Klaus Katzmann

​"I saw this in a dream, it's going to be wonderful."

Klaus is a Human Wizard played by Naomi.

Early Life
Born in Vodenstadt, Klaus lived a fairly normal life with his parents and three siblings with the only a few odd occurrences that were written off as extreme luck. That was until he was thirteen when, during an argument with his brother, he accidentally used magic to throw his brother into the wall almost killing him. He was taken almost immediately to the local Cathedral where he was sanctioned and taken to the nearest Wizarding Sanctury.

Life in Wizarding Schools
Initially struggling with learning the fundamentals of arcane, Klaus often found himself guiltily longing for the days when magic was easy and natural for him. This intense guilt led to him seeking greater and greater refuge within the chapel of the Sanctury and placing his faith in Enea.

Eventually, he was able to overcome his block and began to flourish as a wizard shortly before his true untapped potential was discovered. He had an innate magical gift to see flashes of the future in his dreams that had allowed him to perform strange feats of apparent luck through out his life. With this discovered, he was sent away from his friends to the Wizarding Sanctury of Cothenburg where his talents were further honed.

Joining the Inquisition
Growing increasingly unhappy and depressed with his situation, Klaus leaped at the chance to join an Inquisitor on a mission to track down a rogue sorcerer. Inquisitor Loche and her Acolyte Klemens Vollmacht were initially unsure of Klaus but Loche sensed the potential for an incredibly loyal arcanist in him. Encouraging Klaus' secret love for magic, Loche offered him more and more chances to be free if the Sanctury before finally offering him a place full time. This would have continued indefinitely if it weren't for the Grimspire Incident.

Time Spent AWOL
Presumed dead by his allies, Klaus found himself in the clutches of the surviving sorcerers. Before they could do anything to him, all of them were promptly kidnapped by a group of blood smugglers. Forced to ally with one of the other captured sorcerers, Margo Hansen, Klaus was able to escape when the Blood Smugglers ship was attacked by pirates. This eventually led to the pair falling into the personal possession of Pirate King Françeskita Castelles. Aboard her ship, Klaus was offered a life of excitement and adventure mixed with remaining imprisonment and control. While Margo flourished, Klaus could never quite rid himself of his shackles to the past. How exactly he got free of the pirates, even he doesn't know. He remembered drinking a strange potion as part of gambling, then waking up the wine saturated history teacher for some spoiled arionnic children. Also he could speak arionnic now.

Appearance
Klaus is 5'7" and rather slim with sun-tanned skin and messy dark brown hair. He has pale brown eyes and a scruffy beard.

Unlike most Arcanists, Klaus dresses rather outlandishly in a mix of Arionnic and Nardan styles with lots of colour and exotic fabrics. Underneath the many layers of fabric, he wears a simple white shirt with a pair of leather bracers on each wrist that are used for concealing items.

Personality
Keeping up a cheerful front, Klaus rarely appears to take many things seriously. He cracks a lot of (often inappropriate) jokes and flirts with many different people (though mostly Clara and Lothar). However, despite this, he does seem to care a great deal for his friends and allies. He can often come across as inappropriate in high stress situations by making light hearted jokes to those around him. When in private and away from these, he lets the weight of everything fall on him which often lead to panic attacks, bouts of intense paranoia and nightmares. It's not healthy but it's how he deals with it.

Klemens Vollmacht
Klemens and Klaus were previously Inquisitorial Acolytes together under Inquisitor Loche. Closer in age than the rest of the Acolytes, they found that they worked well together and had a few common interests. After Klaus joined the Inquisition permanently, he and Klemens practised together fairly regularly. It was Klaus who taught Klemens a lot about the Arcane. After Klaus' apparent return from the dead, the two have expressed happiness about being reunited however the full fall out of Klaus' disappearance has yet to be discussed. At one point, Klaus described Klemens as being his best friend.

Despite being apparently proven wrong multiple times, Klaus remained adamant that deep down Klemens was a good man of empathy and kindness who cared about saving people more than hunting monsters. He believed it so strongly that he ignored the advice of others and stuck by Klemens, desperately trying to.open his eyes to the truth of the Inquisition and the world around him. He is beyond delighted to have been proven right.

Volo
A faithful familiar that takes the form of an extremely fluffy pygmy falcon. He provides support both tactically in his reconnaissance abilities and emotionally.

Clara Edelweiss
While they haven't known each other that long, Clara and Klaus have quickly formed a flirtatious and good-humoured friendship. Due to their similar roles in battle, they often find themselves at the back of the fight and have had to try to defend each other during combat. Clara was the first one that Klaus told about his sister.

Ester Montero
Ester is a mercenary that Klaus hired to protect him on the road to Vodenstadt. While travelling together, they formed a very close bond where he confided in her a great deal. Extremely confident in her abilities and eager to continue their friendship, Klaus began plotting ways to get Ester to join the Inquisition with him. This proved far easier than he'd initially expected. He was very saddened to see her go but refused to try and force her to stay for him. He knows too well what it means to be trapped against your will.

Lothar Hermann
Since their first meeting, Klaus has repeatedly expressed both attraction to and admiration of Lothar thanks to his impressive stature, build and abilities. Whether any of these feelings are reciprocated is unknown. Since actually getting to know him, Klaus finds great comfort in Lothar's presence to the point where he rarely has his usual anxiety induced nightmares when camping with the party as he knows that Lothar and Klemens are there to protect him. One day he will discover how to turn Lothar into a catapultable size.

Johanna Loche
It is thanks to Loche that Klaus left the Wizarding School of Cothenburg in the first place. She stoked a passion for magic in him that had long since died out and indulged in his intense need to feel free. As such, she earned herself a fiercely loyal arcanist who constantly strove for self-improvement. This was no doubt her goal in the first place.

Livina Reiter
Livinia and Klaus have a fairly good relationship if not a particularly close one. She was happy to find him alive after his seven and a half year disappearance and assisted him in locating Klemens.

Notable Items

 * Klaus' Staff: Made from an unknown dark wood with an unknown purple gem fixed in the centre. It has a number of silver lines running across it forming geometrical shapes. The staff is his main arcane focus.
 * Klaus' Wand: A simple wand made from mahogany, it has three small sapphires set into the middle in a line. It is especially narrow and is concealed beneath the bracer on his left wrist. This is one of his back up arcane focuses.
 * Arcane Ring: Worn on the middle finger of his right hand, it is a silver band with a large sapphire in the centre that is engraved with an arcane sigil. This is one of his back up arcane focuses.
 * Spell Book: A collection of papers that all appear to be recipes bound in a battered leather cover. Actually trying to follow any recipes will prove disastrous as each one is actually a coded spell.
 * Diamond Necklace: A 300gp diamond necklace. Intended for revivification use.
 * Robe of Scintillating Colours: Found while digging through past members' items. He requested its use and was permitted.
 * Bag of Holding: A rune adorned satchel that he spent multiple weeks enchanting during some time off. He is incredibly proud of it.
 * Fine Feathered Cap: A stylish piece of headwear he purchased from Ester.

Feats

 * Resilient: Constitution
 * Lucky

Class Abilities

 * Spellcasting & Ritual Casting
 * Arcane Recovery
 * Divination Savant
 * Portent
 * Expert Divination

Spell Casting
As a level 9 wizard, Klaus has access to 5th level spells.
 * Cantrips
 * Dancing Lights
 * Fire Bolt
 * Mage Hand
 * Prestidigitation
 * 1st Level
 * Comprehend Languages
 * Detect Magic
 * Find Familiar
 * Identify
 * Mage Armour
 * Magic Missile
 * Shield
 * 2nd Level
 * Detect Thoughts
 * Gentle Repose
 * Knock
 * Mind Spike
 * Misty Step
 * Spider Climb
 * 3rd Level
 * Clairvoyance
 * Counterspell
 * Fireball
 * Remove Curse
 * Sending
 * Wall of Sand
 * 4th Level
 * Arcane Eye
 * Banishment
 * Locate Creature
 * 5th Level
 * Rary's Telepathic Bond
 * Scrying

Trivia

 * Klaus' fashion sense is akin to that of a colour blind drunkard stumbling through a clothes shop and calling it a day. He owns multiple outfits. They are all terrible.
 * Klaus suffers from minor claustrophobia becoming stressed and panicky when trapped
 * There are three somewhat battered books in Klaus' possession that he purchased in Arionne. He reads them when bored despite almost knowing them by heart as this point as well as using two for reference when working on arcane equations.
 * "An In-Depth History of the Arionnic Wars" by Égide Jauffret
 * "Detailed Fundamentals of Non-Linear Transumatative Effects" by Geneviève Delaplace
 * "Innovations in the Parallels between Evocative and Abjurative Practices" by Benoît Poullain