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Sep 24, 07:13 AM: Pitt Burger the Paladin

I have been working on a history for my Warcraft character Pitt. It has a long way to go but I wanted to post some of what I already have. Details about the first and second wars still need to be fleshed out and I have not started the third war or any of the recent history. This is probably less than half the story. Your feedback is welcome.

Pitt Burger is a mountain dwarf born in Ironforge about 40 years before the first war. He is the head of Dom Ursus, one of the oldest houses of Ironforge. Dom Ursus loosely means “House of the Bear”, sometimes also called the Father Bear Clan. Dom Ursus is a clan of merchants not warriors. Most of the family fortune has been made in the gathering and sale of raw materials especially ore, stone, and leather but they have also produced some of the finest crafts men of dwarf legend.

Like most dwarves Pitt is driven to create but in the field, especially at war, this can be very hard to do. He loves to cook and cooking provides a short term outlet for his creative inspirations as well as the practical applications. But he’s also frustrated by how quickly meals are finished and their impact rarely last past the next one. Although he has taken up many hobbies and earned a large personal fortune none of it compares to making a mark on metal for all eternity. The day Pitt is no longer able to strike his hammer to the anvil will most likely be the day he passes from this world.

Pitt really enjoys smithing and will work tirelessly for hours on end. He never intended to fight for a living, he has never seen the “sport” in combat, and had always intended to be a craftsman and take over as head of his clan from his father. Pitt was still an apprentice blacksmith when the first war broke out. Dwarves believe that you learn a craft from the most basic elements up. For blacksmith this means you first learn to mine and smelt the ore before you can learn to shape the metal. Although Most of his time was had spent mining in the Dun Morogh and Loch Modan areas he had already become quite skilled at shaping metal and had a natural talent for armor construction.

His young wife was killed in the first weeks of the first war. When word reached Pitt he enlisted immediately. Because war broke out they never actually had a wedding ceremony. She worked in a traveling carnival, this is how they met. Her carnival came to Loch Modan every spring. The first year he noticed her they never even spoke but each day Pitt would go to watch her work. The second year Pitt mustered his (drunken) courage and introduced himself. On the third year he asked for her hand in marriage and presented her with a plain mithril band he had crafted. They would have been married on their fourth meeting if not for the Horde. Because he will never love another as he did her he considers them to be “married” from the moment they met.

In the second war he was separated from the rest of the dwarves and Ironforge. Pitt was stationed at the Stonewrought Dam when the second war began. He did battle with the first waves of Horde in the Valley of the Kings. Outnumbered, the dwarves sealed the South Gate Pass and ordered the remained troops to the North gate Pass. Pitt deliberately stayed in the battle rather than seek the safety of Ironforge. Pitt knew the mountain would soon be sealed and the Dwarves would be cut off from the rest of the Alliance. Ignoring his orders Pitt made his way back to the Dam with a few others. Eventually the Dam fell as well and in the final moments of the battle Pitt was knocked back over the edge of the Dam and fell into the wetlands. His paladin abilities saved him from the fall. He made his way to the then deserted Grim Batol. Once recovered and reenergized he continued to move north and eventually arrived at Aerie Peak

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