Avin Iceforged



Avin the middle child of 5 grew up in the city of Vugdan high in the mountains where his grandfather against all odds carved out an empire among overwhelming warring factions that to this day has enemies trying to crush them. He realized early that he was treated different from other dwarf children and grew to resent the way he was coddled and not punished when others would have been. After his older brother was assassinated by a female assassin who he foolishly was trying to bed happened he realized the danger his family was constantly in and started to formulate a plan to leave in secret. His favorite place to think this plan through was at the forge shaping metal and that’s where one day while his mind wandered he forgot to release some pressure on the steam press he had finished using an explosion happened and blew him backwards to fall in a large amount of melted iron, before completely losing consciousness from his burns he remembered seeing the small girl who always hid and watched him while he worked trying to pull him out before the blackness took him.

Waking 3 days later he discovered the girl had been found over him and thinking like how his brother died she was an assassin threw her into the dungeon to await execution. This sent him into a rage that anyone thought this poor girl who he felt nothing menacing from could have been trying to kill him so cursing all that tried to stop him went to fetch her from the hell she was wrongfully put in! Feeling indebted to her and finding she was an orphan he pressured his father into adopting her into the Iceforged family. As the years went past Avin found he was looking at Miseria more and more as a woman and his feelings started to change from a very close friendship to love but hid this from her as losing her as a friend would be more devastating to him than any assassin could be.

After a talk with his second oldest brother he learned he didn’t want to be emperor and planned to pass it to Avin which didn’t sit well with him and put into place his plan to leave, after talking to his father about leaving he agreed to take a few trustworthy people with him and Miseria. In the late hours of the night his team left through secret tunnels and traveled far away where they heard of a place calling for help. Newly arrived in Dire Arch they started a home open to all in hopes to be treated normally without the pomp they had just left behind and have adventures and make new friends.