Dr. Trevor Novak/Background
Trevor Novak and the Sorcerer's Shroom
Born under a horned (crescent) blood-moon, meaning someone attuned to spirits and magic. The Dark Fungus marked this freshly born baby in the birth-den of an Oklahoma hive by growing over him like a blanket while snuffing out the life of four other children.
His hive treated him even more cruelly than other children because they expected great things from him. They expected him to be a great warrior but it soon became clear his destiny was not what they expected. He was smart, too smart for his own good and arrogant because he had been told his entire childhood that he was to be great. when that destiny was pulled out from under him he became resentful.
His family did worse than abuse him, they did worse than mutilate or rape him, they treated him like he was unimportant. It seemed he was forever cursed to be a lowly human but the spirits kept saying he had potential. His mother, N'n'Ghaar sent him off to Pentex to see if they could make anything useful out of him.
Joining the Enlightened Society of the Weeping Moon, a Pentex occult training facility, he finally had a chance to put that mind of his to use. After a proper indoctrination that broke him down emotionally and rebuilt him into a weapon loyal to Pentex above all else, he was introduced to a wider, more fascinating world. Vampires, Werewolves, Wizards, Spirits, Science, Chemistry, Physics and the most amazing of all, people who treated you like a half-decent person. At least compared to the hive.
He discovered he had a love of alchemy and transmutation but he wasn't very exceptional at it. By his third year, he once more felt that he might be destined for mediocrity. He struggled with self-doubt until one night he prayed to the Wyrm asking what more he could give? What was he missing? How was he destined to serve? Was this all there was?
That night, he had a dream, a vision. The vision told him he needed to return to the beginning. He went back to the cave where he had first been marked by the Fungus and harvested a sample. He took it to his lab and studied it, experimented on it and started to uncover the truth. The Fungus holds the key to life and power. The fungus devours, grows, spreads and died to create new life. Soil can never be fertile without the blessing of the fungus.
Others studied the ways of Green Dragon, Angu or Karnella but he knew they were all fools. Soon his totem was whispering secrets to him in drug-induced deliriums and he became an innovator in his field creating a formula that use the power of the Fungus to absorb and transfer properties from one thing to another to discover new and unheard of methods of producing weapons and enhancements.
He was certainly a late bloomer but now he understands his place and now he has the power to take revenge on his "family" for the pain they caused him. They think they are so special just because they can shift but he will make all of Pentex as strong as them and then they will be the ones who are nothing special.
