Sunnir Forgeheart

Dame Sunnir Forgeheart currently serves the Order of the Silver Hand as a Knight-Paladin. She is well-known as a stalwart protector of the Light's beliefs and a tenacious adherent to its missions. She is an avid patron of the Seminary System and promotes all forms of learning; even the hard hitters. She currently attends the Lightwardens at the Convert Rank and hopes to train the future paladins of the world to be courageous despite the words of nay-sayers and dissenters of the light's true faith.

=Appearance=

When you speak to the dwarves of Ironforge and the Paladins of the Cathedral in Stormwind they will tell you of a dwarf that is tall for her race and known to be somewhat bulky. A woman built like a tank. She stands at 5'0" and weighs over 200 pounds. Her body structure betrays nothing of her weight as most if not all of the dwarf is muscle. Her face is riddled with chips and knooks missing from various fights she will tell you all about. Her teeth have thankfully remained in-tact. She has been beaten and forged into a respectable dwarf in her middle years.

At fifty two, Sunnir appears in good condition. She has broken plenty of bones, healed plenty more. Her facial structure is strong and accented having achiseled jaw and masculine features. Her deep blue eyes are the only feature about her that - gleams - with femininity. Often biting and cynical her tongue accentuates her origins with a thick accent and a husky deep tone.



Arms and Armor
Sunnir is always found in habit. Many have never seen her face as she wears a bandana or a white scarf always covering her face from her nose to the top of her tabard. The reason for this is unknown, but many have attributed it to her professed want to be simple. Her armor is silver and non-descript. Her shoulders are a painted or stained blue steel.

Sunnir takes the most pride in her hammer and shield. During battle or at the onset of it she is found to strike her shield with the broad edge of her hammer. The hammer itself is the one she was given at her knight-hood. It's solid steel with the appearance of rough stone bound to its hilt in black leather. On the underside of the leather is inscribed a psalm from the Divine Books. Known only to Sunnir and the Smith that Forghe pride of the man's suit of armor is his helm. Reminiscent of the helms used by ancient Arathorians before the founding of the Arathorian Legion, but made from contemporary materials, the great-helm sports a tall, broom-shaped horse-hair crest. The style of helm is known throughout the realm as symbolic of the Brotherhood of the Horse.

When not in armor, Maxen typically dons the fine cloth of his noble office. Brass buttons line his smartly pressed overcoat. His linen-colored silken clothing hangs loosely beneath it, bound by a belt of amber-colored leather. Strangely, Maxen chooses to wear his platemail boots with his unarmored clothing. He is known to claim that it allows him to be more able to climb into his horse's stirrups.

As a battlefield commander, the Lord-Marshal maintains an impressive array of tools and implements on a leather bandolier around his waist. The most intimidating of such articles is a cylindrical leather scabbard that bears his Cat o' Nine Tails which he is known to employ upon soldiers within his ranks who breach his expected code of honor. The feared implement rests at his backside. Several leather pouches of varying sizes adorn his waistline, each holding miscellaneous supplies.

No matter what garb he bears, Maxen always carries with him a sheathed broadsword - Antrumensis. The blade is kept in an inscribed leather scabbard at his hip. When unsheathed, one can see that the blade is not of typical Stormwind make - forged from a metal more pristine than steel. Its broad flat is kept polished to a reflective sheen and is studded with small emeralds at its tip and near its pommel. It is said that despite the blade's smooth unassuming face, when the handle of the blade is in Maxen's grasp, softly glowing runes emerge on its flat.

Through his battlefield accomplishments and statesmanship, Maxen earned favors from a number of factions within the Alliance of Lordaeron during the Orcish Wars. After his rendered aid to the elves of Quel'Thalas and the protection of Eversong Woods, Maxen was gifted a fine elven dagger studded with sapphires. The Wildhammer Clan of dwarves forged a Storm Hammer enchanted to always return to Maxen's grip after he directed Stormwind's forces to several key victories in Northeron. While Maxen carries the dagger on his hip, he keeps the Storm Hammer amongst his treasures in Westridge Keep.

Maxen is trained in the operation of most ballistae and crossbows fielded by Stormwind and other human kingdoms. He is known to have in his possession a great crossbow that is rumored to have felled dragons.

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