Marius Blackhammer

Marcus "Et Capra" Blackhammer is a Blackhelm Confederate drug lord and suspected leader of the Blackhammer Cartel, an international crime syndicate. He is considered to be one of the most powerful drug traffickers in Astyria.

Early life

Blackhammer was born in a poor village near Wennavua, Empire of Exponent on 13 March 1968, and finished middle school and high school before joining the Imperial Exponential military to escape poverty. His talents and aggressive behavior earned him a position with an elite military Imperial Guard, where he trained extensively in counter-insurgency and worked locating and apprehending members of Hesperidesia's drug trafficking organizations.

His training came into practice in 1991, after communist rebels seized several towns across central Hesperidesia. The rebellion was a symbolic rising against poverty and Imperial rule, and many rebels took arms; the beleagured Imperial government, however, sent in the Imperial Guard to crush the uprising, fearful it could spark into another revolution like those that had recently ravaged eastern Hesperidesia.

Within hours, dozens of rebels were killed and several others were captured by Blackhammer's counter-insurgency group. Their bodies were then disposed near a highway with their ears and noses sliced off.

in 1996, the Empire of Exponent collapsed, and large portions of the Imperial military - including the Imperial Guard - found themselves without jobs. it was during this period that Blackhammer is believed to have gotten involved in the narcotics trade in Central and Northern Hesperidesia, serving as a kind of "narco-mercenary" for drug cartels and recruiting fellow former Guardsmen into the trade.