Gorbash Kazdar

Adjutant Henri Michele Lamont
Age:  27
Nationality: French

Appearance
Henri generally dresses in an old French military uniform of the type worn by infantry soldiers at the end of the Great War.  It has seen better days, a fact emphasized by the fact that it is usually rather rumpled.  Henri also wears a military style beret.  He is usually unshaven, maintaining the vague outlines of a mustache surrounded by a permanent sort-of five o�clock shadow that never quite fully sprouts into a beard.  Henri has black hair and brown eyes that have a haunted look to them � or it may just be that they�re usually red-rimmed from lack of sleep or too much coffee, cigarettes, and wine.  He smokes cigarettes constantly, and somehow always seems to have a half-finished one dangling from one corner of his mouth.  In short, he constantly appears disheveled and as if he hasn�t slept in days.

Personality
Whatever he was before the War, since then Henri has been a wreck of a man.  Cynical, fatalistic, and apathetic readily describe his attitude, but he�s propelled by a strange sort of inertia to keep on living and fighting.  Henri has no trust in any governmental or religious institution, but still retains a great deal of pride in his French heritage � though he sometimes savages the shortcomings of his own nation as badly as he does any other.  Henri is a crack shot with a pistol, and carries two weapons he recovered during the War.  Though his negative attitude often rubs people the wrong way and his appearance implies that he is a feckless vagabond, there remains enough of the courageous and competent soldier that he can be oddly compelling and sometimes frightening when he is roused.

Background
Born to a large farming family from a small village in Western France, near Normandy, Henri had a largely carefree and untroubled childhood.  When the Great War broke out, initially his family was not greatly affected, except by rationing.  Henri�s father was too old to fight, and all of the Lamont brothers were as yet too young.  By late 1915, however, Henri�s two older brothers and three cousins had come of age and were conscripted.  Henri lied about his own age and joined the army alongside them.  The six of them reached the front just in time for the Battle of Verdun.  Two of Henri�s cousins and his eldest brother died there, and the third cousin was later gassed and became an invalid before finally dying in 1920, after the end of the war.  Henri�s other brother disappeared during the Battle of the Somme, while Henri himself was recovering in a hospital from a minor wound.  During the war, Henri himself received minor wounds twice, and proved to be a courageous and skilled soldier.  Despite his youth, Henri was promoted quickly, partly as a result of his proven ability and the massive casualties suffered by the army.  By the end of the war he was an Adjutant, a senior non-commissioned officer with similar responsibilities to a full lieutenant.  Even after the end of the Great War, though, Henri�s fighting days continued as he was sent to fight in the Franco-Turkish War.  When that conflict finally ended, a shell-shocked Henri simply walked away with his last week�s pay, his pistols, and his uniform.  For the next several years Henri wandered from Syria to the Far East, spending time in Indochina, Malaysia, and then Southern China, often in a drunken or opium induced haze.  He supported himself by loaning his military skills to various unsavory men and organizations, never asking too many questions.  In recent months he has grown tired of even this.  (Note: Henri will have wandered to whatever region the campaign starts in since he left his last employer in Hong Kong, without any real plans or goals.)

Stats
Body		3
Coordination	4
Sense		3
Mind		2
Command		2
Empathy		2

Traits
Backup		2

Skills			Rating		Stat		Total
Body
Endurance		1		+3		4
Run			1		+3		4

Coordination
Dodge			2		+4		6
Drive (Automobile)	1		+4		5
Knife			1		+4		5
Pistol			3		+4		7
Stealth			2		+4		6

Sense
Notice			2		+3		5

Mind
Language (English)	1		+2		3
Language (French)	2*		+2		4

Floating
Equilibrium		2

*Native language

Weapons
P08 Luger (Semi-Automatic Pistol)
	W + 1 in K/S	Penetration 2
	9mm Para	8rd magazine		18/34
M1911 (Semi-Automatic Pistol)
	W + 1 in K/S	Penetration 2
	.45 ACP		7rd magazine		18/34
Trench Knife
	Blade � W + 1 in S, W in K
	Brass Knuckles � W + 2 in S

Notes
Battle of Verdun: 21 February � 18 December, 1916 (Ils ne passeront pas!)
End of World War I: armistice 11 November 1918, official end 28 July 1919
Franco-Turkish War: May 1920 - October 1921