Pebble (Gabe)

Female half-orc warrior, disciple of the Charred Bow, dispatched by the Unborn to kill the Spawn Eater. (Feel free to add more: personality, skills, theme song.)

Personality

Pebble is kind but not very outgoing, she is slow to make friends, but when she does, she is fiercely loyal. She is relatively new to the world of men and finds it both odd and intriguing. She is inquisitive, intelligent, and quick to anger. She has a natural and warranted distrust of elves and dwarves and prefers to travel alone and unencumbered.

Skills

Pebble is a tough and determined outdoorsman. The grueling winters of the north mountains honed her survival instincts to a sharp point. She cannot swim and has a natural fear of water, preferring ice and snow. Maps confuse her and she prefers to orient herself by the stars. 

Theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAD2E-8XvoE

Goals

Destroy the Spawn Eater

Find my mother

Ideals

Loyalty is paramount to Pebble, she abhors betrayal and cowardice. She will keep her promises and exact vengeance upon those that break their oaths to her or to others. 

History

Childhood

Pebble was born to an orc father and a human mother high in the Dragonmounts. She was raised in her father’s tribe, a distant cousin of the Greenskins that inhabit the Valdres. Her mother left the family and the tribe before Pebble’s sixth birthday, abandoning her daughter to a brutal life of near starvation and frostbite, and fleeing to the warm, comfortable lands of man that lay at the feet of the Dragonmounts —at least, that’s how Pebble sees it. While her father still breathed, he would tell the young girl stories of her mother’s adventures down in the land below, fighting dragons and mighty warriors, laying waste to whole armies in order to return to Pebble. As she grew, these stories rang more and more hollow. The hope which she once felt that her mother would return to her turned to a bitter, corrosive resentment. This resentment boiled within her, fueling her rage as the violent life her mother had abandoned her to scarred Pebble’s body and wore down her soul. 

Half-Birth

Pebble's father was fatally injured in a hunt by a marauding mastodon when Pebble was twelve. The beast flensed his body, pulverizing his bones and stripping the flesh from his back with its mighty tusks before escaping the hunting party into the deathly embrace of a blizzard. Pebble’s father lay before her, pathetic and broken, gasping his last. She took his life, as is the custom of their people, and left him in a high place, that he might join with the sky. With her mother gone and her father dead, young Pebble was then called Half-Born, not quite fully Unborn, yet not a full child in the proper orc sense. 

Tutelage

After her Half-Birth, Pebble was invited to begin training with the Unborn. In the eternal night of the winter months, they set about training her in their ancient ways. She was shown how to withstand the biting cold, orient by sense of smell, and wield a bow to deadly effect. Under their guidance, she began to hone her instincts, learning to channel the rage and betrayal held for her mother into a focused, meditative fury. Under the guidance of the Unborn, Pebble became a phantom of death, an unseen, unceasing hunter of the wicked and vile. Her quest to slay the Spawn Eater is her first real Unborn task and is proving to be a true test of her mettle.

Contacts

Mother: human female, possibly warrior, name unknown. Tall with long, curly red hair, like Pebble’s. 

Unborn

the Unborn are a selective cabal of elite warriors. They are all orphans, each by their own hand. In their society, the future must always eclipse the past, either destroying it or learning from it as it does. The Unborn perform vital ritual hunts for the tribe, bringing down towering mammoths that will sustain and clothe their people through the dire winter months. In spring, their sights turn to mortal affairs. When war is made, the Unborn act as both recon and shock troops, scouting for weeks behind enemy lines and striking with surgical precision when the enemy is most vulnerable. When occasion demands it, Unborn will be dispatched to hunt down particularly dangerous or blasphemous foes, those individuals who’s very existence threatens the tribe’s future and way of life. 

-Jor: orc male, Unborn, tall and broad, his arms and back are covered in ritual scarification. Jor tutored Pebble in the ways of the bow and the hunt, he is gruff and judgemental, speaking to Pebble as a parent lectures a child. He is proud of her and what she has accomplished but will not admit this fact. Pebble knows other Unborn, but is on best terms with Jor. He was a good friend of her father and her primary mentor, vouching for her induction into the Unborn.