Urdnot Wrex

### Debut

Chapter 25: Meetings, Pointless and Otherwise (Mentioned)Chapter 37: The Klixen and the Maws (Appears)

### Description

Wrex is a large, heavily scarred krogan, sporting red eyes and crest and a series of deep scars running across the left side of his face.

One of the last remaining Krogan Battlemasters, combining great skill with advanced firearms and biotics (similar to a human Vanguard), Wrex has also lived for a long time- both of these mark him as an extremely dangerous adversary.

### Early Life

Wrex was born into clan Urdnot and quickly marked himself as an extremely gifted fighter- even defeating the Threasher Maw on foot during his Rite. Wrex was also the youngest krogan in a millennia to be granted the honor of leading one on the smaller Urdnot tribes.

Wrex was quite the radical in comparison to the few remaining krogan warlords who had survived the Krogan Rebellions. Most of them (along with a sizable amount of the general krogan population) wanted to keep fighting despite the effects of the genophage. It didn't matter who they were fighting as long as they fought. Wrex, on the other hand, wanted to focus on rebuilding- specifically on breeding, for at least one krogan generation, given that they did not have the ability to sustain a war with their reproductions so curtailed.

Jarrod, another warlord and Wrex's father, did not see eye to eye with his son and the two were at constant odds. Finally, Jarrod invited Wrex to a Crush; supposedly to try to settle their differences. Although Wrex suspected a trap, he went out of respect for what a Crush represents to his people- violence was forbidden.

At the Hollows, a sacred site where the bones of their ancestors are laid bare, Jarrod and Wrex talked themselves in circles. When it became clear to Jarrod that Wrex would not side with him, he signaled his men to attack and the men loyal to Wrex died in seconds. Unfortunately for Jarrod, he had also grossly underestimated his son's skill- Wrex managed to kill Jarrod before escaping.

This shattered Wrex's perspective of the krogan as a culture of proud warriors- Wrex gave up on trying to help his people and left Tuchanka with the intention to never return.

### A Mercenary Life

Wrex took to working for himself and has done many a job, including bodyguard, solder of fortune, and mercenary.

Wrex would become friends of a sort with an asari mercenary named Aleena, whom he had initially met when the two of them had been contracted to kill the same turian (they split the "winnings" with her keeping the body and Wrex keeping the head). Some time later, however, Wrex accepted a contract from a volus diplomat to kill someone from his past who knew too much- and that someone turned out to be Aleena.

Out of respect for her and their friendship, Wrex reached out to Aleena. The two of them had a good laugh about it, but Aleena also knew that Wrex completed his contracts. Wrex let the asari choose the site of their battle, and Aleena choose a pirate and smuggler overrun salarian space station so no one who got in their way would be considered an innocent bystander: a fact that amused Wrex. He would later comment "She was always a bit of a softy".

The ensuing battle was brutal and took days. Just when Wrex had her cornered, the station's core went critical, forcing the korgan to flee. On his way to collect his paycheck, he received a message from Aleena: "Better luck next time". Wrex told his employer the truth: Aleena had survived and was pissed. Wrex further said that if the diplomat wanted to live, he'd better hire Wrex as his bodyguard. Wrex kept that job until the volus' death: natural causes. The battlemaster said it was the easiest job he'd ever had.

A few years before 2183, Wrex heard from some other mercenaries about a job on the edges of the Terminus systems: it paid well and the boss was never around, plus they were looking for more men. Wrex worked with them for a while, and it was easy credits as promised. They had been raiding ships for months when they took down a massive volus cargo freighter. While Wrex was looking for anything of value, he heard some of the other mercs call a turian he'd never seen before "Saren"- but the turan didn't speak to anyone, just watched them. Wrex got a very bad feeling from this mysterious Saren, so he left, without even waiting long enough to get paid. Wrex's instincts were right- every other merc on that mission turned up dead within a week.

In 2183, Wrex was contacted through an intermediary for the Shadow Broker to assassinate a crime boss named Fist. While Wrex made an initial attempt on Fist's life, Saren's mercenaries fouled Wrex's efforts. Wrex eventaully made his way down to Fist's club "Chora's Den" and delivered his threat directly to Fist's bouncer before being detained by C-Sec officers. Shortly afterward, Wrex's long life would change again when he met Commander Shepard.

## Every One That Asketh

### Act 1

Wrex was on the ground on Earth when the Crucible was detonated. He ended up in Brazil in the following months, cleaning up errant Reaper troops and "snacking on local wildlife".