Gender: Male
Age and life stage: 94 (mature adult)
Length: 13'5"
Height: 13'3"
Race: Greater minena
Appearance: Dagoth is a massive mhohhro, well-muscled and obviously a warrior in stance and build. His fur is shaggy but clean and not too tangled, each strand musty gray with silvered tips that make him look almost striped. From the knees down on all four legs the fur is a deep umber brown, fading to black at his toes. The tuft at the end of his tail is white, as is the short mane falling over his shoulders and dipping loosely over his eyes. Most striking about his coloring, however, is the striping of white and black blatently streaking his face. Running from his dark brown nose to the scruffy mane is a dash of pure white, curling over his muzzle to the generous fur of his cheeks. Separating top from bottom on either side of his muzzle is another stripe, this one of stark black, which reaches all the way up to his ears. His eyes are a cool brown.
As he has no magical abilities to protect him from the dangers of his ever-changing environment, Dagoth possesses a few pieces of metal that fit to him in strategic places: across his sides, to save him from goring; between his ears, to protect his valuable skull; and strapped to the outsides of his legs, to shield against breaking in travel or battle. If he is not expecting eminent danger, however, the unweildy things will be strapped to his large fleepip as packs. Most often he wears a thick cloak of midnight blue and a long, broad-bladed sword strapped across his back, ready to be drawn if need be.
History: Dagoth Ur was born in the mountains of Kyisna, one of the few greater minena who settled in the high lands rather than their native plains. He was a rare only minling, with no twin brother or sister, and it set him apart from the other minlings in the small village. However, he didn't often mind, for it allowed him to spend more time on learning the family trade. Of the Ur family of warriors, Dagoth spent the better portion of his childhood in training for battle and protection of the self and others. In the tradition of his parents, and their parents before them, and so on for generations, he left his mountain home as soon as he became a mature adult, after learning all his parents could teach him, and set off to learn what the world had to offer.
Dagoth Ur is a gruff minena, strong of body, mind, and opinion. Suiting his warrior path, he holds honor in very high regard but he also respects power. He does have that nagging soft spot, of course, like many of the "tough" creatures in the world, for youngsters and animals, made obvious by his companion, Forriidig the fleepip. He is a formidable swords-minena and just as skilled with his bare paws. Still, though he refuses to openly admit it, he misses being in the company of other minena.
Pet: Thought he is treated more like a pack animal than a pet, Dagoth's fleepip is very loyal to his master. He is taken care of, fed, protected, and given the occasional scratch on the head, and that seems to be all he needs. Dagoth named him simply Forriidig, which in the minena tongue means nothing more than "fleepip".
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