Vandrio Kalimatov
| Vandrio Kalimatov | |
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| Full name | Vandrio Kalimatov |
|---|---|
| AKA | Brother Van |
| Physical information | |
| Species | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Eye color | Brown |
| Skin color | white |
| Biographical information | |
| Father | Erasyl Kalimatov |
| Mother | Elmira Gulnara |
| Date of birth | 1681 AN |
| Place of birth | Troglonauts commune, Goetia |
| Residence(s) | Gathering Place, New Goetia |
| Nationality | Goetic |
| Allegiance(s) | New Goetia |
| Occupation | President of the Conference of Cycle Families |
Vandrio Kalimatov, often known as Brother Van, is the Brother-General of the Order of the Troglonauts of Cibola and president of Conference of Cycle Families. His cousin is Makhmud Kalimatov, emperor consort of Eastern Natopia. They have a remarkable, almost identical, appearance.
His family is from Raynor Point, Drak-Modan. His father, Erasyl, was a clandestine generational demon worshiper, who learned the traditions from his family back several generations. He converted his mother, Elmira, and together they secretly worshipped Kizzy Drakland until 1675, the true death of demon queen at the hands of the Goetic Gorillas NF. They fled to Goetia and settled on the northern coast of Cibola in the newly established commune of the Troglonauts, proclaiming themselves as a bonded couple in 1677. In 1680 they went with the Troglonauts to their new location on the Inner Cibolan Sea. Vandrio was born a year later, in 1681. In his youth, like all devout Troglonauts he learned about personal demonism, became an avid swimmer, and learned to sail.
He and his family enjoyed some popularity in 1698, when news made it to Goetia that his cousin, Makhmud Kalimatov was engaged to be married to the heir to the Natopian throne. Erasyl told all who would listen that his brother, Makhmud's father, grew up a devout demon worshiper. However, he cursed his brother for turning his back on Goddess Kizzy, as he converted to Capric-Bovinism in 1671, when Drak-Modan was proclaimed by Nathan II as a Bovic state. "My brother, happy to practice demonism while we were ruled by the demon-queen herself! Converted on the first day of regime change! Opportunistic. Pathetic. I see my nephew is just the same, hitching his wagon to a butterlicker, abandoning the fierce individual demonism the Kalimatovs have proudly practiced since the days of Mors!"
According to their Troglism beliefs, Erasyl called Vandrio to demonism in 1699, during the siege of Gathering Place. Erasyl recognized Vandrio's demonic soul and called out his true demonic name before sending him and Elmira away before the Athlonic crusaders attacked. Erasyl was one of the many Goetics who fortified Gathering Place to endure the siege warfare of the Armored Goats in order to give the majority of the Goetics time to flee south.
