User blog:Hereticalthoughts/Ulf Stoneson: The Preacher of Riverdale

Ulf Stoneson is a character developed in my free time for messing about on the forums. Resemblences to other characters or taken from other sources are either coincidental or will be cited.

Age: 20

Race: Human (non corrupted)

Occupation: Preacher

Appearance: stands at around 6'9, with a strong, top heady build from long hours and years of continual practice and training. He wears the black garb common of a preacher, though he keeps his unruly brown hair wild and a little long and has a short beard. His eyes are greyish blue. His left leg is somewhat crooked from an accident several years ago, and he walks with a slight limp.

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Bio:

Ulf is a 20 year old young man fresh out of his apprenticeship as a priest. Born and raised in the somewhat isolated village of Riverdale located in the mountains, he was raised among a family of miners and woodsmen and assumed that would be his calling as well, however, things don't always go as planned, and on his first day working a dead tree fell onto his leg, shattering the bones inside it. The local priest was able to save his life and let him keep the limb, but he wouldn't be able to work like his father and brothers did with a limp. Depressed, he spent a year or so simply watching his life pass by when the same priest came and gave him an offer to be his apprentice, as he was getting on in years and needed someone to take over when he retired. Seeing no reason not to, the youngster took him up on the offer and joined the church, becoming versed in the ways of the Order and regaining his confidence as he read the scriptures by night and learned to fight against monsters that might threaten the village by day.

It was an exhausting process, and several times he contemplated quitting, but still he pushed on out of the fear that he would be swallowed by his own depression if he didn't keep forging ahead. After several years of training he wound up becoming an assistant priest to the old man, and was given two gifts: A greataxe and the hammer he'd been training with to build up his body strength. While they had originally been intended for ornamentation as symbols of his triumph, he would wind up having to use them soon, as he was conscripted to join one of the Order's crusades against the Demon Realm. Put simply, he'd seen some of the best and worst that both humans and these mamono are capable of, and it changed his ways of thinking.

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Personality: Normally laid back and willing to listen to peoples' problems if they come to him, Ulf projects a very calm, casual personality. Even when in danger his slightly sarcastic sense of humor comes through, as he is fond of trash talking opponents or overly rude individuals with the kind of foul language one would associate with a soldier rather than a man of the cloth. While he does believe in the Order's teachings to an extent, he isn't quite as zealotous as some would prefer towards monsters, though understandably he is wary of them.

Above all else, he despises hypocrisy and being told that something is impossible or laughable, as he feels that great men always seek paths to greatness regardless of their origins (and even species).

Of late, he has become quite fond of cigars, in particular the ones with a bit of dream grass in them.

He is quite succeptible to bribes of spicy food, drink and cigars, and there are times he gets too caught up in things.

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Gear: One steel greataxe with many notches and some chips on the blade, a relic of his grandfather's. One stone great hammer, symbolizing his beliefs, it is inscribed with prayers and blessings. His garments are thick wool made from normal sheeps' wool, and finally he keeps a couple caestus' in his belt in case he needs a more hands on approach to defending whoever his flock is.

(There we have it, if I missed something, sorry. Just point it out and I'll try and get it in there. Also, that line about impossiblilities and such is pretty much taken straight from gurren lagann cause I'm lazy.)