Knotaric

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Purported to be an image of Knotaric. The date and provenance of original photo from which the likeness was taken is unknown.

Knotaric (Aric, son of Alaric), a renegade scion of the House of Einhorn. Born into the Green of northern Keltia to a woman of Nova English stock who was kept by Alaric, the leader of a small Norse warband.

Seduced into the ways of the Stripping Path, Aric gave himself over to the worship of the chthonic deities and was received into the priesthood of Dionysus accordingly. By falling in with the spiritual and race enemies of all Normarkers, Aric suffered discommendation from his clan, his life and the lives of his children being forfeit to whomsoever places them under the judgement of the knife. As a mark of his shame he has been known as "Knotaric" ever after.

By 1706 AN Knotaric and his minions were known to have established a stronghold in Fanghorn, from where the Harpy worshipping cultists of the Stripping Path were able to menace traders from Normark as they ventured southwards into the Green to ply their commerce with the tribal and ungoverned communities of the interior.

In the end he would prove to be so successful at repelling efforts by the Einhorns and Normark to bring him to heel that he claimed to scarcely notice their attempts at all. Indeed his most infamous exploits would eventually come during the Siege of Dalen (1717- ) where he surreptitiously introduced himself into the resistance mounted against the efforts of Normark to liberate Jangsong.