Sir Hamlet Brandt

Guardian of the Grave

Knight of Death

Origins of Hemocraft

Sir Horatio Klein

A 16 year old from Thaneland, a sanctimonious and secluded underground city in Darwin. He is a devoted patron of Thane, a god of light and power often symbolized by the Sun. Abruptly, they were chosen for the Thaneland Guard to go and seek his missing father, Hamlet, General of the Thaneland Guard. Though extremely anxious, he finds comfort in his horse companion, Ophelia, and studying the game of chess.

## Quotes

* *"'To be or not to be?' What a stupid question..."*
* *"I, King Azadea, AGREE!"*
* *"Adrienne, I can be anyone. So who am I supposed to be?"*
* *"I cannot be your Champion, that role is taken. But I can be your knight..."*
* *"My enemy is afraid of the dark. So, I thought, I shall be the dark."*

## Before the Game

* General Hamlet Brandt, drow General of the Thaneland Guard, raised his changeling son, Hamlet Brandt, as a single father. Hamlet's changeling mother, Gertrude, is said to have died giving birth to Hamlet. When they tried to ask their father about her, his father refused to engage in the conversation.
* Gen. Hamlet and his son had a clinical and tenuous relationship. He expected his son to grow to be a knight, like himself, but Hamlet proved fairly timid with a sword.
	+ Instead, Hamlet found his love in books and the library.
	+ One book in particular had his heart: a book about Chess that Laertes, a friend in the Thaneland Guard, smuggled in and gave to him.
	+ Hamlet carved his own pieces to play the game and taught himself how to play, though he could never play with anyone else, lest they find out he had a book from the outside.
* One day, every single knight in the Thaneland Guard was called by Thane on one mission
	+ Usually, a few knights or even just one battalion was called on a mission; the entire Guard was called on this occasion
	+ Of the knights that left on this mission, none, not even Gen. Hamlet, returned to Thaneland.
* Long after the knights had left without a word, as the city began to find some semblance of normalcy in an unprecedented time, Thane called upon several in the city to don the title of knight of the Thaneland Guard and seek their missions.
	+ Knights train for years in order to wield the power of Thane and handle direct communion. Those chosen on this day did not have the benefit of training.
* Hamlet was one of these lucky, or unlucky, few.
	+ Their call to action came in the form of a vision and an uncontrollable transformation of their body to look exactly like their father. As the vision ended and they reverted to themself, they realized others had seen and there was no getting out of their duty.
* Hamlet took his horse, Ophelia, and set out of the city for the first time in his life on what, by all appearances, seemed a mission to discover what happened to his father, the General.
	+ With the vaguest directions and assistance from strangers, Hamlet saw there were two rivers up north called “Sunrise” and “Sunset.” This tenuous  connection to Thane was his only clue to go by, so he made course to find them.
	+ Unfortunately, Hamlet has never seen a train in his entire life and could not figure out how to navigate them.
* Hamlet found himself not at the rivers of Sunrise and Sunset but at the end of the northern line in a town called Seacrest, the wrong side of the Burkley Confederation.
* Out of cash or any clue, he goes out in search for someone who could help him

## Quotes

* *"Well, my enemy is afraid of the dark, so I thought that I shall be the dark. Death."*