Victor Spear

Victor Spear:

Appearance: Victor Spear is a broad shouldered man who is 5'8" tall and 3 /1/2 feet wide in the shoulders and 200 lbs.  He has a lot of muscle underneath a layer of fat.  He has black curly hair and a red and black beard with brown eyes.  He looks like Seuthes III.

Age: He started later in the game at age 45 in the game. So he is 70 years old after the time skip. This makes him appear to be middle aged, but he is much older. He has effectively at this time lived two lifetimes as a middle aged man.

Education: Victor Spear has a Masters In Library Science, a Bachelors in Philosophy, is a Master Gardener, and has a Certified Public Library Administrators Certificate, and Booksellers Certificate from the American Booksellers Association. When he first came to Oak, he traded the knowledge of distillation in exchange for learning herbalism from Penelope.

He also has risen through the ranks of the mysteries in the Temple of Sabazius and the Temple of the Great Goddess learning the religious teachings. He has studied the mysteries to better understand the Thracian and local culture.

He also practices the Art of Memory, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, Speed Reading, Active Listening, and Breathing Meditation (both sitting and walking). For physical exercise he does floor exercises, rides the Oak tricycle, and attempts to learn the Upright Way which he is terrible at.

While he is familiar with yoga, the particular exercises he does are not yoga.

While he was in high school, he took chemistry and math through trigonometry. His mother w was a technical writer and she would have him attend classes at the local Science Museum during the summers, something which he did not want to do. His father also encouraged him to be a scientist, but he did not want to do it.

In a similar manner, his father insisted that he learn martial arts which he was not particularly good at, but learned a little bit. His mother hoped he would become a swimmer and made him take swim classes. He refused to do more of it when he got to high school.

In college, he lifted weights and did floor exercises finding it to his liking.

Personal Relations: Before Victor Spear came to the past, he was married for a brief time. Before that, he had a bad relationship at a library which forced him to seek another job in a far away place, New York.

Being sent into the past made him a bit unhinged. He could not get himself to remarry and became obsessed with recreating a great library. He fell in love with Penelope, but it is unrequited and has turned into a difficult friendship. He has come to terms with this more lately. He has dalliances, but does not plan to remarry. His latest dalliance is with Scholar Ishtar. His obsession with creating a great library and research center and improving the Nestos League has taken over his life. He is becoming increasingly obsessed with knowledge.

He is friends with Diaghis and was friends with Den and Scorylo before they passed. He is also friends with Scholar Scilla.

Victor Spear is depressive. He deals with this by keeping a journal, meditating and being under the care of Scholar Doctor Lukics who has prescribed him nepenthe an herb from the ancient world that no longer exists. A lot of his meditative exercises are about being tranquil and balanced.

His depression feeds his obsessive behavior. He fears not being able to accomplish things while being depressed so he drives himself worse than any other people can push him. He internalized being hard driven from his parents who were both quite successful. For a brief time he burned out, but was able to get back up again.

This makes him both a tragic and accomplished figure who some would consider a mad man. He sometimes thinks of people like Winston Churchill and the Black Dog.