Kurtis Trent Biography
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REAL NAME: Kurtis Heissturm ALIAS: Kurtis Trent BIRTH: 26th of June 1972, Salt Lake City, America NATIONALITY: American - Holds French citizenship as a result of his time in the Foreign Legion ZODIAC SIGN: Cancer MOTHER: Marie Cornel FATHER: Konstantin Heissturm MARITAL STATUS: Single BLOOD TYPE: B+ HAIR COLOUR: Brown EYE COLOUR: Blue-Grey PROFESSION: Freelance security & mercenary work DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: A scar near his left eye |
PREFERRED WEAPONS: Fists, knife, Chirugai
WEAPON: Boran X (Custom made by Kurtis)
FAVOURITE TRANSPORT: Classic Borough Superior SS 100, Porsche Spyder
FAVOURITE MUSIC: Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Nirvana, Vaughn Williams, Sun Ra, Grateful Dead
HOBBIES: Any extreme sports, building Grinnall Scorpions from scratch, flying helicopters
OTHER NOTES: Kurtis holds helicopter and aircraft pilot licences
WEAPON: Boran X (Custom made by Kurtis)
FAVOURITE TRANSPORT: Classic Borough Superior SS 100, Porsche Spyder
FAVOURITE MUSIC: Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Nirvana, Vaughn Williams, Sun Ra, Grateful Dead
HOBBIES: Any extreme sports, building Grinnall Scorpions from scratch, flying helicopters
OTHER NOTES: Kurtis holds helicopter and aircraft pilot licences
Kurtis is an ex-Legionnaire and experienced warrior with limited occult abilities. Raised as an initiate in an ancient order called the Lux Veritatis, Kurtis took on his father’s role after the Alchemist hunted down and killed the last of the Order. As the sole remaining descendant, Kurtis is now on a quest for revenge against those that wiped out the Order and killed his father.
Kurtis' Family Lux Veritatis Timeline:
1954 – Kurtis’ grandfather Gerhardt Heissturm is hunted down and killed by Eckhardt and the Cabal. Kurtis’ father Konstantin, age 21, inherits his father’s Lux Veritatis role as Adept. From this point on Konstantin is a target for the Cabal’s murderous attacks trying to totally eradicate the Lux Veritatis. There are only a few surviving Lux Veritatis Adepts and these wage a constant war with Eckhardt and the Cabal. The world at large knows nothing of this ‘Shadow War’ fought in the dark corners of history.
1966 – Konstantin, age 33, meets an American Navajo Indian specialist on Shamanism and the Way of the Warrior, Marie Cornel, on a lecture tour of Europe. Her father was one of the U.S. Marines officers who worked with the Navajo Code Talkers during WW II, which explains her area of specialist expertise. She gets caught in the crossfire of a Cabal assault against Konstantin but proves to have unexpected innate powers that enable the attack to be defeated. Konstantin and Marie Cornel develop a sexual relationship. She returns to the States. She is 25 years old.
1969 – On a Lux Veritatis mission against the Cabal’s forces Konstantin arrives in the US. He looks up Marie Cornel. Whilst visiting the Anasazi ruins of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico they get attacked and have to wipe out a contingent of Cabal agents. Shortly after that Konstantin and Marie get secretly married in a desert tribal ceremony. For the next few years they move back and forth between the States and Europe.
1972 – Konstantin takes Marie to a secure Lux Veritatis bolthole beneath the Utah Salt Flats and Kurtis is born on 26th June. As soon as they can travel Kurtis and his mother go into hiding whilst Konstantin makes return trips to Europe to help in the ‘Shadow War’.
1975 – The whole family return to Europe. Kurtis is 3 years old. They move around a variety of Lux Veritatis safe houses in ancient stronghold sites throughout Europe and the Middle East. There are many close calls with forces of the Cabal and Kurtis begins to learn about life lived on the run from a dreadful pursuing darkness.
1976 – Kurtis and his mother spend a year in Scotland in hiding whilst Konstantin fends off a particularly vicious campaign to wipe out the last elders of the Lux Veritatis. This battle centres on the underground cities of Anatolia in central Turkey where Eckhardt appears to be holed up. But it is an elaborate trap. Only six LV Adepts and Konstantin survive the brutal ambush.
1988 – Kurtis, age 16, undergoes the most intense stages of his Lux Veritatis initiation under the remaining six Adepts. His father is absent for several years on covert missions for the Lux Veritatis.
1991 – At age 19 Kurtis rebels and runs away to join the Foreign Legion. He wants no part of the ‘Shadow War’ which has devastated so many lives and left only three of the Adepts besides his father alive—if his father is still alive. He changes his family name and tries to stay hidden within the Legion for five years, just long enough to qualify for French citizenship. He is repeatedly assaulted by bizarre occult eruptions from the shadow worlds. Weirdness dogs him wherever he goes. He can’t shake the grim legacy of his family’s brutal history. He gets nicknamed ‘Demon Hunter’ within the Legion.
1996 – Kurtis leaves the Legion after too many inexplicable events. They usually involve grisly casualties and thus can never appear on official Legion records. He begins freelancing with a variety of mercenary and semi-legal agencies. Word reaches him that his father is still alive but they are unable to reconcile the differences between them. He never sees his father alive again.
2001 – Konstantin is finally cornered and murdered by the Black Alchemist Pieter Van Eckhardt and members of his Cabal. Kurtis’ mother Marie is in the States at the time. Konstantin is betrayed and tricked into thinking that Marie is in mortal danger. The isolated LV adept gets separated from two vital talismans, the Periapt Shards that were his only real defence. Kurtis finally gets his wake up call on being told of his father’s slaughter when he receives these two talismanic items from his mother. He goes after Eckhardt hell bent on vengeance. Kurtis also inherits a Lux Veritatis Blade—the Chirugai. This terrifying discus like weapon was forged generations ago from meteorite alloy and like most Lux Veritatis secrets can only be properly used and controlled by someone trained to it. Kurtis is now the only direct line living LV initiate.
2003 – Kurtis crosses paths with Lara Croft in Paris and they team up in Prague to combat the Cabal and Eckhardt. Eckhardt knocks Kurtis unconscious and gives Lara an ultimatum- Kurtis' life for the painting. She gives over the painting and Kurtis is kicked down into an arena where he helps Lara out so that he can take care of the Boaz creature whilst she goes after Eckhardt. After defeating the big creature, a smaller fly emerges. He shoots it until it collapses and as he walks away, it stabs him through the abdomen. He takes its head off with a throw of the Chirugai and then he falls to the ground, holding his stomach as blood pours out from him. He topples to the ground unconscious. When Lara returns to the arena after killing Eckhardt and Karel, Kurtis' body is not there but his Chirugai is. She picks it up and it animates, pulling her into the direction of a doorway. Kurtis is still alive.