Nikolai Lindros

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Nikolai is a rather flippant, and irreverent man. As the owner and CEO of the Lindros Group this has not proven to be without problem as several PR issues have resulted including a series of interviews with the CBC where he was clearly intoxicated,  and several rather public scandals relating to his carnal activities. In spite of, or perhaps as a result of these scandals Nikolai has developed a rather popular, and respected public image. With the general public having come to see these flaws as a humanizing factor, for a man who was largely considered a workaholic when he initial came to media attention upon becoming the CEO of the Lindros Group.

This has resulted in the public image of Nikolai Lindros as being a popular, and sympathetic public figure. At least that is how he appears to all but a few individuals, to a limited few to whom Nikolai has lifted this public persona he is known for two things: ruthlessness, and being a man of his word.

Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Nikolai Lindros is the only child of Alexei and Yvonne Lindros.  His mother, Yvonne, was a financier and founder of the Lindros Group. The company initially started as a hedge fund. Through the founding of the Lindros Group, and its eventual relocation to Halifax, the Lindros family became largely responsible for the economic revitalization of the city. Becoming the largest employer in the province as the company transitioned from a hedge fund to a global conglomerate with operations across North America, Europe and Asia.

Alexei, Nikolai's father, was a Russian immigrant to Canada, and a professor of mythology and the occult at Dalhousie University.  It was from his father that Nikolai's education in the occult began.  

Apart from the extreme wealth that was a result of being the only child of a family that owned a global conglomerate, Nikolai's youth was largely unremarkable by modern standards.  That is to be said, when compared to the various meta-humans that exist these days.

Nikolai proved to be a highly capable student excelling at natural sciences, mathematics, and history. At the age of 16 Nikolai was admitted to Yale, where at the age of 20 he completed dual degrees in History, and Physics. By the age of 26, Nikolai had further completed PhDs in Physics from ETH Zurich, and History from the University of Toronto.

The next year proved to be a busy one for Nikolai, with his mother stepping down, and formally handing over ownership and leadership of the Lindros group following a severe deterioration in her health.  

Nikolai's first few months in charge of the Lindros Group, did not exactly go smoothly as the company began to run into cash flow problems when a number of long standing clients severed ties with the Lindros Group.

As these problems began to mount Nikolai's actions to correct them became more and more extreme, culminating in Project Icarus a series of experiments using Nikolai's combined knowledge of science and the occult. The end result was a hybrid technological, magical overlay grafted to Nikolai's musculature and brain that greatly enhanced Nikolai's mental capabilities and granted him limited shapesshifting capabilities.

It was with these capabilities that over the course of the next two years, Nikolai put into action a series of crimes including fraud, money laundering, exploitation, blackmail and manipulation that returned the Lindros Group to its status as one of the world's largest conglomerates.

Intelligence (Int 8): Prior to Project Icarus, Nikolai had an intelligence that was well beyond most humans, however it was still clearly a human level of intelligence. Following, Project Icarus on the other hand Nikolai's scientific capabilities were greatly accelerated  resulting in an enhanced memory, improved reasoning and logic, a greater capacity for learning, and faster processing capabilities. As a result of project Icarus' neural overlay his neural pathways are more elastic allowing a super human ability to form new connections, and thought processes. In total Nikolai is capable of thinking of and producing technology well in advance of modern technological, and in most cases theoretical capabilities.

Occult (Occ 8): However, scientific and logical pursuits were never the limits of Nikolai's mental capabilities  he was also a student of the Occult from an early age, and project Icarus' impact on his mental capabilities extended to this field as well. As a result Nikolai's knowledge of crafting items via mystical means is just as advanced as his knowledge of science and technology. However, it must be said that Nikolai is no mage, wizard, warlock or whatever else you may deem to call them. Rather his knowledge relates to the creation of items with mystical or magical properties.  

Shapeshifting (2 ABI): In addition to the mental effects of Project Icarus, the grafting of the musculature overlay, has resulted in Nikolai gaining a limited shape shifting ability namely that he can change his form into another human based on those he has previously encountered or through a mental composite he creates in his mind, with his clothing shifting in a similar manner. However, this is not without limitations as Nikolai is only capable of shifting into another human form, his strength, speed, durability, and fighting skills remain unaffected, and he cannot shift any object other than his clothing due to the limitations of the mystical side of Project Icarus.