This is a reference sheet that I got from the all too awesome  melociraptor back at MFF for Grizzly Trotsky, who will be appearing in a story that I am slowly working on called "The Trotsky Chronicles". It's part dark fantasy, part alternate history, and part political thriller.

"It is the dawn of the 20th Century, a time of rapid and dangerous progress. New ideas and old traditions clash in the ivory towers of academia, on the city streets, and in the hearts of the people. The old bastions of power are challenged, and their hallowed halls are rife with scandal and sedition--all while an ancient force beneath the earth awakens. Thrust into this fierce world of international intrigue is Michael Trotsky, a Researcher of Magic, whose quest to understand the force that has marked him since his childhood will carry him far from home and change the world... forever."