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Lord Edmund Wilhelm is a Goal'likan barbarian/fighter NPC from the Vox Arcanum campaign. Lord Wilhelm is played by Xander.

## **Intro**

*Lord Edmund Wilhelm is a former adventurer who retired to Ilentine. After his wife's passing in an adventuring incident, he devoted himself to her deity, The Tempest, and became the Lord of the Cloudships. He manages the skyship import and export of Ilentine as well as many that move throughout the Authority as well.*

## **Description**

### **Appearance**

Lord Wilhelm is a half-drow half-orc known as a Goal'likan. He traditionally wears a black and purple suit with a bow tie and a dimly lit pendant around his neck. He aquamarine skin and wears an expensive monocle on his right eye.

### **Personality**

Wilhelm has shown himself to be a very passive individual, taking a strong liking to any wayward adventurers that cross his path. He has been known to become a patron to many that he sees promise in, notably Vox Arcanum, whom he believed would be his most promising. When an adversary hurts those he's become close to, his older attitude when adventuring comes forth. His anger drives him in battle, which sometimes can bring him to become a sort of martyr on the battlefield.

## Biography

### Background

Formerly serving as the muscle of a party once known as The Skyliners, Edmund Wilhelm had been a barbaric fighter with little to no mercy for those he battled. His life was consumed by battle and adventuring. That was until he met a woman named Hira Massil. She was a cleric for a demigod known as The Tempest. She is said to have brought balance to his life, and made him look at adventuring as something that could save people, like himself. The party was eventually absorbed by a group known as the Grey Catch, which sent them on much more dangerous missions than they had ever been on previously. One such battle had led them into what could have been their last. They had been able to get away, but not without the expense of the life of Hira.

Ever since that day, Lord Wilhelm retired into lordship that he had gained from his renown, picking up an assistant known as P'golat. He lived his days in self exile within his manor only putting input where he is asked. This was until he had come across a party known as The Myriad. He had attempted to help them in their battle against abberational creatures, until their eventual retirement. Since then, he had brought himself out into the world once more seeking to better other parties, becoming their advisor and financial patron.

## Relationships

### Hira

Lord Wilhelm had found himself in true tranquility for the first time in his life when with Hira. They had been considering children and had even had one. Though she had eventually become estranged to Wilhelm when Hira passed. Hira and Wilhelm were known as the complete opposite, but she had rubbed off on him throughout their years. Lord Wilhelm had found an appreciation for her more religious natures and had begun to do many rituals with her before battle.

### The Tempest

Lord Wilhelm for much of his life had had a less than stellar belief in the Tempest. It was only towards the end of Hira's life that he had begun to truly attach himself to the deity in any true way. After her passing, he took lordship of sky ships in order to have an excuse to be in the air closer to the being, and perhaps his late wife's gaze from beyond.

### Bosmath Kettlepot

Lord Wilhelm took an exceptional liking to Bosmath in their early encounters. He had made it clear he saw a lot of himself in the young gnome. However, he worried that without the guidance of somebody like Hira in his life, perhaps Bosmath would fall down a darker path that he almost did. He found himself attempting to take an almost guiding hand to Bosmath when he could, using their mutual love of food and fighting as an entryway into his mind. He has attempted to give wisdom where he can, knowing he is nowhere near as virtuous as Hira was, but attempting to be that influence nonetheless.

## **Notable Items**

### **Current Items**

* Anguish (longsword of wounding)
* Ring of Jumping

## **Abilities**

### **Barbarian Abilities**

* Rage
* Unarmored Defense
* Reckless Attack
* Danger Sense
* Primal Path: Path of the Gullet
* Iron Gut
* Extra Attack
* Fast Movement
* Snackmaster
* Instinctive Pounce
* Feral Instinct

**Fighter Abilities**

* Fighting Style: Dueling
* Second Wind
* Action Surge
* Martial Archetype: Tactician
* Combative Aspect

## **Trivia**

* Lord Wilhelm was the NPC that introduced the Tempest into the world of Xylna.
* Lord Wilhelm was meant to die much earlier in Vox Arcanum, however the party had taken such an attachment to him, that the DM had thrown those plans away.