Jormun Blackflake

Introduction
Jormun Snow was the only son of a captured Umber woman and a Skagosi raider. He was born on Skagos in the year 386 AC. Jormun was a post-mortum birth, his mother dying of a fever three weeks before full term. One of the other women removed him from her corpse. He was raised a Skagosi warrior after his mother’s death.

Appearance and Character
Jormun inherited both his father’s blue eyes and dark hair, but gained most else from his mother’s side of the family. He stands taller and broader than most of the Skagosi men. As can be expected by the conditions of his birth, Jormun grew up a more serious, dark and angry youth. That anger and darkness was channeled and focused with the blade and axe.

With age came maturity and understanding, now, Jormun is relatively easy going and relaxed until a blade is placed in his hands.

As with the Skagosi people, Jormun is an astute follower of the Old Gods and lives by the Old Ways of the First Men.

History
Born from the opened corpse of his dead mother, Jormun was adopted and raised by the Skagosi women that were with his mother when she died.

Early Life
Growing up he knew his father, only met him once or twice, but that was more than most boys had the right to say.

As with all things on Skagos, his youth was hard and filled with violence and struggle. The blood of his mother was strong in him, and was evident from onset. He was a large and heavy babe, and grew sooner and larger than all the children around him. By his tenth nameday Jormun had already passed five foot four and stood only three inches shorter than Mila, the woman who had taken the most responsibility in his upbringing.

At three and ten he got into a fight with three boys that were four years his senior, but at six foot he was of a height with them and just as broad if not more so. He smashed one’s head against a rock, killing him.

Recent Past
Death has always seemed to follow Jormun, since his mother gave him to the world before her corpse was completely cold. In 402 AC, during the early months of the Scarlet Winter he lost Mila to the cold and Thorst, a young orphan boy who began to feel like a brother, followed her soon after. The death that followed him did not end that year.

In 404 AC, when the Mainlanders came to Skagos to raid in hopes of surviving the Winter, he was fighting alongside Skagosi men on the Western Shore. When he returned back to his village settlement, he found his home burned not Amia, the woman he called his own. After searching near an hour, he found her body cold and frozen, her clothes torn and her throat slit.

In 405 AC, in what is called the Revenge of Skagos, he was on one of the Skagosi longships that gave passage to the Mainland, where he avenged his loses on its people.