Willandring is a more than ten meters tall mountain giant who has lived among the Red Cow since Karganar Blood-Eye brought his people to Red Cow Fort. Willandring lived in the fort then, part of a small group of giants holed up in their ancestor Bergilmer's former steading. Karganar killed the other giants, but hamstrung Willandring, the smith. He then forced the giant to work at his forge for him.
Willandring has toiled here as a prisoner ever since, nursing his hatred. Willandring’s enormous strength and size make the task of beating bronze into shape easy for him, often without the need to soften it in the forge. He also knows the secrets of blacksmithing or working iron, and fashions the iron spear points, arrowheads, and even axes the clan uses to kill Telmori — whenever Queen Ivartha the Skinner can obtain the death-metal.
Willandring is circumspect about who taught him his met alworking skills. He speaks of a giant ‘as tall as a mountain’ who lives in a pass somewhere in the eastern Rockwood Mountainswho trades some of the most valuable magical items in the world. No one believes him.
The hobbled giant pushes himself about Red Cow Fort in a handcart. Willandring has silently sworn that if his legs worked again he would reap revenge on the children of Karganar.
Many fear the friendship shown the giant by Ustarna Try-Much. She has become tempted to heal him and ill-treatment by the clan could push her to such an act out of spite.
Broddi Strong-Kin does not trust the imprisoned giant.