Eisen

True to his dwarven heritage, Eisen is short and powerfully built. His brown hair and beard run to roughly the same length down past his chest, the beard hiding most of his face. He drapes himself in a floor-length red cape with armored shoulders, a brown tunic belted at the waist beneath it. Beneath the cape sit arm bands, trousers over his thighs, and leather boots. A horned helmet with a nose guard tops the look, and in combat he hefts a large double-bladed axe. By his elder years his frame has thinned, the muscle largely gone from his arms.

Eisen has a sharp, mischievous streak, and his lack of deference toward the king nearly got both him and Himmel put to death before their quest even began. He is rough and heedless of danger, the sort to leap from dizzying heights and land unharmed. Faith did not come naturally to him; he once regarded his family's deaths with blunt practicality, marking their shared grave with nothing but a plain stone. That changed after Heiter confided that he would rather believe the dead rest in Heaven, since the thought brings the departed more comfort. Moved by this, Eisen took up praying at the graves, a habit he has kept all the way into old age.

As the Hero Party's vanguard, Eisen is a peerless close-quarters fighter. Figures as varied as the demon general Rivale, the renowned hero Rasen, and Linie, who has copied countless fighting styles, all rank him the greatest warrior they know. His durability borders on the absurd: Frieren claims he could survive a fall from any height, and when a dragon hurled him skyward he punched a crater into the earth without a mark on him, even shattering spearheads against his body. His raw power matches it, boasting that he can crush a diamond barehanded, and he has been seen heaving up massive boulders. He moves fast enough to run across open water and reacted quickest of the whole party to block a strike from Rivale. His constitution shrugs off venom potent enough to fell a dragon, a resilience that unsettled even Heiter, and his axework is keen enough to trade blows with Rivale and score a cut on the general's face. His signature technique, Lightning Strike, brings his double-bladed axe down in a single brutal arc, loosing a shockwave that splinters the ground.