Thormund the Bold

Thormund the Bold was the progenitor of House Thormund, and was considered to be the fiercest of the old Storm King warriors of the ancient Thunderlands. He was an enormous man, big as an Orc, with the strength of an Oxen and the appetite of a dozen men; popular children's stories in the West tell of how he could clear off entire banquet tables in one sitting, eat an entire roast boar by himself, and wash it down with three whole casks of black Wyvern-mead, all before going immediately into strenuous physical combat as if he'd merely downed a light snack. He had a booming voice and a laugh that sounded like an avalanche. His jolly nature contrasted sharply with his conduct in battle, where he was a brutal and unrepentant killer, a terror to the native Thunderlands people and the indigenous Dwarves of the Thunderclap Mountains. Legend says that Thormund drove a bevy of monsters and demons from the mountains, for which he was granted dominion over them as a King in his own right. 
Thormund was noted for riding the Unicorn, Flemibrax, in his mountainside battles. He did not wield a Starforge Sword as many of his fellow kings did, but rather a great warhammer that took the strength of ten ordrinary men to lift--whereas Thormund wielded it in one hand. He lived for many centuries and by the time of the First great Demon War he was old and grey but still fighting-fit. He had many wives, several of them she-dwarves, and was said to have nearly a hundred sons who were just as doughty as their father. His most trusted advisor was the sorcerer Balthazar, and his nemesis was the sly King of the Shadowwood, with whom his descendants would be in a feud with for centuries to follow. The source of the feud between Houses Thormund and Rookwood is so ancient that it is said that even the houses' progenitors did not fully understand why they hated each other, and yet hate each other they did. In their writing on anicent Storm King history, the Monarch suggested that Balthazar may have played the two families against each other for his own advantage.
Thormund lived to see the First Great Demon War break out. He was enraged to discover that Balthazar had drawn the Demons from the Void and rushed to confront his old ally. The two fought a devastating wizard's duel over the active volcano Mt Endeavour, which bathed the sky red for miles around and made the earth shake--it was said even the great wyrm Vermithrax feared to stray near the battle. In the end, Balthazar's demon-amplified power was too great, and he struck Thormund down into the lava, killing the greatest living Western warrior and clearing his path to dominance. In his conquering of the West, Balthazar slew many of Thormund's most powerful and upstart descendants, leaving only those known to be foolish and cowardly and compliant; this is blamed for the oafish manner displayed by most modern members of the household.