Grandpa Bernard

Bernard of Ironside, better known as Grandpa Bernard (lived 477-546 ACR), was a well-known blacksmith in Ironside Village.

Bernard was a non-player character in The Crimson Mountains campaign, and notably the first named character to die in that campaign.

Bernard is the grandfather of player character Roc of Ironside, who served as his apprentice. In his past, Bernard had lived through the Barbarian Uprising of 492, though he saw much of his family murdered in the conflict. He was a freeholder, meaning he was an independent contractor who owned his own small piece of land. He looked like a rugged Wolf Blitzer.

Session 1
Old man Bernard was taking up a contract with House Reinhold for a large order of scythes at his small smithy in Ironside. Roc, his grandson and apprentice, wished to leave Ironside and move on to better things, but Bernard shot him down, saying he has not proved himself as a man, and it was his responsibility to carry on the traditions of his family who had resided in Ironside for generations.

Later, the village was violently attacked in the night by a clan of the men of the mountains. Roc found his way to Bernard, who sent Roc to Stoneshade to find help and defend the village, giving him his deceased father's bowie knife as a parting gift. Bernard then armed himself by dual-wielding two farming scythes and single-handedly held off a group of barbarians, killing many in the process. However, he could not withstand them for long and died heroically after being filled with arrows and executed at point-blank range by the barbarian warlord Ourea.

Memorable Quotes

 * "Now go! Let the legend come back to life!" - parting words with his grandson Roc before his heroic death.