Bio - Skel and Sigorn

Skel & Sigorn - The Brothers

Skel and Sigorn are not actually brothers.

They both grew up as children to servants of a minor nobles household.

Being the children of servants they did not have an easy life, but being servants in a nobles household presented certain benefits.

Skel and Sigorn were both initiated into training exercises along with the Lords young sons. They were allowed to spar against the little lordlings, though never allowed to strike them. It was the custom of the nobles in this part of the land that all young lads should serve for small amounts of time in all trades, so that their aptitude might be better measured.

With all of their training with the sword on shield, they did not excel and so the master at arms passed them over at the day of choosing.

Skel showed aptitude for nothing in fact. So terrible was he at any skills that, at the age of twelve, no master craftsman wanted to apprentice him. And so by chance he was left with a lowly job of digging ditches. The Lord of the land had great goals for improving his land, thus irrigation and drainage systems were in much need. And so it was that Skel grew stronger as he toiled with soil all his days for years to come. But one day he grew tired of digging and wanted a change...

Sigorn, too, was passed over by the master at arms and many other master craftsmen. But he had a skill with working cloth and weaving. He was taken on to apprentice under a Master Weaver to make tapestries for the minor house. Alas, minor houses do not have many great feats to celebrate and as thrifty as the Lord was with his money and his economy, he did not need the employ of a master Weaver and the journeyman and apprentices. To please his benefactor, the master weaver was forced to discharge several journeymen and all of his apprentices. And so one day Sigorn found himself in need of a change…

Skel and Sigorn had remained friends through all of the years, but circumstance had always kept them busy and separate. It just so happened that on the same day of change they were both walking away from the Lords properties with their possessions.

They met at a road, surprised to find the other packed and leaving, and doubly surprised to find that their goals matched.

Both young men had the chance to change their fortunes. Both thought that they would have been better served if the master at arms had not passed them by, on the day of choosing, and so both resolved to become adventurers. To be mighty and fierce warriors. To answer to no Lord or his commanders, but be their own masters.

And so they embarked on the long journey to become true warriors, a ditch digger and a weaver.

Characters played by Daniel Colton