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Zulkan Makiri, was Zouken Matou’s Son and one of the original members of the Makiri Family, He studied Magic under his father Zouken and Wizard Marshall Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg. He was a participant in and de facto winner of the 2nd Holy Grail War as he was the only living master with a servant left, but failed to get the Grail as his servant died from mortal wounds received after the final battle and after the city of Fuyuki was destroyed in the murder spree. Without proper stable land to start the summoning and a servant to hold the Grail, Zulkan could not reap the rewards.

Zouken Blames Zulkan for his weakness and failure as a Magus and disowns him. This completely destroyes Zulkan, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. What Zouken, did that day to his son did not just break Zulkan's heart and shattered his dignity, but it very literally destroyed his soul. After devoting everything to his father and family, Zulkan Curses his Father for this outrage and leaves both the family and the path of a Mage.

Two years after the 2nd Grail War Zulken travels back to the Makiri’s and his original homeland in Eurasia and Russia. In Central Russia, Zulken meets a group of Shamans, who convince him to follow them on a pilgrimage and journey to many regions in Europe, to help find some meaning in life and overcome his weakness. He studies, Geomancy and Spiritual communication while interacting with the Shamans. The idea was to help Zulkan make contact and bond with the spirits of earth to help him free himself of the spiritual and emotional pain he was suffering. But what he made contact with was far apart from the desired and intended outcome. Zulkan somehow managed to contact demons, evil spirits and false gods of old, who slowly corrupted him into the he man he is now. along the way to France he demanded to his comrades to go to Romania. Upon arriving in Romania, he managed to locate the old Scholomance building, said to be housed to many lost Magical and demonic tomes and secrets. He then stole some of these to be later uses.

After months and a whole year of traveling Zulkan finally gives up on learning Spiritual arts. He leavs his shamatic comrades as subtly as he could so that they would not suspect him. He then turns to Demonology and Necromancy, and soon learn how to summon and even control demons. He has also became obsessed with immortality and ruling the world



Personality

Prior to his corruption Zulkan was a narrow minded man who sole purpose was just to attain knowladge. He had no real goal and only hoped to find one after gaining enough knowladge and experience. After being disowned by his father, Zulkan's personality shifted completely, becoming openly violent and hostile to his fellow magi but he did not harm any regular humans yet.

After, associating himself with the demons, evil spirits and false gods of old, Zulkan began to possess an unquenchable thirst for power and an even more ruthless personality. His willingness to manipulate friend and foe alike into helping him achieving his goals is rivalled only by his talents and skills to do so, he constantly tries to better his station in life through any means possible. Even though Zulkan constantly tends to be embroiled in many different plots and schemes, his overarching goal is always to to claim all the knowladge of the world's Magic and gain the power of a God. Nothing else matters in comparison to this quest, and Zulkan is willing to betray his own people and sacrifice his closest friends to achieve it. this is all likely due to the experiences he had with his father Zouken disowning him.

Zulkan can only be trusted to do what is in his own best interests. He often offers wealth to people in exchange for information that might be useful, and then has them killed before they can claim his offered payment. Zulkan isn't vey foolish he knows that the path he is going on will result in his inevitable doom, but he still goes on with it as he his life was already a Hell after persuing the path of a Mage, which he deduced was a path of absolute senselessness and it's results bares absolutely no fruitation. He believes that Akasha and the idea of reaching it is nothing more then the most stupidest way of gaining absolute power. this is due to his frustration of having sacrificed so much during the Grail Wars and failing to attain it

Zulkan only truly trusts people who are like himself those who are openly ambitious and who will do anything to improve their lot in life. He feels that those people can be most easily predicted and manipulated through offers of wealth or prestige. It is the people who serve higher moral or religious powers like the Church and some high ranking Magi in the Mage's Association that he fears. Even despite the fact that he easily manipulated many of the younger inexperienced followers of both organizations, and make them his followers. They are often resistant to his lures, and in Gul’dan’s eyes can never be completely trusted or relied upon. He knows he has to tread lightly as they still could easily destroy him.

Because of this, he tends to associate most easily with many heretics and criminals.