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Name: Frederick Hecht
Rank: Sergeant
Aliases: "Stoic"
Age: Twenty-two
Birth Place: Ardalk
Gender: Male
Occupation before the war: Worked for his father as a horse trader.

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Height: 6'4
Weight: 214
Build: Athletic
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blonde
Tattoos/Scars: Scars on his lower legs
Personal Style: Frederick has never been particularly stylish in any notable away. Largely he wears what is comfortable.

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Relationship Status: Engaged
Personality: Serious, professional, Sarcastic, Blunt
Habits: Strokes his beard
Hobbies: Riding, cards
Fears: Combat, death, being injured
Likes: Riding horses, hunting, women
Dislikes: Being to hot or to cold

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General or Specialty Skills: Skilled horseman, decent shot with a musket/carbine, passable skill with a sword.
What Is On Your Person:

• Clothing - Issued dragoon uniform of green jacket with black facings, black pants with white strip, matching saddle and blanket.
• Weapons - Dragoons sabre, carbine, and a pistol.
• Personal Items - Small packet about his neck that holds a few coins and a locket with a picture of his fiancé.

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The Reason You Become a Soldier:
Like the rest of the troopers in his squadron, Frederick has answered the call to defend Rhaetia. Only his age, skill with the basics, and early enlistment period has made him a sergeant.
History:
Frederick is the eldest of his parents nine children. Though not a wealthy family, they have done well enough to ensure that none have wanted for food, shelter, or education. His father, a serious and quiet man, runs a horse trading business that deals in stealing horses from other parts of the Empire and breeding them, or selling them, elsewhere.

Frederick was well on his way to being a part of the family business when the revolution broke out. His father was killed early on trying to steal Imperial cavalry mounts, and two other siblings have since died in the infantry. Frederick had originally planned to try and remain at home and support his remaining family but the "trading" business has dried up. Instead he got drunk, met a wealthy land baron who was raising his own regiment, the 6th Dragoons, to fight, and signed on early in its formation. Now, as the regiment rides toward battle, he is a sergeant in charge of twenty troopers.

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Character 1: Trooper Albert Toman
Character 2: Trooper Klaus Sperber
Character 3: Corporal Domenik Heine

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Character Quote: "Shit biscuit."
Theme Song: Unknown
Anything Else: N/A

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Name: Theodor Wolfgang Schuster
Rank: Trooper
Aliases: Teddy
Age: 19 years old
Birth Place: Haventown
Gender: Male
Occupation before the war: Shoe Maker with his father

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Height: 5'6
Weight: 175 lbs
Build: Thickly built with broad shoulders. A bit flabby
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Dirty Blond
Tattoos/Scars: inch long scar on left thumb
Personal Style: He doesn't maintain his uniform in a disciplined manner. His shoes are immaculate.

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Relationship Status: Single
Personality: Entitled, kind of lazy, mama's boy. Introvert, scared of girls.
Habits: Talks to himself sometimes and daydreams. Smokes a pipe
Hobbies: Reading story books, magic tricks, makes small leather trinkets he likes to give as gifts.
Fears: Girls, violence, hard work.
Likes: Playing a hero, fantasy, games, his mom.
Dislikes: Hard work, anger, and a sore ass from riding all day.

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General or Specialty Skills: Sleight of hand magic, especially card tricks; works with leather and shoes, has an excellent imagination and critical thinking skills. Passable shot with a rifle, pretty handy swinging a sword, new to riding a horse.
What Is On Your Person:

• Clothing - Issued dragoon uniform of green jacket with black facings, black pants with white strip, matching saddle and blanket.
• Weapons- Family Sabre, standard issue carbine and pistol.
• Personal Items- Family Sabre with a Rooster emblazoned on the guard. Hand made leather shoes made special by his dad before he left for the war. A handkerchief his mother embroidered for him.

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The Reason You Become a Soldier: To establish the family in the new Republic.
History: Teddy's mother, Martha, was the only child of a wealthy family in the Tallion Empire. She was 16 when her mother and father lost their fortune through a shared addiction to gambling on horse races; they were sentenced to serve life in prison to pay the debt. Before serving their sentence they married their daughter to a 25 year old cobbler named Wolfgang. The only item held over from the vast estate was an heirloom Saber marked with the family insignia of a prancing rooster.
Teddy was born shortly after they were married and grew up caught between his mother's aristocratic nature and his hard working and humble lifestyle. Attaching to his mother he grew up thinking of hard labor as punishment; however, his father raised him with a sense of duty towards the family and he helped his father in the cobbler shop where he learned the fine art of shoe making and leather repair.
Teddy had not made a lot of friends in his life, he rather found that talking to people was difficult, and he much preferred the solace of books. He did teach himself magic tricks with cards and coins because he thought people might be impressed but while many people found his tricks charming in the cobbler shop they only led to a single long term friend, a younger boy named Willhelm, who Teddy called Willy. Willy had an older brother who had died early in the wars Tallion fought against the kingdom of Caywen, and when he found Teddy something clicked and he hadn't left Teddy's side since, somewhat to Teddy's dismay. Willy followed Teddy to this war because he didn't want to loose another brother.
The Schuster's were never fond of the Empire and lived in a small town for away from any big city. When the rebellion happened Teddy's mother decided that their family could find a new fortune as the Republic formed if they supported their efforts in the war. Teddy was sent to pursue soldiering as a career in the hopes their family might be a part of a "new" aristocracy. He showed up to base camp and got his uniform, there he met the people who would, in time, become closer than family.

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Character 1: Wilhelm- Teddy's one friend from home; a baker's son, followed Teddy to the Republic military as a cook.
Character 2: Theodore Hagan - Teddy's grandfather, still in prison, Grandmother has passed
Character 3: Ulricht von Lichtenstein - traveling night who visited Haventown and left Teddy with the book that taught his sleight of hand.

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Sir Briggs was a racing horse who was retired young after he broke a leg and threw his jockey. He was sold as a plow horse but had a problem with being aggressive and hard to control. He was sold again, and then again, until he finally was brought down to Haventown and sold to Teddy's family for cheap. The horse is strong, and fast. He has taken a shine to Teddy in response to the boy's gentle touch and will nip at others if he thinks they're a threat.

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Name: Anja Luise Welser

Rank: Trooper

Aliases: None

Age: Twenty

Birth Place: The Hamlet of Vorteham

Gender: Female

Occupation before the war: Farmhand

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Height: 5' 8”

Weight: 152 lb

Build: Broad and athletic, given a robust and naturally cultivated musculature due to her upbringing and life thus far.

Eyes: Blue

Hair: Blonde

Tattoos/Scars: No major ones of either, although her hands are slightly calloused yet softer than one may expect, and she has a nice pink scar on her right thigh.

Personal Style: As comfortable as possible, and what many would consider 'rustic' and 'rural' when she isn't in uniform.

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Relationship Status: Single

Personality: Enduring, generous, honest and humble but also somewhat immature, guarded and not all that accepting of orders/authority in general.

Habits: Often speaks somewhat too loudly, can be overly aggressive to others, and attempts to show others – especially those of higher social standing – how 'tough' and 'strong' she is.

Hobbies: Wrestling/rough-housing, drinking, honest labour and good conversation, sewing and rudimentary cooking.

Fears: Death, injury or harm to her family, becoming aged and weak, and captivity. She also can't swim.

Likes: The outdoors/nature, hard work, boys, good food and drink, family and friends.

Dislikes: Authority and the upper classes AKA those that look down at her, nosey individuals and gossips, cities and enclosed spaces.

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General or Speciality Skills: Bush craft/outdoorsmanship, pretty good shot if not remarkable, fundamental tracking skills combined with good eyesight, and although not a 'skill' she does possess a level of fitness above and beyond what should plausibly be possessed by a farmgirl.

What Is On Your Person:

• Clothing - Issued dragoon uniform of green jacket with black facings, black pants with white strip, matching saddle and blanket.
• Weapons- Dragoons sabre, carbine, and a pistol.
• Personal Items- A small battered portrait of her parents and two sisters, a silver flagon should she ever need one, and a small clay pipe.

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The Reason You Become a Soldier: To serve her burgeoning nation and protect those within it, and to bring some small hint of fame to her family.

History: Anja was born the eldest daughter of an immigrant Tallian veteran and his Rhaetian bride, followed not long after by two younger sisters, her father Yeromeyev Yumashevovich swiftly shedding his own name in favour of a more native one and settling on his wife's family name of Welser.

Since she was old enough to hold a scythe or a hoe Anja has worked her fathers farmland just outside of Vorteham, a small hamlet with a close-knit community and a place where the taverns are never fully empty, she out of all her siblings taking most after her father in attitude and temperament... if not her fathers love.

She grew up more-or-less fearless, enjoying wrestling (among other things) with the local boys, priding herself on her endurance and strength while still taking part in more feminine pursuits with her mother – a woman far wiser and in touch with reality than her father ever has been!

When plans for a Republic were announced, and a mad rush for all volunteers sent out across the territory, Anja leapt at the chance, bored of her current state of affairs and keen for adventure; although not a keen rider, and very rural in her style at that, she was capable of riding a horse and saw no reason not to enter the life of a soldier. Her father was very much against it, both due to her gender and out of fear for her life, their parting full of stinging words and bitter goodbyes.

Nevertheless she took only what she needed to reach the mustering point, and joined a trail of the hamlets young men as they together rode to war. Oh how she thought she was prepared, her father had told enough stories after all, but how wrong she was.

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Character 1: Gerhard Hielscher, local farmhand.

Character 2: Padre Yannik Pfaff, the hamlets spiritual leader.

Character 3: Old Ruprecht, local drunk and apparent war hero, though this has never been proven.

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Name: Simone Ulmer
Rank: Trooper
Aliases: None
Age: 19
Birth Place: Neuben
Gender: Female
Occupation before the war: Farmer

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Height: 5'9"
Weight: 130 lbs
Build: Thin
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown
Tattoos/Scars:
Personal Style: Fusses over her uniform, making sure that it looks as good as it can given the circumstances. Usually ornaments her outfits in some small way, be it with a wildflower, a discarded feather, or even a bit of paper folded in a pleasing way.

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Relationship Status: Single
Personality: Cheery, but with a snarky streak as long as her arm. Has a flair for the dramatic
Habits: Has to make a conscious effort to not be looking around, drum her fingers, or some other similar fidget.
Hobbies: Poetry, Reading, Woodcarving
Fears: Being Imprisoned, Starvation
Likes: Candy, Theater, Birds
Dislikes: Cattle (But not beef), snow, chestnuts

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General or Specialty Skills: Experienced forager and scrounger. Skilled at making repairs.Passable in horsemanship and saber fighting but an excellent shot.
What Is On Your Person:

• Clothing - Issued dragoon uniform , matching saddle and blanket. Also wears chest bindings under her clothing.
• Weapons - Dragoons sabre, carbine, and a pistol.
• Personal Items - A cigarette case containing a family portrait drawn by her sister and a protective charm from her parents. Her initials have been etched into it, but it is otherwise a plain metal case. Contains no actual smoking material.

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The Reason You Become a Soldier: For the freedom of Rhaetia! And to help protect her family.
History:
Destitution hung over the Ulmer family like a cloud. Despite her parent's best efforts at farming, injury, blight, and even floods left the Ulmers constantly scrambling to survive. Before she started school, Simone collected watercress on the riverbank with her mother. Her older sister brought her along to help garner sympathy as they panhandled. As girls her age started noticing which boys they liked, she was with her father picking through garbage piles for scrap metal and fuel. During a particularly harsh winter, the family even moved into the barn so the fuel they used to cook could keep the animals warm.

The youngest child in the family, Simone grew up used to this life. Hand-me-downs were a fact of life, and even tiny luxuries like sweets were jealously guarded if not immediately consumed. She discovered a smile and some carefully chosen words could often let her stretch out her few coins at the market. She even joined her father and brother when hunting, helping them evade game wardens while they carried their illicit bounty home.

Still, she managed to eke out a few moments of pleasure, mainly listening to the old men spin tales at the local tavern, and watching traveling actors on market days. It gave her a pleasant distraction to think back on during the more mind numbing parts of her life, and she managed to memorize some popular plays line by line. Particular favorite plays were that told stories of old Rhaetian heroes, which naturally became more and more common as the rhetoric against the empire grew. It was no surprise when the Declaration of Independence finally reached the Neuben.

While her family was usually too busy worrying about their immediate needs to be concerned about larger politics, the flurry of activity surrounding it was a boon. Simone's mother and sister quickly found work making all the gear a soldier needs. The fortune of the family farm had picked up, the weather cooperating and the harvest growing in thick and lush. Their horse had given birth a few years prior, just in time to be trained and sold. However, Simone wanted to fight, to emulate the heroes in the plays she saw so often. With the nearest regiment being formed being the 6th Dragoon, she realized the only way she would be able to join would be to bring her own horse. So, with the blessing of her parents, she took their new horse and rode off towards the muster point, ready to undergo the training to become a dragoon.

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Character 1: Trooper Herman Jager, former Neuben constable
Character 2: Trooper Edda Klee, classmate and daughter of local smith
Character 3: Trooper Dorthy Blum, classmate and neighboring farmer

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Character Quote: "Look, we can do this. Just need to work at it."
Theme Song: N/A
Anything Else:

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Name: Hartmann Bauer
Rank: Trooper
Aliases: Bauie
Age: 23
Birth Place: Rotfurt, a small rural town
Gender: Male
Occupation before the war: Baker

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Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 165 lb
Build: Wiry, but somewhat athletic, with good posture
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Dark blonde
Tattoos/Scars: None
Personal Style: Relaxed, but ready

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Relationship Status: Single
Personality: Laid back, rarely judges others and never says more than he has to
Habits: Is prone to observe rather than engage in situations, has been accused of being a sneak due to his overall quiet nature
Hobbies: Cooking food, reading, playing games of skill and chance
Fears: Death or injury to himself or his loved ones, being trapped or separated from his friends
Likes: Other, more lively people, quiet moments, the countryside
Dislikes: Cities, parties, mean people, cowards

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General or Specialty Skills: Is quite handy in a kitchen, can treat basic injuries well and is good at keeping his cool, as well as a passable rider
What Is On Your Person:

• Clothing - Standard issue uniform
• Weapons - Standard issue sabre and carbine
• Personal Items - A small, trusty cooking pot, stained and battered from long years of hard use

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The Reason You Become a Soldier: Hartmann had probably never joined the war, had it not been for his younger brother Ludger who ran away from home with two of his friends to join the revolutionary forces. Fearing that his parents would never recover from the grief if their baby boy got himself killed in the fighting, Hartmann took it upon himself to keep Ludger safe. He used a sizeable portion of his life savings to purchase a horse and followed his brother to the front.
History: Hartmann has led a mostly unremarkable life. He has always been a quiet person, minding his own business and looking after his family. His younger brother Ludger is his opposite, all fiery temper and rash decisions. This has led to some tension between the two, but Hartmann has always felt that he has a responsability as the eldest son to try and keep the family together, and has therefore never really challenged Ludger on his immature behaviour.

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(Please create - Named only - NPC's who your character is close with. These individuals will be part of your Troop. Some will die, others you can develop as comrades if you wish.
They did not need detailed CS's. They can be in common with other players.
No one above the rank of my character, please.)
Character 1: Trooper Ludger Bauer
Character 2: Trooper Gisela Schneider
Character 3: Trooper Heinrich Müller