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Bergvarr
Bergvarr Beornleif
| Name | Bergvarr |
|---|---|
| Status | Active |
| Occupation | Recruit of Combe watch, hunter. |
| Age | Young-ish? Really hard to tell due to his appearance. |
| Race | Man |
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| Residence | Combe and surrounding areas |
| Kinship |
| Outward Appearance | Bergvarr is giant of a man, standing at nearly seven and half feet at the moments where he doesn't have to hunch to spare his head beating from the ceiling. But what makes him appear truly huge is his massive build, most very tall men tend to be lanky but this one is built like a bear and muscled as a prize bull. He is hulking brute for sure and some may doubt there is only blood of men running in his veins even though aside of his size he appears perfectly human.
He is also grizzled, in about every possible meaning of that word, his hair and beard coloured of pepper and salt gray make him appear much older upon first impression but his physical shape and lack of any other marks of aging give clue that he's in his late twenties at most. He's gruff and grumpy all the time, but not angry or ranting, rather the opposite as he seems to posses stoicism of a rock. His size, morose calm and slow speech often gives people first impression of dumb giant but those who know him better usually realize that while pattern of his mind is rather... odd at times fact that he doesn't talks much gives him a lot of space for thinking. It is far from being the only weird thing about this giant.
He's hairy as a bear yet his hair are never tangled and his beard remains trimmed and clean. Sometimes smell of soap lingers on him but most often it is covered by smell of mead and clove pipeweed as one may think he follows simple belief that when you're as manly as this you can eat, drink and smoke about the sweetest things in the middle earth without feeling insecure about it.
His voice is fitting, gruff and very very deep, rumbling and rolling in his wide chest as he speaks slowly, its voice that could easily be booming yet nearly all the time remains quiet, calm, dry yet oddly melodic, maybe it is all that mead he drinks but there seems to be certain honey-like quality that makes bards wish they could get this basso profondo in one of their lyrical epics, too bad he seems to hate music and his voice is most of the time lost wasted on wide variety of grumbles.
Most of the times this behemoth can be seen wearing some sort of armor, be it his traveling laminated armor or uniform of the watch which looks as if it had been hastily enlarged to fit the giant. On his belt are hanging two massive dwarven greataxes, clearly two handed weapons by original design, one which seems recently reforged and repaired and sometimes on his back hangs leather quiver and simple hunting longbow. It appears both he and his equipment had their fair share of combat, the most recent and noticeable mark of which being very thick jagged scar crossing his entire face, it appears fairly recent and actually quite lethal, ever for someone of his endurance. |
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Background
*There is little known of his background and sure he doesn't seems to talk about it but even so there are always rumors.*
It's really hard to try to determine his age, His gray hair and manly gruffness make him look older but he's obviously in great shape and lacks any other marks of aging. Still people keep guessing and sure there are some interesting stories to hear, like the one about discount youth potion...
Possessing social grace of a moldy brick Berg doesn't hurry to introduce himself many call him by wide range of nicknames from simple ones as Gray, Grump or Grumbler to much more creative (and insulting) ones as ogre-son, overgrown dwarf, Sir Grumbles-A-Lot and once even Uaaaaayousteppedonmyfootyougiantoaf.
He comes to towns mostly to sell small amounts of ores, wood and fur, check if there are some jobs available that require minimal social interaction, have a drink and replenish his stock of mead and tobacco. But for hairy behemoth living in wilderness he appears oddly clean and same usually goes for his clothes and armor. While far from new he obviously takes very good care of his gear, then again who wouldn't when your life depends on it? Though maybe there is something odd about this guy's habits after all as some notice his beard remains trimmed to exactly same length and shape as months goes by, only few dare to add that same probably goes for his chesthair.
They saw him with a book? But why in the depths of Mordor would brute like this know how to read and write? Likely he was just drawing grumpy doodles.
Being a grumpy grump he often claims to dislike loud places, Crowded spaces, music and people of all races in general.. One must wonder how strong is his love of mead if he still bothers to spend his time in a tavern.
They say that only creature which can bear to be around him for extended periods of time and do not succumb to depression and severe existential crisis is his horse Oak. Whether it is because poor animal doesn't have much of a choice in the matter or just thanks to friendly, calm and gentle personality of this huge draught horse remains a question.
They say he joined the Combe watch recently, he can be seen standing on guard, frowning and unmoving for hours, easily mistaken with a statue from a distance, it seems only thing he's missing is plaque with "Grumpy guard" engraved on it.
| Friends | Who'd want to be friend of this guy, right? |
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| Relatives | If there are some they likely pretend they don't know him. |
| Rivals/Enemies | Entire world I suppose... |
| Loves | Mead, tobacco, grumbling. |
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| Hates | Everything else? |
| Motivation | Unknown |
| Quotes | Grumble something grumble grumble. |
