Name: Gustav Swanberg.
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Patron deity: The Smith.
Nation of origin and information: Tranah, a kingdom of farmers and herders. Most of the territory held by Tranah is bountiful farmland, or ample grazing pastures, or even cultivated marshes and swamps. There is no terrain that a Tranah farmer does not know how to farm effectively.
Tranah controls large territories leading up to the Sea of Dreams, and has a burgeoning population. It primarily exports crops, and herbs of many varieties. Its armies however are never particularly well trained, with its people preferring to focus on learning the arts of the land, rather that warfare.
Physical appearance: A balding man of average height, and stout build. What little hair remains on his head is a dark brown, and he wears his long beard in dwarven style; a braid hung with small rings. He is in his mid twenties.
Backstory: Gustav is the second son of an Earl, from a modest earldom in the kingdom of Tranah, in the southwestern reaches of the Alliance. Gustav grew up quiet and capable, excelling at all his studies, even as his older brother showed less brilliance. As a noble of Tranah, he was expected to learn a weapon, but the bulk of his studies concerned husbandry of the land.
Some short time after his sixteenth birthday, a foul wind blew from the local marshes, and in the night people from all walks of life began to disappear. The people panicked and an armed militia headed into the marsh. Only a few returned, driven mad by what they saw there. There was no time to rally any troops to purge the swamps, for the cultists, robed in brown and wielding strange powers, struck at the township of Wilkinsville. Gustav fought bravely, cutting down nearly a dozen of the cultists before his brother went down to a hex. Escaping with his brothers body, he fled to the nearest church of the Trinity. Unfortunately they could do nothing to awaken his elder brother.
Those who returned to Wilkinsville after that day found a deserted ghost town, with no sign of the cultists whatsoever. No one has attempted to settle there in the five years since.
Reason(s) for assignment: Gustav has already built himself a small reputation for simply surviving in the face of the wizard-cultists who attacked his home. With the vast majority of his family murdered by wizard-cultists, and his older brother surviving in what appears to be a magically induced sleep, Gustav passed on his responsibility to rule to a group of regents so that he could begin hunting those responsible. In time his investigations, and the brutal way he dealt with suspicion brought him to the attention of the Council, and from there through calling in favors owed to his house, to a posting in the Inquisition.
Do you wish to be the High Inquisitor? Yes. (HQ information to follow when we get a headquarters.)
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