Bio

Will flesh it out more but here are the basics:

• Grew up in an orphanage / church dedicated to Sigmar
• Repeatedly beaten as a child for not doing chores, etc. (Note: This would be normal for any orphan at the orphanage)
• As punishment one night, told to pray all night holding a token of Sigmar. Hands were bound around it so tightly they bled.
• During his prayer, Gustav heard Sigmar speak to him. The words were: “The books of the library are the foundation blocks of the Empire”
• Gustav took this to mean he should become a scholar, so he spent the next 8 years learning as much as he could
• Gustav prayed every night w/ his Sigmar token, hoping for another message. Finally, after 8 years, he heard his words again: “Action without knowledge is ignorance. Knowledge without action is cowardice.”
• Gustav knew this meant that his time in the library was over and it was time to venture into the world and apply what he learned. That’s where we are now.

Basic Traits

• Fanatically faithful to Sigmar. I haven’t decided how this will manifest, but it’s probably a bad idea to badmouth Sigmar around him.
• Sheltered from the horrors of the world for most of his life, although life in the orphanage was no picnic.
• Searching for his purpose – He knows Sigmar has a purpose for him, but he’s not yet sure what it is.
• Inexperienced at combat. He would be very afraid in a combat situation, but he has faith that Sigmar has a purpose for him.

Goals

• Wants to find where the words “Action without knowledge is ignorance. Knowledge without action is cowardice.” came from. He heard the words from Sigmar in his mind, but believes that perhaps they come from a lost text of Sigmar.
• Wants to rebuild and restore the temple of Sigmar in Marienburg. It stands as a testament to the wrongness of Merienberg’s independence. The brighter the temple shines, the clearer Sigmar’s power.
• Wants to burn the Golden Lotus in Marienburg to the ground. It is a concrete symbol to the sin and evil of that place.

More to come:

• I prefer to have connected NPCs, like friends and enemies that Gustav would be connected to (and care about). Possibilities are: leader of the orphanage, fellow orphan, charismatic priest of Sigmar, etc.