Heinrich

# This page is out of date go to Heinrich the Mad Lich.

 —This quote, first found in a little old Lusken clergyman's diary from the 1300s, became famous as the inscription on Heinrich's last tomb. It alluded to the fact that he had been 'born' again, and could tell tales of what lay after life.

**Heinrich** was a Datrian elven thief, serial killer, mountebank, and arbalist noted for **living multiple times**. He was resourceful, cunning, skilled, crafty, cruel, and above all persistent.

## Heinrich

Heinrich as a young man, before all else.

### Aliases

Heinrich Tarquinson, The Mountebank, The Bracken Ripper, Aric, Defessus, Wolfgang

### Born

1468 as Heinrich; 1493 as the deranged Bracken Ripper after a botched resurrection; 1513 as a skeleton after the Serpent's Head tried to wake him; felt 'reborn' as Defessus in 1513 after almost dying to Baba Hjadviga

### Died

1490 in Bracken to a knife between the ribs by Kessar Truespear; 1497 to Isabelle Lionheart in an alley with a holy hammer

### Known For

Living multiple times, master thief, expert assassin, embodiment of chaos, heavily intertwined in modern Brackian history.

### Allegiance

Datrian Thieves; King Altor; Chaos; The Serpent's Head

### Associated With

The Violet Catastrophe; King Altor; The city of Bracken

## As Heinrich Tarquinson, the Mountebank of Datria

'What's this? A thief caught unawares?
 —Erla Tarquinson meets Heinrich beneath Datria.

**Heinrich Tarquinson** was an elven man, a member of the Datrian Thieves Guild. He was a cruel and chaotic man, but a crack archer with his twin crossbows, a signature piece of his style - it was rumoured he was descended from the house of Donral, as he shared this affinity for the technique. He himself was born around 1468. Heinrich went by the callsign *Mountebank* during his tenure as a thief.

   During his years, he had a brief time together with a thief called Erla, and sired a son, Rufus.

He witnessed the Violet Catastrophe firsthand, where many of his fellow thieves perished. He followed his leader, Crow, as well as Kessar, Dain, and Balgolor to Kol Darim, fleeing Datria after the catastrophe in the autumn of 1490.

In Kol Darim, he came into possession of two vials of WRWL. He used one against Dorarum Sebeard and his cronies who had led him and Kessar into an ambush. They fled Kol Darim as the Vreigardt army attacked.

He crossed the Delling Mountains with the group, being joined by Kellen and Jorlen. In the snowy pass, Heinrich assisted Balgolor in the killing of Praelus, a ranger sent to track them down.

Heinrich was pivotal in the Battle of Bracken. He assisted in splitting the forces of The Di Lamendolio Family between Bracken's spines, and reached the courtyard of the family compound with Kessar and Kellen.

Kessar betrayed him after a long and bloody fight with the family's mages. She stabbed Heinrich, stood over him as he bled out, and stabbed him again until he died. Heinrich's body was interred in the Silver Tree Cemetery on the south side, and Kellen, now King Altor, opened an archery and acrobatics school in his name, the Heinrich Tarquinson School of Athletic Excellence, which had a statue of him.

## As the Bracken Ripper

 —A newspaper clipping from autumn 1494.

In 1493, King Altor secretly exacted the services of a Thayan mystic to dig up Heinrich's body and revive him. However, this revival was somewhat botched, for reasons unknown. He came back even more unhinged, risen in whole with a vengeance to exact revenge on Kessar. He set out on a personal vendetta. Coming to be known as **The Bracken Ripper**, Heinrich committed 23 murders from 1493-1497, all of Kessar's high ranking Bruisers. Naturally, Altor could not claim to have been involved.

He was cornered in an alley by a red-haired female knight of The Gauntlet and killed at long last in 1497. The knights of the Gauntlet tried to make sure he would never rise again, and buried him following proper rights again in the same grave.

## As Aric

 —Heinrich reveals to Lyslen his motives, as he reveals to her that he drew the Flock & Fixers to her room.

Somehow, Henrich rose a third time, thanks to The Serpent's Head's efforts. An agent named Jeanette Augustin raised him, but he went mad as soon as he came into this world again. He killed Augustin, scratched a warning on his coffin and his tomb roof, hid her in the catacombs of the White Tree Cemetery, and ran.

An undead skeleton named **Aric**, he remembered nothing of his past or who he was. All he had was his robes, and his crossbows. Seeking answers, he joined the party of Lyslen and Thomas to go to Rakkimar. He killed a harper nicknamed 'Layla Ei' who had come to hunt him on Eðnir. He and his friends fled across Rakkimar - he saved Lyslen on Ðok Vest, and made new friends in Hjarofjall.

On some quests in Hjarofjall, he nearly died whilst fighting Baba Hjadviga and her chicken house. Presumed dead until he sat back up, his secret was revealed to his friends - he told them his tale, and how was an undead skeleton, but remembered nothing.

While unconscious, he did receive a vision - of whitewashed houses above the blue sea, a purple haze, and a woman standing over him with a knife.

Aric went researching furiously until the late hours of the morning in the The Martino Memorial Library, and learned that he had seen visions of Bracken. Dozing off in the library alone, he saw a vision of himself rising from a sea of violet, he saw the tomb of Heinrich, and a glimpse of a vial of purple liquid. He realised he was the long-returned body of Henrich.

He knew he had to follow the trails of his dreams. He alerted Halfmoon and her cronies from the Flock, as well as The Fixers and some Xantic thugs to Lyslen's position in the tavern, and he bought them all rooms. Under the cover of night, they rushed into her room, and she narrowly escaped out the window, but was stabbed many times by Fixers. Jezebel chased her down and killed her, and thanked Aric deeply for his part.

## As Defessus

 —Heinrich writing in blood on the wall of his tomb post-revival.

Heinrich then went by the name **Defessus** (Luskan Cleric for 'I am tired') when he returned to Faerun. He was captured crossing the Delling Mountains on his way to Bracken with several others, but managed to help a breakout. In Bracken once again, he joined forces with Lewis and Taffy.

He got in a scrape with several Bruisers, and killed them with his crossbows, much akin to the style of his days as the Ripper. Altor's watchful eye was now awakened, and searching for him.

He and his friends killed an Umber Hulk in its lair, looted some stuff, and then found the Vortex Translocator on behalf of Carpenter Salvage and Shipping.

He and his party, The Independent Contractors, made contact with The Serpent's Head successfully, and went out to assassinate Gulrak Browbeater for them. While they were successful, the approach led to innocent deaths thanks to Tarfwen's decisions, which led to serious contention from Lady Milo. Defessus and his friends moved in to Number 221, East Overlook. Whilst living there, he murdered a member of the Bracken Harpers who had come knocking on doors. He and his group needed a new disguise, and fast.

## As Wolfgang

Heinrich's next alias was **Wolfgang**. His new outfit consisted of an outfit of a reveller of Lliira - a gaudy green robe and a golden mask of a smiling sun. He assisted in the killing of Jara Kheriþe and Jason Greysword, still using his trademark style. He and his group faced off against The Union Hacks at Pier No3- he killed several Flock archers, as well as Tanis. He and his group were victorious.

Then, using the Vortex Translocator given to him by The Serpent's Head to summon a Umh'aadhrolb in Rounswell Palace, he let it loose. It killed Isabelle Lionheart, Telriel Chaufort, Ashlen Bocker, Kellen Brownwater and several others. Heinrich himself killed Kessar Truespear with his crossbows, laughing for his vengeance at last. Just before Altor's death and the Maw's unsummoning, the king revealed to Heinrich the existence of his son - Rufus Tarquinson Esquire.

Heinrich and the Serpent's Head continued to rule Bracken for decades to come. Heinrich himself often made trips to Kol Darim where he became good friends with Richard Dread. His power grew, and soon he was able to become an eldritch patron himself, lording over undeath.