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| name = Flameson Hammersmith | | name = Flameson Hammersmith | ||
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| caption = "Life solves the problems we hope it won't." | | caption = "Life solves the problems we hope it won't." |
Revision as of 08:56, 6 April 2015
Contents
Basic Info
An elder Roegadyn with all the warmth of a cannonball, Hammersmith is an immensely Hellsguard who's come out of "retirement" at the behest of someone blowing up large portions of the continent including, but not limited to: Where he was trying to retire to. Never known for being cheery, he's even less such, having picked his weapons up again and returning to a life well traveled.
- "I know the cities pretty well. Helped put a lot of holes in their walls. Marched through a lot of those holes. Don't trust walls. Don't trust cities. Don't trust people who tell you they're safe."
- "Hate's a strong word. I don't use it lightly. I find I'm using it a lot these days."
- "People build. People tear down. That ain't stoppin any time soon."
- "Cause trouble. Make things difficult. Or else someone else will."
- "I didn't get to be this old and this ornery by being stupid."
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Appearance & Personality
- Hammersmith is very, very large, even for a Roegadyn. His build is a working man's build. The kind you get when you've never been allowed, or allowed yourself, an extended rest from work, toil, and obligation. His body is absolutely covered in scars, the most notable being the ones crossing his left eye and the dead orb inside it. His age is hard to determine. He could be anywhere from a very haggard 40 to a very well maintained and pissed off 70. Hammersmith is, above all, a testimony that spite can work as a preservative.
- Hammersmith is well spoken, assuming you catch him without a bottle in his mouth. Given that this is a rare event, most times he speaks with the accent of his childhood village, which makes the torrent of filth, philosophy, and temptation all the harder to understand.
- Hammersmith is slow to actual anger but quick to annoyance and even quicker to act on that annoyance. People who aren't well acquainted with the giant Hellsguard often find them-self on the receiving end of poor impulse control paired an even poorer tolerance for bullshit.
- Hammersmith's fighting skills are based on a lifetime of heavy combat and the understanding of skirmishing that comes from it. Not flashy, not stylish, watching the giant hit someone is like watching someone failing to understand how to dodge a mountain. The Hellsguard looks slow, and has a severe disdain for 'showing off'. In most cases, he enjoys brawling, but considers pulling steel on someone as something you only do when you intend to kill them on the spot.
Known Biography
- Those who have encountered the giant in recent days liken it to camping on a volcano. It's not a matter of if he's going to cause chaos. It's a matter of when and how many people are around when he goes off. Attempts to find out why this eye of the storm has returned to the field after so long has revealed the following:
- Hammersmith has a military history in Ul'dah, with a long record of service stretching back decades from the current point in time. The few that recognize the name in the leadership refuse to say more than 'He was a siege master and he was good at his job.' His claims of retirement are validated by the official record, going back six years, almost one year before Dalmud's decent. Several mercenary companies do have some record of a Hellsguard matching Hammersmith's description in their records pre-dating his service to Ul'Dah. His records of service in the mercenary were always short and normally involved in extremely violent campaigns against large cities.
- Hammersmith claims that almost everyone he knew before Dalmud's decent are dead. His age, combined with the high casualty rate of both siege workers and Dalmud's cataclysm support his claim. With little to no support or social structure left to him in his advancing age, it's little surprise he's returned to the fields of war and his old craft of violence to 'rebuild'.
- What records remain in Limsa support his claim of "retirement", with a filed rank of 'master' at the armorer and blacksmithing guilds, as well as a deeds to a plot of land now several feet under water post Dalmud calamity. There used to be a town there as well. Now it's gone. Why Hammersmith isn't underwater with it is a matter of debate.
Miscellaneous
- Hammersmith's teeth are filed to points.
- His one remaining eye is a dark, bloody red, usually matched to the often burst vessels surrounding it.
- One of his current hobbies seems to be participating in the local underground fight circles between stints of "official" work for the Immortal Flames.
- Hammersmith's loathing of mages is only matched by his utter hatred of chronic liars. There are guard records from the Yellowjackets several decades ago that suggest a sudden outbreak of tongueless "mutes" was due to politics and Hammersmith meeting head to head.
- Speaking of which: The Limsa Maurader's guild refuses to speak about Hammersmith in any official capacity and claims to have no records on him. Even those younger than the Yellowjacket records toe this line.
- Hammersmith has been heard, in public, to claim to have had children. If they survived to adulthood is up for speculation, as is who would be stupid enough to remain in arm's length of him long enough to start raising a family.
- Coffee, smokes, and heavy alchohol seem to be all the giant consumes. Local merchants in Ul'dah note he does purchase large amounts of Hard-Tack from the Immortal Flames stockpiles though.
Some of these rumors are untrue or are greatly exaggerated. Please feel free to add your own rumors under PC! ◢ Common Rumors (Easily overheard)
◢ Moderate Rumors (Moderately difficult to overhear)
◢ Rare Rumors (Very difficult or rarely overheard)
◢ PC Rumors (Rumors from the character's of other players)
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Footnotes
- Musical Thematics: The Rolling Stones- Sympathy for the Devil
- Musical Thematics: MSI- Shut Me Up
- Musical Thematics: Bastion Soundtrack- The Pantheon (Ain't gonna catch you)
- Musical Thematics: Cage the Elephant- Ain't no Rest for the Wicked
- Musical Thematics: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- Red Right Hand
- Musical Thematics: Hozier- Arsonist's Lullabye
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