So, I've been playing around with a 40k blog for a while and thought it might be fun to create a full catalog of my WH40k characters (even ones that have not been featured in games on RPA yet) as well as others I want to share/people want to know more about. Discovering this area of the forum fully sprouted the idea since it also lets me wax philosophic and poetic about these characters. So here we go!
I thought it best to start with one of my most used characters so far:
MECHANICUS ASSASSIN VIZERIOUSYL KOPOLLANZITRA
“For the preservation of the Mechanicum, my body and mind shall be as a sword.”
Better known as Vizkop and featured in: The Replicants and The Prophet in Silver
Vizkop is a good place to start because he exemplifies many things about how I approach the 40k setting, particularly the Mechanicus. Rather than approach it as the grimdark it is presented as, I come at the Mechanicus as a cyberpunk nightmare on the largest possible scale with the Cult as a necessary part of the control scheme. That is something I have tried to bring across with Vizkop by keeping his religion in the background of his character and focus on his nature as an assassin and breaking out of his shell as a solo operative to work within a team.
Vizkop is a character I have had a lot of fun fleshing out and finding new angles and depth to. A lot of thanks goes to Azazeal849 and the crew that gravitates toward his games. He has grown from a socially distant and secretive assassin into a man who has been able to find trust in a select few and had his faith cemented in place by his past. What surprised me was how Vizkop, who normally does not project his faith, found a trusting companion in a Sister of Battle who became privy to one of the deepest events of Vizkop's past that really shaped him as a person. He constantly skirts the edge of self-destructive disaster, particularly with his augmentations.
A lot of his struggles come from how he still has a full emotional range which allows him to feel and experience the fallout of suffering post traumatic stress as well as make real connections with those he works with. I hope to continue to explore new depths to Vizkop when the game Penitence gets underway.
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