Rondar Kollbeck
Rondar Kollbeck
At the table
Voice
A rough-edged, steady voice built for being heard across a shelter or a defensive line. Its firm, practical cadence softens into plain, close-spoken prayer when he is beside someone in pain.
His voice has a grounded, slightly rough texture, shaped by calling instructions across crowded shelters and speaking over the clatter of armor. He forms words carefully, with the clipped precision of someone used to making an order understood the first time. When praying with another person, his phrasing becomes plain and intimate, never theatrical.
Speech patterns
How to play them
Rondar begins with practical help, offering a bandage, a plan, or a place to sit before asking for a person's story. He responds warmly to honest uncertainty and directly to evasiveness. Give players a clear role in his plans; he respects people who choose civilian safety even when that choice costs the group a chance to pursue another lead.
Goal
Find out what happened to the group he offered to gather and investigate the sewer threat, while ensuring Brioa's defenders and civilians remain cared for.
Motivation
Rondar believes that faith is proven by the lives it helps preserve. He wants to protect people without allowing fear to make the city's defenders cruel or careless.
Appearance
Rondar has the weathered, watchful look of someone who has spent more nights beside a barricade than in a bed. His coat is broad through the shoulders, but his stance is compact and patient, weight settled on the balls of his feet as if he is ready to cross a room before anyone finishes calling for help. The surprising detail is a narrow strip of bright saffron cloth tied around his left wrist, carefully knotted and conspicuously clean amid his practical, soot-marked kit. His world-tree medallion is always visible; its worn edge is smooth as river stone, except for one deep groove where his thumb repeatedly worries it. He moves with brisk economy, and people tend to remember that he looks at the injured before he looks at the danger.
Clothing
A dark, weather-stained cleric's coat over a mail shirt, reinforced leather gloves, sturdy boots, and a plain saffron cloth tie at his wrist. His Covenant medallion hangs outside the armor where others can see it.
Body language
While waiting, Rondar puts most of his weight on the balls of his feet, angled toward the nearest person who might need help. He keeps one hand near his medallion, not as a theatrical gesture but as a familiar check that it is still there. When someone is hurt, his posture changes at once: shoulders square, gaze steady, movements quick and exact.
- Height
- About 5 feet 10 inches
- Build
- Broad-shouldered and sturdy, with the practical strength of a man used to hauling supplies and supporting the injured.
- Eyes
- Hazel-brown, with a steady, assessing gaze
- Hair
- Dark brown, threaded with grey and usually flattened beneath a plain coif
- Skin
- Warm olive, weathered by outdoor work
- Age
- Adult, in his early forties
- Gender
- Male
- Size
- Medium
Distinguishing features
Personality
14 traits and drivesRondar is steady enough to calm a frightened crowd, yet restless whenever there is a danger he has not mapped. He meets strangers with patient attention, then becomes sharply directive when someone is hurt. He finds comfort in prayer but distrusts easy certainty, especially when blood magic is involved. He can laugh with exhausted defenders over a bad meal, then abruptly fall silent when a casualty is carried past.
- Alignment
- Neutral Good
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Habits
Traits · 4
Flaws · 3
Fears · 3
Wants and needs · 4
Combat
AC 18 · HP 67 · 30 ft.Rondar treats a fight as a rescue operation with enemies in the way. He keeps allies within reach for healing, uses Spirit Guardians to hold a threatened passage, and chooses spells that help the group endure rather than chase a dramatic victory. Against undead he invokes Turn Undead; against living foes he favors restraint when possible. If civilians are at risk, he will break formation to reach them, even when it is tactically unwise.
Rondar Kollbeck
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Equipment
- Kirlis world-tree medallion (holy symbol)A worn medallion bearing the Covenant's world-tree symbol. Its rim is polished smooth except for a deep groove from repeated use.
- Chain mail (armor)Well-maintained chain mail worn beneath a dark, weather-stained coat.
- Mace (weapon)A plain, serviceable mace with a leather-wrapped grip.
- Tree-marked shield (armor)A sturdy shield marked with a simple painted tree, its surface scraped from use in the defense of the city.
- Saffron wrist tie (personal token)The saffron strip he keeps tied around his left wrist, clean and carefully knotted.
- Healer's satchel (supplies)Bandages, clean cloth, a small stoppered flask of holy water, and basic supplies for treating the injured.
Possessions
Background
Rondar learned the Covenant's rites while carrying water, bandages, and messages between shelters. During the violence in Leiden, he stayed with the wounded and civilians rather than joining the fighting, using divine magic to protect people trapped inside the city. That choice made him a healer soldiers trusted, but it also left him convinced that good intentions are no substitute for knowing where the next danger will emerge. He later served among Brioa's defenders, healing badly injured adventurers in Rurik Stålskägg's captain's tent and praying beside Brother Buff. When he heard reports of a threat in the sewers, he offered to gather a party and investigate. The adventurers instead chose to defend the civilian population, and Rondar remained with the defenders when the attack began. He had previously warned that dark blood magic had been practiced in Acrain. Now he is missing, and no word has reached the people waiting for him. Before disappearing, he left the organization of the city's relief efforts in careful order, as if he expected to return after a short errand.
Role in the story
A compassionate defender and organizer whose healing helped the party survive, and whose unresolved disappearance ties the defense of Brioa to the danger in its sewers. His absence leaves both a practical gap in the city's response and a personal question for those who prayed with him.
“He later served among Brioa's defenders, healing badly injured adventurers in Rurik Stålskägg's captain's tent and praying beside Brother Buff.”
- Faction
- Cleric of the Covenant of Kirlis, whose order aided wounded people and civilians inside Leiden. He is an ally of Brioa's defenders.
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