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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KnowTheToe" data-source="post: 874573" data-attributes="member: 1961">Thoart grew up in a remote not too well known surface dwelling dwarven community.  The dwarves of the community had focused on meditation and inner strength.  As part of the rigid self-discipline of the community, they created beautiful gardens, although the gardens were not the same natural flowing beauty of the elves, but well manicured gardens with bushes and trees trimmed into strong geometric shapes, these were dwarves after all.  Thoart found himself more intrigued with the gardens and nurturing of life and the delicate balance found there in than inner strength and meditation.Thoart left his home at a young age, when an elven druid, AnDurin, stopped by the community to gander upon the fabulous dwarven gardens he had heard about.  There he met Thoart and a friendship bloomed.  A year later AnDurin came back to ask Thoart to be his apprentice and Thoart left his clan behind.Thoart soon leaned that a druid’s life is one of conflict, of battle and strife.  He has addressed barons and kings, farmers and miners, and few are aware of the needs of their environment.  Most people can be convinced to at least slightly modify their lifestyle, but some require serious convincing.  In one such case, a small barony ruled by Sir Delvo VanMullen was clear-cutting 1000 year old trees and filling in wetlands to create grazing lands for the barons cattle and deer.  Thoart explained that the trees were a treasure and many species would die, never to return to this land again.  Baron VanMullen not only did not listen, but also arrested Thoart and threw him in a dungeon for two years until the destruction was complete.  When Thoart was released he befriended a dire wolf and turned all of his effort to the revenge against the baron.  His cattle and deer were killed, he still refused to listen.  Fire rained upon his house, he still refused to listen.  His food became spoiled and he lost his only son to the sickness, he still did not listen.  For four years Thoart fought him with everything he had, the baron lost nearly everything, his estate, his family, and his men.  Using his animal friends to warn him, the barons men could never find him, and the baron grew desperate and started setting all the woods to flame.  Thoart answered the challenge and killed the baron while he slept.  What Thoart did not know was this was the baron’s plan.  He was raised by an evil cleric in a special ceremony and that is when Thoart grew scared and ran.  Thoart has ran for several years, gaining power, stopping only for short periods to help farmers learn effective ways to farm small fields and yield better crops, to plant new vegetation in burned out areas etc.  He has currently started adventuring with other people, taking comfort when he can spend time with clerics who have power over the undead.During his travels he had made several friends, Marikus Toka and Lee Kadrill from his childhood community have been great support and now have dwarven monks travel the lands to teach their agricultural art and to take in students.  The community is quickly becoming multi-racial.  His biggest concern is that when he first ran, he went in search of his mentor AnDurin, he was not sure how he was followed, but the baron came and there was a large battle, AnDurin told Thoart to run and he did.  Twice since then Thoart has looked for AnDurin and was unable to find him.  At AnDurin’s cottage within his grove he found a note:“You destroyed everything I ever loved, everything I ever had.  Now I will do the same to you.  My thirst for your blood has no end and cannot be quenched.  I will find you and you will suffer.”</blockquote>

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