Corvo Von Crape

**Corvo Von Crape** was a vampire commander of the Bleaklands known for delving into ruins for the orders of his master.

## Corvo Von Crape

### Aliases

"Crono""The Delver"

Commander of the Bleaklands

### Relatives

Unknown Parents Katriana Nasakan (Blood Sire)

Morticia Hans (Sireling)

Samantha Stppele (Sireling)

### Affiliation

Bleaklands Blood Tithe system

Corvo’s company (Warband)

## Biography:

### Life:

Corvo was born in the Bleaklands, specifically in the county of Mortan to one of the many families of humans living under the rule of the Blood Tithes.

In attempt to free himself from his doomed fate he joined the Blood-seeker Knights of the Bleaklands, an order of knights formed by Scarlet King Jerago Herwig made up of warriors trying to prove themselves worthy to their vampiric master to become vampires themselves, though most died trying. Corvo however, was able to prove himself and in the year 1586 of the Era of Sorrows he was made a vampire at the hands of Katriana Nasakan, the Countess of Mortan.

### Vampirism:

He would rise the ranks of the vampires, eventually gaining the right to sire his own vampire, to which he chose a peasant girl named Joanka, who took the vampiric name Morticia Hans after her change.

### Expeditition into Mondas:

Corvo was sent to the under-city of Mondas after it was opened up to the world during an earthquake. He engaged in hit-and-run combat against many rival warbands as his men gathered resources from the ruins to support his master’s cause. Most annoying in the early skirmishes was a holy order of the Halmar Church, Swords of Absolution, a successor chapter of the Order of Tomrak that moved to the Free Boros, and the Sisterhood of the Morning Queen, a Sigmearian holy order dedicated to their goddess of the sun and the hunting of the undead. Many of his undead were slain by the clerics and paladins of these orders. His first major victory was sacking the cursed library of the city, where he recovered several arcane tomes. During the battle, one of his zombies was infected by a tome and became self aware, Corvo let him live and gave him the name Flesh-Stripper.

After fighting in many skirmishes against these bands along with many brigands, sellswords, and the mutated dregs that lived in the city, he would gain much favor with his masters back in the Bleaklands and would be tasked with destroying the chapterhouse of the Swords of Absolution.

Later he would lead his warband into the haunted keep of the mad king fighting off the demons he summoned years prior to recover the scroll and artifacts he used long ago in a failed ritual that left the old city in ruins sunken beneath the earth. Though he lost many of his minions to the demons, he brought back many things required by his masters, though his bride Morticia was killed by an Eryea. It was at this time that he recovered the axe of the long dead knight Zethrom Coninins and successfully used it to banish the demon who slew his love, and would use it as his main weapon for the rest of his days.  He turned a random local of the free boros as a replacement and his second in command, but not in his heart.  While he was still mourning, he was ambushed by a coven of independent vampires who disliked the Bleaklands encroaching on their territory.  He would thoroughly beat them but made an enemy of their leader, Aton Volahar.

 After a year and a half in the ruins, he would return to the Bleaklands as mighty champion of Jerago Herwig.

## Powers:

**Weapons Proficiency (Hammer)**

**Vampiric Skills (Centennial):** Being a vampire that has survived over a century.

## Relationships:

### Lover:

Morticia Hans: His lover while he was a human who he turned into a vampire

### Allies/Minions:

Timothy Tanner: Necromancer and a Death School drop out.

Greg Drga: Human follower, and skilled archer.

Thrallmin: Pet ghoul (Killed during the Fall of the Blades of Absolution)

Flesh-Stripper: A rather intelligent one-armed zombie.

Dave Zurkus: Once a human servant of the Bleaklands until he insulted Elizabeth D’Velmont and was transformed into a sentient ghoul as punishment. Now seeks to regain the favor of the scions of the Bleaklands.

Berterr: Trap-breaker ghoul sent ahead of the warband to disable, or trigger prematurely traps.

Samantha Stppele: Local turned vampire to replace the slain Morticia as his lieutenant.

Beater: Crypt Troll brute. Corvo´s warband´s main bruiser.

## **Rivals:**

Revered Mother Whilhemina  Von Akerberg: Leader of the Sisterhood of the Morning Queen.

Lord Commander Walden Muhl: Commander of the Swords of Absolution Band (Killed by Corvo’s Band, later risen as a commander in Jergo Herwig's undead army)

Verging Derpuse: “The Rat King”: Mad wizard and self-proclaimed King of the Underway, leader of the largest facton of the Dregs.

Andi Vondri: Survior of the Blades of Absolution founded his own warband

Hughmahn Sinard: Lord of House Sinard, leads a warband with his son to reclaim his family´s long lost treasures.

Aton Volahar: Local vampire of the Free Boros who attempted and failed to eliminate Corvo’s warband when he entered the ruins, and lost many members of his coven in the process.