Tomu Kumun has had a long and hard life. Due to his immense size, he
was ostracized from his clan in the northern Dalgobian regions, being
feared as an unnatural union of a giant and a human. He found service
around the armies battling the Mishans and Norians in the Northern Wars.
During his service with the Dalgobi empire, he found himself near a
large fort made by the Dwarves. Apparently, Dwarves have a penchant
for making large underground tribal homes by digging them out of
solid rock. These tribal homes seem to also have a penchant for
attracting a large number of interlopers that want to take over the
dwarven Sabek's, whether for plundering the riches of the Dwarves,
or just because "it's there". Either way, Tomu befriended one Dwarf
from one of the Sabeks while in the army. When one of the initial
series of campaigns was finished with, Tomu had some downtime, and,
having no home of his own, decided to help out his long time battle
companion with his troubles liberating his ancestral Dwarven Sabek
from a horde of unnatural abberations and giants. During the battle,
Tomu, using his large size and unique talents to play a decisive
role in liberating the Sabek. In return for his help, he was
awarded a very nice Breastplate manufactured by the Dwarves made from
the rare substance "mithral". He also received, as an honorary gift,
a Great Warhammer, symbolizing the clan of Dwarves he aided in their
liberation. Little does Tomu know, but the hammer head was
manufactured out of a rare earth metal known as "Cold Iron".
During his second stint as unlikely scout in the Northern Wars, his
unit was captured while on patrol. Unfortunately for him, or perhaps
fortunately, due to his large size, most people were afraid of him,
therefore either leaving him alone or stoning him. Enduring these
atrocities, he vowed to bring justice (his OWN style of
hammer-in-noggin justice) to these captors. The rules of captivity
are quite clear, and do NOT include torture. He had to sit by, bound
and gagged while the armies of Noria slaughtered villages mercilessly.
After a long enough period of time, however, his captors tired of
himself and the last few remaining captives still alive, he was
crucified near the town of Two Roads. He and another of the captives
survived just long enough for a patrol of Mishans (???) cut him
down and imprisoned him as a POW should be. While his living
conditions were anything but luxurious, he did have ample food and
water. These, it seemed, knew the rules of war far better than the
Norians before.
He is now trying to exact revenge on his captors.
Irongate is a Dwarven place that is rumored to be phenomenally well
defended and constructed.
