{"id":74,"date":"2011-07-06T07:13:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T21:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ronnke.ath.cx\/dark_clouds_rising\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2016-05-27T04:30:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T18:30:03","slug":"rainald-north-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Rainald North-Hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drlgraphics.com\/downloads\/Rainald2%20(DRL).gca4\" target=\"_blank\">GCA File<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drlgraphics.com\/downloads\/Rainald2%20(GURPS).pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF Character Sheet<\/a><\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt><strong>1980:<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>Born in Grimswick, a fishing village on the SW coast of the Nomad Lands, son of a sailor\/fisherman.<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>1992 (12):<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>Father &amp; brother killed in great raid on Kethalos. Left to find his uncle, believed to be in mercenary service in Caithness.<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>1993 (13):<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>Joined his uncle in Caithness; already a &#8220;big kid,&#8221; accepted as his uncle&#8217;s shield-bearer. Learned about mercenary work, and developed a taste for the local brew.<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>1994 (14):<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>Followed uncle into battle against Deneral of Mershall. Picked up warhammer from fallen foe &amp; put to good use, protecting his wounded uncle from rebel forces. Later named it &#8220;Gramjarn&#8221; (Wrath-Iron).<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>1995 (15):<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>Uncle&#8217;s injury never healed well enough to allow him to continue his mercenary career, so he and Rainald returned home and attempted to revive the family fishing (&amp; raiding) business.<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>2000 (20):<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>Finally made a move on the village hottie, Gertru\u00f0, who confessed that, Bj\u00f6rn, the eldest son of a jarl and heralded warrior, had preceded him. She explained that she had told Bj\u00f6rn that she would answer his proposal upon his return from his father&#8217;s foreign trade mission, in five years, and that if &#8220;word reached her ears&#8221; of Rainald&#8217;s Glory\u2122 before Bj\u00f6rn&#8217;s return, she would marry him instead. Rainald decided to wander South, and take up mercenary work.<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>2001 (21):<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>Captured by Saurians at the fall of Blythe, on his birthday; escaped before being eaten\/executed, aggressively-recovered Gramjarn, and fled north.<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>2003 (23):<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>Ended up in Wallace, doing occasional work escorting gold-miners and such. Called &#8220;North-Hammer&#8221; by fellow mercs.<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>2005 (25):<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>Present. Pretty much given up all hope for Gertru\u00f0.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.drlgraphics.com\/images\/Misc%20Characters%20Gallery\/Rainald.jpg?w=600\"  \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.drlgraphics.com\/images\/Misc%20Characters%20Gallery\/Gramjarn.jpg?w=600\"  \/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GCA File&nbsp;&nbsp;PDF Character Sheet 1980: Born in Grimswick, a fishing village on the SW coast of the Nomad Lands, son of a sailor\/fisherman. 1992 (12): Father &amp; brother killed in great raid on Kethalos. Left to find his uncle, believed to be in mercenary service in Caithness. 1993 (13): Joined his uncle in Caithness; already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20],"tags":[42,41,36],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banestorm","category-bs_pcs","tag-banestorm","tag-character","tag-gurps"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}