Erik

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In Gondolia, Erik attempts to help the party get a ship, but he and the Luminary are promptly turned aside by the mayor. He gets Veronica's staff back from a boy who just wanted to help the Mayor's son with his speechless voice. That night, more soldiers show up looking for the Darkspawn. Erik is captured and used as bait. After a confrontation with Jasper, a general, he is rescued by the remaining members of the party. Since the party helped the Mayor‘s son earlier, he orders his own merchant ships to provide cover for the party‘s escape from a Tentacular.

For the rest of the journey, Erik acts as the streetwise and stalwart companion, ever curious to know where the prophecy he was given may lead next.

At the Kingsbarrow, Erik locates the orb, though it is about to be taken by a pair of grim gryphons. After dealing with them, he takes it as his own. However, pursuit is not far behind, and the pair must make a break for the Door of Departure to the east, which takes them to Hotto.

Exhausted after their journey, the pair takes a break in the saunas of the mountain town. There, they meet two girls, both of whom are looking for missing persons. A red-hooded girl searches in vain for her sister, while the other girl stumbles into the saunas looking for someone else. Erik confuses the two by matching them, but the hooded girl, Veronica, bluntly corrects them. After a trip to the bar where she was denied entry before, Veronica learned that her sister went west, and joins the Luminary‘s party.

Now at the Cryptic Crypt, Erik and the Luminary find Veronica‘s sister, Serena, asleep, having been exhausted from her own search. The sisters then agree to come with the two men and find the source of Veronica‘s missing powers. The monster, Jarvis, and his goons spot the party of four and proceed to attack them. With Jarvis defeated, the party also rescues Noah, an informant from Erik‘s thieving days. He guides them to their next destination after a night's rest.

The pair is pursued by Heliodorian foot soldiers through the sewers below, then by a resident black dragon. Barely fast enough to outrun the beast, they survive, jumping to the foothills adjacent to the city. Taking refuge at a nearby church, they rest the night. Erik then proposes going after his prized Red Orb, another part of the prophecy, which should be in its hiding place downtown. Even with help from a local innkeeper, the orb is not found. Under cover of night, the two men slip past one of the city guards to reach the city above. With the castle under heavy guard, they must use the rooftops to navigate to a shop owned by Derk, who may know where the orb is. He retrieved it and sold it back to the castle, which allowed him to raise money to open the shop. Furious, Erik is at the point of strangling his old friend, but the latter also reveals that he may have taken it to a storehouse known as The Kingsbarrow on the Emerald Coast. With the southern gates of the city barricaded, they have to find another route.

Stopping briefly in Cobblestone, the pair winds through the Manglegrove and finds an old hut near a broken bridge, its sole resident a dog. The Luminary’s power courses through a root of Yggdrasil and reveals that a monster, the Tricky devil, cursed an old woodcutter as he was fixing the bridge, then set another trap for others passing through. The two men fight and defeat the monster, and the curse is lifted. With the bridge renewed, they are able to proceed.

At the Kingsbarrow, Erik locates the orb, though it is about to be taken by a pair of grim gryphons. After dealing with them, he takes it as his own. However, pursuit is not far behind, and the pair must make a break for the Door of Departure to the east, which takes them to Hotto.

Exhausted after their journey, the pair takes a break in the saunas of the mountain town. There, they meet two girls, both of whom are looking for missing persons. A red-hooded girl searches in vain for her sister, while the other girl stumbles into the saunas looking for someone else. Erik confuses the two by matching them, but the hooded girl, Veronica, bluntly corrects them. After a trip to the bar where she was denied entry before, Veronica learned that her sister went west, and joins the Luminary‘s party.

Now at the Cryptic Crypt, Erik and the Luminary find Veronica‘s sister, Serena, asleep, having been exhausted from her own search. The sisters then agree to come with the two men and find the source of Veronica‘s missing powers. The monster, Jarvis, and his goons spot the party of four and proceed to attack them. With Jarvis defeated, the party also rescues Noah, an informant from Erik‘s thieving days. He guides them to their next destination after a night's rest.

For his deeds, Erik is locked up in the castle dungeon, and surely enough, the Luminary does meet him. Erik learns that the Luminary was mistaken for the "Darkspawn", his opponent. Per the prophet‘s words, Erik offers to help him escape.

Erik was orphaned along with his sister Mia somewhere near the city of Sniflheim and taken in by the Vikings that lived in the region. The Vikings, however, prove to be cruel slave drivers. Each night, the brother and sister would confide in one another, each dreaming and scheming a way out of their predicament. Each day, the two were worked to the bone. If any did not do as asked, or committed an offence, they were pushed twice as hard.

Still, the pair regularly attended church in the city proper, where the priest befriended them; and through the years, he learned much of their history.

On one of Mia‘s birthdays, Erik plunders a necklace of gold, adorned with solid rubies, and gives it to her as a gift. The moment she puts it on, everything she touches — living or not — turns to solid gold, causing 'Gold Fever'. With this, Mia realises that she may be able to escape sooner than she had ever thought possible. Erik, meanwhile, has set his sights on greater treasures of the world. Mia’s greed soon gets the better of her, and before long, she herself is turned to gold. Mia reaches out to Erik in pain, but he can do nothing. Her statue is rooted to the spot in their shelter beyond the Vikings‘ hideout.

Erik eventually escapes his captors and wanders the world in search of loot. At some point, he is contacted by an entity known as the Seer. The Seer tells him that one day, the Luminary will arrive and how Erik must help him to fulfil a prophecy. At first, he dismisses the Seer's words as utter nonsense, but out of his own curiosity follows them. In Heliodor, he and a man named Derk team up as bandits, stealing a red orb from the castle and stashing it near their hideout in the Downtown division of the city.

Despite his gruff exterior, Erik has a kind heart. He doesn't always believe everything he is told, even from a prophet, but he is willing to admit when he is wrong and do what is right for the good of others. He is described as "slightly nihilistic".  

Erik uses a Scandinavian dialect.

he's also a little silly and apparently likes dancing

Erik is a young man with blue eyes and slicked back, spiky cyan hair that has a single forelock. He has a single gold hoop earring on each ear and wears purple beads around his neck. His clothes are relatively simple, wearing a hooded dark green tunic with lacing that exposes his chest, a red sash tied around his waist, blue trousers, fingerless gloves, and leather shoes worn with orange socks that are held up with string. He carries a scabbard with a dagger on his sash.