Tarnum

Tarnum is the main protagonist from Heroes Chronicles and a minor protagonist in the Heroes of Might and Magic IV Glory of Days Past campaign. He was a legendary Barbarian warlord and tyrant who became an immortal hero.
==Personality==
At the time of his rebellion, Tarnum was a very stubborn, proud, conceited and willful freedom fighter. He hated the wizards because his people were oppressed for so many years, they were treated cruelly and inhumanely, he wanted to destroy Bracaduuns empire with all his might. He had great patriotism, the desire for glory for the past and that his people deserved a much better future, not slavery. At the same time, in the later stages of the rebellion, he began to cross a line and his personality began to change. He became more and more selfish, arrogant, cruel and tyrannical, but at the same time he was still a sympathetic leader to most of his people. Many loved him, many hated him, and even though he became a real bloody tyrant before his death, there was some truth in his actions.
After the Ancestors denied him entry to Paradise and sent him back among mortals to perform heroic deeds, Tarnum slowly but steadily began to change. In the beginning, he thought his punishment was completely unfair, but at the same time, he learned more and more things and became more decent, although he never threw away a part of his barbaric nature. With the passage of time, seeing the continuous nightmares and the cruelty of his enemies, he realized his mistakes more and more and was tormented by great repentance, he really wanted to achieve the change. As the years passed, his personality began to change, but he kept some of his habits. Tarnum had a great sense of justice and extreme hatred of slavery. Although he himself kept slaves as a barbarian tyrant, he was not as cruel as his later enemies, but in the path of his redemption he absolutely hated doing so. In combat, he was wild, angry, loose and terrifying, but he gradually learned to fight more tactically and using other strategies. In the beginning, he hated magic as a barbarian, but after he became a wizard himself and he became a barbarian again, he realized that the means are completely unimportant and only the achievement of the goal is important.
Before the Reckoning and in Axeoth, Tarnum was given the opportunity to enter Paradise because he really managed to change, get on the right path, and completely defeat his dark side. However, he rejected it, as he partly took revenge on the Ancestors for the excessively unjust punishment, but at the same time, he never again wanted to see his people as only bloodthirsty, destructive, evil animals, but indeed capable of changing just like him. After Waerjak united the barbarian clans into a single community and country, Tarnum finally found his own peace, because he was proud of how close his relationship with the Gryphonheart family, which he hated, had become and what excellent representatives he had met, and that his people had really survived and were on the right path. After that, he became a happy, proud, peaceful and relieved person, finally enjoying his own freedom after thousands of years of punishment and being able to defeat himself and his dark side once and for all.
==Powers and abilities==
*Magical power: It was gradually proven that Tarnum had such great magical power that he surpassed even most wizards. Even as a barbarian, even though he hated magic, he could demonstrate great magic power when he used it.
*Strategy: Tarnum was an excellent and talented strategist. He was able to make a victory out of completely impossible situations on countless occasions, very often surprised his enemies and thoroughly prepared for most of his battles.
*Strength: Tarnum was amazingly strong. In addition to his tall and broad stature, he had enormous physical strength. He was able to lift others easily, even two people with one arm, but when he was in prison he was also able to tear the chain from the wall. His enemies and friends alike marveled and acknowledged how great his physical strength was and how strong he was.
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