William H. Crawford

A collected calm man raised in a wealthy, yet strict home kept together by honest working parents. He was raised in the state of Georgia, learning the ways of the higher class as he grew up, allowing him to become a man of reason and intelligence. He soon honed in his endurance skills and mental fortitude when his father died, pushing him to become the main provider of his family helping to further sculpt the identity of William. He doesn’t talk much and prefers to keep conversations precise. He doesn’t talk fast.

When conversing with others, he keeps to himself by maintaining his calm but appreciative demeanour, never raising his voice and displaying a face of courage. Only when something exceptionally stupid happens does he get angry, and only then his way of venting his frustration is brutal honesty, straight up telling the one responsible that he’s stupid. William H. Crawford has brown eyes, black hair, he often wears a variety of wool jackets, waist-coats, breeches, alongside a top hat and black wool coat. He stands at around 6’ (six feet) and his athleticism is average at best.

Now in the year of 1815, much of Europe has been overrun by a terrible plague known as the blight, turning men into mad man-eating freaks, the thirst of the brother of their own brothers in arm keeping them moving. They are known and commonly referred to as “Cannibals”. Crawford does not know when it started or how, but it seems to have come out of Russia. By the events of 1815, Napoleon’s army, The Grand Army, has been routed from Paris. The British, originally having allied with them since the battle of Leipzig now abandoning them. Leaving Paris for the hordes of the dead having over run it. Part of this Grand Army has brought Mr. Crawford to the coastal commune of Roscoff, France in hopes to get him and them out of Europe. Their attitude towards the British is very not good. The British Empire has begun to quarantine the rest of the European Mainland, using their naval powers to block off ship activity from entering Europe. Although they started as an ally since the blight begun, over the course of the war they’ve begun to leverage their untainted land of Britain more aggressively. Beginning to capitalize on the weakness of Europe compared to their untouched status since this infection. During the events of Roscoff in the year of 1815 (this year). The British send in an expeditionary force into Roscoff, the French capture these soldiers and begun to execute them until the Cannibals breach the city, which means a few British soldiers manage to live, though with high tensions with their American and French compatriots. The Prussian and Austrian Empires have been taken out of the fight, Berlin and Vienna having long been abandoned, their current whereabouts are unknown. The Russian Empire is largely the same. The Nordic Powers of Denmark and Sweden are holding well, but since the fall of Copenhagen in July, Denmark has been very crippled. The United States has been mostly keeping to itself since the war of 1812, which ended pre-maturely as they made peace with the British and begun to sell arms to London. However now, during some day in September, year 1815. They’ve sent in a force of US Marines in order to rescue Crawford, who had been sent to the European mainland before the start of the Blight.

By the end of the rescue, the force of US Marines is tagged along with the remnants of the British Expeditionary Force, and some French Soldiers of the Grand Army who had managed to evade the cannibals. The USS Constitution, even with the entire ship crew being killed, is undocked and has begun to sail to the Americas.

He does not use words such as “posthaste” or complicated jargon like that. He simply says what needs to be said to commoners like you and me.