[hider=Rorik][center]Name: Rorik Ulrichson

Race: Nord

Gender: Male

Appearance: [img] https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/027/107/452/large/anna-helme-rainn-shaw3.jpg?1590608278[/img]

Biography: Rorik grew up on the small farmstead just south of Windhelm, raised by his parents who were staunch supporters of the Stormcloak cause. With both of his parents having fought for the Stormcloaks. With tales of the warrior’s life told by his parents, Rorik always dreamed of rising high in the ranks of the Stormcloaks from a very young age.  In his youth he pretended to fight in wars with sticks with his brothers and sisters and other children on the other farms. As he started to get older, he helped in his fathers’ forge making simple tools and weapons. Constantly beating metal and fighting started to build muscle in him, he also grew fast becoming very tall, even for a Nord.

When he was old enough, he joined the Stormcloak army and this is where he started to get his first taste of warfare fighting small skirmishes in the reach against the Forsworn. Rorik believed what he was doing there made a difference fighting against people who were destroying his homeland. With his size and strength, Rorik became known as a great fighter, even though he wasn’t the most skilled.

A few years later after not much success stopping the Forsworn completely, Rorik and his company were sent back to Windhelm, the city where he originally signed up. They had a few days off to see their loved ones which Rorik did. On his way home, he passed a mine where some local guards were hanging a Dunmer. Rorik didn’t ask to why they were killing the Dunmer but something didn’t sit well with him. When he was home, this is when he learned about how the Dark Elves had been forced to work the mines, basically becoming slaves for the Stormcloaks. His parents didn’t really care about it, but it wasn’t the reason has to why he signed up to fight and the ideals that his parents had told him of a free Skyrim for the Nords. He didn’t believe that the way to gain freedom from the Empire and the Thalmor was to enslave others. Everyone should be free Rorik thought, but Skyrim should just be governed by Nords. He started to see that his views were different to the views of what he was fighting for and he’d been too stupid to realise it. 

A few days later when he was back in Windhelm, he wanted to visit the Gray quarter to see what kind of state it was in. When he was walking through, he thought it seemed more like a giant prison than a place to actually live. The buildings were close to falling down and there were shanties all in the alleyways with the Dunmers looking half starved to death. He came upon some guards beating up an old Dunmer and laughing and this is the moment Rorik’s mind was made up. He stormed over there and started to attack the guards. He managed to take out two of them but there was too many and they piled on him. He was thrown in the stocks for a few days, with the guards claiming he attacked them in a drunken rage for no reason. The moment he was released from the prison, he went to buy some iron armour and an iron battle axe and deserted the Stormcloaks, throwing away his uniform. As he travelled around Skyrim doing odd jobs, giving different names and never staying anywhere for too long, he started to hear about a resistance against the Stormcloaks led by a man from Windhelm. Rorik was unsure what to do because he had an idea what they did to deserters but he headed there anyway trying to find a way to sneak into the city.

Personality and General Disposition: Rorik is a friendly, outgoing Nord who always tries to see the best in people. He will try and defend people even if it leads to him getting into trouble. Probably the worst trait about Rorik is that he isn’t really the brightest, he can take a while to understand a joke and even finds it hard to understand the intricacies of plots and the arts of politics.

Allegiance/Loyalties: Ex Stormcloak Soldier. His loyalties lie with whoever need his help.

Equipment/Gear: Some plain made iron armour and an iron battle axe. He keeps some gear on his horse that has some different clothes that he wears under his armour, a tent and some hunting equipment, he also carries some gold. 

 Skills and Abilities: Rorik’s main skill is just his pure strength when he’s gotten a hold of his axe. He also can take quite a lot of pain. When he was in the army, he learned a few simple hunting tricks on how to set up traps and also how to skin and cook animals. Also has the slightest knowledge of blacksmithing.[/center][/hider]