Iwaric Carimot

"It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill."Iwaric Carimot was a Dwarf of simple means, a cleaner by trade, tidying the homes of the nobility and more to do families. Born in the early Najam Saga in the city-state of Valar (in what is now the Weeping Spine), ruled by the cruel Fey Lord Sthanife Dhelari, who grabbed power for himself after the fall of the Star Elves, who took a new Bride ever year and killed her in a sadistic ritual to prolong his own life. He kept his subjects downtrodden and brutalized, utterly dependent on his 'favor' for survival. Unable to flee and unable to subsist without him, they allowed this to continue for centuries.
That was until Iwaric's closest friend Kelaja Javhen was selected to be the Bride, in her despair she went to Iwaric and begged for his help. Iwaric had long disparaged this tradition among friends and family, so he told Kelaja what would be done to save her.
Iwaric was slight by dwarf standards, and effeminate. Shaving his beard and donning a dress he took Kelaja's place. With him he brought quantity of fireplace ashes. Once inside the Estate he set about leaching the ashes to create lye, prior to the start of the ritual he drank the lye and held it in his mouth - burning his tongue to the point he could no longer speak after this ordeal.
The ritual began and Sthanrife bound Iwaric's hands and chanted his incantations, when Sthanife was to stab his heart to complete the sacrifice Iwaric spit the lye into Sthanrife's eyes and in the Fey's surprise and pain slipped his arms around the Fey's neck, grappling him to the ground, and choking him to death.
Iwaric went to Kelaja and together the two of them liberated the city-state; expelling or outright killing the complicit nobility. They taught themselves to read and how to run a state and ushered in an era of prosperity for Valar.
Once Valar was free and led by a chosen Council, Iwaric and Kelaja went on to other city-states and helped the oppressed rise up to free themselves from their bondage. He aided these city-states in establishing connections with each other and oversaw several civil engineering projects himself; particularly the road system in all of western Karnath, some of these roads are still in use today.
Most of his impact was of a practical nature; roads, hospitals, civil buildings. He spent very little time on the arts, viewing them as secondary. He died of old age, unmarried.
Several hundred years after his death the Iwaric Saga was named after him.
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