FULL CHARACTER GENERATION – MR. HORN SYSTEM
Step 1: Age Roll
Age: 27
Birth Year: 866 – 27 = 839 AD
Age Cost (Official Table): 133 points (Peak age window)
️ Step 2: Culture & Religion
Group: Pagan
Subgroup: Norse Pagan (Ásatrú)
Location: Vestfold, Norway
Step 3: Title & Class
Class: Landless Adventurer Bandleader

Step 4: Gender & Sexual Orientation
Gender: Male
Orientation: Heterosexual
Step 5: Life Focus
Background: Raider-leader from warrior clan

Cost: 60 points

Total Points Used So Far
- Age: 133
- Life Focus: 60
193 points used
207 points remaining
Step 6: Traits
Positive Traits:
Trait | Cost |
---|---|
Brave | +40 |
Wrathful | +30 |
Ambitious | +40 |
Strong | +50 |
Subtotal: +160
Negative Traits:
Trait | Cost |
---|---|
Gluttonous | -20 |
Sadistic | -40 |
Subtotal: -60


Add: Reaver (+30) (in-engine Norse-only raiding trait)
Add: Eager Reveler (+20)

Appearance: Comely (+40)
Remaining: 17 (banked)
️ Step 7: Sinful Track – Norse Pagan
Using 80% → 40% reroll sequence:
- Tier 1:
Wrathful
- Tier 2:
Sadistic
- Tier 3:
Callous
- Tier 4:
Reaver
- Tier 5:
(Failed)



Step 8: Childhood Trait Removal
Childhood traits wiped at Tier 1 Sinful track activation
DYNASTY & FAMILY
️ Dynasty: House Ulvsson
- "Son of the Wolf"
- Heraldry: Black wolf on red field
- Motto: “To Howl Is to Reign”
Father: Ulf Iron-Back
- Traits: Brave, Just, Strong
- Status: Killed in raid against Wessex
Mother: Inga the Seer
- Traits: Mystic, Content
- Alive, now elder advisor to the band
Character: Ketil Ulvsson “The Bloody Howl”
- Born: 839 AD
- Age in 866: 27
- Class: Landless Norse Bandleader
- Traits: Brave, Wrathful, Ambitious, Strong, Sadistic, Gluttonous, Reaver, Comely, Eager Reveler
- Religion: Ásatrú (Norse Pagan)
Children:
None — known for claiming he is “wed to the axe.”

Spouse:
None — maintains multiple lovers in Dublin, Skåne, and Ribe
KEY LIFE EVENTS (Ages 16–27)
- Age 16 (855): Slays berserker during rite of passage; gains name "Bloody Howl"
- Age 18: Leads first raid on a Saxon fishing village
- Age 20: Loses brother in an ambush; executes surviving captives
- Age 22: Makes blood oath with three Viking captains — warband is born
- Age 24: Survives duel with Jarl of Hordaland over shipwright’s insult
- Age 26: Steals holy relic from Frankish monastery, triggers bounty
- Age 27: Warband grows to 60 men; plans raid on Orkney set for spring 867
FINAL ATTRIBUTE TOTALS
Attribute | Base | Life Focus | Traits | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
Martial | 5 | +6 | +2 (Brave, Ambitious) | 13 |
Prowess | 5 | 0 | +1 (Strong) | 6 |
Diplomacy | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Intrigue | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Stewardship | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Learning | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |