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Lief the Skullsplitter Thyornnson
This coarse looking norse berserker appears fearsome even when
he is calm. His deeply tanned and creased skin has an almost
green tinge to it. Red rimmed eyes and an eternal scowl put many
people off, but the heart, and infrequently seen personality, of Lief
the Skullsplitter is truly good. He wears runed platemail armor with
matching steel boots and helm which sports two horns like that of
a buffalo. On the knees, shoulders, elbows and forearms of the
armor is a constant frost, even in the heat of summer. From these
patches of frost he is able to cause ice spikes to grow when enraged.
He walks with a cool confidence, and talks in a very self assured manner.
Around his waist is belted three bastard swords and two 2-handed swords,
each of norse make, each of differing manufacture, but all are well kept
and easily within reach. Around his neck hangs a thin silver necklace
with a pendant shaped as a double-headed axe made of pure platinum
and a steel horn with norse runes and carvings on a leather cord.
All other adornments, other than the few rings hidden under his steel greaves
and his ever-present wineskins and parchment case, he foregoes.
Lief is charged with the protection of Teleri, the Bard of Edgewood,
and takes that job very seriously, separating from her only on her express
command and never for long. Many legends of the silver axe pendant
he wears have surfaced over the centuries including the myth of the
True King of the North being protected by the powers of the pendant as
he fights for supremacy over the rule of Paran. Lief has no blood relation
to any previous King, a requirement of achieving the status of King, which
is not how prophecy describes the True King, who is said to be a direct
descendant of the First King of the North.
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