Balgarn

Information

Player: Grakor456

Character Full Name: Balgarn Bloodscribe

Character In-Game Name: Balgarn

Nickname(s): Balg

Association(s): The Earthshaker Clan, the Horde

Race: Orc

Class: Blood Death Knight

Skills and Abilities: Typical in terms of his class and specialization. Balgarn is particularly focused on being a defensive juggernaut, making him a slow, but strong and immovably tough, combatant. He's also an expert scribe, knowing the trade of an inscriptionist, as well as general record-keeping and map-making. If it involves pen and paper, he has some skill in it.

Age: 25 (22 at his death)

Sex: Male

Hair: Red, kept short, along with a twin-braided goatee.

Eyes: Glowing blue.

Weight: About 475 pounds

Height: 7'0"

Appearance

Usual Garments/Armor: Generally, Balgarn is wearing red armor, and rarely gets into anything more casual than that. Even when he is, he is still sporting the Earthshaker tabard.

Other: Balgarn's skin has darkened due to his undeath, and he generally carries around a runic, and bloody, two-handed axe with him.

Personality

The time under the Lich King has left Balgarn emotionally stunted in many ways. Balgarn was once loud, boisterous, and full of life, and was left a shell of his former self after his death. He now comes across as more cold and almost emotionless. While not truly emotionless, his ability to properly function in social interactions was damaged quite badly, and he simply doesn't have the proper context to have those emotions come out. While this can lead to him coming off as if he has bad manners at times, he does learn if corrected. This can easily lead to socially awkward situations with him, something that he's not entirely ignorant to.

Balgarn tends to refer to himself as he sees himself...more as a tool or weapon than as an actual person, and his speech ends up reflecting that. While he's not openly self-deprecating, he inwardly sees himself as less than a person than the living around him (especially when looking at other orcs.) As a result, he rarely, if ever, responds to insults at his person, and he tends to be selfless in combat, seeking to protect others with his own destruction if necessary.

He is a repentant man with a dark history thanks to the Lich King, and it's this that provides his primary motivation. He seeks to redeem himself through the only means open to him: bloody combat and serving his chieftain. He sees himself as his chieftain's tool, and hopes that through work for him and the Horde that he might be forgiven and join the ancestors again when he is finally destroyed. This has left him with self-doubt, as he isn't sure if it will ever happen, but it doesn't stop him from trying. Underneath his cold exterior is a good-hearted orc, though he's long stopped believing that anyone would look closely enough at him to see anything other than an undead monster.

History

Balgarn was born in the internment camps, though his stay was a relatively uneventful one. Succumbed to lethargy, it wasn't until the departure towards Kalimdor where he was both energetic and old enough to truly take a role in society, and that was primarily his training to become a grunt. It wasn't the only thing he trained in, however, as over time he took to a liking to writing. This was, perhaps, an unusual trade (especially one of his growing energy and hostile temperament,) but it served as a hobby and an additional skill that broadened his ability to help the Horde.

Balgarn was, in fact, one of the few living descendants of the Thunderlord Clan, and it was this that eventually led him to Kretol Earthshaker. Seeking to reforge ties with his clan-mates, Balgarn served his chieftain obediently for a few scant years before tragedy finally struck.

His service took him to the Eastern Kingdoms, along with a fellow grunt of his. Serving to observe and deliver a message to the Forsaken of the Undercity, he was eventually sent to travel deep into the Plaguelands to speak to the Argent Dawn in Light's Hope Chapel. This turned out to be a task that the two orcs were unready for, and they found themselves ambushed within the Plaguelands. Balgarn urged his companion to flee, but in the end he perished before ever discovering what would befall his fellow grunt. From all he could gather, he perished with him.

The next thing that Balgarn could remember was awakening once more, now under the thrall of the Lich King. Balgarn retained few memories of his stay under the Scourge banner, but he would remember enough to know the atrocities that were committed by his hand. Slaughtering humans in the Plaguelands, it wasn't until he was freed from that control by the Battle of Light's Hope that he could finally regain any sense of his former self, though even that was irrevocably damaged. His memories and personality both shattered and broken, he ended up wandering the land for some time, serving the Ebon Blade and keeping his distance from the friends he knew when he was alive, believing that they would never accept him for what he had become.

This would change when he was discovered by a Farseer of the Earthshakers, who eventually eased his worries and guided him back home. Though still reluctant, he went along with this until Kretol Earthshaker saw to him personally and re-accepted him back into the clan. Uncertain how to react, Balgarn swore himself to his chieftain once more, devoting himself to repay that act of kindness. Now, he serves still, wandering the lands in the name of his chieftain and following his every command.