User:Ximothy/Gruffe
 Gruffe Raintotem | |
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| Title | <Fox-Eye> |
| Gender | Male |
| Race | Tauren |
| Class | Hunter, Engineer |
| Affiliation(s) |
The Horde, Thunder Bluff, Unseen Path, Bloodhoof tribe Bloodsworn Brothers |
| Former affiliation(s) | Kyrian |
| Location | Mulgore, elsewhere |
| Status | Alive |
| Relative(s) | Talfax (Father, Deceased), Pawne (former Mate), Seerim and Bubbies (Daughters) |
| Mentor(s) | Holt Thunderhorn |
| Student(s) | Oseji |
| Companion(s) | Sai'jin |
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Born to the Raintotem tribe, but at heart from the Bloodhoof tauren, Gruffe is a master hunter and hero of the tauren people. Loyal to his people, he has become a patriot of the Horde and fights for their cause.
History
Early History
Gruffe originally comes from the Raintotem tauren, a group native to Thousand Needles. His father, Talfax, was a fiercely isolationist tauren who wanted nothing to do with the other tribes, and due to their tribes' relatively safe position away on a Needle, the centaur rarely bothered them. Their only true rivals were harpies and another tauren tribe, called the Direhorn tauren, who feuded with the Raintotem for generations. Prosperity promoted laxness, and they refused to be in contact with other tribes.
During his time as a Youngblood, Gruffe left on a Great Hunt as a rite of adulthood, despite being relatively young as the chieftain's son he was over eager to prove himself. During this hunt, he was ambushed by a group of centaur and nearly butchered however the timely arrival of another tribe that happened to be passing the Barrens saved him. The tribe, calling themselves the Bloodhoof tauren, nursed the youngblood back to health. During this time Gruffe learnt of the dire peril the tauren people are in, and how his own tribe are cut off from these trials. Even after recovering, he deigns to spend the rest of his Great Hunt among the Bloodhoof, and hone his hunting skill among them.
He made friends during this time, and was taught how to be a professional hunter by tribesman Maurn Pathfinder, who instructed Gruffe on the finer arts of being a Hunter by trade rather than just a tauren who partakes in hunts. After spending close to a year with them, and recovering the needed reagents to complete his Great Hunt, he paid his farewells and ventured home in Rain Mesa in the Thousand Needles. Once home, Talfax was initially thrilled his son had returned home, however when Gruffe begun talking about providing aid to other tribes, and ending their isolationism, he became worried. Talfax desired to keep the tribe isolated, so he decided to just ignore his son's words, with Tumuru convincing him it was just youthful eagerness and he'll settle eventually.
A month passed and many in the tribe grew tired of Gruffe's preaching. The elders of the tribe demanded Talfax end it, either by convincing him to stop, or at worse exile. Talfax pleaded with his son to let those loft goals of unity go, that the tauren are destined to be tribesmen forever and the Bloodhoof ideals of a united people were lofty and unrealistic. Gruffe refused to give up on the other tauren, but seeing his words were falling on deaf ears at best, and hurting his family at worst, he left on his “Lone March,” a tradition of the tribe where a tauren can leave for some spiritual cause, and unlike the Great Hunt that takes under a year to complete, a Lone March can go on for years if not decades. A tense farewell with his parents proceeded, and he left his tribe, tracking the Bloodhoof tauren and rejoining them.
Re-assuming his tuterlage under Maurn, Gruffe became a prominent hunter in the tribe, even hunting directly for the chieftain Cairne Bloodhoof and he befriended his son Baine Bloodhoof. He had to maintain his tribe's gun he brought with him, a simple blunderbuss he liked to call Roar. During his time among the Bloodhoof tauren he became close with a woman named Pawne, and together they had two daughters, the elder Seerim and the younger Bubbidas.
Trivia
Affiliations:
Pets
Snowpaw- The longest and most consistent companion of Gruffe is his polar bear known as Snowpaw. As the world unfolded in the wake of the Third War, Gruffe took it upon himself to explore before seriously adventuring, and travelled as far as Dun Morogh. There, he uncovered tracks belonging to a young bear, and following them, he discovered an injured polar bear. Treating the bear and gaining her trust, Gruffe eventually left to return to Kalimdor, yet discovered the bear following him. As such, he decided to take the polar bear with him, and named her Snowpaw as he first found her by tracking her paw prints in the snow. Despite a more humble origin, Snowpaw could no longer be considered a normal polar bear. Gruffe feared bringing Snowpaw back to Kalimdor would spell death for the poor bear, as such he first sought out means of ensuring Snowpaw could survive the cold. To this end, he found a tauren Spiritwalker capable of blessing Snowpaw in a way as to allow her to endure almost any temperature with ease.
Kaynein- Although Snowpaw is the longest companion to be at Gruffe's side, she was not the first. Rather, Kaynein was a wolf from Mulgore that was Gruffe's first companion, tamed as a trial, and travelled for a time with him. Kaynein spent a lot of time within Thunder Bluff, watching over Gruffe's home there, rather than travelling the world. Though he would on occasion be taken out to the world, seeing places like Northrend or Pandaria. The paerie wolf was brought to Draenor, seeing the battle at the Dark Portal as well as some conflicts in Nagrand. Tragically, during a battle with the Iron Horde, Kaynein was lost and presumed dead, even to Gruffe. It was not so, Kaynein was instead taken by the Iron Horde, and converted into one of their iron bound wolves. During the Tanaan campaign, Gruffe served at the Iron Front, and upon seeing Kaynein, recongised him. Pleading to the wolf to remember and return to him, Gruffe gave the wolf an opening as a sign of trust, and the wolf realised the tauren was his old owner. Reunited, Gruffe has kept Kaynein closer to him ever since, having him fight at the side of the Unseen Path in the next Invasion.
Echkara- A majestic eagle native to the Stonetalon regions, Echkara was discovered as an orphaned egg following a mountain lion attack. Gruffe decided to keep the new sick hatchlett and raise it, working tirelessly to raise the sick, weak baby bird into a proud companion, serving Gruffe as a scout from even before he joined the Horde. He didn't often use it as a combat, mostly using Echkara as a scout or messenger for the Bloodsworn. Following the beginning of the Scourge war, Gruffe had Echkara watch over Talelk during the latter's travel across Northrend. He was returned later on, after Talelk meets back up with Gruffe. During the Legion invasion, Echkara was with Gruffe as he explored Highmountain, and was present when he met Hawkh Pathfinder. Echkara and Hawkh had a more difficult relationship at first, but they ultimately bonded, to the point Gruffe encouraged Echkara to follow Hawkh in her own journeys across Azeroth following the Legion invasion. This partnership, tragically, was short lived as Hawkh perished fighting the Old Gods, and was raised as a Death Knight. Echkara did not recgonise Hawkh at first, though was rejected by the Death Knight once he did. He is on Gruffe's rotation again.
Navoro- A wolfhawk native to the Broken Isles, Navoro was one of the many beasts seared by the Legion as they invaded the Isles. Recovered by the Unseen Path and brought to the Lodge, Gruffe tended to the animal's wounds and helped healed it. It's behavoir afterwards was odd, it seemed standoffish and did not listen to instructions but did not leave Gruffe's side. He was informed by beast masters that the wolfhawk liked Gruffe but did not seen him as a worthy master. It was only after the trials in the Great Hunt that Gruffe proved himself a worthy master, and he named her Navoro, which meant along the lines of “Stubborn.”
Rroain- A newly met companion, one of the mysterious wild life of the Shadowlands, this larion was found starving of anima by Gruffe during his travel across Bastion.
