Ragnvald Ragnarsson

Overview
Full biography found here.

Appearance
Hair: Blonde 

Skin: Caucasion 

Eyes: Blue 

Height: 6’0 

Weight: 200

Markings (Scars, Tattoo's etc):  Has a body scarred from many battles. A tattoo of a norse symbol sits on his forehead

Personality
Ragnvald is described as brave, loyal and fair. He is also seen as a relatively friendly and cheerful person who holds great loyalty to his comrades. Despite this, he is prideful, knowing well that his wealth and standing wasn’t given but earned.

Abilities
Ragnar is a skilled warrior, earning his place in the jomsvikings and eventually a powerful figure in the eyes of the kings of scandinavia. He is a skilled administrator and sailor as well. However, things revolving around medicine or general religious practices are generally lost on him.

History
Ragnar was born during a great blot to a fierce warrior and raider as a father and a wealthy daughter of a farmer for a mother. He spent most of his childhood learning the life of a farmer during the harvests and during the raiding season even when he was young would go with his father out to raid. It was his life and as far as he knew, all he wanted to do as he grew in age. 

At 16, he joined with the Varangian Guard where he shipped out to fight in the wars of the Byzantine Empire. Furthering growing in his fame and skills as a warrior. He spent many of his years and at 19 he returned home and had fathered a sickly girl. Rather than staying with the Varangian guard, he was offered a position among the Jomsvikings where he fought for the best fee that was offered to the order, whether it was for Christians or his Norse brethren. During these conquests and wars he learned of a mysterious island believed to be fertile and ripe for the taking and at the age of thirty. His plan to settle this land -- was put in motion.

Using the massive wealth he had acquired and the goodwill of the king of Sweden, he set forth with seven ships and set out to forge a new land.