and happy friday! Quick Q 4 U. The Jotunslayers from spellfire card game. Is there any lore about that apart fro, them being dwarves? the card is branded with FR logo. These guys, @TheEdVerse pic.twitter.com/dCzufSwwnJ
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The Jotunslayers are an all-dwarf adventuring band who love to fight monsters; they LIKE battle-fray. And hard drinking, and telling tales in taverns of their battles, and devising new tactics for battling monsters. 2)
They’ll fight orcs and hostile humans if they must, but thirst to fight dragons and tentacled things and strange beasties of all sorts. Main weapons: axes and enthusiasm, but they all carry bags of tricks, from marbles and…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2021
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…caltrops for underfoot to acid-filled grenades and tripwires with viscid-glob end-anchor blobs, in pouches and scabbards and the like strapped to them (baldrics over leather armor, jerkins of many pockets, tools and weapons… 4)
…on thongs so they won’t be lost when dangling because something else had to be hastily grabbed instead).
The Jotunslayers are adventurers-for-hire, much in demand for “cleanse out the menaces in this area” and escort through…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2021
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…wilderlands work. They typically refuse “guard my doors” and urban bodyguard duties (“Not what we do”) and are far too busy on the surface for much Underdark work; nobles, guilds, and wealthy merchants enthusiastically hire…
…them for “make my cargo/territory/family member being shuttled from A to B, all safer” assignments.
Their name came from early days of scouring out many hill giants and surface-raiding fomorians; they have no special hatred…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2021
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…for giants, nor feuds with them.
The Jotunslayers are typically about a score strong, with about six of those being novice members on probation/training to replace dead or recuperating wounded stalwart members (often these…
…novices are younger kin of members). They are a motley of dwarves either outcast or wandering, from many clans, but were formed in Everlund in 1346 DR, by a core of four female dwarf fighters and two male dwarf clerics of…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2021
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…Marthammor Duin. Only two of those founders survive today, and they lead the Jotunslayers: the CG df 14th level fighter Shandrannon Ironshield, and the NG dm 12th level cleric of Marthammor Duin Bruckhlar “Buckhard” Deepdelve.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2021