| Name | Race | Gender | Career Class | Alignment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Riese "Tiny" Kellner | Human | Male | Warrior | Neutral | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Age | Height | Weight | Hair | Eyes | Description | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | 5'5" | 8st 12lbs | Red | Green | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current Career | Career Path | Career Exits | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Targeteer | Soldier, Mercenary, Targeteer | Assassin, Mercenary, Outlaw Chief | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Skills | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Very Resilient, Very Strong, Lightning Reflexes, Sing, Brewing, Specialist Weapon-Longbow, Marksmanship(Longbow), Disarm, Dodge Blow, Secret Language-Battle Tongue, Street Fighting, Strike Mighty Blow, Animal Care(Horse), Ride(Horse), Strike to Stun, Drive Cart | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description
Riese is a short skinny Red head, his hair is always short on the sides and slightly longer on
the top. He has stunning emerald green eyes and a young face with a cherub nose, his smile (when it
is rarely seen) is calming and pretty.
His body is well in proportion and quite muscular to look at, this may be due to his low weight or the training regime he undertakes on a daily basis.
His voice is melodious and soothing and he appears happiest when singing.
His dress is somewhat distinctive, when travelling he often wears armour, but when working (at the moment doing odd jobs) he prefers to strip to the waist to let his physique show through.
Riese is quite a good-looking young (23 years of age) man but his eyes (when he is not singing) betray a look of loss and age beyond his years.
His driving goals are to amass enough wealth to buy The Unicorn's Rest back and to defeat any Chaos beastmen he can find.
His normal clothes are in green's and browns but he has been known to dress up for special occasions in finer garb.
Riese is well mannered and quite intelligent and tends to think things through before he acts, he is fortunate that he is nimble because on a few occasions he has been so busy thinking that he has been attacked without him noticing.
Background
Riese Kellner was born the only son of Helmut Kellner and Ingrid Brawn.
Helmut was a tavern owner in the town of Kemperbad which sits on the banks of the rivers Reik and Stir approximately halfway between Altdorf and Nuln. Ingrid was the daughter of a local merchant who had a boating business transporting goods to and from the cities of Altdorf and Nuln.
Helmut had inherited his inn The Unicorn's Rest from his father. The inn was originally built by Helmuts great great grandfather Hans Richter - a warrior of some renown, when he retired from his adventuring days.
Ingrid, one of many children, had not gone into the family business and as such was shunned by the rest of her family. Ingrid instead chose to work for Helmuts father Ulrich as a serving wench/Entertainer (she had a beautiful singing voice, something Riese has inherited) a job her family considered well below her.
It is not known when the family name was changed but the first record is at the marriage of Han's son Karl.
Helmut and Ingrid were married in the summer of 2484 and a son (who they were to call Riese) was born two years later in the fall of 2486.
The boy was called Riese because when he was born he was such a large baby weighing in at 9 1/2 Ibs. Unfortunately since he has made up for it as he has hardly grown or put much weight on.
From an early age Riese had been trained in the family business, his father started by teaching him how to look after the animals at the inn and when he was large enough also how to ride. But it was always his mother that he was closer too and from a young age he used to sit by the fire in the tavern and listen to her songs of far away places and heroes and adventures.
As he got older and his voice broke he use to sing alongside his mother. By the time he reached the age of sixteen he was quite an accomplished song-smith and built up his strength and resilience by working in the stables.
Just before his seventeenth birthday his whole life was shattered. His parents had gone out for a picnic into the nearby forest when they were set upon by a group of Chaos beastmen. His father armed only with a small knife managed to injure one of the beastmen while Ingrid tried to get away. Unfortunately his sacrifice was not enough and she died from the wounds that she had sustained in her escape.
If losing both your parents was not enough, Riese was about to get his second kick in the stomach, Helmut had borrowed a substantial amount of money from Ingrid's father Ernest to upgrade and modernise the inn.
This debt was called in right after Helmuts death, what could Riese do, he did not have that sort of money so Ernest took the inn as payment and Riese was kicked out onto the street, fortunately the Captain of the Guard Heinrik Clopth had heard of Riese's predicament and persuaded the boy to join the army. A move that Riese has never looked back on.
Riese served a five year tour with the empire's army travelling from one hot spot to another fighting all sorts of foes. Although skilled in hand to hand combat Riese prefers to use his bow and tactics to defeat his enemies. Unlike many of his colleagues he venerates Myrnidia as opposed to Ulric (who he sees as barbaric).
Riese's greatest thrill is to kill Chaos Beastmen and has a severe psychological reaction to them. His main aim since leaving the army has been to amass enough wealth to buy the family tavern back, an option that as a fair trader Ernest has given him (secretly hoping that he would never get enough money). This has led to Riese being very driven to obtain wealth and having a bad reaction to his Grandfather Ernest.
Riese has one living relative on this father's side left which is his aunt Epona who is a cleric of Verena and serves in the temple at Kemperbad.
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