The Characters

First Appearance: Series 1 - Episode 01 - The Beginning Of The End

NG Male Half-Orc Druid

Description: This rugged-looking half-orc has long, dark hair, oversized, vestigial tusks, and a stern, piercing gaze. His back and arms proudly display intricate tattoos, which possess a deep spiritual connection to the natural world. He wears hides and furs harvested from all manner of woodland beasts, including the pelt of an immense bear worn over the left shoulder, rough-furred bracers, and a crude-looking leather belt covered in shamanistic fetishes. A heavy bow made from animal bones is slung over his right shoulder, while a large, two-handed woodsman’s axe rests in a leather harness upon his back.

His loyal companion, Greymane, is a large grey wolf, who wears light leather barding, and a rugged pack harness.

Personality: Kurgan is calm, contemplative, and insightful. He is charitable and friendly to those he encounters and is always willing to lend aid to those in need—he helps others, simply because his help is needed, not because he desires compensation or even thanks. Though, to those who would oppress or harm others, he is relentless and fierce, as though a hungry predator locked onto the trail of his prey.

Kurgan has a deep, spiritual connection to the natural world, and the abundant flora and fauna it produces. He tries to foster an appreciation for the natural world in those he meets, particularly children or those afflicted with poverty, and teaches them how to gather the bounties of the natural world responsibly. He will not tolerate acts which abuse, damage, or otherwise afflict lasting harm upon the natural world.

Background: Kurgan was raised among the Keepers of the Stonehewn Circle, an alliance of druids who watch over the Worldspine Mountains and the surrounding wilderness. He knows little about his parents beyond what he was told by some of his older druid brethren. His mother was an escaped human slave from Celisia who fled the Grekan Empire after getting pregnant. She died shortly after giving birth, but not before entrusting her child’s safety to the Keepers of the Stonehewn Circle.

He spent much of his youth working alongside other members of his circle looking after the northern reaches of the Mistveil Forest. After a chance encounter with desperate and impoverished peasants from Ironhold’s slums who nearly died while looking for poisonous herbs, he cured their afflictions, and escorted them back to the industry-ridden metropolis. There he began meeting with other folk afflicted with poverty and used his druidic magic to provide them with purified food, clean water, and even magical remedies for their afflictions. Since, he travels to the city regularly to teach anyone who will listen how to improve their lives through relying on and cultivating nature’s bounties, rather than relying on the exploitation of industry.

Kurgan met Thuvius shortly after he started his weekly trips to Ironhold. He was approached by the man to help him harvest rare herbs desperately needed by a local healer providing aide to citizens in the slums afflicted with an unusual contagion. They succeeded, and even worked together on several other occasions before Thuvius left Ironhold a few months later.