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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ghostknight" data-source="post: 1835523" data-attributes="member: 15338">As promised- companion!Niko Krichenko Age 25 Male, CompanionSize +1 Height 7’ Weight 250 lbsStr   +4      Dex  -1   Pre   0   Int  0Sta   +1      Qik   0   Com 0   Per +1    Easygoing +1 Secretive +2Combat StatsGreatswordInit +7 Atk +7  Dfn +4  Dam +15Sword and shieldInit +6 Atk +5  Dfn +11 Dam +11DaggerInit +6 Atk  +4 Dfn +6   Dam +10BrawlInit +5 Atk  +3  Dfn +4  Dam +5SoakNone +2 Hauberk +8 Half +10 Full +14Virtues and flawsLarge +1Great Strength +2Knight Errant  +2Veteran +1Heir +1Quality Armaments +3 (Reduced by one due to being a knight errant)Overconfident -2Plagued by (Demon) -4Obligation-1 (To family estate- One needs to learn to rule!)Enemy -3 (Someone wanting to get rid of him so he does not inherit- brother? rival noble?)AbilitiesSpeak Own language (Slavic) 5Speak (French) 3Etiquette 2Noble Lore 2Athletics 2Brawl 2Shield & Weapon 5Longshaft Weapon 3Single Weapon 3Great Weapon 2Leadership 2Ride 3EquipmentFull Chainmail armor (+2 on Protection)Longsword (+2 Damage)Kite ShieldDagger (+2 Dmg)3 LancesGreatsword (+2 Dmg)WarhorsePalfreyRiding GearPonyDescription: Niko is big.  Stand next to him and you feel like a child.  His size tends to be so overwhelming that at first most people tend not to even lookup.  As people look, they see his carefully groomed beard and moustache, his booming voice as likely to be shouting an order as laughing at yet another of his bad jokes.  History: For a long time it has been suspected that the Marien family has some suspect history in its bloodlines, but Lucille Marien, while big, was no giant.  She was married to Mikhael Krichenko and produced four sons and two daughters.  It was her second child that was LARGE, raising eyebrows.  Not too much concern was expressed, after all a fine warrior to support his brothers rule was a good thing.  Then his elder brother died in a strange hunting accident.  The forester and hunter were both executed, but who paid them off is unknown.  Niko had already been sent off to be fostered with relatives in France, but it could have been another of the brothers or a rival noble.Niko was sent from home at the age of 6.  He went to France, fostered by a related noble family and taught the arts of nobility and knighthood.  He traveled with his foster father to fight in the crusades.  He came home to France two years later, wiser and yearning to return home.  His family told him to stay away a while longer, not sure if it was safe and heavily relieved he had returned home unharmed.Niko has had a long friendship with the Magus Diamon.  They met in the market near both the covenant and the noble families home.  Niko saw what he thought was a small child, being tormented by a group of older boys.  He waded in, using his fists to great advantage, laying about to all sides.  He was most surprised when the small child turned out to be older than him- after all he barely came to his waist!  The two became firm friends, Niko protecting Diamon from physical torment, Diamon opening his mind through discussions about philosophy, magic and of things beyond mortal ken.The two years spent on the crusades did nothing to harm the friendship, but on his return he was surprised at the change in his friend, still shy, still doing his best to avoid conflict, but now a full mage.  At first he did not get what that meant, until, laughingly, Diamon challenged him.  Amused he charged, swinging his great arms, only to watch as Diamon spoke, waved is arms, and changed his own, mighty arms into that of a baby!  Finally he understood the power behind the words Diamon had baffled him with for years, and now a new respect entered into their friendship, a friendship of equals rather than of protected and  protector.When Diamon spoke of going to a far northern covenant, one once mighty but now declining, one which he hoped to bring out of its decline and get to be a mighty place of learning.  He told him its name, Gormenghast.  And Niko laughed for he felt it time to return home, start learning the estates, his father no longer young.  And so the two traveled together, to the North, to Gormenghast.  He is awaiting the reaction of his family.  They know he is large, but not how large.  Note on Demon that plagues him:While on crusade Niko befriended a knight templar, one with true faith that was hoping to give up his knighthood to join the priesthood.  But this knight was beset by nightmares, temptation upon temptation.  Slowly he began slipping under the influence of the demonic, coming closer and closer to losing his faith.  Niko remembered some of the discussions with Diamon, some of the arguments Diaomn had advanced to him on why the demonic should be rejected.  He repeated these arguments, countering the effect of the demon and earning its unending wrath- it would have been a true jewel for the demon to have turned one with true faith  to the diabolic!</blockquote>

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