Rattled

## Appearance

Rattled is a roughly 7 feet tall bugbear with grey skin and dark red fur with the long muscular arms common among his people. He has severe burn scars on the right side of his face and the right eye is missing having been replaced by a solid gold orb. His left eye is brown with a slight tint of yellow.

Rattled is usually seen wearing simple but robust clothes, normally a white tunic under a thick leather apron, brown pants and sturdy boots. In terms of equipment he always carries his bearded battleaxe and trusty shield as well as two sharp meat cleavers.

## Background

#### Early years

Born in the large goblinoid community in the Northern Middlelands called Plik. Spent most of his young life apprenticing to be a cook under the famous Champion Enok named Rotjaw by Gunhild named Bladefist. During his apprenticeship Ivan saved his master's life in an attack by humans and earned the honor of being named. On the eve of his naming, Ivan decided to cook the greatest meal the community had ever seen. This failed spectacularly and ended with Ivan getting stuck in a barrel of old animal bones. The sounds that was heard from the barrel as the young bugbear struggled to get out earned him the name Rattled.

#### The New Country

To become a Champion himself and prove himself to be worthy of the name of his Ancestors, Rattled was sent by the Elders of Plik to find his fortune among the civilized folk, more specifically on the new continent of Vaarkia. To get there he sneaked himself onto a cargo ship heading to Elle's Respit. The trip went smoothly for Rattled until a crew of pirates attacked and Rattled was forced to intervene. The result of the encounter was that the bugbear got treated as a hero by the crew of the cargo ship which in the end landed him a job as a cook in the biggest tavern in Elle's Respit.

#### Vaarkian Adventures

To fulfill his promise to the Elders of Plik Rattled decided to team up with an adventuring group on the new continent. They went on several missions together an it was not uncommon for his comrades to get killed in this dangerous new land but Rattled always made it back relatively unharmed.

That was until one day where the group had decided to deal with the threat posed by a town of hobgoblins. It had been decided that the best way to deal with this problem was to burn the town down, so the adventurers had planned to sneak around the guards and plan large amounts of oil and alchemist fire in important locations. The group was found out and got captured where Rattled was sent to a labor camp in a quarry to work for the rest of his days.

#### Escaping and Guerrilla Fighting

Within a few weeks Rattled and a small company of workers at the labor camp escaped an managed to kill several leading hobgoblin overseers in the process. The group had learned of the whereabouts of other similar camps and decided to attempt to disrupt the hobgoblin ventures as best they could. The fighting quickly became bloody on both sides of the conflict but more people joined Rattled every day.

In preparation for one of their last planned missions, the company camped outside an old ruined fort in the middle of the forest. During the night they were forcefully attacked by a large group of drow and in one of the most brutal and one-sided battles Rattled had ever been a part of, all that he had built for the last month crumbled. A few of his comrades dies, but most were captured by the elves. The rebels, now turned slaves, were brought into the old fort and down tunnels and through caves until they came upon the Underdark city of Atua.

#### Life as a Gladiator

Atua was a horrible place for the former cook, while most of his allies were sold of as workers to rich drow families, Rattled was brought into the Arena to fight for the entertainment of his captors. His reputation as a monster quickly grew and he was named The Bloody Butcher of Emerald Keep by the crowd, though he himself had no idea where this Emerald Keep was located. He lost the few friends from the surface who had joined him in the arena along with parts of himself. During a particularly bloody battle against a young drow mage who wanted to prove herself against the monster Rattled lost his right eye, though it was replaced by his owners for a new shiny golden one.

Not long after this battle the bugbear had had enough and he attempted to flee with the help from a gang of equally desperate slaves...

## Traits

**Personality:**

* I judge people on their actions and not their words.

**Bonds:**

* I have fought on the same side as bandits and rebels and have tried to protect them all.

**Ideals:**

* There is no point in pretending to be something I'm not.

**Flaws**

* I have trouble trusting people with authority

## Trivia

### Names

* Rattled
* Ivan named Rattled
* Ivan named Rattled by Enok named Rotjaw by Gunhild named Bladefist
* The Bloody Butcher of Emerald Keep
* The Butcher

### Notable Achievements

* Lead a small rebellion among the hobgoblin labor camp workers on the Vaarkian continent.
* One of the greatest fighters in the Atua gladiator arena.
* Cook of Elle's Respit

### Other Facts

* Can't read Common
* Have only spoken Common for about two years.
* Owned several goats, all of them have been turned into delicious food at some point.