Kraft

Broad and powerfully built, Kraft carries the tapered ears that mark his elven heritage, along with heavy brows that sit above green eyes. His olive-toned hair is cropped into short spikes over a shaved, darker underside. For garments he favors the dress of his calling: a flowing dark robe trimmed in gold, a pale cream stole draped across the shoulders, and a pendant bearing the emblem of the Goddess of Creation. Fern remarks that his face calls to mind Kreis, the warrior friend of Sein nicknamed Gorilla.

Warmth, devotion, and an easy cheer define Kraft. When Frieren's group passes through his corner of the Northern Lands, he opens his cabin to them for the whole of a brutal winter and freely parts with his food and provisions. A firm moral streak runs through him: he treasures living things, has a record of rescuing villages, and once chased off a band of thieves rather than let Übel cut them down. His choice to take monastic vows and devote himself to the Goddess of Creation grew from a very human worry, a reluctance to see his good works vanish unremembered and a wish for someone to speak well of him at the close of his days.

Centuries of experience let him hand out counsel to Frieren and her companions, and he volunteers to honor her himself should she place no faith in the Goddess. Compared with reserved elves such as Frieren and Serie, he wears his feelings openly, smiling readily and engaging others with unusual ease.

As a young elf Kraft put no stock in the Goddess's existence. In those distant days he fought as a warrior and, together with a human priest, helped deliver the world from ruin, yet the passing of centuries scrubbed both their names from memory. All that survives of their feat is a weathered monument to forgotten heroes standing along the Rohr Road. With everyone who recalled his deeds long dead, he eventually took up the robes of a monk, hoping the Goddess might honor him in the hereafter.

Twenty-eight years after Himmel's death he comes upon Frieren, Fern, and Stark out in the Decke Region, the first time in roughly three centuries he has crossed paths with a fellow elf. He shelters the travelers through the long northern winter, nearly half a year, before each party goes its own way. Later, in an out-of-the-way stretch of Graf Granat's Domain, he meets Übel as she travels toward Äußerst. After noticing that someone had carved up a group of thieves, he pins the act on her and frightens the surviving robbers into scattering, his raw strength such that a single punch can hurl a man into the air, before the two head off in opposite directions.