Dredge Ramhead

Ramhead is a well-known and feared warrior from the Northlands. He is 48 year old man and chief of Carraway, a considerable village in the north. His name Ramhead was earned during a duel with the man who killed his father, wherein he smashed the man’s face in with a series of destructive headbutts. He is played by Frank Weitzel, the referee.

History of Ramhead
Dredge Snowsleeper was born in a small village in the north called Carraway. His father, Snowsleeper, was chief and renowned fighter and considered a well known chieftain in his time. He grew up as the oldest of two brothers and one sister and he quickly sprouted to a size that matched his father’s fearsome stature. He helped till the land and manage the animals and by 13 he was involved in his first skirmish. A small group of bandits snuck into Carraway at night and set fire to the main watchtower. He, along with his father, ran out to engage the bandits before the rest of the village’s warriors could react. Using one of his father’s short swords, Dredge protected fought to the best of his abilities, but was wounded by a club to the head and rendered unconscious for most of the battle.

When he awoke, Dredge found that the bandits had been killed and the village was successfully defended, but the blow to the head had changed something in him. Physical pain was dulled to the extent that he needed to check himself for wounds on a nightly basis to make sure he hadn’t hurt himself during the day but he was prone to flights of intense rage and anger, often causing him to black out in a thunderous fury.

At age 16, a war between tribes had broken out in which Carraway was called to aid their allies. Snowsleeper left Dredge in Carraway to defend the village in his absence, taking with him a majority of their fighting force. Dredge, feeling babied and slighted at having to stay back with those too sick, too old, or too young to fight, grew into a black mood. News hit him several weeks later when his father’s men returned from fighting that his father had been killed in a duel between another chieftain and that his body was currently being used to decorate the roof of a keep in the town of Wailer.

Enraged at the death of his father and this unforgivable act, Dredge took the most able bodied of his father’s men and rode to Wailer for vengeance. Blinded by his fury, Dredge demanded that the chieftain face him on the field in a duel, as is tradition in the Northlands. The chieftain denied the boy, claiming that it would be no sport and he did not feel like killing today. In the dead of night, after waiting outside of Wailer for four days, Dredge and his men scaled the walls and took the town hostage, forcing the chieftain out to the duel. The duel was, at first, one sided; the chieftain managing to disarm Dredge and inflict a number of injuries on the boy before the rage took him over, turning him into a frothing beast that swept the chieftain off his feet. Dredge pounded the chieftain’s face into a bloody mess, then proceeded to smash his face into pulp, using only his forehead, earning his name right then and there.

Dredge ordered the town burned and the inhabitants to be slaughtered.

Years later Ramhead served as the War-Leader of the Blood of the Mountain, during the Cabal Wars

Current Life
Ramhead has led Carraway for the last 32 years and has excelled in making it a large community and a powerful clan in the north. He is feared for his rages and physical strength and his clan is most often left alone by bandits and other chieftains looking for easy pickings. He is one of the top five names in the north to be feared and respected.

Recent Events
Ramhead was approached by The Prince of Peak's emissary with request to join under Bregiv's banner and march on the South. He declined the invitation.

Ramhead's scouts reported Grimmursven sighting in the mountains around Carraway and the disappearance of the Icerail Clan. Ramhead ignored the claims of Grimmurs but sent the bulk of his clan north around the mountains and then west to Two-Dogs as the Icerail disappearance was worrisome. It was then that Grimmurs attacked the remnants of Carraway, slaughtering a majority of the remainder, including Ramhead's wife, but forcing Ramhead to lock himself, his son, and a few surviving members in their safehouse. Prince Aester and three provincial soldiers stumbled into the safehouse some days later.

A rescue attempt was made by Sir Grant, Ashen, Leon, Jarmin, Bjorn, and Grease to free the sieged men and was successful. Ramhead agreed to help the group with dealing with Bregiv. The group split into three parties: Ramhead, Ashen, Bjorn, and Jarmin headed North to speak with the Moonhowlers. Ramhead's son, Groyce, went west with Sir Grant, Leon, Grease, Prince Aester, and the three men from Hawk Company. Finally, the remainder of Clan Carraway went Northwest to join at Two-Dogs for the approaching moot.