Einar Crowin

Overview
Full biography found here.

Appearance
Hair: White & Long

Skin: Extremely pale

Eyes: White-Pink

Height: 6’4”

Weight: 190lbs

Body Type: Slim Athletic

Noticeable features: Most noticeable thing about Einar is probably that he’s albino but also he has few scars that lace his body. The more noticeable one is the one on his face. A large one on the left side, reaching from the temple, down to the corner of his lip.

Personality
Einar is often considered eccentric, chaotic, and just generally strange. Speaking without contractions and with a naturally loud, and almost dramatic-like, deep tone of voice. Often a passionate and driven individual when it comes to his own aspirations, who isn't particularly concerned about what people think of him or the way he does things. In fact, it seems he lacks any guilt or empathy. For anything or anyone. Nevertheless, he is well known to have a temper, which will on occasion make him irrational and react without thinking of consequences, rather than using logic.

Magic
At one point, Einar was a very powerful mage, mastered in Blood Magics and even fairly adept with Telekinesis. It was said he may have even at one point had some Restoration abilities.

However, now he is quite the powerful Mage-Breaker.

The radius of his anti-magic field reaches a fair distance. A radius that reaches up to thirty feet. However, it has different increments. At 30ft, there is only a 25% chance of failure of magic. At 20ft, there is a 50% chance of failure of magic. And within 10ft, there is a 100% chance magic will not work.

Other Information
Einar’s five senses are all enhanced, something that was done before he had cut his ties with magic. Therefore, he is able to see about ten feet further than most humans would in the dark, hear whispers, or smell and taste things that most may not. His sense of touch is even enhanced, which means he feels pain and temperatures at a more intense rate than others. Although there are a lot of advantages to his heightened senses, at times, it can also be overwhelming.

He is also a talented Physician and Alchemist. He can very well help and heal people but what would be the fun in that? Instead, he took a strong interest in epidemiology and uses that as his most favoured weapon.

Einar is also a very good singer, strangely enough. As well is very skilled with a violin and other related instruments.

Although it is extremely rare for anyone to experience or know of this, Einar is actually very talented at cooking, despite it’s not often anyone will even see him eat.

History
If any of the rumours of the Crowin house were true, Einar’s very existence would be proof of that. Though, still rumours, between his personality and appearance, it wouldn’t surprise people if they were to hear he was in fact a cannibal and dabbled in Blood Magic. The latter is certainly true, the former is still debated upon. At one point in time, Einar was a fairly powerful Blood Mage. Some even say due to it, he is actually older than what he appears. Although that is just more speculation. With the rise of magic users, Einar had cut his ties completely to magic, becoming a mage-breaker.

Going to the beginning, Einar had a good start in life. Crowin was a wealthy house. His father, though strict to the point he was seen as almost tyrannical, still taught his children valuable lessons in life. Then there was their mother, caring and loving to the point she was overbearing. Einar himself was the eldest son and therefore, the heir to the house. Or, at least, he should have been.

No, instead, Einar was disinherited. Although growing up he was very intelligent and had a great affinity for magic, he was… Well, different. Often seen as cruel where others would describe him as straight up evil. They weren’t wrong. As a child, other children who wronged him or if he just simply didn’t like them, were often harmed in some form or another. His “pranks” often ended up with his target in physical harm. In his adolescents, rather than typical antics from his childhood, people started to go missing. Although his mother was and still is, in denial, their father was wiser to what was going on. Einar was intelligent enough to cover his tracks, however. It was highly suspected but couldn’t be proven. Hell, it was apparent he didn’t even care about his own family.

The event leading to his disinheritance was when he was with his younger brother, Seth. Einar was about fifteen years in ages and his brother would have been eleven. His mother insisted Einar take Seth out to skate on the frozen lake. It was dangerous for him to be out there alone… The usual jargon. And she was correct. What she didn’t take into consideration when Seth did hit a thin part of the ice and fell through it into the water, was that Einar didn’t do a thing to help. Rather, he sat at the side of the lake and watched almost curiously. He was unsure of how long Seth was under there but when Seth did eventually resurface, Einar didn’t go to make sure he was okay nor did he even look concerned. He didn’t dislike his brother or would go out of his way to specifically harm him but he also just didn’t really care. Something that’s left the brothers with at least some animosity to this day.

To say their father was livid was an understatement. Once Seth had explained what happened, Einar didn’t try to defend himself. He knew it would have been pointless. His father lost his temper, grabbing the nearby fireplace poker and beating his son with it. The sharp hooked part of the poker at some point grabbing into the side of his head, cutting down his face which to this day is still scarred. His saving grace was his mother. Stopping his father from probably killing his son. He would have been completely disowned and thrown out but somehow his mother convinced her husband not to throw out her son. Instead, Einar was disinherited, Seth would be the heir to the house.

Einar had little interest in being the head of the house to begin with so his disinheritance didn’t affect him. But to say he didn’t have some bitterness towards his father would be a lie. They never got along well before the incident but after that things worsened over time. The only reason they hadn’t killed each other was more than likely due to the matriarch of the house. As for Seth, Einar didn’t harness any ill will towards him but the two didn’t really speak, though he doubted Seth was as indifferent.

Einar had gone off to medical school and kept with his blood magic practices. He had a doctorate and although he made a skilled physician, he took more interest in epidemiology as well learning alchemy; more so for nefarious reasons rather than the good of the people. He became a fairly powerful blood mage as well.

After finishing his schooling, he went back home for a while. Things were still strange. His mother was happy to see her son again but Einar and his father were at odds. Civil but there was obvious tension. The final straw between the two was when Einar decided to break his ties to magic. It was something almost seen as sacred for their family. For generations blood magic had been apparent, filled with powerful mages and Einar was one of them. But, with the increase of magic-users, it had made Einar’s “extracurricular activities” more and more difficult, thus becoming a powerful mage-breaker instead. This was seen as an insult to the family heritage and so his father cut Einar off entirely.

Unofficially excommunicated from the family, once again, Einar didn’t seem to really be affected by this. From his time as physician, he had his own funds saved up and had no issue living off on his own. Most of his funds came from investments rather than having an actual job. Instead he had his own lab setup for his own projects and research.

Even though he was kicked out of the family, at least to his father’s standards, he still kept in contact with his mother. He would never admit or even outwardly show it but she was the one person he cared about. When his father had passed, somehow, she had convinced Einar to return to Steamhaven.

She had brought up Seth’s most recent endeavors, a charitable hospital. Einar never suspected he and Seth had much in common but still, he was a Crowin. They weren’t exactly known for their charity. Perhaps he was an anomaly but Einar doubted that. And he was right. There was a more secret and nefarious side to the hospital. It was rumoured to have a hidden wing made to experiment on people. People who generally wouldn’t be missed as those of poor wealth and lower castes came to this hospital. It would appear he and his brother had more in common than he initially thought.

Interested in his own ventures, Einar had approached Seth about investing in the hospital. To which Seth agreed. These days, Einar mainly focuses on the research side of things with his knowledge of alchemy and epidemiology. On occasion, working as a physician to keep up appearance.