Last Name: Silvereye
Appearance:
Race: Gold Dwarf
Age: 334 he says 300 when asked
Height: 4'10
Weight: 235lb
Eyes: silvery-blue
Hair: gray flecked with silvery white from age
Facial Hair Style: long full beard that extends down to his waist clasped with a central golden beard ring. Flanked by twin braids that branch out before uniting with the central length at the waist.
Personality Profile:
General Health: Grandpa Gren is fairly old and he looks like he's seen each year pass. Thanks to his connection to Moradin and his dwarven blood he's managed to avoid any serious brushes with illness barring the occasional hangover from to much holy water.
Deity: Moradin
Initial Alignment: Lawful Good
Profession: Tavernkeeper, and Wandering Holy Dwarf
Base Class & Proposed Development: cleric favoured soul
Habits/Hobbies: maintaining weekly services to Moradin in the local temple, patrolling the roads of the sword coast and ministering aid and advice to those in need. Gren also has a collection of strays he's taken to calling his adoptive grandchildren spending a good deal of his time trying to help keep them on the path of law and good.
Languages: Dwarven, common, celestial, and the language of the tall foe (Jotun)
Weapon of Choice: Grandpa Gren is capable with a wide array of weapons but is partial to the Warhammer or the Dwarven Waraxe. His own Hammer has been lovingly engraved with scenes of Moradin labouring over his forge creating the first dwarves. Inscribed on the base of the hammer is the phrase "Moradin's Word" inlaid with red enamel.
Background: Grendunor is an old gold dwarf hailing from his clanhold far to the north deep within the spine of the world. His people a reclusive and prideful clan enjoy the company of their kin and few others. Keeping with traditional values of Moradin and his fellows the clan hold trade it's primary resource of silver and steel with the roaming barbarian tribes and citizens of Tentowns.
Gren's early life was spent in the traditional sense. Meaning he received martial training, religious education, and was taught the basics of each of the holds crafts before being allowed to specialise at the age of 55.
Having a special connection with the ancient teachings of the dwarves Grendunor eventually became a priest and served in this capacity faithfully for nearly 200 years. During his tenure as a member of the clergy, he met his wife and fathered two children. Settling into retirement Grendunor managed an Inn named The Silver home. For many happy years, Gren managed his Inn watching his beardlings grow into fine young dwarves, living their lives as Moradin intended. Time passed and Gren's children too got married. Thanks to Moradin and thunders blessing, both children successfully had little beardlings of their own.
Content to spend his twilight years at home Grendunor passed the time until he started to see visions of his bouncing grandbabies in peril. Visions of his fully grown grandchildren threatened by a stirring evil of the deep he felt the call of Moradin once again stir in his blood compelling him south towards Baldur's gate. Willing his Inn to his wife and eldest son, Gren set off on his journey south, confiding the full story of his vision only to his wife.
Goals: spread the word and worship of Moradin through deed and example, find out more about his vision, halt this evil, create a better world for his grandbabies.
Possible Plot-Hook Ideas and Misc Facts: visions, communion with Moradin, Spreading good and law, thwarting evil and their plots.