Saurga

A human fighter ready to play in the Broken Empire setting. “Swords & Sorceries” adventures can be played in any setting or with any 5E characters.

Named Rinshana (“Running Rooster”), you were a heedless boy from a village in the Valkani forest-tribes north of the Broken Empire. Tall and strong, you were good for hauling lumber but not patient enough for a farmer. Still, you found a good wife and were happy. Then a rival tribe declared war. Your clan had no idea of it until a war-band led by a frightened boy, a king’s son, descended upon you. Under the boy’s quavering, unhappy commands, the warriors massacred your people.

You survived, there being some good to size and strength after all. Your wife and baby did not.

You pursued the raiders. You murdered two unwary guards and killed the boy chief, both of you weeping. Then you wandered off, heedless.

You moved with little purpose from tribe to tribe as a mercenary. You abandoned your name, and adopted the first that a friendly chief gave you: Saurga Sairautean, “Mourning a Painful Loss.” You learned to fight. You learned the limits to what cruelty you could tolerate.

Coming south, you met and befriended Aimina, a fellow exile. You defiantly admit loyalty to nothing and no one—but you are privately, quietly, unshakably loyal to the Sunlands priestess. Whether your feelings for her are brotherly or romantic is up to you, but she is the first thing you’ve learned to love since your family died.

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