Lugas Dwarfson

**Lugas Dwarfson** was a chieftain of a Ketharri tribe of the Drahanim during the Dark Ages.

## Background

Lugas was said to be much shorter than the average Drahanim. When he was twelve years old, he saved Kolach, the son of Sigten–the leader of a Ketharri tribe–from Kolach's own rabid warg. The chieftain was so impressed that such a young man had the strength and courage to kill the dog with his bare hands that he adopted Lugas.

While he remained shorter than his peers, he became known for his charisma, strength, and persistence, and was hailed as the best warrior in the tribe. One day, his adoptive father sent him on a mission to Ondrathum to propose an alliance between Lugas's Ketharri tribe and the dwarves.

Whilst in Ondathrum, he fell in love with the king's daughter, Jynnis. After the king refused the alliance, the dwarven princess decided to elope with Lugas and left Ondrathum with him. Once they were back with his tribe on the surface, Jynnis taught Lugas the dwarven art of the berserkers, a fighting style that made Lugas an even stronger warrior. On the day of Lugas and Jynnis' wedding, it is said that birds sent by Thora of the Skies brought the battle mace Sundred as a wedding gift. It became his preferred weapon.

As the years went on, Lugas became powerful enough to replace his father as chieftain. During a feast between the leaders of the Drahanim and the Cleve, sometime around **-370D**, Lugas was seduced by Gwen'nan, the beautiful chieftain of the Cleve. When Jynnis learned of their tryst, she decided to leave him and return to Ondrathum. When Lugas refused Gwen'nan's subsequent marriage offer, she became enraged and declared war on his tribe.

They had been fighting for fifteen years when a young warrior from Gwen'nan's tribe challenged Lugas to a duel. Though he suffered grievous wounds, Lugas managed to kill the boy. Upon his death, Gwen'nan revealed that the boy had in fact been Lugas' own son, conceived during their tryst fifteen years ago. After this, the tide of the war turned against Lugas. He lost battle after battle until he found himself pushed back to the foothills of the White Spine. The two tribes were on the eve of the final face-off when Jynnis returned to Lugas to gift him a dwarven armour in exchange for a night together. Lugas agreed and wore the armor on the battlefield the next day when he faced Gwen'nan. He managed to slay her, but not before suffering lethal wounds himself, his armor inexplicably failing to stop Gwen'nan's final blow (most likely from her mace, Thunderstrike). The battle, fought in **-355D**, became known as the Battle of Redfall.

After his death, the king of the dwarves of Ondrathum sent an envoy to pick up Luga's body to have him buried the dwarven way, within the Stone-Mother. However, Luga's famed weapon, Sundred, which was supposed to be buried beside him, mysteriously disappeared. Legend says that birds sent by Thora of the Skies retrieved it to bestow it to another worthy hero in the future.

### Legacy

Lugas was the first of the Drahanim barbarians to be taught the Berserker style of fighting. Impressed by his skill, some Drahanim banded together to create the Ashcloaks, maintaining the tradition of using dwarven berserker rage to fight in honor of Lugas.

At least two areas in the Hinterlands seem to be named after him: *Dwarfson's Pass* and *Lake Lugas*.