Bhakkar Iron-Nose
Khadric Clanchief
Bhakkar got his nickname from the iron-sheath he wore directly over his nose. He claimed that wearing a more standard nose guard caused his vision to blur, something that was infinitely more dangerous in battle. After taking an Orkish club to the nose in his eightieth winter, however, he conceded that some sort of protection was warranted and requested the construction of a metal guard that sat directly over the nose, connected only by a thin strip of leather. How much protection this offered was, of course, a matter of debate. Fortunately, Bhakkar, like most members of the Kharlbhak was hard headed and the occasionally blow to face never seemed to slow him down.
It was this same hard headedness that lead him to push his mining team to depths never before attempted in the southern mine of Torgar. Long past his days as a warrior, Bhakkar had traveled to Torgar in his second career as a mining engineer where, leveraging both grit and precise mathematics, his team found veins of a new, midnight black ore deep below the Rheuthengage Mountains. By Adamantine. Bhakkar named Adamantine - meaning "metal of the deep hearted" in Khadric - after its amazing qualities of strength and durability.
It was this discovery that lead his election as clan chief two winters later. His rule, however, became marked with tragedy when over 500 hundred Khadra died in a mysterious cave in deep beneath Torgar. Bhakkar, of course, sent more miners to help dig out the cave in and look for survivors. These miners, however, quickly found themselves under attack by strange, shadowy creatures from the depths. More reinforcements were sent but it quickly became apparent that the Khadra had nothing that could defeat the shadowy creatures. Within three winters, after the deaths of nearly three thousand Khadra, Bhakkar was forced to seal the mine forever.
Iron-nose continued on as clan-chief but he was clearly broken, spending the last decade of his life deep in his cups, blaming himself for the horror he unleashed on the Khadra.
Species
Children
Sex
Male
Belief/Deity
Kharl
Eighteenth to Sixteenth Century, BC
Resided In
New Kharolin