Dalm Eberhard
Sobriquet: Eben
Appearance: Medium height and build.
Behavior: A good merc, Eben likes to fight and drink. His Master is teaching him a few things though.
History
Born in Toulisourgion, Eben is the fourth son of a landed commoner. As a way to make a living upon reaching his majority he joined the Roman Legions for the pay and adventure. Part of his history is recounted here:
"Dalm was a fellow soldier whom I had known in the eastern Legions, a somewhat younger man who upon retiring had no family to which to return. Eben had accompanied me into retirement to hire out as guards with a caravan traveling to Alexandria in Egypt. Like Salivius Ludovicus, the man whose life I had appropriated, Dalm was a eastern German and the two of us had bonded during our final campaign for the new Komnenid dynasty under Emperor Alexios I - the Battle of Levounion.
Levounion...That name has such power to conjure my host's memories that I sometimes forget that it was not me who fought there. The battle took place on April 29th, 1091. A horde of Pechenegs (a semi-nomadic Turkic people whose westward migration led them to settle the regions immediately north of the Black Sea) eighty thousand strong had descended into Byzantine territory and plundered much of the northern Balkans on their way to besiege Constantinople.
The Emperor Alexios had gathered what troops he could, twenty thousand in total, after the debacle of the Battle of Manzikert twenty years earlier and then with ingenuity and diplomacy brought the strength of the Cumans (another nomadic Turkic people who were enemies of the Pechenegs) tribes to Constantinople's side in the conflict.
I remember the earth shaking as the united Byzantine-Cuman army marched towards the greatest battle of our generation. The Pechenegs has plundered about one hundred and fifty miles south and west of Constantinople, and were encamped on the fields of Levounion just north of the ancient port city of Ainos. They had eighty thousand men and our combined forces numbered only sixty-five thousand, despite our might many feared that we would not be victorious and that the Queen of Cities, Constantinople would fall to these foreign barbarians.
The battle began at dawn and lasted until the last light of day. When we marched upon the Pecheneg encampment, we found their warriors unprepared for battle and large numbers of their women and children with them. So encumbered, they fought a losing battle from the beginning. Despite their error, the Pechenegs were fearless warriors and fought almost to the last man. But bloodlust once raised is not so easily slaked, and with the collapsed of their defenses, the order was passed to slaughter the Pechenegs, it was a massacre.
At that time, Dalm Eberhard was the second in command of my century and once the formations disintegrated into a melee, we fought back-to-back throughout that savage day. When it was over, the fields of where the Pechenegs had camped were an abattoir. Human blood and gore had turned all the nearby streams crimson, and the sky was black with carrion birds. The slaughter was so thorough that when it was over there were less that a thousand Pecheneg survivors taken as slaves by the Empire.
My host and Dalm Eberhard had saved each other many times over the course of that battle. The next day, after the prodigious plunder was divided up, there was a jubilant celebration and I treated the survivors of my Century to the whores of Port Ainos. We drank a river of Greek wine, swore oaths of brotherhood and fucked all night. After the legions returned to Constantinople, we both resigned from the army and took our spoils south to Egypt and a well earned retirement.
In Alexandria, Salivius Ludovicus and Dalm Eberhard became quite good friends, that is until the arrival of the Pageant and the fateful events of the Joyous Harpy and the ill conceived expedition to the Temple of Ereshkigal." ---From "History According to Aegon Nightshade"
After Aegon was saved and the two joined the Pageant Eben became the ghoul of Theodoric. He has become blood bound and dedicated to Theodoric.
Recent Events:
Statistics
- Gender: Male
- Type: Adult
- Nationality: Germanic
- Location:
- Language: Old High German, Vulgar Latin
Life & Times
- Age: 33
- Birth date: August 15, 1063 (2:10 PM)
Physical=
- Height: 94 cm / 5 ft 7 in
- Weight: 145 lbs
- Handedness: Right
Blood type: O-
