Johannes Klaron Djupvik

Johannes Klaron Djupvik (b. 1670 in Nordiskehjem) is a Norse socialite and UDF conscript. Famous for being the grand-nephew of Liv Djupvik, he had spent his youth partying and doing reckless things, almost always being "saved" by his family.

Son of Patrik Djupvik (1643– ) and Mikaela Klaron (1645– ), he has one elder brother Samuel Klaron Djupvik who appears to lead a normal and respectable life.

In 1691, the Order of the Holy Lakes, on the application of the mothers involved, confirmed that he had fathered four children with four different women in the years 1689–1691 (Simon Midergaard and Mattias Silk in 1689, Margot Suur in 1690, and Karla Sivertsen in 1691), and that it was currently reviewing the paternity cases of eight other children born during Johannes's teenage years. Johannes's family managed to get an injunction against the publication of any news regarding his children and family in Normark and Elwynn, but the Order of the Holy Lakes is not bound by it. As such, Hurmu media broke the news which were easily accessible to Normark due to shared language and cultural links.

On 9.IV.1691 AN, Johannes was greeted at the door of his Konungshjem apartment by the Bailiff of the city, accompanied by a bevy of cudgellers, who took great pleasure in informing him that the Court of the Prince had reviewed his exemption from National Service and found it to have been issued in error. Accordingly the exemption had been revoked and new call up papers issued which the Bailiff delivered to Johannes in person, congratulating him on the opportunity to do his bit in the Union Defence Force. Owing to his recent celebrity, a pair of cudgellers were assigned to Johannes for his personal protection, whilst a UDF media team ensconced themselves in his apartment, after evicting his companions of the previous night, and worked on preparing Johannes for a press call that would take place immediately prior to the commencement of his basic training.

At the ensuing press call, held at Nordiskehjem Depot on 14.IV.1691 immediately after he had been fitted out with his basic training service uniform, Johannes was obliged to patiently endure being publicly congratulated by no less a personage than Sigrid Årud for his prodigious contributions towards advancing the human supremacy. All this occurring as a not entirely inconsiderable media scrum watched and recorded. The first medal pinned to his chest was the Elwynnese Medal of Fatherhood with Oak Leave Clusters, apparently an invention of the Princess of Elwynn herself. Sigrid had smirkingly remarked, as Menig Djupvik hesitantly proffered a salute, that the promising young lad would doubtless be sent to the Southern District of Hurmu where the formerly forsaken would doubtless welcome his direct contribution to the performance of their civic duties. To this Johannes had merely blinked uncomprehendingly until the Regementsförvaltare who had been observing the spectacle from one side bellowed at the man to "stop day-dreaming and lower that fucking arm."

Instead of four years guarding well-appointed internment camps in Southern District Johannes instead found his period of service indefinitely extended as the Second Elwynnese Civil War tore through the Benacian portion of the Greater Elwynnese Realm. Following basic training and an period of duty at the Hagbard Garrison, Johannes was promoted to the rank of Korporal and assigned to the 3rd Brigade of the 81^st Landsfördelning. For his continued misfortune, his first overseas posting would be on the island of Samholdsøya - an outpost on the edge of the frozen boreal hell which the loyalist forces would someday have to reconquer in order to restore the Boreal Air Bridge and direct communications between Normark and Eliria.