own.

  Alaric has been developing his own circle of matrix workers. He seeks to regain the artificial matrix carried by Marja and use it to destroy Neskaya Tower.