Olad The Tall

*"I've probably got what you want for sale! I'll give you a good deal cause none of it will fit me!" - Olad to a potential customer*

## Physical description

### Biography

Olad The Tall is a 13ft tall orc from Orvist. He is also a member of The Tall Boys and a traveling merchant, selling things he's collected. Olad The Tall has been asked if he formed The Tall Boys many times, but he insists that he just happens to be the tallest member, not the founding member.

### History

Olad was born to two orcs in the fortification of Orvist in 4040. When he was very little it became evident that he would be much larger than his peers, standing nearly 6ft by the age of 7, and being unusually strong, able to pull a carriage also at 7. The mayor of Orvist insisted on training Olad to become a fighter, but his kind nature made him ill-suited for actually fighting anyone he was to train with. It wasn't until Olad was driven mad through repeated spells made to enrage him that he finally fought back against his training partners, killing the first one in his blind rage.

Olad would be recruited at 14 into the service of Yordin Bloodforn, an orcish warlord, resisting the rule of the Bawick council. Standing just over 11ft tall, Olad was given the name of "Olad The Tall" by an imprisoned jester. The name stuck and Olad became Olad The Tall.

With his imposing figure backing Bloodforn, many small orc clans bent their knees rather than fight the monstrously large orc. Even still, Bloodforn ordered Olad to fight the patriarchs of each of the orc clans, slaughtering them in front of their families. Having been punished for disobedience through the use of painful enraging spells, Olad obeyed every command.

Eventually Bloodforn would be deposed and replaced by another warlord, and they would too be replaced, taking Olad as their prize warrior. It would continue this way until Olad was hired to participate in King Ernard III's final expedition to the Isle of the Lich. Olad would return from the isle unwilling to fight for any other warlord, and attempted to set up his own fighter's guild in Orvist, to train locals to become strong adventurers, to no longer need the protection of the various Ungar warlords.

Olad operated his guild until 4089, when a local warlord attacked his guild, overwhelming and murdering all that were there, including Olad's expecting wife, Corza. Upon discovering what had occurred to his guild and wife, Olad went on a rampage spanning the length of Ungar territory, even reaching into Hemoshen land.

Olad had become a monster in the north of Veshen, destroying entire villages, unable to control his rage for years outside of his time asleep. Olad may have continued his rage forever if it weren't for a chance encounter with Bromstrop and Cleaver in Poros. Bromstrop and Cleaver were attacked by Olad while on the road, when Bromstrop paralyzed Olad and detected his thoughts. Seeing the pain Olad had gone through, Bromstrop used one of Cleaver's magical items to tattoo a calming spell onto his arms, occasionally having Cleaver restrain Olad to recast the paralyzing spell. Once Olad was calmed through the spell, he became unconsolably depressed, thinking about all the people he hurt and everyone he lost. Bromstrop and Cleaver both refused to leave Olad's side until he agreed to join them in the Tall Boys' castle to try recover from the decades of cruelty he was forced to endure and commit.

Olad remained in the castle grounds, living with the Tall Boys, and being treated by a variety of healers, until 4108. During his time in the castle, he was approached by many experts on grief and depression, looking to treat his mental anguish. Olad would take up painting and carving, using them as mediums to work through his past trauma. In 4108 Olad asked to leave the castle with Bromstrop and Cleaver, who both had returned from a years long adventure, and return to Orvist. Bromstrop and Cleaver agreed and took Olad to Orvist where he paid his respects to his lost guildsmen and wife. Olad promised to never wield a weapon again or serve another killer, planning to sell all of his hidden horde of past treasures, and sending the money to those he had wronged and their families.

Olad officially joined the Tall Boys in 4109, grateful that they had taken him in and returning clarity to his mind. He anonymously sends payments to those he's hurt using Bromstrop to deliver them.

### *Tales Of Ye Old Interest*

Olad met Elfi and Eldremon in Orvist, where he ran a shop, selling some of the items he collected as an adventurer. He sold them sending stones.

The party would all meet Olad when he was camped at the Island Of Makadin, along with the other Tall Boys; Bromstrop and Cleaver.

### Skills and Talents

* Easily picks up languages and knows common, undercommon, orcish, giant, elvish, gnomish, among others
* Master woodworker
* Novice painter
* Very strong
* Excellent at roofing single story standard buildings and 2.5 story gnomish buildings