Here is a brief backstory for Lord Fenrir for you all to read to better understand the evil wolf warlord. And for you aspiring GM's of SotDL, there is also Fenrir's "game statistics"
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The Dog Lord Fenrir was not always a servant of the darkness. Prior to the rise of the nameless Wolf King in Dar-Koldor, Fenrir was a young lord ruling over the Tar-Koldorian outpost of Apupa, a fertile realm between the enemy territories of Dar-Koldor and Pupiokoli. Indeed, Fenrir was one of the captains of the Free Canids who was summoned to the council for the forging of the Swords of Power, however he did not arrive to the council in time, due to bands of soldiers attacking as he rode through Pupiokoli, his place on the council taken by a mysterious robed wolf. This robed wolf later revealed himself to Fenrir as none other than the Wolf King himself, and offered to Fenrir a Sword of Power of his very own in exchange for his servitude to the dark creature. Blinded by greed and a hidden lust for power, Fenrir agreed, and was given a Sword of Fire, imbued with both the natural element of fire and the Wolf King's own evil sorcery.
Like a gale, Fenrir rode back to Apupa with his prize on the wings of a shadow. The young wolf was met by an army from Dar-Koldor, who began laying waste to the land and the Tar-Koldor garrison stationed in Apupa as Fenrir took his castle. There he was confronted by his mate, Lupine, who begged Fenrir to return to the light. Enraged at this display of weakness in the presence of abject power, Fenrir drew forth his flaming sword and plunged it into his young mate, killing both her and the unborn pup she carried. With this act of supreme evil, Fenrir fell further to darkness, so deep that he could never escape again.
Fenrir's haste was his ultimate downfall, for several soldiers from Tar-Koldor fled back to the Sapphire City and immediately informed Lord Lupin II of Fenrir's treason. Lupin made haste and mobilised the royal army of Tar-Koldor for war, but they were hard pressed by the rabble hordes of Apupa, the barbarian hordes of the Fox Empire, the jackal armies of Pupiokoli, and the wolf legions of the Wolf King's in Dar-Koldor. Fenrir's power grew swiftly, and soon his greed and corruption became so much that he rivalled his dark master as a sorcerer and a warlord. From the furnaces of Apupa marched vast hordes of wolfish soldiers, sweeping into Tar-Koldor and assailing the Empire. To the Coyote Islands, black-sailed dromonds make their way to the island chain and raze the outlying villages to the ground, but the main island they cannot take. The jackal hordes and the fox tribes assail the Doggior, and black-robed cavalry sweep into Dar-Koldor and harass the Rebellion.
Calamity strike the Free Canids again and again. In the East, the Wolf King, in a rare instance where he himself takes he field of battle, slays both Ragnar and Vulpine, the captains of the Rebellion. Agents of the Secret Police assassinate many of their other captains in numerous battles. The coyote Lord of the South whose name is forgotten was slain at sea during one of the many attacks on the Islands by Fenrir's fleets. The Wolf Lord Lupin II disappeared on the battlefield, along with his army and his legendary weapon and was never seen since. Victory it seemed was in the paws of Fenrir the Great...
Yet with this string of defeats, the Free Canids banded together and formed council. Command of the legions was passed to the last captain present at the Council of the Swords of Power, the dog chieftain Sirius. Under the dog captain's leadership, the armies of Tar-Koldor, the Doggior, the Rebellion of Dar-Koldor, and the fleets of the Coyote Islands assailed the forces of Fenrir with such force that they were driven back into Apupa and forced back to the bastion of Castle Wolfarhaz itself, the very fortress of Fenrir himself. It was in this last hour that Fenrir himself was forced to take the field and before him none could withstand. It was then he came to the dog captain Sirius, and the dog stood strong in the face of this dark terror. With each clash of their blades, fire seared from the swords and lightning danced at their paws. It was then that Fenrir made a hasty stroke, and under the astray blow, Sirius ducked and drove his keen blade deep into the chest of the Dog Lord, and the mighty shadow exhaled his final breath and fell, his iron crown breaking beneath him. And thus the First War of the Dog Lord was ended and the Wolf Lands earned its peace from the tyranny of the Dog Lord Fenrir...
In the intervening years however, evil was not wholly begone from the lands, for the Wolf King still held an iron paw over the Eastern Kingdoms of Dar-Koldor, and the Rebellion still fought against him. In Apupa however, there gathered a great number of sorcerers, agents of the Wolf King's Secret Police, in the ruins of Castle Wolfarhaz, and they brought back the body of Fenrir and began performing dark rituals. It was over a century that these rituals went on, and then, at the end of a hundred years of peace, the Mountain of Wolfarhaz burst in a cataclysm of fire and smoke and the sorcerers were struck dead as if by a thunderbolt and from his black throne rose the Dog Lord Fenrir, alive once again to wreak death and despair on the Wolf Lands.
With the resurrection of Lord Fenrir, the fox tribes of the North and the jackal legions of Pupiokoli began to mobilise again, and to him he bred his own army at lightning speed and the power of Apupa grew to rival its old strength in naught but weeks. His armies razed and sacked where they marched, but within a few months, a dog ranger captain of noble blood named Max had risen in the Doggior, and Fenrir began having nightmares of this dog's power, for Max was the great-grandson of Sirius, the dog who slew Fenrir in the First War of the Dog Lord. With each victory against Fenrir's armies, Max's fame grew, and with each victory he drew closer and closer to Apupa until he came to the very gates of Castle Wolfarhaz, even as his great-grand-sire did a century before. Great battle was made, and amid the mayhem, Max confronted Fenrir and made to fight him. But the Dog Lord fled in his infinite cowardice, and flew East like a gale, leaving his armies in Apupa to ruin, and thus the power of Apupa was broken forever more.
But in this victory, darkness loomed, for even as Fenrir arrived at Castle Dar-Koldor, the Wolf King himself was slain on the field of battle by the rebel captain Bowser, who bore Ragnar's Sword of Power. With the Wolf King's death, Fenrir took control of the throne of Dar-Koldor, wresting it from its rightful heir, the wizard Lucien. Under Fenrir's rule, the armies of Dar-Koldor tightened their powerful grip on the already oppressed villages of Dar-Koldor, forcing Bowser to forgo his war of secrecy and engaged Fenrir in open war. A great many battles were fought, during which the Rebellion maintained their control over North Dar-Koldor, the greatest victory coming with the destruction of the Last Bridge over the River Karlen, stopping the advancing darkness in its tracks. It was then that Fenrir commanded a vast horde from Pupiokoli to assail the Great Wall of Tar-Koldor, which separates North Dar-Koldor from the former states of Apupa, and a great siege was laid against the wall. But this attack was naught bu a diversion, this vast army merely a pawn to be taken, for in the South Fenrir had assembled his host and rebuilt the Last Bridge while Bowser and his rebels marched to war, and even as victory was attained at the Great Wall, the legions of Dar-Koldor had swept into the rest of the Eastern Kingdom.
As Fenrir's forces broke down every door searching for the rebel captains, Bowser and his chieftains made their way eastward, but were finally cornered by an army led by Lucien. Bowser then retreated to the bastion of Ragnar's Keep, which no army has yet taken. Using dark sorcery, Lucien's sorcerers entered the stronghold and managed to get soldiers into the keep and thus the Battle for Ragnar's Keep was begun. During the end of the battle, Lucien slew his nephew Bowser, and as morning came Fenrir's legions appeared on the horizon and hope vanished like smoke in the wind. But then hope was born again, for Lucien believed his force superior to Fenrir's and assailed the Dog Lord's armies, and in their fury the armies defeated one another leaving a few hundred per side when the Rebellion sallied forth from the stronghold and routed them. It was before the stronghold that Lucien stood before Fenrir and they had a mighty duel of sorcery, and at the height of battle Lucien gloated at his supposed power, but was unaware of the curse that Fenrir sent his way which hit him square in the chest and thus ended his life. However with his army all but defeated, Fenrir fled back to Castle Dar-Koldor with Max and his army in pursuit.
When Fenrir arrived at his great bastion, he gazed in horror, for fluttering in the breeze above his battlements was not the banners of Fenrir, but the banners of the Dar-Koldor Rebellion, for during the Battle of Ragnar's Keep, the untold numbers of slaves under Lucien's control were freed by undercover rebel operatives, and among them was the lost brother of Bowser, Reuben, now the chieftain of the Rebellion. Caught in a trap between the armies of Max and Reuben, Fenrir fled south, for to Ragnar's Keep only a finger of his black paw had been stretched, and he boarded his flagship and sailed to a massive fleet of many thousands of dromonds and made sail West to assail the Coyote Islands.
Within a week the borders of the Coyote Islands were ablaze in the fires of war. Fenrir's dromonds assailing the swift junk warships of the coyotes, but Fenrir's forces could not penetrate the battlements that protected the main island. It was after many days and nights of endless siege that during the night Fenrir was visited by the sepulchral visage of Tellria, the Moon Goddess herself. She warned the Dog Lord that his grasp on life was coming to a close and that the dog Max would cause his death. Terrified by this warning, Fenrir commanded his fleet to retreat, and they sailed further West to the the opening of the River Kordon, and the black fleet sailed with all haste northwards, and at river's end the army disembarked and assailed a lone fortress at the edge of the Ebony Mountains and they took control of it. And then the final stroke was made against the Sapphire City, where the last captains of the Free Canids had gathered to repel the darkness of Fenrir, led by Max of the Doggior and his dog soldiers bolstering the garrison of the Wolf Empire. The ensuing battle nearly defeated the Free canids, but when the sun rose, Reuben and his rebels charged in from the East and an army of fresh soldiers marched from Wolfhelm City in the West to bolster the forces of the Sapphire City. Dismayed by this sudden turn of the tide, Fenrir's army retreated back to their bastion in the Ebony Mountains, where they were greeted by the turncoat Loki who brought news of an army of coyotes marching north towards the fortress. Beset on both ends and fearing her death, Loki confessed her love for Fenrir, which was met with Fenrir's sword as Max charged towards the Dog Lord in a blind rage, and thus died the traitor Loki.
Fenrir fled to the very top of the tower, where lighting cracked and thunder clapped and he was confronted by Max. Cornered with nowhere to retreat, Fenrir fought Max with bestial ferocity, and, ducking under a weary stroke from the dog, drove his blade through Max's chest. As the dog slumped to the floor of the tower, Fenrir swept to the edge of the parapet and began gloating over his victory. But the Moon Goddess Tellria had kept to her warning, and she laid her paw on the dog and his wound healed and life was breathed back into him. And thus Max stood up and strode to the distracted Fenrir and drove his blade into the Dog Lord's back and Fenrir exhaled his last breath and fell from the lightning struck tower and perished, forever bound to the prisons of Xenocron, never to return to his world again.
For obvious reasons, there are no in game statistics for Lord Fenrir. He is a foe with whom even the mightiest of heroes can withstand. If they fight him directly, they have lost; either he will sweep them aside with sword or sorcery or lay bear their minds and do whatsoever he wishes to them and there is nothing they can do to stop him. Because Fenrir is immortal to all but the paw of Max, player character cannot do lasting damage to the Dog Lord; no matter how much damage he sustains he will flee and recover within days or less.
If the Narrator deems fit, she may allow players to fight Lord Fenrir in the climax of a great battle in a fair fight and create circumstances in which Fenrir would be forced to flee after a brief fight. In such case, the Narrator should create statistics for him how she sees fit, however Fenrir would probably belong to both the Shaman and the Noble class. In any case, she should treat him as having a Bearing score of 16 (+5 modifier), being trained and focused in Armed Combat: Blades, Intimidate, Ranged Combat: Spells, Siegecraft, and Spellcraft among other skills. The Narrator should take it upon herself to create the remaining statistics for him from there, probably around 40 advancements or more.
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The Dog Lord Fenrir was not always a servant of the darkness. Prior to the rise of the nameless Wolf King in Dar-Koldor, Fenrir was a young lord ruling over the Tar-Koldorian outpost of Apupa, a fertile realm between the enemy territories of Dar-Koldor and Pupiokoli. Indeed, Fenrir was one of the captains of the Free Canids who was summoned to the council for the forging of the Swords of Power, however he did not arrive to the council in time, due to bands of soldiers attacking as he rode through Pupiokoli, his place on the council taken by a mysterious robed wolf. This robed wolf later revealed himself to Fenrir as none other than the Wolf King himself, and offered to Fenrir a Sword of Power of his very own in exchange for his servitude to the dark creature. Blinded by greed and a hidden lust for power, Fenrir agreed, and was given a Sword of Fire, imbued with both the natural element of fire and the Wolf King's own evil sorcery.
Like a gale, Fenrir rode back to Apupa with his prize on the wings of a shadow. The young wolf was met by an army from Dar-Koldor, who began laying waste to the land and the Tar-Koldor garrison stationed in Apupa as Fenrir took his castle. There he was confronted by his mate, Lupine, who begged Fenrir to return to the light. Enraged at this display of weakness in the presence of abject power, Fenrir drew forth his flaming sword and plunged it into his young mate, killing both her and the unborn pup she carried. With this act of supreme evil, Fenrir fell further to darkness, so deep that he could never escape again.
Fenrir's haste was his ultimate downfall, for several soldiers from Tar-Koldor fled back to the Sapphire City and immediately informed Lord Lupin II of Fenrir's treason. Lupin made haste and mobilised the royal army of Tar-Koldor for war, but they were hard pressed by the rabble hordes of Apupa, the barbarian hordes of the Fox Empire, the jackal armies of Pupiokoli, and the wolf legions of the Wolf King's in Dar-Koldor. Fenrir's power grew swiftly, and soon his greed and corruption became so much that he rivalled his dark master as a sorcerer and a warlord. From the furnaces of Apupa marched vast hordes of wolfish soldiers, sweeping into Tar-Koldor and assailing the Empire. To the Coyote Islands, black-sailed dromonds make their way to the island chain and raze the outlying villages to the ground, but the main island they cannot take. The jackal hordes and the fox tribes assail the Doggior, and black-robed cavalry sweep into Dar-Koldor and harass the Rebellion.
Calamity strike the Free Canids again and again. In the East, the Wolf King, in a rare instance where he himself takes he field of battle, slays both Ragnar and Vulpine, the captains of the Rebellion. Agents of the Secret Police assassinate many of their other captains in numerous battles. The coyote Lord of the South whose name is forgotten was slain at sea during one of the many attacks on the Islands by Fenrir's fleets. The Wolf Lord Lupin II disappeared on the battlefield, along with his army and his legendary weapon and was never seen since. Victory it seemed was in the paws of Fenrir the Great...
Yet with this string of defeats, the Free Canids banded together and formed council. Command of the legions was passed to the last captain present at the Council of the Swords of Power, the dog chieftain Sirius. Under the dog captain's leadership, the armies of Tar-Koldor, the Doggior, the Rebellion of Dar-Koldor, and the fleets of the Coyote Islands assailed the forces of Fenrir with such force that they were driven back into Apupa and forced back to the bastion of Castle Wolfarhaz itself, the very fortress of Fenrir himself. It was in this last hour that Fenrir himself was forced to take the field and before him none could withstand. It was then he came to the dog captain Sirius, and the dog stood strong in the face of this dark terror. With each clash of their blades, fire seared from the swords and lightning danced at their paws. It was then that Fenrir made a hasty stroke, and under the astray blow, Sirius ducked and drove his keen blade deep into the chest of the Dog Lord, and the mighty shadow exhaled his final breath and fell, his iron crown breaking beneath him. And thus the First War of the Dog Lord was ended and the Wolf Lands earned its peace from the tyranny of the Dog Lord Fenrir...
In the intervening years however, evil was not wholly begone from the lands, for the Wolf King still held an iron paw over the Eastern Kingdoms of Dar-Koldor, and the Rebellion still fought against him. In Apupa however, there gathered a great number of sorcerers, agents of the Wolf King's Secret Police, in the ruins of Castle Wolfarhaz, and they brought back the body of Fenrir and began performing dark rituals. It was over a century that these rituals went on, and then, at the end of a hundred years of peace, the Mountain of Wolfarhaz burst in a cataclysm of fire and smoke and the sorcerers were struck dead as if by a thunderbolt and from his black throne rose the Dog Lord Fenrir, alive once again to wreak death and despair on the Wolf Lands.
With the resurrection of Lord Fenrir, the fox tribes of the North and the jackal legions of Pupiokoli began to mobilise again, and to him he bred his own army at lightning speed and the power of Apupa grew to rival its old strength in naught but weeks. His armies razed and sacked where they marched, but within a few months, a dog ranger captain of noble blood named Max had risen in the Doggior, and Fenrir began having nightmares of this dog's power, for Max was the great-grandson of Sirius, the dog who slew Fenrir in the First War of the Dog Lord. With each victory against Fenrir's armies, Max's fame grew, and with each victory he drew closer and closer to Apupa until he came to the very gates of Castle Wolfarhaz, even as his great-grand-sire did a century before. Great battle was made, and amid the mayhem, Max confronted Fenrir and made to fight him. But the Dog Lord fled in his infinite cowardice, and flew East like a gale, leaving his armies in Apupa to ruin, and thus the power of Apupa was broken forever more.
But in this victory, darkness loomed, for even as Fenrir arrived at Castle Dar-Koldor, the Wolf King himself was slain on the field of battle by the rebel captain Bowser, who bore Ragnar's Sword of Power. With the Wolf King's death, Fenrir took control of the throne of Dar-Koldor, wresting it from its rightful heir, the wizard Lucien. Under Fenrir's rule, the armies of Dar-Koldor tightened their powerful grip on the already oppressed villages of Dar-Koldor, forcing Bowser to forgo his war of secrecy and engaged Fenrir in open war. A great many battles were fought, during which the Rebellion maintained their control over North Dar-Koldor, the greatest victory coming with the destruction of the Last Bridge over the River Karlen, stopping the advancing darkness in its tracks. It was then that Fenrir commanded a vast horde from Pupiokoli to assail the Great Wall of Tar-Koldor, which separates North Dar-Koldor from the former states of Apupa, and a great siege was laid against the wall. But this attack was naught bu a diversion, this vast army merely a pawn to be taken, for in the South Fenrir had assembled his host and rebuilt the Last Bridge while Bowser and his rebels marched to war, and even as victory was attained at the Great Wall, the legions of Dar-Koldor had swept into the rest of the Eastern Kingdom.
As Fenrir's forces broke down every door searching for the rebel captains, Bowser and his chieftains made their way eastward, but were finally cornered by an army led by Lucien. Bowser then retreated to the bastion of Ragnar's Keep, which no army has yet taken. Using dark sorcery, Lucien's sorcerers entered the stronghold and managed to get soldiers into the keep and thus the Battle for Ragnar's Keep was begun. During the end of the battle, Lucien slew his nephew Bowser, and as morning came Fenrir's legions appeared on the horizon and hope vanished like smoke in the wind. But then hope was born again, for Lucien believed his force superior to Fenrir's and assailed the Dog Lord's armies, and in their fury the armies defeated one another leaving a few hundred per side when the Rebellion sallied forth from the stronghold and routed them. It was before the stronghold that Lucien stood before Fenrir and they had a mighty duel of sorcery, and at the height of battle Lucien gloated at his supposed power, but was unaware of the curse that Fenrir sent his way which hit him square in the chest and thus ended his life. However with his army all but defeated, Fenrir fled back to Castle Dar-Koldor with Max and his army in pursuit.
When Fenrir arrived at his great bastion, he gazed in horror, for fluttering in the breeze above his battlements was not the banners of Fenrir, but the banners of the Dar-Koldor Rebellion, for during the Battle of Ragnar's Keep, the untold numbers of slaves under Lucien's control were freed by undercover rebel operatives, and among them was the lost brother of Bowser, Reuben, now the chieftain of the Rebellion. Caught in a trap between the armies of Max and Reuben, Fenrir fled south, for to Ragnar's Keep only a finger of his black paw had been stretched, and he boarded his flagship and sailed to a massive fleet of many thousands of dromonds and made sail West to assail the Coyote Islands.
Within a week the borders of the Coyote Islands were ablaze in the fires of war. Fenrir's dromonds assailing the swift junk warships of the coyotes, but Fenrir's forces could not penetrate the battlements that protected the main island. It was after many days and nights of endless siege that during the night Fenrir was visited by the sepulchral visage of Tellria, the Moon Goddess herself. She warned the Dog Lord that his grasp on life was coming to a close and that the dog Max would cause his death. Terrified by this warning, Fenrir commanded his fleet to retreat, and they sailed further West to the the opening of the River Kordon, and the black fleet sailed with all haste northwards, and at river's end the army disembarked and assailed a lone fortress at the edge of the Ebony Mountains and they took control of it. And then the final stroke was made against the Sapphire City, where the last captains of the Free Canids had gathered to repel the darkness of Fenrir, led by Max of the Doggior and his dog soldiers bolstering the garrison of the Wolf Empire. The ensuing battle nearly defeated the Free canids, but when the sun rose, Reuben and his rebels charged in from the East and an army of fresh soldiers marched from Wolfhelm City in the West to bolster the forces of the Sapphire City. Dismayed by this sudden turn of the tide, Fenrir's army retreated back to their bastion in the Ebony Mountains, where they were greeted by the turncoat Loki who brought news of an army of coyotes marching north towards the fortress. Beset on both ends and fearing her death, Loki confessed her love for Fenrir, which was met with Fenrir's sword as Max charged towards the Dog Lord in a blind rage, and thus died the traitor Loki.
Fenrir fled to the very top of the tower, where lighting cracked and thunder clapped and he was confronted by Max. Cornered with nowhere to retreat, Fenrir fought Max with bestial ferocity, and, ducking under a weary stroke from the dog, drove his blade through Max's chest. As the dog slumped to the floor of the tower, Fenrir swept to the edge of the parapet and began gloating over his victory. But the Moon Goddess Tellria had kept to her warning, and she laid her paw on the dog and his wound healed and life was breathed back into him. And thus Max stood up and strode to the distracted Fenrir and drove his blade into the Dog Lord's back and Fenrir exhaled his last breath and fell from the lightning struck tower and perished, forever bound to the prisons of Xenocron, never to return to his world again.
For obvious reasons, there are no in game statistics for Lord Fenrir. He is a foe with whom even the mightiest of heroes can withstand. If they fight him directly, they have lost; either he will sweep them aside with sword or sorcery or lay bear their minds and do whatsoever he wishes to them and there is nothing they can do to stop him. Because Fenrir is immortal to all but the paw of Max, player character cannot do lasting damage to the Dog Lord; no matter how much damage he sustains he will flee and recover within days or less.
If the Narrator deems fit, she may allow players to fight Lord Fenrir in the climax of a great battle in a fair fight and create circumstances in which Fenrir would be forced to flee after a brief fight. In such case, the Narrator should create statistics for him how she sees fit, however Fenrir would probably belong to both the Shaman and the Noble class. In any case, she should treat him as having a Bearing score of 16 (+5 modifier), being trained and focused in Armed Combat: Blades, Intimidate, Ranged Combat: Spells, Siegecraft, and Spellcraft among other skills. The Narrator should take it upon herself to create the remaining statistics for him from there, probably around 40 advancements or more.
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