Bador Herzwelt

Bador Herzwelt is an upper-middle class dwarf from Janderhoff. His father is a leading merchant in the trade of rare metals, and his family has relations (a pair of very old 2nd uncles, twins, on his father’s side) who are intimately involved in the study of the Crystal Heart (Herwelt = Herz der Welt = Heart of the World). Bador knew Brodert Quink back when the scholar was in Janderhoff studying with the citadel's dwarven engineers. As he is wont to tell dewy-eyed maidens, Bador is a family man, with two wives and a crop of daughters back in Janderhoff.

He’s followed his elder brother (the heir to their father’s company and a much savvier trader) to Magnimar on an officially sanctioned trading expedition. This being Bador’s first time away from home, and so far from the action in the eternal abyss beneath Janderhoff, he has fancied himself to take a walk-about of Varisia.

His first stop has been to Sandpoint, to a bar called the Hagfish, which he’s heard hosts one of the oddest of competitions. Not one to back down in a fight (he was lieutenant in the Janderhoff ‘HotShots’, the best damn militia this side of the Five Kings!)…of any sort. Bador has come to show these westerners what it really means to be a dwarf!