Hi Ed. I have always liked the strongman archetype. Who would you account to be the Madeiron Sunderstone or Haldyn Stormkin types in the 1490’s era of the Realms? Thanks so much! 1)
In the 1490s era Sword Coast lands, there’s…
1. A 7-foot-tall, broad-shouldered, terrifically strong man known as Dunthur, in Scornubel, who makes a living lifting (sometimes loaded) wagons so axles and wheels can be replaced/repaired, lifting bulk cargoes onto..#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 27, 2020
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…storage racks, and lofting stones, timbers, and other building materials to upper levels of buildings being constructed or repaired. Bald-headed (he shaves it), brown-skinned, and brown-eyed. Deep gravelly voice, kindly, doesn’t say much, has six girlfriends… 3)
…who like each other and like to hang out with him together. He has a prodigious capacity for strong drink (can drink many dwarves under the table without apparent drunken effects), and seems to be more resistant to poisons and drugs than most folk, too.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 27, 2020
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2. A 6-and-a-half-foot-tall, VERY broad-shouldered (has to turn sideways to step through most doorways), bulgingly-muscled woman in Athkatla named Thaeria Turnfeather, who “just grew” (odd genetics; she towers over her parents and siblings). She’s very strong, … 5)
…and became a personal bodyguard for hire (to a succession of various wealthy merchants whom she’s outlived) after the tale got around the city of her pursuing someone who’d attacked a friend, having them flee through a stout wooden door and slamming and…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 27, 2020
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…locking it in her face—and she simply punched out its panels in mere moments, shot its inside bolt open, and gave chase. Unmarried, and seemingly a contented loner, whose off-duty entertainment is hearing tales of adventure and merchant swindles in taverns. 7)
3. A 6-and-a-half-foot-tall, thin, but astonishingly-strong Shou named Hulurmun Ravraun, of Waterdeep, who came to the city in the mid-1480s as a sailor, but remained to make a living as a cargo loader, dockside and in the warehouses of Dock Ward and South Ward.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 27, 2020
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Notorious in Dock Ward for picking up and hurling a wagon into the harbor, cargo and handlers and all—but wrenching apart harness first, so the oxen pulling it didn’t make the wet trip—after a wagon merchant he was having a dispute with tried to run him over… 9)
…with said wagon.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 27, 2020