Appearance

Physical Description

A short but slightly slimmer than average dwarf. With her furs she is far more hefty and well built.

Body Features

Avgift has a well toned body but is far weaker then most dwarves. With her furs, she has a rather muscular body with well defined groupings.

Facial Features

Avgift keeps a clean face. Her face is soft with the faint signs of wrinkles setting in.

Identifying Characteristics

Avgift has large, runic style tattoos that run up her right arm from her old military days.

Apparel & Accessories

Avgift has a big fluffy owl bear hat from game she had killed years earlier. (Burnt)


Avgift is often identifiable by a large backpack roughly the same size as her and a white wolf pelt draped over her head and shoulders.

Mentality

Personal history

Avgift Kopparvingar Dharok was born into the Koppavingar family of the Dharok Clan. Her father, Varg, was an busy man who worked as an overseer for the clan’s production of goods. Her mother, Skydaa, was a well respected blacksmith within the ranks of the army. Her early life was not extremely noteworthy. She grew up in a loving household as many other children did. She received an education as standard of most dwarves, learning Common, Gnomish, and of course Dwarvish. Following in her parents steps she learned the ways of the god King Gorath.
 
Of course, being a dwarf, Avgift was inclined to pick up some form of craftsmanship. Copying her mother she attempted to learn how to forge the weapons but found herself too weak to ever become skilled at it. Instead she moved on to systems of gears, springs, and wires and after a few decades became quite skilled. At the same time she picked up woodworking, entranced with the idea of creating one of the new Volley Crossbows.
 
At the age of 100, when dwarves are considered to be mature adults, Avgift began her mandatory military service. Here her sharp eye and swiftness made her perfect as a scout for the army. The oath she would take to defend the kingdom would be one of the things she would hold most dear in her time in the army. Avgift was deployed as a scout to the front with the Drow, fighting in the Underdark’s cave systems. There she encountered the unique fighting styles of the Drow. In a way, she adopted their stratagems and techniques. The use of poison, which was looked down upon by the Dwarves, was used regularly by her. She specifically specialized in the gaseous forms of poisons. Avgift also took the Drow’s hit and run tactics and turned it into something she could use. She spent 23 years in the Underdark. Due to the scarcity of resources and the duration of her missions, Avgift really became self sufficient. She created her own weapons, scavenged for food, and taught herself how to survive in the wild. Her time here would be the happiest of her life, contributing to great victories against the Drow.
 
Avgift would have stayed in the Underdark had it not been for a tragedy on the other side of the kingdom. Fighting intensified against the Orcs so even reservists and supports were called in to hold the line. Her mother was killed in the resulting battle. After this event, Avgift requested she be placed on the front against the Orcs and drifted further away from her father.
 
Serving as a scout for the Dwarven army, Avgift would move ahead of the Dwarven formations, reporting Orc locations to be attacked. If she had the option to though, Avgift would take it upon herself to weaken the Orcs through poison. As a harasser who regularly went out by herself to gather information for weeks, even months on end, she was well respected by her comrades. The information she brought often helped the dwarves bring victory or at least saved a few lives.
 
Still motivated by anger, Avgift wanted to kill as many Orcs as possible. Initially, she started off killing soldiers, enemy scouts and Orcs who strayed too far from their camp. As the war progressed though, Avgift became lax with those she targeted. The sick and wounded were executed from a distance but if the opportunity presented itself, she would slit their throats while they slept. The Orc villages she came across would often have their food stores burned with the air and wells poisoned. The elderly and children were not spared from the extreme measures either. Avgift was indiscriminate in her terrorism. If she could kill, she would.
 
Near the end of her service, Avgift realized that the Orcs she had been killing could not have been the same ones who killed her mother two decades prior. Those Orcs would have been dead thanks to the sands of time. Yet, this knowledge was suppressed as killing was how Avgift now coped with the loss of her mother. Her father had secluded himself decades earlier to deal with his sorrows. Avgift, who rushed forward into battle, was running away too. Her onslaught had earned her the nickname, the Skaving Dwarf by the Orcs. This would not last.
 
The Dwarven commanders realized that entire Orcish villages had been poisoned when a regiment of soldiers who drank from a Orcish well began displaying signs of poisoning. Due to the natural resilience of Dwarves, the soldiers survived but the army was forced to retreat. Avgift, overtaken by the guilt of her actions, reported directly to her superiors and confessed. The Dwarven commanders’ reactions were mixed. Some praised her for her honestly and patriotism and others disgusted that one of their best scouts was capable of such horrors. Avgift was pressed to explain her actions and it was agreed that she should be discharged with honors. The atrocities committed by her were too disgraceful to Dwarven tradition and so it was designed for her to leave quietly to save some face with the public. After 47 years of service and sacrifice, Avgift retired at the rank of Lieutenant with several medals to commemorate her service before disappearing from military life.
 
She returned to her home to a sickly father, saddened by her dismissal by the military and demanded to know why. After Avgift told him about why she was discharged his sadness became an incurable depression coupled with a disgust for her. Many other members of the clan distanced themselves from her as rumors spread of the schism in her household. She found herself truly alone despite being surrounded by those who should have considered her kin. They were polite but Avgift knew of the great void she had made between them. The last time she would see most of them would be at her father's funeral a year after her retirement. Her father however, barred her from attending, too disgusted by her actions. With the ban enforced by the Dharok clan, she watched the event from across the street. She still has not yet seen her father's grave.
 
Avgift attempted to adjust to normal life in the Dwarf Kingdom after her father's death but found herself feeling stuck. Without the pressures of war and outside worries, everything that she had experienced struck her at once. She had killed so many and it was all for nothing. She would never have been able to get revenge on the Orcs for her mother but in trying Avgift had alienated herself from Dwarven society, her clan, and her father. She had been cast aside and, with some reflection, Avgift agreed that she should be. Days after the funeral, she accepted her position and left the kingdom for a fresh start or maybe atonement.
 
For roughly a decade, she bounced around the different nations of Cana, simply reflecting on herself. Along the way, she met a few people with good and bad characters. Most never stuck around as Avgift traveled a lot, making a new life as a hunter of exotic creatures. It was through a co-worker that she began to consider the Luminaries as a possible future.
 
The Luminaries were not unheard of in the Dwarf Kingdom but they were not common occurrences. Only the stories from fellow hunters stuck around but that was enough to convince her. What she seeks is comradeship in the Luminaries and for a sense of purpose as she runs from her shameful past. At the age of 158, Avgift found a new purpose and resolved to join the Luminaries. Not knowing what to expect, she rushes forward into an unknown future.

Education

Professionally mentored blacksmith/carpenter
 
Self taught poisoner
 
Dharok Education
 
Dwarven military academy

Employment

Smithy Apprentice
 
Dwarven Army, Lieutenant, 103rd Ranger Corps
 
Self Employed Fur Trapper
 
Luminaries

Failures & Embarrassments

Avgift regrets her actions during her time in the war.

Intellectual Characteristics

Avgift is a inherently selfish person who will focus on her own survival above all others. She first seeks a way out instead of a way through.

Morality & Philosophy

Surviving is all you have to do. It doesn’t matter how but if you do you can still win at life.

person.sexuality

Straight

person.gender_identity

Female

Taboos

Is ok with using poison and indiscriminate destruction of population centers (if they are Orcs).

Known Languages

Dwarvish, Gnomish, Common

Personality

Motivation

Finding comradeship
 
Enjoy Life
 
Develop more dangerous weapons (for survival)
 
Become a better person

Quotes & Catchphrases

"Well shit. Time to run."

Hygiene

Very peculiar dwarf in the sense that she shaves often and refuses to grow out a beard.

Social

Honorary & Occupational Titles

Dragon Slayer, Weathered Tempest

Family Ties

Her family is dead and her clan tolerates her but she is not wanted.

Religious Views

Avgift has distanced herself from religion after her departure from the Dwarven kingdom. She shows no signs in intending to join one.

Mannerisms

Avgift presents herself as a happy go lucky person. She regularly teases others and is straight froward with her honesty.

Hobbies & Pets

Avgift enjoys woodworking and making sculptures.
 
She collects souvenirs from each mission.