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Full Name: Loki Archimbald (Name given over the years)
Race: Human, Paladishan
True Age: Unknown
Apparent Age: 48
Powers & Special Abilities: Unknown
Bloodline (if Vampire): n/a
Empire (if applicable): n/a
Title/Rank (if applicable): The Will-Maker
An impish little man. One who looks to be nothing more than a pauper on the streets, Loki likes his anonymity, since his former Master was killed. Too many questions. Too many answers, he does not wish to give. No one knows his real name. No one even knows what race he is. What he has been called recently since he has become the will-maker of the Forsaken, is Loki the Trickster, or Archimbald the Bold. He has hence combined his names Loki Archimbald. Loki’s ascension to become the will-maker has been a controversial one. The 47th Paladishan will-maker, Aslian, was said to have been the last of the will-makers for the Forsaken. But his apprentice, Loki was a scheming trickster that wanted power.
Loki returned to his master Aslian, from a needless journey that led to nothing but dust to cover his body and swill to leave an ill taste in his mouth for the man that had trained him. Loki punished his master, for the falsities that lay within the scriptures that Aslian held. The punishment Loki deemed fit for his master was death. What Loki would not find until after his masters death, that he would become the 48th Paladishan will-maker, after absorbing the Will-Maker's power released from his master's now dead body.
Despite the great power that Loki inherited by becoming the Will-Maker, with it also came a terrible curse of enslavement. This enslavement being to the IV Beasts themselves, as well as the ruling Urandrum Royals that guard them. Loki, as the Will-Maker, is the only creature that can summon the souls from the belly of the Beasts when they so choose that a being is worthy of some form of rebirth. Rarely does Loki ever get to keep a soul retrieved from the belly of the Beasts to turn into his beloved Forsaken. Most of the time it is by the orders of the Urandrum Royals, on orders of the Beasts to retrieve a soul, often to create a new pawn in the Urandrum’s schemes.
With this sudden gain of power and his ability to now travel to almost any dimension he desired to explore, Loki has found his way to be linked with a few key figures over his long lifetime, Loki's power grew, though no more than the Urandrum that he had come to understand and work with. His link being one he calls Phial, giving him plenty of "souls" to target and feed from in ways of lists or in the manner of Forsaken for armies.
Loki has been able to go in and out of each dimension, choosing men and women whom he would like to see as Forsaken. It is said that he has come to meet with a man named Romanus Carvus, a Fallen that was born with the ability to see and speak with the spirits. Deep within the Carpathian Mountains Romanus had traveled as a young Man, hiding his Fallen nature, though not to perfection, or Loki would not have seen through the facáde. Loki took Romanus in and began training him in the ways of the Forsaken, though to what end it is not known. Loki showed him a great man things including even showing him the underworld, though only for a brief moment, fearing that Romanus was much like himself, a trickster and one who would kill him for the greater power he himself had found.
For the knowledge Romanus needed to perfect the skills that he learned and for a link to one who might actually be able to send them back to Heaven, Romanus was made to keep silent about his association with Loki. And Loki, the trickster he is, has led Romanus to believe he has the ability to send he and his brethren back to Heaven, whether they are wanted or not. Loki knows a good, strong candidate for Forsaken-hood as much as a child knows the best candy-store on the block. And Loki will not let go of one he deems so 'prime for the picking' very easily. So far this has been the case, even from his Illimar brethren. Loki also gave Romanus a sword, one that could reap the souls of the men and women he killed, so that Loki could use the souls to make Forsaken, possibly building an army, though for Romanus or someone else it is truly unknown to anyone but Loki and those he has made promises to.
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