I made up one character and stole another from a book series and then noticed they had a lot in common. So now they're one template.
Amoral. Wants power and recognition, but their society is insufficiently egalitarian for that to be available to them - so they use complicated plans and possibly murder to achieve it *anyway*.

Stolen from the Shamer series by Lene Kaaberbøl.

Stolen from the Shamer series by Lene Kaaberbøl.

Sometimes I want to post as a setting. If that happens, I create the setting as a character. For neatness, all such "characters" are organized under this template.