 This coarse looking norse
berserker appears fearsome even when he is calm. His deeply tanned and
creased skin has an almost green tinge to it. Red rimmed eyes and an
eternal scowl put many people off, but the heart, and infrequently seen
personality, of Lief the Skullsplitter is truly good. He wears runed
platemail armor with matching steel boots and helm which sports two
horns like that of a buffalo. On the knees, shoulders, elbows and
forearms of the armor is a constant frost, even in the heat of summer.
From these patches of frost he is able to cause ice spikes to grow when
enraged. He walks with a cool confidence, and talks in a very self
assured manner. Around his waist is belted three bastard swords and two
2-handed swords, each of norse make, each of differing manufacture, but
all are well kept and easily within reach. Around his neck hangs a thin
silver necklace with a pendant shaped as a double-headed axe made of
pure platinum and a steel horn with norse runes and carvings on a
leather cord. All other adornments, other than the few rings hidden
under his steel greaves and his ever-present wineskins and parchment
case, he foregoes. Lief is charged with the protection of Teleri, the
Bard of Edgewood, and takes that job very seriously, separating from
her only on her express command and never for long. Many legends of the
silver axe pendant he wears have surfaced over the centuries including
the myth of the True King of the North being protected by the powers of
the pendant as he fights for supremacy over the rule of Paran. Lief has
no blood relation to any previous King, a requirement of achieving the
status of King, which is not how prophecy describes the True King, who
is said to be a direct descendant of the First King of the North.
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