Hannibal
08-09-11, 01:47 AM
Name: Krausse Kreugar
Age: 13
Race: Meta-Human (basically just an above-average human until he begins to level up and realize his powers)
Hair Color: Crimson
Eye Color: Purple
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 220lb
Occupation: A charismatic bard wandering the loveless world of Althanas, looking for that one true moment to make the most of his life (he's unemployed).
Personality: Though described as "very weird" more often than not, most find Krausse a very endearing type of weird. He is gregarious, socially dextrous, and, despite his weirdness, most people find Krausse to be a very trustworthy fellow and people tend to look up to him as a leader due to his silver tongue (often barbed) and impressive intellect. However, as a result of his outward friendliness, very few people realize how devious and manipulative Krausse is.
Appearance: Tall, dark, and handsome is an apt description for Krausse – as well as looking into his 20's, despite Krausse's 13 year old age. His height is not gawky or lanky, but proportioned, and it is combined with the whipcord build of a martial artist to make him rather intimidating when he wants to be. His hair is a deep crimson and fine, always immaculately styled and never wavering - even when a bucket of water is dropped on his head - and it frames an always clean shaven, universally handsome face with well-defined classical lines. Even when wearing armor, Krausse is stylish, preferring to wear mixtures of purple and black when possible and odd, yet somehow matching bright colors when he feels like it. Most have the odd, inexplicable feeling that Krausse is a narcissist.
Skills: Most of Krausse's skills revolve around his intellect.
- Persuasive: Krausse is a skilled speaker and a master of bullshit, able to intimidate, persuade, and bluff his way out of a fight more often than not. This works especially well on women.
- Literate in multiple languages: Krausse is able to read and speak in almost all commonly spoken languages, and he has a knack for being able to pick up rudimentary skills of a language from listening and watching people speak them
- Knowledgeable: Having spent many days in libraries and talking to scholars and taking every day as an opportunity to learn as much as possible, Krausse is both well-rounded in the knowledge of books and the knowledge of the street.
- Medical Knowledge: While by no means a practiced doctor, Krausse has cut open many corpses and explored the human anatomy in an attempt to understand how his own body works and, as a result, his strikes generally tend to be precise. He is less adept at putting bodies back together, but Krausse is an able sawbones surgeon and can make herbal medicines to fight infection and simple diseases (don't expect him to save you from that terrible bout of tuberculosis, though).
- Martial Artist: While adept at the sword, Krausse's combat specialty is his skill in martial arts. His high speed and strength and unnatural body weight give him an unfair advantage against most people in martial arts, and his height gives him a better reach than most. He usually combines his unarmed combat with his sword in unpredictable ways.
- Swordsman: Though not a master swordsman yet, Krausse uses slim, lightweight blades to erupt in a fast-moving whirlwind of fists, feet, and sword.
Pickpocket: The life of a traveling man is not the life of a rich man, and Krausse has become a skilled cutpurse and pick pocket as a result of “the need to eat”. He is also good at coercing women into giving him money (see: persuasive).
- Prodigy: While only 13 years old, Krausse possesses the skills and knowledge of a middle-aged human. This is explained by his once-in-a-century prodigal IQ (which is explained by him not being human).
Abilities:
- Enhanced Musculature: Though Krausse seems like a normal male human on the outside, he is gifted with supernatural strength, speed, and reflexes as a result of an enhanced musculature system that weighs more than a regular human's, but gives him 1.3x more strength, speed, and reflexes than that of a human. Also, as a result of his enhanced musculature, punching Krausse is like punching a brick wall, and it hurts. The “brick wall” metaphor does not apply to warhammers, blades, or arrows. Krausse's enhanced muscle system also includes his heart (as the heart is a muscle), and he tires more slowly than a human and is less likely to get a heart attack.
- Enhanced Skeletal Structure: With a weight of over two hundred pounds and the incredible stress of his musculature system, the only reason Krausse's joints haven't ground to dust and his bones don't snap every time he gets up is because of a reinforced skeletal system. While not unbreakable, Krausse's bones are what is essentially iron-plated.
Equipment: While Krausse wears no armor so that his speed is unhindered, Krausse does carry a steel double-edged small sword on his hip that is juxtaposed with a basket-hilted steel broadsword.
*Familiars: Almost always spotted with Krausse is the adorable black kitten on his head, Igor. Not your typical kitten, Igor is the spirit of a husky Russian alcoholic trapped in the body of a five month old kitten – that can talk (in a russian accent). Being in a kitten's body has not quenched Igor's thirst, whether that thirst is for alcohol, Communism, or fine women. Igor is almost useless in combat, but he makes a great spy and/or distraction.
History:
As to what Krausse is and how he is a beyond a grown man in a 13 year old body is a mystery*. He is not tight-lipped on his history, but instead is more likely to make up a different story each time he is asked than say “I just remember waking up, in a field, naked, a man grown with a child's mind.” This, however, is the true case. The earliest records that can be traced to Krausse is a farmer stumbling upon a naked pale man with red hair and purple eyes 13 years ago. There was no note of the farmer's name, as the account is told firsthand by an eyewitness neighbor who wanted all involved to remain anonymous, but the red-haired man is reported to have stayed several months with the farmer and his wife and was adopted into their family before bandits visited the farming community one night. The house the red-haired man was staying in was visited first, by what must have been a dozen men, and the screams awoke the neighbors – and the record goes on to clarify that it was the screams of the bandits that woke them, not the screams of the aforementioned farmer and his wife. The eyewitness rushed to the scene of the house with weapons to find the pieces of the bandits mangled with the ravaged bodies of the farmer and his wife, torrents of blood coating the home's interior, the red-haired man staring down silently at the corpses. Frightened, the eyewitness moved out of the way as the red-haired man exited the building, his purple eyes devoid of anything human.
The next eyewitness account of Krausse is in Corone, near a wheat farming collective. Farmers reported an unusually high loss of their crop every morning, and began to go out in search parties during the night to discover the cause. There, they discovered a red-haired, white-skinned feral man in little more than rags devouring raw crop. In the religion of the local farmers in that area, there is a foretelling of a red-haired, white-skinned devil with purple eyes to come and ravage the world, and cause naught but misery. The farmers attacked and one carried a muzzle-loader, which he shot the red-haired man with. They reported a loss of several men in the hunting party who were torn apart by the supernatural strength and speed of the man, but ultimately he retreated, never to be seen again. Over the next several weeks, the individual people of the farming collective disappeared over the night, until the community was forced to disband.
For several years, accounts of a pale, red-haired man pop up sporadically among complaints filed by farmers around Corone and eventually all along the southern nation-states. There is one account of a farmer filing a legal complaint of his daughter running away with such a man, but investigations into this proved fruitless, as the daughter's farmer was eventually found by a vigilante search party, dead, covered in blood that was not entirely her own. To this day, there is still a bounty in Failleen on the red-haired, purple-eyed man.
The third major account of Krausse is the first where he actually appears in name. An aging Drow noble in Arerar took in a student he called “a once in a life time” prodigy, tutoring him in books, politics, and even the art of swordsmanship. The human was notable throughout the aristocracy because of his unusual hair and eye color, as well as his vast intellect. However, Krausse quickly realized that the Drow noble was only interested in Krausse to gain social prestige by sheltering such a rare curiosity, and the Drow noble woke up one morning to find Krausse gone, a purse of gold stolen, and a short sword and a rapier. This is presumably where Krausse realized his charisma and gained his unusual style, as well as had the hard-learned lessons of a cruel world sink in.
Various accounts after this paint a picture of Krausse wandering around Althanas as if he were looking for something. In the 13th year since the initial sighting of Krausse, the red-haired man began to be sighted with a black kitten resting upon his head – a kitten that is surly when sober, misogynistic when drunk.
* = at some point, I will get into a storyline to get more in depth into Krausse's past, as well as a storyline to return Igor to his body
Age: 13
Race: Meta-Human (basically just an above-average human until he begins to level up and realize his powers)
Hair Color: Crimson
Eye Color: Purple
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 220lb
Occupation: A charismatic bard wandering the loveless world of Althanas, looking for that one true moment to make the most of his life (he's unemployed).
Personality: Though described as "very weird" more often than not, most find Krausse a very endearing type of weird. He is gregarious, socially dextrous, and, despite his weirdness, most people find Krausse to be a very trustworthy fellow and people tend to look up to him as a leader due to his silver tongue (often barbed) and impressive intellect. However, as a result of his outward friendliness, very few people realize how devious and manipulative Krausse is.
Appearance: Tall, dark, and handsome is an apt description for Krausse – as well as looking into his 20's, despite Krausse's 13 year old age. His height is not gawky or lanky, but proportioned, and it is combined with the whipcord build of a martial artist to make him rather intimidating when he wants to be. His hair is a deep crimson and fine, always immaculately styled and never wavering - even when a bucket of water is dropped on his head - and it frames an always clean shaven, universally handsome face with well-defined classical lines. Even when wearing armor, Krausse is stylish, preferring to wear mixtures of purple and black when possible and odd, yet somehow matching bright colors when he feels like it. Most have the odd, inexplicable feeling that Krausse is a narcissist.
Skills: Most of Krausse's skills revolve around his intellect.
- Persuasive: Krausse is a skilled speaker and a master of bullshit, able to intimidate, persuade, and bluff his way out of a fight more often than not. This works especially well on women.
- Literate in multiple languages: Krausse is able to read and speak in almost all commonly spoken languages, and he has a knack for being able to pick up rudimentary skills of a language from listening and watching people speak them
- Knowledgeable: Having spent many days in libraries and talking to scholars and taking every day as an opportunity to learn as much as possible, Krausse is both well-rounded in the knowledge of books and the knowledge of the street.
- Medical Knowledge: While by no means a practiced doctor, Krausse has cut open many corpses and explored the human anatomy in an attempt to understand how his own body works and, as a result, his strikes generally tend to be precise. He is less adept at putting bodies back together, but Krausse is an able sawbones surgeon and can make herbal medicines to fight infection and simple diseases (don't expect him to save you from that terrible bout of tuberculosis, though).
- Martial Artist: While adept at the sword, Krausse's combat specialty is his skill in martial arts. His high speed and strength and unnatural body weight give him an unfair advantage against most people in martial arts, and his height gives him a better reach than most. He usually combines his unarmed combat with his sword in unpredictable ways.
- Swordsman: Though not a master swordsman yet, Krausse uses slim, lightweight blades to erupt in a fast-moving whirlwind of fists, feet, and sword.
Pickpocket: The life of a traveling man is not the life of a rich man, and Krausse has become a skilled cutpurse and pick pocket as a result of “the need to eat”. He is also good at coercing women into giving him money (see: persuasive).
- Prodigy: While only 13 years old, Krausse possesses the skills and knowledge of a middle-aged human. This is explained by his once-in-a-century prodigal IQ (which is explained by him not being human).
Abilities:
- Enhanced Musculature: Though Krausse seems like a normal male human on the outside, he is gifted with supernatural strength, speed, and reflexes as a result of an enhanced musculature system that weighs more than a regular human's, but gives him 1.3x more strength, speed, and reflexes than that of a human. Also, as a result of his enhanced musculature, punching Krausse is like punching a brick wall, and it hurts. The “brick wall” metaphor does not apply to warhammers, blades, or arrows. Krausse's enhanced muscle system also includes his heart (as the heart is a muscle), and he tires more slowly than a human and is less likely to get a heart attack.
- Enhanced Skeletal Structure: With a weight of over two hundred pounds and the incredible stress of his musculature system, the only reason Krausse's joints haven't ground to dust and his bones don't snap every time he gets up is because of a reinforced skeletal system. While not unbreakable, Krausse's bones are what is essentially iron-plated.
Equipment: While Krausse wears no armor so that his speed is unhindered, Krausse does carry a steel double-edged small sword on his hip that is juxtaposed with a basket-hilted steel broadsword.
*Familiars: Almost always spotted with Krausse is the adorable black kitten on his head, Igor. Not your typical kitten, Igor is the spirit of a husky Russian alcoholic trapped in the body of a five month old kitten – that can talk (in a russian accent). Being in a kitten's body has not quenched Igor's thirst, whether that thirst is for alcohol, Communism, or fine women. Igor is almost useless in combat, but he makes a great spy and/or distraction.
History:
As to what Krausse is and how he is a beyond a grown man in a 13 year old body is a mystery*. He is not tight-lipped on his history, but instead is more likely to make up a different story each time he is asked than say “I just remember waking up, in a field, naked, a man grown with a child's mind.” This, however, is the true case. The earliest records that can be traced to Krausse is a farmer stumbling upon a naked pale man with red hair and purple eyes 13 years ago. There was no note of the farmer's name, as the account is told firsthand by an eyewitness neighbor who wanted all involved to remain anonymous, but the red-haired man is reported to have stayed several months with the farmer and his wife and was adopted into their family before bandits visited the farming community one night. The house the red-haired man was staying in was visited first, by what must have been a dozen men, and the screams awoke the neighbors – and the record goes on to clarify that it was the screams of the bandits that woke them, not the screams of the aforementioned farmer and his wife. The eyewitness rushed to the scene of the house with weapons to find the pieces of the bandits mangled with the ravaged bodies of the farmer and his wife, torrents of blood coating the home's interior, the red-haired man staring down silently at the corpses. Frightened, the eyewitness moved out of the way as the red-haired man exited the building, his purple eyes devoid of anything human.
The next eyewitness account of Krausse is in Corone, near a wheat farming collective. Farmers reported an unusually high loss of their crop every morning, and began to go out in search parties during the night to discover the cause. There, they discovered a red-haired, white-skinned feral man in little more than rags devouring raw crop. In the religion of the local farmers in that area, there is a foretelling of a red-haired, white-skinned devil with purple eyes to come and ravage the world, and cause naught but misery. The farmers attacked and one carried a muzzle-loader, which he shot the red-haired man with. They reported a loss of several men in the hunting party who were torn apart by the supernatural strength and speed of the man, but ultimately he retreated, never to be seen again. Over the next several weeks, the individual people of the farming collective disappeared over the night, until the community was forced to disband.
For several years, accounts of a pale, red-haired man pop up sporadically among complaints filed by farmers around Corone and eventually all along the southern nation-states. There is one account of a farmer filing a legal complaint of his daughter running away with such a man, but investigations into this proved fruitless, as the daughter's farmer was eventually found by a vigilante search party, dead, covered in blood that was not entirely her own. To this day, there is still a bounty in Failleen on the red-haired, purple-eyed man.
The third major account of Krausse is the first where he actually appears in name. An aging Drow noble in Arerar took in a student he called “a once in a life time” prodigy, tutoring him in books, politics, and even the art of swordsmanship. The human was notable throughout the aristocracy because of his unusual hair and eye color, as well as his vast intellect. However, Krausse quickly realized that the Drow noble was only interested in Krausse to gain social prestige by sheltering such a rare curiosity, and the Drow noble woke up one morning to find Krausse gone, a purse of gold stolen, and a short sword and a rapier. This is presumably where Krausse realized his charisma and gained his unusual style, as well as had the hard-learned lessons of a cruel world sink in.
Various accounts after this paint a picture of Krausse wandering around Althanas as if he were looking for something. In the 13th year since the initial sighting of Krausse, the red-haired man began to be sighted with a black kitten resting upon his head – a kitten that is surly when sober, misogynistic when drunk.
* = at some point, I will get into a storyline to get more in depth into Krausse's past, as well as a storyline to return Igor to his body