True I.D.: Thomas Zander

Side: Good

Species: Human

Age: 25

Weight: 186 lbs.

Background: Industrialist and Mechanical Engineer

Motivation: Justice

Origin Type: Mutated

Legal Status: Licensed

 

Abilities:

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Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Culture: Modern

Sex: Straight Cis Male

Mass: d4

 

Wealth: d6+d8

Luck: 10-

 

 

CPs: 200

05 ADAPTATION: High Temperature (Energy) (5)

15 EXPERIENCE POINTS: +1 To hit bonus, +2 defense bonus, and +2 task bonus (15)

FLAME ABILITIES:

25 A) Flame Blast: Range 40", does 2d10 damage, PR 2/use (20), Armour Piercing (3 Pts) (5)

10 B) Flame Aura: Does d8+1 damage, PR 1/use (15), No Knockback (-5)

10 C) Fiery Flight: 8/128 (44 mph / mach .06) (20), Only fly when flame aura is activated (-5)

05 HEIGHTENED AGILITY: +5 (5)

13 HEIGHTENED COOL: +13 (13)

05 HEIGHTENED DEFENSE: +2 to physical defense only (5)

12 HEIGHTENED ENDURANCE: +12 (12)

05 HEIGHTENED INTELLIGENCE: +5 (5)

05 HEIGHTENED STRENGTH: +5 (5)

05 KNOWLEDGE: C) Languages. English (0), Fluent French (3), and Broken Japanese (1), D) Literacy: English (0) and French (1)

20 TEAM FUND: His contribution to the Sensational Seven team items (base & vehicles) (20)

15 WEALTH: Approximate annual income: $2,560,000 (15)

-15 COMPULSION: Must find out the truth about his parents' deaths. Uncommon (-5), CL save with -4 penalty (-10)

-5 VULNERABILITY: -4 Defense against cold (Entropy) (-5)

ST 15 (d6+1), EN 25 (13-), AG 20 (12-), IN 22 (12-), CL 28 (13-)

Punch: 16- to hit, d6+1 blunt Kinetic damage

Flame Blast: 16- to hit, d8+1 Energy damage

Flame Aura: d8+1 Energy damage

Defenses: Physical 6, Mental 4

Protection: ½ Damage from flame/heat-based attacks (+5 save bonus when required)

Initiative: d6+d8 Move: 20 Fly: 8/128

Power: 82 Hits: 25 Healing: 3.9 Inventing Points: 11

Group Affiliation: The Sensational Seven

Base of Operations: Helios City

Story: Thomas Richard Zander is the son of renown Canadian business tycoon, Noah Zander. He inherited Zander Industries when his parents died in a terrible car accident while visiting New York City on business. Thomas always suspected that his parents were murdered and his suspicions brought him to the New York headquarters of Zander Industries. He had his suspicions that the acting CEO, Richard Rayford, was up to something strange but he didn't know what exactly.

When he arrived in New York City, he was picked up by a company car and taken to the Zander Industries Corporate office. He was welcomed by Richard Rayford, who was surprised that Thomas took time out of his busy schedule, to visit the office. Thomas kept his doubts about Rayford to himself and said he wanted to see how the business was doing firsthand to better prepare him for taking over the CEO position. Thomas knew that the comment had bothered Rayford since it challenged his current position of power but Rayford did his best not to show it.

While Zander researched the company's files, he found disturbing documents that suggested someone was embezzling company funds for a series of unknown projects. As Zander continued to pry into these records and was able to figure out that it was Rayford himself who was misappropriating the funds for his own extra-company ventures. Rayford became aware of Zander's prying so he dispatched his personal security detail to take care of Zander. What Rayford and his goons hadn't counted on was the appearance of a superhero calling himself Inferno. Unknown to anyone, Inferno was none other than Zander himself.

As Inferno, Zander was able to expose Rayford's various financial crimes that led to his arrest and charged with multiple accounts of embezzlement. With Rayford out of the way and Zander in control of his father's company, he dug deeper into the company records to see if there was any details that might shed some light on his parents' deaths.

He found a memo from his father that was sent on the day before his accident. It mentioned he was cancelling something called Project Watchmaker. No matter how much Zander searched, he couldn't find any other mention of Project Watchmaker. Zander decided to visit Rayford in prison to see if he knew anything about the memo. To Zander's surprise, he learnt that Rayford had been busted from prison with help from an outside party. As Inferno, Zander searched for the escaped Rayford who was no where to be found. Zander hasn't given up on his search for what truly happened to his parents or for the missing Richard Rayford.

When the aliens known as the Collectors tried to steal sections of Helios City, Inferno joined with like minded heroes and saved the city. They became known as the Sensational Seven.

Zander is a mutant who at the age of sixteen developed the ability to burst info flames. He carefully kept his mutant abilities a secret for fear of what others would do to him and his family. With the aid of his family's resources, he was able to train and master his powers in secrecy.

Since Zander became a full time hero with the Sensational Seven, he has left his company in the capable hands of an old college friend and company executive, Martin Myer, who acts as his proxy.

GM Note: Richard Rayford is still in Helios City. He has become a criminal mastermind known as the Controller (who uses many gadgets including his Hypno-Goggles). He controls his own criminal syndicate that has been slowly taking control of the organized crime in Helios City. Rayford wants revenge against Zander and Inferno. He isn't aware that they are one and the same.