TolliverKing of FateMr. Weaver, The Architect, The Seer of Seers It's occasionally reassuring for the Conspiracy's leadership to include people who are just plain evil. Raymond Tolliver claims that he is gifted with the ability to see the future to a level most people could not possibly comprehend. The truth, he isn't a diviner or blessed with even the mildest psychic abilities. What he is gifted with is a massive network of spies, informers, genuine psychics he keeps tied up to machines, and a powerful network of superhumanly gifted assassins.
A Minnesota born con man, Augustus Tolliver managed to lie his way to the advisory of several important United States senators by successfully predicting scandals that might affect them. To this end, he was not adverse to arranging them ahead of time. Politicians, it should be noted, are notoriously vulnerable to the perks of leadership.
Tolliver caught the attention of the One World Order when he arranged for the death of a prominent politician's mistress by seeming drug overdose due to a book she was writing. Tolliver ended up getting kicked off the man's staff due to the suspicious nature of this and arranged for the man's assassination.
These rather audacious acts should have gotten him killed but he was assumed to be a puppet for the Factions opposed to the One World Order. Playing on the arrogance of the men, Tolliver managed to "defect" from the Labyrinth when he had no idea what his recruiters were talking about when they invited him to join. Tolliver's ability to read people worked for him well and he got several Labyrinth agents killed when he fed them what they wanted to hear.
Tolliver soon found that the One World Order was too much of an Old Boy's Network for him to properly rise to the top. Also, it's politicians were not unused to sociopaths who recognized chaos was an opportunity to rise in power.
Noting that the Fate Faction was weakening, Tolliver jumped ship and joined the "Frauds" sub-faction before subtly taking over. Tolliver revitalized much of their relevance by creating secular "risk analysis" and intelligence analysis branches which were expected to provide perfect visions of the future. Kidnapping, force breeding, and experimenting on children identified as psychics by the Agency's tests in the 1950s also gave them a new crop of psychics.
Tolliver eventually murdered the 103rd
Pythia of the organization, replacing her with a cadre of his followers who were provided every conceivable luxury in exchange for their gratitude. Fate has never been more respected under Tolliver's command...or more corrupt.
Fate prior to the Kingship of Mister Tolliver was primarily concerned with manipulating events in accordance with "destiny" as the Pythias believed that this was the best path for humanity to take. In a way, they were a more mystical branch of the Enlightenment.
Under Mister Tolliver, Fate throws destiny to the wind and simply attempts to manipulate the future to whatever events are most favorable to them.
What are Tolliver's ambitions? To continue to be considered king maker and relevant to all major discussions of policy. He lives a disgustingly rich and excessive life from his home in Las Vegas but this is all dross to his desire to be
respected. It's ironic that he's now on a Council where everyone knows he's a parasite but one too useful to cast aside. Tolliver, himself, would get upset if he knew this.
