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VOLKNER VON KARLISLE
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[The personal seal of Count Volkner von Karlisle]
Character Information:
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VOLKNER VON KARLISLE
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[The personal seal of Count Volkner von Karlisle]
- Full Name: Volkner Franz-Josef von Karlisle zu Hinterberg
- Full Title: His Lordship Ser Volkner von Karlisle zu Hinterberg, Count of Hinterberg, Aden & Uttgart, Alderman of Brückenburg, & Holy Herebrand-Knight of the Lothar Order.
- Military Ranking: Senior Officer
- Race: Wirtem Ailor
- Age: 29 [[b. 02/02/283 AC]]
- Gender: Male
- Eye Colour: Steel Grey
- Weapon: Shortsword
RELIGION || Volkner has always been a devout Dogmatic Unionist, and is the patron of the largest Unionist Cathedral in Brückenburg. More specifically, the church worships a niche sect known as Performative Wirtem Unionism, a part of the Armageddon Cult local to Calemberg leading many to suggest the Count worships this radically purist path of Unionism.
Proficiencies/Abilities:
- Strength: 7
- Melee - Weapon Throw (Free)
- Melee - Careful Fighter (Free)
- Melee -Technique Parry
- Melee - Concussive Blow
- Melee - Pinning Throw
- Melee - Diving Tackle
- Athletics - Break Down
- Athletics - Steady Body
- Athletics - Gut Punch
- Athletics - Building Scale (Ailor Free)
- Constitution: 0
- Arcane: 0
- Command - Command Stance (Free)
- Command - Degrading Command
- Command - Attack Command
- Command - Defend Command
- Command - Champion Command
- Command - Overwhelm Command
- Command - Shield Command
- Command - Resist Command
- Dexterity: 0
- Faith: 0
- Attack: Strength
- Defense: Wisdom
- Herebrand Mechanic: Herebrand Knights can burn a captured Greater Vampire at the Pyre, which does not kill them (ported back to a safe base), but turns them into a Fledgeling Vampire.
Having a noble upbringing, Volkner was taught several languages as he studied in different courts across the Archipelago.
- Common <Fluent>
- Calem <Fluent>
- Letz <Fluent>
- Skodje <Words here & there>
- Anglisch <Basic Conversation>
- d'Ithanie <Basic Conversation>
- Kriv <Basic Conversation>
- Daen <Words here & there>
- Volkner is a mundane Wirtem Ailor, standing at 6'1 with an average muscled body build.
- He has sharp facial features, with steel-grey eyes and auburn hair brought on by a Sarnan Leutz-Vixe gene, which is long enough to tie back. He also sports a thick moustache and dark stubble. He has a scar across his nose & right cheek from a previous assassination attempt. He also has a number of tattoos on his upper right arm, uncommon for Wirtem nobility. These tattoos reference a variety of subjects from von Karlisle folklore, Unionist symbolism and wartime victories.
- Volkner is often found wearing Wirtem aristocratic outfits, usually decorated by military honors and his family trade of Calemberg Ferret Ermine. When acting out Knightly duties he will either wear full Holy Herebrand Lothar Armor (a heavy steel plate suit with black & white styling) or a tactical commander's uniform.
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Life Story/Plot Hooks:
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- Volkner is the Lord of Hinterberg, a county in Greater Calem with close proximity to the City of Calemberg.
- He has participated in the majority of the Regalian Empire's military campaigns of the last decade as a military field commander. He developed a deep purist mindset fighting against Altalar Mages in the L'Elvellen Conflict, Fogmen & Frosthorns at the Curag Fields, Dragonkin in the Songaskian Wars and Heretical Velheim in the Burning of the North. Eventually he would go on to join the Holy Herebrand Inquisition and purge Occult forces in Drixagh & Girobalda.
- Since coming to Regalia to reside in 311. AC, Volkner has led his house proudly and helped to herald in a resurgence in Purism within the capital. He played a hand in the disbandment of a corrupt government, issued in the short-lived Hallowed Hand Inquisition & been the victim of a handful of assassination attempts.
- Currently Volkner is often on the move, travelling across the Archipelago regularly to correspond with Lothar Chapters and gather support for the mission to Drowda. He has also spent time in the neutral state of Amontaar on Lothar business.
- Volkner was born in the city of Brückenburg to Strathorne & Freya von Karlisle in 283. AC. The firstborn of his family and heir to their positions, he was nurtured within a higher standard of living, making frequent trips between the capital city Regalia and his home for his father's work in the Senate.
- In his youth, Volkner was a studious child. He spent terms at the Regalian Diplomatic, Statesmen & Marshal Academies whilst living in courts of influential families in their respective regions. This gave him a respect for the traditional lifestyles of Anglians, but disdain for the extravagant and decadent ways of Ithanians in Vixhall.
- Volkner experiences a magic-related event that creates absolute contempt for magic and joins the Holy Herebrand Order, from which he eventually becomes a Knight through years of training with a greatsword and crossbow, which is later swapped for Puretek once the invention became more widespread and more purist groups begin acquiring them.
- At age 21 he participated in the Battle of Calemberg under the Typhonus banner, partially blinded for two months as a result of the light explosion. During Regalia's years of foreign conflicts he participated as a commander in several battles against the Songaskian & Hadravian States. After the Battle of Altaqq during the Second Songaskian War he would be ennobled as the Lord-Protector of Hinterberg, his father had lost the nerve to rule and fight. Volkner would return to the archipelago to then participate in the Burning of the North against the Velheim, as well as the Drixagh rebellion later in the decade.
- In the last five years Volkner has lorded over his lands, eventually being released honorably from his oaths to House Typhonus in 309 AC which empowered his house to grow beyond them. He has often been back and forth between Hinterberg and Forreista Natal, keeping in commune with the Holy Herebrand Order, now incorporated into the Lothar Order. He was present in Regalia during the Vampire Issurection, keeping his identity undercover as he worked an assignment for the Lothar Order.
- After arriving for a scheduled visit to the Imperial Court to pay homage to the Crown-Regent, Volkner found reason to stay in Regalia due to the increasing number of Occult arriving in the city, and to play in central politics much like his father did.
311. AC:
- The arrival of the Lord-Protector couldn't have come at a better time. The Holy City was in civil strife between the purists and mage sympathizers, and Volkner was able to make both allies and rivals. Upon the Grand Vigil of the Lothar Order's announcement of his march against Mage-Appeasement, Volkner rose to the call and began a smear campaign against the occult in Regalia. He was able to persuade the Truth Minister into releasing solid evidence against the top of the current government, which was in truth, corrupt. This eventually led to the disbandment of the du Poncaire government, perhaps somewhat Volkner's doing.
- During an outing, Volkner experienced an attempt on his life by what he could only describe as an Elven insurgent, later revealed to be the Godborn Naravan. Scarred by his attack, he traced back his assassin's origins to the previous Law Minister before the government had been dissolved, only finding them more culpable in their guilt.
- Volkner found as time went on the more enemies he made meant the more time he'd spend in care wards, which had increased under the grouping up of mages. After one battle where he nearly lost his life, he did lose his pride. He returned to Hinterberg for a time to administer his lands while he dwelled on his losses, but returned to Regalia once the Lothar host had arrival, and proclaimed dogmatic unionism the true religion.
- He would go on to form an alliance with fellow Lothar House Mekrov, as well as founding an Inquisition Militia known as the Hallowed Hand. The Inquisition faced a backlash from the general public for promises of purges, and after a failed arranged marriage between von Karlisle & Mekrov members, the Hallowed Hand eventually fell through the cracks as other purist militias formed, as did any alliance. In a way though, it had achieved Volkner's goal of a resurgence of Lothar Order members and purist families to the Holy City.
- Volkner acts as a correspondent between the various Lothar chapters, updating each order with information about the Grand Vigil's briefings and the mission in Drowda. During a period of war spending among the aristocracy, he chose to give a large portion of aid to the Sihndar, as well as a minor package to the Suvial for their efforts against the Dread & Allorn Empires.
- He expects the year of 312. AC to be an eventful one, marking a decade of Irvae extinguishment and Kade Imperial rule, as well as the 10th anniversaries of the L'Elvellen War and Battle of Calemberg.
- Volkner travels to Amontaar as a part of a Lothar contingent. The city state disgusts him with their outward use of magic and neutrality with Allornists. He mostly spends time at the Regalian Embassy.
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