Faramund "The Battle Seller" Sigwin

The potion seller, a placeholder for Faramund.

Faramund "The Battle Seller" Sigwin is a 40 year old burly man born in Fügelheim, Aileron. He is known best under the name of "The Battle Seller" or Ademaro Ludwig, meaning "Glorious in battle", "Famous Battle". A slightly humorous name, for which he is also known. He is a decently strong, strategically genious and charismatic man.

Faramund gained his main alias by "selling battles". He organises adventures and campaigns of all shapes and sizes for all kinds of folk, from adventurous children to the aristocracy who want to go on adventure but not be in true danger.

He is also known locally for arranging public battles amongst all kinds of folk. He keeps a leaderboard of fighters of all main forms of combat: Fistfight, armed fight, archery and sorcery. Reaching the top of these leaderboards is considered quite an honour and soldiers and adventures come from all around the world to challenge the current champion.

## Backstory

Faramund was born in Fügelheim, Aileron in 1315. His father was enlisted in the Dorfdahl royal army and his mother worked as a weaver. His parents working double jobs made for his childhood to be comfortable and stable. From a very young age he went on all kinds of adventures with his father, who was an avid adventurer and often did quests for the king of Dorfdahl. His father taught him survival skills and how to fight. He made sure to include every kind of offense, from fistfights and monsters to sorcery. This gave Faramund a love for, and deep understanding of the art of battle.

At age 17, his father had trained him enough for him to go on his own adventures, which he promptly did. The king of Dorfdahl enlisted him as a knight of the special order because of his father status in the royal army. He was to be sent out on quests only on the king's direct order or request. Going on several quests with royal significance grated him a lot of favours through all kinds of kingdoms and countries over the years. Even more favours he gained through the miscellaneous personal quests for higher-ups, powerful wizards, dukes and duchesses. Next to favours, this gained him quite a bit of fame throughout the lands of Varel.

He adventured his way through the lands like this for 11 years, until he met Mathilde, his soon to be wife. Them wanting to settle down together made Faramund give up his adventuring lifestyle. The king instated him as honorary knight of the special order to maintain his importance and significance to the kingdom. He and Mathilde married about a year after they met and adventured together up until then. They decided to buy a house in Faramund's home town of Fügelheim.

Not soon after they settled down and had children, though, his love for battle and adventure surfaced again. Knowing he couldn't go on adventures, he started thinking about another way to enjoy battle and glory yet again. At one point he considered founding a fighting school but this was not according to his ways. He then decided to found a fighting club; a place where people would come fight one another in similar categories to achieve glory. The club is simply known als the "Battle Ring". The categories his club acknowledges are: Fistfighting, Swordfighting, Ranged and Sorcery. From the beginning, Faramund kept leaderboards in each category to keep track of who was the best in a category. Topping this leaderboard quickly became the main aim of the people who fought there.

Instead of having a special club house or location where the fights take place, Faramund holds weekly tournaments in the village square on every third day of the week. Each tournament, every category gets a turn. Those tournaments often draw a lot of public, even from beyond Aileron, and some basic rules to protect them are in effect. "You or your weapon cannot leave the ring" is the most important rule. "If there is no protection circle, invocations are forbidden" is another. Violating any of these disqualifies you. Beyond that, almost everything else goes, and his tournaments are well known for this fact. Some fighters move to Dorfdahl to be able to attend the tournaments regularly.

Erecting the club, however, did not quench his need for adventure. He devised an interesting plan: Selling battles and adventures. Because of his numerous favours all around the world, he decided to craft stories, fake artifacts and legends. Compiling all these into ready made adventures and campaigns. He makes them for several difficulty levels and sells them to, for example, aristocracy who seeks adventure, but not to be in true danger. Children's training camps or parties are also a few of the options he offers. Having made arrangements with his wife, and his child being old enough now, he now can travel to the destination of the quest to set it up, if only for short periods of time. These quests may involve travel, battle, puzzles and even the murder of creatures and guards, provided the client pays enough. Some battles even involve strong magical creatures being set up in a particular way. No matter how incredible, he can get it done, and he is well known for this.

This venture was undertaken under a pseudonym: Ademaro Ludwig. He keeps his royal decree with him to enact his influence whenever he needs, but uses this pseudonym to avoid clashes with folks with which he has previously clashed during his adventures. Despite this though, his best known pseudonym is "The Battle Seller", because, obviously, he "sells battles". Faramund is known under this pseudonym all over the world and is visited by quite a few people. Some folks even dream of working with him to make one of his adventures a reality, which grants him a number of actors all around the world. Through magical means, he keeps close contact with them. His network ranges from guards, and noblemen and women to inns, shops and high wizards.

## Appearance

Faramund is a middle-aged, burly and strong man. He is a fullbred human and has a slightly sun-tanned skin. He has plenty scars from all his battles. He has a tall rectangular head with a long, strong chin and jawline and impressive eyebrows. He often has stubble and rarely enjoys a close shave. He has black, short-ish, frizzy hair reminiscent of an afro. He has brown eyes. He is pretty big and has serious muscle. He is a tall, strong and intimidating man and impressive is the best word to describe him.

He often wears a brown tunic and darker brown leather accents. When going outside or when hosting a fight, he often wears leather shoulder pads or even leather bracers with individual actuated leather elements around his fingers. Along with this he wears black pants and high belted boots. On his belt, there is usually a sheath of a dagger or his falchion.

## Behaviour

When people ask for his toughest battles, which happens quite often, he will say that they are too strong for them. "They would kill a *dragon*, let alone a man!".

Faramund has a good sense of humour and it often shows in his adventures and puzzles, as well has his frequent use of puns.

Faramund is a people's person and is very charismatic. Arranging things is one of his biggest talents and knows just what to say to people to get them to do the things he wants.

## Battle Ring contestants

Following is a list of people who have competed in Faramund's Battle Ring Tournaments. First up is a list of the current leaderboards:

**Fistfighting**

1. -
2. -
3. -
4. -
5. -
6. -
7. -
8. Iòsaph Cailbhin (Aileron)
9. -
10. -

**Swordfighting**

1. Alas Saroumon (Tovondòr, Sabre)
2. -
3. -
4. -
5. -
6. -
7. -
8. -
9. -
10. -

**Ranged**

1. -
2. -
3. Ara-kataja Ketena of Daneval (Delvaruud, Blunderbuss)
4. -
5. Eleni Siska (Zaiinaika, Longbow)
6. -
7. -
8. -
9. -
10. -

**Sorcery**

1. Lursed Grunnaldson (Stenvarld, Classical dark arts)
2. Ichijo Tsunekiyo (Kitairiku, Eastern necromancy)
3. -
4. -
5. -
6. -
7. -
8. Dormeia of Martiris (Delvaruud, Evocation)
9. -
10. -

People who have competed but lost a leaderboard position or never got onto it are compiled in the following list:

* Armeros of Martiris (Swordfighting)

## Legacy

Faramund's legacy is great and he is, although splintered, known throughout the entire world. Some know him as a Knight of Dorfdahl, others as "The Battle Ring guy", others as Ademaro Ludwig, but most know him as the "battle seller".

He has travelled the lands under the Dorfdahl king for a long time, going on quests and battles, retreiving items and resolving tensions between the kingdoms.

Faramund is also known as the host of the Battle Ring Tournaments, a weekly recurring battle tournament in which fighters see who is the strongest of all. Not only Faramund, but also the champions of these tournaments gain fame from this.

Faramund is also well known, but not directly as the same person, as the "battle seller", by aristocracy, noble, as well as the people who (would) work with him to create and arrange these battles.

## Notable Possessions

Faramund possesses a "Málfara" glyphstone which allows him to communicate with his network of operatives throughout the world.

He also possesses an impressive claymore which has been especially smithed for him. Mathilde offered this to him in lieue of a ring, where Faramund offered her a specially smithed smallsword. The sword is inlaid with a ruby at the cross, big enough to show on both sides of the sword.

## See Also

Dún Brunnsheald, An abandoned castle in possession of Faramund.