Description and Background
Description:
Apart from the gray robe he wears, Agrim appears at first sight to be the typical half-orc until one realizes his prayer beads are just that: beads, not fingers, noses, ears, or other trophies taken brutally from his victims. Though he carries the typical orcish scimitar and wears the typical mix and match orcish armor underneath, the gray robe of a wandering pilgrim marks his outcast status from both orcish and human society. Only a second glance brings out the faint traces of his human ancestry -- relatively small ears, a narrower snout, brown eyes, more articulate hands, a lightening of the brown-green skin. For the truly perceptive, a silver amulet bearing the mark of the World Tree, Yggdrasil, on one side and the eye of Odin on the other hangs about his thick orcish neck, revealing his unlikely devotion.
Background:
Agrim is the offspring of a male orc and a female human. When Agrim was young, his mother escaped from her orcish captors during a raid by men at arms from a nearby keep. She raised Agrim as a human and attempted to channel his aggressive urges. Agrim took to his studies, both martial and religious, in which he was greatly aided by the prefect at Dunherc, from where he hails.
At Dunherc, Agrim was always an outsider, but he took to the teachings of the prefect and learned the ways of the gods worshiped by his human ancestors: Odin, Frigga, and Thor among them. As a special devotee of Frigga, and in honor of his mother, Agrim learned the spells he now prays for daily. He learned to fashion holy implements and symbols out of wood and silver and gold. He also learned to channel his aggression into protecting things of beauty rather than destroying aimlessly.
Still, Agrim did not fit in at Dunherc or with human kind, a fact that brought pain to his mother. In addition, he desired to give some recompense for the atrocities done by his orcish forebears, and so he has traveled to Alfheim during Springrite in order to pay honor to the elves and their patron, Corellon Larethian (who Agrim regards as the god Frey), against whom the orcs have ever committed grave atrocities.
He does not expect to be treated with particular fondness. In fact, enduring whatever befalls is part of the penance he hopes to fulfill in order to further subdue and channel his orcish rage, fear, and aggression, let alone his awkward clumsiness around that which is beautiful. It may be that he can become a useful implement to the gods by taking this path. Besides, the hunt promises to be an event of renown! |
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