Alexander Belanger

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Alexander Belanger is a member of the Belanger Circle and the head of the Blue Heron Institute.

Personality

Relationships

He has poached Nicolette as his semi-official apprentice from Chase. He has her trapped in a complex deal where she trades time to him in exchange for favours, and if the time traded forces her to remain with Institute past her 18th birthday, he gains greater power over her including the right to marry her off.

Appearance

Mid-40s, thin. Longish reddish-brown hair with grey at the temples. Dresses expensively in blazers, slacks, loafers, possibly tailored.<ref>Alexander sat at his desk, leather swivel chair turned sideways, his feet resting on the corner of his desk, one ankle crossing the other. He was skinny, which was not the case for most of the people she knew who were forty-five-ish, he wore a blazer with a linen shirt, black slacks, and loafers, and looked exceedingly at home. His hair was longer, most of it pulled back away from his face, grey shooting through the sides of it, the top an orange-brown that seemed to almost glow in the light of the candles around them. - excerpt from Stolen Away 2.z</ref><ref>A man of about forty, narrow, with very light brown hair that might have been reddish and might have been catching the lingering flames. Lucy didn’t know that much about fashion, but it looked like his outfit was ‘bulletproof’, so to speak, an expensive blazer, shirt, and slacks that may have all been custom fit. - excerpt from Out on a Limb 3.2</ref>

Abilities and Art

Alexander is a powerful Augur and an Incarnate practitioner, specializing in Strife. He has a Demesne in the Blue Heron Institute.

He is very good at handling negative karma and navigating frought social situations, tying into his understanding of Strife. His Sight and presence can bring strife with them, which may cause his allies to fight among themselves more.<ref>"Alexander was good at seeing the kinds and shapes of Strife, capital S, and karmic flows.  When he incurs a karmic debt, he is good at staying ahead of it until he can discharge it or pass it on.  I would

imagine that if he’s a teacher at this school of his, he would be 

teaching some classes on Karma."

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“With Nicolette sending omens in to investigate… she was looking for trouble, and then more trouble happened.  That’s how Melissa got hurt.  Does Alexander cause strife to happen by turning his Sight on things?”

“It surrounds him, yes.  He’s good at navigating it, to the extent that it may be something of a shield of his.  His underlings may fight more among themselves as a consequence.” - excerpt from Out on a Limb 3.2 </ref>

Tools

He has a magical dollhouse that can show a target area in diorama form, or manifest the user there as a giant doll. If the dollhouse is not paid in power, it will take a pound of flesh from the user instead.

His Implement is a wand.

History

Before the Story

Alexander is the Augur who tricked Charles Abrams into becoming Forsworn so he could steal some of his stuff.

He founded the Blue Heron Institute by bartering favours with his family for the raw power and contacts necessary.<ref>Alexander had the institute in part because he’d bartered with family, getting the power as a kind of loan to get it started, then bartering again to get the good words, references, and contacts to bring

people in.

If Alexander’s distant nephew got in any real trouble here, it disrupted that whole engine. - excerpt from Stolen Away 2.z </ref> When his teenage apprentice Chase took Nicolette as an apprentice and set her to watch the Institute while he was gone, Alexander subverted her.<ref>He was her sponsor.  The one who had brought her into the circle.  Alexander, in turn, was the one who had brought Chase in; Chase had been

brought in because he was very, very good at dealing with 

certain kinds of Other, owing to his family ties, and because of the politics of it.  Making Chase an apprentice and teaching him all sorts of things about Seeing made for strong ties with Chase’s family.

He had expected something very different when he had found her.  Leverage against Alexander, maybe.  More power.  A grateful girl a year younger than him.  Instead, Chase had had to go to school, he’d left her

here to act as eyes, ears, and hands on things here, and Alexander had 

started to barter with her, making her more Alexander’s apprentice than Chase’s. - excerpt from Stolen Away 2.z </ref>

Early Pale

He set his students to investigate Kennet on learning of the Carmine Beast's demise.

Stolen Away

He "helped" Nicolette deal with the Kennet Trio.

Out on a Limb

He attended the meeting between the Trio and the Belanger Circle.

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