Legends of Belariath

Kinkaid

The story of Alexander Kinkaid is not a long or involved one, but it is an interesting one. He was born on a small peasant farm where he grew up in an a rather normal and altogether peaceful surroundings. That remained the same for several years, as he spent his life tending to the farm, to the animals, working side by side with his father who was also a man of tremendous stature, strength and build, much the same as Kinkaid himself.

That, however, all ended abrupty one morning with the arrival of the slaver raiding party that descended upon his farmland home when Kinkaid had just turned eighteen. He was forced to watch as his own mother was manhandled, brutalized and taken by the slavers while his own father, afraid for the life of his son and wife, attempted to bargain with the leader of the party only to be cut down by the man's blade. Kinkaid underwent a transformation that day, one in which he claimed his father's mighty one handed maul from the blood and rain soaked ground and attempted to purge all weakness, all humanity, all emotion from himself in other to become what he termed the Death Bringer, so that never again would he be the one cowering beneath the blade, but always the one holding it.

The next several years, Kinkaid spent wandering the lands of the world, traversing all across the contient, selling his skills and moving from one camp to the next. That was when the Mercenary was born and it was where he earned the nickname 'Death Bringer' among those he campaigned with for his ruthless brutality and savagery upon the field of battle. He also learned to control his emotions, making his face a cold, unfeeling mask, controlling his anger only to release it in calculated bursts of savage fury, letting the Darkness within him, the rage sustain him.

He saved all of his earnings, all of his coin, paying only for the heavy black leather armor he now wears and to maintain that hammer of his father's and then he set out for the Empire where he has since been working to take his own claim, to grow his own power and see what will come next for him.

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