Vegard

A steward and butler by trade, Vegard manages House Rosenborn's estate in the Highlands.

## Vegard

### Habits/Hobbies:

Counting money, study, gardening and herbalism

## Description

Vegard is a stout middle aged man with greying hair and brown eyes. He is not particularly muscular, but shows signs of growing up on a farm.

### Armor

Vegard usually wears noble clothing befitting his station or hunting gear.

### Arms

With only a little military training and no combat experience, Vegard has yet to choose any particular weapon preference.

## History

Vegard was born on a farm in a world of vast forests and marshlands. At age 14, he was drafted to fight in a civil war that had broken out between the ruling class and a rebellious group of zealots. Fighting for the ruling class as a lowborn with no knack for combat, Vegard was assigned to a field hospital taking care of casualties and wounded from the war. While remaining at a low rank, he found his usefulness in organizing what little medicine was available to the infantry. This is when Vegard discovered his love for logistics and numbers.

 During the war, Vegard grew close to one particular soldier named Reidar Stoltenberg III. Reidar had been gravely wounded by taking an axe to the shoulder and it seemed to most of the medical staff that he would not heal well enough to journey home. Vegard disagreed and decided to dedicate as much time as possible to help Reidar, who in Vegard's words was the only one who 'saw him'.

 The war ended with a victory over the rebellion and Reidar survived his injuries.

 To repay Vegard for not giving up on him and ultimately saving his life, Reidar offered Vegard a job as first footman at his home Castle Stoltenberg. Reidar's father, Lord Stoltenberg was hesitant at first, but after the years went by, Vegard proved very capable at his job doing everything from organizing dinner parties at the castle to managing the stablehands and horse breeding. When Lord Stoltenberg died, Reidar promoted Vegard to serve him as steward which gave Vegard control of the finances, taxes and the administration of the castle and its holdings. He would often ride with a contingent of soldiers to collect taxes (or to conscript men and women for the army) from the inhabitants of the Stoltenberg domain.

 On one of these trips, bad weather had kept Vegard and his entourage from returning home and they had to stay the night at a farm. The family living there had been forced to offer up one capable youth to fight for their Lord in another war against a rebel faction. Vegard would leave with the conscript the next morning. What he did not expect was that particular family's resistance to the cause and a mother's love for her children. Neither did the soldier who took the night watch, who got his throat slit shortly after Vegard had fallen asleep. The second soldier managed to yell out when the conscript's family attacked him, waking the others. While the rest of the soldiers cut down the farmers, Vegard managed to slip away and ran straight for his horse. But the farmers had thought of that and all the horses were gone, most likely cut loose. Sprinting into the nearby forest to save his own life, Vegard got lost in the wild. In the pitch blackness of the woods, he was attacked by something unknown, something he couldn't see. The attacker drove it's teeth deep into Vegard's neck and he soon fell unconscious from the loss of blood.

 When he woke up, he found himself lying on the ground in a clearing. It was snowing. He heard a voice close by speaking out to him:

"Poor, lost soul. It would seem that the probabilities have turned against you. Come follow me, perhaps not everything is yet lost."

This is how Vegard met Sebastian Rosenborn.

### Skills

Doctor of field medicine. Other skills include organizing, frugality, cooking and above all selfless service.

### Major Flaw/Flaws:

Ravenous: Vegard can find himself losing control when in the prescence of good food. Particularly raw flesh.

Secretive: Having worked for years in a lord's manor, Vegard has kept many secrets about the ongoings of his employers.

### Minor Flaw/Flaws:

Compulsive: Attention to detail bordering on unhealthy. Vegard has trouble ignoring minor mistakes in his surroundings, such as a crooked candlestick on a candelabra.

Greedy: Vegard loves money. A lot.

## Personality

Vegard prides himself being a picture of nobility, but can find himself comfortable around smallfolk as well. He's always interested in expanding his horizons, but a little hesitant towards 'crusader types'.

### Quirks

He never cleans his nails and seldom cuts them.

### Relationships

Sebastian Rosenborn - After having worked with Rosenborn to reform his estate for some time, Vegard has grown to respect his employer.