I’ve known Vorn Kaldhad and Gesbar Fardelver since I was a young dwarf child. They’ve been with me every step of nearly every journey I’ve been on.
Now, Vorn comes from a high-ranking family who’re natural fighters and soldiers. From day one, it was obvious he’d be a military dwarf. I met him when a group of five children decided to mock me because of my family. Yes, we Feldstones are a strange bunch, but these lil’ scamps decided to throw rocks at me for absolutely no reason. I huddled up into a ball to avoid getting hit in the head, when I heard this voice shout out at the other children to stop. Now we dwarves aren’t the biggest, especially as children, but Vorn was still a giant back then. He towered above the other dwarves his whole life, and this day wasn’t any different. He stood in front of me and ordered the others to stop. They must’ve thought because there was one of him and five of them that the could take him. I’ve never seen a child tear through five other children with as much ease as he did. From that day on, we’ve been the best of friends.
Then there’s Gesbar. He was an orphan that the monastery adopted and raised. They taught him things from healing to reading to scrollwork. I didn’t meet him until I was 33 and in the military. One of the dwarves in the unit I was in was injured in training and we needed to take him to a healer. After luggin’ the dwarf to the monastery, I handed him off to a few of the monks there. They asked me to go with them as they prepared for surgery. Apparently, I needed to see what it takes to heal wounds. Now, I hadn’t even been the one to have injured that dwarf, but I decided I’d better just go with. To this day I am quite happy that I did. In the surgery room I saw Gesbar for the first time. He was in there barkin’ orders to the other monks and fixin’ this poor dwarf up. The fire in Gesbar’s belly was unlike anything I’d seen from one of the monks at the monastery before. After a short while, he finished the surgery and noticed me watchin’. He pulled me aside and in the sincerest and most composed manner apologized for his behavior. This little dwarf with such a passion to save this random dwarf’s life was someone I needed to know better. After a few more visits to the monastery on personal trips of “enlightenment,” I convinced him to go get a drink with Vorn and I. Soon after that, the three of us were inseparable.
Now, I’ve had many other friends in my life, but none have stuck with me like these two have. I’d not trade them for even the biggest chunk of gold in the world, well it’d have to be pretty big actually.