storyshaper
Chapter 1:Unto Us A Child Is Born
My story begins in the Dakkar Marshlands.
My mother was a human; and my father was the orc that somehow had managed to win her heart. I personally believe that there is more to that story and it is probably more likely that my mother was a spoil of wartime. Either way my mother died shorlty after childbirth, and given the horrible conditions that she was forced to give birth in, an orcish settlement deep within the Barrow Mountains, it was no surprise
My father was one of the strongest warriors of the tribe, the Tribe of One Horn, but a half-orc child got him shunned by the tribe. He was given the choice to kill me or be exiled from the tribe. Surprisingly, he chose me. He gathered everything he could carry, including myself, and fled to the Dakkar Marshlands, to an encampement that had been set up within the ruins of Althesor, once a great city that fell into ruins when the Dakkar Marshlands swallowed it. It was now a place of refuge for those of mixed bloods, elves, humans, dwarves, and even a few other half-orcs, they all called the Althesor ruins home.
And it was there I grew up. It was not easy, for the marshlands surrounding the ruins wre filled with all sorts of fey beasts. Yet somehow, my father and I managed. Over the years, he trained me in the way of the blade. He started when I was an orcling, allowing me to use daggars and knives, moving up to larger blades the older I grew. My father was a night guard of Althesor, so while i slept he patroled the perimeter. During the day, he would train me in swordplay, sparring and showing me how to use the blade as an extension.
For an orc he was astoundingly intelligent. And seeing as I was half-orc, I caught on quickly, excelling under his tuteleage.
Then in my twentieth year, the Year of the Soulfire, my father was slain by a marauding band of lizardfolk, who also called the marshlands home.I took the oppritunity.
I donned my father's armor, and took up his blades. I gathered a few supplies and I left the Althesor ruins...having no idea where this first step would take me...
Chapter 1:Unto Us A Child Is Born
My story begins in the Dakkar Marshlands.
My mother was a human; and my father was the orc that somehow had managed to win her heart. I personally believe that there is more to that story and it is probably more likely that my mother was a spoil of wartime. Either way my mother died shorlty after childbirth, and given the horrible conditions that she was forced to give birth in, an orcish settlement deep within the Barrow Mountains, it was no surprise
My father was one of the strongest warriors of the tribe, the Tribe of One Horn, but a half-orc child got him shunned by the tribe. He was given the choice to kill me or be exiled from the tribe. Surprisingly, he chose me. He gathered everything he could carry, including myself, and fled to the Dakkar Marshlands, to an encampement that had been set up within the ruins of Althesor, once a great city that fell into ruins when the Dakkar Marshlands swallowed it. It was now a place of refuge for those of mixed bloods, elves, humans, dwarves, and even a few other half-orcs, they all called the Althesor ruins home.
And it was there I grew up. It was not easy, for the marshlands surrounding the ruins wre filled with all sorts of fey beasts. Yet somehow, my father and I managed. Over the years, he trained me in the way of the blade. He started when I was an orcling, allowing me to use daggars and knives, moving up to larger blades the older I grew. My father was a night guard of Althesor, so while i slept he patroled the perimeter. During the day, he would train me in swordplay, sparring and showing me how to use the blade as an extension.
For an orc he was astoundingly intelligent. And seeing as I was half-orc, I caught on quickly, excelling under his tuteleage.
Then in my twentieth year, the Year of the Soulfire, my father was slain by a marauding band of lizardfolk, who also called the marshlands home.I took the oppritunity.
I donned my father's armor, and took up his blades. I gathered a few supplies and I left the Althesor ruins...having no idea where this first step would take me...