Character Information: Skills and Abilities

[dntfretprecious]

The Master is a human being who was once an essentially immortal, time-and-space-traveling, superhumanly intelligent alien. Now, however, he has no superhuman or inhuman abilities—he doesn't even have the psychic sensitivity that some humans canonically do in his universe. He's normal. Within that, however, he's a very brilliant sort of normal. In fact, he's a genius! Or certainly on the very upper range of human intelligence. Though his memory has large gaps, he still retains knowledge and experiences far beyond what any single human could have experienced. Though he can no longer perform complicated calculations entirely in his head, or remember the thousands of languages he once knew, or build a teleportation device from a paperclip, some cat hair, and calcite crystals, he remembers being able to do these things. And what's within human capacity to do, he can still accomplish. He's fluent in many modern and ancient languages (though not all—he had no control over which of his memories were lost when he was made human, so some of the knowledge that would have been useful in the 21st century went right out the window) and extremely able in mathematics, physics, and engineering/invention—in any of these fields, he knows quite a bit more than 21st-century science knows, though, again, he'll bump up against unexpected knowledge gaps now and then. He knows his history—and what's to come. He's good with a sword, both fencing and broadsword, and able with concealable personal weapons, poisons, and drugs. He knows human anatomy and the science and mechanics of the human brain and body intimately—this comes from an entire year spent ruling the Earth and torturing human beings. He's a gifted manipulator, and familiar with the British political system. He's also "up" on turn-of-the-20th-to-21st-century pop culture, particularly music and children's television. He knows a bit about human occult and religious beliefs—because those are such easy fields to twist to one's advantage, if one has the mind to influence the credulous and superstitious. In fact, he knows a little, at least, about just about everything.