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Percival Saint John was always an outcast.  He was odd in school, bizarre in university and utterly unemployable as an adult.  He turned to esoteric pursuits and then arcane ones, hoping to find acceptance amongst the outsiders of the world.  His uncle was a member of a cult and Percival felt that he could follow in the tradition, but his uncle was small fry and when Percival attempted to join he only ended up tearing the cult apart - amidst a swarm of demonic wasps.  Percival survived and said nothing of the disaster to his family.  Not that they would have listened to him.  Even they wanted to see the back of Percival.

He travelled to India, South Africa and finally to America where he settled in the South.  He began to search for mystical knowledge in his usual haphazard way until one day he stumbled across the personal effects of Mangudai: an assistant to the most powerful sorcerer on the planet.  Mangudai had moved to America after his master had died and had himself died several decades later.  Percival read through the magical tomes with utter abandon, never having experienced such power in his meandering quest.  As he read the books the world around him shifted.

It was 1988.

Dallas was never the same again.  Percival unleashed a horde of demons upon the American city which eventually transformed most of the city as well.  Percival escaped the demonic horde and hid away in an installation which turned out to belong to the Astrologer.  As the American heroes and mystic community battled the demons, Percival hid away with Astrologer and played chess to pass the time.

When the battle had been won, Percival and Astrologer decided to work on a plan of world domination.  At least, that was Percival's take on the situation, although Astrologer was more interested in gaining wealth and knowledge.  Percival read the books, Prospero's Books, and managed to stumble through further misadventures through space and time.  He visited dimensions, destroying just as many as he left undisturbed.  One of these dimensions belonged to Sycorax.  Her entire dimension was destroyed by Prospero's visit.  And it wasn't the only one.

Prospero still manages to get pulled in to weird situations but always seems to survive untouched.  He is a bearer of bad omens and destroyer of worlds, but underneath he is just a bumbling old man.

Prospero is a regular human who has stumbled across books of unimaginable power.  When he reads from the books he is able to produce a wide variety of magical effects, mostly linked to demonic spells.  He is able to transform people and inanimate objects, but they always change into demonic forms.  He is able to manipulate objects remotely, throwing them at opponents or wrapping them up in strong bonds.  He also possesses a thick ugly coat which provides him with protection as well as access to remote 'pocket dimensions' where he stores items, most notably his books.

Prospero is an old man with sparkling (almost insane) eyes and a wrinkled face.  He is slightly hunched and seems harmless enough, although he wears a satanic-looking amulet which can be disarming.  He is always shrouded with his thick ugly coat which makes him look like a homeless man.  It smells and looks like it is a hundred years old (not far from the truth).  Under the coat he sometimes wears spandex as a way to convince himself that he could have been a superhero if he wanted to.  It has become something of a joke amongst the Zodiac Agency, although Prospero remains clueless.