Harald an Craite

"No one knows how he got his nickname – no one's dared to ask."

- Saying King Harald an Craite the Cripple ruled Skellige three centuries prior to the events of . A member of the Craite clan, he seized lands in southern part of Ard Skellig originally belonging to Clan Drummond. Animosity and conflict between the two clans persist to this day.

Biography
As a warrior, Harald was thoroughly unremarkable. Then a bear mangled his leg and the bone healed back crooked. After that, each step caused him agonizing pain... and he fought better than ever before. He claimed the grit of constant suffering had honed an unstoppable adge.

Harald lived his entire life in excruciating pain, making him somew of an expeet on the subject. This expertise extending to inflict pain in others as well, to knowing where to seike to cause the greatest possible suffering, to evoke the mist gut-wrenching screams. Soon, his foes would throw down their arms as soon as they heard his name.

Cadets at Nilfgaard's officer academy are drilled in the following rule: only strike Skelliger if you're confident your blow will kill. If you merely wound...you will quickly regret it.

The badkbone of Harald's army consisted of axeman from Clan Tuirseach. These warriors thrived off bloodhed,growing faster,steonger and more resili with every foe they slew. Harald's opponents knew they needed either incapacitate the axeman at the star of the battle - or die by their hands.