Magnus

Character
Name: Magnus

Race: Human

Careers: Thug (Starting, Current, p. 57)

Personal Details
Birthplace: Leitenbad, Middenland

Distinguishing Marks: A scar over his cheek and chin.

Background
Magnus was born in 2502 under the sign of the Dancer to a peasant family in the small Middenland village of Leitenbad. He grew up to be a resilient young man, poised to follow a career in the small but growing lumber industry of the village. This life would end in 2517 when he came back to the village from his work in the forest to find it burned by a Beastman War Band, and most of the villagers dead or gone.

The survivors banded together and founded a hideout in the forest where they would struggle to survive as the electorate was torn by war and lawlessness, until a year later, one family would doom them by showing compassion towards a small group of wandering refugees. Word of the hideouts location was carried by those refugees and only a week later, a nightly attack by a band of criminals and deserters would destroy this last place Magnus had called home. Barely escaping the slaughter, the terrified Magnus became a refugee himself.

In 2519 he reached Middenheim, at that time already teeming with mercenaries, soldiers and refugees. Without any education or support, within two years he turned into a thug just like those who had burned down the secret village in the woods. Half a year before the siege of Middenheim, he was driven out of the city by rumors of a price on his head for murder, something he never confirmed.

As he went North, he continued to earn his bread with the work of a thug and a criminal until one night, his dead father appeared to him in a dream and told him he had brought shame on his family name by ignoring his honor to survive. Awakening drenched in sweat, Magnus swore to not use his family name again until he had regained his honor and his family could once more be proud of him.

A month later, Magnus arrived in Hargendorf.

Money
Gold Crowns (gc): 1

Silver Schillings (s): 4

Brass Pennies (p): 4