Johannes Cabal

"You don't understand what it is to be dedicated. You don't understand what it means to go to sleep and wake up with the same thought and for that thought to always be there."

"That's not dedication."

"No?"

"No, that's obsession."

"And that's your big effort to understand me, is it? A label. I shouldn't have expected anything but."

"It's not a label. Look at yourself. Ye gods, Johannes, you were going to be a doctor! You wanted to help people."

"Doctors. Frauds and quacks. Just trying to hold back the dark and full of pat excuses when they fail. Too stupid or too scared to bring back the light. Not me. Not me! I'll be the modern Prometheus no matter what I have to do, no matter how dark I have to make it before I can find the secret."

"And what if there is no secret to find? What if it's beyond mortals? What then? What about you?"

"There has to be," said Cabal, but he seemed to be very old and very tired as he said it. "There has to be."



Johannes is taken from a very pivotal moment in his canon for the first book, and I fully admit that it can be a bit difficult to navigate clearly between the genuinely unlikeable person he is and his Big Moment of Indecision. He's going to try not to outright dismiss people, but he's probably not going to be nice about it either. And he still hasn't decided whether he's giving up on his deal with the devil or not.

Any questions or comments about how I play Johannes are , of course, welcome and appreciated. :)