Rurik Runespear

Rurik's father was an innkeeper who followed the Sartar colonials in the fruitless immigration to Pavis. As Rurik grew up he became totally enraptured by the stories of the adventurers who frequented his father's tavern. In particular, he admired the shining armor and deadly spears of the Yelmalio initiates who would come by after serving guard duty.

Rurik ran with the street gangs which are rife throughout New Pavis, a holdover from the bad old days when humans had to share the Rubble with the trolls. He made the transition from street-tough to adventurer (and incidentally, was disinherited by his father) when he killed the bully Herkan Quicksword in Gimpy's Tavern.

Despite his later accomplishments, Rurik could never shake his problem with trolls. It was as if the gods had set him up to be caught, pounded on, and, alas, finally slain by them. His long-standing hatred for the Darkness Men probably had much to do with his ill luck.

When faced by the Giant of the Garden once, Rurik killed him with a single arrow. When faced by a priestess of Kyger Litor, in contrast, Rurik led his friends into an ambush by trolls hidden by Invisibility. Half of the party was slaughtered and the other half beggared by the ransom that the trolls demanded.

Finally, on a quest to regain Power lost in a previous call for Divine Intervention, deep in the Pavis ruin known as the Devil's Playground, Rurik and a long-time rival Johnathan Trollsbane led the party into another ambush; this time of well-prepared trollkin. One of the enemy unleashed a Shade that drove Rurik's spirit from his body. Yelmalio heard his prayers and sent it back. Before he could rise a lucky trollkin had plunged a spear into his leg. The shock was too much, and Rurik died again. This time, though, he didn't have the Power to plead to Yelmalio again. Some priests think that Rurik now fights at the side of his god. Stories of a trader named Biturian Varosh, though, hint that Rurik walks once again among the living, but how much trust can you hold in the word of a Golden Tongue?

These statistics were taken shortly before that fateful journey into the Rubble in the summer of 1612.

Born: Fireday, Disorder Week, Fire Season, 1582.

Iron plate armor and padding. MAX ENC 16/14 normally.

(I) = Iron construction; all other weapons are made of bronze except his composite bow.

POW/INT: Brightedge (allied spirit in iron axe) 13/12. Total POW (including Rurik and crystals): 31.

POW 3 Twice Power Yielding Crystal, 2 doses of +10% Manipulation potion.

Has currently 80 Lunars on person; the Yelmalio temple in Pavis is holding 800 Lunars on account, and he owes the temple 11,200 Lunars in loans.

Iron plate armor and padding, iron 2-h axe. All other weapons are made of bronze except his composite bow. MAX ENC 16/14 normally.

Hates trolls.