Aegis Warrent

(Alive)

* No Armour
* Armoured

**Player:** BubbleLord

**Name:** Aegis Warrent

**Species:** Human

**Subfaction:** Karmina's 22nd Freespears (Freeguild)

**Archetype/Theme:** Jack-of-All-Trades / Footman

**Body:** 4 **Mind:** 2 **Soul:** 2

**Toughness:** 8 **Wounds:** 4 **Initiative:** 3

**Melee:** Good (5) **Accuracy:** Poor (2) **Defense:** Good (5)

**Skills:** Devotion (Training 1 & Focus 1), Weapon Skill (Training 1), Reflexes (Training 1)

**Talents:** None

**Equipment:** Spear, Karmina Plate (Heavy Armour), Clothes (Common), Sling Bag, Rations (5 Days), Hip Flask, Pouch (x3), Phial (30 drops).

**Doom:** 2

**Total Experience:** 22/22

**Appearance and Personality:** At a fairly impressive height, Aegis has the build of most laborer families: a wide-shouldered and stocky built six-feet tall frame. His skin is somewhat paler from wearing armour more often, but distinguishable marks are easily seen from the burn wreathing his right hand and wrist, to the matched silver stud piercings in his left eyebrow and left ear, and even the scent of fresh-cut grass wafting around him. Even though his looks may appear extravagant, his youth is still obvious: he looks no older than twenty-five (25) and still in the prime of his younger years. His golden blonde hair and sparkling eyes help cast an otherworldly look to him, his hair kept swept back almost effortlessly after years of being trained under his helmet. Outside of his armour, Aegis can hardly fit in besides amongst others with equally unique looks. He often wears nothing more than his armor and its paired underworn clothes, never quite looking at ease or quite right without it on.

Donning his armour, however, Aegis looks far more intimidating; the orange and slate-blackened armour of the Karmina's 22nd Freespears fills out the few leaner parts of his build to make him look larger than usual. Its full-cover sallet is worn visor-down whenever in the heat of battle but can be raised if the lock is undone, allowing Aegis to better view the battle around him. Countless pouches are strewn across the front of his plate to carry various tools of his trade, whilst his hip is mostly kept free of all but his strapped-on rations, hip flask, and his helmet when removed. The spear he carries into battle isn't too different or special either: besides a banner of orange tapered and strung near its point, Aegis seldomly decorates beyond his Freeguild's means.

Personality-wise, Aegis is a fairly stoic person: he doesn't want for much but tries his best to uphold the ideals of both chivalry and Sigmar's will. He often prefers to avoid the spotlight despite his appearances and prefers taking the less-dangerous of paths when possible. This makes it easy to view him as slothful, but his drive to complete jobs is precisely what made him one of the few of his class to become a member of the Freeguild. Coin has great value to him even if he wants little, particularly since he was raised poor and tries to avoid siding against those in similar situations; to help those like him, he needs to earn money. His trust of others besides humanity is largely normal: he views the other races of Order as allies, but knows that their cultures are distinctly different from his own. It makes him curious but hesitant, often leading him to misunderstandings outside of humans and the heroic Stormcast.

**Backstory:** As the third oldest son but the fourth child of a lumberjack, Aegis was often left as the one to handle the most chores when his elder siblings were being prepared to inherit their parents will. He too often found himself going through extraneous work to help their family reach their ends' means, yet it helped shape him early on with a strong work ethic. While his family were either given too little structure or overseen exclusively, he was left in a middleground that granted him the freedom to pursue his own future. He hardly had friends beyond his family, but it didn't stop him from wanting to see more of the world or find his own calling to stand out beyond his brothers' successes.

One such day came as he reached the age of sixteen: a passing Freeguild troupe stopped at his family's home. They were short on manpower and had hoped to hire on hirelings, yet Aegis' father had no workers to spare nor his eldest sons willing to go. Aegis volunteered and his first contract was drawn; in exchange for his service, the family would be paid in adequate drops and phials, perhaps even spheres.

Little did he know, it would completely change his future. The Freeguild troupe was a fledgling formation trying to get off the ground at the time, the Karmina Freespears working any and every job they could. His troupe was caught in an ambush on one protection job and he was captured by the forces of Chaos. One of the Slaanesh worshipping lot relished in torturing him with flame, burning his right hand again and again in a pot of his travelmates' blood. It tainted and tinted his skin and he thought he would meet his end, only holding on by a hair before reinforcements from the main body of the troupe arrived. His survival was one of the only ones among the troupe, inevitably earning the attention of his superiors and granting him a chance to join not as a hireling but as one of their youngest. He had served for two years as a mere aid, now he would have the chance to train as one of their own once he healed.

At the age of twenty-one, Aegis began training with the newest troupe of the Freespears: the 22nd. The wore the company colors in reverse (orange and black vs black and orange) as all even-numbered troupes did, but were assigned a golden eagle on their chest to represent the origin of most recruits being from tragedy. Their training endured for two years with only 30 of the 500 recruits passing the standards in-place by the troupe. Although he lacked the mental edge necessary to keep up, his ability and talent had shown him a path into the lowest ranking members of the 22nd as it began building strength.

Now twenty-three and then-some-weeks, Aegis and his troupe were mustered as part of the Dawnbringer Crusade to reclaim the Step. Although many of them have not had true combat experience, the discipline and time taken to invest in them had left Aegis with a sense of duty that few Freeguilders could find. He only now had to endure the horrors that awaited. The only downside to his call was the lack of funding: many within his troupe had to buy their own equipment, leaving the poor son of a lumberjack-turned-freeguilder dropless and reliant on his own skill to make more.

**Short-Term Goal:** Rebuild a safe amount of Aqua Ghyranis, preferably allowing him to moderately accomodate himself and maintain his gear.

**Long-Term Goal:** Find and kill the Slaanesh-worshipper who tortured him, rise in the ranks of the Karmina Freespears, and prove useful in the eyes of Sigmar.

**Contacts:** N/A

**Player Contacts:** N/A

**Campaign Participation**

* Chapter 0: To Reclaim The Step
	1. The Outer Wards (Mission)
		+ The initial Siege of the Spiral Step; Aegis was one participant of the human wave the forces of Order launched against the Step in the opening moments of the Dawnbringer Crusade. The Crusade forces launched a massive all-fronts assault on locations holding totems to the god Tzeentch that fortified the defenses of the Step. Aegis and seven others survived the charge on their totem, but only four of the group survived the following battle against the Chaos worshippers. Aegis proved his mettle and took feathers from a slain Vulcharc following the intense fighting, being the one who stemmed the flow of the surging defenders and personally slaying two Tzaangor in the process. Although he survived thanks to the aid of his comrades and had time to rest, his recuperation was only one step before the continued siege.