Ulster Hood

Ulster Hood was a Gemmeran national hero.

Biography
Born as son of a tailor, Ulster grew 2.2 meters and became real good at bashing skulls. Though he started his life as a criminal, breaking legs for a local gang, he quickly turned to mercenary work. A local duke hired him to weed out bandits from the foothils. And so Ulster did, killing off the whole bandit camp north of his home town. Tales say he came to the duke with a cart full of heads, but there is not consesus whether he picked off separate stragglers trapped at the valley passes or just just walked into the camp and started killing.

The duke rewarded Hood with a razor-sharp black-bladed sword crafted from meteorite steel in a dragon leather sheath. On the blade there was an inscription Cwfl yn Torrwr, meanimg Hood's Cutter in Gemmeran variant of Elder Speech. With this sword Ulster crossed the country from corner to corner leaving a river of blood behind him, and pretty soon he was knighted by the King of Gemmera.

Few years later the Empire invaded. Sir Ulster Hood missed most of the fight and by the time he got to the war the Nilfgaardians were already deep in Gemmera, at Im Lebar. At the Battle of Im Lebar he met the enemy in the river and battled eight Nilfgaardian knights at once, killing six of them before being cut down by a cavalry charge.

Legacy
Hood's sword was taken as a trophy and passed from hand to hand. Years later the sword popped up under a different name. Some Northern merchant who bought the blade mistranslated the inscription and began calling it Cleaver hood. Though the location of the sword is unknown, its legend lives on in the hearts of the Gemmerians upon this day.