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Sir Ruff
Sir Ruff, 1/2 Orc, Paladin Knight of the Order of King Michel, Hero of the White Retreat, Kern Valley Alliance
Ruff was 1 of many bastard sons found in the camps of the Goblin King back in the old valley. He grew up with a number of other half orcs that he called brothers, (although who knows the true heritage of most) in particular Riff. Ruff and Riff spent a lot of their childhood days locked in a cupboard for not doing what they were told. As soon as they were old enough to hold weapons they were forced to fight for the Goblin King. This wasn't to their liking and very soon they ran away to the village where they were given room at the adventurers barracks. Both joined the Rangers guild and fought a number of times against the empire and the shark cult before Ruff went through the portal to Orin Rakatha, Riff deciding he didn't want to leave.
Once in Orin Rakatha Ruff joined an adventuring group, led by his mate Grendle of the grey gauntlet, and had many adventures fighting Drow, Lizard men, Ravanon and Undead. It was during these adventures that he became mates with Wilf the Hospitaler and Harry the Humacti. Before joining this group the 1/2 orcs got a lot of stick from the goblin king and Wolfhold boys and Ruff was easily convinced to join the White Retreat. Here he found not only were people nice to him but he actually got helped by the Crusaders on a number of big important missions.
Being an armoured front rank warrior Ruff made some new mates, Gellix, Alaric, Crumble, Dec, Karl and Zen to name a few. Shortly after the Taranor lost their tower Alaric was killed permanently when Ruff wasn't on the mission with him. This was a big turning point for Ruff who vowed to try and defend those who were too weak to look after themselves. Wilf being a hospitaler was the obvious choice and Ruff stayed with him whenever we left the towers.
Just before we left to fight the Ravanon down in the Icarthian triangle Ruff was given an honorary place in the Order of King Michel bequeathed to him as Alaric's last request to the Order before his own last mission. As a half orc Ruff found honour and doing the right thing very difficult but was determined to do the right thing in Alaric's memory. (also it seemed that Zen was training to become an antipaladin and Ruff felt that it would be better for the group if they had a paladin as well) He learnt all the skills that were required by the order and started to give up backstabbing and throatslitting people. During the big Ravanon adventure (Heroquest 4) Crumble the Humacti was permanently killed and while we were out fighting his body raised as an undead. Although later his spirit was laid to rest Ruff believes (but could never prove) that Lathrodec was responsible but Zen and Kalraan and the other drow stopped Ruff beating the truth out of him.
For his part fighting against the Ravanon and in particular the Knights of our Dark Lady Ruff was knighted.
Although in our final battle Ruff stood side by side with Gellix and Zen representing all 3 towers in our fight against Kleinwort Ironfist the adventuring group split on returning to our towers.
Ruff died almost permanently fighting for the KVA and ceased active adventuring after the Ravanon were defeated. After the Crumble incident and because of the drow problems he has had over the years, he doesn't believe he could uphold valley law on active missions with Wolfhold members. He now spends most of his time working with Rachek Drummond recruiting other members of the goblinoid races into the white retreat and occasionally the OKM. He often goes out on escort duty for the Order, particularly when non combatants are involved and need protecting.
During the years following the Ravanon problems both Wilf and Grendle were killed permanently in action by the shark cult and the Morgothians respectively. Ruff hasn't forgotten this and although he has personal thoughts of vengeance his training has held him in check to date. Should anyone hear of a scale rearing its ugly head again then his name will appear on any list of volunteers.
When the second crusade was announced Ruff decided to join with a number of members of the order of king michel to travel back to the old valley plane. Although he didnt get to meet his brother he did see king Michel before he stood down as our king. Ruff was pleased that he could help the kern valley again and has now returned to active duty.
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