Runt Ironfurnace/History

**Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior:**

* As School begins, Runt begins his diary, expressing his dreams of becoming a warrior. With the school's announcement that the top students can choose to take up arms, Runt and his best friend Stump are soon hard at work to surpass their peers.

**From Seeds to Swords:**

* After a couple of intense battles, Runt meets Breeze, and a strong friendship grows between the two. Prior to this, Runt calls a truce with his former bully Max, in the face of stiffening competition from students like Pebble.

**Crafting Alliances:**

* As the ferocity of the mobs grows, the teacher's press their students to work harder. As a way to do so, Drill assigns Runt and Emerald on an assignment to study "mob psychology". Some time after this encounter, Emerald asks Runt if she could join his friend group. While initially hesitant, Runt realizes that if he really wants to be a warrior, he'd need friends and allies to get there. With this in mind, he accepts, and the pair go shopping afterwards.

**Path of the Diamond:**

* One night after a particularly rowdy celebration, Runt's cornered in the night by Pebble and his crew. What first seems like another prank turns sour as they drag him off to a warehouse primed with TNT. Only with some quick thinking does Runt survive the attempted murder, lying dazed in a newly-formed crater in the village walls. After beating back a rush of undead, Pebble confesses his dark deed to the Mayor, who has him banished from Villagetown for his crimes.

* When Runt first meets Lola, he does whatever he can to win her over (almost exclusively for her expertise as a Redstone engineer.)

**Quest Mode:**

* After receiving a message warning of possible doom from Kolbert, Runt leaves Villagetown in search of an Aeon Forge to craft items of indescribable power.

* Runt completes his first quest which was to go to the Tomb of The Forgotten King and obtain glow moss for a blacksmith in Owl's Reach. Runt and Breeze discover that Pebble, their ex-archenemy, and Urf, their traitorous combat teacher, are both still alive. Runt, Breeze, a human named S, and Pebble battle Urf, ultimately defeating him. Runt proceeds to buy an Aeon Forge with the emeralds he earned from selling some of the loot he finds at the dungeon and selling Urf's belongings. However, they do not sell the loot from the boss, Nethersoul, and instead, keep it. Runt finds Ophelia and Cogboggle in Owl's Reach and meets up with Brio. Runt and his friends are required to attend the Greater Aetherian Academy in Aetheria City.

**Forging Destiny:**

* After clearing the The Tomb of the Forgotten King, Runt and Breeze part ways with Pebble and S. They make their way to an inn, where they stay for the night. After hearing commotion at the back of the inn, Runt walks around to see what's going on, only to find a waitress in the middle of being verbally abused and fired by the innkeeper. The waitress in question faints from exhaustion, and Breeze joins Runt to , and they both realize that before them was Ophelia.
* The pair take Ophelia into their room, and let her rest on a "Bed of Roses" they found in the dungeon loot chest. Runt goes out again, to find some milk to cure her food poisoning. However, while outside, he encounters Cogboggle, who was being chased by a clan known as 'The Solemn Blades'. Cog ran off before Runt could ask him about anything leaving him with more questions than answers. Runt begins to fear that something may have happened to Villagetown in his absence, and those fears chased him into his dreams.
* The next morning, Ophelia wakes up and informs Runt and Breeze that Brio had sent her on a quest to obtain an Aeon Forge. Brio emerged right after to explain the situation, and brought them to see the rest of Team Runt who had come with Brio. When Runt questioned why Brio and the Villagetown elders chose such an extreme mission, he revealed that they had received a letter from the capitol informing that the town was to send 15 of their "finest young men and women" to receive instruction at the Greater Aetherian Academy, and that they had been sent to gain experience as well as obtain an Aeon Forge.
* Afterwards, a Knight of Aetheria, Sir Elric Darkbane, approached the group, informing them that they would be escorted to the capital without delay. Runt recognized Sir Elric from a poster he had in his room, noting him as 'the best swordsman in the world'. He informed them that he and a group of other members of the Knights of Aetheria would be escorting them to the capitol.
* They decide to first stop at Villagetown and travel for days through forest and stopped at an elven village. There, they looted up. The group then rode to Villagetown.
* Runt returns to Villagetown, and finds it besieged by mobs, and goes on an insane killing spree; he also discovers that Breeze is a Dusk Elf originating from the Isle of Ioae after she is attacked with an arrow with Wither Ⅱ and Catscratch Ⅴ (however, the arrow does not land a critical blow). Breeze uses a smoke bomb and then drinks some milk but Runt finds her by luckily crashing into her while she was invisible. During the battle, he accidentally uses the abilities Smite and Parry to assist him in defeating the mobs.
* A shade however suddenly attacks Runt and he somehow defeats the shade using accidental unnamed ability. He discovers Breeze as a elf and continues his time to rebuild and celebrate the victory. They prepared to leave for Lorica in a few days.