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-==== Norwood, King ====
+====== Norwood, King Of Lendore ======
-Norwood lived for five years as a slave to a dryad.  When he
-was released, he found his home and job gone.  He joined forces with Karelia
-to find the Eye of Odin.  In the process, he found Kelva and now rules
-Lendore island with it.
+==== Overview ====
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+Norwood lived for five years as a slave to a dryad.  When he was released, he
+found his home and job gone.  He joined forces with [[Karelia]] to find the
+[[Eye of Odin]].  In the process, he found [[Kelva]] and now rules [[Lendore]]
+island with it.
+==== History ====
+Norwood was a Captain of the [[Spindrift]] kingdom's ranger patrols in the year
+.  Though his soldiers were primarily Rangers, he himself is a Cavalier. His
+jurisdiction was the rural areas surrounding the city of [[Restenford]], though
+his patrols rarely brought him into that city.  In the summer of 1090, he was
+met a Dryad, was unwittingly charmed, and taken into her tree.  She finally grew
+tired of him four years later and set him free in mid-March 1094.
+He returned to the city unaware of his dormancy, and found that a political
+shift had taken place that left a baron in charge who was not sympathetic to his
+plight.  He found that his king and his baron were dead, his kingdom changed,
+and few of his friends in a position to do anything about it.  He returned to
+the dryad to seek revenge, only to be denied that by the timely intervention of
+the druid/fighter [[Karelia]].
+Norwood stayed with [[Karelia]] for only one day.  He travelled to the strife-
+torn [[thentao|main continent]] to find a cause to champion, but found the
+rulers unwilling to take action.  Disillusioned, he travelled to the archmage
+[[Elsa]] to ask her advice.  Once there, in May of 1094, he met [[Karelia]]
+again and found that she was on a quest to seek the magical crystal of Vakdra in
+the [[underdark]]. As a favor to [[Elsa]] and to help his sagging spirits, he
+went with [[Karelia]] to the drow homeland.
+After a week and a half in the caves, they finally found their goal: the
+underground city of the Deep Gnomes: [[Glimmerland]]. From there, they learned
+that the magical gem was taken by the drow.  They proceeded to retrieve the gem,
+only to find that the gnomes only wanted the drow dealt with and that they did
+not, in fact, have the gem.  The gnome queen, though, did tell them of the real
+gem. It had been inadvertently split in two three hundred years ago and one half
+was taken by a renegade deep gnome through a portal.  The other half was in
+[[Glimmerland]] and the queen gave it to [[Karelia]] as a gesture of thanks and
+apology.
+Norwood and [[Karelia]] travelled to this portal and found that it was only
+active on the day of the new moon.  They went through it and found themselves on
+the world of [[Greyhawk]].  The half of the gem they possessed led them to the
+other half and they found that the renegade gnome was alive and well (and not
+aged three hundred years at all).  After defeating him, they pieced the two
+together and experienced the resurgence of the great sword [[Kelva]], so long
+lost to humanity.  It was buried here and became unearthed when the gem was
+restored because the gem's power is to amplify and enhance magic.  The sword
+immediately leapt to Norwood's hand, and he knew that his was a quest of great
+importance. The two headed immediately for the portal to return home.
+Once home, they found that [[Greyhawk]] is cursed with a strange time anomaly,
+experiencing only one day for every cycle of the new moon on [[Karelia]] and
+Norwood's world.  Though they were gone only a few months, they returned to the
+nearly-devastated world of 1104: ten years after they left!  Once again, Norwood
+was separated from his original world by time and was forced to start anew. This
+time, though, he had a purpose and he teamed with [[Sorgul]], [[Sly]],
+[[Ozzie]], [[Cale]], [[Strachan]], [[Tarialaî]], and [[Wacarnelian]] to help
+defeat the [[Dark Mage]] once and for all.
+After the epic battle that took place on January 8, 1105, Norwood returned to
+[[Lendore]] and, by divine right, declared himself ruler until a suitable king
+could be found.  By May of that year, though, he was forced to relinquish
+control over the rebellious islands [[Midore]] and [[Aldore]] to avoid a bloody
+conflict. In September of that year, the peoples of [[Lendore]] cheered Norwood
+as he accepted the crown of [[Lendore]] Island.
+Now, only eight months into his kingship, trouble has reared its ugly head once
+again and he must take sword in hand to fight for the life of not only his
+kingdom, but also that of the rest of the world as well.
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