Garruk Greenhand

**Nation**
 **Born**
 **Titles**
 **Beliefs**
 **House**
 **Relatives**
* Celesnia Cheatgrass (Mother)
* Gottfied "Grotto" Greenhand (Brother)
* Gosrick Manoverde (Paternal Grandfather)
* Amapola Manoverde (Paternal Grandmother)
 **Coat of Arms**

Lord **Garruk Greenhand** is a Stormwindian nobleman who rules over the Barony of Sunhome. He is the Lord-Captain of the Sunhome River Wardens. While he is trained in the versatile semiaquatic fighting style of the River Wardens, he considers himself to be a Monster Hunter, taking it upon himself to research the occult in preparation of threats from the neighboring regions of Duskwood and Karazhan.

Although he was born and raised in Sunhome, Garruk is the first Baron of Sunhome to not have completely Stormwindian ancestry, with the parents of his father Gideon both hailing from Kul Tiras. However, his legitimacy has rarely been questioned, since his service as Lord-Captain has demonstrated more loyalty than was ever shown by the previous Barons of the disgraced former House Cheatgrass.

## Personality & Beliefs

Garruk is a private and proud man who could be considered abrasive, but he is by no means volatile. Although publicly he believes in the Church of the Holy Light, both his Kul Tiran ancestry and his fascination with Gurubashi customs may bring his faith into question.

Garruk is generally old fashioned, and he lacks worldly experience, having lived within the Kingdom of Stormwind for almost all of his life, having left only during the Fourth War to visit his grandfather's homeland of Kul Tiras with his brother, Grotto.

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## Description

Garruk's once light skin has become rough and tanned from many days spent aboard riverboats in the southern sun. He has dark brown hair, and one of his hazel eyes is missing, with the right side of his face mangled by a claw-mark scar, over which he wears a leather eyepatch. Similarly, his left hand is missing from the elbow down, with a crude mechanical prosthetic taking its place. He is 6 feet and 4 inches tall, with a bulky muscular build.

## Biography

Garruk was born fourteen years before the Dark Portal first opened. His mother was Lady Celesnia Cheatgrass, daughter of Lord Cornelius, the then Baron of Sunhome. His father was Sir Gideon Greenhand, a warrior from Stranglethorn whose father Gosrick earned knighthood by saving Lord Cornelius and his men from an ambush during the Gurubashi War. Garruk's little brother Gottfried was born nine years later, nicknamed Grotto by his grandmother Amapola.

When Redridge was sacked by the Orcs, both of Garruk's grandfathers died attempting to escape upriver to Stormwind, but his mother had refused to abandon her people, thus surviving and becoming the Baroness of Sunhome. Her first action was to order that all Sunhomians retreat into the crawling hills of Sunhome, where the Orcs would not bother to pursue them. With the aid of her family, Lady Celesnia began to amass the displaced civilians.

Consequently, Garruk's childhood was primarily spent helping his father to waylay Orc patrols so that groups of Sunhomian survivors could find refuge in the wilderness. Conversely, his brother Grotto stayed with the larger group of civilians, spending more time in the woods with his mother and grandmother. By the end of the war, most of the Sunhomians had been gathered together, and in a dual effort between this militia and the Alliance forces, Catarcton was retaken. Lady Celesnia rose Gideon the Greenhand to nobility and named him Lord-Captain of the Sunhome River Wardens, taking the name Greenhand for herself as well to usher in an era of peace for the Barony.

With his father Gideon now leading the Sunhome River Wardens, Garruk joined them on their patrols, helping to defend the towns of Stormwind from Gnolls, Murlocs, and bandits as they were rebuilt. The River Wardens fought against threats from the different regions of the kingdom, patrolling the river borders to catch fugitives, acting in collaboration with forces such as Stormwind's military and eventually the Night Watch. During this time, Grotto came of age and joined the River Wardens as well.

When the Scourge first invaded Stormwind, the River Wardens were deployed in defense of the Kingdom, and Sir Gideon the Greenhand fell in battle to the undead. Garruk was made the new Lord-Captain, but Grotto resigned from the River Wardens, opting instead to join the Westfall Brigade and deploy to Northrend to fight the Scourge directly.

After the Cataclysm, Grotto left the Westfall Brigade to travel the world, while Garruk continued to lead the River Wardens, and the brothers continued on their separate paths for many years.

When the Legion returned, Garruk and his men were called to an emergency meeting with a group of Night Watch militiamen to discuss potential threats, but when they arrived, they were ambushed by the now Fel-corrupted soldiers. The Sunhomians were victorious in the fight that ensued, but so few of them survived that Garruk ordered the recall of the River Wardens to Sunhome, and since then they have remained in seclusion, deploying only as an elite auxiliary force for the Barony's own military goals.

After the reemergence of Kul Tiras, Grotto returned to Sunhome, beckoning Garruk to go there with him and discover the lost history of their grandfather Gosrick, and Garruk went on leave from the River Wardens with the blessing of Lady Celesnia. Although it was discovered that their ancestral House Manoverde had turned cloak and pledged loyalty to the treacherous Ashvane Company, the brothers stayed there, aiding the Kul Tiran military in their war against the Ashvanes. Sometime during this conflict, Grotto coined for his older brother the nickname "Gol Gary, Grump of Gol Inath", which is still said in whispers among Sunhomians.

Garruk and Grotto remained in Kul Tiras for two years, until they received word of the demise of their lady mother, the Baroness Celesnia Greenhand, at the hands of the wild Scourge that were running rampant across Azeroth, and the wilderness of Sunhome. The brothers swiftly returned home, and in the subsequent battles, Grotto was slain by the Scourge along with the bulk of the remaining River Wardens. Garruk survived, but he was severely injured, with a necrotic claw wound through his eye and a dismembered limb, now replaced by a prosthetic.

Since that day, Lord Garruk Greenhand has been the Baron of Sunhome, leading with no family to support him, and aided only by his advisors. Although Sunhome has mostly seen relatively peaceful days since Baron Garruk's ascension, some still remain suspicious of the circumstances surrounding the most recent deaths of his family members.

## Titles

### Baron of Sunhome

Garruk is the Lord of the Barony of Sunhome, a medium-sized valley in northern Deadwind Pass.

### Lord-Captain of the Sunhome River Wardens

Garruk is also the Lord-Captain of the Sunhome River Wardens, a militia of minutemen that once patrolled the Nazferiti in defense of Stormwind, founded during the restoration that came after the Gnoll War. The Lord of Sunhome had always been the captain of the River Wardens until Garruk took on the role prematurely when his mother, Celesnia Cheatgrass, became Lady of Sunhome after the death of her father Cornelius during the First War.

During the third invasion of the Burning Legion, almost half of Garruk's lieutenants and men fell to corruption, so he called for the River Wardens to withdraw to Sunhome, where they have remained as the auxiliary military for the Barony.

## House

Garruk is a member of House Greenhand, a young House that gained rule over Sunhome after the fall of House Cheatgrass during the First War.

## Relationships

Garruk has never been wed nor has he had any public relationships, probably consequential of him being the last remaining noble in Sunhome.

Gottfried "Grotto" Greenhand was Garruk's younger brother, and they are known to have had a strong relationship in adolescence that strained gradually as they grew apart, with Garruk becoming Lord-Captain of the River Wardens while Grotto travelled the world. While on a long trip to their ancestral homeland of Kul Tiras, Garruk and Grotto's mother was killed in a wild Scourge attack, and they made haste back to Sunhome, where Grotto was slain fighting the Scourge in the woods.

## Gallery

Lord Garruk Greenhand in his River Warden armor.