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| Name: | Eckart Barlowe |
| (EK-art) | |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race: | Human |
| Class: | Death Knight |
| Role: | Tank/Damage |
| Professions: | none |
| Homeland: | Lordaeron |
| Player: | Jessa |
RP Hooks
- Lordaeron: Anyone could know Eckart from his time on the guard in Lordaeron, or even from growing up on the farm in Tirisfal Glades.
- Barlowe: He's a Barlowe. He looks like a Barlowe. He looks a lot like his father, though Karson smiles sometimes. Seen with Ivri or compared to her, he looks more likely to be her dad than Karson does. Anyone who knows a Barlowe male would likely think he kinda looks like them.
Appearance
Eckart is tall, broad, and well-muscled even in death. He is roughly 6'3" with long black hair and the ice-blue fiery eyes his undeath has granted him. His features are sharply chiseled and deeply etched with too many scowls, too many frowns. Eckart always walks like he's on his way to a duel to the death; determined, grim, and unsmiling.
Personality
Whatever he was in life, the Death Knight Eckart is not it. It may be difficult to tell, sometimes, that he's won free of Arthas except for the part where he's not just mowing everyone down. He doesn't seem to react to the hatred and fear and repudiation his very appearance attracts. He speaks rarely, and when he does it's in a low growl that threatens to deepen into a roar. Just let him kill his enemies. And point him at Arthas.
History
Eckart is the eldest of seven children born to Karson and Josette Barlowe. He grew up on their small subsistence-level farm in Tirisfal Glade; it was idyllic. Until the orcs came.
He was a young man when his family evacuated to Lordaeron. Eckart refused to go initially, promising to meet his family there after he could persuade his sweetheart to move with them. Before he could even try, she and her family were killed, and a broken-hearted Eckart went with the rest of the Barlowes.
In the city, Eckart found a different and not at all pleasing world. Nobility treated the common folk poorly, and to go from the hard-working eldest son of a good and steady farmer to a poor refugee had his hackles up from sunup to sundown. He joined the guard when his father did and took his anger out on the criminals in the street. Eckart soon developed a reputation for being hard, and the richer his targets were, the harder he was on them.
Eventually, Eckart heard of a man preaching equality. There were no nobles and commoners, he was saying. All people were of equal value, and it was time the streets did something about it. They died too young, too soon, of too many causes that the rich never suffered from. He could, it was whispered, even provide a path to immortality.
Thus did Eckart join the Cult of the Damned. He became an instant devotee, and took Kel'Thuzad's message throughout the guard, carried it into bars, into restaurants and along the streets with other members of the Cult. Still, Kel'Thuzad demanded more. He had many brothers, did he not? Could not some of them be made to see the way?
Late one night, Eckart got into a heated discussion with Calder, the next oldest child. Calder reluctantly agreed to go to meet Kel'Thuzad and hear him speak, but wanted first to do his own checking. When he came back the next night, he refused Eckart, and demanded his brother wake back up to reality. They fought, the furious Eckart finally knocking Calder unconscious and dragging him bodily down the street, determined that Calder would keep his promise.
He made it as far as a block of warehouses when his parents caught up to him. They yelled, begged, demanded, but Eckart only called them blind and enslaved, said they were unwilling to see the truth but he would not leave his brother behind. He would see Calder safely set on the right path, and one by one, he would get the rest of his siblings to see what the world was really like, what Kel'Thuzad could do for them.
He was dead before he could see the tears in his mother's eyes.
Eckart was raised as a Death Knight, and later freed from Arthas' control. Eckart never attempted to be part of any other Death Knight activities or alliances, instead swearing himself to Arthas's downfall. After the battle of Ice Crown Citadel, Eckart sought out Sir Dane Atley, his sister's husband, and forced Atley to kill him.
Relationships
| Ivrianna Barlowe Kid sister. She was still a teen when he saw her last. |
Writings
- Writings feat. Eckart Barlowe
- RP Logs feat. Eckart Barlowe
- Journal of Eckart Barlowe
- Mentions of Eckart Barlowe
| Title | Summary |
|---|---|
| (2022-08-29) Cracking the Cistern | Hoofbeats sound in the Eastern Plaguelands. Something is coming. |