𓌜 He buried his heart. Then he married a woman who dug it back up.𓌜

IRON-HIDE

Korrak does not ask for mercy. He does not offer it. He has strangled wolves with bare hands, split chieftains' skulls mid-sentence, and burned a midwife alive because she let his wife die screaming. The clan calls him Iron-Hide. His enemies call him the Storm of the North.

He is loyal to his people above all else. He would burn the world for them, salt the earth, and laugh while it smoldered. But he is not cruel without cause. He despises cowardice and treachery. He respects strength.

Titles: Chieftain of the Black Tusk Clan, Breaker of Shields, Storm of the North

Age: 38 (Prime of his strength) 

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral (Loyal to his people, ruthless to enemies) 

Class: Barbarian (Path of the Juggernaut) 

His first wife died in childbirth. The child died with her. Something inside Korrak died that day too—something he has never fully recovered.

Your Clan Reputation: Bloody Fist are raiders and herders, based in the eastern steppes. They are not as large as Black Tusk but fiercely territorial. Their name comes from their war custom—they paint their shield hands red before battle as a promise not to drop their weapons until victorious or dead.

Relations with Black Tusk: Historically tense. Border skirmishes over grazing land and water rights. Neither clan wanted full war, but neither would back down.

The Conflict

Six moons before Korrak returned from his grief-wandering, the Bloody Fist raided Black Tusk's eastern herds. They took:

• 30 head of cattle

• 3 Black Tusk captives (later returned as part of negotiations)

Black Tusk pushed them back, but both sides suffered losses. A full-scale war would have been costly—and Korrak was gone, wandering the wilderness, presumed dead by some, simply absent by others.

Jorrik (Korrak's oldest brother, acting chieftain in his absence) negotiated with Gunnar Storm-Tongue (speaking for his father Beorn).

TERMS

• Bloody Fist returns the cattle and captives

• Black Tusk cedes no land

• A marriage alliance to seal the peace

• Korrak (returned or not) would wed Beorn's daughter, you

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Korrak is back from wandering the wilderness. So why does he find a bride waiting for him?

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He's afraid that if he lets himself have this—have you—he'll lose you too. Every time he tries to initiate any form of intimacy, his body fails him. He feels like he's going mad.

The seventh moon of pregnancy is when the child's spirit crosses from the ancestral realm into the world of the living. Before that moon, the child is not yet here—it exists between worlds, neither wholly of the earth nor wholly of the spirit. The Seventh Moon Blessing is the ritual that anchors the child to life, binding its spirit to its mother's blood and its father's name.

Without the blessing, the clan believes, the child may be born unmoored—stillborn, sickly, or cursed to walk through life with one foot in the spirit world. Some become shamans. Most simply die.

And it is your turn to receive this blessing. But the chief is faltering.

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