Agartha Ironmantle
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Last Name: Ironmantle
Appearance:
Race: Gold Dwarf - Great Rift Expansionary Wave
Age: 74
Height 4 foot 9 inches (144 CM)
Weight: 12.3 Stone (173lb)
Eyes: Emerald Green
Hair: Chesnut Brown
Personality Profile:
General Health:
Deity: Morndinsamman
Initial Alignment: Lawful Good
Profession: Guard, Adventurer
Base Class & Proposed Development: Man at Arms
Habits/Hobbies: Rune carving, smoking, the occasional bit of drunken carousing.
Languages: Dwarven (Native, Riftspeak Dialect), Common, Undercommon, Elven.
Weapon of Choice: Dwarven Waraxe
Background:
Agartha is the daughter of a proud member of the hippogriff riding "Peacehammers" of the Great Rift. She grew up with the traditional dwarven values of order, duty, discipline, and Moradin worship. Taking to these values as a true dwarf she settled into following in her father's footsteps as a guard. Her mother a fair but unassuming dwarven woman, hailing from a middle-class merchant background specialing in textiles and weaving. Having about as nimble a set of fingers as a thief with frostbite Agartha never really took to the homemaking lessons drilled into her by her mother preferring to join the other beardlings in combat drills and forms.
At fifty she had signed herself up for guard duty within the Hammer and Anvil trading post as a new recruit working under Sargent Baruk shieldbright. Here she learned the ins and out of guard work and basic patrolman's duties. Her Sargent a grizzled and rather rough looking shield dwarf who'd forced grudging respect from the gold dwarf merchants.
After fifteen years of service with the merchant guard, she was finally promoted to bodyguard position. Unfortunately, the Dwarven merchant she was responsible for protecting was a contemptable miser of dwarf and one day after enduring a particular tirade about "Lesser" dwarves and her former Sargent she promptly got herself fired and a blackmark added to her name for knocking her former employer unconscious.
Her father's guard connections and the few friends she had made in her time among the Hammer and Anvil outpost managed to reduce her sentence from hard labour to a heavy tithe to the Church and three years service to merchant caravans on a trade venture to The City of Saffron (Ormpur).
Having served her sentence with the trade wagons as a guard and labourer she found the travel had sparked a desire to travel and adventure. Returning home she said her goodbyes to her mother and father and left home with three gifts. A suit of finely wrought but unenchanted Adamantine plate, a dwarven waraxe that sustains the wielders lifeforce in battle and a simple sewing kit her mother had insisted she take with her in case she needed to patch her clothes or cloak.
Goals:
To acquire and raise a griffon egg, to explore new lands, and protect dwarven kind.
Possible Plot-Hook Ideas and Misc Facts:
Agartha is a dwarf's dwarf. She cares about her people and exploring new places. A guard and a good person at heart she'll step in to stop something she thinks is wrong but is burdened by a dwarfs prejudices and beliefs. She has open respect for the gods of her people and offers begrudging deference to clerics and priests of her gods. This courtesy, however, does not extend past curiosity for the gods of the other races.