Fritz

Fritz with his Midnight Robes of Eyes

Fritz Marlan is an adventurer and a self-proclaimed carrier of a divine spark. His fellow party members are Braznii, Milri, Nugget, Darling, and Ed. His former party members include: Morgana, Lorra, Litvati, Umeven, and Beast.

## Description

### Physical description

Fritz wears long black robes that cover almost all of his body, with parts of skin otherwise visible wrapped in bandages. His face is covered by a silver mask with a long, pointy nose. He always carries with him a shield and his trusty silver quarterstaff.

### Character description

He is arrogant, overconfident in his own abilities, and easily swayed by compliments. He often punches above his weight, on one notable occassion challenging Nefaria, which ended with them being defeated, and Fritz entering a contract with her to save himself and the party. He breached the contract three times, once by asking a powerful wizard for help breaking the contract, second time by pleading to Nefaria so she extends his deadline of causing fear, and third time by praying to Leusfiette for help.

Despite all that, he cares for his friends.

*The following is "Secret Knowledge". See Availability of Information for details.*

Fritz is an alias for his true name - Bikloux. He is a lizardfolk, that got radicalized by reading history books of how his once great ancestry, and nation Ngwih got conquered by colonising imperials. After months of traveling alongside them, he warmed up to what he once thought was an evil race.

He started his adventure wishing to spread his cult throughout the world, causing unrest as people rise up against nobility, eventually causing societal collapse, and he would remain as their god - a lizardfolk conquering the conquerors. Now, his goals are not clear to Fritz himself. He still wishes for others to admire him, and hail him as hero.

## Recent History

In the year 1550 AtS, Fritz began his adventure on Ferra. He traveled from Principality of Marle to Confederation of Haystan alongisde Milri, Ninii and Nugget. He was exiled from Wasserschloss and the Duchy of Three-Water by Reik ab'm Tal on the charge of murder of Dirk Bauschinger's hired thug. In that region, he enjoys no legal protection and should he be recognised by any soldier or guard in the duchy, he would be put to death. Since then he began to antagonise Bauschinger's businesses and properties,on one occassion by giving a copy of his storage's keys to the Thieves' Guild in Zweiwig, and setting the hotel his relative was staying at in Badenbach. In Zweiwig his party challanged Ale, the infamous drunkard of Flussbar, and tried to remove him from the building. Unfortunately, their attempts ended with the death of Litvati and Ironscale abandoning the party.

*The following is "Secret Knowledge".*

While in Zweiwig, Fritz and his party failed to stop the hatching of Emberot in the depths of the local chapel, which resulted in the Emberot Crisis. During the incident, once of the party members, Umeven, had died to the flames of the Daemon.

The party then travelled to Badenbach to seek safety from the undead plague, and to relay the news of the source of it. On their way, they helped a village that got attacked by an undead horde. Together with the villagers, the party travelled to the metropolis.

There, Fritz was discovered to be a lizardfolk by The High Council, and marked via magical means by one of the guards, so if he ever steped into the city again they would know.

Their next stop was in Avenwolf, where they were asked by Morgana to see whats wrong with the town of Bessardie. There, aided by Lady Maria, the party challanged Nefaria, and lost the battle. In order to save himself and others, Fritz entered a contract with the daemon. She asked him to cause fear in people, which despite his best attempts, he most often failed.
In Rotentor, the party helped a wizard with disposing of an undead dragon that made her house its lair. For completing the quest, Fritz was gifted the Robes of Eyes. He also brought Nefaria's anger upon him after he asked the wizard for help with breaking the contract, which she refused.

After traveling futher north, and encountering more and more devastated cities, the party entered The North Burn. In Sternfallster, Fritz desperate to cause fear, asked Braznii to do so in his stead, and so he set fire to a small part of the city, securing a passing grade for Fritz. The party explored the Sterngesteinen Dungeon, where they reached the fourth level, securing themselves the title of seasoned adventurers. While telling the tales of his great deeds, a group of novice adventurers pleaded to him to take them to the dungeon, and with Nugget's encouragement he did. There, they were swarmed by a horde of monsters, for they did not know that taking a large group into the dungeon would provoke such reaction. Only the party survived the encounter.

While in the panic, the rest of the party tried to squeeze their way into the dungeon's elevator, which resulted in a few deaths of the novice adventurers. To both mask their heinous acts, and to please Nefaria, he betrayed killed the last standing adventurers, which he later regretted, for the attention and praise they gave him pleased him.

The party was accused of needlessly endangering the adventurers, and had to stand trial in three days. During this time, Fritz to keep up the appearances of the party, lead them to a local temple to pray for their souls. There, he was met with the statue of Leusfiette, whom he asked for a chance of redemption. Nefaria displeased with such betrayal tried to fully overtake his soul, but with the help of The Redeemer and his party, the mark of daemon was successfuly sealed by thorns of The God of Redemption. His once red robes were died black, and cursed with shadow magic.
During the trail, Fritz managed to successfuly convince the council of Sternfallster that the fault lies not in the party, but the lack of flow of information, which caused them to not know about the dangers of bringing a large party into the dungeon. They were still penalised two hundred gold, which would be given to the families of the victims.

### Fritz's Cult

When Fritz first began his attempts of establishing a cult with him as the leader, he would call out to people with what he called "Red Words" to entice a continent-wide rebelion. Few would listen. Now only Fritz remembers his manifesto.

*The following is "Secret Knowledge".*

*"We live in a world filled with riches, fertile land, knowledge and magic, yet there is the class of few which holds it all in its grasp. There are no rich peasants, no peasants who own the fertile land they sow themselves, no peasants who have access to the knowledge we all deserve, and no peasant that has magic. Throughout history, the nobility exploited imperials more and more of that material, arcane, and spiritual, leaving us with only a few scraps. They see us as nothing more than tools, that better not step out of the line or they will be disposed of. That which defines us conscious beings from animals and monsters is conscience and empathy – nobles display none of that. They themselves call “blue-blood”, thinking it is something to be proud of. The only creatures I saw with blue blood were monsters, mimics and whatnot. We are of the red blood, our hearts reach out to our less fortunate fellows struggling under the foot of monsters. Dye your fabrics red, and wear them as a symbol of your devotion to my, our, cause. I, the Red Hood vow to you that once we rise, you shall receive the riches nobles stole from us, the land nobles stole from us, the knowledge they keep to themselves, and I shall myself grant you my magic, magic of freedom and fighting for what’s yours!"*