Kanato Vulpon

*"The Bruma Killer, also known by his real name, Kanato Vulpon is thief and an serial killer, wanting for murdering more then fifty people in the Bruma Massacre between the years of 678 to 683 of the Fifth Era."*
―Anonymous[src]
**Kanato Vulpon**, also called **The Bruma Killer**, and also known as the **Masked Felon**, the **Murderer of Bruma**, **Kanto**, and **Macris**, is a Imperial infamous serial killer and murderer, and a former thief of the Thieves Guild. He is wisely infamous known for The Bruma Massacre, who killed five victims and cause Bruma fear and terrorized for centuries. Though never caught or captured by other nations of Tamriel, Vulpon is wisely known for his sneaking, and getting away with the law.

## History

### Early years and early killings

Kanato Vulpon was born in the early years of either 5E 630, 5E 631, or 5E 635, to the noble family in Bruma. In his childhood, Kanato was not getting along with his parents, and even had a trouble childhood. His father, Marcellius Vulpon is Advisor to the Count of Bruma, Crethius Tulius, and also secretly the Guildmaster of the Thieves Guild in the Imperial City. Nothing know about his father's past, he mostly spending most of his pre-adult life in Bruma. During his lifetime between 5E 653 to 5E 671, it was known that he had obsessed with serial killing, and become a thief within the Guild. It's not known that he had stealing or killing people for his amusements. He also married with an unknown women, with birth of a unnamed son.

### Terrorizing Bruma

Prior to the Bruma Massacre, Kanato had developed an relationship with Sheogorath, and had madness. His personality is somehow changed of leading the events of the massacre, as well as his relationship with Sheogorath, the Madgod is devoted, but Sheogorath manipulates Kanato, which the Madgod is famously known for. In 5E 672, seven years before the Massacre, Kanato had plans of targets of a political assassinations of the Empire, including Emperor Attrebus Varian, however these plans is never delivered.

The massacre had started in the year 5E 678, when Kanato, aged forty-years old, first murdered his first victim. While escaping from his first victim, he had also come the possession of a Dragon Priest Mask, Hevnoraak, which it was cursed and threw Kanato insane and while he stole a hooded red robes. Kanato's insanity had reached it's peak of insanity as his killing rampages begins. His next victim named a male dunmer named Sadlyn, as Kanato followed Sadlyn in to a dark alleyway as he killed the Dunmer. Kanato's next victims were a unknown two Dunmer males, three Nord males, and two Imperials females, which their names is unknown. His father Marcellius expelled Kanato from the Thieves Guild due to his killing spree,

Kanato however to keep the murdering spree and begin to terrorized Bruma, begin the moniker or title of "The Bruma Killer". Throughout the murder sprees in 5E 679 to 5E 680, which causes the dark ages in, as well as terrorized Bruma, and dubbed "One-Year Murdering Spree".

### Final years of the Killings

The citizens of Bruma didn't know that The Bruma Killer is actually Kanato before years after Kanato's death. Kanato's murdering spree become slower when his health begin to decline due to mental health of him. In the final years of 5E 681 to 683, Kanato's murdering spree had come to end with Kanato's last victim is Noblewomen named Alerana Maenon in 5E 683. Then Kanato's health begin to decline where he resettled back into the Imperial City's swearers where he remained there until his last remaining years.

### Escaped into Exile and Final Years

Although there's some information on his escape and final years, that Kanato escaped Bruma, and he resettled in the Imperial City's sewers. While his retirement due to his poor-ill health, he was requested to be a Guildmaster of the Thieves' Guild however he decline the offer. His illnesses are affecting his health, and strength, having seriously coughing fits and/or coughing up blood. While in the sewers and in the Imperial City, he took the alias, "Macris" to confused his enemies and avoid arrest warrens, becoming the first assassin or murderer to escape custody since his idol Listener Rinveso Rothni. He also write a memoir about his life, past, the massacre, and future.

The Dark Brotherhood assassin, Geraoc Locnie who briefly mentored by Kanato and giving the assassin his advises, even though that never caught by the Imperial Legion. Kanato having adopted Geraoc as his adoptive son, might bring a silently have a good heart in him, giving the love and care he gets.

Kanato died in 5E 688, where his age at 57-years old after suffering from series of mental illnesses. Feared the citizens in Bruma that the Bruma Killer had ever returned, the Count had ordered that the city on lockdown on remaining of thirty years. While some sources listed Kanato's death of 5E 706, making him at between the ages of 71 to 76 years old, disputed Kanato's disputing years of his birth.

## Legacy

After Kanato's death, it leaves an infamous and popular legacy in Tamriel as well terrorizing the citizens in Cyrodiil and around Tamriel years after his death, including that he was never caught by the law and the Legion, though people was thinking the Kanato was actually alive until his death reached. The city of Bruma had terrorized and had suffered mentally and emotionally, as well due to Kanato's years of terrorizing and murder spree. Leading up to his death, Kanato had leave a legacy in Bruma, fearing that he sends letters to terrorizing them that he might return, even threading the Count. More of Kanato's friends, fellow thieves had admired Kanato's way of killing without getting caught. He is remembered as the Bruma Killer, which according to his last and final diary, states that he adopted and liked the moniker that was giving by Bruma citizens.

### The False Killer

Approximately 18 years later, a unknown male who is identified as the "real" The Bruma Killer, whose no name was given when being asked about his real identify. Kanato, who was still deceased by than, it would be at least 75-76 years old. But fear once again break out in Bruma that the Killer is return. However the "Bruma Killer" is eventually caught, and when caught, he refused to answer, and refused to give his real identify himself, but he claimed to be a grandson of Kanato Vulpon. But he was however sentence to five to ten years in prison.

## Trivia

* The name "Kanato" had two meanings in both the Elder Scrolls lore and in real-world meaning.
	+ The meaning is of Unknown origin and means "Sweet dreams", while Vulpon is means "Death" in Daedric Alphabet.
	+ Kanato is of Japanese origin, meaning "To put together an opinion and present it" or "To accomplish."
* He is the only serial killer who gotten away from the Legion and never caught, other is Rinveso Rothni, an Brotherhood assassin.
* While it claimed that Kanato some day return after his death as a re-incarnation, but this claim is false.
* Kanato was inspired by a fictional serial killer or murderer Michael Myers, a central character and the main antagonist of the Halloween franchise.
	+ Witness say that Kanato doesn't talk, only to survive various of wounds such as; taking a crossbow bolt to the chestm which inspired by Michael Myers.

## Notes

1. ↑ Sources claimed that Kanato or the Bruma Killer at the time that his birth is disputed, most favorable that his birth years is 5E 630 or early 5E 631, others claimed his birth is 5E 635.
2. ↑ The disputed death year of Kanato is claimed throughout history, as Kanato's last records of him alive is 5E 688 which he will be either 57 or 58 years old at the time of his death. Others claimed that he still alive, but faked his death and went on to become a monk until his "actual" death in 5E 706, eighteen years later from his original death.
3. ↑ During the Massacre, he is also known for his alias as "Kanto".

## Appearances

* *The Elder Scrolls VI: Invasion* (mentioned only)
	+ *The Elder Scrolls VI: Underworld* (mentioned only)
	+ *The Elder Scrolls VI: Akavir* (mentioned only)
* *An Elder Scrolls Novel: The Bruma Killer*

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 *Dossier: Kanato Vulpon*
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 *Who is the Bruma Killer?*
3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 *The Bruma Killer (Book)*
4. ↑ *The Bruma Killer Return?*
5. ↑ *The Killer*