Chieftain's Second Son

The **Chieftain's unnamed second son** was a member of the Viking clan. He was the youngest son of the Viking Chieftain and Rikka, and the younger brother of Eldar.

In spite of being a child, he helped both his mother and fellow clan fight against Spear and Fang as they were freeing their slaves.

## Appearance

He has reddish brown hair like his parents that is neck length, with bangs parted equally around his face and falling over his cheeks. He wears a fur-coated vest, brown pants, brown fur wrappings on his feet and a green shirt. He has softer facial features than most of his family, such as a wide, round chin, stubby nose and wider open eyelids. He also sports a white necklace made of fangs. During the attack on the viking village, the child wore blue battle makeup, two vertical, triangular lines descending from his forehead over his eyes.

## Personality

As to be expected of a child, the boy was very enthusiastic and lively. He sometimes acted out on these impulses, such as playfully hitting his older brother in the head with a partly eaten bone, then immediately laughing as he was being chased by Eldar around their family's hut. Regardless of his childish innocence, the boy had also been prepped for battle by his mother, Rikka. Although startled by Fang's assault on the village, the boy did not hesitate to bring his mother's arsenal when she told him to, nor did he flee from Spear and Fang's assault on the village. Just as any other man or woman of their community, he engaged Spear in combat. Although relying mostly on long distance attacks via bow and arrow, the boy was not above charging at Spear with a short sword or scratching at his face with mad intent.

Eldar's expression of regret on his face and the way he embraced his brother's corpse showed that he had cared deeply for his younger brother.

## Abilities

* **Archery**: Chieftain's youngest son is a skilled archer, and he uses a bow well during the fighting against Spear. He also managed to lend an arrow in the neanderthal's left leg.

## History

The boy was born as the second son of the Viking Chieftain and Rikka. He had a close, comforting relationship with his parents and older brother, occasionally playing games with them and fooling around with Eldar. As a member of the viking village, he was trained in the ways of battle. ("Vidarr")

One night, when his father and Eldar were away, the boy and his mother were alerted to Spear and Fang's attack on their village after hearing the village alarm ring. Before joining the battle, Rikka applied war paint on her youngest child's face. As they exit the hut, the child is noticeably scared of Fang and Spear rampaging through the village, killing several vikings, but is immediately told by his mother to go back in and fetch their weapons. He mostly sat atop the roof of a house and shot arrows at Spear, one even landing in his left leg. He is knocked off of the roof after some of the villagers are thrown against the hut's entrance, causing the front wall to fall over. The boy then tries lunging at Spear with a sword, but is quickly knocked aside. After picking himself back up, the boy aggressively jumps on Spear's back, clawing at his face with his right hand. This would prove his last action, as Spear grabs the child by his coat and tosses him to the side. The boy dies as his head hits against a rock and cracks. This event leaves Spear momentarily mortified before having to continue his battle with the remaining vikings.

In the following morning, the dead bodies of the boy and his mother are soon found among the rest of the dead by the Viking Chieftain and Eldar. Both men are devastated at the loss of their family and proceed with the funerary rites. After having entombed most of the dead in a burrow, the Chieftain and Eldar place the boy and Rikka onto a longboat for a viking funeral. Soon after the longboat burns out in the open waters, the Chieftain and Eldar set out to avenge their family and clan by hunting down Spear and Fang. ("The Red Mist")

## Trivia

* He is, overall, the sixth child character in *Primal* to die. The others being Spear's two children, Fang's offspring and Lula's daughter.
* He is one of a handful of adversaries whom Spear has shown remorse for their death, the others being the Elderly Mammoth, the Infected Sauropod and Red. This also makes him the first human being and hominid in general whom Spear regrets killing.