Post by daegontargaryen on Jul 30, 2015 21:37:18 GMT
Name: Ragnar Ice-born
Age: Twenty Two
Nationality: Nordic
Hair: White/ Blonde
Eyes: Blue
Facial Markings: None
Skin Color: Caucasian
Height: 6 feet, 3 inches
Weight: 215
Build: Brute, strong, tall and fit
Body Markings: A few scars on the torso, abdomen and back
interests: Law, history, reading, training, hunting bandits
Dislikes: Tyrannical kings and lords, slavers, anything mandatory
Strengths: Ragnar is smart, quick and strong. Due to his long hours training, reading and studying he has become very intelligent, fast and powerful.
Weaknesses: Ragnar is a rebellious man who is stubborn and because of this, he will often find himself in sticky situations with no help.
He also has a weakness to women and will often find him self piss drunk in a brothel with no money.
Skills: Ragnar has trained for years with large Two handed weapons, spears, shields and horseback riding.
Fears: The one thing Ragnar fears above all else is being helpless to a situation where he needs to intervene or take action. Whether he is tied up and being beaten or is witnessing a peasant being robbed by a dozen bandits, he dreads being helpless to stop injustice.
Professions: Thane, Rightful heir to the Ostberg Clan
Personality: Ragnar is very rebellious and stubborn, but at the same time brave and honorable. Ragnar values honor very highly and is extremely critical of those who don't fight with honor and dignity. But above all, Ragnar appreciates and values freedom. After years of witnessing oppression and injustice dealt out by the Kings and Lords of Calradia, Ragnar has made it his goal to free the serfs and slaves and find a just ruler not just for the Nords, but all of Calradia!
Appearance summery: Ragnar stands very tall and very strong, his mighty sword is very intimidating to most. His white blond hair and dark blue eyes are a tell tale sign of a member of house Ostberg, which the family is notorious for having. Since he is a knight he has heavy armor and one can usually spot a few bloodstains on it.
Equipment: Huscarl Helmet, Cuir Bioli, Chainmail boots, Mail gloves, Nordic Long Sword, Long Axe, Huscarl Shield, War Spear
Character History:
Ragnar was born during the coldest winter in thousands of years in a mere tent on the way back from one of his fathers military campaigns. He was born into a very rich and powerful noble family, the Ostbergs. As a very young child Ragnar showed signs of disobedience and rebellion towards authority. At the young age of six he was sent to the court of the Nordic King to learn discipline and how to manage a fief. As lesser Lords and peasants came into the King's hall to ask for help, Ragnar sat in his court watching dozens of people in need be rejected by the one who's supposed to protect them. Ragnar felt helpless to the situation and had to witness thousands of people suffer at the hand of overwhelming taxes, famine and war.
When Ragnar turned 12, the King decided to bring him on a military campaign against the Vaegirs. He saw the King order villages to be raped and pillaged, villagers to be slaughtered, and land to be burned. Anger towards Lords and Kings grew inside Ragnar and he was furious that the common peasant would have to suffer for a war between nobility. By the time Ragnar was fifteen he had begun fighting in the King's wars, he would never hurt the innocent and would soon learn to defend them.
Ragnar's fame and skill started to grow in his sixteenth year. During one battle outside Rivacheg against Boyar Belgaru amd his son's armies, Ragnar was able to take a group of ten men and get behind enemy lines. When the fighting had started Ragnar brought his men to the rear of the enemy army, killed Boyar Belgaru's guard and captured the cowardly Vaegir Lord who stayed behind his army with his guard. Just a month later during one of the many Nordic sieges of Rivacheg, Ragnar took command of twenty men and were able to sneak in the city during the night. Ragnar and his men silently made their way to the gate and opened it. Nordic men started running towards the city, but little did the King know a Vaegir cavalry force of 300 heavy mounted men were on the way. The Nordic King had his army retreat and try to hold of the Heavy mounted reinforcements, but was forced to retreat, leaving Ragnar and his men trapped inside the city. By this time the Vaegirs started searching the city for the infiltrators. Ragnar and his twenty men split up around the city and tried to blend in. Ragnar heard that six of his men were being held in the Rivacheg prisons. He was able to gather all of his men left in the city and told them to sneak out and be ready to help his men escape by being a few hundred yards outside the city walls with twenty horses. Ragnar was ready to free his men, he started by quickly killing the prison guard and opening every cell. He got his six men and made his way outside to the chaos of hundreds of prisoners causing chaos in the city. He and his men fled the city and rode for Sargoth. After a few more battles aginst the Vaegirs and Swadians, the number of men Ragnar had slain is now in the hundreds.
By the time he was 17, Ragnar had become a famed warrior, known throughout all of Calradia. Later that year, the Nordic King had made Ragnar a Thane for saving his life in battle by stepping in front of him and blocking a spear thrown at the King during a battle against the Swadians. That same year Ragnar witnessed the King Order a group of peasants to be slaughtered to send a message to King Haralus. He told the Nordic King that they were innocent and had the right to live, a few men were brave enough to stand behind Ragnar's defiance. The King ordered Ragnar and his supporters to be imprisoned, but they weren't going down with out a fight. Ragnar and his allies formed a sheild circle to block the barrage of arrows, after this Ragnar and the opposition charged their attackers along with the King's guard. Soon the peasants were picking up weapons and more men turned against the king. The fighting lasted for hours and the King managed to escape with a few loyal guards. Ragnar stood with a dozen survivors, some peasants and some soldiers. Ragnar told his allies that if they would join him, they would roam the land in search for a just King and on the way they would liberate slaves and take jobs, anything that would bring them closer to his goal of making the land free and prosperous. He was in Calradia now, his family and their holdings were across the sea and the Nordic King remained in Calradia to fight the Vaegirs and Swadians. It was Ragnar's goal to find a just King to support for all of Calradia, one that honorably ruled for the people, guaranteed their rights and protected them bravely.