Ulka

Ulka

Languages	Common, Goblin, Dwarvish, Giants
Date of Birth	794
Species	Bugbear
Gender	Female
Height	6'7
Weight	373
Eye Color	Yellow

Ulka is a crass Bugbear Fighter mercenary from the defunct Skull Crusher clan.

Physical Appearance

Ulka is a tall, bulky bugbear. She has scruffy ukempt brown hair, yellow skin and brown fur a majority of her body. Ulka has a scar on her right eye and wears an eyepatch over her left eye. Her outfit is a tight brown tank top, with a maroon jacket and a pair of jeans. She is also adorned with a belt around her waist, fingerless gloves, small spiked shoulderpads, and boots.

In battle Ulka will dawn ill-fitting chain mail.

Personality

Saying Ulka is blunt is an understatement. With that bluntness comes a respectable level on earnestness and honesty however. Ulka will speak her mind and knows the value of teamwork in which she doesn't mind being cast as the muscle. Ulka believes in survival of the fittest and thinks the best way to do things is often the direct. She has a dark sense of humor.

Ulka can be intimidating towards commoner strangers but she won't act agressively towards them for no reason.

Ulka has a disdain for pixies.

History

Ulka was born in a clan of bugbears known as the Skull Crushers and was one of the strongest. The Skull Crushers had an alliance with a clan of Goblins known as the Lootin Tootins. The Skull Crushers would protect the measly Goblins and the Lootin Tootins would provide treasure that would be useful towards the Skull Crushers. However among being brutal she was also cunning. This allowed her to raise through ranks of the skull crushers. However one day an Oni mercenary, Gozen Devakilla, who was hunting bugbears for their furs and weapons found the Skull Crushers and laid them to waste, Ulka was the sole survivor of the clash and was left with one eye ripped out and the other scared. The fate of the Lootin Tootins is unkown. To avenge her clan and her pride Ulka would take up work as a bounty hunter and in her spare time would also read about Giants because to slay one's enemy they must know them, she would eventually learn about the power Runes posessed and how these Runes could be used to enhance one's fighting prowess.

At the Asar Ogalas festival Ulka fell on her butt during a climbing competetion, lost 5 gold to a lottery drawing and got conned out of her hunting trap by some pixies. Suffice to say the festival didn't put her in the best of spirits.

During the confrontation against Sro, Ulka ran up the stairs and firstly rescued a woman who was cleaning. The woman thought Ulka was going to eat her, however Ulka reassured her that she wouldn't. Ulka would eventually reach the master bedroom and was greeted by two arrows into her large stomach by the mayor's gaurds. After frustratingly telling them that she isn't the dragon or going to kidnap the mayor she was able to take them out on the balcony and lower them down by using her Giant's Might to make herself about as tall as the building itself. Afterwards she rescued a young man who boarded himself into a bathroom and thought she was going to eat/kill him.

Languages

Ulka speaks Goblin and Common fluently. Goblin was the primary language of her clan.

Ulka is vaguely learned on Dwarvish, she picked up a few phrases and sayings throughout her travels as Dwarven taverns were more to her liking due to their shared Bluntness

Of course Ulka is also rather fluent in Giant from her studies. She could defenitely hold a conversation with a Hill Giant or Frost Giant but a conversation with the learned Storm Giants or the tricky cloud giants could give her trouble.

Powers and Abilities

Ulka is a Rune Knight Fighter. Currently her Glaive is engraved with Fire and Stone runes. The Fire Rune is on the left side of the weapon's head and the Stone Rune is on the right side.

Ulka also has Giant's Might which allows her to grow in size.

Attacks and Weapons 

Ulka is armed with two hand axes that appear to be looted, a great axe that certainly shows it's age, and a comparitively nice Glaive engraved with Stone and Fire runes.

Ulka likes to fight with more recklessly than most warriors, however this recklessness is matched by her strategy. Ulka has a very opressive fighting style, when fighting another weapon user she'll keep them at a distance with her stone runes, long limbs, and glaive making it hard for them to get in close and hurt her. When fighting ranged foes she'll get in close and lock them down with her fire runes making their escape harder.

Ulka hates fighting arcane mages and she views them as weak willed charlatans who can only win through smoke and mirrors. However she is quite found of mages on her team who will cast spells such as invisibility and faerie fire to aid her in better laying down the damage.

Ulka's strategical ploys are usually "run in and let me smash em like a bug" or "put a goblin out front to distract enemies and then sneak up from behind and hit em from the side"