Sol

(Not to be confused with SOL)

Sol or Sal was the first of The Ten to join Uther's Cause. Half berserker, Sol stood over 8 feet high and was very thin with long arms and legs. He was muscular and fought with two greatswords(two-handed weapons, of which he carried one in each hand). Sol had the strength of a berserker but the clarity of mind of a normal man, and rose through the ranks to command a sizable slave army.

Early Life

Sol was the product of a Berserker(sired in berserker-mode), and a human mother. The exact nature of his conception is best not imagined, but suffice it to say berserkers possess neither clarity of thought nor gentlness of touch.

Little is know about Sol's formative years. In his own dictated biographies he says very little, only that he was born a slave and that his childhood was very hard. He was undoubtedly forced to work from an early age. He alludes to having worked in both mines and farms, sayingly only that the work was "hard and back-breaking".

Military "Service"

Being a large and strong slave, Sol was drafted into the slave army where he rose quickly through the ranks, owing almost entirely to his ability to survive battles that killed the entire rest of his unit.

Defection

As a slave himself, he was not educated and could not read or write when he first encountered Uther. Sol had no formal fighting training and relied entirely on sheer burte-force(of which he carried a considerable amount) to best his opponents. He listened to Uther's words, then challenged him to single combat. When Uther was able to best him, but chose to show mercy, Sol pledged his life to follow Uther, and the lives of his 30,000 soldiers.

Sol joined Uther's Long March and was the first of his Ten.

Slayer Dragon

Sol was a forceful and effective military leader and brutal combatant, but he was ill-equiped to deal with the political role of a Slayer Dragon. Following the war, he was often absent from Uther's round table and attempted to limit his contact with the politicians and heads of state in the newly forming Alliance government.

In his biography, Sol admitted that this was a very frightening time for him. He was used to leading by fear, to making people see his way by intimidation or force. But he could not harm the important dignitaries who visited Stormwind Keep, and they knew it. Moreover, at the time, Sol could still barely read and could not write at all, and when this was discovered he felt it made him--and the Slayer Dragons by association--appear weak and foolish.

He focused his time at first on the armies, improving their training and equipment. At Uther's request, he also devoted signficant time to his studies, learning to read and write to a better degree.

Later Life and Death

Sol's unique physical characteristics also made him short-lived. By A.Y. 120, he was beginning to show signs of aging. The doctors who examined him stated that he had the constitution of an(albeit extremly healthy) sixty-year-old man. Though Sol did not know his own age for certain, he believed himself to be no more than forty.

At this time, Sol retired unofficially, saying that he felt he had already given enough of his life to the cause, and that he would like to have some of it to live for himself before it all ran out. He continued to maintain a semi-active role, helping Uther train the next generation of Slayer Dragons and establishing the Rangers. He spent most of his time at leasier, reading extensively and gardening.

By 135(when he should have been only 55), Sol's health had declined so severely that he became bedridden. During this time he dictated his memoirs(though he had learned to read well, he had never quite mastered writing, and felt the task of recording and editing his life's story should be better left to someone more qualified).

Finally, in A.Y. 137, Sol passed on his power to another Slayer Dragon. He died roughly one week later, surrounded by friends and well-wishers. his body was conveyed to the Valley of Sleeping Dragons where he was laid to rest.