Njallo Arneson

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Njallo Arneson is the current Medalbearer of Veðrfölnir's Guild, a guild consisting of mainly bandits and outlaws. Smart and strong, Njallo leads the way through intelligent planning while fighting alongside his most trusted allies. However, he has a hot head, and quickly snaps at anyone unfortunate enough to bring up a sensitive topic such as his parents. He has a great dislike for Vestrians, as they caused his father Arne's death as well as forcing him to undergo child labor. Holder of the great artifact "The Medal of Koshnir", which relates to his ancestry's heritage. Overconfident and still yet naively unburdened by the weight of adult life, his one goal in life is to honor his father's untimely death and rebuild his great great grandfather's legacy, gaining more wealth and power than the late Chancellor could ever have wished for. However, such a bold accomplishment can only be the result of the strongest of wills, and Njallo's southern ancestry doesn't bode well with all Forsvarians...

## Foreword

Before reading the rest of this character's entry I strongly recommend you read the Kosbia wiki starting from "The Dark Ages". This will provide you with more context regarding Njallo's family history.

## Early Life

Njallo was born in a small Vestrian tribe known as the Uldarians. Njallo was raised together with the other children who were also descendants of Kosbians, Hjalmar and Orca. Through his childhood, Njallo learned the ways of the Uldarian peoples, being taught the way of weapon forging by the elite Uldarian blacksmiths and also some basic farming as taught by his dad Arne, who was a direct descendant of Chancellor Nano, the assassinated leader of what once was Kosbia. Being a Kosbian by heart, Njallo was interested in the art of war and read whatever books that his dad could get for him, gaining intelligence on such matters. However, when Njallo was 10, his parents, as well as the other Kosbian children's parents all died at the hands of Vestrian pirates during a routine fishing trip out at sea. Not knowing which of the Vestrian towns the pirates were home to, Njallo swore vengeance on the entirety of the Vestrian population, swearing that he would one day avenge his father's death.

## Life with the Uldarians

After the death of Njallo's parents, the Uldarians stopped being as friendly as they were before. Now that they had no reason to respect the legacy carried through the blood of the Kosbian descendants, they put Njallo and the other Kosbian children to work in hard labor and only gave them two meals a day, as well as telling them to forget their privileged Kosbian lifestyle. They were locked into their houses at the end of the day stopping them from leaving. At first, the children obeyed, still sad at their parents' sudden death. However, unrest grew as the children slowly grew older and stronger. They started plotting an escape from the Uldarian peoples, planning to hide in the mountains far to the north, as well as reclaiming the original Medal of Koshnir, honoring their Kosbian legacy.

Throughout this time in his life, Njallo was often bored and read and reread the books that his father had bought for him at a young age, and played war games and devised and practiced potential tactics with his fellow locked up Kosbians. With a lot more time on their hands, they also practiced combat, fighting each other with makeshift swords as well as using their fists.

One day, while working, Njallo overheard some of the Uldarians talking about an unusual landing at the docks that had occured. A large ship had docked on a Vestrian port captained by a young girl going by the name of "Aqua". Apparently, Aqua had come looking for the descendants of the three original Kosbian exiles and would pay a great bounty to anyone willing to capture them, as well as the return of the Medal of Koshnir. Njallo was chilled to the core. Now that the Uldarians no longer cared about their protection, they would be given away with the blink of an eye. However, Njallo would have at least a few days before the weekly tribal meeting where their fate would ultimately be decided. Telling his friends, Hjalmar and Orca, they hastily plotted the rest of their escape plan. That night, using a compass needle taken from a broken compass, Njallo and his friends picked the lock on their house, stole supplies and valuable gold pieces from the village stock house and quickly left, but not before stealing the Medal of Koshnir from the village chief and setting the camp on fire.

## Life in the Mountains

After a few days of travelling north, while climbing up the Suovirke mountains, the three were jumped by a group of bandits trying to rob them. However, years of hard manual labor at the hands of the Uldarians as well as possession of the Medal gave Njallo and his friends strength that could not be rivaled by simple bandits. After just a few seconds, the bandits were overpowered. However, instead of killing the bandits outright, Njallo asked if he and his friends could join them, desperately needing a place to stay in the cold barren wastelands that were the mountains. Astonished, the bandits agreed and lead them up the mountain to a small impoverished village funded by the spoils of banditry. The three shared their knowledge of weapon production and agriculture to bandits, helping them become more self sustaining and not solely reliant on banditry. As the months passed, Njallo quickly became well known for using wit as well as wrists when it came to banditry. "Do not kill your victims, for if they are dead, you cannot steal from them again.". Using the intelligence and wisdom he gained throughout his childhood, he quickly rose up in the village's ranks and brought with him his best friends, Hjalmar and Orca. Together, they brought about a new age of "civil" Forsvarian banditry, leaving killing their victims to a last resort and often forcing them to pay regular fines to the Veðrfölnir's Guild, the new name of the bandit village.

Using their newfound wealth, Veðrfölnir's Guild soon spread and brought criminals from all around Forsvar into their ranks, as well as expanding as a community, gaining the power of a full nation. However, as the guild became bigger, it also became more mellow, and Njallo slowly settled the guild away from its criminal ways. However, a shadow of the past still looms above the guild, amplified by the older members...

## Njallo's Father

In the year 127, a key member of the guild, Chasolious Majorn revealed himself to be Njallo's father. Knowing he was in danger, he had changed his son's last name to keep people from realising their relation. He had escaped the boat attack that killed the Kosbian parents, watching them meet their demise, and hid to the north for many years before approaching and joining his son's guild.