Dorn Graybrook

Dorn Graybrook was a human half–iron golem adventurer who became involved in the events of the Rage of Dragons of Year of Rogue Dragons, 1373 DR.

Description
Dorn was a big person, but most of his left side was made up of metal plates and parts grafted on by the wizard who owned him when he was a boy, and this only contributed to his fearsome look. His iron limbs were thicker than his human ones; his metal arm had clawed talons and knuckle spikes. He had a single shock of black hair, and an iron half-mask.

Personality
Since he was nine, Dorn had come to delight in the killing of dragons. He had largely been shaped by violence, cruelty, and sorrow. He had few pleasures or enthusiasms as of, being lonely, bitter, morose and offputting, showing no soft spot and forming no attachments so that he wasn't hurt again.

Relationships
He eventually fell in love with Karasendrieth.

He prayed to Malar, the Beastlord, who was foremost in his mind.

Abilities
Unlike other half-golems, Dorn had no ability to breathe deadly gases, but he was much more limber than others, being perfectly capable of running. He was also a very keen specialist, knowing the weaknesses of dragons well enough to exploit them in a fight.

Possessions
Dorn's usual equipment included a powerful enchanted bastard sword and studded leather armor, an enchanted composite longbow, and a full complement of enchanted arrows. He also bore two arrows of superior enchantment, which were the bane of dragons. Finally, he carried a few potions of healing, and of protection against acid and fire. His metal claws also bore a powerful enchantment.

History
Dorn was born to the indentured servants of a wizard of Hillsfar. His father was a clerk, and his mother was known to have some talent at singing.

When Dorn was nine, he and his parents were part of a merchant caravan traveling in the Moonsea region as part of an errand for their master that took them outside of the city. While they were south of the Moonsea, heading for the dragonspine Mountains, the party was attacked by a red dragon, who killed everyone in it, including both his parents, and tore off his left limbs (and much of the surrounding flesh) before leaving him to die.

The wizard who owned him and his parents had known of the danger, but chose to keep himself out of danger rather than risk encountering the dragon. After it left, he teleported to the site a few moments later to retrieve Dorn, who had inherited his parents' indenturement. Upon finding Dorn, he saved his life, and created the golem parts that made up his left side to better recoup the investment. He was then sent to a school for gladiators. These parts had to be replaced multiple times as Dorn aged and outgrew them, which was an agonizing process.

Though the wizard made much money betting on Dorn's gladiatorial fights, the two never grew close, with Dorn hating the mage for not having saved his parents, for grafting him with grotesque prosthetics, and for exploiting him. Eventually, Dorn seized an opportunity to kill him, though he had grown to manhood by then. He then fled Hillsfar. Dorn quickly styled himself a dragonslayer, though his ability to slay dragons was of limited use, as he could not necessarily find them.

He eventually joined forces with Raryn Snowstealer, a dwarven ranger, after the two of them journeyed to Pilver's Creek for a bounty that Stevvin Hightower placed on a stray white dragon that was attacking people in the community. After they slew the actual monster, Stevvin betrayed and captured the pair, deciding to keep the reward for himself and turn both to the authorities: Dorn was considered a fugitive indentured servant still, and stood accused of murder. Working together, the dwarf and the half-golem managed to escape and take Stevvin hostage before fleeing by boat and deciding to travel together afterwards. .

The two of them were later joined in their band by Will Turnstone and Pavel Shemov, forming a more well-rounded team. Their party was in turn a patron of the wizards of Thentia, including Firefingers and Rilitar Shadow-water, who supported them with magic in exchange for a share of their profits.

By the Year of Rogue Dragons, 1373 DR, he was a successful hunter.

Appearances

 * Novels
 * The Year of Rogue Dragons (The Rage, The Rite, The Ruin)
 * Short Stories
 * Rivals