Icemark clan legend holds that the blood of frost giants flows in the veins of their people. Few question this claim because the Icemark clan has, generation after generation, produced many great warriors, sorcerers, and seafarers.
Hjálmgerðr Svensdottir was a beautiful maiden of the Icemark clan blessed with exceptional strength. She was always taller, stronger, and faster than all the boys her age. With her physical prowess and her pale skin & hair, everyone in her village trusted that the frost giant blood had manifested itself once again. That may be true, but Hjálmgerðr also always felt the presence of something else that, at times, seemed to guide her.
As Hjálmgerðr grew into young adulthood she trained to be a warrior just as the men of her clan and indeed she would have been better than all of them but by then she began to show signs of magic ability. Eventually Hjálmgerðr came to accept that she had been chosen to follow a different path.
When Hjálmgerðr at last came of age, she took the Icemark clan name as her last name and declared herself an representative of Kord, the god of strength. Not knowing what else to do with her, the clan decided to make use of Hjálmgerðr's natural charm and ability with people sent her to establish trade and relations with different lands.
One such mission sent Hjálmgerðr far away to a place known as the Isle of Dread to make contact with the Olman primitives there. She and a handful of her brave clansmen took a smallish longboat an a treacherous voyage. The explorers had almost completed the journey when a horrid storm struck and capsized their small vessel. Only Hjálmgerðr's skill with magic saved her. She washed up on the shore of a new colony, Far Shore.
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XP Award: 50
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My next character is an Icemark!
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