Varchild
| Varchild | |
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| General Varchild | |
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| Species | Human |
| Job | Knight |
| Birth, Life & Death | |
| Birthplace | Kjeldoran Hinterlands, Terisiare, Dominaria |
| Lifetime | Ice Age-The Thaw |
| Born | c. 2910 AR |
| Death | After 2954 AR |
| Sources | |
| The Eternal Ice, The Shattered Alliance | |
General Varchild was the leader of the Kjeldoran army during the last years of the Ice Age of Dominaria, but later went rogue and lead a private army against the Balduvian barbarians.[1]
Description
Varchild appeared to be left-handed.[2]
History
As a little girl in the Kjeldoran Hinterlands, Varchild had a hard life, losing a brother in a Balduvian raid, an uncle who was a skyknight to Balduvian arrows, and two aunts in battle with Lim-Dûl's undead. When she moved to Krov to become a knight, she quickly discovered that many of the knights considered her, as a hinterland Kjeldoran, almost as bad as the Balduvians she so despised. Still, hiding her accent, Varchild managed to work her way up to the highest regions of the military, becoming the right hand of Avram Garrison, the de facto leader of the Kjeldoran troops. Varchild became a Captain in the Kjeldoran army and was appointed as Garrison's aide.[3]
Garrison had been the favorite of the queen and was lobbying for the unification of the splintered military orders into a single army with him as its general. But the queen died before she could make it so, and her son King Darien kept saying he'd "consider" it, not wanting to insult other knights and nobles. This, plus the general decadence and stagnation Kjeldor was getting into, drove Garrison to form the Knights of Stromgald, an organization planning to kill the king and blame it on the Balduvians and the wizards to take control of the nation and declare war on the Balduvians. Although she hated the barbarians, Varchild could not go along with murdering the king of the nation and defended him with her life when the eventual coup came.[3]
When the Stromgalds were defeated and Lim-Dûl was revealed as the secret benefactor behind the group, the king managed to use to take direct control of the remains of the various military orders and use it as the foundation for a powerful rule. Varchild was honored to become the first general of the nation's unified army in generations, but immediately had to swallow a hard pill: in the war against the necromancer, Kjeldor would have to ally with the Balduvians. Still, she set aside her personal feelings and fought alongside the barbarian forces in Lim-Dûl's Battle, the clash that would defeat Lim-Dûl forever.[3]
However, Varchild was resentful of having been forced to work with the Balduvians. In the years after the battle, when the Ice Age ended and the Flood Age began, she started skirmishing in the mountain passes, coming into conflict with orcs. In one particular battle in 2949 AR, Varchild was presumed killed along with her entire troop against a strike team of orcs and ogres. However, Varchild survived the skirmish, and she used her presumed death to her advantage. She started recruiting followers from the low folk, first as a group of militia, then as trained soldiers, and finally as a full war band. Varchild's small army waged war on the Balduvians with several successful strikes, until finally being discovered by Jodah when she assaulted Lovisa Coldeyes's camp directly in 2954 AR. Her plot revealed, that Varchild was suddenly marked as a traitor to Kjeldor, and found herself facing not only the Balduvians but a united front of both nations together. Now outnumbered and outmatched, Varchild crusade petered out as the nation of New Argive formed and rallied against her, stealing her troops out from under her.[4]
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Varchild Key Art
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References
- ↑ Commander 2018 blurbs
- ↑ Jay Annelli (February 5, 2024). "Right-handed Shield". Twitter.
- ↑ a b c Jeff Grubb. (2000.) "The Eternal Ice", Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Jeff Grubb (2000) - The Shattered Alliance, Wizards of the Coast