Editing In the Halls of Undermountain: Janduvar (section)

=Character Summary=
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'''Janduvar Cindersteel'''<br>
Age: 34<br>
Gender: Male<br>
Race: Dwarf (Gold) <br>
Class: Fighter (Tempest) <br>

Quote: “Good drink, good fight, dwarf friend for life.  Steal or slight, with honor gone rotten, a Cindersteel’s grudge is not forgotten.”

 
'''Description:''' Like many gold dwarves, Janduvar is short and sturdy, with a tanned complexion and reddish-brown hair.  He keeps the sides of his head shaved and has a modest beard (for a dwarf) with two short hanging braids.  Unusually, his eyes are heterochromatic: one hazel, the other a pale greenish-gold.  He dresses in hides or chainmail armor and wears a pair of strange, lethal-looking bladed gauntlets on his hands.

 
'''Personality:''' Janduvar can be boisterous and proud to the point of arrogance.  However, he is usually very focused on his mission and is not easily distracted.  As a result, he has a tendency to disregard the personalities and problems of others unless they have an impact on his goals; namely, vengeance on his ancestral enemies and proving himself to the clan.  In other respects, he has a traditional dwarven outlook.

 
'''Background:''' Approximately a hundred years ago, two liches of the Twisted Rune conspired to kidnap Halaster Blackcloak and scour his mind for knowledge of magical portals.  They were successful; however, the temporary removal of Halaster from Undermountain had unforeseen consequences.  In his absence, gates to the dungeon began to open randomly throughout the Realms, disgorging hordes of its denizens and causing widespread havoc in an event known as Halaster’s Higharvestide.  Amidst the chaos, the sudden appearance of strange creatures in the distant volcanic range of the Smoking Mountains, and the subsequent decimation of a small dwarven hold located there, was to pass largely unnoticed.
 
To the surviving members of the Cindersteel clan, however, the events of that day are an obsession.  The deaths of their ancestors and the loss of the clanhold is a grudge that must be avenged until every remnant of the monstrous invaders has been wiped out.  The cataclysm of the Spellplague delayed this task, but in recent years it has become a rite of passage for warriors of the clan to venture into the Smoking Mountains and exact vengeance upon their ancestral enemies (or more commonly, the descendants of said enemies).
 
Janduvar is the youngest son of the current Cindersteel clan leader.  His brothers have all long since distinguished themselves, both in combat and by working to return the clan to prosperity.  However, he has come across information that they did not: that the strange creatures unleashed on them a hundred years ago had their origins in Undermountain. Furthermore, one of the liches responsible for the entire disaster was captured prior to the Spellplague, and might still be imprisoned within the dungeon.  By traveling to Undermountain and eliminating the clan’s enemies at their source, Janduvar has an opportunity to prove himself in a way that no other warrior of the clan can match.  The Cindersteel will have their vengeance.


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