About Vincent

A wandering, flamboyant and charismatic artist who changes during the course of a day. Vincent can wake and be one person and go to sleep as someone else. Found and adopted by the wealthy Fontaine family, Vincent grew up a dashing young aristocrat who soon got bored from his privileged life. To distract himself from his sense of ennui, he finds a great deal of joy in pushing the limits of social convention with his art and upsetting traditional expectations but is starting to unravel under the pressures of the cultured world.

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About Vincent

Vincent's story is one of reality and illusion.

Vincent's tale starts when a courtesan gets gunned down before his eyes and leaves a mysterious note with his father's name on it.

When he finds out his father is a potential murder victim, he persuades his friend Gottfried to play into the villainous scheme and make conjury his highest achievable art.

Disguised as a wealthy steel magnate, Vincent discovers that his father voted against the gold standard and that a currency reform commission, under the command of the infamous Goldschilds, wants his father dead because of it.

In of answers, he saves the courtesan Rosa Leyen and meets Rocco, who, drenched in blood, is mercilessly hunted by the Goldschilds.

Even though Vincent finds himself dragged into Rocco's manhunt and blood begins to flow, he still manages to visit his father. Unfortunately, he finds out some enigmatic apache has already kidnapped his parents, demanding the life of Rosa in exchange for theirs.

During the opening of his new play, he witnesses his parents' fate from the stage, falling victim to his own illusions.

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It’s Sunday the 14th of October, 1888, and in the city of Vienna, where the value of one’s bank account is more important than that of a human life, something doesn’t seem to add up…

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Other Characters

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Manuel Kronenberg

Chief of police

Vienna’s racist, corrupt and highest-ranking official of the k.k. Gendarmerie, lacking any regard for the rights of whom he is accusing, who also happens to be the Minister of war.

Michael Splindegger

Minister of finance

Konstantin Goldschild

The Goldschild family’s most sadistic member who often executes the evil plans to his brother’s ruthless plots. Willing to do anything, he frequently tells copious amounts of life-destroying lies or simply eliminates his rivals when lies will not do.

Vincent Fontaine

A wandering, flamboyant and charismatic artist who changes during the course of a day. Vincent can wake and be one person and go to sleep as someone else. Found and adopted by the wealthy Fontaine family, Vincent grew up a dashing young aristocrat who soon got bored from his privileged life. To distract himself from his sense of ennui, he finds a great deal of joy in pushing the limits of social convention with his art and upsetting traditional expectations but is starting to unravel under the pressures of the cultured world.

A ruthless yet principled former mercenary whose life finally seems to catch up with him. Born on the lawless streets of Naples and into the infamous Bella Società Riformata, Rocco grew disillusioned with his brother’s authority and left his family at the age of sixteen, angry, damaged, and alone. The life of a mercenary is all he has ever known since, holding back none of his time and energy to complete each assignment with stubborn dedication, which also happens to be his core weakness that less scrupulous individuals eagerly take advantage of.

Nathaniel Goldschild

A banker committed to continuing his family legacy with an intense desire to be the grand designer and prime mover of the new financial world order. He has supreme confidence in his abilities and the authority to make the necessary changes.

Gottfried Todenhöfer

A soft-spoken, understated father and psychologist with a deep sense of idealism and integrity, whose sole purpose in life is to help others and fix society’s more profound problems. Born to a depressed German father and a hysteric Jewish mother, Gottfried has spent his whole life getting to the heart of mental illnesses, currently focusing on the pioneering work done on the human psyche. If he just wouldn’t focus so intently on his ideals, he might actually take care of himself and his daughters one day.

Carolina Romanova

A gifted philosopher and arbiter of justice, who, for many, exudes confidence and an aura of mystery. Born in St. Petersburg to a strict Protestant family, Carolina has grown to resent the Reformed church at a young age. She has intellectually pursued philosophy ever since. Her perception is insightful, her ideas original and her logic formidable. And she can push through change with iron willpower. Unfortunately, she often finds it challenging to find gifted minds like her, leaving nobody able to keep up with her relentless intellectualism.