Kressle

Level 2 Ranger

### Relationships

The Stag Lord (Boss), Happs Bydon (Right Hand Man, Sometimes Lover), Hal de Banditte (Employee), Oleg Leveton & Svetlana Leveton (Victims)

## Campaign

### First Appearance

Kingmaker Episode 05: Thieves & Tales

Kressle was a cruel and sadistic bandit under the employ of The Stag Lord. The thug behind the extortion of Oleg's Trading Post, Kressle soon faced the consequences of her thievery when The Kingmakers came looking for her to make her pay for her crimes.

## Description

Kressle was tall, athletic and lean. Like many other of the Stag Lord Bandits Kressle wore green robes and brown leather to help her blend into her surroundings more. Her hair was kept short, often under a bandana. She carried two axes with her at all times.

## Personality

Kressle was cruel, sadistic and violent. It was she who stole Svetlana Leveton's wedding ring when the bandits first invaded Oleg's Trading Post, simply to cause her emotional pain. She was also quick to anger, ready to lash out at anyone who even implied disagreement with her.

## Abilities

Kressle's signature skill was her dual-wielding prowess, using her twin hatchets to tear up opponents with vicious brutality. A skilled bandit, Kressle was also talented at extortion, bullying and blackmail, and did so with ease any time it was profitable for her to do so.

## History

Never spending more than a week in one spot, banditry was in Kressle's blood—as a young child she was already helping her parents rob travelers and roughen up pilgrims for some quick cash. When her parents were killed after an ambush on a road, Kressle fled north from Mivon and into the Greenbelt. She managed to make her way through the dangerous region with a bit of luck, only to be caught by a group of the Stag Lord’s men. When two of them lost hands and fingers to her axes, their thoughts turned from theft to escape, and she followed the maimed and frightened bandits right up to the Stag Lord’s fort. Impressed with her skill and bravery, the Stag Lord threw the cowardly would-be thieves to the dead fields and recruited Kressle on the spot. After serving at the fort for a few months, the Stag Lord sent her north to run the Thorn Ford camp.

In late 4709 AR, Kressle lead her group of bandits to Oleg's Trading Post, where she extorted them into paying a monthly "tax" in exchange for their lives. She went the extra mile by stealing Svetlana's Wedding Ring and taking it with her, stating that it was that or she just chopped off Svetlana's entire hand. This continued for 3 months, though Kressle did not return herself on the months following, leaving that to her second in command and lover, Happs Bydon. In this time, Kressle was charged with procuring more and more alcohol to feed The Stag Lord's growing alcoholism. In early 4710 AR, she received news that Happs and several of the other bandits sent to extort Oleg had been slain by adventurers, and Kressle was suddenly on high alert. When the Kingmakers finally came for her, she attacked immediately and tried to have them killed as brutally as possible-- only to quickly be slain in turn by Alden Felstad.

## Relationships

### Happs Bydon

Kressle's relationship with Happs was purely physical, and it evidently meant more to him than to her. That being said, she was full of righteous fury when she found out that he had been killed, going so far as to demand Alden if he'd been the one to kill him while she locked swords with him in their final encounter.

### The Stag Lord

The Stag Lord personally recognized Kressle's skills, being one of the few to earn this honour. She was rewarded with her own outpost of bandits and command of a group of thugs, much to her delight. Kressle's death was what ultimately pushed The Stag Lord to order the total annihilation of Oleg's Trading Post.