Kurt Knucklefist

## Childhood

As a child, his family lived in one of the poorer slums of the Imperial Docks. When he was 11 a great fire consumed several blocks of the district and he lost every member of his family but his older sister, Mila.

## Vaad's servant

Kurt and Mila survived in poverty for many years of their childhood. He would work as a dockworker, while Mila would perform odd jobs for the church of Vaad. In this way he started to indirectly learn of the Archon of Justice. It soothed him to know that justice could be made. At 16, he joined the Othery City Guard, seeking to serve Vaad by preventing suffering in Othery.

As a devout follower of Vaad, one night he had a vision in his dreams. Kurt was lost at night in a forest without moon or stars. A thunder opened the sky and the Archon of Justice descended from the clouds as a colossal ball of fire. It fell over a mountain and it started rolling towards Kurt. He started running but tripped and was bracing for impact when the ball of fire stopped in front of him. He could see nothing but fire. "Seek me", said the fire.

As he woke up, he was certain that Vaad had anointed him his holy warrior. He rushed to the church to tell the priests the news, but they confirmed that it was just a dream. While disappointed, he understood this changed nothing. He would do the work regardless.

## Light in the Imperial Dungeons

Kurt was one of the founding members of the Guild of Light and explored the dungeons in many incursions.

His mission was simple: scout and diminish the treat to Othery that might fester out of the dungeons.

After discovering entrance to the 7th level of the dungeons, on their way back to the surface, the party was attacked by a living disintegrate spell. Injured as he was by a previous encounter with cultists, when the living disintegrate attacked Kurt, he exploded into uncountable fragments. Some of them were recovered by his companions and brought back to the Light house for his funeral arrangements.

Whatever remains of Kurt now lies in an urn in the chapel of the Light House.

## The Testament of Kurt Knucklefist

Each day, before delving in the dungeons, Kurt would hide a parting letter to his friends under the pillow of his bed. The first time he did not come back, his room was not entered for days, until a servant went in to clean his room. This is how he found Kurt's will:

*Dear friends,*

*In all likelihood this is our final goodbye. It's just a matter of time, and the day will come when I won't be able to return to the Light House. I don't know how it will happen, but the Dungeons are open and the evil inside is too great to assume I will reach old age.*

*I believe we must protect the city, even if the cost is too great. Only a few have reached the places we have and can understand the madness that lives beneath our feet. To you I leave half of my possessions to be split equally amongst the members of the Guild of Light. Please continue to radiate Vaad's Light, wherever you go.*

*I ask of you one last thing. I never married and have no offspring. All I have in this world is my sister Mila and her daughter Vidwyn. Please find them and give them the other half of my possessions.*

*I know not where I'll be as you read this, but there we'll meet again.*