Athrogate

Athrogate is a dwarven warrior of some reputation in the Bloodstone Lands.

Appearance
He has the stout and powerful build of a typical dwarf. He wears his black beard parted in the middle, two long braids of straight hair running down to midchest, each tied off at the end with a band set with a trio of sparkling blue gemstones. His bushy eyebrows nearly cover his brown, almost black eyes. He has large ears. .

He wears a suit of armor, part leather, part plated, and covered with a myriad of buckles and straps, his twin morningstars tied in an X at his back, their handles reaching up and wide beyond the back of his bushy hair.

He speaks the goblin tongue though heavily accented.

Weapons / Magical Items
Athrogate wears a broad belt depicted with metal lightning bolts which is rumored to be a Belt of Storm giant Strength.

He fights with twin gray Glassteel morningstars, their spiked metal heads whipping at the ends of adamantine chains. He calls them Cracker and Whacker : on command the left-hand one of them, Cracker, emits a dark reddish and chalky fluid from the small nubs on the striking ball, the ichor of a rust monster, which on contact with other metal corrodes it. The right-hand morningstar, Whacker, coats itself with a clear, blue-gray and oily liquid known as Oil of Impact. Using thus enhanced weapons with first left then right strikes, Athrogate smashes anything from a portcullis to iron golems into rustflakes.

Athrogate was also given a Figurine of Wondrous Power in the form of a red boar named Snort. The beast is from the Lower Planes and rides tirelessly into battle. It also gives off a defensive ring of fire from it's snout and body. Snort is able to keep pace with any conventional beast of burden such as a Nightmare.

History
He is a member of a group of warriors chosen by commander Ellery Dragonsbane to fight the legacy of Zhengyi, the Witch-King. Athrogate is a supreme killer, an agent of the thieves guild Tightpurse and associated with the Citadel of Assassins. Thus he is often accompanied by Canthan Doolittle, a wizard of the Citadel of Assassins.