Grigori (right) and The Cleansuit (left)
Name: Grigori ben Judah
Age: 64
Gender: Definitely male.
Weapons: Grigori wears a spectacularly defensible "suit" of armor he affectionately calls the Cleansuit. The Cleansuit is a thick layer of enchanted clay, reinforced several times over through both runic magic and iron rebars. Movement in The Cleansuit is heavily restricted, but doesn't impede his air circulation and cannot overheat with him in it. While wearing The Cleansuit, Grigori's strength is magically amplified, allowing him to actually
move in it. The Cleansuit weighs over three hundred pounds, and has a significant weak point in the form of a hatch in the back, where Grigori enters and exits it from.
Personality: Grigori is monstrously paranoid at all times, because he knows
exactly what's waiting for him when he dies. Grigori refuses to ever step out of his suit unless he can confirm that he will be totally safe from outside attack. When not gleefully enjoying the degree of power given by his suit, Grigori is eternally offended by the numerous crimes both real and fake committed by mundane forces against the magical community of New Horn City.
Bio: Grigori was the child of a family of refugees who fled to America during World War II. Born in 1951, Grigori grew up in a small ethnic enclave that would later come to be known as "Little Fincayra". Being that Little Fincayra held the single greatest concentration of witches and wizards in all of New England, Grigori spent most of his childhood either observing or being taught by the enclave's colorful inhabitants. At the age of 15, Grigori moved out of Little Fincayra and began wandering the country with a band of hippies just as the 60s began getting into their cultural upswing. Grigori traveled for 20 years, going on spirit quests, consorting with ancient beings, and consuming prodigious amounts of psychedelic drugs. As the haze of the 70s wound down and the hippie movement began petering out, Grigori gradually realized exactly what he had been doing. All the spirit quests and confrontations with ancient magic had both enlightened him of the nature of the
other world and enlightened the
other world of
him. Grigori spiritually gleamed like a beacon in the abyss, and all the squiggly beasts of the Dungeon Dimensions decided they'd rather fancy a piece of him. Panicking all the while, Grigori hitchhiked and commuted his way across the country back to New Horn City and back to his home in Little Fincayra.
Grigori's mental state rapidly deteriorated as he pored over his family's tomes on the afterlife and the Dungeon Dimensions. With each vivid description of what happens to people in his situation described in the book, Grigori grew more and more fearful of his own death. To die at any point would be to fall right into the arms of the ineffable beings cloying for him at the edge of his mortal coil. And so, Grigori dedicated himself to prolonging his death as much as possible. To this end, he invented the Cleansuit, a battery of magical and mundane defenses designed to prevent as much harm as possible. Decorated like a true juggernaut, Grigori earned the cautious respect of Little Fincayra and notoriety within the community as "Grigori the Watchful". Brimming with confidence in the Cleansuit's defenses, Grigori threw himself into assisting and protecting Little Fincayra as much as possible, earning him the attention of the New Horn City Police Department. After explaining himself, Grigori was given a brief ultimatum: assist the Supernatural Investigation Network, or be arrested for possession of lethal and illegal enchantments. Grigori, too proud and too fearful to give up his Cleansuit, took them up on the offer and became the Supernatural Investigation Network's official magical community liaison. If there was ever a paranormal goings-on that needed to be solved sensitively and socially, Grigori was the one who knew how to solve it best.
Other: Grigori genuinely does have enemies on every corner. His antics over so many years have caught the eye of dozens-- potentially hundreds-- of otherworldly creatures, some of them with ties to the real world. Cultists, assassins, and invasive monsters of all sorts have plagued Grigori ever since he came back to New Horn City.
