User:Adwulf of Tun

I hope to tie this in to the wiki on the Tunlands, and to help be an advanced guide on the cultures of the Marshes of Tun in general, as my knowledge on the region stems from the old works of the "Elminster's Ecologies" series I PnP'd way back in the "still" 1900's. Had a cool and clever DM who allowed me to get creative and intricate with my player character in the mid 90's 3rd Addition DnD era, so this will be a brief on that persona and how it all developed.

Adwulf, is a red bearded, Storm Horns, Mountain Dwarf by birth, but was raised by a tribe of chaotic neutral/lawful neutral humanoids in the depths of the swampland of Tun. While he is a dwarf, he is a barbarian who knows very little about Dwarrow culture, or how to behave as a proper dwarf. His people were lizardfolk. Less wicked or xenophobic than the Serpent Hill's, or the brutish kin of the Chelimber and The Vast Swamp. They worship, Semuanya, a benevolent goddess aspect, and were tolerant in finding a young toddler starving beside his slain mothers corpse. The lads parents having been a victim of the Tun Bandits.

They hated this sect of brigands with rare passion, for they had a running conflict in their realm, from Torchtower to Swords Hollow and as far east as the swamps go from the Tun Rivers banks. Thus, pity and commonality made the chief to take the young dwarf under his arm to shelter him and see him raised a 'Fast Spear' warrior.

Thus, grew a dwarf to prominence learning the cunning of the lizardfolk hunters, and making use of clubs and the hunting spear as his primary weapons. He was taught the ways of wilderness tracking and barbarous combat practiced by his tribe, and became somewhat of a savant in knowing the Tunlands. He outlived over four generations in his rearing years; for lizardmen are not an overly long lived race of beings. But he parted the great grand son of the patron who had rescued him on honored terms, going off into the wider world to seek the race he had all but forgotten; the Dwarrow.

His adventuring in and around his surrogate homeland and on his journeys to reach the northern mountains of his birth gave him a singularly firsthand and detailed understanding of the Tunlands that few others in the realms could ever be privy to.