Einar

Einar is a main character in the story. A once normal royal mage, he's traumatically killed and resurrected by his childhood friend Caroline, who fuses his wayward soul in a metal body to create a revenant.

General information
Full name: Einar Georg Eriksson

Nationality: Druthenian

Age: 27 (born November 2nd 1886)

Height/weight: 183cm, 77kg (200cm, 100kg)

Family: (father, mother, 1 older sister, 1 older brother, 4 younger siblings)

Visual description: Before his death and resurrection, Einar had short brown hair, and a short goatee beard and moustache. His cheeks were often unshaven. After his resurrection, he appears as a 2m tall metal puppet, featuring a detachable faceplate, revealing an empty inside. The expression on the faceplate can vary, but Einar often wears one with a neutral expression - in any case, his head is often covered with dark bandaging to conceal his true nature as much as possible.

Birth and childhood
Einar was born to a rather standard farmer's family in the dense agricultural region of the west. Despite being a poor household, the Eriksson family preside over quite a lot of land to use for farming, alongside some cattle, allowing them to lead a comfortable life. As the Age of Turmoil began, the family began to struggle financially. It was however around this time that Einar showed signs of being a mage, at age 15, which is considered quite late. With this new discovery, he and his older brother Ulrik moved to Dainsborg - his brother to find work, and for Einar to enroll the in the arcane academy.

Death
In times of rationing, smuggling would begin to grow in the port of Dainsborg, with sellers secretely moving their products without the buerocratic oversight or extra taxes. Einar was one of many who would be sucked into this business, smuggling various luxury goods from vessels in the harbour - not for money, or renown, but for a share of the product: most specifically, coffee. As a mage, he is able to easily avoid guards and patrols and deliver the goods himself

In the evening of June 17th, 1915, Einar was smuggling out pre-marked goods in a warehouse when he heard voices from its attached office. As he snuck up to listen, he heard a group of Vangerists discussing the upcoming uprising. Unfortunately, he was caught in the act by more arrivals, and was surrounded and captured after being shot in the leg. He was then taken to a room and interrogated by a Druthenian rebel, who noticed that he was, in fact, a mage.

Hours later, two foreigners arrived. They spoke Druthenian with an Asterian accent - they were in fact advisors from the CSR, tasked with assisting the uprising. The pair would step up the interrogation, and ever begin to torture Einar, even poking out his left eye with a knife.

The interrogation went on into the morning of the next day. Einar did not reveal much more than his name and occupation, what he was doing, and his vocal disdain for his two interrogators. Being short in time, and realising Einar would be of no more use, they killed him by stabbing him in the heart. They dumped the body in the harbour, bound with weights so that it would disappear under the surface.

Of course, Einar wasn't entirely gone. The traumatic experience with strong emotions of despair, pain, and anger during the interrogation kept his soul from crossing over into the afterlife, and he remained to haunt the room.

Disappearance and return
Lost and frustrated, Einar would one day walk away from the trenches outside Vedvika, disappearing into the forest to the north-east. For weeks he wandered the empty forest alone, thinking and wondering over his condition. He would perceive hallucinations, or visions, that he could not explain, and he made friends with a pack of wolves, who found him to be curious. Despite the connection with Caroline, her thoughts were kept away by Einar, sometimes intentionally and sometimes not. Despite this, she was not overly worried.