Zeke Reufgar

Baron Zeke Reufgar is the Baron of Stranton County in Darincedonia. He is an excessively cruel man and hated, but holds on firmly to his power.

Stats

 * Birthday: April 20, FY 1141
 * Death: July 2 FY 1196
 * Nationality: Darincedonian
 * Race: Human
 * Sex: Male
 * Alignment: Lawful Evil
 * RPG Class: Warrior

Description
Reufgar is a "short," (in Darincedonian terms, a man under six feet is short) stocky, muscular man at about 5'9. He has short dark brown hair, beady brown heavy lidded eyes, a full trimmed beard and a mustache under a large nose.

Skills
A powerful swords man though he's never attained the rank of Blademaster. He was one duel away from the rank when he lost to Suzetta Kernohan in the tourny of FY 1189

Items of Note
None in particular

Biography
Baron Zeke Reufgar is the younger son of Kevan and Mirinda Reufgar. He showed signs of cruelty and instability at a young age, constantly bullying other children in the castle (servants and workers) when his older brother Adan was not around. Adan was the only one who seemed to be able to control Zeke.

When Zeke as 15, during a hunt, Zeke arranged the death of his older brother. Though the circumstances were suspicious, no one could prove it was not an accident. His father wished to disown Zeke but wanted a Reufgar on the throne, so he relented. He died of an illness three years later and Zeke became baron.

As baron he cared little for his people. He raised taxes and judged them harshly while consolidating his power. He was hated by his people, but they feared to revolt. When the blight of FY 1179 hit, Zeke horded the food and raised taxes further, putting his people in worse hardship. Many starved. A few, such as Suzetta Kernohan's parents, were executed for petty crimes committed, and he justified this claiming that he didn't have the food to spare for prisoners. When Suzetta's parent's were murdered, Suzetta's magic was unleashed for the first time and she unwittingly brought down a terrible lightning storm in her rage on the castle, killing a few and doing extensive damage. However, at her young age and with her emotional turmoil, she lacked the control over it and Reufgar was not killed. She also lost her ability to control her magic due to her guilt over what she had done, forming a mental block that would stop her from performing magic for almost twenty years.

Reufgar was briefly visited by the Fist of Angoth, a cult not under Angoth's control, that means to put an end to the Prophecies and stop them from happening, revealing that he was paid to kill Suzetta's parents and Suzetta. When they confronted him for failing to kill Suzetta, who had escaped in the carnage, he claimed she had died in the wilderness beyond his castle and he would do no more, when in truth he was simply frightened of her power and did not wish to risk it all and face her wrath (not knowning her magic was blocked.)

The Duke of Altoria, who is between Reufgar and the King in that region of Darincedonia, stepped in and forced Reufgar to distribute the food he horded after finding out what the baron had been doing. But he allowed Reufgar to remain on his throne.

In FY 1189, he encountered Suzetta Kernohan for the first time since murdering her parents at a tourney. She almost killed him but allowed him to leave in order to impress the Grand Veyelle. She ultimately killed him seven years later, putting his kinder cousin on the throne. The reason for the long delay between the murder of her parents and his assassination at her hands is one due to training and politics.

The village of Stranton declared the day of his death to be a holiday to be celebrated every year and they unceremoniously tossed his body into a ditch to let the crows and scavengers have it.

Profession
The Baron of Stranton County, in the Province of Altoria, Kingdom of Darincedonia

Likes/Dislikes
Reufgar is a physical person who enjoys sport. Hunting, fighting, fencing. He also has a few sadistic tendacies. He enjoys seeing pain in other creatures, animal and human alike, both physical and emotional anguish. The reason he forces Suzetta to watch him execute her parents is an example of this. He often takes prisoners and releases them into the woods, giving them a head start before hunting them.

He doesn't like puppies. What a douchebag.

Personality
He's a psychopath and a sadist, feeling very little emotion or empathy. He cares for nothing but his own power. He is a womanizer and an abuser. His lovers are brief and frequent. And he's known to take women from the field for the night. He's hated and doesn't care so long as he can control.