Adamant Ironjaw
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Adamant Ironjaw was a high-ranking member of Ygdrassil's personal guard during the late Silver Era. When The War of the Wendigoes began, he took to the task of escorting refugees to Ygdrassil's grove. Pleased with his dedication, Ygdrassil gifted Adamant with Terra, the Fragment of Earth. He soon embarked on a quest with the other five Champions of Altairus to defeat The Heart of Darkness.
He is the one on the bottom right of the article cover image (above).
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Despite appearances, Adamant is very fit and strong. Carrying around a heavy broad axe that's twice your height for two years will do that to you.
Body Features
Adamant is rather squat, like so many stoneback trolls. This does not stop him from wielding Terra, however.
Facial Features
Adamant has frizzy purple hair, steely grey eyes, and two fangs that poke out when he closes his mouth.
Like many stoneback trolls, Adamant has viral petrification. He was born with the virus and has two stone skin tags on his face from the infection.
Physical quirks
Adamant is one of the few stoneback trolls that insist on wearing shoes. Stoneback trolls generally do not need to wear shoes, as the undersides of their feet are calloused over with stone. Despite this, Adamant refuses to go barefoot when he is outside, even though it won't hurt him.
Special abilities
The patches of stone on Adamant's skin make him amazingly resilient. In addition to this, his connection with the Earth element gives him super strength.
Terra grants him additional abilities. He is able to heal others and the world around him with the Earth Fragment, and when he bashes the axe on the ground, it creates powerful earthquakes which tear fissures in the ground, trapping enemies within.
Apparel & Accessories
Adamant Ironjaw wears the uniform of Ygdrassil's guard: tree bark plate armor with a grass skirt. He also wears wooden sandals that he refuses to take off except to go to sleep.
Specialized Equipment
Adamant Ironjaw was the original wielder of Terra, the Fragment of Earth. This broad axe imbued with the energy of Earth was gifted to him by Ygdrassil.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Adamant Ironjaw was born in the Emerald Woodland, not far from Ygdrassil's grove. Before the War of the Wendigoes, he was a high-ranking member of Ygdrassil's guard. He was mainly in charge of protecting the sanctuary that was Ygdrassil's grove and escorting visitors there.
When the War began, he suddenly found himself swamped with responsibilities. Many fled to the grove for protection against the wendigoes, since Ygdrassil's Heartwood served as a powerful wendigo ward. Even so, he took great initiative to make sure that as many were rescued as possible.
In recognition of this, Ygdrassil gifted Adamant with the Earth Fragment Terra, formed from her branches and roots. She then sent him off on his quest alongside the other five Champions to defeat the Heart of Darkness.
Failures & Embarrassments
Unfortunately, not everyone who fled to the grove could be rescued in time. When Ygdrassil summoned him to give him Terra, he at first thought he was going to be chewed out for the lives that were lost.
Mental Trauma
Even before the War of the Wendigoes, Adamant had to quickly face the fact that he could not rescue every single being that came for shelter in Ygdrassil's grove. When the War began, he felt immense guilt over the numerous beings he could not save from the wendigoes.
The long journey was just as tough on Adamant as it was on the rest of the team. During their quest, the team was basically running from battle to battle with little time to rest. Add in having to traverse difficult terrain and insufficient access to food due to traveling and Altairus's broken down food supply chains, and you can see why Adamant was thoroughly exhausted by the time the heroes crossed the final hurdle. Many times he wished he were still back in the grove, escorting refugees. That wasn't as difficult as the journey he was on.
Intellectual Characteristics
Adamant is surprisingly smart. During the War, he had to make proper use both of Terra's offensive and healing powers.
Morality & Philosophy
Adamant has a very strong sense of justice and will not rest until he feels that it is served. This is the trait that allowed him to persevere on the heroes' journey when he wanted to give up.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Before the War, his sole motivation was to succeed in his task in serving Ygdrassil and protecting her grove. When she sent him off, he held onto that motivation and his sense of justice to see his quest through.
Hygiene
Being an Earth elemental and a stoneback troll, Adamant doesn't have the most meticulous hygiene, but then again, he doesn't have to. Stoneback trolls and other Earth elementals thrive from having a coat of dirt on them.
Social
Speech
His voice is somewhat rough and has an almost tenor pitch. It is very similar to that of Currypanman in the Tubi English Anpanman movie dubs.
Earth
Guardian Title
Guardian of Devotion
Adamant looks a bit like a troll doll.
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