Takrend Brooks

Takrend is a player character in the Western Isles, a human totem warrior barbarian.

Physical Description
Takrend has brown hair and eyes and his skin is lightly tanned from his time as a sailor. He wears his hair in a mohawk with hair pulled back in a knot with the sides of his head shaved. Takrend is rather short, standing at just 5'4" tall. Despite his stature, he is still large in that his build is very muscular and he has broad shoulders.

Takrend prefers to wear simple, practical outfits. Typically, this consists of a loose shirt, trousers, work boots and a wool coat--boring, but warm--of a length just below his waist. Takrend carries his wooden scutum shield on his back when not engaged in combat.

Scars

 * Long slash marks along his upper body
 * One large scar from an axe blade on his chest
 * Acid scars along his chest
 * More slashes through his throat
 * One stab through his collarbone
 * 3 separate slashes down his chest, all of which are charred
 * One large, burnt puncture in his chest

Shared Rumors

 * Takrend had heard stories of a legendary prophecy, one about heroes, gods, and ancient powers, one only a mortal could fulfill. He isn't sure how to start the process, but the prophecy states that it began "where the world split in two."
 * There were some sailors that swore the ship would be sunk if they traveled to the Isles. They claimed there was a powerful mage on an island on the eastern side that could change the weather in an instant and summon terrible storms to sink any ship that tried to land.
 * Takrend had heard tales of a large black dog who would appear at campsites at night. The tales would claim that only those with evil in their hearts could befriend the dog and follow it to ancient places, but those with good would forever be enemies with it.
 * One of the legends Takrend was most interested in was of a mythic shield, forged with the power of a dying god. The legends disagreed on what the shield could do, claiming it made you invincible or that it could devour magic or a myriad of other things, but they all agreed on one detail: it was made "in the mirror."
 * Some soldiers in the tavern talked about ancient ruins in the west, hidden in the mountains, made by giants. Naturally, they would contain priceless treasure, but were likely heavily guarded, presumably by the giants themselves.

Notable Items

 * Flamebound Gauntlets. Magical gauntlets obtained from the duergar fire elemental in the tower north of the swamp in Fjaranno.

Backstory
Takrend is from the port city of Traben, which he left to join the crew of the Emilia until it met an unfortunate fate off the coast of the Western Isles.

Relationships
stub: notable relationships with people in backstory or in WI