Coleridge Eisenhart *
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| Full Name: | Coleridge Eisenhart |
| Position: | Master Alchemist |
| Gender: | Male |
| Age: | 30+ |
| Height: | 6'0 |
| Eyes: | Blue-green |
| Hair: | Brown |
| Place of Birth: | Draught |
| Marital Status: | Single |
From an obscure commoner background, no one paid any undue attention to Coleridge until his early days at the University of Pyria.
While attending the University, Coleridge demonstrated an intense intelligence, an insatiable hunger for knowledge, and a willingness to argue and debate with his professors that was not always appreciated. Leaving the university before graduating, Coleridge went to study with the famous master alchemist Nigel Ortberg. Over the next decade he would become the man’s protégé, and eventually his equal, if not superior.
During his career, Cole has contributed significant improvements to many standard potion formulas and introduced many new formulas to the field. Keenly brilliant and rather charming, his desires to push the boundaries of alchemy have met sometimes with disapproval. There are those who remember that Coleridge is responsible for the original Paradise formula and that after it was made illegal (the details of which get lost in gossip) that he designed Euphoria as its legal counterpart. Many other potions, elixirs, and brews bare his signature.
Although he still produces common potions (the sales of which have made him extremely wealthy), it is thought he is working on more questionable projects, such as distilling the essence of demons, transmuting metals, and even a potion of immortality. He does not rebuke these claims.
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Family, Friends, & Countrymen
Immediate, extended, and other relations: Relations
Potions, Elixirs, and Drugs
With the right ingredients he can brew any potion listed on the Drug List and others unlisted.
Throughout his career he has designed many unique potions and made significant contributions to the field. Perhaps his most infamous and well know designs are:
- Paradise - Currently illegal
- Euphoria - Legal
Rumors
- Only the best will do. Coleridge does not suffer anything but perfection in himself, those who work for him, and those who work with him.
- He does not sleep.
- The nobility of Draught keep Cole on their payroll to provide them with certain potions designed specifically for them and intentionally made unavailable to others so that they are kept in better health and protection than all other nobles.
- Although he is not married, at one time he had a fiance. It is said he poisoned her when she attempted to leave him for another man.
- His fiance overdosed on Paradise, the drug he designed. This is why he stopped producing it.
- The Emperor banned Cole from brewing Paradise under threat of exile.
- He was exiled for Paradise, and has only now just returned.
- Cole has a membership to the House of Blushing Petals and is so insatiable with his affections, that he has become the patron of multiple courtesans.
- Nigel Ortberg, his mentor, attempted to kill him on several different ocassions. Where Nigel failed, Coleridge succeeded and that is why Master Ortberg has gone missing.
- He walks with a cane because of a duel he was in as a young man over the affections of a noble woman who remains nameless. Rumors on the other man vary: he was killed in the duel, he married the woman, the woman killed him, he went to sea and never returned, he married someone else. . . and so on.
- He walks with a cane because of a failed experiment with a flesh eating elixir that caused massive damage to his left leg.
- He wears a pair of blue-tined spectacles all the times because of a failed experiment with a potion of vision enhancement.
- His apprentice Zoe Rye returned to Draught to study with a new master after Coleridge attempted to rape her.
- Zoe Rye attempted to steal secret formulas from Coleridge. She never arrived in Draught and has gone missing.
- Coleridge will smoke anything once.
Current Events
- Working on some hush hush project that keeps him up all night and locked away in his laboratory.
- Examined Pyrphoros Sendai who was taken into the infirmary after being poisoned.
- Smoked some red flowers that were aquired after the Hunt that wrecked havok in Gateway.
- Zoe Rye is nolonger his apprentice.
- Accepted Zoe Rye as his new apprentice.
- Examined Rhydian Ammon who was taken into the infirmary after apparently overdosing on Silent Abyss.
- Looked into the poisons used in the Opera Murder that resulted in the slaying of Lady Catherine Vusatunell.
- Examining several alchemical solutions brought to him by Baroness Khalani Paggion that are involved in an ongoing investigation in Amphorae.
- Somehow involved in the healing of Baron Athar Soranus, though no one can say for certain what exactly his role involved or the extent of it.
- He is brought in to assist with diagnosing a sleeping sickness that infects several noteable citizens including Isolde Claremont, Helena Soranus, Tiege Soranus, Daeva Tremere, Addison Brandivere, and Valentine. Instrumental in unlocking the components of the sickness, he develops a remedy. After vaccinating Tiege, the symptoms vanish in the others who were infected. The events are attributed to the Mistian Order of Adamant.
- Brought in to examine Niamh Cavanagh while she was under self-imposed arrest in the jail.
- Chandler Marsters is named Shop Boy and Fetcher of Dinner, and Cole assures his father Veritas Marsters that he will not teach the boy anything imoral, illegal, or use him as a test subject. Two out of three isn't bad.
- Discovers a Mistian plant with hallucinogenic properties is causing people to stop dreaming and see things. After an audience with Empress Philomena Caprios, he advises that a party be sent to Mists to retrieve more of the plant for additional study. The party is led by Matthew Wyndham, and includes Serath Evanor and Leon Maritus.
- Oksana Zakov becomes Coleridge's apprentice.
- Coleridge arrived in Gatway and took over the Ortberg's Apothecary shop in Keeper West. The shop was previously owned by Nigel Ortberg, who has gone into seclusion. Although the shop's name has not changed, Cole was given the deed to the property.
Playlist
- The Perfect Drug - NIN
- Time in a Bottle - The Muppets (Jim Croce)
- The Scientist - Coldplay
- I'm Afraid of Americans - David Bowie (with NIN)
- Mother's Little Helper - The Rolling Stones
- Never Let Me Down - Depeche Mode
- Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
- Dance me to the end of love - Leonard Cohen
- Falling Down - Tom Waits
- Sinnerman - Nina Simone
