On Einar’s Death

Einar was a Thulander, a devotee of the True Faith and a man who adventured because he hoped to build a church. 

He was a good man, prone to berserk rages in battle but sound of reason, conciliatory even, when at peace. 

He fell beneath a hail of arrows, axe in hand, far from home. 

He stormed the barbican of a petty Emphidian lord, on a tiny island, to free the small folk of his tyranny. And to take revenge. 

However the reasons for Einar’s death can be traced all the way back to Ellesland, many game and actual years prior, when he was tricked by a fairy maid and fell into a river. 

 

In water deep and cold he risked drowning beneath the weight of his own mail; so he shed it like a wyrm slithering anew from old skin. 

But alas he never replaced the armour, he was too busy, too caught up in events to source new iron. 

So when the arrows fell during his heroic charge, the unforgiving Dragon Warriors missile fire rules meant he had little protection from his enemies, and he was slain.