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Torgrun

Torgrun Svannersson Skjoldung

Name Torgrun
Status
Active
Occupation
Skjoldvigr
Age
Somewhere between 30 and 35. "Is there a point in counting your years?"
Race
Man
Residence
Where game roams
Kinship
Jarnbrodre
Outward Appearance

This man hails from the lands between the Mountains and the Vale, the Great Wood and the Dale. This is apparent in his crude, sing-songy speech and outlandish appearance. He posesses broad limbs; a body seasoned from a hard life in a hard land, with an exception to the great gut which betrays his fondness of food and mead.

 

With a frame towering, he looks down upon most rustic Men with stale-blue eyes set under a bushy brow. A blond mane, greasy and unkept is swept back over his head, and a grime-stained beard covers a square jaw. Irregular and scruffy braids hang in the mess of hair, some tied with strings, some with the strands themselves.

 

Were his appearance not enough, Torgrun's mannerisms betray him as a warrior. There are dents in the helmet he is known to carry and notches on his battle-tools. Tears and patches litter his Northern garb, which reeks of the outdoors and sweat that comes with such a life.

 

Most importantly, the look in his eyes and the fervour in his heart, appreciated only by those who have known the shield-fray:

 

"Men strive to perform battle-deeds! Forever to be told in the hero-poems, passed down long lines of shield-bearers, to be extended with each passing generation of noble thanes."

 

For all his passions, Torgrun seems to have a rather clear sense of justice. The harsh straightforwardness that characterizes his moral compass may be perceived as eerie, and in some cases primitive, by more sophisticated folks.

 

He is a well-meaning warrior; tolerant to those that stay out of his way and jolly to them that he likes. Having honed his strength of character as the strength of his shield-arm over the years, he is in his heart still prone to barbaric ways; the beastly rage that makes every warrior its fool.

 

Background

Torgrun had been working odd jobs in Bree-land for many years, having come from over the Mountains in pursuit of his mother's-brother-son; notwithstanding the moons spent on the open road with the occasional expedition. The pair were as inseparable as they were iconic.

They laboured at the forges, putting to use what little had been learned from Dwarves passing through their homeland, but hunting to keep the wildlife in check is where they truly shined. On a blue moon and for the right price, they might have tracked a different sort of prey.

There are not many who would recognize Torgrun by face and name, for he chose to stay in relative obscurity. Still there are those who may have known him as a reliable henchman with a personal code, and so those who had need of good shieldings could always pick up the Northmen's trail.

In all his time spent in the Bree-land, remaining after his kinsman had suddenly left, it would seem as though the Northman were waiting endlessly and restlessly. Something happened, which finally cooled his ire, and prompted his departure.

A number of years ago he disappeared from the Bree-lands, headed northwards, accompanied by a pale woman. He has not been sighted in those green lands since.

 

Friends
Few and far; many have broken bread and drank mead with him, and as many have gone. Whitherto, he knows not.
Relatives
Rivals/Enemies
Blackbloods, trolls and, worst of all, Easterlings. May they be cast down to the earth's frozen bowels.
Loves
Hunting, wildlands, red meat off the bone, stout hearts, honesty, courage, mead and Vaalea.
Hates
Underhandedness, cowardice, vanity, waste and Bree-brewn mead.
Motivation
To find the Wolf-hearted, reunite with kin, and live to see a new dawn.
Quotes
"There is no cheating the ravens of their meal." "The short path may be treaded by the treacherous; the longer the road, the truer its traveler."

Torgrun's Adventures

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