Brendar

> "When respect is lacking, my sword starts hacking.”
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**Brendar**, known as **Brendar the Barbarian**, is the protagonist to The Barbarian and the Troll (series). She is the leader of the group of questers.

## History

### Complex Backstory

Brendar lived with her mother and her younger brother Kendar outside of the kingdom at a calm country side. In reality, her mother was actually the queen of Gothmoria and went into hiding with her children when she was threatened by the demon Alvin who wanted to overthrow her. Despite having fled to protect her children and to allow Alvin to become the new queen, Alvin still found and murdered her, stole her son, and kept him away from society for over ten years.

### Barbarian Era

After she was removed from the royal order, she became a barbarian. She also earned herself a ‘slogan’: “feared and revered”. Life became difficult for Brendar, as she lost her favorite sword, and had to battle a band of goblins to obtain another. After having not slept in four nights, she entered the Queen’s Goiter where she met Evan, the “Musical Troll of Gothmoria”. After listening to a performance of his, Brendar was confronted by General Skelly, some of his minions, and Stacey the owl after she denied a quest they offered her. The quest was to help Horus Scrum to retrieve his magical amulet from an evil witch (who turned out to be Stacey’s mother). She triumphed over General Skelly, removing his head in the process, and then ended up going on the quest to help Horus Scrum. Evan, wanting to spread his music around Gothmoria, begged Brendar to follow her on her quest, to which she agreed after some persuasion.

## Personality

Brendar is theatrical and hammy, confident, distant, on-edge and has difficulty expressing her feelings as she associates it with weakness. She cares about her reputation and likes to be demoted from Princess Warrior to Barbarian as it sounds nice and reflects her rebellion. Over the course of the adventure she lets go of her mask, becomes less theatrical, accepts her friends approach and is open to express and discuss her feelings.
She does not like wasting time on trivial pleasantries when so much of the travel is bound to certain times. She neither likes to bother too much with getting to know new people but is highly passionate about people being treated with respect.

## Relationships

### Kendar

Kendar is Brendar's little brother who got kidnapped by the demon Alvin about a decade ago and she sets out to rescue him. He is part of her "Absurdly Complex Backstory". She is protective of him, sentimental towards him and coddles him with sisterly love. After learning of their royal heritage, Kendar as a young prince is not bound to royal presence and is set out to 'find his personality', to which Brendar does not show reluctance to let him do so. Once abandoning her duties as a queen, she neither seeks out Kendar to take her place as the next in line for a royal position and instead requests her fellow Princess Warrior Sharon to do so.

### Evan

The two cross paths at The Queen's Goiter, Evan expressing "Hot Cauldron" upon witnessing her and Brendar telling General Skelly to apologize to "The Jester and his foolish music". Brendar dismisses Evan's attempts to interact with her and assumes he attempts to flirt when he announces her to be his destiny. He expresses further interest in tagging along and learning from her but she is very on edge with people knowing her and therefor her being vulnerable. She eventually allows him to tag along and though annoyed with his antics is also patient with them. Over the course of the story she is more honest with her feelings and lets him know many times that she wants him to stick by her side, which he wants as well.

### Sharon

Brendar is not impressed with Sharon like most others, have brought up side by side as Princess Warrior and in their rivalry being the superior warrior. Brendar is not loyal and submissive to the queen as Sharon is and Sharon snitches on Brendar's questing rebellion which is against the rules.

## Design

Brendar has had two puppets; her pilot: one in dark brown fur, leather and silver, and her series: a blue knight suit.
Brendar has shiny wavey brown hair and blue eyes with eyeliner. She is a nod to Conan and Xena and with her size in comparison to the timid Evan is to be seen as an Amazone. She has a long straight nose and a strong chin.

## Trivia

• Brendar dislikes winking, high-fives, and secret handshakes, as revealed in “I Will Survive”.