Professor Viktor Hazan

The in-character avatar of Joël Paquin, Viktor Hazan is the in-world representation of Joel Paquin.

Viktor Hazan is a member of The Fraternity of Shadows, and has been one of the main narrators for the Souragne Gazetteer and the Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer.

Viktor Hazan is a prominent professor of Philosophy at the University of Richemulot. Equally, he is a ranking member of the Fraternity of Shadows. Hazan was introduced to the Fraternity by Count Wilhelm von Lovenhorst, who employed Hazan as a diplomat for some time before Hazan's induction into the Fraternity. Hazan's service to the Count ended with the latter's disappearance in 742 BC. Thereafter, Hazan signed on as a teacher for the University of Richemulot and became involved with the Richemulot cell of the Fraternity.

Late in 759 BC Hazan and the Fraternity were betrayed by a former colleague and Brother, Erik van Rijn: an aging transmuter, who broke the laws of the brotherhood in seeking lichdom. Stealing the plans for a terrible superweapon from the Fraternity’s archives, Van Rijn has gone into hiding somewhere in the Land of Mists, and Hazan (once his closest friend) now leads the search for the renegade lich, to recapture the brotherhood’s secrets and prove his own loyalty to the Umbra.

In his latest effort to track down his former friend, Viktor was assisted by Paul Dirac, a younger Fraternity member with past experience in the Nocturnal Sea region. Both men documented their discoveries and observations, even as they scoured the islands for Van Rijn.

The Fraternity is a society of scholars, and won’t waste the opportunity to learn about this latest addition to the Core.

Opinions of Other Scholars

Viktor Hazan dismisses "S" in these terms: "a stern scholar for whom I once sat as token out-of branch examiner in Darkon. She tried to impress the Brautslava cell’s admissions committee by her superior wit, yet failed the second figment quiz. Her own arcane interests, she’d sullenly retorted, lay elsewhere. It’d been a while since I saw her work in the occult journals; I wondered what had happened to her and what kind of trouble she was involved in now."

Viktor Hazan dismisses Scrying and the Nature of Visions and its author, Professor Mirella Agrippa, in these terms: "I chuckled over and annotated her errors, emotionally-based comments and weak hypotheses. (No wonder that women are rarely accepted into our Fraternity. That’s just how it is, I guess.)

Stats

Neutral Evil male human Illusionist 5/Fraternity of Shadows 6