Surtson - Fire Jötunn

A descendant of the Ugadrin of Oldavor, Surtson is a giant whose ancestors migrated to the caves and mountains of Oldavor, rather than it’s ever-icy plains. Within the mountains there was warmth, heat and fire, stoked by the magma chambers beneath the surface. There they were given sanctuary from the elements of the surface, and the monstrosities that lived with it. Yet, this sanctuary came at a price, for it was coveted also by monstrosities of the deep, and clans of Colossals that heard word of these underground settlements bound in warmth. Thus the Fire Jotunn’s were not afforded the peace they sought, and instead became just as warlike as their snowbound cousins, though not by choice. For the Fire Giants, above all else, longed for solitude, something ill-afforded to them in a land where each creature is struggling for survival. Thus, some travelled south, settling in the mountain ranges near Oldavor’s border instead, in climates that were spared the constant barrage of blizzards and creatures of abject horror. Surtson, was one such Fire Jotunn. Within the mountains of Mayreth, hugging Oldavor’s border, he settled. Deep in the bowels of the long-dormant volcano, Hvildareldr he found his home, yet the hearth of his home was dwindling. In recent years, Surtson has begun to kindle that dying hearth, though the increase in seismological activity and smoke billowing from the volcanos has drawn attention from the World Explorer’s & Hunter’s League, who initially sent a team of scholars to study the phenomena. With only one returning from a team of twelve, the WEHL decided to mount a hunting expedition against the creature responsible, both out of vengeance, and a worry that if unchecked, the volcano could destroy a large swath of Mayreth’s north, and the entire region of Nordheim.