Origin of Muranog (2 of 5)

THE HISTORY OF THE MINOTAUR MURANOG – ARRIVAL IN NEVRAST

On arrival in the great city of Nevrast, at the end of the year 287,
Muranog was vindicated to discover that here, among more cosmopolitan
folk, the name of Caldyr was known. Indeed, some elders and sages of the
city remembered Caldyr as a mortal, a paladin of humankind and protector
of the innocent, before he ascended to immortality. Other adventurers
based in the city – warriors and mages and priests – were the sons and
daughters of Caldyr’s own companions, some of these themselves now
ascended to the Heavens and the mantle of divinity.

Following the example of the God, Muranog presented himself before
the Nevrast Guild of Paladins and asked admittance. The Paladin Guards
and their Guildmaster readily applauded his strength, his stamina and
his courage. But in the tests of wisdom and reasoning, the minotaur
did not match up to his new deity, and the state of paladinhood remained
beyond him. Instead, he sought the aid of the Guilds of Warriors and of
Clerics, and here he met with more success, honing his martial skills
with the Warrior Guildmaster and learning more of his chosen God with
priests of Caldyr who served among the many orders that jointly ran the
Guild of Clerics.

In return for training, the Warrior Guildmaster of Nevrast, an enigmatic
human warrior whose true name was known to no mortal, asked no coin but
instead services. Of Muranog he asked that the minotaur travel southward
to the city of Raven’s Bluff, whose own Warrior Guildmaster had contacted
him to ask for aid, and seek to rid the city of the rogues and evil mages
that plagued its fair streets. Muranog, as befits an honourable warrior,
agreed at once.