Batlamius Guilla
Batlamius Guilla is a lumberjack from Vansreik who now works as a freelance mercenary.1
The attack on the mill
Batlamius began his working life as a lumberjack in the service of the House of Von’Storms, and for five years he laboured in the forests of West Reach. Then a band of wood elven freedom fighters attacked their lumber mill. Batlamius and his friends met the attackers with their axes in a desperate defence of their livelihood, but the elves were far better fighters and slaughtered his companions.2
Seeing his friends butchered filled Batlamius with a rage that carried him through deadly wounds until he beheaded the wood elven leader, at which the elves quickly fled. The rage that took hold of him that day still lingers in his heart.2
In battle
Batlamius fights with the ferocity of a cornered wolf. He is tough and hard to bring down, and his rage gives his blows a force few can match. He carries a great axe and has no formal training; faced with several enemies, he usually charges the largest fighter he can see.2
Notes
Sources
This article draws on:
- MCMercenary Compendium(Bad Badger Games, 2024), pp. 12, 33
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