Aurora Magazine 2019

Backstory: Torgga grew up in the Battleforger clan with her two brothers, Kilrak and Gimel, who taught her the way of the totem warriors. Kilrak chose the totem of the bear, all brute strength in contrast to his twin, Gimel’s way of the wolf, all calculated planning and cunning strategy. Her father, Barkas, ran the clan’s smithy and taught her the odds and ins of blacksmithing. She never met her mother, Yurdeth, and knows very little about her. The clan mainly dwelled in caves and mines but have traveled the surface enough to not be fearful of falling into the sky. Torgga, accompanied by her brothers, left for a rite of passage for young dwarves aspiring to be warriors, called a Dragonmoot, which is a proud but vanishing tradition. When they returned home afterward, however, they found that the rest of their clan had vanished. The three had suspected that duergar had attacked, though whether the clan left in hurry or ended up captured were unknown. The siblings agreed to split up to cover more ground in the search for their missing clan, which is how Torgga found herself traveling with a caravan, unaware of how it would change her life completely. Later, when the caravan had been ambushed during the night by kobolds, she was knocked out and taken captive. When she awoke, she discovered that she hadn’t been the only one captured. She teamed up with the other survivors and together they retrieved what was stolen and escaped, heading toward the next big town. There, they were hired to clear a dungeon beneath the city and uncovered the rise of Tiamat, a vengeful and evil god. When the group sought him out, he plane-shifted them to a strange apocalyptic world, where they faced hoard after hoard of undead, before defeating Tiamat and finding their way back to their world. The group of friends discovered they’d been gone from their world for five years and that they were famously dubbed the God Slayers. They even had their own citadel, where Torgga established a very nice forge and blacksmithing business. 47