The Phantom Orchestrator |

Cordius Valefor,

this is gospel for the fallen ones

Cordius was a strange oddity to begin with, applying all personalities of all the fictional characters and popular icons he watched on TV, whereas some would be the most obvious. It’s in every desire that he create new works of art. It was only recently that he taken on a new concept of art, an art that gives life, is filled with life, can take life and is as fragile. Cordius is someone who loves to criticize others, especially when it comes to people calling themselves murderers or homicidal maniacs. He doesn’t think of himself as something beautiful but someone that creates the beauty.
He used to perform his own murders till he created his own “children” that will do the job for him, considering himself as the mere orchestrator and an audience. To those who had not known of his true nature, he’s a jolly old fool who would loaf around; pestering everyone he meets and would always try to grab their attention. He is careful and is always three steps ahead of the people who are curious about him or the nature of his murders, but because of the current state of society, they suspect magi to be behind it.
“It just goes to show how narrow-minded these fools are, anyone can orchestrate the illusion if they put their mind to it… you don’t need magic.”
Whenever Cordius discovers a unique individual, he’d go by any means to capture them and turn them into a doll to be added to his collection, his targets of interest doesn’t necessarily need to stand out and become popular like the ones he watches on TV but rather claiming to have a natural instinct to know the value of the person and how unique they really are.
Of all his creations, SHI was valued the most, he loved SHI just as much as anyone else and treated SHI like she was his whole world and would go by any means to protect and preserve her. Allying with Cordius would be the most difficult of tasks unless you share the same point of view. As a doctor, he is not to be trusted as he has the tendency to turn any body into a mannequin.

As an engineer, he proves to be an exceptional ally as he would go by the means to prove the full extent of his engineering capabilities in the most artistic of ways.
This is what makes him dangerous as an enemy but to sum this all up…

…. You don’t go to him… he goes to you.

Cordius is best described as a jolly man when one meets him in person. He’d always wear a smile on his face. He has long white hair with a length that reaches down to his entire torso; he has emerald eyes and has what seems to be a scar on the right side of his face.

In actuality his entire face was burned, save for his hair and he’s using to cover it up, as the stiches were a result of the synthetic skin failing to align itself with the surface of his skin. He would take advantage of his hair length just to cover up the scar on the right side of his face.

Because of his scar, the entirety of his appearance and his choice of wear, he is heavily mistaken for a magi but cyborgs proved it otherwise. If one were to look at his hands, they would find multiple blisters, some scratches which are a result of having to create his anatomical models in his workshop. It’s rare for him to perform his own murders nowadays since he has anatomical models doing it for him but he’d always be wearing some sort of mask, if not a mask, a face of another person made out of synthetic skin.



Cordius prefers to wear formals on special occasions as well as having to perform his own murders, anything that can make him look like a rich countrymen. Whenever he’s at home, he would always be seen wearing simple robes that he claims are his Pajamas.

Parents
Mother: Corelia Valefor (deceased)
Father: Sidius Valefor (missing, presumed dead)


Cordius Valefor is a biotechnical engineer who specializes in the creation of cyborgs and is considered one of the best in his generation. He is responsible for a string of killings that takes place in Ethea. He is known by many names, the Mad Father, The Phantom Orchestrator, the Toy Maker, Jack the Ripper, The Corpse Doctor, and the Human Magi.

The Valefor was a simple family living in Camlorn where Cordius was born. As a child, Cordius admired the fictional characters he watched on television or read in the books of his family’s library. It was through these characters that influenced his way of thinking, his perception of the world, the behavior which he adapted and his manner of speech.

“You… inspire me” ~Cordius age 9
Cordius’s father worked as an archaeologist who disappeared while trying to uncover an ancient artifact in Suraja, while his mother works as the Camlorn city’s librarian.

Cordius wanted to become a writer, a painter and ultimately an artist that would represent the expression of art itself. Much like how little children would be at a young age, each of Cordius’s written stories were just mere adaptations or copies just as how an infant would copy from someone older than them to conform. When his peers discovered that Cordius’s works were based on original literature, he was called a plagiarist, as he was unable to create his own original piece of work. Even his paintings were not his own.
Being called a plagiarist saddened him and hated his own peers for it. Time was the only thing that taught him the truth behind their words and Cordius began to understand, it didn’t take him long to realize how to create his own art. When he reached high school, he started to take interest in philosophies, concepts and theories left by the wise men of the past. He became obsessed with it and used it as a basis to create his own works of art. However at that point, the more he dived deeper, the more his sanity wanes.

“I will create art, comprehended by only a sole audience” ~Cordius age 16

He became unsociable when he preached out conceptual views to his fellow schoolmates as a form of encouragement, to them he was sputtering out nonsense. He represented his school in a regional art contest and had won first place for painting a realistic dream-like landscape of the Great Plains which became an addition to Felici’s art museum.

After graduation, he was convinced to take a biotech course which allowed him to know the anatomy and internal workings of cyborgs. His studies lead him to create a software program which he named “SHI” who is supposedly an artificial intelligence program. He treated SHI like it was his own daughter that only existed in the world of codes. He was one of the few biotech college students that had successfully committed to developing an AI brain for an android. When he came to a master’s degree program, he reprogrammed SHI to learn and process information, along with an emotion simulator which enabled the AI to act human. SHI’s physical model was completed and much to surprise, they mistaken her for an actual bionic due to the flawless creation of the synthetic skin. Now SHI lives in the same world as her father and is proof of Cordius’s success as a Biological Technical Engineer.

“Sing my angel, praise the heavens for you are my precious one and only” ~Cordius dancing with Shi, age 32

Supposedly Biotech would only fall for the purposes of becoming an inventor, a business man or a military engineer but Cordius prefers to live with SHI like part of the family. Fellow biotech graduates were frustrated to be beaten by a man who only wasted his talents for the sake of it.

It was after modifying SHI’s physical model that everything went wrong as his creation took on the appearance of what others perceived as a Magi. A battle was fought in Camlorn between magi and hunters. The opposing magi seek refuge within the urban areas and a few managed to stumble into Cordius’s own home. A Zero magi manipulated the minds of the unsuspecting hunters to destroy SHI due to her appearance. It was because of such tactic that allowed them to escape and lead to the destruction of Shi herself.

Cordius arrived when the hunters were tearing SHI apart, still dazzled by the Zero Magi’s spell. He was then accused of housing Magi and had his entire home and his laboratory burned down to the ground. He was proven innocent thanks to the local townsfolk but the events that happened put him in a state of psychological shock, he was sent to the asylum afterwards. The last of his sanity was burned down, along with the world he built with his own hands.

“SHI was my whole world, there’s no world without her” ~A broken Cordius

For about a year and a half, Cordius remained in the asylum, most of his days were spent sitting in one place like an inanimate doll with no will of its own. Most of the in-patients avoided him not because of their psychosocial deficiencies or their preferences but instinct tells them that he was but a mere object that should be avoided.

It was only when his mother died that he was released from the asylum, psychological opinion suggests that interaction with the world will help in his recovery but will not heal the mental scars he received. Her parting gifts to her son were the property of his grandparents which was an old mansion in Ricco Heights, Cuori Rosa, Felici City. She had also accumulated enough resources so that Cordius may rebuild the world that he had lost.

He killed his first cat 4 days after release and it was at that moment that something began to stir inside him, suddenly a rush of emotions he had never known, some long forgotten filled him. Thrilled him like nothing he had ever done before! He cried out in ecstasy and for once in a long time he felt alive again. So he set out with a weapon in hand, given new direction to his adventure.

“You’ve awoken something deep inside me..” ~Cordius, burying the dead cat, age 34.

He took the lives of several healthy beggars that he can find on the streets, luring them to the mansion before dissecting them and extracting their vital organs, selling them off for a high price. Whatever remained of his victims was truly horrific. Their body parts were cut down and torn apart, only to reassemble them and turn them into wonderful and beautiful dolls and figurines, at which later they would be sold off from the doll store which he established. Some were made into cyborgs to act as his servants. Soon his selection of victims turned to the denizens of the underworld, human, magi or cyborg it wouldn’t matter to him. He kills ordinary citizens on rare occasions.

To this day, Cordius continues on to create his own “performances.”

Unarmed Combat (Starter) - You know the basics and can hold your own in a street fight.

Firearm (Starter) - Can accomplish fundamental and basic feats with firearm weapons.


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