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Name: Drok'Nathur (Birth Name). Leaf (Slave Name).
Age: 72
Race: Ogre
Land of Origin: Iberian Imperium
Occupation: Warrior of the Hawkwood company.
Brief Bio: (I hope you don't mind me including Jon and the Hawkwoods in this)
Born within the Iberian Imperium, it is no surprise to know that Drok'Nathur was born into slavery to enslaved parents. Almost immediately siezed from his parents after the human overseers noted his characteristics, he only returned to them three years later after researchers were done with him, his slave name 'Leaf' branded on one small, childish arm.
For almost two decades he was put to work un ther Imperium's gaze, his parents long dead as he was forced to use his natural gift to aid those who reigned above him. For a long time, he had never even considered the possibility of escape. Slavery was all he had known, it was his way of life. He did not know there were other, free Orcs and Ogres. He had never seen another Orgre. And he still had never considered freedom when it came to him.
It happened when he was 17. Nothing dramatic set it off, no death or especially cruel master. All it took was a single whipping, one he had recieved countless times, and the red mist descended. Later, he would come to as the camp around him burned, standing upon a pile of human corpses (Soldiers, bakers, women and children. It mattered not). His chains were broken and he was splattered in the blood of his enemies. All around him, Orks cheered his name.
For a moment he was lost, before his blood took hold again and he raised his stolen weapon, a particularly large axe, over his head and let out a gutteral roar, one echoed by those around him as they tasted freedom for, often, the first time.
For decades later Drok'Nathur (having reclaimed his name) rampaged throughout the Iberian Imperium with a small band of devoted followers, attacking any place within reach. Small towns, concentation camps, military outposts and once even a small city burned underneath his gaze before he was forced to disappear once again to escape the Imperium army.
However one day it came to an end. The Imperium grew tired of his raids and went a different route, hiring a mercenary company to end him and his (now quite sizeable) followers. The battle raged for only a single day as the forest the band called their home burned around them.
When the smoke cleared, the sight of a Drok'Nathur on his knees could be seen as the leader of the band stood above him, backed by his troops. Behind Drok'Nathur were the corpses of his followers, either dead or routed. He was the knoy one left, and even then he was in poor condition. He bled from uncountable wounds, his breaths shaking his body as he struggled to rise, his axe just out of range of his hands. Yet despite this, he glared with an intensity at the leader, never backing down.
For some reason, this seemed to impress the leader. Instead of killing him, he had Drok'Nathur clapped in chains. He would serve as a powerful warrior to the mercenary company until that company was entirely demolished after combating against the Hawkwood company. After pinning and restraining Leaf, the Ogre was freed under orders of Jon Hawkwood, who offered him a position in the company after having witnessed the old Ogre on the battlefield.
Drok'Nathur accepted.
*Armatus Name: N/A
Equipment: As evidenced in his photo, he carries a large axe that he calls Ginsa'Drok, or 'Freedom's Rise'. Aside from that, he is moetly shirtless with one large pauldron of steel and wood on his right shoulder, gauntlets, graves and leather around the hips and uncovered legs.
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Name: Aulandre
Age: 28
Race: Elf
Land of Origin: Principality of Thorin
Occupation: Armswoman, formerly Theif.
Brief Bio: Born to... well, nobody really. Sure, Aulandre has parents, everyone does. But she never knew them. She grew up in an orphanage in a city on the outskirts of the Principality's control. A street rat through and through despite being an elf, she quickly made use of her inbuilt agility and other natural gifts to establish herself as a semi-decent theif by the time she was twelve.
For eight more years she lived like this, taking on jobs for those above her and being payed handsomely for it. However he lifestyle of crime would eventually catch up with her. She stole from too many officials, double crossed too many employers in the name of price. And thus she was run out of town.
Well, 'run out' was too nice. The original plan had been to capture her and sell her as a pleasure slave, but the moment she caught wind of the plan she packed up and ran into the wilderness. It took a little while to lose her pursuers, but eventually she found herself free and so terribly, terribly lost.
Having grown up in a city all her life Aulandre knew next to nothing about survival in the wilderness, and despite wandering for days never saw even a shred of civilisation. It was on the eve of the first week as she sipped from a fresh water stream, stomach rumbling, that she found it.
Looking up from her drink, she was startled into action when she realised that the rock formation across the stream was instead a titanic helmet, easily many times her size. Scrambling back, she crashed into the boulder behind her which, after some minor inspection, was instead the knuckle of one titanic machine.
She had found an Armatus.
Aulandre had of course heard of Armatus. What kid hadn't? They had all had that dream of one day piloting on alongside the best the Principality had to offer. Of course, this never came true and was eventually washed away. They never even got a chance. Not until now.
It took a few hours for her to navigate her way through the eye socket of the Armatus and through its internal workings, eventually crawling her way through to the heart and control centre of the machine, covered in grime and dirt. It took even longer than that to turn it on, but when she did it was glorious.
To this day she still has no clue if she accidentally bonded with the machine or if it just never needed a bond, but when it finally stood high above the forest, dirt and grass and lichen falling from it in the tons, she didn't care. This machine was hers now, and she would not allow anything else to keep it from her. This was her chance for a new, different life.
So she left, leaving the principality behind to participate in the war between the successors of Franca, signing on with the Hawkwood Company as an Armswoman piloting a machine no one seemed to have any records of.
*Armatus Name: Scratched into the side of the cockpit was the word 'Dinmaul'.
Equipment:
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A short sword and ornate, half-plate armour.