Plow

=Rasa (aka "Plow")=

A male-personality Adamantine-bodied Warforged who apparently served in the Cyran Army until the Time of Mourning, "Plow" ingratiated himself with the Murnie family in late 997 YK, doing menial chores and befriending their daughter. This led to Plow joining the Murnies when they were granted a plot of land to farm by Prince Oargev ir'Wynarn. He claimed to have chosen the name "Plow" because he disavowed war and chose the farming lifestyle.

It was Plow who discovered the murdered members of the Murnie family in their cottages. He claims he was on the nearby hill, pulling dressed stones from the ruins up there to be used by the homesteaders, when he saw the two finished cottages enveloped by the "dead-gray mist" like that which now defines the borders of the Mournland. By the time he made it to the cottages, the five Murnies, including the little girl, were dead. As he tells it, knowing that neither the grain mill (located just over a mile away) nor the nearby homesteads were occupied this time of year, he took it upon himself to walk the 30-plus miles to New Cyre to report the deaths and the "dead-gray mist" personally; a trip that took a day and a half because of the snow and the limits of his own body.

Since then, Plow has accompanied the party back to the Murnie Homestead and to the nearby grain mill, and in both cases taken part in fights against Goblins and Hobgoblins with the "Dark Hands" clan. Both times, he was apparently rendered inert and nearly dead. Once back in New Cyre, he conferred with Prince Oargev and joined a Brelish Army detachment sent to New Cyre from Wroat. When the detachment rode to the Homestead on Zarantyr 12, 998YK, Plow went along as a guide. He entered the "lost" Dragonshard mine underneath the Homestead with the detachment's leader, Captain Narcy Kemble, and Tanar d'Tharashk, a Half-Orc working for the Prince and temporarily assigned to use his Dragonmark and assess the mine's viability. This force was captured by the Goblinoids defending the mine, and Plow claims he was soon handed over to a mysterious Duergar Artificer and weaponsmith, Kostas Knyarri. When the adventurers encountered Knyarri and drove him away, Plow was rescued -- but not before attacking several party members, seemingly compelled to do so by the Duergar.

While the New Cyrans were preparing for their Muster in response to the earlier call for reinforcements, Plow talked to Faye Dwarfhammer about the party's plans to ambush the Goblinoids as they head for the Darguun border, as part of the deal they made for the release of the other captives from Captain Kemble's party. Or, rather, Captain ir'Kemble -- Plow told Faye and Draco she'd revealed her noble background while they were captives together. Faye deferred any further discussion, feeling the need to consult with Professor Wunsin. Plow then joined the fighters and clerics, after going off to acquire a Bastard Sword and Large Wooden Shield (and a winter cloak, and perhaps a potion or two of Cure Damage).

He traveled with Stend, Dashiell, Colden and Thurm to where the //Draar Mac// raiders would pass on their way home. Despite being told to use non-lethal measures, the first encounter, with Goblins on Worgs and small Winter Wolves, saw Plow violating that order and cleaving Goblins and wolves with equal efficiency, bordering on brutality. If Thurm noticed anything unusual, he said nothing.

A short time later, a small column of Goblins and Hobgoblins marched along the same path. between their two lines were the three hostages, roped together. As the party implemented a brilliant scheme to trick them into releasing the hostages, Plow and a Hobgoblin Archer got into a fight, moving into the thick screen of snow-covered foliage to the side of the narrow valley.


 * //Note://** Coincidentally, a homonym of the same syllable -- //p'lau// -- means "inside" in the Goblinoid tongue.

Update:
Oh yeah, Plow's a traitor. Big-time. Plow was really Rasa, a member of the //Kech Volaar// unit led by Mariin Dhakaan. Current wherabouts unknown, as he was not present at the battle atop Seven Caves mountain on 13 Eyre that claimed the lives of Mariin and the rest of her team (Banuur, Jiindal, Nasheer and Broomm).