Higalme Tolmas

### Class

Alchemist (sphere alchemist + vivisectionist + ragechemist) / Barbarian (Painted Savage)

# The Iron Tower

*"I am a soldier. I am expected to first finish the task and only afterwards rest or drop dead."*

## History

Not much is known about Tigalme, other than the fact that after officially joining Helios Military she was raising through the ranks at breakneck speed. According to official files she joined the 1st Legion near the end of Pharast in age of might's 8 year. By the end of the next month her excellent results during the training combined with her being very active in the areas of civil order by constantly being on the hunt for fugitives and also volunteering to join the crisis caused by the Storm Coven, she ended up achieving rank of Sergeant. She claims to have come from far away land and yet she has never elaborated of where exactly she came from.

## Appearance

Higalme is a figure to behold, a towering giant of a woman standing at 7 feet tall and possessing massive bulging muscles covering every inch of her body, when Higalme marches, the ground shakes and so are the people around her, friend or foe. Her fiendish nature is made obvious by massive horns, unusual eyes and dark grey skin. Her mouth is also quite unsettling as her teeth are more akin to that of a shark. She is never seen without wearing her military uniform (which has been custom made, tailored together out of 3 regular uniforms) with the cap sitting firmly on her head between her horn. Her massive size, iron colored skin combined with cold heart that offers no mercy to the enemies of Helios Imperium and its people earned her the title of "The Iron Tower" by her peers.

## Personality

The very first notable thing about how Higalme Acts is how she is quick to change her moods, going from fuming with anger to completely relaxed or joyous in a span of few seconds. Its not a spontaneous change of the mood but still, she is perhaps one of the quickest to anger and quickest to calm down folks.

Higalme also acts in a very bizarre manner towards the higher ups in the military. Despite being a small fish, she is using a tone that is both professional and casual when talking to high rank military members, not intimidated at all by their higher status, which may be a hint that in her previous life before arriving to Helios, she was a rather high ranking military member that managed to get used to talking with people of highest status in military.

Higalme is also very stoic and cruel when it comes to others, definitely coming across as downright cruel. She shows no signs of empathy, not seeing anything in death of the enemy other than a "step in good direction", and she is not one to minimize violence. Unless order otherwise she will attempt to eliminate any form of threat or opponent by killing it without being faced by it all. If death is off the table, she will instead offer a very severe beating to the point foe will think they were killed. She did tried to pitch an idea to Legatus of 6th Legion to build a massive arena in which tortured and humiliated death row convicts would be publicly executed in order to make the civilians feel save by showing them what happens to anyone who attempts to harm Helios. Despite her bloodlust, the officers consider her a worthy asset, commenting that "While certainly desiring death of her opponents, Higalme does not go against the orders if she is told that prisoners are necessary, nor is she prone to becoming uncontrollable in the combat as other more bloodthirsty soldiers that we employ." All in all Higalme has been described by officers as "cooperatively aggressive".

## Friends

While Higalme was initially keeping to herself, after being promoted to a Legionary she had notably opened up to fellow soldiers and has been noted to be one of the more popular members of her unit. While awkward and brash her fellow Legionaries do appreciate her demanding nature and the natural drive to self improvement which they consider "inspiring". Within her unit she is often invited for small events that soldiers organize between trainings.

At the time there is no single chosen that she could definitely call a friend, which may be subject to change as the time passes.

## Foes

**Storm Coven**: Storm Coven is a cult which is responsible for creation of a vast magical storm and kidnapping and murder of several innocent civilians, all done in order to summon devils into the material plane. As a soldier of the Imperium Higalme has volunteered to come to the aid of the people that had their houses destroyed by the acts of the coven. When talking to Leonessa she recalls the incident in which Coven tried to trick an innocent civilian into killing a bunch of people inside the field hospital by giving him a large bag of rations which had hidden explosives within. During her mission against the Coven she was given a rank of the Sergeant after the officers recognized the murderous zeal with which she eliminated the cultists, though there are some rumors that she may had murdered a small group of cultists that tried to surrender after a failed skirmish. There are no official records of this happening but with the sheer amount of hatred and spite that Higalme shows towards those people, its not hard to imagine it was possible. Apparently they are the main reason that she became such a fanatical enemy of criminals, as she first hand seen the cruelty that some people may be capable of.

**Cobalt Legion:** Followers of the Widow and agents of ruination and destruction. While Higalme never had to fight the Legion in the field in the organized way as she did with the Coven, many of her bounty tasks were actually revolving around Cobalt Legion soldiers splitting out of the main force and causing some sadistic mayhem on their own. Those bounties were always paid in only 50% of the arranged prize as the caved in faces of the corpses that she had always brought up proved to be too mutilated for proper identification, though Higalme states she has no problem with that.

**Beastmen:** During the chat with Preator Klaus, Higalme outright asked him why Helios will not just organize regular raids and hunting parties against the beast tribes since they appear to be a dangerous antithesis to everything that legion stands for, though she did dropped the argument upon learning that Preator is married to a beast-woman (which may have been the worst way to find out about this little piece of information...). Ever since then she never spoke again of her hatred of beast tribes, but it is worth noting that was often requesting for her training patrol routes to be that of trading routes between settlements that are said to be closest to the current location of migrating tribes.

## Goals

**SELF IMPROVEMENT:** Higalme seems to be hellbent on self improvement, though she seems to be adamant on improving herself without any outside help. When General of the Helios Imperium, Praetor Klaus offer her membership within his Academy she turned the offer down, adding that she is trying to improve herself as a reason for past failures, stating that she once was given something that became very important to her, only to loose it to someone who was stronger than her. According to her words, she is trying to get herself to the status she once had, while in possession of that "something", stating that if she cannot reach that status on her own, she never deserved it in a first place. The nature status and the "something" is never stated or hinted at, but due to her passion and experience with the military, it is very likely that she used to have a high rank in some army outside of Helios Imperium.

**IMPROVING HELIOS IMPERIUM:** After meeting with the Legatus of the 6th Legion and Warden of the Helios Imperium: Leonessa, Higalme Made a very zealous and quite heated up argument on how she desires to show the world the might of Helios, in order to make its citizen both proud and save and so that despicable criminals that threaten them be punished by the only thing that they deserve: a violent, humiliating and prolonged death, which she hoped to achieve by creating a massive arena in the capital where death row convicts would be abused and kept in inhuman conditions before being killed in a gladatorial matches, while having no means of defending themselves and being sent against fully armored soldiers. Warden rejected the idea, wary of potential political backlash, mostly from the NWC. Higalme quickly offered to shift the idea into a much milder one and offered to instead create an arena in which the main price for the participants would not only be a monetary prize but also an opportunity to execute a death row convict of their choice with their own hands. The project was approved by the Warden and Higalme was visibly overjoyed by the prospect of being able to bring it to life. Only time will tell if Higalme will continue suggesting a more extreme upgrades to her approved project or if she is going to be content with toned down version.