Eoltan of Aedirn

## Baron Eoltan of Aedirn of the Noble House of Ulvenson

**Eoltan of Aedirn**, **Baron** **Eoltan Ulvenson** or simply **Eoltan** was a professional soldier during the late 11th century, in the 12th century he would start a noble family under order from his great granduncle.

## Biography

### Eoltan is born (1257 AR)

**Eoltan** is born to the peasant woman Duva.

### Eoltan's great grand uncle becomes Eoltan's benefactor (1306)

**Eoltan** is contacted by **Adalwulf**, however, due to his duties as the Grandmaster of the School of the Fox he is unable to visit his holding in Aedirn often and has decided to give it to **Eoltan** under a few conditions: gathering/raising the Ulvenson family to nobility, allowing the property to serve as an outpost/safe haven for witchers and mages affiliated with his great-granduncle and aunts. **Eoltan** agrees to the terms and set to work on his task of reaching out to his 2nd cousin twice removed Naeda of Verden as well as his 3rd cousins Lelas and Liodda once removed offering to bring them into his household.

## Relationships

### Relatives

#### Adalwulf of Aedirn

Eoltan's great grand uncle and Eoltan's benefactor, under the condition of establishing the Ulvenson as a noble family, Eoltan would take over as the owner of Thornwood Manor, where he would raise his family and take in witchers between contracts.

#### Lelas

Eoltan's 3rd cousin once removed through his maternal line. He would invite Lelas to use Thornwood Manor as a base of operations for her mercantile efforts, she would issue contracts to witchers that would stay at the manor as a means for profit and to help them keep busy, with Eoltan collecting a percentage of the profits to help run the manor.

#### Liodda

Eoltan's 3rd cousin once removed through his maternal line. He would invite Liodda to use Thornwood Manor as a base of operations for her priestess work, she would offer healing services to witchers as well as to her sister Lelas' employees.

#### Naeda of Verden

Eoltan's 2nd cousin twice removed through his maternal line. Following her adventures with her great uncle, she would go to live in Thornwood Manor where she would live out the rest of her days.

## Personality and traits

### Personality

**Noblesse Oblige**. A Toussaintoi phrase and motto taught to **Eoltan** by his great-granduncle on the day he transferred Thornwood Manor to him. This phrase is what Eoltan built his rise to power as a baron on, taking in the less privileged and building a barony with their help.

## Skills and Abilities

* **Man-at-Arms Training**: During his military career, **Eoltan** trained as a Man-at-Arms, a truly professional soldier on the battlefield this gives him a certain set of unique skills beyond a normal human.
	+ **Combat Mastery**: As a result of his Man-at-Arms training, **Eoltan** possesses combat proficiency, capabilities, and knowledge far beyond that of the average human.
		- **Body Armor Proficiency**: As a result of his Man-at-Arms training, **Eoltan** is **a** master of body armor, allowing him to perform great feats and benefit in defensive combat with great proficiency in power, defense, and endurance.
		- **Archery Proficiency**: As a result of his Man-at-Arms training, **Eoltan** is **a** master of using the bow and arrow.
			* **Double Shot (Twin Shot)**: As a result of his Man-at-Arms training, **Eoltan** can fire two arrows at once.
			* **Sniping (Pin Point Aim)**: Especially well-placed shots fired by a Man-at-Arms have a tendency to hit a more vulnerable area.
		- **Dual Blade Wielding**: As a result of his Man-at-Arms training, **Eoltan** is **a** master of wielding two weapons at a time, like a pair of short swords or daggers.
		- **Enhanced Strike (Zweihand)**: **Eoltan** possesses the ability to use at the cost of his stamina, a melee technique that can partially ignore armor resistance and deal double the amount of damage to a target.
		- **Indomitable Rage**: As a result of his Man-at-Arms training, **Eoltan** has indomitably strong rage. This is a very dangerous and violent emotion that involves uncontrollable anger, which can escalate hostilities around **Eoltan**. His fury can also act as a makeshift source of power for his strength, such ferocity can prove a great source of energy, but it can prove dangerous for **Eoltan** as he can be bound to which can prove never-ending and ever-growing, enabling him to be immune to *all* forms of pacification including Patience Manipulation, Patience Inducement, Peace Inducement, and Serenity Inducement as well as feeling fear.
		- **Indomitable Will**: As a result of his Man-at-Arms training, **Eoltan** has indomitably strong willpower. Through his will, **Eoltan** can face great physical pain and psychological trauma and will refuse to surrender no matter how much the odds are stacked against him, possibly up to the point of cheating death and/or fate, and even pushing himself past his own limitations. Factors like anguish, suffering, and difficulty mean nothing to him.
		- **Tracking**: As a result of his Man-at-Arms training, **Eoltan** can track others down easily via various means, ranging from scents to footprints. **Eoltan** can follow tracks that are days or even weeks old, he is also able to reconstruct what has happened by sniffing around the area he is searching. **Eoltan** is capable of perceiving details in the environments that normal humans wouldn't have such as prints and dust marks, and has a highly accurate idea of in what direction and path they lead in.

## Notes

* **Eoltan** is a purely fanon creation as such there is no official proof of his existence in the Witcher works outside the fanon community.
* **Eoltan** ages slower than a normal human as a result of his genes, having the bodily equivalent of a twenty-year-old in his fifties and sixties.