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===Biography=== | ===Biography=== | ||
| − | Introduced to Amtgard in November 2011 by his brother-in-law [http://www.amtgardrecords.com/player.php?playerID=72320 Tankhide], he joined Land's End that same month. Ursan Snow (A.K.A. Allan Hoffman, A.K.A. Pastor Al) is an ordained minister at, and founder of, Edge of the World Ministries. EotWM is a ministry at large with the goal of serving those in need no matter their differences. He is married to Jennifer Hoffman (Kyria) and is father of Randal Hoffman (Bugus the Dinolord) and Shannon Woinarowicz. He is an avid role player and gamer, of video, pen and paper, and now LARP. He owns a large collection of out of print role playing books, plays Warhammer 40k, Star Trek Online, City of Heroes, and the occasional hand of pinochle. | + | Introduced to Amtgard in November 2011 by his brother-in-law [http://www.amtgardrecords.com/player.php?playerID=72320 Ios Tankhide], he joined [http://amtwiki.net/amtwiki/index.php/Category:Land%27s_End_People Land's End] that same month. Ursan Snow (A.K.A. Allan Hoffman, A.K.A. Pastor Al) is an ordained minister at, and founder of, Edge of the World Ministries. EotWM is a ministry at large with the goal of serving those in need no matter their differences. He is married to Jennifer Hoffman (Kyria) and is father of Randal Hoffman (Bugus the Dinolord) and Shannon Woinarowicz. He is an avid role player and gamer, of video, pen and paper, and now LARP. He owns a large collection of out of print role playing books, plays Warhammer 40k, Star Trek Online, City of Heroes, and the occasional hand of pinochle. |
===Character Biography=== | ===Character Biography=== | ||
| − | Born to a family of menial laborers in a tiny village by the River Red in western Rivermoor, Ursan's youth was troubled. As a young boy he experienced many beatings by his brutal, and crippled, stepfather, his mother worked scullery maid for a lesser lord and made barley enough to support the family. As a youth of such low station Ursan worked the fields of the lord and fell in with a rough crowd. From the age of reason until in his 20th year he followed the ways of the vagabond, bouncing from village to village with no purpose. He stumbled upon an old black smith in the village of his youth. A man unlike any other he had met, tall of frame with a ready smile and a grip like hardened steel, the blacksmith took Ursan in and taught him the ways of the forge and that the goal of a pure life was to serve. The blacksmith was a pious man, and in learning the ways of the forge, Ursan also learned the ways of piety. Gifted with a healer's heart, and a servant's soul, Ursan set out with the blessing of the blacksmith to bring light into the dark places of the world. Now, many years later, Ursan has settled in the village of his birth and joined with the men and women of Land's End as a healer, adviser, and crafter. He is the 7th bearer of the Cross of Winters, a long staff said to have been taken from the branches of an ever frozen oak deep in the heart of the north lands. | + | Born to a family of menial laborers in a tiny village by the River Red in western Rivermoor, Ursan's youth was troubled. As a young boy he experienced many beatings by his brutal, and crippled, stepfather, his mother worked scullery maid for a lesser lord and made barley enough to support the family. As a youth of such low station Ursan worked the fields of the lord and fell in with a rough crowd. From the age of reason until in his 20th year he followed the ways of the vagabond, bouncing from village to village with no purpose. He stumbled upon an old black smith in the village of his youth. A man unlike any other he had met, tall of frame with a ready smile and a grip like hardened steel, the blacksmith took Ursan in and taught him the ways of the forge and that the goal of a pure life was to serve. The blacksmith was a pious man, and in learning the ways of the forge, Ursan also learned the ways of piety. Gifted with a healer's heart, and a servant's soul, Ursan set out with the blessing of the blacksmith to bring light into the dark places of the world. Now, many years later, Ursan has settled in the village of his birth and joined with the men and women of Land's End as a healer, adviser, and crafter. He is the 7th bearer of the Cross of Winters, a long staff said to have been taken from the branches of an ever frozen oak deep in the heart of the north lands. The staff is as hard as frozen stone, as unbending as an ancient oak, and is a symbol of Ursan's unshakable faith in the powers of light. How he came to be the bearer of this mighty relic is unknown to all but Ursan himself, and he refuses to speak of it. With his wife, the sorceress Kyria, he leads Clan Dawn Chaser, whose members include: the healer Ursan Snow, the wizard Kyria, the warrior Ios Tankhide, the warrior Bugus the Dinolord, the warrior Lucien Tharkoni, the barbarian Fang, and the monk Weapon Bane. |
===Affiliated Groups=== | ===Affiliated Groups=== | ||
| + | Clan Dawn Chaser | ||
===Notable Accomplishments=== | ===Notable Accomplishments=== | ||
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===More Information=== | ===More Information=== | ||
Revision as of 10:33, 4 December 2011
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Ursan Snow, Pope of Land's End, under the Principality of Rivermoor, in the Empire of the Iron Mountains
”For God, the Monarch, and Land's End!”
"Don't make me break out the Popestick."
Ursan Snow
Biography
Introduced to Amtgard in November 2011 by his brother-in-law Ios Tankhide, he joined Land's End that same month. Ursan Snow (A.K.A. Allan Hoffman, A.K.A. Pastor Al) is an ordained minister at, and founder of, Edge of the World Ministries. EotWM is a ministry at large with the goal of serving those in need no matter their differences. He is married to Jennifer Hoffman (Kyria) and is father of Randal Hoffman (Bugus the Dinolord) and Shannon Woinarowicz. He is an avid role player and gamer, of video, pen and paper, and now LARP. He owns a large collection of out of print role playing books, plays Warhammer 40k, Star Trek Online, City of Heroes, and the occasional hand of pinochle.
Character Biography
Born to a family of menial laborers in a tiny village by the River Red in western Rivermoor, Ursan's youth was troubled. As a young boy he experienced many beatings by his brutal, and crippled, stepfather, his mother worked scullery maid for a lesser lord and made barley enough to support the family. As a youth of such low station Ursan worked the fields of the lord and fell in with a rough crowd. From the age of reason until in his 20th year he followed the ways of the vagabond, bouncing from village to village with no purpose. He stumbled upon an old black smith in the village of his youth. A man unlike any other he had met, tall of frame with a ready smile and a grip like hardened steel, the blacksmith took Ursan in and taught him the ways of the forge and that the goal of a pure life was to serve. The blacksmith was a pious man, and in learning the ways of the forge, Ursan also learned the ways of piety. Gifted with a healer's heart, and a servant's soul, Ursan set out with the blessing of the blacksmith to bring light into the dark places of the world. Now, many years later, Ursan has settled in the village of his birth and joined with the men and women of Land's End as a healer, adviser, and crafter. He is the 7th bearer of the Cross of Winters, a long staff said to have been taken from the branches of an ever frozen oak deep in the heart of the north lands. The staff is as hard as frozen stone, as unbending as an ancient oak, and is a symbol of Ursan's unshakable faith in the powers of light. How he came to be the bearer of this mighty relic is unknown to all but Ursan himself, and he refuses to speak of it. With his wife, the sorceress Kyria, he leads Clan Dawn Chaser, whose members include: the healer Ursan Snow, the wizard Kyria, the warrior Ios Tankhide, the warrior Bugus the Dinolord, the warrior Lucien Tharkoni, the barbarian Fang, and the monk Weapon Bane.
Affiliated Groups
Clan Dawn Chaser
Notable Accomplishments
Additional Images
The Personal Heraldry of Ursan Snow
The Heraldry of Clan Dawn Chaser
