Durumn

A tenacious and hyperactive warrior even from a young age, Durumn was well-known for both her blunt sense of humor and her unerringly accurate fists. Eager to learn the arts of war, she was considered quite the prodigy by her superiors, and her rapid ascent within the ranks of the Ulnhann was no surprise to anyone. Born with an uncanny sense of closeness with her faction's serpentine mounts, it didn't take long before the Vardket took notice and ordered that she be trained for leadership as part of the vanguard for the God-Killing Army's invasion. Despite her short temper, she became one of the most prominent candidates to lead their family-faction in the planned war. The news of the Vardket's disappearance, however, shocked the faction into stagnation and infighting as their leaders accused one another of betrayal to their masters. It was the Greherd-led attack that galvanized them into action, with the furious Durumn knocking the opposition off their feet, quite literally. With her no-nonsense attitude and stalwart courage, she succeeded in uniting the Ulnhann into the cohesive fighting force that they were trained to be. Despite relentless skirmishes with Greherd forces, they managed to hold their ground and push their attackers into a stalemate, but not without a price. As the smoke cleared, Durumn's arm hung uselessly from her side, the bones within crushed into a fine powder while the flesh was left intact after a near-miss with a Greherd cannon. The injury, amputation, and subsequent replacement of her fleshy arm with a mechanical one did nothing to dampen the sweet taste of victory, however. Yet Durumn saw the look of rage in the eyes of her opponents and knew that this had only been the beginning. Having proven her skills in battle against the Ulnhann's enemies, the battle-scarred Durumn turned to the needs of her family-faction as soon as she was able. With the experience gleaned from their first fights, Durumn quickly began the arduous task of training soldiers with their newfound knowledge and strengthening their arsenal of serpents, warriors, and tactics. It was clear that the Ulnhann, though successful, could still improve in many areas. Despite controversy over the Vardket's disappearance, her efforts to focus their energies into their future bore much fruit. It was to their shock and surprise that they discovered a trap laid by the Greherd--a virus that caused their egg-laying mounts to bear fewer spawn, marred by sickness and frail bodies. Angered by this turn of events, Durumn ordered and personally led several expeditions into long-abandoned Vardket research facilities. Desperate to find a cure, she didn't allow any obstacles to stop her search, and it was in a long-forgotten laboratory that Durumn found the answer to what she sought, along with something else: a magical device made by the Vardket that connected the wearer's mind to their fellow soldiers and their steeds, allowing them to command entire armies without delay or hesitation. She wasted no time in dispensing the cure and harnessing the power of the device, and soon thereafter the Ulnhann were reforged into a single fighting force, just in time to meet the Greherd surprise attack.