Cousin to Freyr Darkwine, The Castellan of Trollhiem, Gathrix Darkwine was originally stationed with the Blackravens, to keep the patrol pure of corruption from the Witches of Irisen. Gathrix used to be known as the most handsomest man in Trollhiem, a title given to him by the many hopeful maids of Trollhiem. The people of Linnorm have plenty of reason to hate the Witches of Irrisen, but Gathrix has a personal reason. On his name day his cousin threw a grand party for him. At this party he met the woman of his dreams with her long platnium blonde hair and bright blue eyes. He beded her that very night with a promise to merry her.
In the morning he found himself in a freezing prison. Outside he could hear hundreds of miners toiling. He had been made a prisoner of the Witch Grinnelise of Hope Lost, a name befitting this wretched place. She had seen him on patrol and lusted for him, so she had decided to trap him. She loved to tell this story to him as she subjected him to countless horrors in her bedchamber. After she grew tired of him, and had inflicted enough injury and mental anguish on him, she sent him to work in her mines.
After months in the mines, Gathrix was sure he would die there, but then an oppertunity presented itself. He noticed that when a worker died of exhuastion the slave masters simply tossed the corpse over a cliff. After a snow storm the ravine at the bottom filled with an exceptional amount of snow. He decided to chance that he might survive. Besides, he thought, a quick death from a fall would be prefable to this exsistance. The next big snow storm he put his plan to action.
The plan had worked, he fiented exhuastion and after a suffering some abuse from the slave master he was tossed over the edge. He did land in the snow,but it still was a hard fall. He ran as fast as he could south into the Varisian border. Along the way he suffered frost bite to his nose and ears, loosing small portions of them to the cold. He no longer cared though, after the abuses he suffered at Grinnelise's hand he was sure he would no longer be called handsome by any standards.
Too ashamed to go back home, Gathrix decided to continue to travel south as far as he could make it and as far from the white witches as possible until he could regain his strength and bring the vengence of Gorum upon them.
