Thread:Transcendantviewer/@comment-26852465-20160304035846/@comment-25547106-20160304041956

Well, the class is a recent addition to the character that is Grigor Armstrong. He started out as "Grigor Armstrong, The Gentlemanly Barbarian". His backstory is that he's the son of a wealthy travelling nomadic trade caravan. In his later life, he was sent to a Bard's College to learn the musical arts and further his education. However, there were problems. His rough and tumble life made him prone to good-spirited brawls, which, coupled with his family's unusual customs of using Ironwood Instruments as their primary weapons, rather than as musical instruments, led to his untimely expulsion from the college. From there, he returned to his homelands to reunite with his family. Upon arriving, he was met with the grim news of the death of his half-brother, Frederick. This, coupled with the miniscule smatterings of arcane knowledge he'd learned over the years at college, led to him vowing to become a proficient arcane caster and resurrecting his kin. He, ironically, has no understanding of arcane magic, and cannot actually cast spells. So his title of "Muscle Wizard" is actually a misnomer. He took up the mantle of Muscle Wizard in order to gain access to higher-learned circles of mages in order to find one that could revive his deceased half-brother. So, when you see "The Gentlemanly Barbarian" iteration of Grigor, he looks to be a wizard with bulging muscles, barely capable of fitting in his ornate robes. He wears a wide-brimmed Wizard's cap (Imagine Mickie's Cap from The Sorcerer's Apprentice) and a matching robe. When he rages, he throws back his shoulders, revealing his rippling manliness, and fights with his familial lute. Keeping to the source material (Alex Louise Armstrong from FMA), all members of his family possess exceptional strength and endurance, so their main trade export is wooden instruments which have been whittled from Ironwood Trees.

The current iteration of Grigor can actually cast spells, however.