Victor Baumann

High Heart Victor Palas Baumann

Victor Baumann is the high priest of Paladine (Given the title 'High Heart' in the church of Paladine) in Noor.
Previously taking sermons in the Grand Cathedral on the upper tiers of the city and a highly respected member of Noori society, his world has been wracked in the two years since King Guster Sampala II rose to the throne of The Western Peninsula.
The young king, as part of his ever escalating efforts to seek and retain wealth, changed the official state religion to The Church of Reorx, worshippers of the god of wealth and plenty, Reorx. His zeal in the application of this new worship, with new high priests of Reorx deployed along with Inquisitors in the Satellite cities of the peninsula led to many High Hearts of Paladine being displaced. 
Such was the case with Victor Baumann, who was 're-located' to a small modest chapel in the middle tier of the city while High Priest Ernst Straub took up residence and sermon in his Grand Cathedral. Gradually, he sunk into a depression and his spirited sermons became more lacklustre, in the face of Straub's opulent displays of obscene wealth.
More recently, he has taken up residence in The Percival and has preferred drinking his dispair away all day. Seemingly, through his residence there, he has come into contact with Nordbert Cotton and The Baron's Men. 
When The Party, and specifically Tordenn Kasios, needed help with healing the curse of Lycanthropy which the cleric had been infected with, they were directed by Cotton to Baumann, in the knowledge that priests of Paladine have superior healing powers.
Baumann was approached by the party in the Inn, where he agreed to help Tordenn - with a condition. Not usually vengeful, the High Heart had obviously reached the end of his tether, and entreated the party into finding a way to publicly shame, or otherwise bring down, the High Priest of Reorx Ernst Straub.

Current Location

Noor

Hair

Bald on top, straggly black hair to shoulders around the side. Straggly black beard

Aligned Organization

The Church of Paladine

Other Affiliations

• The Sampalan Kingdom