Dr. Malwin Krieg
Minister of Ethnic Biology | High Apotheurge of the Imperial Sciences
To most within the Nordreik, Dr. Malwin Krieg is a name spoken with reverence and caution — a man of unparalleled precision and intellect, the architect of purity. To the rest of the world, his name is a curse waiting to bloom.
Appointed by Emperor Blaine Gifford himself, Krieg serves as both Minister of Ethnic Biology and High Apotheurge of the Imperial Sciences, overseeing the Empire’s most secretive and vile experiments. His laboratories are cold cathedrals of rune-etched steel and sanctified cruelty, where bloodlines are charted like rivers and the suffering of elves is the ink in which he writes progress.
He is not a mage in the conventional sense, nor a warlock bound by pact or god — but rather a creature of terrifying innovation, blending alchemy, anatomy, and divine disregard into instruments of calculated horror. He has no love for Blaine, only unwavering loyalty to the Nordreik and its future: one free of what he deems "degenerate stock." In Krieg’s mind, the elven soul is not a mystery — it is a flaw, and flaws are meant to be corrected or removed.
Appointed by Emperor Blaine Gifford himself, Krieg serves as both Minister of Ethnic Biology and High Apotheurge of the Imperial Sciences, overseeing the Empire’s most secretive and vile experiments. His laboratories are cold cathedrals of rune-etched steel and sanctified cruelty, where bloodlines are charted like rivers and the suffering of elves is the ink in which he writes progress.
He is not a mage in the conventional sense, nor a warlock bound by pact or god — but rather a creature of terrifying innovation, blending alchemy, anatomy, and divine disregard into instruments of calculated horror. He has no love for Blaine, only unwavering loyalty to the Nordreik and its future: one free of what he deems "degenerate stock." In Krieg’s mind, the elven soul is not a mystery — it is a flaw, and flaws are meant to be corrected or removed.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Dr. Krieg maintains a surprisingly lean and unassuming frame, standing just under six feet tall and weighing little more than a common tradesman. His figure is wiry and dry, like sinew stretched over a rigid, upright skeleton. There is no softness to him—no wasted motion, no indulgent posture. Every movement is calculated, every breath measured.
His pallid complexion speaks to a life lived beneath lanterns and stone, deep within laboratories that know neither sun nor warmth. There is no sign of tan or toil upon his skin—only the fine tremor of long hours spent writing, dissecting, and scribing glyphs across bone and parchment.
Despite his age, Krieg shows few outward signs of frailty. His posture remains excellent, his eyes remain clear, and his hands—while scarred with minor alchemical burns and needle-marks—are still steady enough to perform the most delicate incisions. He does not walk; he glides, coat whispering like cloth drawn over iron.
There are no obvious infirmities. If he suffers any ailments, they are either irrelevant or perfectly managed.
His pallid complexion speaks to a life lived beneath lanterns and stone, deep within laboratories that know neither sun nor warmth. There is no sign of tan or toil upon his skin—only the fine tremor of long hours spent writing, dissecting, and scribing glyphs across bone and parchment.
Despite his age, Krieg shows few outward signs of frailty. His posture remains excellent, his eyes remain clear, and his hands—while scarred with minor alchemical burns and needle-marks—are still steady enough to perform the most delicate incisions. He does not walk; he glides, coat whispering like cloth drawn over iron.
There are no obvious infirmities. If he suffers any ailments, they are either irrelevant or perfectly managed.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Born in 165 AV in the heart of Therenborough, Malwin Krieg was the second son of a respected physician and a noble-born mother tied to a minor Therengian bloodline. Raised in the austere halls of privilege and academia, Krieg's youth was marked by cold discipline and a hunger to distinguish himself. Even as a child, he displayed a discomforting detachment—dissecting birds not out of cruelty, but curiosity, and documenting their anatomy with chilling accuracy.
He enrolled at the Imperial Collegium of Anatomical Sciences at the age of fifteen, becoming the youngest initiate in its history. There, Krieg honed his skills under the watchful gaze of then-Barony's most ruthless minds, excelling in comparative biology, vivisection, and planar biology. While others recoiled from the mingling of flesh and magic, Krieg thrived, pioneering methods to track inherited arcane markers across bloodlines.
By his early thirties, Krieg was recruited into the Imperial Science Corps, quickly rising through its ranks by offering "solutions" to the Empire's perceived problems of purity, legacy, and dissent. His thesis — Ethnosorceric Degradation Among Mixed Bloodlines — remains sealed within the Imperial Archives, whispered to contain the earliest theoretical frameworks for targeted arcane sterilization.
Throughout his career, Krieg has operated from within the capital of Therenborough, surrounded by loyal researchers and protected by bureaucratic opacity. Though whispers of what goes on in his laboratories persist — and a few defectors have even attempted to testify against him — no inquiry has ever made it past the doors of the Imperial Citadel.
He is not a war criminal in the Empire. He is a visionary. And visions, in the Nordreik, are best served cold.
He enrolled at the Imperial Collegium of Anatomical Sciences at the age of fifteen, becoming the youngest initiate in its history. There, Krieg honed his skills under the watchful gaze of then-Barony's most ruthless minds, excelling in comparative biology, vivisection, and planar biology. While others recoiled from the mingling of flesh and magic, Krieg thrived, pioneering methods to track inherited arcane markers across bloodlines.
By his early thirties, Krieg was recruited into the Imperial Science Corps, quickly rising through its ranks by offering "solutions" to the Empire's perceived problems of purity, legacy, and dissent. His thesis — Ethnosorceric Degradation Among Mixed Bloodlines — remains sealed within the Imperial Archives, whispered to contain the earliest theoretical frameworks for targeted arcane sterilization.
Throughout his career, Krieg has operated from within the capital of Therenborough, surrounded by loyal researchers and protected by bureaucratic opacity. Though whispers of what goes on in his laboratories persist — and a few defectors have even attempted to testify against him — no inquiry has ever made it past the doors of the Imperial Citadel.
He is not a war criminal in the Empire. He is a visionary. And visions, in the Nordreik, are best served cold.
Intellectual Characteristics
Dr. Malwin Krieg is widely regarded within the Imperial Science Corps as one of the most brilliant minds of the era—though few outside the Empire use the word brilliant without a shiver. His intellect is sharp, surgical, and utterly devoid of compassion.
Krieg is a master of comparative anatomy, arcano-genetic theory, and alchemical pathology. His methods are cold and precise, designed not to discover truth but to verify preordained conclusions. Where others see questions, Krieg sees variables. He does not conduct experiments; he executes algorithms of suffering to generate usable results.
He views the elven bloodline—and its derivatives—as a magical corruption of natural biology, a flaw in the genome of civilization. This ideology defines his work: the application of evolutionary cruelty to cleanse the Empire of instability and degeneracy. To Krieg, societies are petri dishes, and his job is to scrape away the mold.
Despite his monstrous ideology, Krieg is not without charm. He is polite, articulate, and eerily calm, even when discussing the most gruesome subjects. His affect never shifts, even as he describes vivisection, ritual sterilization, or the forced charting of bloodlines across generations.
Krieg is fluent in Therengian, Common, Draconic, and Infernal, with full clearance to access the sealed archives of the Imperial Anatomica. His private notes, encoded in rune-cipher, are said to be impenetrable to all but the most twisted minds.
Though many call him a monster, Krieg does not see himself as evil. He sees himself as necessary.
Krieg is a master of comparative anatomy, arcano-genetic theory, and alchemical pathology. His methods are cold and precise, designed not to discover truth but to verify preordained conclusions. Where others see questions, Krieg sees variables. He does not conduct experiments; he executes algorithms of suffering to generate usable results.
He views the elven bloodline—and its derivatives—as a magical corruption of natural biology, a flaw in the genome of civilization. This ideology defines his work: the application of evolutionary cruelty to cleanse the Empire of instability and degeneracy. To Krieg, societies are petri dishes, and his job is to scrape away the mold.
Despite his monstrous ideology, Krieg is not without charm. He is polite, articulate, and eerily calm, even when discussing the most gruesome subjects. His affect never shifts, even as he describes vivisection, ritual sterilization, or the forced charting of bloodlines across generations.
Krieg is fluent in Therengian, Common, Draconic, and Infernal, with full clearance to access the sealed archives of the Imperial Anatomica. His private notes, encoded in rune-cipher, are said to be impenetrable to all but the most twisted minds.
Though many call him a monster, Krieg does not see himself as evil. He sees himself as necessary.
"Krieg? Brilliant, in that way a scalpel is—sharp, cold, and far too eager to cut. I shared a table with him once at a symposium in Therenborough. Never touched his wine. Never blinked, either."
— Victoria Pendrake
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Species
Ethnicity
Year of Birth
165 AV
57 Years old
Birthplace
Children
Eyes
Pale steel-blue, glassy and unreadable
Hair
Iron-grey, slicked back and severely parted, always immaculately groomed
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Pallid, sallow complexion — the result of too many years beneath lanterns and alchemical fumes
Height
5’11” (180 cm)
Weight
152 lbs (69 kg)
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