character info

Egil was a regular man with the sort of safely-tedious life that most regular men aspire to have. An accountant in Norway, he straddled the edge between rural and urban life, telecommuting most days and staying in hotels near cities on others. That whole 'house out in the boonies' bit eventually came to bite him and his regular life in the ass, though, because while driving along a narratively-dangerous cliffside road one very stormy night, a tire blew. That's not where it went wrong.

While changing his tire, Egil managed to slip off the edge of the cliff the road was on. He fell off the edge and into the sea, where he drowned. This destined him to become one of Rán's. The sea goddess Rán is notable for catching the drowned in her net and keeping their souls as hers - forever trapped away from Valhalla, Folkvang, or Hel. She indeed claimed him, but after eons of collecting mortal souls, she had a new idea.

Egil's been given his life back, but the goddess infused that new life with her own sense of humor and entertainment. Every new moon, for a period of 'a few' nights, Egil is drawn to the nearest body of water to undergo a transformation into a sea monster. A kraken, if you will. And his payment to the goddess is expected - by overturning at least one vessel each cycle.

Suffice it to say, Egil is forever looking for more loopholes to exploit in this arrangement. The latest includes immediately carrying all the passengers to shore on his large, awkwardly-shaped back (technically his head?), breaking ships that are empty, and trying to scare everyone off into the life boats first if he can't find one already unoccupied. He's had a lot of practice reading the fine print, you see.

When he isn't sighing aggravatedly and being moist out at sea, Egil likes spending time reading, drinking tea, and sighing aggravatedly at friends. He's jumpy but flat about it, easily worked up but on his own terms. He knows very much who he is - he just isn't sure the best way to go about sharing it, or how much anyone'd like to hear. He's been a bachelor for the first forty or so years of his life, and that's a factor that's bled into everything else about him, for better or for worse.

Feel free to visit him - just maybe, uh. Time it away from the new moon?