Tulok Icullhund

Tulok Icullhund, also known as Tulok Icerunner, Tulok Emberarmour, and Tupilac the Vengeful, is an Asimaar paladin of the Watcher oath. He was created by the spark, Luke.

> Every limb I lost was worth the price, and it got me to where I am now.
>
> Tulok, speaking to Avarice in the city of Yithryn

## Description

A stouter, strong man, Tulok has tanned skin and braided hair. He has no facial hair. Tulok was born with a strange tattoo of a sun on his forehead - a sign of his angelic heritage. Furs and hides cover his torso, coloured blue, white and orange. ensuring his warmth hiding most of the chainmail below. on his back, he carries a greatsword he took from a champion he slew. as a walking stick, he carries his old ship's pike, now fashioned into a lance.

## Early Life

Tulok was raised by many different Ulutian tribes. He was the offspring of Queen Bjornhild Solvigsdottir, leader of the Tiger Tribe. His mother cast him into the Sea of Moving Ice when he was a young child as a sacrifice to Auril the Frostmaiden. A polar bear pulled him from the water and spared him a freezing death. This bear then transformed into a goliath who bore Tulok safely to Ten-Towns. Tulok remembered the goliath’s name—Oyaminartok—but hasn't seen her since. He believes that he owes her his life, just as he owes my mother a merciless death.

Tulok was seen as an outsider due to his strange powers. He often held within him a great rage that boiled over easily in his youth. The rage would lead to an obvious outburst of radiant energy, hurting himself and others around him. Because of this, Tulok was constantly being moved from place to place in the large family groups of his nomadic tribe.

As a young man, Tulok took up with the ice-runners, a group of Ulutians who broke up sea ice in small longships and canoes so that larger ships could get through. They also hunted for aquatic game on the ice. While Tulok was not much of a hunter, he earned a place amongst the ranks of sailors due to his abilities to stand fast in fights, heal those who were injured, and provide light in the dark.

During his transition to adulthood, Tulok came under the influence of a Voice. Tulok did not understand who he was or why he was different until this Voice contacted him. The Voice guided him upon a different path - a path of war and conflict with evil. Tulok was not a religious man, but he was a spiritual one, and so he took up this path because he thought the Voice was a voice of good. For much of his young adulthood, Tulok wandered the north, all over the Great Glaciers, the Sea of Moving Ice, and some of the mainland of the sword coast. He helped those whom he could, and stood to destroy all evil that he came across. Tulok's rage became tempered in adulthood, but he unleashed it against those from The Outside.

Tulok felt more and more disconnected from his past as an Ulutian. He realized that he was not merely human-he realized that his fate was not his own and that he was put here for a reason. He did not understand the goals and motives of the Voice Above, and he questioned them internally when he rested - however he stayed on the path set out before him.

## Rime of the Frostmaiden

During the Second Sundering, Tulok has hired by Dannika Greysteel to find Chwingas along with other allies named Willow Duskwalker, Dagny, Toff, and Kube Nettlemane Rizaylia. It soon became clear to everyone that the Duergar from the under dark had evil plans to sack the ten towns using their chardalyn dragon creation. It was at this point that Tulok and his allies, joined by Paavu Rocksandwich, went to seek out clan Sunblight, and their leader, Xardorok in the Spine of the World.

After the defeat of the chardalyn dragon, Tulok and his allies made their way to Grimskalle at the behest of Avarice of the Arcane Brotherhood to find information about the Codicil of White. At Grimskalle, Tulok and his allies met the Frostmaiden face-to-face, and were warned against opening the glacier to search for Yithryn. using the codicil. At Grimskalle, Tulok and his allies passed the tests that Auril gave to them. After the death of Kube, Tulok slew his mother, Queen Bjornhild Solvigsdottir in single combat and inherited her right as leader - however he gave up this command to his sisters. After passing the tests, Tulok received the Blessing of the Frostmaiden, which made him immune to the effects of the cold, and replaced his lost limbs with ice.

After Grimskalle, Tulok parted ways with Willow Duskwalker and the spirit of Kube, and went with his allies to the Reghed Glacier to open the path to Yithryn. Once inside the Caves of Hunger, Tulok's old friends were all eaten by a remoras, leaving him alone with newly hired Bix Beryl Goldvein and Senen Nsaar. Shortly after, the three survivors met up with Zalton Fogwater, Saar Iche, Harcon, Kingsport, Yiulsebek, and the returned Paavu spirit to finish the job in Yithryn and return the sun to the sky.