Leopold of Katze
Sobriquet: Leo the Winter Lion
Appearance: In life Leopold was attractive, a man in his middle twenties with golden blond hair and blue-gray eyes, and he was a pleasure for most women to look upon. Having died and been reborn to the darkness of the Underworld, Leopold's corpus reflects both his deeds and death. Originally thin and lithe, he has grown gaunt and pallid. Leopold's left arm is missing, a gory hole reveals the meaty socked where the missing limb should be and the angry looking wound continually discharges a sticky brown syrup that stinks like rotten hamburger. Leo's golden locks have bleached white and his eyes have turned a metallic-green and are faintly illuminated from within. He still wears the clothing and armor that he died in and his masterwork sword has followed him into the next life as a relic.
Behavior: The former first-son of House Katze is a caricature of his former self. He is driven by the dark desires that led him to his dreadful end and as a malicious soul, he haunts the place of his death, the family seat within the eastern woods. From beyond the grave, Leopold still plots to rule his family and all of Bavaria, but he knows he was betrayed by his younger brother Alard and his virgin bride Adeline of Berengar. As such, his darkest desire is to make them both watch as all they love is destroyed by his manipulations. In this, he needs allies on both sides of the Shroud, and his first stop after ripping himself free of his caul, is to call upon those men-at-arms who most recently died in his service. With a spectral retinue, Leopold who now styles himself the Winter Lion, seeks to overthrow the Stygian forces of the necropolis of Augusta Vindelicorum and rule from the Shadowlands.
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