Zalkan

Information

Player: Zunaj

Character Full Name: Zal'kan

Character In-Game Name: Zalkan

Nickname(s): No formal ones.

Association(s): Darkspear tribe, the settlers in Shadowprey, and lately, the Darkspear Echoes.

Race: Island Troll (Darkspear)

Class: OOC: Hunter.. IC: Artisan.

Age: 38

Sex: Male.

Hair: Mostly grassy green, but graying at the sides. He keeps it mostly gathered in one thick braid.

Eyes: Bright orange

Weight: Just about average. He's muscular, as described below, but also just a tad shorter than the average.

Height: 6'7". He seems taller, as he's a bit less hunched than normal.

Alignment: I'm having a hard time placing him, but I end up on the lawful/neutral good end of the grid.

Appearance

Zal'kan dresses simply. Simple cloth or leather breeches, and sometimes a similarly simple shirt. He keeps a pair of leather gloves on him at all times, putting them on whenever there's something that needs doing.

More significantly is a leather utility belt of goblin design, purchased by goblins while they assisted the Horde in the Third War. It's full of pockets, and little leather straps used to carry tools. He wears little to no tribal decorations.

Other: His tusks are relatively small, and he's slightly less hunched than the average troll.

His body is also muscular, and well built, from a lifetime of labour, climbing and general physical activity. His hands are scarred and rugged, from hard use.

All in all, his body is typical for someone who's spent their time with menial labour.

Personality

Zal'kan has a bottomless loyalty towards his tribe, and those in it, and a strong racial pride. His loyalty also extends to Thrall's horde, sort of, although he mainly serves in troll territories, and to further troll causes.

Zal'kan was raised by a skilled craftsman, and so he has taken up that profession himself. He avoids combat if possible, and much prefers to be behind the lines in a controlled environment, constructing and repairing equipment for the warriors and others. If pressed into combat, he prefers big, heavy weapons, like a maul.

He treats other Darkspear trolls with friendliness and polite words, and is more than happy to help them, mainly when it comes to repairing or making things. Other Horde members are respected as allies, even though he has no particular fondness towards them. He treats races and troll tribes that do not belong to the Horde with distrust and contempt. However, he more often than not seek to prevent combat or open hostility, knowing well that he is not a particularly able warrior.

Religion: Zal'kan, like most trolls, honour and worship the Loa and the spirits. However, where others may believe that people are "blessed" or "cursed" by the Loa if they find themselves lucky or unlucky, Zal'kan tends to blame such things on talent or luck, or the lack of those.

History

Year -5

Zal'kan was not born for great things. He was not born for leadership, not to become a great champion, or a powerful mystic. His father was a simple craftsman, who's task it was to maintain the various constructions around the village, as well as equipment. Seeing as his father would one day grow old and frail, and unable to do his job, it had already been decided that Zal'kan's destiny would be to assist, and at one point, replace his father. And so his youth was relatively eventless. He was taught what could be learned about troll architecture, about the strengths and weaknesses of wood and stone, and how to restore broken things to their former quality, or even better.

Year 25(Start of the Third War)

The years passed, and Zal'kan aged, and his father as well. When the humans and orcs first came to Darkspear Island, they shared their duties equally. Zal'kan was now about thirty years of age, and no longer required his father's guidance to perform his work. In fact, he now performed his work with much more efficiency and quality than his father, who had begun to feel the weakness of age already. During the battles that followed, ultimately ending with the trolls fleeing the island with the orcs, his father fell. The strain had gotten the better of him, and shortly before they set off to sea, his heart stopped for good.

During the Third War, Zal'kan served the Horde in much the same was as he had served Darkspear on their island. Orcish builders taught him about their architecture, how they made their buildings, their weapons, and their siege machines. All across Kalimdor, he remained behind the line of warriors, building and repairing to support the war. Since the orcish commanders knew the importance of protecting the workers, the healers and the other supporters, Zal'kan lived through the entire Third War, only having to raise arms against an enemy once, or twice.

Year 28

The war had been won, and the Horde now focused on settling. In his early thirties, Zal'kan took part in the construction of the Darkspear settlement on the Echo Isles, and the following defense against the invading humans.

Shortly after, he was sent to Shadowprey, a Darkspear settlement on the shore of Desolace, mainly functioning as a fishing village. There, he resumed the work he had done on Darkspear Island, maintaining and repairing buildings and equipment for the troll settlers.

Year 33(Today)

When Zal'kan heard of the Darkspear Echoes, and their attempt to reclaim the Echo Isles, Zal'kan immediately felt the call to aid them. He packed what he owned, and left Shadowprey behind. Maybe he'd return to them later, maybe not. For now, he would use his talents to help reclaim the Darkspear capital from Zalazane's grip.

As his canoe hit the beach on the Darkspear Echoes, he smiled, looking around at his surroundings. Noticing a man in a Rush'kah mask, leaned over maps, he approached, assuming this was the leader.

"My name is Zal'kan, and I wish to join your cause."