Tygon

**Tygon** is a Leonin fighter played by Cameron.

## Biography

### Early Life

Tygon was born into the life of a mercenary the year after the War of the Orcish Incursion and the Despoiler's War reached their climax's. His mother Seza was killed by leftover Orschans from the Orcish Incursion that his Pride was hired to exterminate soon after his birth. It was the loss of his mother that sparked a specific disrespect for Orschan kind in Tygon. His father - Xior - taking the child, trained him the way his mother would have wanted. Tygon spent the majority of his life trading his sword skills for gold, knowing nothing but the life of a hired killer/ treasure hunter.

Years later Tygon was hired by a gnomish woman to look after her ‘daughter’, with the only parameter being: “Don't let my little baby die on her first adventure”. Tygon now finds himself bound by his Pride, his pride, and his word to escort this ‘girl’ until such a time she returns home or is called back to home.

### New Allies

He was present in L'Trel on the day of the great fire. In the chaos he was recruited into the Volkrad Army by L'Roi and helped bring order to the troubled city. He formed a group with a few other volunteers, and after the end of the immediate crisis in L'Trel, they escorted Pitar Kratys back to his family freehold in the south. Pitar's son, Tarran Kratys, requested assistance in defending the freehold against the Blood Rune orcs, and the heroes helped the Kratys family hold off the orcs by defeating the orcish captain, Hallir and his lieutenants. After this successful mission, the heroes returned to L'Trel, where they took part in the Challenge of Champions.

After this, they acted as couriers for X'Celsiah Mia, ferrying her unpaid taxes over the Wyvernwatch Mountains to the city of Volkrad. During this journey a blizzard forced them to take shelter at Jacob's Well, where they encountered a red slaad. After a harrowing fight they were able to reach their ultimate destination and after dealing with the corrupt tax minister in the city, they delivered the funds as requested.

On their return to L'Trel, the Iron Stoves assisted a swamp-dwelling hermit named Katan, who was plagued by campestris and a giant crocodile nemesis. They discovered the source of the swamps ills, a naive bog monster who was breeding giant mosquitoes, and convinced the creature to eliminate the mosquitoes and return the swamp to normal. With Katan's problems solved, the Iron Stoves returned to L'Trel, eager to get their reward from X'Celsiah Mia. She received the gladly, and announced she had another task for them, to deliver a message to her compatriot, Soranna Anitah in Drelin's Ferry.

### Against the Red Hand

Drelin's Ferry was suffering from Orschan raids, and Soranna tasked the Iron Stoves with a mission to find the source of them. They headed north from the town, gaining the assistance of the hunter Jorr Natherson to guide them through the Witchwood. They reached the supposedly haunted Vraath Keep only to discover it occupied by an advance scout of the Red Hand led by Wyrmlord Koth. After a harrowing battle they defeated him, and discovered that a huge army controlled by the Red Hand was mustering at Cinder Hill, and due to march south over Skull Gorge in the next few days.

They arrived at the bridge, finding it heavily defended, with hobgoblins, hell hounds and a green dragon standing watch. Chimalli transformed into a giant badger, and burrowed underneath the bridge, weakening it significantly until a large section of it broke off and fell into the river. They engaged some of the now stranded forces and retreated, their goal of delaying the army achieved. They headed south back to Vraath Keep and then on to Drelin's Ferry, staying ahead of the horde until they were forced to engage at the town, hoping to buy enough time for the remaining civilians to evacuate.

### Mission to the Ruins of Rhest

With Drelin's Ferry successfully evacuated, the Iron Stoves went behind enemy line, investigating rumours of road blocks in the north of the Vale. Here they met the Tiri Kitor elves who told them of a Red Hand leader named Saarvith who had set up a lair in the sunken ruins of Rhest. They travelled to the ruins, fought their way through the forces of the Red Hand, facing Saarvith and his black dragon ally Regirax. In the ensuing battle they barely emerged victorious, with Venfi dead, thanks to the dragon's acid breath.

Tygon, bereft at the loss of his ward, gathered up the warforged's remains and silently departed, leaving the battered and bruised Iron Stoves with only four remaining members.