Rafnir Blackforge

Rafnir Blackforge at Blackwater Drydock

### Relatives

Agnes Blackforge (nee Slaghammer) - Spouse, Matilde Deepstone - Cousin, Rolfir Deepstone - Cousin-by-Marriage

## Physical description

### Gender

Male

*"Flames Eternal" - Clan Blackforge's words.*

Rafnir Blackforge is a former Dark Iron grenadier and sapper who currently serves as chief engineer and machinist and engineer for Blackwater Company. His services range from fabricating Blackwater equipment to leading ship repairs.

## Description

Rafnir Blackforge is a 33 year old Dark Iron Dwarf that stands at 4'7 height with an average barrel chested physique that was common to Dwarven males. His hair is sleek black with flecks of garnet and carnelian coloring in his beard and mustache. Like all Dark Iron Dwarves, Rafnir has a pair of molten eyes that glow in the dark. A distinguishing mark on Rafnir is an ash colored tattoo in the shape of a three-pronged spear that juts from his hairline towards his face.

Rafnir's stand equipment is typically a toolbox and utility belt for the Dark Iron to enact repairs, but when called into dangerous field service, Rafnir is known to utilize his past experience as a Dark Iron Grenadier. He carries a breechloading Dark Iron rifle packed with either explosive or scatter shot, backed by a double-barrel Alliance Pattern Pistol, and a set of Shadowforge iron grenades that Rafnir remains adept at hurling. For melee, Rafnir carries both both a utility hatchet and a Kul Tiran axegun loaded with close range scattershot.

## Family

Rafnir Blackforge immediate family is his wife, Agnes Blackforge (nee Slaghammer), who renounced her membership to Clan Slaghammer to fully take Rafnir's name upon their marriage. Agnes works as a Tinker with an emphasis on Bio-Tinker science. She utilizes several principals that golemsmith use to forge working limbs for their constructs to create viable prosthetics for wounded Alliance soldiers out of her clinic located in Ironforge's Military Ward.

Rafnir's immediate cousin is Matilde Deepstone (nee Blackforge) from Rafnir's father side of the family. Matilde is a Dark Iron *Shadowblade* originally assigned to protect her charge and then lover, Rolfir Deepstone, who represented the Dark Iron mission to Alliance controlled Alterac. Rafnir remains a cordial, but distant relation with his cousin and it was through her and Rolfir that Rafnir offered his service to Blackwater Company.

## History

Rafnir Blackforge was born to Fafnir Blackforge and Brunhild Heavyhands. He is their only child, which even in mid-tier Dark Iron peerage is viewed as a disappointment due to the difficulties of securing alliances without a marriage involved. Although disapproved by both families, neither Fafnir or Brunhild were interested in having more children. During his youth, Rafnir was fostered under the house of his Uncle, Dougal '*Black Dougal*' Blackforge at his uncle's underground estate of *Kilnhall*. Rafnir's cousins served as his foster siblings, all of whom were daughters, including: Finella, Matilde, Carolin, and Ronalda Blackforge. Although he was an only child, Rafnir was the only male member of the Blackforge Clan.

Rafnir's marriage to Agnes Slaghammer was, as many Dark Iron families conducted, an arrangement that secured an alliance between the Blackforge and Slaghammer Clan. The two lived in a private corner of *Kilnhall*, seeing each other during furloughs of their respective careers. Rafnir Blackforge enlisted as a member of the Shadowforge Grenadiers while Agnes joined the Shadowforge Alchemist's Guild. After the expulsion of Ragnaros and the downfall of the Twilight Hammer's Cult influence within Shadowforge City, both Slaghammer and Blackforge remained loyalist houses to Clan Thaurissan through Emperor Dagran's wife, Moira Bronzebeard. After the Cataclysm had subsided, Rafnir and Agnes moved from Kilnhall to Ironforge as part of the Dark Iron immigration to the newly opened Ironforge, taking part in the mingling of the Dark Irons, Bronzebeards, and Wildhammers, the first ever since the first War of the Three Hammers had split the Clans and their cadet branches apart.