Race: Dwarf
Origin: Karak Varn Career: Miner |
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Strength: 4
Toughness: 4 Agility: 3 |
Intelligence: 3
Willpower: 3 Fellowship: 2 |
Wounds: 11
Conservative Stance: 2 Reckless Stance: 2 |
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Skills (Specializations)
Resilience + Weapon Skill + First Aid + |
Talents
Inexhaustible Foresight |
Advanced Actions
Shield Slam Wrath of Morgrim |
When your father led your family away from Karak Varn you had almost completed your first decade in the mines. If the greenskins had not come through the tunnels and over the mountain passes in a great horde like nothing the Karak had ever seen, you would have soon celebrated the completion of your apprenticeship. However, that prosperous future, along with the future of your clan and your entire hold, was ruined by the same perfidious greenskins that had plagued the great realm of the dwarfs, Karaz Ankor, since the time of your ancestors. With the royal family slain and the hold overrun, your father led a band of survivors through the mountains to safety, carrying what little you could on your backs including the karak’s Book of Grudges.
Shamed for not dying in defense of the hold, the survivors elected to make their way into the lands of the umgi king, Sigmar, rather than begging admittance into another hold. The elders vowed to find the means to take back Karak Varn and what was rightfully theirs, but their current state was painfully pitiful. In the province of Wissenland, you and many other members of your clan found lucrative employment managing a system of mines for Elector Count Eben von Liebwitz. You improved their shoddy engineering, prevented countless deaths, and increased output many times over, but after a few years your frustration with human mining and your father’s procrastination pushed you over the edge. You eventually realized that neither your father, nor the other elders, would ever be able to initiate the reconquest of Karak Varn. You were doomed to live without a hold. Desiring nothing more than an enemy to take out your thirst for vengeance on, you enlisted in a company of sappers that would be accompanying the regiments of Wissenland as they marched to war in the far north.
On the borders of Troll Country, your company clashed with the barbarian tribes that constantly threatened the human emperor’s lands. Your axe cleaved the skulls of the emperor’s enemies while your pick helped build the defenses that kept his soldiers alive, and just as often the other way around. A few months later your company was sent to recruit and resupply near Altdorf, and there you received a message from your favorite cousin. He wanted you to know he had disobeyed your father, and went off to join the dwarfs of Karak Azgaraz in the Grey Mountains. Your father, a staunch traditionalist, had always looked down on dwarfs who had abandoned the World’s Edge Mountains to settle in the inferior western mountain range. Your cousin, Guldrin, however had nothing but praise for the hold and claimed its young lord was planning a bold war of reconquest against the greenskins.
As your sapper regiment departed north again to rejoin Emperor Luitpold’s army, you considered if Azgaraz might hold anything of worth for yourself on your return. However, the fight found you and your fellows much sooner than expected, when the small village you stopped to bed down in for the night was attacked by beastmen raiding from the forests.
What type of mining did your clan specialize in? Where has the rest of your clan dispersed to?
Do you have old contacts from the powerful dwarfen Miners’ Guild in other holds? Do you have contacts from your time with the Imperial armies?
On a scale of ‘sorely inferior’ to ‘disgracefully close to elgi work,’ how bad is umgi craftsmanship?
Shamed for not dying in defense of the hold, the survivors elected to make their way into the lands of the umgi king, Sigmar, rather than begging admittance into another hold. The elders vowed to find the means to take back Karak Varn and what was rightfully theirs, but their current state was painfully pitiful. In the province of Wissenland, you and many other members of your clan found lucrative employment managing a system of mines for Elector Count Eben von Liebwitz. You improved their shoddy engineering, prevented countless deaths, and increased output many times over, but after a few years your frustration with human mining and your father’s procrastination pushed you over the edge. You eventually realized that neither your father, nor the other elders, would ever be able to initiate the reconquest of Karak Varn. You were doomed to live without a hold. Desiring nothing more than an enemy to take out your thirst for vengeance on, you enlisted in a company of sappers that would be accompanying the regiments of Wissenland as they marched to war in the far north.
On the borders of Troll Country, your company clashed with the barbarian tribes that constantly threatened the human emperor’s lands. Your axe cleaved the skulls of the emperor’s enemies while your pick helped build the defenses that kept his soldiers alive, and just as often the other way around. A few months later your company was sent to recruit and resupply near Altdorf, and there you received a message from your favorite cousin. He wanted you to know he had disobeyed your father, and went off to join the dwarfs of Karak Azgaraz in the Grey Mountains. Your father, a staunch traditionalist, had always looked down on dwarfs who had abandoned the World’s Edge Mountains to settle in the inferior western mountain range. Your cousin, Guldrin, however had nothing but praise for the hold and claimed its young lord was planning a bold war of reconquest against the greenskins.
As your sapper regiment departed north again to rejoin Emperor Luitpold’s army, you considered if Azgaraz might hold anything of worth for yourself on your return. However, the fight found you and your fellows much sooner than expected, when the small village you stopped to bed down in for the night was attacked by beastmen raiding from the forests.
What type of mining did your clan specialize in? Where has the rest of your clan dispersed to?
Do you have old contacts from the powerful dwarfen Miners’ Guild in other holds? Do you have contacts from your time with the Imperial armies?
On a scale of ‘sorely inferior’ to ‘disgracefully close to elgi work,’ how bad is umgi craftsmanship?