| Physical Attributes |
| Gender: |
M |
Age: |
mid 30's |
Height: |
6'1''/5'11'' |
Weight: |
200/165 lbs |
| Eyes: |
Black |
Hair: |
Brown |
Skin: |
Caucasian |
Build: |
Slim |
| Veritas wears a dark blue armor suit that bulks him up a bit, adds a couple of inches of height, and provides various augments and protective features. The suit includes a full featureless helmet with protective eye lenses that can be clear or mirrored as he prefers. The armor incorporates a trenchcoat like cloak and mantle that helps break up his outline and offers some stealth advantages, but it is attached with speed releases just in case he needs to get rid of it quick. Veritas wears a tactical utility belt at all times. The armor sports forearm launchers that shoot taser bolas that entangle and shock, and he has a pair of electrified modern reinterpretations of brass knuckles that he carries (one on each hip). He is crazy prepared, and looks it. |
| As Gideon Hull on the other hand, he goes to great lengths to look like a private investigator of moderate success and modest means. He never acts, moves, or uses anything that could allow someone to draw a connection between his two identities. His gear is all standard PI stuff, legally obtained, and nothing fancy. If forced to fight, he uses simple techniques as taught by the police back when he was trained. If forced to use a weapon, he uses a simple 9mm pistol with no special add ons or modifications. He maintains a complete digital air gap. He keeps a simple run down office, and lives in a simple run down basement apartment near downtown. He treats his life as Gideon as a carefully maintained deep cover and makes sure to always look the part. |
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| Biography |
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Gideon Hull was once a decorated detective in the Rook City Police Department, known for his relentless pursuit of the truth. He was sharp, unyielding, and incorruptible, traits that earned him both admiration and enemies. For Gideon, justice was not just a duty, it was the very core of who he was. But Rook City had long since rotted from within, and even the strongest ideals bend when surrounded by decay. His breaking point came during an investigation into the murder of Questor, a mysterious vigilante whose grav-cycle was recovered by Gideon during the case. The deeper he dug, the more he uncovered evidence pointing not to random crime but to a conspiracy tied to the Chairman himself, the crime lord who ruled the city from the shadows. Every step forward was met with resistance, evidence disappearing, witnesses vanishing, and orders from above to close the case. Finally, when Gideon refused to stop, his own captain tried to have him silenced, revealing his loyalty to the Chairman. Betrayed by the institution he had sworn to serve, Gideon barely escaped with his life, his career and reputation left in ruins. |
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Forced into hiding, Gideon turned his obsession into purpose. Among the remnants of Questor’s equipment, he discovered the shattered remains of advanced technology far beyond his understanding. Desperate and driven, Gideon pieced it together, using it first as evidence, then as the foundation of something more. It was during this time that he created Equitas, an artificial intelligence built from Questor’s surviving systems. What began as a tool became something greater. Equitas was not only a machine, but a partner. The AI guided Gideon in acquiring resources, teaching him how to rebuild and innovate, and eventually constructing its own body. From their hidden base deep within the ruined Rook City Administration Building, Equitas gave Gideon the means to rise again. Through Equitas’s genius and his own determination, Equitas forged inventions, weapons, and finally, the armor that would become the mantle of Veritas. Where Gideon Hull had been broken, Veritas would be unyielding. |
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The White Knight of Rook City. Clad in his powersuit, riding the grav-cycle reclaimed from Questor, rebuilt and enhanced by Equitas, he became everything Gideon no longer believed he could be: a symbol of hope, of truth, of justice incorruptible. To the people of Rook City, Veritas is a beacon shining against the endless night, a figure who inspires trust and fear in equal measure. But beneath the mask, Gideon Hull remains bitter, weary, and consumed by the knowledge of how far the city has fallen. He sees only the rot, the corruption, the betrayal. Veritas is not who he is, but who he must be, because the city needs more than Gideon Hull. It needs a knight, a guardian, an idea greater than one man. And so the two halves coexist: Gideon, the grim detective who has lost faith in people, and Veritas, the radiant beacon who gives it back to them. Together with Equitas, Luxor, Pietas, and Prudentas, he wages his war on injustice, knowing full well that the mask may be the only part of him that still believes. |
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Veritas maintains his true identity, Gideon Hull, as a down on his luck licensed private investigator doing small cases, nothing that might draw unwanted attention, but which grant plausible reasons to be poking around here and there and keeping an ear to the ground. He's gone to such lengths to differentiate his two personas that they are like different people entirely. In his mind, the secret id is the mask and his true face is the cowled one. |
| Capabilities and Motivations |
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Veritas combines a razor sharp investigative mind with an armored tactical suit and a belt full of useful gadgets. He also managed to untraceably acquire the remains of a grav-cycle that once belonged to the fallen hero Questor, and refurbished it to provide a reliable means of travel. In addition to the gear he carries, Veritas also has multiple extra utility belts prepared in a secured compartment of his grav cycle, and has also squirreled away backups in various safe places around Rook City in case of emergency. He also has an extra power suit well hidden in a relatively central part of the city, and another stashed in a storage facility in a nearby suburb...just in case. Contingencies, contingencies. How does he pay for all this stuff? Easy...he takes money from criminals. It's very lucrative. |
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Through a combination of hindering enemies, setting himself up for tactical advantage, and predicting the most likely outcomes of almost every conceivable situation, Veritas brings justice to those who evade or buy off the law. |
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