Boron, the Blademaster

Boron is the fifth hero you gain under your control.

Background
“We watch and remember, for all time eternal.”

All races of Artara pass their crafts, passions and knowledge down to their offspring, all save the Frostlings. For there is no concept of teaching among a race that trades in memories since the beginning of time.

All human children are raised on the tales of frostlings… Giants of the north, bound together by a spiritual and mental means, unlike any other. Beings with the ability to imprint their thoughts directly in stone and recall them from such monuments with the ease at which other races speak.

I have heard king Daedric tell of a great northern Hall of Stones, where the collective memory of their entire race is stored in sacred memory stones. And in this place, upon coming of age, adolescent frostlings choose from among them before setting off into the world. Binding their fate to the influence of memories long past.

To sit before a delegation of their kind fills my heart with awe… They tower over my throne staring into my soul through bright orange eyes. Imposing. Intimidating. Yet, I sense nothing but serene, benevolence.

The head of their delegation, Boron, is soft-spoken, articulate, educated. He explains that our world is spiraling into an age of ugliness from which we may not return. I am informed that his people are curators of culture and art. They revere the sublime and abhor the grotesque. Never in a thousand years, would I have imagined… such contradiction in nature!

But there is something else, he doesn’t speak to directly… A past long ago, savage and brutal. Its memory alive, but willfully ignored. My large friend’s words are poetic. But I sense an inner struggle. He speaks of pacifism and a peaceful means to end these dark days—as he lays his hand on the axe at his side. The stench of fear lingers beneath his contrary nature. An insecurity he goes to great lengths to mask.

It may be a risk to send him along with the others. But where there is greater risk, there is always greater reward.