Brokk Ivaldison

"Midget" (By Mohgwyn)

The Tavern Between Realms

Barkeeper

Brokk Ivaldison is the former Guildmaster of Nidavellirs Royal Forgers Guild. Descended from Ivaldi the Elder, Brokk was the youngest of three sons, his older brother Eitri, and older twin Sindri. All three brothers were gifted craftsmen from a young age, as their work was encouraged by Ivaldi, himself a weaponsmith. Their craftsmanship drew the attention of The Aesir, so much so much so that Eitri found himself as the weaponsmith of choice for most of the gods. However, after a series of events concerning Loki and The Lady Sif, Brokk and Sindri also proved their worth to the gods, winning themselves immortal life. The brother's bodies regenerated at the end of a dwarf's natural life cycle.

## Biography

### Early Life

Brokk and Sindri were born as twins in the year 2788. They grew up in the town of Riitakoski, in the province of Nýrdalur. As the son of Ivaldi The Elder, Brokk enjoyed some special treatment growing up, although any special treatment he may have gotten was soon spent due to his combative and irratable attitude.

After leaving for the city of Nidavellir early in life to seek better employment, Brokk initially made money for his family as a sweep boy, cleaning out smithing workshops in the Silver Ring. It was here he acquired a more hands on knowledge of blacksmithing. When several of the smiths at the shop he was employed at took ill during a huge order, Brokk volunteered himself to finish the lot of them. He was successful in this endeavour, and was promptly hired. From there, he gained fame as one of Nidavellir's best smiths, eventually affording to move to Gold Ring, where he set up shop with his twin Eitri, in direct competition with his elder brother Eitri. After he and Sindri won the favour of the gods, and all three were gifted immortality, the two stores became one, known as the Ivaldi Smithing Trinity. This eventually evolved into the Forging Guild, of which Brokk became forge master, after the position was offered to Eitri and Sindri, both of whom declined.

One day, Loki the trickster found himself in an especially mischievous mood and cut off the gorgeous golden hair of Sif, the wife of Thor. When Thor learned of this, his quick temper was enraged, and he seized Loki and threatened to break every bone in his body. Loki pleaded with the thunder god to let him go down to Svartalfheim, the cavernous home of the dwarves, and see if those master craftspeople could fashion a new head of hair for Sif, this one even more beautiful than the original. Thor allowed this, and off Loki went to Svartalfheim. There he was able to obtain what he desired. The eldest son of the dwarf Ivaldi, named Eitri forged not only a new head of hair for Sif, but also two other marvels: Skidbladnir, the best of all ships, which always has a favorable wind and can be folded up and put into one’s pocket, and Gungnir, the deadliest of all spears.

Having accomplished his task, Loki was overcome by an urge to remain in the caves of the dwarves and revel in more recklessness. He approached the brothers Brokk and Sindri and taunted them, saying that he was sure the brothers could never forge three new creations equal to those their elder sibling had. In fact, he even bet his head on their lack of ability. Brokkr and Sindri, however, accepted the wager. As they worked, a fly (who, of course, was none other than Loki in disguise) stung Sindri’s hand. When the dwarf pulled his creation out of the fire, it was a living boar with golden hair. This was Gullinbursti, who gave off light in the dark and could run better than any horse, even through water or air. Sindri then set another piece of gold on the fire as Brokkr worked the bellows. The fly bit Brokkr on the neck, and Sindri drew out a magnificent ring, Draupnir. From this ring, every ninth night, fall eight new golden rings of equal weight.

Sindri then put iron on the hearth, and told Brokkr that, for this next working, they must be especially meticulous, for a mistake would be more costly than with the previous two projects. Loki immediately stung Brokkr’s eyelid, and the blood blocked the dwarf’s eye, preventing him from properly seeing his work. Sindri produced a hammer of unsurpassed quality, which never missed its mark and would boomerang back to its owner after being thrown, but it had one flaw: the handle was short. Sindri lamented that this had almost ruined the piece, which was called Mjollnir. Nevertheless, sure of the great worth of their three treasures, Sindri and Brokkr made their way to Asgard to claim the wages that were due to them.

Loki made it to the halls of the gods before the dwarves and presented the marvels he had acquired. To Thor he gave Sif’s new hair and the hammer Mjollnir. To Odin went the ring Draupnir and the spear Gungnir. And Freyr was the happy recipient of Skidbladnir and Gullinbursti.

As grateful as the gods were to receive these gifts – especially Mjollnir, which they foresaw would be of inestimable help in their battles against the giants – they nevertheless concluded that Loki still owed the dwarves his head. When the dwarves approached Loki with knives, the cunning god pointed out that he had promised them his head, but not his neck. Brokkr and Sindri contented themselves with sewing Loki’s mouth shut, and returned to their forge. As a reward for their great gifts, all three brothers were given permanent, irrevocable immortality.

##### The Death of a Brother

There was a fateful battle during the Civil War of Svartalfheim, where Brokk and Thor entered a POW Camp to rescue Sindri. He found the disabled and tortued Sindri, and tried to help him out, but Thor ended up accidentally killing Sindri during a battle with Jormungandr. Regaining consciousness in a crater, surrounded by enemy soldiers, Brokk saw the corpse of his brother. In his mind, something snapped, and he was enveloped by the Spirit of Wrath. He went into a blind rage and ripped every single one of the soldiers limb from limb, before carrying his brothers corpse home.

#### Descent into Fury

The Civil War lasted just under a year from that event, but in every battle after, Brokk's superiors noted a shift in his behavior. During battle, he was more violent, taking more hits, and dealing it back in full, taking no quater, nor prisoner. He also became more hostile to his allies, on one occasion, allowing a fellow soldier to lose his arm in a trap.

Following the end of the War, Brokk tried his best to return to his duties. However, his raw grief over the loss of his twin soon turned to vengeance against Thor, as he blamed the God of Thunder for his brother's death. This began to interfere in his work, and he started refusing to make orders for the Aesir, which crippled business, and by proxy, the entire income of Svartalfheim. He started drowning his sorrows with alcohol, which soothed the Spirit of Wrath, but instead left him unpleasant, arrogant and difficult. Eventually, the Forger's Guild was left with no choice but to force him to resign from his position. They also locked the possessions of Sindri in the vaults, as they did belong to the Guild, but Brokk took this the wrong way, and Wrath turned his anger towards the dwarves that were once his friends as well.

Brokk ended up taking work with his brother Eitri, who had set up a tavern in Yggdrasil after resigning from the war effort. However, in truth he ended up spending most of his days wallowing in drink, trying to keep down the Spirit of Wrath, to avoid ever becoming the monster grief made him again.

### Shadow of Ragnarök

#### Capture and Imprisonment

During one of sessions of heavy drinking, a group of adventurers entered the Tavern Between Realms. They visited the table of the dwarf, curious as to why he drank so heavily. After explaining his story to them, they invited him to join them in reclaiming his title in return for forging new weapons for them. After informing Eitri that he quit, Brokk joined the group in entering the realm of Svartalfheim.

The Battallion, lead by Captain Havadr, arrested the party on counts of illegal entry of a realm closed for travel, and abetting the return of an exilee. The battalion lead the party through the grasslands of Nyrdallur, Svartalfheim’s capital province. They came across a canyon, which was the nesting ground of apex predators known as Bulettes.

The party was given orders to be as silent as possible. All of the pary managed to sneak to the other side of the canyon, with the exception of Einar, who tripped over a vine, accidentally waking two adult Bullettes. While Havadr sent for backup, the party slew the two creatures. However, this action woke the rest of the nest. Thankfully, Harvadr’s backup arrived, shooting all of them dead.

With the danger past, Havadr’s battallion marched the party into Nidavellir.

The Party travelled through the different levels of Nidavellir, Svartalfheim’s capital city. They travelled to Gold Platform, the highest level of the city, and were brought into the Obsidian Palace, to be tried before the Jarl.

In the palace, their defence was heard by Jarl Darmus, High Jarl of Svartalfheim. The party realised that Darmus’ advisor, Raknvald was in fact the cultist that eluded them in Haugr. The King was prepared to grant them freedom, with the exception of Brokk, who he sentenced to one life sentence in the Krystalarium Citadel. The rest of the party were to walk free, until Brokk revealed to Einar he might know a way to restore his lost memories.

Despeate to learn this, Einar punched Raknvald, earning the entire party six months in the Krystalarium as well. Seeing no way out of their prison, the party reluctantly began to sleep.

## Personality

Brokk was smart, proud, brave, intelligent, vengeful, and a bit stubborn. He was sophisticated and noble, but tended to treat his allies as equals. He was respected by many throughout Svartalfheim, and the Nine Realms as a whole for.

While he initially shared the greed of his family and had an extensive love for gold, he valued the welfare of others as well. He was immensely brave and was willing to give himself up for a just cause, until the death of his brother Sindri, and his consumption by the **Spirit of Fury**, which made him blindly vengeful and full of anger, causing him to become incredibley vengeful, hold grudges forever and lash out at anyone he felt wronged him. In order to keep this side of him down, Brokk immersed himself in drink, which made him loud, stubborn, but very proud. It allowed him to gain some of his more humane traits, but despite how he felt, he was always incredibly worried his control might slip and cause him to slip into the Spirit of Fury once again.

## Weapons

Brokk wielded a large greataxe encusted with gold and silver on it's hilt. He also used a light hammer that was decorated in much the same way, and a javelin that was stark of any decoration. The Heirloom of Ivaldi was on his person at all times, giving him protection against detection and location, and his armour was spectacular in appearance, with large goat horns, a mockery of his adversary Thors.