Koschei the Undead

Overview

Affiliations: Cult of Papa

Status: Deceased

“I have suffered enough, and yet I long for this suffering, for it is all I have ever known.”

Origins

Having survived the Nazi concentration camps as a young boy, Koschei was an outcast orphan and lived on the streets where he learnt to survive at any cost. He realized that there is little other than suffering in this world and to survive you need to be stronger and more ruthless than everyone else. The streets were also where he learnt that drugs were the only thing that could relieve the pain he was feeling. The drugs became Koschei’s primary benefactor; they gave him strength, they told him he was invincible, they soothed his raving mind. But they were also his worst enemy, they took his family, they took his love and deprived him of a possibility of a life. They would become the essence of his endless suffering.

Actions

Koschei lost his wife to the drugs, and saw his children taken away from him; hate became his fuel. He worked for a paramilitary security team doing business all over the world. Death followed in his wake. War, drugs and black market affairs kept a steady supply of money in his pocket. Money needed to support his long time love for opiates. The murky waters operated in is an eat or be eaten, kill or be killed form of society; although some people thrive in those sorts of conditions. Koschei gathered a group of men around him who murdered for pleasure and sport, sold drugs to get drugs and moved around the world, from backstreets to war zones. Wherever they could get their kicks, the Banshees went.

Koschei was following something, or someone over the world, always pulling strings and doing what he could to further his own, obscure goals. Some say he ended up in Chernarus because of Guardian leader Jari - no one really knows, but the outbreak left him stranded like so many others. South Zagoria was where he met Bog Petrov and vowed to follow in Akim the Revelator's footsteps, to devote his life to suffering and to Papa. He, Krampus the Preacher and Kazimir the Forsaken formed a long lasting, strong triumvirate of power over the Cult of Papa, working on their own and by orders from The Old One. On his extensive list of Cult atrocities and terror are, apart from murder, destruction and rape; the torture and brainwashing of Guardian Dragarien, who eventually succumbed and became the martyred Cultist Dragula.

Where are they now?

As a method of furthering his and the Cult’s plans to breed a new cultist army, Koschei ordered Dark as Midnight to capture Firekeeper Andi Walker; a deed that later played a role in DAMN’s betrayal of the Cult. Obsessed with getting what he wanted, Koschei also hunted Redstar of the Lucky Bastards, who in the end were the ones who killed him. His body is buried in the cemetery outside the Lucky Bastards camp in Stary Yar.