Kieran
is a dastardly scoundrel from the Duchy of Greenwood Keep, in the Kingdom of Northern Lights.
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Quote
”I hope this helps!”
”This is nice”
Biography
Kieran began playing Amtgard in early 2016. He discovered the game via a series facebook posts made by Devry on other LARP pages.
Persona
Kieran's character is a Shapeshifter from the island of Vesuva (from Magic: The Gathering lore). Kieran is a audacious impostor who delights in eating/absorbing his prey before stealing its identity. He loves exploring all the shapes and modalities of life, sometimes stealing several identities in a single day, rarely wearing the same skin twice.
Volrath
Volrath is a small, highly intelligent Mimic who accompanies Lord Kieran on his adventures. Volrath usually takes the form of a golden lord's coronet covered in eyeballs, and rides atop Kieran's head, whispering crazy ideas in Kieran's ear.
Thievery
Kieran has been known to render players nameless, using fae magic to steal their persona names and titles. Stolen names are ransomed back to their namesakes, or resold to the highest-bidder.
Notable Accomplishments
That Big Monster Quest
In 2018, Kieran embarked on a quest to play every battle-game monster in the Dor Un Avathar. This took more than four years. On October 1st 2022 at NLCC: Kieran finally completed this quest. To date, Kieran is the only player from any kingdom, known to have played every v8 battlegame monster.
In Amtgard
- Paragon Monster
- Lord
- Runs a twice-annual "Voltron" MTG Commander tournament held at coronation campouts since 2020.
- Co-runs the weekly Darkmoon History-Night on the Darkmoon Discord Server every Monday evening. A weekly history-lesson formatted like an online college course; lasts 3-4 hours and is worth 1 class-credit; covering a different historical topic each week (still going strong as of 2024!).
- Created and ran the Flooded Mountains Minecraft Server, a modded Amtgard-themed server which was active throughout the covid lockdowns.
- Creator of the heraldry and flag for the land of Flooded Mountains.
- Has organized over a dozen "How To Play Monster" workshops, which have thus far been held at the lands of BE, SM, DFV, FM, and GWK.
Outside of Amtgard
- Co-founder of the PaNNC (Pacific Northwest Nerf Club), which organizes massive nerf gun battles in WA and OR. Notably: Kieran is responsible for the PaNNC adopting a policy wherein Amtgard boffers and shields are usable at PaNNC nerf-gun-fight events.
Belted Family
Paragon Monster:
- Paragon Monster Kieran
- Apprentice Monster Zatory
- Apprentice Monster Potato
See also: The Impostors of a Thousand Faces on the O.R.K.
Noble / Knightly
• None.
Positions Served
Kingdom
- Served three terms as Northern Lights Kingdom Guild Master of Monsters.
- Served twice as the Northern Lights Kingdom Guild Master of Wizards.
- Served once as Northern Lights Kingdom Guild Master of Bards.
Land
- Served a term as Monarch of Flooded Mountains in 2022.
- Served a term as Regent of Flooded Mountains in 2021.
Past Relics Held
Kingdom
- 2022: NL Sword of Storms - Awarded for excellent portrayal of a Deadly Slime in the Kingdom's relic quest.
- 2018: NL Shard of Azrael - Awarded for excellent portrayal of a Brute Zombie in the Kingdom's relic quest, which granted Iron Will(T).
- 2017: NL Sword of Storms - which Kieran re-gifted to the champion of his fighting company.
- 2017: NL Prayer Beads of the Fallen Monk, which granted Enlightened Soul (T)
Land
- 2020: Amulet of Tracking - Won in a fundraiser-raffle for FM.
- 2019: Wand of Release - Awarded by SM's monarch Q, for excellent reeving while not-in-office.
Affiliated Groups
- A Saracen, of tribe Lazarus
- CEO of Gaily Forward Alchemy (a fictional corporation, known for brewing high-potency potions using morally-questionable methodologies).
- Member of Adeptus Anthrobovinius (a Minotaur household)
Additional Images
4-legged Centaur
probably a Wyvern?
Wyvern is bestest monster
a big scary Mummer trying to eat babbers.
definitely not a necromancer
some kinda lizard or something
Links
| Category: Voltron Tournament |
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| Main Articles: Voltron Tournament • Past Prizes Lore: Gaily Forward Alchemy • Boreal Emporium Artifacts: Lefty's Legendary Longknife • The Wrath of Roth • Kitsune Claw of the Arrowfox • Archmage's Dag'ger • Devry's Pillar of Salt • Duskwalker’s Saga of Kanphuzian & Enlightenment • Indomitable Wand |
