Legends of Belariath
Saqwana Ironfist
Her story begins some 1000 years ago, when the iron dwarves left the main metal clan. The iron dwarves found a mountain with exceptional iron deposits and claimed it for themselves, thus it became the hold of the Iron Hills. Through months of planning and carving the first settlements in the Iron Hills were made. So with the settlement begun it was time to pick the ruling family. A grand tourney was held any with the will to fight could enter. This tourney went one for a year family throwing new fights into the rings to try and take the claim, eventually the tourney found the four strongest fighters their family names were Ironfist, Ironclad, Ironwill, and IronHeart. These four; two men and two women entered the battlefield and fought for days. The eventual winner was the Ironwill clan. They proceeded to rule for generations until their family was ousted in a grand tourney by the Ironfist clan. As an aside in the politics of the Ironhills whenever a reigning king or queen dies a tourney is held to confirm the new ruler, this is regardless of clan of birth or martial standing. It is a fair contest the strongest wins the throne.
43 years ago Saqwana and her twin sister Quilna Ironfist were born. These two bright rambunctious girls were the apple of their parents' eyes. Quilna being the more calm and regal one and Saqwana being the one who wanted to peruse the grand mysteries. So Saqwana took the path of the martial priest the cleric, and Quilna the path of the warrior and nobility. Their paths may have diverged but the sister were close Saqwana being there when Quilna’s mate was choosen, as dwarves of the ironhills have a rather low birthrate most marriages are arranged to promote compatibility. So with their paths and future spouses picked the girls went back into their studies. During these early formative years of Saqwana’s life she was taken by her father to many of his surface dealings so she could learn not to fear the world of light. Sometime later around Saqwana 32nd birthday the war began an ongoing bloody war with the moriel sought to claim the ironhills, as their own. These battles cost many lives on both sides but the superior dwarven defenses broke the moriel lines over and over again until the moriel were forced to retreat for a time. Years later the moriel would use legions of goblins to assault the ironhills. The sheer numbers of goblins sent to die allowed the moriel to push the mine forward, that was until Saqwana and her farther were able to sneak behind enemies and destroy the totem that compelled the goblins to fight for the moriel. This caused the goblin to turn and attack the moriel before renewing the assault on the ironhills. During the last great battle for the ironhills saqwana’s father fell protecting her, and she took a blow to the face leaving her face with a long jagged scar. The dwarves of the ironhills won the day, but not without cost. So when she woke from the coma days later, she attended her father's funeral, and the tourney was cast Quilna and the other worthy candidates fought with Quilna emerging victorious. It was her 40th birthday when this happened, so seeing what happened she decided to walk the lands learning of other peoples so she could better understand her own life.
Around her 41st birthday she ended up in Nanthalion here she stopped for now. In this place she met many friends and connected with a vulpine woman named Callie Volopa who was curious to learn of the ironhills. Her she met and fell in love with then submitted to a dwarven man named orik this did not work out well so she gave of his collar and being part of his life. So in an effort to move on she began working with her friend Abby on her keep. Through Abby the trajectory of her life took another turn so she would become Abby’s keeps librarian/logistician. What the future holds only time will tell.