"Oh, right, a castle. Yippee. Haunted, is it? Full of monsters? You don't say. Drac who? Oh, another Most Evil Man Who Ever Lived. Well, I suppose it can't hurt to take a look."
- —Heidi Kant[1a]
Heidi Kant is the leader of a group of bandits recently active near Castle Drachenfels.[1a]
She's devoted to Myrmidia, the goddess of war and strategy.[1a]
Heidi is 27 years old, a tough, tanned, and weathered woman with no pretensions. She almost radiates contempt for authority, and it's not so much that she doesn't tolerate fools gladly, she simply doesn't tolerate them at all. But she is sociable in a darkly humorous way, and her determination and refusal ever to give in to adversity makes her a valued friend and comrade to any adventurer lucky enough to get into her good books.[1a]
Active for many years as the leader of a group of audacious bandits in the Vaults, Heidi accepted an amnesty offered by a local noble and even took service as a leader of his troops.[1a]
History[]
"Tileans! Useless scum. All the bravery and sense of a Snotling faced by a hundred Dwarfs."
- —Heidi Kant[1a]
Heidi has recently set off wandering again, looking for an opportunity to do something a little bit crazy. This powerful and tough warrior has been to most of it, seen most of the rest of it, done plenty of it, and isn't that impressed. Ordinary adventures and risks bore her, although she isn't alive and healthy because she has a penchant for taking stupid risks. Now, perhaps if there were something special to interest her, something unique...[1a]
Trivia[]
Heidi Kant's name could refer to Heidi, a work of children's fiction published between 1880 and 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri. It is a novel about the events in the life of a 5-year-old girl in her paternal grandfather's care in the Swiss Alps, the world of Mallus' equivalent to the Vaults, from where Heidi Kant came.[1a]