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Slenderworld: Der Ritter

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Published: Feb 6, 2014

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- Alias: Der Ritter

- Real name: Wilhelm Burgstaller
- First seen: Germany, 1540

- Last seen: Germany, 1543

- Status: Deceased
- Class: 4

- Height: Variable, aproximately 6.53 meters, based on the armor remains (8-10 meters on the historical records).
- Known paranormal abilities or characteristics: Mainly physical superiority, with inhuman size, durability and strenght. Capable of kill dozens of armored men with just one blow of his spear. Can grow multiple arms on his back and use them without difficulty. Although not specified in the historical records it seems capable of inducing an intense aura of fear on his enemies.

- Bio: (Based on the reconstruction of the diary owned by the Warlock's apprentice hired by Wilhelm)

"Wilhelm Burgstaller was a cruel nobleman in the medieval germany, owner of a formidable fortress and a considerable number of lands. His passions were hunt, war and more secretly the study of the occult. At the age of 38 he contracted a terrible disease without cure at the time, that would have caused his death in a short time.

Desperately he looked for a way to prolong his life in the realms of the occult, even hired the best witches and warlocks of the country. One of them appeared to know one particular version of the ritual of transformation and upon using it on the nobleman, resulted on the Slender being known as Der Ritter.

With his new condition the nobleman was no longer bound to the disease, even could conquest more lands and defy the royalty. Like an army of one man he conquered the terrains of the other noblemen and factions adjacent to his, without intentions of stopping there.

The other nobles and factions nearby, seeing the great threat posed by Der Ritter, joined forces to trace a plan in order to end him. Of course sending new hordes of knights to fight him did not work, as it seemed literally invulnerable.

When all seemed lost for them, one of the apprentices of the warlock who performed the ritual offered to stop Der Ritter in exchange for a large reward. They agreed and the apprentice made another kind of ritual that somehow weakened Der Ritter, allowing the surviving noblemen forces to definitively kill him.

Der Ritter's armor was kept by the noblemen as a trophy, and his castle was raided and destroyed"

- Notes: Wilhelm's son managed to save most of the fortune looted by Der Ritter during his years of conquest. With it, he founded what is now known as the Cult of Zalgo.

The version of the ritual used for the transformation and the ritual used to weaken Der Ritter could not be recovered.

Based on: Fake Slenderman wikipedia entry (and