Harbard is a solemn figure, marked by quiet authority and an aura of inevitability. Chosen by Jarl Vingthor himself, he has only recently stepped into the role of Lamentor — the keeper of endings, the one who prepares the chants and decides when a goliath’s time is over.
Description
Harbard bears a fine, solemn face, with a heavy brow and hollowed cheeks that speak of long winters and longer burdens. His skin is ashen gray, but threaded faintly with pale silver markings that gleam when touched by moonlight — a remnant of his alfar blood. His long hair, streaked black and silver, is usually tied back, though stray locks fall like shadows across his stern features.
He wears a dark woolen cloak, ragged at the hem, clasped with a rune-carved bone pin. Beneath, plain leather armor is reinforced with bits of driftwood and basalt, as though his garb was pieced together from the land itself. His most striking feature are his eyes: cold silver pools, luminous yet distant, giving the impression that he looks not just at people, but through them — measuring their weight in life and death.
Role as Lamentor
Though he has only recently stepped into this position, Harbard performs his duties with uncanny certainty, as if he has long known the rituals. In truth, this has unsettled some of the Midgard goliaths, for the role of Lamentor is traditionally given to one of long lineage and proven wisdom, yet Jarl Vingthor broke tradition to appoint him. Still, Harbard’s calmness in the face of death and his ability to comfort grieving families has softened much of the doubt.
Some whisper he sees more than he should, that his silver eyes measure a soul’s worth long before its body falters.