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[u][b][color=black][h3]Basic Information[/h3][/color][/b][/u]

[color=black][b]Full Name:[/b][/color] Thorek SootHammer
[color=black][b]Age:[/b][/color] 80
[color=black][b]Gender:[/b][/color] Male
[color=black][b]Race:[/b] [/color] Dwarf
[color=black][b]Alignment:[/b] [/color] Neutral

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[u][b][color=black][h3]Appearance[/h3][/color][/b][/u]
[color=black][b]Hair Colour:[/b][/color] Ashen Brown
[color=black][b]Eye Colour:[/b] [/color] Gold
[color=black][b]Face Shape:[/b] [/color] Broad
[color=black][b]Skin Tone:[/b][/color] Bronzed
[color=black][b]Height:[/b][/color] 5Ft
[color=black][b]Weight:[/b][/color] Dwarves don't tend to weigh themselves often but can definitely narrow it down to the weight of a small pony.
[color=black][b]Body Type:[/b][/color] Broad corded muscle
[color=black][b]Scar(s): [/b][/color] A large star burnt scar sits by his left hip. Another large gash of a scar reaches up from his chest over his right shoulder. Among these are spinkled dots and lines of shrapnel from experiments or an effort in war.
[color=black][b]Tattoo(s): [/b][/color]Both hands and wrists are crisscrossed with the blocky angular dwarvish linework and runes. 

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[u][b][color=black][h3]Personality[/h3][/color][/b][/u]
[color=black][b]3 Words:[/b][/color] Stoic, Inquisitive, Loyal
[color=black][b]Like(s):[/b][/color] Like all dwarves, he likes precious metals and gems. Beyond even that though, he loves tinkering.
[color=black][b]Dislike(s):[/b][/color] Arrogance, Cowardice, Most non-dwarved ales and whiskeys. 

[color=black][b]Want(s): [/b][/color] To unite and restore the might of the Dwarven Kingdom
[color=black][b]Fear(s):[/b][/color] That the internal squabbling between the clans will be the ruin of his kind.

[i][b][color=black][h3]Favourite...[/h3][/color][/b][/i]
[color=black][b]Colour(s):[/b][/color] Gold
[color=black][b]Time of Day:[/b][/color] Generally matters not if you live underground.
[color=black][b]Food:[/b][/color] Mutten Stew
[color=black][b]Animal:[/b][/color] Ram
[color=black][b]Place in Terra:[/b][/color] Volkungthad
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[u][b][color=black][h3]Skills and Attributes[/h3][/color][/b][/u]

[i][b][color=black][h3]Skills[/h3][/color][/b][/i]
[color=black][b]Special ablilty/ies:[/b][/color] The ability to smith dwarven runes into armour and weaponry. Royal line spoken runes: Thunder, in which Thorek is able to vastly increase the range and volume of his voice. Oathbinder, seals an oath magically so as to bind a person to their promise. Grudgestone, upon nearing his death Thorek may use this spoken rune to carve the grudge (whatever the fight was happening for and when etc) which he is bound to so that he may not retreat and must fight to the death but nor can he be moved.
[color=black][b]Good at...:[/b] [/color] Experiment, especially with machinery and runes. Brawling. Tactics.
[color=black][b]Bad at...:[/b] [/color] Social cues, Swimming, Gambling, Lying.

[i][b][color=black][h3]Traits[/h3][/color][/b][/i]
[color=black][b]Good Habit(s):[/b][/color] Excercise every day with the forge, eats well, has manners.
[color=black][b]Bad Habit(s):[/b][/color] Heavy pipe smoker

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[u][b][color=black][h3]History[/h3][/color][/b][/u]

[i][b][color=black][h3]The Past[/h3][/color][/b][/i]
Thorek was born son of Groumrick Soothammer. Each of the 3 main families had a member that was a child of the High King. To fit the portential role of high king and to be able to act in a political manner, Thorek grew up on the bureaucracy and lore as well as the histories and battle tactics of his people. He learnt diplomacy and leadership and dwarven etiquette and all manner of things but the thing that interested him most was engineering. As soon as his teachings allowed him to specialize, he dove deep into engineering studies, melding in artificing to create new technologies to further his people. This lead to many mishaps throughout his Career within the Engineering guild but no one could question his genius. His first feat as an Engineer was to rebuild and restore the massive pumping systems designed to keep the lower deeps of Volkungthad dry. They were destroyed during the last great war and the lower deeps had been abandoned by flooding through the underground rivers and lakes. Thorek was then recognized as a Master engineer in his own right, going on to vastly revolutionalise the armour of the dwarf warriors. The runes worked into their armour and shields along with the angling provided the dwarves with far more protection.

These advances came in handy when the Dwarves launched a counter assault on a pestilence-breeding necromancer tying to start their own kingdom after continued assault from the creature's minion. Thorek, as a son of the High King, joined the grudge war with his people as a Captain and it was in those bloody battles he gained recognition after Thorek's throng (ground of warriors) was split up by a savage ambush attack. Thorek was able to rally his troupes and regroup the stragglers, often having to fight his way through enemies to get to them before regaining the line and pushing back.  



[i][b][color=black][h3]The Present[/h3][/color][/b][/i]
Thorek now devotes most of his life directly to the advancement of the dwarf kingdom through engineering and articing. He works endlessly in special built lab cross smith deep within the vaults on a project he believes will change the world. As much as he would care to spend the entirety of his existence buried in his research, the council politics is getting extreme. Already there are grumblings of guilds hiring mercenaries to disrupt and even murder members of the other guilds. Unfortunately nothing had been tracked yet and even if it had, the High King himself lay in his deathbed living the very last of his days. He constantly plays the mediator, trying to give a voice of reason to the more extreme of views as his brothers struggle for the political clout to declare themselves King. 

[i][b][color=black][h3]Memories[/h3][/color][/b][/i]
Tracking down a ram when he was young and seeing who out of the group he was with could ride it the longest. for He won but not before being thrown into a particularly nasty bramble of thorned nettle that gave a rash he wouldn't live down for years.

His first Brew, which for dwarf standards was pretty terribly but Thorek was proud of it anyway, forcing himself to drink the barrel to prove it was good.

His first major lab accident resulting in shrapnel shredding his lower left side.

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