Surprisingly sane for a Lucanite (at least, he was when he arrived in the bar), but still likes playing around with people's minds. He is inquisitive and curious to an extent well beyond that which self-preservation should allow.
Virgil can be easily recognised by his wide-brimmed leather hat and fancy silk jacket. So easily recognised, in fact, that when he draped these items of clothing over a random corpse, everyone assumed it was him. He found his funeral service quite touching.
He is talkative and friendly towards anyone not wearing a big yellow circle.
Has fallen in the river.
During the siege of the City, the Drovid asked Virgil if he could do anything to help. Upon learning that the Chapterhouse of Luca lay squarely on the front lines, Virgil herded a few of the more coherent Lucanites into performing a Rite to ask Luca to help them. And help them she did, by sending the Greater Nightmares of Death, War, Famine and Pestilenc; Better known as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Unfortunately, one of the things that Virgil had offered up to his deity was his own hope, and without hope he saw no point staying on the front lines if the city was certain to fall. Virgil ran for it, and without him around, the Four Horsemen had no-one to command them. They got bored and started chopping up the defenders of the city, who fell back from the North Gate to the next line of defence. Although the Horsemen remained and tore large holes in the Orcish army, the defenders of Grantabrugge were not best pleased. Once the City was saved, Virgil was arrested for Treason and narrowly avoided being executed on the spot by Vladimir. The Justicars insisted that he be given a proper trial - at which Luca herself turned up to prevent Virgil's execution.
Released from prison in mysterious circumstances a week later, Virgil set about taking revenge on Vladimir in his own special way (and thus was born a new Nightmare, called the Ragman).
It turns out that the Goddess of Dreams and Nightmares had a very special task for her Priest. The Sword of Humact was lost, and Virgil was tasked with retrieving it so that Luca could have a new toy to play with. Against all odds, he succeeded, despite losing his spirit weapon, his left arm, and a lot of blood in the process. Clutching the Sword and surrounded by people who would kill to possess it, Virgil cried out to the heavens "Luca, by my ultimate faith, take me home!" and disappeared from the world forever.
Some time afterwards, the Fae began to tell tales of a half-human, half-nightmare creature wielding a sword of incredible power and intent on destroying them all.
With another chance to recover the Sword of Humact, a group of priests (and their pet spectre) and one slightly befuddled red mage travelled to Arcadia in the company of the Seelie Court.
Whatever happened there, Arcadia still stands and the Sword is back in the hands of Vivamort.
Current whereabouts: Dead, dead, dead.
Backstory:
As a young man, Virgil suffered from nightmares far worse than most. Specifically, he suffered from what we would now call sleep paralysis. His family called it "demonic visitation" and sent him to the local temple of Saint John to be cured of it. Sadly, Virgil's parents were not wealthy people and the priests of Saint John were not altruistic. The Alchemists similarly refused to do anything without pay, and there were no followers of Crofter in the area. However, the Children of the Light had a large following, and they offered to do what they could to help the troubled young man. Their treatment was not at all kind. Perhaps the less said about it the better.
One night, the door to Virgil's cell was opened by a young lady with mad and staring eyes, instead of the local priest of the Light. Without a word she led him out of the chapel-barracks where he was being "looked after" and out into the wilderness. She was Dahlia, of the local cult of Luca, a strange coven who hid themselves in the forests to escape the persecution meted out by the Children of the Light. Although terrified and confused, Virgil found that while in their care, the demon no longer troubled him. He could sleep without the fear of waking with a great weight upon his chest and ethereal hands about his throat.
From Dahlia and the few other followers, he learned more about Luca and the bliss that she gave to her worshippers, and although much of what he heard was contradictory or nonsensical, the Lady had been kind to him already. He followed her willingly, and in time, he began to hear her voice in his dreams. She showed him many things which enthralled him and others which terrified him, including the creature that had caused his suffering - a Nightmare known as Incubus. The fear did not lessen his devotion to her in the slightest.
Eventually, the Lady of Dreams decided that Virgil would make a suitable Priest. When she came to Awaken him, she asked him if he wished to be free of the fear of Incubus. When he accepted her offer, she took far more than he had expected. But she was true to her word, and Virgil's fear of his worst nightmare vanished from his mind - along with the rest of his memories.
Luca's newest Priest knew only three things - that he was Luca's servant, that she had given him great power, and that she expected her strictures to be obeyed. He only found out his own first name because Dahlia addressed him as it when he next met her.
After a few confused weeks in which Virgil tried to work out exactly what was missing from his mind, Luca told him she had need of him in a distant city called Grantabrugge.