Name: Matthew Clement "Clym" Hopkins

 

Alias / Known As: The Witch-Hunter; The Scourge of Largs

 

 

Age: 44

 

 

Origin: Largs, Scotland

 

 

Affiliations: Independent agent of the Kirk; disciple of the Malleus Maleficarum; mentor to Thomas Grey

 

 

Summary:

 

 

Clym Hopkins believes in fire. Not as destruction—but as revelation. He burned his own mother when she blasphemed, and the world has never stopped burning since. A true believer in holy judgment, Clym sees witches not as people but as ruptures in the moral fabric—diseases to be excised. He quotes scripture with the same ease he breaks men. But beneath his piety lies something hollow, something desperate: a man terrified that if he stops hunting evil, it will find him first. He does not doubt. He cannot. Doubt would damn him.

 

 

 

 

 

Notable Traits:

 

 

— Executes witches without trial when moved by “divine instinct”

 

 

— Carries the Malleus Maleficarum as both gospel and sword

 

 

— Harbors deep suspicion of clergy who show mercy

 

 

— Uses psychological domination as effectively as physical punishment

 

 

 

 

 

Status: Active witch-hunter; currently stationed in Irvine; operating under the guise of righteous authority with no official crown sanction