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Message: <blockquote data-quote="helium3" data-source="post: 2637938" data-attributes="member: 31301">Urkulyr's BackgroundAppearance: He's very obviously a half-orc when not wrapped in his cloak and something very tall when wrapped in it. He's grown his hair long but keeps it tied back in a cleverly knotted braid interwoven with bits of colored leather. He sports a full beard, but keeps it cropped short. Tends to dress in an understated fashion with neutral colors, though the holy symbol of Chennet' (a shining drop of molten metal) appears in all the appropriate places (incised into his Greataxe, worked into the front of his Scale Mail, embroidered into the back of his travelers cloak and worn in the form of an iron amulet around his neck.) When he speaks, it's in a quiet and low rumble. Not prone to loud and obnoxious behavior like other young half-orc males, he's serious, studious and dedicated. He is a man who knows his purpose.Background: Urkulyr Ashgrod is an oddity is some respects. He is a half-orc not prone to fits of rage and blood-lust. He worships a mostly dwarven god and seeks to adventure solely to increase his knowledge and skill in the area of crafting items of mystical power, particularly weapons and armor. His exact date of birth is unknown, nor where the event occured. A warband of orcs beating a hasty retreat dropped him unceremoniously on the ground, along with other pieces of what they obviously considered unimportant trash. Why they had a half-orc infant with them will perhaps never be known. Taken in by a kind-hearted blacksmith and his barren wife, he was raised as a human and trained in the arts of his father. The father was friendly with a nearbye group of Dwarven smiths, who would visit from time to time to converse about the art and trade in rare materials and components. One of their number included a cleric of Chennet', and from an early age Urkulyr impressed that priest with his combination of keen insight and ability with anvil and hammer. Urkulyr was equally taken with the priest's tales of great deeds done while wielding weapons forged with a shard of Chennet's will, though he was particuarly interested in the weapons themselves and less so in those who wielded them. And thus, an arrangement was made and after one visit, Urkulyr returned with the priest to the Dwarven stronghold and was trained in the ways of his new faith. Living with the Dwarves never felt entirely right though and he came to believe that a series of dreams he had meant that he should strike out into the world and seek his path there.</blockquote>

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