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Character Bio of Erhard Von Kaufman

Back Story:

Like all other Commissars Erhard is an orphan, his parents having died in some ignominious way on either, a shell blasted battlefront, or in the back alley of some godless hive spire. Either way his destination was the same, the Schola Progenium. During his time there, his faith in the God Emperor of man was deemed unquestionable by the withered priests of the Progenium, and was recruited by the Commissariat in his adolescence. There he was drilled in advanced military strategy and human psychology. Once his training was complete, he was assigned to the Vecarian 1st Infantry Regiment of the Imperial Guard. The Vecarian 1st had high hopes attached to its endeavors in battle, It being the first regiment raised from the Imperial World Of Vecaria. During the regiment’s third engagement on the arid planet of Talladon Primaris one of the Regiment’s Sanctioned Psykers had what could only be described as a lapse of concentration during one of the regiment’s engagements on the sand blasted world. Who knows whether the psyker had held a taint previously unforeseen by the Preceptor’s of the Scholastica Psykana. Or whether he had agreed to some dark pact made with the daemons of the warp. Be it what It may, Commissar Erhard Von Kaufman was there in the barracks when the beast tore itself from the skin of what was once a psyker primaris of the Imperial Guard, With wanton abandon it ripped apart the stunned guardsmen that were once its allies. Kaufman fired several bolts at the daemon, but they had little effect on its hardened carapace. With the same cruelty and malice it had shown to its previous victims it tore into the fledgling commissar, ripping apart the carapace armor beneath he greatcoat, and leaving horrendous rends in his flesh. The Commissar swung his power sword in a hopeless defense but the creature batted it away and tore the offending arm asunder. The beast casually threw what remained of the Commissar onto a pile of his once noble comrades. An arm missing, and bleeding from a dozen grievous wounds across his body, Erhard Von Kaufman lay on the brink of oblivion, a prayer to The God Emperor on his lips pleading for absolution. The daemon feeding off of the suffering of Kaufman left him in a pile of his own blood, and with a cold unerring calculation known only to the daemons of the warp, viciously slaughtered the regiment in its own barracks and then fled. At the end of the day, out of the 500 men stationed within the barracks only a bare dozen had survived the beast, this included the fatally wounded Commissar, who by some unknown means, survived his grievous wounds until a medicae had arrived. By all means Erhard should have died within minutes of his injuries, but through either strength of will, or divine intervention, he had endured. After several days of intensive care Kaufman was fitted bionic enhancements, to supplement his crippled frame. He was a mass of scar tissue, his face horribly disfigured, one of his eyes missing, and his right arm now a mass of steel plated servos. Kaufman remained in a coma like state for a week after that, and awoke at the same time Inquisitor Vitallion Calidus Dravere arrived on the planet. He quickly took stock of the situation and found the commissar, the only survivor to have encountered the beast directly. Once hearing the commissar’s story and the description of the beast, drafted what men he could into his service and proceeded to try and hunt the beast down in the lower hive. Kuafman who shouldn’t have even been able to move due to his injuries, donned the rags of his greatcoat and cap and insisted that the inquisitor needed every man he could get. The Commissar was now the effective commander of what was left of the 1st Vecarian due to almost the entire command structure, including the colonel, being dead. With the inquisitor’s retinue and the bare two dozen men left of the 1st Vecarian they proceeded into the lower hive. It was here that what remained of the morale of the regiment was shattered, the hunters quickly became the hunted, until all that was left was the inquisitor his, his acolytes, and the commissar who showed unerring stamina, faith, and bravery in the face of being hunted by a horror of the warp. The rest of regiment had either fled or was dead, leaving a pitiful few to face the daemon in the final confrontation. The Acolytes fought the beast with the skill and faith of those trained by the inquisition, but fell one by one until it was only Erhard and Vitallion that stood against the beast. Erhard Charged the daemon, the words of his faith leaving his lips in a battle cry that could only be replicated by a man who knew he would not be able to cheat death a second time. The Inquisitor watched as a man, covered in wounds not yet healed charged a daemon that had slaughtered his retinue and an entire regiment of guardsmen. The Commissar thundered into the daemon, his faith his only shield and struck at the beast with his power sword. Vitallion gazed with awe as Erhard moved as if guided by the Emperor himself, the Aquila around his neck burned with holy fire. The inquisitor leapt into the fray after the soul of a man surely touched by the Emperor. Erhard struck the daemon, his power sword cleaving through the carapace wounding the creature. As the creature reeled from the blow, he shoved his bolt pistol into the things gaping maw, and unloaded his clip into the back of the thing’s skull. With the daemon finally banished back to the warp, the glow of the Aquila faded and Erhard crashed to the ground. The hand of what ever being influencing the commissar retracted, taking with it the stamina that had kept the Commissar on his feet despite his injuries. The Thorian inquisitor stood over the body of a man he believed to be touched by the Emperor… The inquisitor without hesitation came to the realization that this man must be kept under close supervision. Vitallion brought him back to his ship and there treated his half healed wounds while awaiting for him to wake up. Erhard remembered little of the final confrontation with the daemon, all the inquisitor told him was that he had acquitted himself well on the field, and that he was recruiting him into his service. Thus Erhard Von Kaufman began his service as part of the inquisitor’s retinue. They worked together for many years, until Vitallion finally deemed that he had learned enough and officially sanctioned him as his own interrogator. After the many years of service to the inquisitor, he still partly identifies as a commissar even though he has had thorough training as an interrogator of the inquisition.



Appearance:

Erhard Von Kaufman has short cropped blonde hair that is usually kept under his peaked cap. What remains of his face, is a scared visage, his left eye has been completely replaced by a bionic one and half of his jaw has been replaced with metal and synth skin. He is of average height, His right arm has been replaced with an admantium plated master crafted bionic arm, a gift from Inquisitor Vitallion. Erhard's chest and lower torso are the same as his face, heavily scared. He still wears his commissariat issue greatcoat but with inquisitorial insignia.

Personality:

Erhard Von Kaufman’s faith has always been absolute, He fully believes that the Emperor has a plan for every soul under his protection, so when Erhard was drafted into the inquisition he took it in stride knowing that this was the emperor’s plan for him. However the Inquisition has made him a hard and cynical man, for it has shown him just how corrupt and pitiful the race of man is, but he will stop at nothing in his role of safe guarding the imperium. Kaufman has always been a hardline imperial, and as the saying goes will abhor the witch, the heretic, and the mutant. Regarding psykers, Erhard holds an extreme distrust of them, and will only work with them when necessary to. In his mind psykers are just catastrophe’s waiting to explode in some disastrous way, however they are often a means to an end and will begrudgingly make use of them until they are no longer needed. Erhard still thinks first as a commissar and second as an interrogator and thus dislikes being subversive and prefers wielding the power of his lord openly instead of being cloak and dagger. Furthermore, Kaufman gages his actions on what would best suit the situation at hand. For example, he could choose to inspire and lead by example, just as easily as putting a bolt into the back a skull if it would fit the situation. If Erhard had to choose a faction to adhere to, it would most certainly be one of monodominance, his mixture of Commissariat conditioning and his past experiences have seen to that. However he obeys the will of his lord and strives to do the Emperor’s work.

Equipment:

Master crafted bolt pistol

Master crafted power sword ''Noctis lucis ''

Carapace Armor

Commissariat Issue greatcoat and peaked cap with Inquisitorial insignia

Bionic admantium plated arm

Bionic Eye with infrared and several other spectrums also functions as magnoculars

Frag and Krak Grenades x2

Deadspace Earpiece

<p class="MsoNormal">Mono edged Combat Knife

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<p class="MsoNormal">Skills:

<p class="MsoNormal">Erhard had received advanced Commissariat training in Military tactics and human psychology, along with training in melee and ranged combat disciplines. Kaufman  puts his psychology training to good use in combat as well as out of combat, easily being able to read the mood and of emotions of those around him. In the guard he used this to judge when morale is faltering however, in service to the inquisition he uses his training to judge and psycho analyze those under the scrutiny of the inquisition. In addition to those skills, almost all of those trained in the Commissariat are trained as excellent orators and public speakers which has come in handy more than once in service to Lord Dravere. Kaufman also picked up many necessary political skills from his lord, skills that were quite necessary for appeasing high ranking officials in the imperial government and hierarchy, such as lord governors, Colonels of the imperial guard, Judges of the Adeptus Arbites, basically anyone who might be important enough that an inquisitor and retinue would need to usurp their authority in accordance with inquisitorial mandate.

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