NPC:Urghdak
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Urghdak
Urghdak Trollson (often just 'Trollson') is employed as Cheif of Security at The Hanging Corpse Tavern in Vailkrin.
Known as "Urghdak the Vicious" he is a veteran mercenary and a force to be reckoned with should any troublemakers choose to test his somewhat short-fused temper. Extremely violent and prone to dispatching his foes quickly, he nevertheless keeps his killing tendencies in check - at least while on duty - at the behest of the tavern's owner, Joliette Thorne.
Almost eight feet in height, Urghdak has inherited the best - or worst, depending how one sees it - of both sides of his heritage. His skin is tinted a dark olive green and is covered in a mass of accumulated battle scars. Short tusk-like canine teeth protrude from his lower lip and his hair is black and shaggy, though often bound back in a braid and leather cord.
There is little about melee fighting that Trollson doesn't know. Cross him at your own peril.
History
Urghdak's orcish mother never spoke of just how it came about that she conceived him, but upon giving birth to her hybrid half-troll child amid the turmoil of a seige on the Milous Plains, she simply left him for dead.
Found by a wandering trader, the ugly baby was brought to the Gualon Foundling's Home, where he spent a few unhappy years of childhood. Too large, ugly and bad-tempered to be tolerable to other children, he spent much of his time alone with the orphanage's elderly headmaster, who not only gave him the name "Trollson" but taught the young half-breed to read and write and encouraged him toward positive applications for his near-berserker temperament.
Trollson, however, was drawn to fighting and began running off to watch illegal street brawls. Still a child, he was as tall as the average human male and during one fight event was spotted as a potential talent. Thrown in the ring, untrained, he killed his opponent by snapping his neck and the fight master persuaded him to leave behind the gentler atmosphere of the Foundling Home and take up a career as a professional fighter. Thus, he became "Trollson the Urchin" and dwelled among the underground society of Gualon as the erstwhile ward of a criminal who took advantage of the half-bred child for monetary gain.
After several years, and nearly mature, Trollson decided to seek out his heritage. On approaching the Orcish cheiftans, he found himself forced to fight for his life without exception - the orcs, proud as they are, looked upon his shaggy head, his yellow catlike eyes and peculiar proportions - and wanted none of him. He did, however, by chance discover the identity of his mother, and that she had intended to name him "Urghdak", which Trollson adopted immediately as his given name.
During his time as a street fighter, he discovered that his flesh had the peculiar property of regenerating, to some extent. Wounds healed quickly, and even on losing a finger would eventually grow a new one. It had been suggested to him by the headmaster at the Foundling Home that the reason he did not resemble other orcs was that he had a touch of troll in his blood - for which he was duly named - so he set off to the swamps to find out what he could about that race. The trolls were far kinder to him, but still would not accept him as a tribal member.
And so Urghdak become the Outcast. He left Gualon's streets and joined a mercenary band, a career he enjoyed to the fullest well into his maturity and through which he would eventually earn the moniker "Urghdak the Vicious" - because there was simply no other name that fit him better.
It was after the Great Orc Wars, during which Trollson fought on both sides, that he met a woman he'd later know as Joliette Thorne. Tiring of the mercenary life after that protracted campaign, he sought Jolie out and was offered the job at the Hanging Corpse. Just exactly what transpired between the two is not common knowledge, but it's clear to many regulars at the tavern that Trollson has an almost slavish devotion to Ms. Thorne, and would gladly maim or kill to fulfil his duty to her. He is treated with great honour by the necromancer, though he often despairs at her flighty nature and awful sense of humour.