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Dietrich Eichmann

Name
Dietrich Eichmann
Age
Appearance: 54, Chronological: ~540
Gender
Male (He/Him)
Species
Demon (Feldgeister)
Occupation
Full Time Parental Guardian

Appearance
Human Form: A tall aged male with green eyes, white hair and pale complexion; his face usually sporting a serious expression. Dresses in fine well tailored and freshly laundered clothes.
True Form: A tall and muscular figure covered in thick fur and hide; with a rams head, cloven feet and clawed hands. The size and shape of both human and true forms are roughly the same.
Personality
Dour and straight laced with zero capacity for bullshit. Blunt and prone to impatience although has a sensitive, nurturing and caring side which is often kept to himself.
Abilities
Can cast transmutation magic on himself, plants and the weather and can induce a sickening aura.
Situation
Until recently, lived like a hermit. Subsisting on his large wealth while looking after two teenagers in a large house on the outskirts of Polaris Pass.

Appearance

Height
6'4''
Body
Tall and of average to slender build. His body language exudes confidence and his posture is excellent but can shapeshift.
Face
Slender and aged face with pale skin, frequently adorned in a serious expression. Rarely smiles.
Eyes
Normal human eyes with almost supernaturally green pupils.
Hair
Short and wispy grey hair. Never seems to be particularly well kept.
Clothes
Clothes always look well kept and freshly laundered. Always sharply dressed in suit shirts and bottoms or in something more relaxed like jackets, polo shirts with good trousers. Long sleeves almost exclusively.
Other
Thick German accent that he was never quite able to shake.
Can assume a human-goat hybrid form of similar size and proportion to his human form and can choose to reveal certain features at his choosing, sometimes choosing to reveal just the horns or eyes.
There is a large burn on his right arm which he usually tries to cover up

Personality

Mastered Poker Face- Dietrich deliberately keeps his emotions close to his chest and is hard to read and has mastered the art of the emotional poker face. He enjoys having this air of seriousness which surrounds him and is reflective of much of his personality however he struggles to communicate care and sensitivity as a result should he feel the need to do so.

Nurturing Spirit- Dietrich enjoys teaching and caring for others, even if he is secretive about it, and will go out of his way to teach or help or care for someone. The main recipients of this are his dependents and his garden although while he’s good with plants, he is less good with people and will only support those who he deems to be worthy of such support, and only in ways that he sees fit.

Tired and Jaded- Dietrich, unsure of his own lifespan, has lived a long life and tires of it. He sees no future worth living and even though any short term struggles may be over in the blink of an eye when compared to how long he has walked this earth, he is beginning to view his life with a sense of nihilism. While he has no cares to weigh him down and is willing to speak his mind without fear of consequence, he also struggles to find joy in life and can come across as tired and cynical.


Additional Information
Greenthumb- There is no joy in life to Dietrich greater than gardening. He uses his talents to create landscapes of great variety, seeming to command the plants to his very will to create what he sees as art. To a keen eye, the plants seem remarkably wild and pristine, seemingly untouched by the tools mankind uses to shape nature in its image.

Abilities

Ability Format
Standard Traits, Spellcasting

Advantages
  • Partial Shifting (Can reveal parts of his hybrid form at will)
  • Hybrid Animal Shifting (Can shift into full goat/human hybrid)
  • Green Thumb (Can cause plants to slowly grow or revive via life touch)
Disadvantages
  • True Name Bound (Vultrogotha)
  • Magical Vunerability (Magic is more effective against them, this is something which makes them susceptible to being bound to corndolls and slain)
  • Magically Dependent (If Dietrich loses the ability to cast magic, he will die)
Spellcasting
Weather Magic- The ability to influence the naturally occurring weather in the local area.

Core Advantage
Sickening Aura- At will, Dietrich has the ability to create a sickening aura, causing anyone caught within it to feel physically ill. The aura can affect anyone within a 200ft direct line of effect to Dietrich and increases in severity as proximity to Dietrich decreases; varying from queasiness when affected from a distance to severe nausea when close by. Prolonged exposure can result in extended sickness and fever-like symptoms. If exposed to the aura each day, the symptoms can prove fatal exactly one year from the onset.
Bonus
  • Wealth (+1 Disadvantage)
  • Spellcasting (-3 Advantages)
Nerfs and Flavor
  • Supernatural Agoraphobia - If Dietrich enters a space where he can see the sky in more than 50% of his surroundings, he is overcome with a feeling of extreme unease and cannot cast spells.
  • Weather Magic- Dietrich can only effect local humidity and pressure, effecting weather by relying on weather from the surroundings.

Current Situation

Occupation
Full Time Parental Guardian
Housing
A large house on the outskirts of Polaris Pass with a very well kept garden
Wealth
Filthy Rich

History

Date of Birth
7th January, 1478
Place of Birth
Neuenburg am Rhein, Germany
Vultrogotha, came into being in 1478 in the forests surrounding a small farming community near the modern day town of Neuenburg am Rhein, Germany. He along with his kin were known as the Feldgeister; aggressive guardians of the forest who, in exchange for offerings from human farmers, were also protectors of the crops and seasons. Vultrogotha spent his time between the forest and the human world where he took on the name of Dietrich Eichmann, a shapeshifter among his kind and one of the few who would ever make direct contact with the humans, tasked with spreading superstitions such that they viewed the creatures within the forest more favourably and ensured offerings in return for their services.

Dietrich and the other shifters often struggled to understand the humans and their ways so in time his efforts didn’t work as intended. This led to the adoption of more creative and extreme means to exert their influence upon humankind, one such way being through Changelings. The hope was that by raising those who were sympathetic to the forest within the human world, the two sides would in time begin to see eye to eye, but this would come at a price; every so often when a human child was born in the surrounding villages, the child would be replaced. This plan again failed and Dietrich would watch as the humans would gradually become more fearful of the Feldgeister and their forests, cementing their place in folklore and legend.

One night, on the 24th of April, 2006, a new-born child went missing from a nearby village. A group of villagers, aware of the legends surrounding the forest, desperate for an answer, raided the forest with torches with the aim to burn the place to the ground. Chaos ensued and in the struggle Dietrich barely managed to escape. He was the only one to make it to the forest's edge. He could hear the faint cry of a child from within the burning forest. Not wanting to let the child die, whatever it may be, he decided to re-enter; managing to rescue the child but barely escaping with his life, his arm badly burnt by the ordeal, the scar on his arm he still carries to this day.

Dietrich kept the child with him, living rough with the child for a time until desperation led him to the decision to extort a mine of Kobolds from an adjacent forest, promising not to reveal their location to the humans in return for a cut of their gold. This allowed Dietrich to get rich quickly, depositing as much as he could into a Swiss bank account and living comfortably off the interest that was accrued. Using the wealth too to bribe him and his son into citizenship in Germany and in time managed to gather enough wealth to rub shoulders with socialites and elites throughout Europe.

In time however, a tip off informed him that he was beginning to attract unwanted attention from Europol, having no family history and a huge wealth appearing from nowhere was too suspicious for the authorities so he moved to New York out of fear the authorities might catch up to them. He continued to live his extravagant lifestyle there where he managed to connect with another member of the supernatural community who informed him of Polaris Pass, knowing that there was another place where he could find others like himself, he leapt at the opportunity to make his way there as soon as he could.

Now residing in a large house on the outskirts of Polaris Pass, the move was not exactly what he was expecting, living within the community while simultaneously side by side with unknowing humans proved to be too much for him. His fears got the better of him and he opted for a hermit-like lifestyle relying on outsiders to teach his son and help him maintain the large house while Dietrich focused his time on the gardens surrounding the house for entertainment. They lived this way for some time although this strained his relationship with Kai. Eventually he was approached by an old friend to take in his daughter, one Victoria Morgan, Dietrich was happy to oblige as it would give Kai a friend and the keep being paid by her father would help his wealth last a little longer. This did little to help their relationship, now at rock bottom and fearing Kai may grow to resent him further, Dietrich decided the situation couldn’t continue and the time had come for them to step back into the human world once again.

Additional Information

Art Credits
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Anything Else
Dietrich is a difficult individual. Much has happened over the past 15 years in what feels to him a mere blink of an eye. His goals are to fix his relationship with his son, find a kind of long term peace while hopefully avoiding the authorities.

A Feldgeister is a type of Demon/Spirit from German Folklore. While I stumbled across the stories on a few websites which I cannot remember the name of, the main frame of reference for writing Dietrich was Wikipedia.

Made with inspiration provided by @Big Jeffe .
Dietrich Eichmann

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