Raichfen Kresten

Raichfen is the Lord of House Kresten and Warden of the Bull.

Appearance
Despite his ripened age of fifty-six, Raichfen stands as intimidating as any of his predecessors. If not more so. A long beard of black hair, sometimes held together by aurochs bone, goes down toward his knees while a mane of thick, straight, black hair extends down his back.

His face is old though not too wrinkled, riddled with scars. His hands are as leathery and rough as his face, covered with blisters. His left hand lacks a pointer finger, lost in a fight with a large bear.

Childhood
Raichfen was the youngest of three, though his other two brothers died before reaching the age of ten. Traditions for Lordship are different in the Bull, and his training was more based around strength than anything. He was never taught an ounce of compassion or honor, only a lust for victory and dominance.

When he was fifteen, considered a man by his family, the Knightly House of Baltzer went into rebellion against Raichfen's father, Gaerenth. Gaerenth was seventy when the battle began, and although he crushed one of House Baltzer's commanders, he was slain early on. After seeing his father die on the battlefield to House Kresten's own master-at-arms, Raichfen commanded his men to make a full-on charge. Half of their charge died to pikemen, while vanguard of House Baltzer's troops were trampled under furious hooves or impaled on aurochs horns.

It seemed that Raichfen wanted the battle to be as bloody as possible, and he got his wish. House Kresten obliterated House Baltzer's forces, killed all their trueborn male heirs, and took two of their three daughters as servants. A bastard, his half-sister, and their mother remained. House Baltzer's keep was given to the new master-at-arms, and the Baltzer name forbidden in the Bull.

Modern Day
Raichfen has no worries as far as male heirs go. He had a trueborn heir in the works the day after his wedding. Although the child was gifted with strength and early learning of his name, it turned to be that was all he could say. This only served to anger him, but Raichfen kept the child as his heir until the boy's death at the hands of Braith Vaught.

His secondary heir proved more promising, though lacking any sense of good Lordship, he's proven himself as able a Commander as his father. Both of them lead the ambush during the attack on Oakwood, crushing Oliver's reinforcements to the area. Roisforth lead the massacre of the remaining, drunken men during a cease-fire. Although a light reprimand was made, Raichfen rewarded his son with the family warhorn.

Personality
A true man of House Kresten, Raichfen is a ruthless, paranoid, and unkind. Despite this, his sons and daughter love him, considering him a paragon of their family and the true way the Gods of the Mountain intended for them to live.