Tork

Torkthar Jadeshatter Warrens Jr. looks every inch a dwarf. His pale skin and strawberry blonde hair betray him as a Mountain Dwarf, much fairer than his Hill dwelling kin, while his piercing green eyes mark him as being from a superior line. He is broad of chest and thigh with brawny arms, more than capable of wielding his preferred dwarven war-axe, and boasts a bountiful beard despite being less than a century in age. While clan Warrens is large, with members in every dwarven city, the Jadeshatter line is much more exceptional. It is a noble house with an impressive list of emerald eyed warriors who are accompanied by an even greater number a tales of valour and might. This lineage carries with it a weight of expectation which Tork strives daily to be worthy of.

Trained in combat from a young age, Torkthar has been groomed for greatness but has always been brash and undisciplined in a decidedly undwarvish manner. He dreams of joining many of his forbearers as a Deepstone Sentinel, his race’s first and last line against any threat to their underground domains. While he is decades, even centuries, away from possessing the required experience and prowess to join these illustrious ranks it is the final goal which Tork works towards daily. Despite his ambition it is more than youth which holds Tork back however, as he possesses none of the natural gravitas of these great warriors, it is this free spiritedness which opened his mind to the teachings of his uncle Hedge.

Tork’s 50th birthday celebration was attended by his uncle from the hills, who up until that point Tork knew nothing of save his reputation. Hedge had converted to the worship of the human god Kord and was trying to get his brethren to join him but few dwarves looked to leave Moradin’s solid tenants for the rash and chaotic path of Kord. This path of action naturally appealed to impressionable young Tork and so he joined his uncle and departed for the dwarven Kordite enclave where he was confirmed and trained as a crusader of Kord. Despite the disapproval of his Jadeshatter relations and the other high houses of his mountain home Tork still felt the weight of responsibility to live up to his forbearers and still held his goal of one day becoming a sentinel in the deep. With this in mind Tork decided to first prove himself as a paragon of his new god and set out to win his favour by defeating some of Kord’s most hated enemy: Chromatic Dragons. Being relatively new to adventuring however, Tork decided to start small and seek out the least of the Chromatics: the whites, off the eastern coast of Riikano-Alinaria.