Althameeg Bloodrock
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Gowthreeg was the shrewdest and most peaceful leader the Bloodrock horse nomads had seen in generations. After losing the bravest of their youth and much of their herds and treasure trying to subdue the other clans and villages around the Lake of Mists, the Clan Bloodrock elders turned to Gowthreeg's calm and subtlety for solace amid the tattered remnants of their once substantial, if not particularly noteworthy clan. Gowthreeg, while not an ambitious man, was more than willing to take the reins of leadership, but though his shrewd diplomacy mended relations with the neighboring clans and re-established trade with the villages, he could do nothing about the drought that emaciated the herds and left his kinsmen hungry and forlorn. As the warlike clansmen's misfortune continued, they blamed Gowthreeg and his un-warlike ways for invoking the wrath of their god, Garagos.
All the while, Gowthreeg had been grooming his son, Althameeg, to take control once he got too old to lead. He took him along on trading missions to the other tribes and the nearby villages, taught him all the old legends he knew and made time for lessons with the village elders, even got some teachers in the village to teach him the basics of reading and writing. But the growing discomfort and wounded pride of his fellow clansmen, who wanted about as much to do with book learning as they did with lowly farmers who earned their livelihood digging in the dirt, were making his prospects of leading the clan look dimmer and dimmer.
So it shouldn't surprise us that Gowthreeg, being an unusually accomodating fellow (especially for a proud Bloodrock horse nomad) didn't even put up a fuss on that bitter mid-winter morning when six of the strongest remaining warriors (whose survival owed more to how slowly they charged into battle than to their skill or hardiness) barged into his yurt, and kicking a bowl of yoghurt his wife had prepared across the floor of the tent, demanded that he end payment of reparations to the other Tuigan nomads whose herds and daughters they had stolen, and whose sons they had put to the sword. Knowing that he and his clan wouldn't last a fortnight past such a grave insult to the other clans, he decided to appease his kinsmen as best he could. His son, Althameeg, would have to leave, forsaking any hopes of leading the clan in the foreseeable future, and make his own way in the world for a time, surviving as best he could and, hopefully, gaining some new power or knowledge with which to lead (or command) his kinsmen into better times. Althameeg took the news of his impending exile good-naturedly (he had, after all, inherited his father's patience) and set off on his own.
Seeing all the suffering his clan's warlike ways had brought them, and longing for something more interesting than the rustic life of a Suren tribesman, Althameeg wandered the wastes for a time, then made his way west, eventually finding himself in Narfell. Of course the natural thing to do if you are a curious misfit horse nomad is to head straight for the biggest, busiest city around: Peltarch. And so he did.
And that is where we find our hero, curious as ever, and slowly (and painfully) but surely adapting to city life while trying not to get cheated out of any more of what's left of the money his father gave him for his travels. Collecting scraps and trinkets of things city folks use in their daily business, Althameeg is quickly adapting to city ways, or at least, that's what he thinks. Nowadays, Althameeg is looking to learn more disciplined, precise fighting tactics and maybe even–though he dares not let his hopes get too high--the arts of magic.
Character: Althameeg Bloodrock
Log-on name: Kaveh Hemmat
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Reviewed - XP Pending.
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Althameeg speaks Tuigan, Raumviran, Common, Damaran, and he reads and writes in Common.
Tuigan is his native/regional language, he learned Raumviran, Damaran, and reading/writing in Common because he is an intelligent man and his father paid for tutoring when he was in the villages around the Lake of Mists.
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log-on name (Kaveh Hemmat) added
