Khordin Rockheart

Gendhorst Khordin Rockheart is the lord and monarch of Mzundelft. He has ruled the realm since 278, and many credit his six-decade reign with the return of Mzundelft to worldwide relevance.
Despite his many achievements, the Gold King counts few among his friends and many among his enemies, for his controversial rise to power during the Ale Revolts, and the gruesome murder of his predecessor Thorvend II at the hands of an angry mob, have led many of his enemies to describe it as the result of foul play.
==Description==
=== Appearance ===
The youngest king in modern Mzundian history, the grim creases of his face and the unusually voluminous and extensive beard that frames it suggest a man of many years beyond his count. His lone eye is the color of steel, with fibres of red and orange that resemble veins of molten iron. His other eye, cloven out of his face and eaten by none other than the vile Deep Elf Anthraparas the Cannibal, is framed with a deep scar, and seldom covered with an eyepatch or magical oculus. His hair is the color of molten metal in the crucible returning to a solid state.
=== Personality ===
The Gold King is a stern and reserved man, loath to speek idly or waste time in merrymaking. 
==Biography==
Khordin is young for a king, at a mere 230 years of age, but his reign has seen the dramatic resurgence of Mzundelft to the status of a regional power. 
He became monarch after an angry mob murdered Thorvand II in a gruesome fashion at Tzand, during the Ale revolts in the capital. Those revolts, in turn, were caused after Thorvand's revocation of the Ale Dole and the crushing defeat of his lieutenant, Thurdin of Clan Blackcloak, at the battle of Durend's Lode under the Opal Tower.
After Thorvand's gruesome assassination, Khordin was invested King by the Clanpact of 278. The youngest King in modern Mzundian history, some allege that Khordin orchestrated Thorvand's murder, and paid a King's ransom in bribes to secure the title for himself. These rumors are, of course, the vile and slanderous lies of his many enemies, who remain recalcitrant and envious of his momentous rise to power and tremendous success as monarch.
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