Neill Family/Cormac

Cormac Black-O'Neil

Current Age: 28 (Deceased)
Class: Adventurer
Weapon of Choice: Short sword and dagger.
Current Title: None
Titles Held: None
Religion: Loose belief in the Norse Pantheon and the god Loki (When it suits him)

Cormac Black was born to a barmaid named Gerturude Black in the Bones and Boar Tavern of Makar one summer. His father would remain unknown to him for sometime though his mother would occasionally hint, when not totally drunk, that his father may be a nobleman. Without ever properly being raised or schooled Cormac used his natural size advantage (He was big even for a Viking) and aggression to become a common thief and thug and learned the ways of the street.

Around his sixteenth birthday (At least he thinks it was sixteen, his mother never celebrated his birth) he began to be curious about his parentage (More likely he was curious as to how he could get his hands on easy gold) and began looking for information. After nearly a year of searching and questioning his mother he figured out just who is father might be. The day after learning the information he set out for the O'Neil Estate in the Makarian Forest and knocked on the door of Fenrir Bags-O'Neil.

Fenrir was a hunter in the O'Neil Clan. He was a massive, hairy man with sharp eyes and a dog like face and when he opened the door and stared down at a boy who looked almost exactly like him he slammed it again in surprise. Cormac told him his claim to the noble name and demanded to be allowed to live with him. Fenrir shouted at him through the door to leave and then ignored him until Cormac tried to rip the door from the hinges while cursing loud enough to draw the attention of the other clan members. Fenrir opened the door and grabbed the boy by the throat yelling, "Twas drunk when I slept with that whore of a woman you call a mum! Get yourself out of here before I kill ye!"

Throwing Cormac to the ground he turned to walk back into his house when Cormac tackled him. The men fought until Cormac grabbed a dagger from his opponent's belt and stabbed Fenrir in the belly. The O'Neil clan members that were watching then ran at him with weapons raised and gave chase when he ran into the forest. It was only by the grace of the gods, though Cormac did not know which one, that he managed to avoid the O'Neils.

The next day he boarded a ship for Beluaterra under the name Cormac Black-O'Neil. He arrived sometime later and found himself in Luz de Bia where he began his life as an adventurer and thief. In life he had almost absolutely no respect for nobles and many of them mistook his sarcasm for ignorance; something that was likely to get him killed one day.

In the end, his fate was unknown to the family whose seed bore him and the mother who claimed to raise him. Records kept by a minor bureaucrat in the Luz de Bia provincial government seem to indicate that he was wanted in several hamlets for a variety of crimes though had eluded capture by local lawkeepers. It is believed that from there he was captured by the invading daemons and escaped or was released several times while traveling the continent in a search for riches. Rumour, spread after a village heard the words of a crazed prophet, claim that he was finally captured one last time and was executed by the Lord of the Netherworld, Unknowable.

Even more rumor, fueled by the scribblings of various minor nobles, seem to indicate that a man bearing Cormac's name and face arrived on th East Continent sometime after his execution. This entity communicated with several nobles before vanishing. Whether this entity was indeed Cormac, or instead some an imposter (either infernal or human), no one knows.