1-off B: Shipwrecked on the Secret Isle

a midsummer's day in the Year 950

Character: Hoger (pron. 'Hoe-gair')

Personal Characteristics

Description

Mutant.  Male.  Long, unkempt red hair & beard - one eye blue, one eye green.

Abilities

• Extremely good at skulking undetected and spying on or sneaking up on others.  Very adept at tree climbing.
• Can defend yourself with a light club, or attack others with it from the back.
• Able to see things, or creatures, as they really are - not as they like to pretend they are.
• Water-breathing (but afraid of water!)

Background

You know yourself to be a failed experiment of LLYWELLA, and hate Her for it.  You escaped from the mutant camps when you were young - even there you were taunted for your ugliness and hunch bank - and fear She has not yet finished with you.  At least over this side of the island the mermen leave you alone.

When Decus came to the Secret Isle many years ago he trapped you in your cave and made you to swear on his huge, gleaming sword to be his servant.  You do not really object, as he does not seem to care about your appearance and has taught you much.  His daughter, Julietta, was a baby when they came and is now a young woman.  You were her playmate when she was a child, and she is your only friend.  You would not harm a hair on her head, and protect her from the mermen and sea-folk.

Everyone else on the island - especially Mistral the Air Elemental, whom Decus controls with a Magic Ring, Dyrom, the local Mer-Prince, and Alrya, his Sea-folk Princess (the last two quarrel constantly) - torments you mercilessly.

Objective

Achieve respect - that of others and self-respect.

See your tormentors punished.  You would rather like to see Decus put in his place for his arrogance, but as it seems to come so naturally to him, you suspect his place is too high for this to be worthwhile!

© P.R. Wild, 4 July 1983

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