Borgod the Brawler

Borgod Hammerchest was a common dwarf living within the massive dwarven megacity inside of Burning Mountain. A lowly peasant, he worked as a baker with his family until the time of the Sundering, when his family was killed in the resulting cataclysm and destruction of the city. After the dwarves retreated to the deep roads in the mountain to find solace from the Rampaging Dragon Rhaegos, Borgod turned to study the martial art of brawling and was trained by the dwarf drunk-master in the art of finding your true equilibrium in order to pierce stone with your bare hands. After years of study, he took to the art like a dwarf takes to dirt, and was soon an expert at its practice.

Borgod did not learn the drunk-master's brawling art to fight, but rather to use it as a form of meditation and to escape from the reality he was now facing. No family and a lowly caste even among the scattered dwarven refugees, he had no desire to further exacerbate his situation with fighting or conflict. Regardless, he was recruited to fight the dragon and his fire giant minions, and he found he was exceedingly good at it. So good at it in fact, that it was little effort for him to topple several giants by himself and he treated the whole affair with general disinterest.

Soon, he was confronted by Rhaegos himself, and in the very first fight Borgod even had with the Dragon, both he and Rhaegos nearly perished in the lava flows that had been opened and poured into the deep crevice between the mountain. As the dwarves began to rally around him and treat him with great respect did he realize what he meant to his people, and what he could do for all dwarves everywhere by leading his kind out of hiding and cowardice against this threat.

Borgod took to his new fame quickly after this, and the dwarves mounted a final assault on Rhaegos. Borgod fought hard and defeated the mighty dragon with only his fists, and Rhaegos was dragged to the pits of the Burning mountain and pinned beneath large rocks until it could be decided what to do with him.