Ruuk

"I am not an Orc, I am not a Human, I am Ruuk"

"Iceman"

The Getorix Company

Gladiator

Tribe Leader

Ruuk is a half-orc gladiator of Pontia and member of the Auric Lodge Adventuring Guild (Asset Team K5251)

## Early Life

Ruuk was born in The Whitemons to an orc father and a human mother whom he doesn't know, in a tribe he no longer remembers the name of. Never knowing his parents, Ruuk travelled as a lone orphan, bouncing from clan to tribe, hunting and fighting the way they told him to. at the age of eight, Ruuk was captured by a band of orc raiders from The Greymons and taken as a slave of The Song Enders, during this time Ruuk experienced things that kids his age never should, including his first humanoid kill, the pinning of other orcs and humans to posts and spikes and earning the position as driver of other slaves. In the Spring of his thirteenth year, The Song Enders were raided by the neighbouring tribe, The Redteeth while he was out hunting. Ruuk returned to see the male, female, young and old members of The Song Enders impaled on spikes. The result of endless fighting.

Up until that point, Ruuk was good at being an orc, he had been apathetic, brash and unruly. But upon seeing the destruction caused, the gift of his mother's blood kicked in, and for the first time since he was a baby, he cried.

His humanity shocked into restoration, Ruuk ran away along the coast, stopping only occasionally to sleep and eat, not knowing where he would run too, just knowing what he was running from. Until he stumbled across a set of ships, which had docked on the shore to trade with some of the tribes of the western coast. One of the captains, seeing the distressed half-blood and sympathising, brought Ruuk aboard and introduced himself as Vercing Getorix, Boss of The Getorix Company, former gladiatorial champion of Tros and a fellow half-orc.

Understanding the trauma Ruuk had suffered, and not wanting to waste the potential for good in him, Vercing offered Ruuk a place as his apprentice.

## Traveling With The Getorix Company

they stuck together until Ruuk reached his early 20's. by that point Vercing had become too old to even lift a quill, and told Ruuk to take his sword, Durandal, and to go travel the world and make a name for himself as he once did. To show the world that half-orcs are more than their animalistic blood.

## Life In Pontia

Ruuk travelled to Pontia, and worked his way up the ranks of Tros' most renowned gladiatorial stadium, The Mithodrome. during his time there, Ruuk won a Silver Raven, which he named Branwen, Sylvan for "Fair Raven"

As Ruuk turned 23, the mass waves of Cycles in the northern valley of Pontia ravaged Tros, though there was little he could do in solving the matter, he fought alongside the Pontian phalanx against the Wraiths that attacked his new home.

As the Cycles died down, and the valley became crossable once again, Ruuk was approached in secret by Agents of the Pontian King and was asked to join a group of deniable operatives to take down the Vizier who brought the destruction to his new home.

## Death and Legacy

> *"if you're reading, my friends.*
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> *find durendal, it belongs to sophie, as well as my new raven.*
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> mountaingrip is for vexus, my battle-brother
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> *the rest is for you to use*
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> *i love you*
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> *-Ruuk, Chief of the Ilykos Tribe"*
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> Script written on the back of Ruuk's sketchbook, found by the Ilykos Tribe after his death)

Ruuk perished at the Battle of the High Pass on the 12th of Longmon, 245AT. Attempting to follow Vexus across the river central to the holding action, Ruuk became surrounded and was overwhelmed. Despite a last-minute attempt to flee, he was cut down by orcs. The magic held within his body by the ad-hoc revivify conducting using the gemstone of Glarrak ended with his death, ripping his body to pieces.