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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LeifVignirsson" data-source="post: 1940263" data-attributes="member: 10833">Leif VignirssonDescriptionLeif Vignirsson is a tall man (6'10") and a man that is built like a brick house, with muscles tight on his frame.  He is bald but has a full mountain man/viking beard with a few braide on the right hand side.  When he is on another vessel, he usually wears leathers (containing a leather vest and leather pants, must have the arms free to strike) and weilds the most dangerous weapon on the high seas and what some now see as an artifact, The Shipsplitter, his greataxe.  He is a quite man, someone who takes the orders given to him and will doggedly fight to save a member of his own crew if he can.  Often he was simply known as a "gentl giant" or "denthead" for the fact that he kept hitting his head on everything, due to the nearly two foot difference between himself and the typical Mantean (see History for more detail).HistoryAfter having his ship destryed in a freakish storm as it sailed away from his homeland, Leif found himself in the clutches of a Manetan (think a combo of Greek and Middle Eastern) slave ship, bound to be sold to someone who could use someone as big as him (average Mantean height was 5').  Eventually he was purcahsed by a clan of Manteans known as the Land Sea fleet and was told that he would be a part of their marines.  He took the job without fuss, though he was told that he could get out of his slavery by doing a good job and bringing in ships that were needed for the Manteans to survive in their thousand islands habitiat.Of course, this was a tall order in more ways than one for the giant Leif.  His greataxe did a lot more damage than good at times, even to the point of splitting decks apart with a well placed strike.  Of course, Leif would tell you to this day that the captain of that vessel they boarded was going for his gun and if he didn't kill him (by slicing THROUGH the captain and into the hull so forcefully that it slpit the hull open), Leif would be a dead man, but his marines know it was something different.  It was actions like this that eventually mad ehim the leader of the marines and also made the captain dread to send him out to wooden ships.  He helped uncover cannon ships that were being tested by the greatest Mantean rivlas, the Kurzim as well as find all sorts of treasure to help him become a great man and a legend among the Manteans.Sadly, years later, he died while trying to fight off a giant squid but still managed to give the people something to cheer about as he nearly destryoed the squid on his own.  To this day, Manteans raid the homeland of Normark to find men of stature that will be the same as Leif.  His axe is a treasured artifact of the Land Sea fleet and is given to the admiral of the fleet as they feel this axe will give the admiral the inner strength that Leif possessed while lending the outer strength to punish their rivals.Greatest MomentHas to be when the Manteans found out that there was a Kurzim cannon ship, something that was unheard of and thought of as more of a legend than anything else.  Leif and his captain thought otherwise and set out to find this cannon ship.  First, they needed to take a Kurzim ship and use it as the bait to lure the cannon ship to it, then the Mantean ship would come to the side and allow the other marines to board from the other side.You would think that this would be a peice of cake but it turned out to be quite an adventure.  Leif and a select few of his trusted marines went aboard the Kurzim ship they selected and took it without much fuss, but with a lot of damage to the ship in itself.  They limped along and played possum in the last area the gunship was spotted and sure enough, the gunship appeared.  They sailed towards the ship and offered assistance, got close enough for Leif and his marines to board and all higgldy-piggldy broke out.Unknown to them, each member of the ship carried his own gun (either a pistol or a rifle) and as the marines boarded from each vessel, they were being picked off by the crew of the gunship.  All except Leif.  Leif took out a few of the riflemen to allow the rest of his mariens to board, then decided that without orders from the captain, the crew would surely be lost.  In a Terminator-esque march to the captains deck, he took out five more people with clean shots, cleaving through half of them with his greataxe and even splitting apart the stairs that were meant to give him passage up to the deck.  He managed to climb up to the deck and with blood pouring out of every hole that was shot into him, he stalked after the captain (of course, after killing the two bodyguards who were terrible shots... some bodyguards, eh?) with grim conviction.The captain said something that would be echoed by every other Kurzim that Leif would escort to death, "Why don't you just die?!"  The captian shot Leif two more times, bringing Leif to death's door.  But, with Leif last breath he invoked the name of Kor, one of the gods of his people and gathered enough stregth to... go on, guess... Cleave right through the captain and almost take out the steering column in the process.  He passed out and was battling death.In what makes this the greatest moment, he awoke after being tended to only to find out that there were two marinesleft out of a compliemt of fifteen.  Not only had he taken out so many by himself but they were all amazed that he made it at all after all of that carnage.  Those that survived would follow him but those who joined would be weary to be a part of his marines for the stories of his greatness and their casualties would be things of legends.</blockquote>

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