Baragg son of Baereg son of Braag son of Belreeg
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**name: Baragg son of Baerag son of Braag son of Belreeg
player login: Kaveh Hemmat
age: 49
languages: dwarvish, common, hinnish**An exceprt from a text on Brathain Clan history:
When Belreeg the Brave fled from the duergar after the fall of the great stronghold, Bravash Duir, most of the other dwarven strongholds thought the Roundhammer clan was about as likely to survive as the great Bravehand confederation in the face of the Spikewig goblins (and we all know how that turned out). While it would be inaccurate to say that they simply gave up hope, they were not especially willing to waste brave warriors and good steel against the wrath of the duergar, to save a clan that was already believed lost, and a few tracts of land and caves that were hardly better than that rather damp region of the underdark that the Bloodaxe duergar clan took refuge in 932 D.R., after the ill-fated plots of Khardash the Blind and his comrades, which are surely as familiar to the reader as the events of 1221, when Baereg the Black shunned his cousin Durag the Dark, son of Duirak son of Dunniz after a series of events in the smithy that nobody is really sure about (although Vaeruin Viceharth, a historian of dubious credentials, seems to think it involved a dispute over some bad ore, which Durag alledgedly acquired from human merchants of even more dubious credentials…
and excerpt from the next volume:
After the first sortie against the goblins in the Icemelt Mountains, the scattered remnants of Belreeg's kin drew together with determination comparable only to that of Thraddash and the Broken Archers in the War of 1236 (in which Khaldar the Cruel won his fame as a slayer of drow), and by means of a clever stratagem, which some historians think was borrowed from the Battle of the Small Shields (although there is some doubt as to whether or not Belreeg could have known about that battle, since it happened only a few decades earlier), stormed the last refuge of the goblin army and annihilated the lot of them. The crude goblin miners were unaware of the richness of the veins of ore in that region of the Icemelts, and Belreeg and his kinsmen chose that spot to establish the stronghold of Brathain. If the ironic resemblance between these events and the expulsion of the Bluegauntlet merchants in 1199 is lost on the reader, it was surely not lost on Belreeg, who counted out a mere thirty-five silver coins when he and his brother caught an enormous catfish in one of the underground lakes while chanting a hymn to Moradin…
Suffice it to say that Belreeg and his folk are, like all dwarves, proud of their heritage.
Having prospered for almost five-hundred years in their new-found lands and established a firm foothold there, the Roundhammer clan has decided to establish greater ties to the folk in the nearby lands, that they might trade with them and assist in wars against their common enemies, the orcs and goblin-kin.
Filled with pride in his heritage and confidence in his skill at arms, Baragg set out with a caravan of his kin, and later joined a caravan of humans, who unfortunately fell victim to a flood in which Baragg lost his finely-crafted mail and warhammer, the latter being the handiwork of the one and only Falgardun Serpentsmith, whose emerald-green warhammers are prized by all of Belreeg's descendents, except for those of the line of Vardwain, for obvious reasons.
Baragg is a polite and courteous dwarf, anxious to bring honor to his clan and live up to the deeds of his ancestors. He is not used to dealing with humans or even dwarves outside his clan, though his command of the common tongue is impeccable. He often finds that dwarves who have lived among humans are rude and lack good manners, and so he takes rather naturally to the role of preserver of dwarven ways.
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