Falko Amiga

Illustration by Adrian Ashgrove

### Affiliation

Swords of Fortune (ex), G-Ops (ex), The Freedom Pact, Clyde Farthorn, Glyn Reece, Ivan Smirnov, Tybalt Tiny Toes, Osbourne Thornage, Adrian Ashgrove, Tina Tots, Loki Marcel

## Physical Description

### Other Features

Three earrings, Scars along back and lower back

## Overview

Falko Amiga was a haulfin adventurer who was known for his extreme distaste for goblins and his affinity for exterminating them. He generally used two hand axes or a glaive to carry out his kills, but it is known that he would use anything he could. This included knives, rocks, cooking utensils and his bare hands.

At the age of 28, he was involved with the creation of a crime group in Tyrtown whose targets consisted of churches of the Empire. It is largely unknown what the reason for these attacks or their targets are, but it is speculated among some (largely unreliable) historians that the many dark cults making up the Twilight Brotherhood had infiltrated parts of the Empire and its churches.

## Early Life

Not much is known about Amiga's birth and childhood due to Panshaw's heavy protection of documents pertaining to its citizens' personal lives. It is only known that Amiga was a citizen of the Wood District and that his first goblin kill was carried out in self-defense with a wooden carved knife. In his teens, Amiga left Panshaw to pursue a life of adventuring, travelling to all parts of the Coralian Order in search of money and goblins to slay. He began making a name for himself, earning the monkier of Goblinbane.

## Swords of Fortune

### Overview

In around 431 K.E., Amiga joined an adventuring guild named the "Swords of Fortune". He achieved the peak of his goblin-killing fame whilst part of this guild, carrying out daring missions with other members, killing copious amounts of goblins and hosting public displays of goblin execution.

### As a Mentor

According to the accounts of former members, Amiga took a liking to a younger haulfin boy named Corlan, later acting as his mentor. Unfortunately, during a guild mission to retrieve a barrel of gunpowder, Corlan was reportedly killed by Eadmund Warwick, a leader of the Twighlight Brotherhood. This has not been confirmed, and it has been speculated among Imperial historians that Amiga himself carried out the murder, but this theory does not have much evidence. Amiga was said to have displayed depressive tendencies in the months following Corlan's death.

### The Ballroom Incident

During his service in the Swords of Fortune, Amiga was involved in a mission that would change his life. Hired to guard a high profile ball, Amiga saw his opportunity to commit his first vile act of evil. He rigged the building with the same gunpowder Corlan died for and set it alight. The ballroom went from calm, to loud, and then dead quiet. Most people in attendance perished in the explosion. Those who survived suffered injuries ranging from bruises and scratches to missing limbs and permanent psychological damage. Amiga and his assigned team survived with minimal injuries. In the hours following this incident, Amiga began to influence the rest of the guild into believing that Guildmaster Goldgrip was responsible for the explosion. An uprising began with most members informally and violently leaving the guild during an inquisition conducted by the church.

## The Freedom Pact

Following the Ballroom Incident and subsequent uprising, Amiga formed a band of villains comprised of former Swords members. The forming of this group took place in an unknown abandoned church ruin where it is believed that Amiga performed a blood curse disguised as a non-magical blood pact on each member.

In the period of time following the pact, the group's actions remained largely unknown as they disappeared up north. After some days however, the group reappeared on the outskirts of Tyrtown where a brave member unaffected by the curse, Ivan Smirnov, alerted officials of the return of the Goblinbane.

### Death

Amiga was captured whilst he was inspecting his handiwork at the ruins of the former guild headquarters. He was executed via beheading in the town square soon after, releasing the pact members from their curse. It is said that Amiga thrashed, cursed and spat in the moments leading up to his death.

## Alternative Speculation and Rumours

It is widely accepted that Amiga was an evil, lawless villain seeking to disrupt the Empire's way of life. Though, there are some who discredit this information as the Empire's "corrupt bias" under the control of the shadow cults making up the Twilight Brotherhood. These people often cite a biography written by a former member of the Swords and the Pact, Adrian Ashgrove as being the true story of the Goblinbane. While unconfirmed, much of the biography contradicts the official Imperial report. These contradictions include, but are not limited to:

1. Amiga's telling of the Ballroom Incident was largely true, including the fact that Goldgrip worked with Eadmund Warwick and the Twilight Brotherhood.
2. The church presence in Tyrtown was corrupted by Brotherhood influence.
3. The Freedom Pact was non-magical and instead symbolism for how the group would fight and bleed for each other in their fight against the Brotherhood-corrupted church.
4. The Freedom Pact headed up north to circle around the Coralian Order in order to gather more members to fight the corrupted church.
5. The Freedom Pact returned to Tyrtown because they deemed the trek through the north too dangerous after losing a member's life.
6. A misguided Smirnov sold Amiga out for gold to start a new guild to "go back to how things were."
7. Amiga returned to the ruins of the former guild headquarters to search for clues on where the rest of the Swords members went.
8. The Goblinbane died with a smile.

It is still unconfirmed whether any of Ashgrove's writings are true, as he died in a freak magical explosion accident. Most Imperial historians dismiss Ashgrove's writings as "the ramblings of a madman" who was still affected by "a sloppy, old, defective curse."