Vhost Moudden, Scout Commander
Physical Appearance
Scout Commander Vhost Moudden cuts an imposing image with a gleaming chestnut brown complexion and a physique honed through rigorous training. He exudes power with his bald head, angular features, and intelligent yet intense brown eyes. The scout captain moves with disciplined precision, his coiled energy belying his asp-like reflexes.
Background
Vhost was born on the remote Isle of Deeds to a former brigand who turned to legitimacy through enlistment as a scout. His upbringing was unconventional, alternating between strict supervision in the barracks and forays into the surrounding woods, where his father led patrols and hunting expeditions. Vhost’s exceptional agility, tracking sense, and knack for stealth qualified him for covert operations training at sixteen. Over a decade of dangerous deployments countering external threats with precision strikes, he piqued Silver Serpent’s interest. A resident knight commander recruited Vhost to build a scout cell targeting internal corruption by executing a high-risk operation that most conventional commanders would not authorize. The noble was exposed due to the operation and brought to justice. After continuing to impress superiors with many successful operations, Vhost went on to rise through the ranks of the order’s scout corps. Years later, when the opportunity for high leadership was presented by a transfer to a newly created sub-chapter of The Silver Serpent, Vost was given the position of scout commander and now commands the intelligence forces of the standing army amassed at the chapterhouse fortress on New Magincia.
Personality Traits
Vhost is often reserved, knowing that even innocuous remarks can have unintended consequences. His philosophy of judicious action over flamboyant proclamations frequently misleads hidebound officers into believing Vhost lacks initiative. In reality, he obsessively examines people and events, combining his findings with years of expertise to devise complicated methods for dealing with them in the future. Vhost despises arrogant mediocrity based on status and belligerent conformity over principled accountability and consequences.
Behaviors & Relationships
Vhost is often taciturn and watchful, even during downtime, and enjoys bantering with other observant personalities who appreciate strategic intricacy and insightful humor that both belies and reveals hidden depth. Few know that Vhost retains select contacts from troubled backgrounds after covertly recruiting their specific skills to the order’s goals, allowing atonement via service to the greater good.
Motivations & Goals
Disillusioned by the moral rot that pervades society’s highest tiers, Vhost prefers redressing injustice by manipulative leverage rather than overt confrontation. He treads a precarious balance, choosing to root out corruption through grassroots empowerment and systematic changes rather than direct dismantling of neglectful institutions.
Complexity
Vhost constantly reexamines whether the scouts’ clandestine ways to attain their goals are justified or if those means gradually undermine the moral high ground they formerly held above the horrors they vowed to combat. Fighting monsters discreetly risks turning his people and himself into the very same.
Secrets
The harsh father from Vhost’s fractured childhood memories vanished on an isolated patrol immediately after an argument over attaining status. To this day, Vhost is leery of ambition after his loss, seeing pride as a temptation even in serving honorable goals. Thus, he avoids overt grandeur in favor of outcomes, allowing action to speak louder than words.