User blog comment:GreenMoriyama/Izo, the Blizzard Prince/@comment-25228021-20160326195225/@comment-4091261-20160401191740

This alone is enough to forge a lore for a character. All that's needed to be done is to introduce the fine details. What did Izo's tribe do? As in, how exactly did Izo's tribe fall? Where did he even get Boreas? Who is Bolverk? How did Izo survived the attack? What exactly is Izo doing going from village to village?

Currently I see Izo as quest bound, to the same degree as so he would most likely have attempted to fight the raiders himself. To make this into even more of a David vs. Goliath kind of scenario, and his tribe of trolls should definitely be the people who attacked Izo's tribe.

I feel that Bolverk itself should be the god that Northern Gale believes in--since Boreas is literally just a sword in this case. Due to circumstances, Bolverk could then have escorted Izo to the great sword Boreas. Then Boreas bound its soul to Bolverk to challenge the opposition.

Izo could then have directly solo'ed the entire Troll tribe, sundering one troll to the next. However, unlike who was able to defeat her assailants, when Izo came across  himself he found it impossible to defeat  due to his club, Boneshiver, being made of true ice itself. Knowing the situation, Bolverk casts a supermassive scale Field of Rime to allow Izo to bolt out of the situation.

Bolverk would have been weakened by the supermassive Field of Rime and Izo would have his pride tarnished due to being unable to even defeat the enemies who attacked him. Now with his crushed honor, he goes to villages hunting for challenges to redeem himself personally. However, time goes by and he lightens up a bit, especially due to the influence of.

During Izo's time in the villages he constantly hears of the terrible stories of the Watchers and becomes wary of them. One day, Izo somehow figures out that the cult of the Watchers have were reborn by and that she has  as a follower of the Frostguard. With revived determination to redeem his tribe and to protect the villages he passed through from the corruption of the Watchers, Izo wears adorns his old royal garments to confront the Frostguard, Iceborne, and Watchers himself--with a will strong enough to sunder gods.

Some minute details that probably wouldn't fit in the story itself is that the Glacial Blade ability is actually inspired by --with obviously being the more manly version. Northern Gale's existence could be the remnants of the will to belief in the Queen of the Freljord before Avarosa, Serylda, and. Of course with trying to guise anything regarding her history, she set off to steal Boreas and destroy Northern Gale. To even create further conjecture, it is possible that Bolverk could in fact be the spirit of the old Queen of the Freljord and thus instills the will to save the stop the conflict between her three daughters consciously through Izo--to carry out her "legacy."