Role

Chapter 9

Noldruk Flentspike was born to a small village inside the mountains
of the city of Udgaard. This village was a rather old attempt to patch
the differences of dwarves and duergar, the two races living as one
together within it's walls. Eldest son of five, his father had hoped he
would take up the forge, joining the family's trade and hammering his
life away. It may have happened that way, though like often happens when the
two races are around eachother, there were repeated disruptions. The
constant drunken banter, fights, and sometimes stealing that took place
in his village struck a nerve with Noldruk. Oddly unhappy with the way
things were, as well as angry at his brothers and cousins, he often would
get into fights with them, disputing the reasoning behind their disruptions
to the village as a whole. A mean fighter, indeed, Noldruk is by no means
unfamiliar with combat, though he did not see the point in doing such that
is counter-productive, stealing from a baker or otherwise hurting the
economy of his small village. He would often think to himself as to how
he might fix the troubles of his village, and eventually set up a militia,
a small group of dwarves and duergar whom he entrusted to keep peace within
the village. Leading them for nearly four years, he went to sleep one night
and was struck by strange and disturbing dreams. He wandered, silently
though a vast desert, unable to find shelter, unable to find water,
dodging the attacks of scorpions and lizards alike. Desperate, he stumbled
into a Temple and crawled around it's empty halls, searching. Collapsing,
he was near mad from the thirst and desert sun and lifted his head to
see a robed creature.

"Leave the mountains."

"..eh..whhaa..?"

"Order calls."

Waking with a start, Noldruk was unsure of what this meant, or why he had
such a dream, but it repeated, the exact same way, for an entire week.
Finally, disturbed, uncertain, yet still somehow ready to face it, he
left his village in search for something he knew he must find.. he would
start looking in the city of Galadon...