Duke Harold Freudenberg

"'I could never abandon Magnus. The Blue Thunder has never lost, and he never will. Farewell, niece! FOR EISBEEERN!' ~Duke Harold Freudenberg"

Harold Freudenberg
Duke Harold Freudenberg, also know as the Blue Thunder, was a Duke of Eisbern and the sister of Queen Helga Caladia Augustus Willem von Freudenberg.

He was like an uncle to Eirha and Lucinda, and as a brother to Maximilian XIX. He was well known in Eisbern for being very vocal and eloquent in court, and denied many courtships to better dedicate himself to his work.

When Eirha set out on her quest to find the Fire Emblem for Eisbern, Duke Harold volunteered to go along and help her out. It was due to him that Port Lodan survived yet another raid from Duke Getorix Behringer while Duke Barnabas Lodan was off skirmishing with Gaulitians--but it wasn't long after Harold had saved Lodan that he would be called on for another selfless act.

On the high seas, the small trader's vessel Eirha had commissioned was assaulted by the Ghost Ship. Although they fought bravely, it was clear that they were going to have to escape--and someone was going to have to cover the small boat's escape. Though Eirha chose the pirate she'd freshly recruited to her cause, Victor, for the role, Harold would have none of it. He threw Victor into the boat and charged into the breach atop his horse Magnus, never to be seen alive again.

The Blue Death
Later, Harold was encountered again on the high seas--this time facing the king of Rhodea and Eisbern's princess, he had been resurrected by the Demon King as a thrall known as The Blue Death. He fought the group on the ship for a while, shrugging off most attacks, when he reached for Eirha's shard of the Fire Emblem. When she refused, a pulse took place--and the Emblem purged the Demon King's influence from Harold's body.

Sadly, Lady Priscilla Denley at the very same time as his un-thralling fired an arrow at Harold, nailing him right in the chest. As sad as his passing was, at least he was human in his final moment.