Erlend Kallio

Erlend Kallio is an Undead berserker wandering the Modir Mainland alongside his trusty horse, killing every Plague Creature he comes across. He serves Tuon as an immortal warrior, devoting his life to destroy the Great Plague.
Erlend is very loyal to Tuon as she saved his life multiple times during the Second Great Plague, but he secretly regrets making the deal and having to serve Tuon for an eternity. Erlend's utter hatred for the Great Plague is the only thing keeping him from leaving Tuon.
Erlend was one of the best warriors during the Age of Decay, he was a legend amongst the swordmasters and a proud warrior that served the Second Legion of Fire. People called him the Death Knight due to his deal with Tuon granting him a weapon that had turned him into a monster that even the Plague Creatures feared.
==Biography==
===Early life===
Erlend was born in 1275 AHD in a small family with a mother that utterly hated him, though his father immediately left after Erlend's birth. His mother never raised him properly, instead she always left him outside and only allowed him to sleep in her house. Somewhere between 1285 and 1287 AHD, Erlend met a small group of youngsters that dreamt of becoming the greatest mercenary group in the world, so Erlend joined them and the group started planning to escape Navano. In 1290 the preparations were finished, and Erlend escaped Navano alongside his team.
They became a mercenary group known as the Verdant Shield, they undertook many dangerous missions and somehow managed to endure them. In 1292 AHD the group started to grow even bigger and started to become famous amongst the mercenaries in the Karlia Plains, and Erlend earned a nickname too, "the Immortal". He earned that name after escaping from the worst situations such as the Karlia Siege.
===Adulthood===
In 1300 AHD during the very start of the Second Great Plague, Verdant Shields were tasked with a seemingly impossible mission, they had to protect Navano from the giant horde of Plague Creatures, at that time no one really knew what kind of monstrosities were unleashed unto Karlia, and the team was horrified but Erlend was the one who managed to convince them. Erlend thought he'll survive this mission too, so he never really feared them.
=== Fall of the Verdant Shields ===
In the dead of night, the Verdant Shields gathered before Navano, prepared to face the creatures. They were hit all out of sudden, black puddles of goo appearing everywhere in the city and monsters appearing from them, people started dying one by one and the team panicked, the half was wiped out already and as they were about to give up, Erlend's roar across the streets of Navano encouraged them.
They fought like true berserkers, ignoring their wounds and slaying the creatures one by one, but they kept coming. Soon, Erlend was the only one who still fought the creatures, and they slowly overwhelmed him. As he was about to collapse due to his wounds, a sinister voice spoke in his head, telling him "I'll give thou power to defeat them, but with one and only one condition. If thee die by the hands of someone in the heat of the battle, you will serve me for an eternity." 
Erlend agreed, and his his armour slowly transformed into a pitch black suit. Erlend's broken limbs snapped back in place and his wounds slowly close and he stopped feeling the pain. After the battle, Erlend found himself lying in the town centre crowded with soldiers, his limbs were twisted and his whole body was bandaged. The soldiers cuffed him and showed him the countless piles of dead humans, Navano was completely wiped out and it seemed like the soldiers thought that Verdant Shields killed the citizens. They put Erlend in prison, and he was forced to wait till the execution.
=== Age of Decay ===
One day, a man with a symbol of fire on his helmet spoke to him. The man called himself the Follower of Fire, and promised to get Erlend out. And so he did, though Erlend never managed to know the identity of his saver. Around the years of 1301 and 1304 AHD, Erlend wandered around the plains, killing countless amounts of Plague Creatures, he never managed to use his Death Armour properly.
Later in 1305 AHD a strange man asked him to join some kind of a cult called the Legion of Fire, Erlend declined of course but after hearing that they were the ones who saved him, he agreed. He helped them throughout the Age of Decay killing countless amounts of Plague Creatures, the Legion earned its name across the Mainland, even being hired by the King himself. Erlend became a legend.
=== Death ===
During the massive raid on Karlia's Castle, the whole Legion of Fire participated in protecting it, tens of thousands Plague Creatures rampaged on the battlefield, the sky was covered in ashes and smoke and Karlia Plains were covered with fires. This battle will be known as the most brutal and fierce in the Age of Decay and even people from the Age of Prosperity remembered it as probably the greatest battle to ever exist.
Erlend and his partners, Mjulhor and Suovenn were called in the heat of the battle. Mjulhor slain the creatures with his trusty horse and the burning sword, Suovenn rapidly shot the Plague with his burning arrows. Erlend fought well, slaying the largest beasts of Rutt's army, he saw the Plague Lord in the distance and was determined to kill him by any means. He activated his Death Armour and rushed through the hordes, killing them all. Rutt finally noticed him in the distance and the creatures switched their target to Erlend. That day, he killed thousands and thousands of them and managed to reach Rutt, dawn started to come and Rutt started to panic too, Erlend was so close to winning, he managed to hold the Plague Lord himself by drawing power from Tuon and summoning armies of Undead to fight Rutt's plague army. But, somehow, Tuon's powers stopped flowing through him and the Death Armour disappeared alongside the army of undead. Rutt grabbed Erlend with his twisted arms and then-
===Present day===
The year is 1370 AHD, Erlend still wanders the Mainland, slaughtering the creatures like pigs. For the past sixty-three years he wandered. People called him the Deathbringer, due to his bringing of death to everyone who witnessed his power.
He continued like this, roaming the lands, until he heard about the dead man walking.
==Equipment==
*Plagueslayer: A giant sword forged in the flames of the Legion of Fire. Now, instead of using fire, Erlend uses a special technique that allows him to cover his sword in some kind of an anti-Plague magic, a dark spell made by Tuon herself.
*Death Magic and Summoning: Once every two days, Erneld can summon a horde of undead. He is also able to kill any creature that is under Tuon's influence, but he rarely used it mostly because Tuon never allowed him to.
*Rognvald: Erlend's trusty horse that served him throughout the Age of Decay, after his death Tuon brought it to him. The horse has been given the power of a rune that allows it the power of Shadowfade, an ability that allows it to teleport essentially anywhere on the Mainland, making it the main type of transport for Erneld.
==Behind the scenes==
* Erlend is based on the Skull Knight and Guts from the manga Berserk.
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