Matthew Hopkins

Class: Assassin

Gender: male

Height: 5'11" (based on Udo Kier who played him)

Place of Origin: England

Likes: heavy books

Dislikes: being underground

Talents: cobbling shoes

Source: historic fact

Alignment: chaotic good

Hidden attribute: Human

Parameters

Strength: D

Speed: D

Endurance: D

Mana: E

Noble Phantasm: C

Luck: C

Total: 95

Class Skills

Presence Concealment

C

The capacity to hide one's presence as a servant. The class skill of an assassin.

As this rank, one is suitable for spying. A low ranking of presence concealments unbecoming for an assassin to the level that a servant can infer one's presence at once.

Personal Skills

Protection of Faith

A+

The skill possessed only by those who have sacrificed themselves for religious view. Despite being a form of divine protection, it is not a blessing from a higher existence. It is the absoluteness of one's body and mind that was born from their beliefs. But if it is too high, it causes abnormalities in the personality.

At this level Matthew Hopkins fully believes in himself and his faith is absolute to the point that those that dispute it with him will be seen as an enemy. It also allows him to fortify his body and mind against others for a short period of time, much like a boost of adrenaline.

Presence detection

E

The ability to detect other servants and local mana sources

At this level, he is only able to feel mana sources only a few feet away or if an individual is using some form of magical concealment in that same radius.

Not very good for detection except for in person interviews.

Projectiles (Black Keys)

B

the expertise for throwing projectile weapons at range with accuracy. In this case, the use of Black Keys of the church.

Able to move as fast as the crow flies (ie 70 mph) and impact hard enough to make a hole through concrete. Like all black keys, they are able to prevent the natural healing of demons and vampires. They are able to also cause a momentary stun like effect on those of the evil alignment.

As a servant Matthew Hopkins is able to throw a full dozen of them in under a second.

Noble Phantasm

Discovery of Witches: All magic must pass from this world

Rank: C

Class: anti-person

One of the items that John Stearne took with him when he fled the Church from the pro version of what would later become the burial agency.

Named after Hopkins' book, it takes the form of a hangman's rope and noose. It is capable of growing in with infinite elasticity based on Hopkins' needs

It has several curses attached to it including automatically homing into necks of anything it is thrown at. When anything it entrapped inside of it, all mana flows are instantly disrupted and will remain so of as long as it is entrapped.

Background.

Born in 1620 to a Vicar of the Protestant Church of England, Matthew Hopkins was the 4th of 6 sons. He got a modicum of wealth after his father's passing in the form of 100 marks and set himself up as a gentleman, buying an inn and making himself known in the area.

It was there at the inn that he met a former member of the Executioners of the Holy Church John Stearne. A Roman Catholic group that specialized in the hunting of heresy. Stearne had been excommunicated by his fellows because he violently disagreed with The Church's new stance with the Mage's association. Sterne believed that to allow the 'heretic' mages to exist would bring about God's punishment upon the world. However he was in the minority and fled to England where the Puritan and Anglicanism movement of the 16th century had limited The Church's power.

Stearne had fled with several items of interest and found refuge in Hopkin's inn. There Stearne found the younger Hopkins to be a moldable weapon. Stearne started indoctrinating Matthew Hopkins into the world of magecraft stating that mana was the tool the Devil used to empower his followers.

Then in 1644 Hopkins overheard some local women talking about mana a bit too loudly. These women were lesser members of a dying mage line in Britain that sough to use the English Civil War as a means of conducting experiments without being noticed by the Mage's Association or the Church in hopes of rebuilding their power. Hopkins was able to arrest 23 women on charges of witchcraft, 4 of them died in prison and the other 19 were hung to death.

Lying that they were charged by the Parliament to uncover witchcraft, the two of them traveled through eastern England, using the records of the Church and Hopkins own abilities, they sough out the descendants of mage lines that had lost their magic circuits and those that the Church had suspected to be in contact with the Mage's association.

In 1967 Hoplins activities attracted the attention of the Mage's association that he was indirectly hurting. After asking permission of the Church, the Clocktower in London conducted a ritual that cursed him, causing him to die quickly of what the local doctor misidentified as tuberculosis. Upon realizing he cause of death, Stearne fled to a farm to hid from the Association however their enforcers tracked him down and ended his life as well in 1670.

Before his passing, Hoplins was able to finish his book 'the discovery of witches', and was remembered as an "anti-hero and bogeyman – utterly ethereal, endlessly malleable." While the exact number of people that were hung as witches on his word is unknown, a minimum of 300 is estimated.

Notes

Made it part after the Salem singularity and the implication that he was a servant in that event.