Reinhartt

" 'There are no shortcuts if you want to achieve perfection' "

Childhood
Reinhartt Sternhammer was born on the fourth of October - he was raised by his loving mother who taught him how to cook well, and Reinhartt's father introduced him to the vast world of salesmanship. Unbeknownst to his parents, Reinhartt developed a passion for designing - the town he was raised in was built by one of the best architects in the world.

Despite his full name being Reinhartt, his friends and family called him "Hartt" - it was simply easier to pronounce. He graduated from the College of Architecture, and started a small business on the side called "Hartt's Hardware"...

First Love
When he was 16, Hartt fell in love with a girl named Joanne - her friends called her Azalea because of the blooming azalea flowers she put in-between her magnificent hair. They've first met during the Fall Festival - Reinhartt was serving drinks, and Joanne just broke up with her boyfriend, so Reinhartt went off his stall to cheer her up - when she raised her head, he saw her deep, velvet eyes - Hartt fell in love with her from the first gaze. Right after Hartt borrowed her his handkerchief, she had to leave because her brother, Joel, was looking for her.

Not so long after that, Hartt found the handkerchief on his doorstep alongside with a letter from Joanne - she wanted to meet him near the bridge in their town at midnight because there was something she wanted to tell him. Hartt filled to the brim with excitement waited for the set hour, and when the clocktower rang for the twelfth o'clock, Joanne revealed herself from the shadows. When she approached Hartt, the Moonlight shined on them, and they've kissed for the first time. Suddenly Joanne started crying, and handed Hartt a letter, and ran off into the darkness. Unbeknownst to Reinhartt, Joanne was leaving in half an hour - her brother was a travelling merchant, and they had to leave to get to their next destination.

Hartt's happiness faded away faster than the lightning strikes - he started running to the docks to go with her, and see her for the last time, but he was too late - one of the fishermen told him that the Galleon with Joanne on board just sailed away. After that, Reinhartt was shattered - he lurked around the town, asking where did Joanne's ship sailed, but nobody knew...

Breath of the Wild
As a child, Hartt loved to spend his free time in the forest - listening to the birds flying overhead, humming along the rustle of old pines and drawing the animals that he had come across were just a small part of his daily routine. Silence of the woods inspired him to create - to fill that empty void with his inner, artistic voice.

One day, while wandering around the woods, Hartt stumbled upon a clearing - in the middle of it there was a stag - not just any stag - the biggest one Hartt has ever seen, and he had visited that forest daily. The stag's leg was stuck in a hole dug out by the hunters. It broke Hartt's heart to see such a majestic creature caught in a trap, left to the merciless hunters - that's why Hartt used few sticks and branches to make a ramp for the stag to use to get out of that hole.

Stag this big is quite an unusual sight - it made Reinhartt curious. Where did it come from? Why is it here? Is there more of them? His thinking was cut short by a soft, yet low voice that spoke out loudly - "Do not fear traveler - this is I, the almighty Eikthyr ". Suddenly the sky turned crimson red, the Stag's Antlers started glowing with an unusual, blue light. The beast spoke again - "Thank you for saving my life, pardon my manners, I didn't fully introduce myself - I am the keeper of this forest, and I've kept it under my protection for millennia - I shall return the favor and award you with the Gift of the Forest - when you'll be in danger, call us, and we shall come in aid" - Shortly after the stag ran off, leaving Reinhartt speechless. He came back home, and during the night he could hear the voice of Eikthyr ringing in his ears. This experience stuck with him for the rest of his life...

Here Today...
As Reinhartt was closing his briefcase, he gazed for the last time at the photo of his family - he was finally going to start over, and perhaps find Joanne. He closed the windows, left a letter on the table and locked the door of his house - it was the day when he had finally decided to answer the call of the sea. As he was heading to the docks, he saw the old market square where Hartt's Hardware was situated, the good ol' tavern where he used to party with his friends, the docks where he used to work for few extra shillings - all of those memories started rolling in as he approached the deck of the Asgard - a galleon that would lead him to the new life on Rathnir. He let out a sigh, looked at his old house, and he let his past go...

...Gone Tomorrow
The ship docked with a loud thud - it woke up Hartt from his slumber in his cabin. After stepping down from the ship's deck, Reinhartt went to the nearest tavern to fill out few documents - he was astounded by how many different people were around him - mercenaries, knights, miners, librarians... Everyone had their own life - their own story to tell.

After downing few bottles of scotch, Hartt was leaving the tavern, when suddenly he got approached by an individual who seemed to be a Dog-like person - his name was Delta - he invited Reinhartt to the nation called Alfheim. After a short conversation, Reinhartt decided to go with the unusual man that he had just met, and go to his nation.

Looking back, it wasn't the smartest decision, but it is what it is - Hartt was stuck with some dog-person, in a nation he knew barely anything about, without any idea where he's going.

From a Simpleton...
Reinhartt started as a simple resource gatherer for the current builders - he mined, he sold ores, he set up a small shack in the back of a construction site, and his life was quite uneventful at that time - he was working most of the time for the higher-ups, but quickly gained reputation of a solid worker. After one of the builders got fired, a job opportunity opened for Hartt. He applied and shortly after received his dream job of an Architect - he could finally fulfill his dream of becoming a well-known designer.

...To a Minister
After few days of working, Reinhartt was offered quite an unusual job opportunity - his close friend, Finn, invited him to become the Vice Minister of Infrastructure of Alfheim. The only thing bigger than Hartt's surprise was probably the grin on his face - he had become a government representative in just a few days.

He served as a builder well, and progressed the ongoing redesign on Chervonstad using the experience he had from his College - from all of the stuff he had built, he accumulated quite a hefty amount of money - Hartt decided to spend it all on the finest tools he could find to improve his building speed...

Axel Stables Partnership
Reinhartt's friend, Finn, offered him a part-time job in his business - Axel Stables. Hartt was supposed to build the entire branch of them in Chervonstad, but there is nothing he couldn't build - he got to it right away. He had excavated quite a large cave in a relatively short amount of time, so that Finn could start selling his horses to Alfheimi people.

We Need to Go Deeper
During one of his voyages, Reinhartt stumbled upon an unusual underwater structure - it was made out of a strange material known as prismarine. Filled with curiosity, Hartt took off his fine silk shirt and jumped head first to explore his discovery

The second he got near the structure, a beam of light hit him - he suddenly felt unable to punch or use tools - Hartt suspected, that a Keeper or a Guardian of that structure casted a curse on him. Without any second thoughts, he chugged a bottle of magic mead, that would allow him to breathe underwater. Armed with that ability, a dagger and a Glowing Crystal to find his way around the darkest depths of the ocean, Hartt dived deeper.

When he entered the monument, the doors closed shut behind him - there was no coming back. Hartt strapped the crystal to his head to serve as a light source, and started navigating through the maze. Finding an exit from one of those structures might prove challenging, because everything is made out of prismarine - many travelers got lost in the corridors of these horrific mazes - human skulls and bones were filling the corners of the rooms he explored.

One of the rooms seemed bigger - it had this large pillar in the middle - Reinhartt lit a stick of dynamite and blew up the pillar. What he found inside was unbelievable - eight cubes made out of pure gold. Right after Hartt took them, the temple started to fall apart - a massive beast with an eye that was most certainly not an animal, attacked Hartt with it's beam of light. Hartt was cornered - he had only one choice. He pulled out his dagger, and swam towards the machine-like creature, and stabbed it in the eye.

The defeated foe exploded, allowing Hartt to swim out. There was only one issue - Hartt was too heavy. All of that gold held him down. With a tear in the eye, he let go of the pouch that contained his gold, and swam out to the surface, right before the Underwater Breathing Mead's effects expired. When Reinhartt crawled onto his boat, he sat there for an hour thinking of ways to get back his gold, but the sheer fear of of the machines lurking beneath the surface terrified him, so he decided to leave the gold to the mercy of the sea...

Ocean Breeze once again
When Reinhartt reached the harbor after his adventure with the underwater monument, he entered a bar - a smell of the sea was ironically stronger inside the Tavern than outside of it. Scallywags, rascals and drunkards occupied most of the tables, but in the darkest corner of the room there was a man - his face was hidden in the shadows, and he carefully listened to the people around him. Nate approached his table, and before he could say anything, the man spoke - "Take a seat, Reinhartt". Hartt questioned how the man knew his name, but took a seat nonetheless. The man spoke again - "I have an offer for you - hear me out first, and then make up your mind"

Reinhartt stared at the man with curiosity. The mysterious man spoke once again - "I would like to offer you a job - I pay handsomely, and I expect perfection. You see, I am an entrepreneur that invested in a businesses, but some other people started other businesses, that might endanger my own. What I want you to do, is go to their respective towns, and attack their citizens to cause some havoc." Right after the man finished the last sentence, he threw a sack full of gold coins on the table. Everyone in the tavern stared silently at the man in the shadows. The man said - "100 000$ for every town you successfully bandit, Reinhartt. This is my final offer. Take it or leave it, please make your choice now." - This was an offer Hartt simply couldn't refuse. He slowly approached the man, and shook his hand - everybody who was in the Tavern gazed with awe at the two men shaking hands. Reinhartt finally spoke - "Considering my current situation, I am willing to work for you sir." - The man said - "Very well then, see you in the docks tomorrow, we will sail at when the clock strikes five in the morning."

Reinhartt left the Tavern with a grin on his face and an upfront payment of 50 000$ from the man in the pocket - this was the beginning of his journey as a pirate on the vast waters of Rathnir.