Simeon Steinmetz
A sapper, artillerist and military engineer. Born in Brandenburg and served the Teutonic Order for ten years.
- Str 15
- Con 10
- Siz 11
- Int 15
- Pow 10
- Dex 13
- App 11
- Edu 6
HP: 11
Damage bonus + 1d4
Idea: 75%
Know: 30%
Luck: 50%
SAN: ##
SkillsSkill Points still to spend: 190
Most fighting done in a non-battlefield setting will be with your trusty dagger, so don't stint it!
Crossbow (25%)
Handgun 60%
Sword 60%
Dagger (30%)
Ride 35% Artillery 20%
Languages: German 75% French 25% Breton 15% Latin 6%
Equipment
Background
Simeon was born in 1410 in the forested Neumark of Brandenburg, which at this time is owned by the Knights Teuton. Although his family were stonemasons and charcoalburners, and being a scrawny lad he was not a natural soldier, this is exactly what he became, so eager were the Knights to prosecute their war against the Poles and the Hanseatic cities.
For ten years he served in that dreary, pitiless war, and it was the making of him. He made good use of what he had learned from his family and learned how to make black powder, how to load cannon and handguns, how to blast in tunnels and at battlements, how to shore up a rampart and to undermine the enemy. It was dirty, noisy work for little reward but he and his fellows fought in the name of Jesus and Mary.
In 1435 the Order was forced into a peace with the Polish crown and many of its mercenary armies discharged. Simeon did not want to return to the Neumark and servitude - war being the only trade he now knew, he and a group of fellow soldiers took ship to the west to France.