Appearance: He is of average height with a shaved fave and hair cut close in the style of the Byzantine(whom he had been working for for the last few years).  He is fairly muscular and is more tan than the average of his people.  He has green eyes.

Name: Harek Hallsson

Personality: drunk almost 24/7, he has a belief that he can never have a hangover if he never stopped being drunk.  He is fairly kind and an open person on an everyday basis.  It is before or during a battle that he becomes completely calm and serious.

Backstory:  Harek had an inconsequential childhood with no tragedy or excitement beyond the norm.  His story truly began when he went on his first raid.  It had been a sizeable party of 3 ships, and there goal was to hit some small northern English villages.  As they were raiding one of the villages they had been ambushed by King Richeard of Northumbria with an army much larger than their numbers.  It was a massacre.  Harek and 7 others had survived.  They were captured and brought to the Kings dungeons.  They were stuck in the cells for weeks with a large group of other prisoners.  Every day men would be taken out of the cells and never come back.  No one knew where they were going, though he had heard the guards mention snakes once.  After 2 of his fellow kinsmen had also been taken away, he decided to escape.  He organized an escape plan, and on the next day when the guards came to grab another prisoner the prisoners attacked the guards and escaped.  After escaping and making it back to the ships they only had enough men to crew one of them.  On the return trip they got stuck in a storm and two more fell overboard and were never seen again.  Once they got back one committed suicide from the shame and another died of their wounds.  The last one other than Harek was crippled and could never raid again, while Harek became a drunk to try and make the horrors go away.  After 2 years of being a homeless drunk he vowed to make King Richeard of Northumbria pay, and he has done so.  He has only gone on 5 raids since then 3 of them targeting the Kings land.  While they were not large raids Harek managed to make them incredibly profitable for him and his brothers in arms.  He would lead small bands on sneak attacks taking out wealthy targets.  They would hit manors and at times even full cities.  One of his most successful raids was when he managed to sneak into the city of Paris itself and loot almost one hundred churches without ever getting caught.  He used the money to gather a force large enough to attack the King's citadel.  He then lead one massive attack against the King.  He captured the King's castle while he was out with his army, and burned it down, also looting it of everything it had.  After that he then ambushed the King on his way back to the castle.  It was a brutal fight with many on both sides being killed, but Harek won the day.  He managed to defeat the king in combat, but right as he was about to execute him, the King's personal guard came to help the King.  They shot Harek with three arrows and made him fall back to the rest of his army.  Even though he had to fall back, he managed to hold on to the King's sword and uses it as a taunt.  Angered by the Kings escape he released his army upon northern England with no purpose except to destroy.  He never found the King and was forced to return to Scandinavia from lack of supplies for his army.  After that he served as a mercenary for the Byzantine Empire for a period of 3 years before finally returning to his home in the north at the age of 33, prepared to raid once again, and he has heard that King Richeard of Northumbria has rebuilt his kingdom once again.  His vengeance will not be sated until the King's head is at his feet.

Equipment: English sword; soft leather boots; fur cloak; threadbare clothes; backpack?(don't know what else to call it): chain mail; helm with nosebar; shield; sack of assorted coins of various worth

Skills: sword fighting; sailing; functioning drunk; tactical thinking