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Message: <blockquote data-quote="njorgard" data-source="post: 917155" data-attributes="member: 919">Solemund the ClericSolemund was a short-lived NPC cleric that joined the ranks of the company from Medore for a couple of sessions.  He was a loyal servant of the deity known as Barlam, the embodiment of physical strength and indomitable will.For a while, it seemed that Solemund would become a permanent addition to the party.  However, as the dice would have it, (and much to the chagrin of the players) he met an unsavory end at the hands of an evil cultist.Here's his backround....- Njorgard------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Solemund hails from the outskirts of Tabat. He is the son of a humble farmer named Eulemund, who died defending his farmstead from orcquish raiders when Solemund was only a child. Since he lacked the strength to work his father's land (Solemund was merely 7 years old at the time), Solemund's upbringing was entrusted to a wandering priest named Ortrond. The Council of Tabat confiscated Eulemund's land and sold off the title to the local Merchant's Guild.Ortrond was a deacon to the dwarven high priest Thaldorf, who instructed Ortrond to take the boy to the city of Leriond. Once there Menethos, Prelate of Leriond, would begin the boy's indoctrination into the faith of Barlam. Otrond complied with Thaldorf's request and Solemund spent the next 12 years preparing mentaly, physicaly, and spiritualy to undertake the duties of Barlam's faithful.Solemund's first assignment was to become a baptism by fire. Ortrond, his old mentor, had been taken hostage by a contingent of Kundrian soldiers. These forces were entrenched several miles north of Leriond (within a region of treatcherous swamplands known as Horkas). Solemund and a small band of Hintaneese soldiers ventured into this territory only to discover an empty Kundrian encampment where evidence of a brutal melee between the enemy soldiers and their Hintaneese captives remained. A mortaly wounded Ortrond stagered across the landscape to where Solemund and his men stood. He reached over to Solemund and whispered in his ear "Your task is complete...tell Menethos these orcs will not return." Having said this, Ortrond handed a small cast iron buckle to Solemund, exhaled for the last time and colapsed. Angry and saddened by his mentor's death, Solemund carried Otrond's corpse over his shoulder for many miles back to Leriond. There, it received a hero's burial.Solemund is a young man who has been tempered by a harsh life and wisened by an old soul. He tries to show compassion and good will whenever he can...as if to compensate for what he lacked during his youth. Both Menethos and Ortrond saw in him the potential to become something greater than they were. Solemund knows as much, and he tries to live up to these expectations.</blockquote>

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