Franz is....probably best described as a freak of nature. Displaced from his home in Garlemald, he seeks nothing more than to return home to his family, having learned just how hard it is to lose exactly that.
He's prideful, cocky, and reckless. After he had sustained enough injuries to be ejected from the Garlean Army when he was younger, he'd temporarily taken over his family's business, waiting for any opportunity to return to the battlefront. Born and raised in Garlemald, he was a product of their ideologies. When such an opportunity arrived, he took it. A lab was looking for volunteers for an experimental product to be used in war.
What he later found out was that the experiment would cost him everything. Deemed a failure, the project was cancelled and all of the volunteers were to be executed to cover up what had been learned. Somehow, Franz had gotten lucky and instead, been left to die in the middle of Thanalan, no memory of who he was or who he had been. only the clothes he wore and a mask to hide his identity.
The experiment had left the Garlean aetherically unstable, causing any number of issues from draining the aether in a given space to releasing it in such a high concentration, it could almost be harnessed like an aether reserve.
He's since stabilized through a number of painful events, having seen the suffering that comes with his actions. Taking the name Franz, the man has tried to recover what parts of his life are left, living in what he had formerly deemed an uncivilized and confused nation.
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He's prideful, cocky, and reckless. After he had sustained enough injuries to be ejected from the Garlean Army when he was younger, he'd temporarily taken over his family's business, waiting for any opportunity to return to the battlefront. Born and raised in Garlemald, he was a product of their ideologies. When such an opportunity arrived, he took it. A lab was looking for volunteers for an experimental product to be used in war.
What he later found out was that the experiment would cost him everything. Deemed a failure, the project was cancelled and all of the volunteers were to be executed to cover up what had been learned. Somehow, Franz had gotten lucky and instead, been left to die in the middle of Thanalan, no memory of who he was or who he had been. only the clothes he wore and a mask to hide his identity.
The experiment had left the Garlean aetherically unstable, causing any number of issues from draining the aether in a given space to releasing it in such a high concentration, it could almost be harnessed like an aether reserve.
He's since stabilized through a number of painful events, having seen the suffering that comes with his actions. Taking the name Franz, the man has tried to recover what parts of his life are left, living in what he had formerly deemed an uncivilized and confused nation.
