Ernst Kühn

About

Forged in the crucible of two warrior traditions, Ernst Kühn navigates between ninja stealth and samurai honor with lethal precision. His katana serves not just as a weapon, but as an extension of his soul, cutting through injustice with surgical grace and philosophical resolve. Each calculated movement and whispered haiku reveals a complex warrior driven by an unbreakable code of redemption and balance.

Backstory

Blood pooled beneath the ceremonial tea table where Ernst Kühn knelt, trembling hands pouring his final cup for Master Yoshi—not in celebration, but as funeral rites for the man who had shaped him from broken Prussian refugee into something between shadow and steel. The rogue samurai's corpse lay sprawled across scattered porcelain shards, his ambitious plot to sell the village's location to bandits dying with him, though Ernst's katana had acted faster than his mind could process the betrayal. Yoshi's last breath carried a whispered haiku about seasons changing, words that would echo through Ernst's conscience as he gathered the fragments of the destroyed tea set—the first of many he would collect to honor those whose stories intersected with his blade. Now masterless yet bound by deeper purpose than any sworn oath, Ernst stepped into the world beyond Hida's borders, each footfall a verse in an unwritten poem of justice, each rescued innocent another delicate cup added to his growing

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